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

• This matter has no reference whatever to my portfolio but I take the opportunity to say that those who supported McEwen House financially came from every branch of the community. [More…]

• But, above all, I would expect this increase to serve as a general signal and warning to the whole business and financial community that we are straining our resources and that it is not possibLe to extract a quart from a pint pot. [More…]

• There has been a progressive extension of relating rates of pay for those in the Services to the rates of those in the community at large engaged in comparable activity. [More…]

• Whilst I agree that the national groups not only are making a distinctive contribution to the development of Australian community life but have also a vital role to play in the successful integration of newcomers to this country, the proposal that a National Carnival Day in which each national’ group would participate should be held in Canberra each year is a matter for consideration by my colleague, the Minister for the Interior, to whose attention the suggestion has been brought. [More…]

• Although the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) is a radical of the right, and proud of it, in his own way he is trying to do some good for the needy people of the community. [More…]

• It is the practice of the Post Office to provide public telephones at sites where they will be freely accessible to members of the community at all times and for this reason they are usually located at Post Offices and on public thoroughfares. [More…]

• However, as the locations they are stationedas can be con sidered remote and they are the only representatives of the Department of Health at these locations, they will, to some extent, be dealing with general community health problems. [More…]

• Time alone will tell whether the failure to act on the 1960 recommendation will have serious consequences but it seems anomalous, with the planning expertise in Canberra and the information available about future developments, that a potential breakdown should be possible in a vital community service. [More…]

• So the most recent report of the Public Works Committee on hospitals in the Australian Capital Territory expresses grave concern about a potential breakdown in planning in this vital community service. [More…]

• The relevance of this is shown by North America where the community benefits from such bequests, since the fiscal laws have encouraged such bequests. [More…]

• The centrally-located Newcastle regional office is considered adequate for the needs of the region that includes the Robertson electorate, and regular visits are made to several towns in the area by officers of the Repatriation Department However, the honourable member may be sure that the adequacy of current arrangements will be reviewed periodically with a view to ensuring provision of the best possible service to the ex-service community in the area. [More…]

• What I want to know and what thousands of people in the community want lo know- [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister noted that negotiations are soon to be reopened concerning the possible entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Does he know that there is grave concern in the Australian community at the awareness that 2 of his senior Ministers, namely the Deputy Prime Minister and the present Treasurer, had serious differences concerning Australia’s attitude towards earlier negotiations - so much so that the present Treasurer was forced to resign from the Ministry. [More…]

• Yes, I have noticed reports that the British Government is continuing efforts begun some considerable time ago to see how it could arrange to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Their purpose is to raise funds for Community Aid Abroad with a walkathon. [More…]

• I know only too well of the tragic circumstances that sometimes hit the farming community. [More…]

• Bearing in mind that in recent months the industry has given in like a lamb to every whim of the pilots, whether reasonable or unreasonable, will the Minister do his best to ensure that Ansett Airlines of Australia and TAA adopt industrial attitudes of the type we expect the rest of the community to live under - fairness and firmness? [More…]

• Phrases such as ‘participatory democracy’ are being used in the community. [More…]

• As to inciting people to break the law, I think there can be no excuse whatsoever for those in a community where the opportunity exists to change the law through the ballot box. [More…]

• This does not surprise me in the slightest because, as I am sure everybody in the Australian community would know, the Leader of the Opposition is a Socialist. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• I have the greatest respect for the pensioners but I say that like politicians (hey are a cross section of the community. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the attitude of the United Kingdom and Europe to the European Economic Community could be a death blow to international trade agreements such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and could be extremely detrimental to the newly developed and under-developed countries, thus nullifying assistance given to those countries by international agencies and setting back the progress that has been made in recent years in the field of world co-operation in regard to trade? [More…]

• Having noted that the United Kingdom Minister responsible for negotiations with the European Economic Community arrived at Canberra on Tuesday for 2 days of talks with the Government on EEC problems I ask: Can the Minister advise the House whether the Government obtained from that Minister any assurances in respect of the protection of markets for Australian products? [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extern, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• Since its inception in July 1968, 31 community agencies have been approved to receive a grant under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme and to date 25 social workers have been employed. [More…]

• What are the names and addresses of agencies covered under Division 330/3/06 - Grants to community agencies involved in integration activities- in the Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]

• If the decision of the Commissioner is taken in such cases where he considers it necessary to know the identity of a person who has not been convicted of any offence by any court, does the Minister support a case that everyone in the community should be fingerprinted and photographed for police purposes. [More…]

• He is no longer taken seriously by any government of the Common Market countries in the European Economic Community or by its Council of Ministers. [More…]

• As mentioned in the statement referred to in (1) above, the Government believes that they should secure land ownership under the system that applies to the Australian community, and not outside it. [More…]

• The preparation and the introduction of this legislation fall entirely within the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Primary Industry who, I am sure, is doing his best to see that the rural community gets the benefits which are proposed in this legislation. [More…]

• In view of the opportunity of various other members of the community to augment their salaries by other forms of income, will he expedite a decision on the matter of allowing members of the Australian Capital Territory Police Force to engage in other lawful activities to supplement their police salaries when those activities do not interfere with their lawful occupation. [More…]

• With the renewal of Britain’s application to join the European Economic Community, will the livelihoods of people in the rural sector of Australia be in jeopardy? [More…]

• Is he able to say whether member countries of the European Economic Community are bound by the Treaty of Rome to observe equal pay for the same work. [More…]

• 32 British entry to the European Economic Community - Consequences tor Australian trade - Ministerial statement - Motion to take note of paper: Resumption of debate on the motion, That the House take note of the paper. [More…]

• (et accord with the improving standards in the level of community skills arising through technological innovation, (f) be accorded proper comparability with standards of remuneration paid both within and outside the salaried area, (g) take account of and adequately provide for the needs and entitlements of salaried workers living in a modern society, and (h) reflect the standard of over-award payments existing in the community. [More…]

• I simply want to place it on record that there are before us, if we care to look, ample cases in which lower courts have inflicted unjust penalties, have accepted police evidence against all the weight of the facts and have visited very serious injustice and hardship upon people in this community. [More…]

• In view of the discussions on foreign aid which take place in the community from time to time, will he give an outline of the volume of foreign aid to which Australia is committed at present? [More…]

• This is one way in which this House can express an opinion on a matter of supreme importance to a substantial section of the Australian community. [More…]

• No reliable estimate is available regarding direct costs to the community resulting from alcoholism. [More…]

• Has any estimate been made of the direct and indirect cost to the community which alcoholism causes; if so, what are these costs. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to the widespread concern amongst medical practitioners in Canberra about their difficulty in having their patients admitted to the Canberra Community Hospital at this lime, and their greater concern that (he situation will worsen between now and the time of completion of the Woden, Valley Hospital. [More…]

• Can he give the number of applications for admission to the Canberra Community Hospital during the last 12 months which have been refused or deferred or upon which admission has been delayed for more than 2 weeks after the requested date of admission. [More…]

• and particularly to his opinion that this section needs urgent attention of government since much harm to environmental diversity and to landscape values could well occur under the blandishment of this provision without any real profit to the community which provides the money. [More…]

• The problem of crime in a community is a perennial one. [More…]

• What amounts or assistance have been contributed by the Commonwealth Government in each of the latest 3 years for which figures or estimates are available by way of subsidy, tax exemptions or other financial assistance to non-profit, non-statutory organisations concerned with (a) military, paramilitary and related activities of military value, including cadet corps, gun clubs, flying clubs and ex-service organisations, (b) community welfare, including education, non-industrial science, health, emergency services, home help and institutional care and (c) sport, physical recreation and physical culture, including the Boy Scouts Organisation. [More…]

• The question of the printing and publication of telephone directories is based substantially on economics and service to the community. [More…]

• He did no such thing, because the honourable member for Angus has no proper understanding of the problems of the people in the community who are unfortunately forced to exist on social service payments. [More…]

• My contention is that, even if marihuana is no more dangerous than alcohol and tobacco, why add a third problem to those already affecting the community. [More…]

• The Committee’s report on the Community College, Darwin is an interim report only and is tabled in this form at this stage for one reason only. [More…]

• It is that the Committee is currently carrying out an examination of the costs and standards of residential accommodation at a number of different types of Commonwealth built institutions including the Community College at Darwin and would therefore not otherwise be able to report on this reference until that inquiry is completed. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• At the same time, the Commonwealth announced that, while accepting the recommendations of the report in principle, it would proceed to discussions with the business community concerning the proposed new school. [More…]

• Can he also estimate the consequent loss in Government revenue - revenue which would be used to the benefit pf the whole community, including such purposes as health, education and social services? [More…]

• Will he take all practical steps to see that the quota is met if possible so as to maintain Australia’s position in that market, particularly in view of the proposed levies on meat imports to the United Kingdom and the possible entry of the United Kingdom into an enlarged European Economic Community? [More…]

• I might add that the construction of a community college at Darwin was part of the original platform on which I was elected to this House. [More…]

• That, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and on which the committee has duly reported to Parliament: Construction of a Community College at Darwin. [More…]

• For the record of the House, I point out that the smallest and most distant community in my electorate gives me a 3 to 1 majority in elections. [More…]

• How many abortions were carried out in the Canberra Community Hospial during the year ending 30 June 1970. [More…]

• In this interesting operation, all sections of the community of the central western area, including local authorities, graziers, business people in the towns affected and the Australian Workers Union have combined to form this survival group. [More…]

• I would like to acknowledge for my part the help I have had not only from members of the Opposition and trade union representatives but from the Commonwealth Public Service and other people in the community. [More…]

• Interim reports on the proposed Community College at Darwin and the redevelopment of the Alice Springs Hospital were presented to the Parliament during the autumn sessional period. [More…]

• The number of Aboriginal, part Aboriginal and other’ children attending these Community Preschool centres as at 26th February 1971 was as follows: [More…]

• In summary, therefore, the Bill is totally unacceptable to the Government, believing, as it does, in a strong defence capability and, at the same time, accepting that there are those in the community who conscientiously object to military service and whose position should be recognised as, in fact, it is under the present provisions. [More…]

• If so, will he take steps to ensure that economies required by, the Government are not made at the expense of this important community service. [More…]

• When will the Government relieve the anxiety of New South Wales State Ministers, planning authorities, local government bodies and the community generally by announcing the site for a second major airport to serve Sydney? [More…]

• 1 believe that they are expressing the best of the Australian spirit when they stand up against everything which is involved in this matter, sometimes their parents, the community and all the rest of it. [More…]

• However, 1 am moved to reply to ray friend, the honourable member for Purl Adelaide (Mr Birrell) who put up an argument that we often hear in this place that the workers do not get a fair go and that other people in the community get a much greater share. [More…]

• I point out to him that the 3 per cent of the community who get over $8,000 a year- [More…]

• and (2) In addition to the direct service which my Department provides for the migrant community through its own social workers and in other ways, funds are provided also under a grant scheme for the employment of social workers by community welfare agencies which are engaged in direct welfare amongst migrants. [More…]

• King, Minister for Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs, South Australia; the Honourable W. F. Willesee, Minister for Community Welfare, Western Australia; and the Hon ourabls D. F. Clark, Minister for Housing, Industrial Development and Sea Fisheries, Tasmania. [More…]

• The honourable member will recall that when the Commonwealth Government published the report of the committee of experts recommending the establishment of a National Graduate School of Business Management in the University of New South Wales, it announced that, while accepting the recommendations of the report in principle, it would proceed to discussions with the business community concerning the proposed new School. [More…]

• The requests submitted to the Prime Minister by representatives of the Yirrkala community have also been referred to that Committee. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• The Australian Universities Commission has received a request for funds towards the provision of teaching facilities in the projected teaching and community hospital at Westmead in the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]

• Because of the Government’s appreciation of the importance of restraining inflationary pressures currently evident in the community, it adopted a deliberate policy of curtailing Commonwealth expenditure and in the light of that policy, the decision was taken to defer the proposal. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• Are any plans being considered to control or reduce the excessive smoke which sometimes issues from the chimney of the Canberra Community Hospital. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• Did the former Prime Minister draw attention in his policy speech in 1970 to migrants in the community who were unaware of the range of benefits, services and assistance available to them and state that he would propose to the States that grants be made available through municipal authorities to subsidise the employment of people who could provide information and guidance to those who needed it. [More…]

• that, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• The producers also sought and included in the programme the comments of the following distinguished members of the Australian Scientic community: [More…]

• He is one of the most senior of the Queen’s Counsel in Sydney, and to say that in some way a fee affected the way in which he regarded his moral duty to the community, to say or imply that he went only for the fat fee and never took the part of the underdog is, in my own personal experience quite incorrect. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the La Trobe University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• If so, will he ensure that the paper includes an examination of (a) ways in which interest rate increases may in fact add to inflationary forces and (b) the impact of interest rate increases on income distribution within the community. [More…]

• If so, will he assist those in the community who have the welfare of youth at heart by taking steps to remove sporting equipment from the Schedule of the Act which requires sales tax : to be paid on this type of equipment. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Austalian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action on behalf of those sulfering and left without home or work through their effective expulsion as refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the action of the European Economic Community in relation to the retraining of workers– [More…]

• The meeting discussed financial and technical problems associated with community and industrial waste together with ways and means of sharing costs between polluters and the community. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• Nevertheless, not having seen the programme mentioned by the honourable member, I will refer his question and suggestion to the Australian Broadcasting Commission which, I am sure, will give consideration to the suggestion if it believes that the programme and the statements Mr Carmichael made in it make some contribution to the community understanding of the amalgamation which is to take place. [More…]

• In view of the publicity given in Australia to the proposed amalgamation of 3 large metal trades unions under the leadership of Laurie Carmichael, a leading Communist, and the importance of giving information to the community on the possible repercussions from this amalgamation and leadership which, incidentally, has been supported by employers, will the Postmaster-General suggest to the Austraiian Broadcasting Commission that it again feature, preferably on ‘Four Corners’, that portion of its outstanding series ‘Profiles of Power’ in which Laurie Carmichael was the subject of an interview? [More…]

• Is it considered unnecessary to involve the Aboriginal community in the running of the unit [More…]

• All the signs are that this community asset, this example of public enterprise, is being subjected to unfair treatment by this Liberal-Country Party Government because of the misguided, doctrinaire attitude of this Government. [More…]

• Is it to be a condition that we have an overall environment in which the private airline will be mollycoddled at the expense of the community, or are we to have a situation which we on this side of the House want, namely one in which the people’s airline, TAA. [More…]

• will not be shackled in the interests of private enterprise but will be set free to compete in the interests of the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is no doubt aware that members of the Jewish community in Syria are being subjected to persecution, including deprivation of human rights. [More…]

• Is this scheme receiving lessened support in the community and does the Minister know of any substitute proposed for this scheme? [More…]

• Trading banks do, however, customarily pay interest on certain current accounts of community service and educational organisations, religious and charitable bodies, and governments. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) might abhor violence himself, but as my colleague, the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mir N. H. Bowen), said earlier there would not be a single person in this country who has done more than the honourable member for Lalor has by the causes he has advocated and by the actions he has taken to encourage those latent tendencies that exist in a large number of individuals in this community towards violence. [More…]

• This booklet is intended to alert the family doctor to the problem in the community of diseases which have a genetic basis. [More…]

• claiming that he has not received any representations from Canberra concerning the protection of Australia’s interests during the transitional period of Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Attorney-General a question relating to the church division in the Greek community of Australia wherein some [More…]

• The aim is to ensure that members of the Armed Forces receive their proper status in the community and . [More…]

• Do some employees of the Canberra Community Hospital receive rental subsidies. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether the further diversification of Australian trade is proceeding satisfactorily in anticipation of Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• What initiatives have he and his Department taken to upgrade the status of women in our community so that they may play a role commensurate with their intelligence, capacity and ability? [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s philosophy is directed to devising and developing such a pattern in co-operation with the States, with local government, with business and industry and the community as a whole; and [More…]

• In view of the great importance to many of the older people in the community of the new nursing home benefits and hostel accommodation, will the Prime Minister -arrange for an early detailed statement to be made in this House so that the proposals can be debated fully? [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to public statements by community leaders in the Geelong area that the Army is considering vacating the Geelong Rifle Range and handing the area over to municipal control. [More…]

• Scientology is evil, its techniques evil, its practices a serious threat to the community, medically, morally and socially, and its adherents sadly deluded and even mentally ill. [More…]

• by leave - This is a highly sensitive and emotive issue in the community, and I must say with all respect that the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) or his Department has made a mess of the situation. [More…]

• While I applaud the value to the community of the work of the Salvation Army in this field, it is not possible under the provisions of the Social Services Act for my Department to grant an unemployment benefit to a person who is employed. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Labour and National Service seen the statement in which some sections of the community are claiming that unemployment in real terms is as bad as at any time since World War II? [More…]

• When will the results of the Community Preferences Study conducted by his Department in 1971 be released. [More…]

• It is expected that details of responses to the questions included in the Community Preference Study will become available for release towards the end of September. [More…]

• In view of the decision of the Government not to build a heated swimming pool in Canberra at this time, will the answers to the questions concerning the desirability of an indoor recreation complex, asked of 2,000 Canberra households, by the Department in its 1971 Community Preferences Study, be made public before the rest of the results are published. [More…]

• Is it a fact that this Government has over a long period been most reluctant to amend the income tax Jaw to prevent tax avoidance schemes practised by large companies and the more affluent section of the community? [More…]

• At present new delivery services are generally provided when a community grows to the point where there are more than 150 permanent households within a radius of of a mile of the post office receiving on the average, at least 225 letters a day. [More…]

• Criticism, when justified, is right and proper, but when it is baseless, as we have heard it tonight, it of course reflects seriously not only on those who utter it but also on the community which has such a dependence on the service that is being provided and which is required by them. [More…]

• Services have been established which have been clearly beneficial to the community. [More…]

• However, what consistently worries us is that in many areas there is a clear need as a matter of very high priority for this and other forms of community welfare services which, for a number of social, cultural and economic reasons do not get developed; that is, the initiatives regrettably are not taken up. [More…]

• During the election campaign we will be detailing certain very concrete proposals which will be extremely helpful in the community in overcoming the difficulties I have briefly mentioned. [More…]

• Though the population on this island is small, the people are entitled to the same consideration and respect as any other section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Facilities for tertiary and technical education in the Territory will be greatly expanded with the establishment of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Is he able to say what are the principal effects of strikes on the general community. [More…]

• Strikes: Effect on Community (Question No. [More…]

• How will he mathematically ensure that no person receives less than the average wage level payable in the Australian community. [More…]

• In view of the strong criticisms by members of the business community, professions and universities, of the complexity and the outdated philosophy of our ramshackle Australian company law as embodied in the uniform Companies Acts, will the Minister take urgent action to appoint an expert committee to examine in depth the position of corporations in our present society and the problems which they raise, and to advise the Government on the measures which should be enacted in the proposed Commonwealth Companies Act so as to make that Act effectively meet the needs of the Australian society in the twentieth century? [More…]

• The Australian Post Office is anxious to provide all services that would interest the community. [More…]

• I hope that these discussions bear benefit for the community. [More…]

• In view of the information which he alleges he has in his possession, why has he taken no action and preferred instead to cast aspersions on large sections of the Australian migrant community? [More…]

• Will it mean a denigration of Post Office services to any sections of the community? [More…]

• It supports and encourages such agreements as the best basis for the maintenance of good industrial relations, the avoidance of industrial disputes and adverse effects on the community. [More…]

• Can negotiated agreements have an adverse effect on the community. [More…]

• It is intended that information will be sought from community organisations affiliated with the Good Neighbour Councils in the states and territories as to their involvement in this year’s Australia Day celebrations. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware of concern being expressed in the community at what is interpreted to be a difference in attitude on the part of the Australian Government between French nuclear tests and the tests conducted by the Chinese? [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister now realise the impact of ever increasing wages in forcing up prices to housewives, home buyers and all the community? [More…]

• All assistance to both primary and secondary industry will be looked at objectively in the general interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• As the brief press statements issued by the Minister have left the farming community with little understanding of what occurred at the meeting of the Agricultural Council, will the Minister now provide a full report of the meeting. [More…]

• As I have had no queries from any sector of the farming community on the outcome of the Australian Agricultural Council meeting, I can only assume that statements issued by me following the Council meeting were sufficiently explanatory. [More…]

• The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) It is believed that the Yugoslav Government has sources of information within the Yugoslav community in Australia. [More…]

• What examination has the Department of Primary Industry undertaken of the impact of British entry into the European Economic Community on all Australia’s exporting industries. [More…]

• Will the Minister advise, in particular, what impact the enlarged community will have on exports of sugar, wheat, dairying products, meat, canned and dried fruits, and apples and pears, and will he make available all information the Department has on the matter. [More…]

• Until that investigation is concluded, I am afraid I can say nothing concrete, except that I hope that in the total conspectus of what we are trying to achieve in the field of social welfare this will be one of the areas where we will provide adequate responses to the clear needs in the community. [More…]

• I have the greatest commendation for the zeal of my Department in finding out those people in the community who do not reveal all the income that they actually receive. [More…]

• Are the estimated costs of running salaried community health centres based on medical practitioners working the same hours as given in answer to part (1). [More…]

• Has he consulted with the Australian Medical Association or any other professional body on the terms and conditions of employment of salaried medical practitioners working in community health centres. [More…]

• Following the revaluation of the West German Deutschemark in May 1971, and the general realignment of currencies in December 1971, the European Economic Community introduced a system of frontier price adjustments, intended to eliminate as far as possible, the effects of the currency changes on intraCommunity trade. [More…]

• The compensatory adjustments applied to trade with third countries as well as to trade between members of the Community and covered exports of those agricultural commodities subject to the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy. [More…]

• Frontier price adjustments are still operative in respect of Community trade in these items but following the further international currency changes of February 1973, the EEC has adopted a new system of calculating these adjustments. [More…]

• What the Opposition is asking us to do is to institute in the Australian Capita] Territory a system that will create 2 electorates in the one district - the one form of community - with a difference of 17,000 electors between them. [More…]

• community or diversity of interests; [More…]

• Is the European Economic Community under its Common Agricultural Policy exporting all rural products at an artificially pegged United States dollar rate based on the prevailing rate between the United States dollar and members of the Community as at May 1971. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the dual exchange rate system of the European Economic Community is causing undue hardship to all Australian companies dealing in grains and processed grains and competing in third countries with the Community. [More…]

• If so, has the Australian Government made any representations to members of the Community to remind them that their direct subsidy of rural products is contrary to the general spirit of GATT and to the arrangements under the International Monetary Fund. [More…]

• What is sought to be inserted is that we should take into consideration in redistributions ‘community of interests within the division, including economic, social and regional interests’. [More…]

• community of interests within the Division, including economic, social and regional interests;’. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Interim Committee of the National Hospitals and Health Services Commission entitled Community Health Program for Australia’. [More…]

• If so, are the activities of the League and Mr Beltinos in the best interests of the migrant community. [More…]

• Is the PostmasterGeneral not aware that his new policy will favour the centralist national newspapers against small rural newspapers which arc often the only means of disseminating local community news? [More…]

• That a select committee of the House of Representatives be appointed to inquire into and report on the effects on the Australian community if the present voluntary health insurance scheme is replaced by a compulsory, tax financed health insurance scheme as recommended by the Health Insurance Planning Committee and, in particular, to determine: [More…]

• The Bill provides for the application of the Superannuation Act to the Principal and staff of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• The need to introduce this Bill and the 2 Bills which follow arises from the establishment of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• The bill not only makes provision for the Darwin Community College, but also for any authority that may be incorporated in future for a public purpose by a law of a territory and prescribed by regulation under the Act. [More…]

• This method of dealing with territory instrumentalities will enable not only the Darwin Community College to be prescribed but also any other appropriate Territory authorities, thus avoiding the need for further amendments to the principal Act. [More…]

• Is this proposal more acceptable now to the AMA and has the Minister any reason to suppose that the AMA has moved towards a position where it will accept fee fixation on the same basis as is accepted by other mem*bers of the community? [More…]

• That is, their incomes increased at a much faster rate than the rate of increase of incomes of others in the community. [More…]

• They were then at 7 per cent - have acted adversely on important groups in the community, particularly young wage earners seeking to buy a home. [More…]

• On my instructions this project was deferred because I wished to be sure that the Aboriginal community at Yuendumu did in fact want resident police facilities. [More…]

• and (6) Since entering the Ministry I have made official visits to every part of the continent except Tasmania with the object of visiting every Aboriginal community. [More…]

• There is ample proof to show that high interest rates are imposing severe burdens on export rural industries just as they are on other sections of the community such as young house owners. [More…]

• Provision has also been included within the Victorian Budget for increased finance to be made available for community youth, sport and recreation facilities. [More…]

• Is it a (act that Australia’s withdrawal has been widely interpreted as a rejection by the Government of the concept that refugee migration is a common responsibility to be shared by the international community. [More…]

• If so, and as this restriction limits the activity of a welfare officer to a particular section of the community, (a) can a re-assessment of this grant be made to modify the requirements relating to this restriction and (b) can the suprvisiion of services provided be organised so that the need for detailed quarterly reports is removed or modified. [More…]

• They are the ones charged with the responsibility of catching criminals who get out of gaols and that is going to happen more and more often as we get this so-called enlightened attitude practised in our community. [More…]

• In order to obviate the need for community action groups to fight rearguard actions to reverse land use decisions which were in their view wrong, how does the Minister propose to overcome the real problem, as identified by the head of his Department, of changing the way in which such decisions are made. [More…]

• and (2) The Government, through the Interim Committee of the National Hospitals and Health Services Commission, is examining the requirements for the delivery of health care to the community. [More…]

• This is a very important point because it is the wish of many sections of the community that we should get these 2 types of inspectors closer together to save costs and various other things. [More…]

• Apart from sponsored dependent family members, for whom the only criteria are health and character, each case is assessed on review on the basis of: economic viability personal qualities which would enable them to fit into the Australian community medical fitness character, and their sincere intention of making a permanent home in Australia and becoming an Australian citizen. [More…]

• The possession of qualifications or skills recognised in Australia which would meet a national or community need is also taken into account. [More…]

• It denies the rights of the small men of this community the opportunity to earn a wage which might be reasonably negotiated according to the provisions of the present Constitution. [More…]

• 382 (Hansard, 10 May 1973, page 2049) say that it is believed that the Yugoslav Government has sources of information within the Yugoslav community in Australia. [More…]

• I was paying a tribute to this man for the way he had involved himself in the community and suggested that more Australians should do the same as he had done. [More…]

• Several of the facilities will be available for use by the community outside school hours. [More…]

• Is it a fact that saving the business community from 90-day freezes, if this was ever a practical proposition, from Gorton-type slashing of Government expenditure or from McMahon-Snedden type budgets with their vast increases in taxation - saving the business community from these disastrous Opposition policies - is almost sufficient in itself without detailing the positive ways in which business has been helped? [More…]

• He pays $32 an acre for it and demands as the price of it being put to good use - a price that the community and the taxpayers of Australia must pay - $5,000 an acre. [More…]

• With inflation at such a high rate that it is doing serious social and economic harm to the community, will the Prime Minister make a statement to the House setting out the corrective measures the Government proposes in order to combat this insidious evil? [More…]

• Is the Australian Government buying and circulating the publication ‘Nation Review’ for distribution abroad to community leaders and government agencies. [More…]

• There are no current plans to remove RAAF activities from Richmond, but you will be aware that I have instituted a special committee to review the location of al Defence establishments against current and foreseeable requirements, with full regard to be given to environmental and other community aspects. [More…]

• What is the average hearing loss of airport employees compared to the rest of the community. [More…]

• One looks at the stock exchange and sees the appalling consequence of the interventionist attitude of this Government on the private sector in the erosion of the value of the savings that are represented by stock on that exchange - the savings of the little man in this community. [More…]

• But the best gauge is some of the comments that are being made by people around the community. [More…]

• I believe that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) has perhaps been a trifle modest in the range of disabilities that he has itemised in the motion which I support this afternoon and which refers to the want of confidence that the community has in the Government. [More…]

• The community as a whole is not only disappointed by this Government’s handling of the nation in the specifics to which the Leader of the Opposition has referred but also is disappointed in respect of the whole range of ministerial responsibilities. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a recent report to the Minister for Youth and Community Services in New South Wales which indicates that there are approximately 9,000 people who identify themselves as Aborigines resident in the Sydney metropolitan area. [More…]

• Since 2 December 1972, one Aboriginal community has applied for an exploration licence over reserved land and eight applications have been received from non-Aboriginals; one application by a non-Aboriginal has since been withdrawn. [More…]

• In view of the adverse effects of high interest rates on the community in general, and on home owners and home seekers in particular, when will the Government take action to reduce interest rates? [More…]

• Can the Minister for Health inform the House whether any previous Australian Government has ever made grants to the States similar to or on such a scale as those announced during the past few weeks to cater for the community’s health needs with regard to comprehensive health centres and centres for mental health, alcoholism and drug dependency? [More…]

• Owing to the difficulty in defining ‘community halls’ and the work involved in researching this question, my Department has provided me with the following approximate figures for financial assistance given for community halls in each of the three years. [More…]

• What financial assistance was given for community halls in the Northern Territory in each of the years 1970-71. [More…]

• What provisions are being made for the establishment of air-conditioned halls and community cultural complexes in Territory centres. [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…]

• No action has been taken to invite applications from schools, nor have approvals been given for the supply of milk on a ‘needs’ or a ‘specific community’ basis. [More…]

• Does he recall my asking him in the House to document and evaluate the Katherine Project and its success in advancing the education of Aborigines in the Community School; if so, has this work commenced. [More…]

• I ask: What initiatives are being undertaken by this Government to foster the natural inventiveness of the Australian community and to ensure that all Australians benefit from inventions which are the result of this Australian characteristic? [More…]

• There was nothing in the Minister’s statement on this matter which should raise community apprehension. [More…]

• Does foreshadowed action of this type lead to speculation and apprehension in those areas of the community most likely to be affected. [More…]

• Has the Government any intention of heeding this advice which would seriously increase costs for the whole community? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Housing and Construction: Has (he New South Wales State Liberal Government, through the Housing Commission of New South Wales, resumed large tracts of land at Doonside, an outer western suburb of Sydney, which includes such community facilities as the Featherdale animal sanctuary, land owned by Blacktown Hospital for a geriatric centre and land owned by the Maltese and Polish communities which is being developed as sites for ethnic clubs with associated sporting facilities? [More…]

• Nevertheless could he approach the New South Wales Government with the request that these community facilities be preserved? [More…]

• and (2) The definition of Aboriginal used in the enrolment of voters and nomination of candidates is that adopted by the Australian Government, namely: a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Islander and is accepted as such by the community with which he is associated. [More…]

• This indicates to the Australian people that this Government has long-ranging and far-reaching concern for the welfare of all sections of the community. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Social Security note during February newspaper reports from Western Australia relating to claims made before the Western Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Affairs by a Mr R. W. Crosbie, District Officer of the Western Australian Community Welfare Department at Katanning, and other allegations made by Mrs B. Hayward of Gnowangerup? [More…]

• How does the Government intend to use the $140,000 that has been allocated for a housing pro gram at the Papunya Aboriginal community in central Australia. [More…]

• In particular, what type of housing is planned, and for how many members of the community. [More…]

• Papunya Aboriginal Community:Housing Program (Question No. [More…]

• What progress has been made in introducing in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory the concept of using school buildings out of school hours for community purposes. [More…]

• Finally, will he reconsider the decision in the light of the case put forward as to the effect this hastily taken decision will have not only on the primary producers but also on the community as a whole, which includes the housewife who will have to pay more for her agriculturally produced foodstuffs? [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…]

• It would have been far wider known if I had supported the cause of those people seeking concessional deductions for gifts for organisations like Austcare and Community Aid Abroad which deal with aid to foreign countries. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to reports from the business community that the multi-national backers of the Liberal and Country Parties have urged them to go to an election immediately? [More…]

• They certainly display an optimistic expectation of the physical maturity at least of infants in the community. [More…]

• It was an unfortunate sort of statement and shows that the people who made it do not appreciate the problems of so many families in the community today. [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…]

• Would he agree that these observations are a gratuitous insult to thousands of dedicated decent Australian women whose sole aim is to serve the community and to provide an opportunity for these children to be cared for whilst one of the parents may be working? [More…]

• The letter contained information that the Minister’s Department had allocated the sum of $20,000 to the Bacchus Marsh Shire Council for the purpose of acquiring land in the Bacchus Marsh Shire for ‘open space and community facilities’. [More…]

• including the education of isolated children, can be developed throughout the community on the basis of need. [More…]

• He will be remembered by the older portion of the community; he will be known of by the younger. [More…]

• Letters were sent out with my knowledge to a very great number of people in the community. [More…]

• What will be the position of hospitals and health centres in relation to which on the one hand the Minister said that he will co-operate with the States but on the other the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said in his policy speech that his Government would press on with the establishment of community health centres where possible in co-operation with State and local governments? [More…]

• How can anybody in the community be asked to co-operate while there is this abysmal abandonment of responsibility by the Government and an abdication of any sense of responsibility to the Australian people. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to implement policies which will encourage home ownership and ensure that the Australian community is adequately housed and (he home building industry preserved. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hotham has re-stated what can only be described as a wicked attack on welfare organisations in the community and on sporting organisations, all of which have been benefiting and more of which will benefit from these programs. [More…]

• by leave - During the period ahead the Government and the Australian community will face critical decisions in the economic field. [More…]

• A National Drug Advisory Council will soon be appointed to provide a forum whereby a wider cross-section of the community may become involved in influencing people against drug abuse. [More…]

• Since 1970 the Board’s Annual Reports have referred to the arrangements which permit the Australian Public Service to draw on specially qualified and experienced people in the community for shortterm employment on a non-career basis. [More…]

• Will he instigate a research study of the difficulties experienced by groups in the community with learning disabilities of various kinds in using present traffic signs. [More…]

• The alarming decline of confidence in the community arising out of the Government’s inability to handle the deteriorating economic situation which has been created by its own policies, and contributed to by the conflicting statements of Ministers, the Prime Minister’s abdication of leadership and the rapidly worsening employment situation. [More…]

• Is there any inter-departmental committee or committees dealing with any aspects of Australia’s trading relations with (a) New Zealand (b) Japan (c) the United States (d) Great Britain (e) the European Economic Community (f) the Soviet Union (g) China (h) India (i) Indonesia and (j ) any other countries. [More…]

• Is the Bureau of Transport Economics preparing a report which will identify community areas in Australia which are presently poorly served by public transport facilities. [More…]

• Will the Minister outline to the House the possible ramifications of the decision as it affects people in the Baltic States and people in the Baltic community in Australia? [More…]

• 932 of 19 September 1973, can he indicate in which cases consideration is given to requests from charitable and other community type organisations before Commonwealth goods are put to auction or put out to tender. [More…]

• The criteria generally used are that the organisations are non-profit making and their functions are of a community nature. [More…]

• I am aware of the situation at Indulkana and recently discussed it with the South Australian Minister for Community Welfare in the context of the application of the principle behind the recommmendations of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission to South Australia. [More…]

• My Department is also examining action which might be taken to increase the land available to the community at Indulkana. [More…]

• What equipment and trucks have been bought by the community with the funds provided. [More…]

• Does he realise that there is a widespread view that the present interest rate charged for these facilities by the Reserve Bank is too high and is responsible for at least part of the excessive interest rates current in other respects throughout the community? [More…]

• I think it is most important that at any time these powers should be adequate, that they are seen to be adequate and that they are sufficient to justify the confidence of the community in the ability of the Reserve Bank to do its job. [More…]

• Has the Social Welfare Commission taken any part in ensuring that any organisations interested in matters of community welfare are invited and involved. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the size and age structure of the Papunya Aboriginal community. [More…]

• How many Aborigines from the Papunya Aboriginal community will be employed in the housing program being undertaken there following a grant of $ 140,500. [More…]

• When is it expected that the 4 houses currently being constructed for the community will be completed. [More…]

• This arrangement has efficiently facilitated the implementation of the Commission’s Community Health Program and will apply to other programs sponsored by the Commission. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of a kindergarten building at Nyabing, Western Australia, submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Pingrup kindergarten submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for improvements to ablutions facilities and the installation of a telephone at the Ravensthorpe kindergarten submitted by the Ravensthorpe Community Centre to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [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…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of a pre-school centre at Jerramungup, Western Australia, submitted by the Gnowangerup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for alterations to the kindergarten building at Ongerup submitted by the Gnowangerup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the erection of two toilets at the kindergarten at Borden, Western Australia, submitted by the Gnowangerup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [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 (2) Grants under the Australian Assistance Plan are not made available to local government bodies to the exclusion of all other community bodies, nor to a series of separate community bodies including local government ones. [More…]

• This would aggravate the fragmentation of community welfare services, weaken the capacity for co-operation between such bodies, and defeat the objective of community involvement in regional decision-making on such matters. [More…]

• PA Management Consultants Pty Ltd and Planning Workshop Pty Ltd to prepare a report on patterns of dispersal of community recreation facilities in a new town situation. [More…]

• Does this allow unnecessary alarm to occur in the community about the effects of imports? [More…]

• 1 ) The members of the Fairfield Community Council for Social Development and the organisations they represent are as follows: [More…]

• 1 ) Who are the members of the Community Council in Fairfield /Liverpool and what organisations do they represent. [More…]

• What are the projects planned by the Community Council and how many people will be catered for in each project in the first 3 years. [More…]

• Some evaluators are examining regional geography, population, economy, community of interest and services. [More…]

• The members of the Newcastle Community Development Group and the organisations they represent are as follows: [More…]

• The Board consists of sixteen delegates drawn from the local Community Committees operating in each local government area within the region. [More…]

• Community Committees are not limited in numbers and have members associated with the following organisations: [More…]

• The delegates who sit on the Board are elected by their respective Community Committees and are as follows: [More…]

• 1 ) Who are the members of the Newcastle Community Development Group, and what organisations do they represent. [More…]

• The Katherine Community Action Committee initiated the Interim Regional Council for the purposes of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• 1 ) Who are the members of the Interim Regional Council (Katherine Community Action), and what organisations do they represent. [More…]

• Who are the members of the Wagga Wagga Community Action Group, and what organisations do they represent. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for hospital improvements at the Boddington Women’s Hospital submitted by the Boddington Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• -The people in the community for whom the honourable gentleman is showing such solicitude will be consoled, and he himself undoubtedly will be frustrated, when they hear my statement at 8 o ‘clock tonight. [More…]

• The Department employs thirty-six social workers and welfare officers whose services are available to all members of the community. [More…]

• (2) and (3) On 25 May 1973, my predecessor approved in principle a grant of $60,000 to the Murray District Aboriginal Association for the erection of an Aboriginal Community Centre at Pinjarra. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for development and equipment of an Aboriginal community centre at Pinjarra submitted by the Murray District Aboriginal Association to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• What action has been taken by the Government since the visit in order to increase Aboriginal involvement in the affairs of the community. [More…]

• Will he undertake to examine the housing needs of the disabled, particularly those with dependants who are unable to work full-time, with a view to ensuring that they are not unreasonably disadvantaged in comparison with others in the community in their endeavours (o own their own home; if so, will he let me know the outcome] of the investigation. [More…]

• This is of course as much in their interests as it is in the interests of the Australian community including those migrants already here. [More…]

• I must move this motion because there are very serious matters affecting civil aviation going on in the community today, that you, Mr Speaker, have ruled out of order as not being part - [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for extensions to building and provision of telephones at the MurrayDrakesbrook St John Ambulance Sub-centre submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of a garage for the Newdegate St John Ambulance Association submitted by the Lake Grace Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of a new ambulance for the Ravensthorpe St John Ambulance Association submitted by the Ravensthorpe Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• I ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of ambulance equipment for the Darkan St John Ambulance Centre submitted by the West Arthur Community Committee to (he Southern Region Social Development [More…]

• Will the recent Government decision to conduct regular discussions with the European Economic Community on a range of issues of common interest, including the export of Australian mineral and energy resources, assist him in framing a comprehensive minerals and energy policy which the Australian people have been awaiting for some 19 months. [More…]

• If the wheat is purchased at the lower home consumption rate, will the Minister agree that the Government is placing an unfair burden on the wheat grower instead of spreading the cost of the overseas aid throughout the community? [More…]

• Certainly it will not cause a fever of excitement up and down the country, but it is yet another step towards the building up of that international community whereby men seek to settle their arguments in a peaceful way, where arbitrament by force is abandoned, and the conference table and the adjudication of the arbitrator are accepted. [More…]

• The building was unoccupied until June 1974, when permission was given the Brisbane Army Officers Wives Club to use part of it for community purposes until an Army requirement arose. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I table a report on the implications of community centre development. [More…]

• At present my Department has no program of assistance under which the Dumbleyung Community Committee project might be considered. [More…]

• It will no doubt encompass research being undertaken in the United States on the environmental effects of Concorde nights and until this has been assessed and until the Australian community has had a chance to see the document and to comment on it, the Australian Government will make no decision. [More…]

• I think that perhaps in this year, International Women’s Year, when so much devastation has taken place through cyclones, just the women of the community should not be so readily identifiable with that devastation, and I believe that the honourable member has made in this particular year a very sensible suggestion. [More…]

• Is the Treasurer fully aware of the great social hardship which his policy of unemployment has caused throughout the Australian community? [More…]

• How many people will receive copies of the publication ‘Community ‘. [More…]

• At present my Department has no program of assistance under which the request by the Ravensthorpe Community Committee for equipping the Community Centre at Fitzgerald can be considered. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for equipping the Community Centre at Fitzgerald submitted by the Ravensthorpe Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• As has been the practice in the past, local community groups will be involved in siting and planning of those facilities. [More…]

• when will details of the plans and the chosen site be available for comment from the community. [More…]

• This organisation was formed in March 1965 to provide for consultation and cooperation amongst non-Government overseas aid organisations, between those organisations, Governments and other organisations and for community education on overseas development assistance issues. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted, if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• (5)Theobjectiveof APO News is to inform the Department’s staff and members of the business community of the developments and services provided by the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Health verify whether the New South Wales State Government has not agreed to pay its contribution towards the cost of community health centres run by voluntary organisations? [More…]

• The effect of this Bill upon the community will depend, more than most Acts- when this Bill becomes an Act- upon its ability to influence the community and upon its acceptance by the community. [More…]

• 1 ) Which community broadcasting groups and persons did the Priorities Review Staff consult in the preparation of its report on the expansion of radio services in Australia. [More…]

• Al tentative Radio Association Community Radio Federation Inner City Radio [More…]

• Can he say which sections of our community would be disadvantaged by any such developments? [More…]

• Specific proposals and alternatives will be widely publicised and community participation will be actively sought at the proper time. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1-2) Since the introduction of the Australian Government’s Community Health and Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Programs, some hundreds of applications for financial assistance, including requests from voluntary organisations, have been received by my Department and by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]

• National Life Line Association- which has received assistance under the Community Health Program [More…]

• Recovery- which have received assistance under the Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program [More…]

• I am very concerned because I see the issue driving a wedge into the community affected. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the official estimate of the stock pile of beef of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• 12) Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• 1 ) to ( 1 8) The Department of the Capital Territory administers several programs which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• Community Recreation. [More…]

• -Can the Prime Minister provide information about the proposed Australian Government Insurance Corporation, especially having regard to the current hostile propaganda that is being circulated against this community insurance service? [More…]

• Was the Nursing Mothers’ Association of Australia refused a community health grant; if so, why. [More…]

• I think that that represents the view of a substantial section of the community. [More…]

• Alterations have been proposed from many sections of the community. [More…]

• Will he make such a firm commitment as a demonstration to the whole community that the Government is determined to give a strong lead in the fight against inflation? [More…]

• Every intelligent person in the community - [More…]

• Bearing in mind the rapid breakdown in relations between John Clunies-Ross and the Minister’s Department, is it correct that a radio station is to be established on West Island with the alleged aim of assisting community relations on Home Island. [More…]

• Because the Senate amendments have the effect of removing from this Bill the opportunity of the Australian Government, on the approval of the Minister, to fund direct local governments, charitable or benevolent organisations, community groups and other organisations, including research, on conditions determined by the Commission. [More…]

• How many community centres have been established with the financial support of the Government since 2 December 1972. [More…]

• and (2) Information in respect of all capital grants made by my Department for community leisure facilities is provided in the following publications which were circulated to all members: [More…]

• 1 ) What capital grants for community leisure facilities for Western Australia have been made or approved since 30 June 1972. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Nyabing Girl Guides Association submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• The application by the Nyabing Girl Guides Association submitted by the Kent Community Committee has therefore not been considered for assistance under this program. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for establishing facilities at the Pinjarra Methodist Youth Club submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for building extensions and purchase of equipment for the Mandurah Girl Guides Association submitted by the Mandurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commissioner to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of a projector for use at Lake King, Western Australia, submitted by the Lake Grace Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) A grant of $ 1 ,500 has been approved for the purchase of a projector for use at Lake King by the Lake Grace Community Committee, under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Dwellingup Hills Youth Centre submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• The Hospitals and Health Services Commission employed Community Systems Foundation to prepare a paper reviewing literature on hospital efficiency and staff utilisation. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 )-(2) There is no item in the funds available to me that is exclusively for advertising community health centres. [More…]

• However, provision is included under Division 270.2.02 (Department of Health) and Division 271.1 (Hospitals and Health Services Commission) for publicising the Community Health Program. [More…]

• 1 ) Where in Departmental Estimates is there provision for expenditure for advertising the Government’s Community Health Centre program. [More…]

• community organisations including Apex, Lions, Rotary, Brotherhood of St Laurence, St Vincent de Paul and other similar charitable institutions. [More…]

• Grants have been made direct to local government bodies, community groups and educational institutions and to and for the States in relation to approved projects being sponsored by State Departments, local government bodies and community groups. [More…]

• Last April approval was given by the Australian Government for the establishment of community health centres at Eden, Ulladulla and Sussex Inlet. [More…]

• I ask: Is there strong supp’ort in the community for the concept of wage indexation? [More…]

• But he might have heard on some of the media today that the percentage of unemployment in the European Economic Community countries is greater than it is in Australia. [More…]

• I gave the justification for that in the following words: ‘It would be self-defeating if the system of wage indexation were to attempt to insulate the community from tax measures designed to redistribute resources for the benefit of the community in the form of improved public facilities in fields such as education, health, welfare, personal benefits, urban improvement and so on. [More…]

• 4 page 1 13 reported that the then Minister for Social Security, Mr Bill Hayden, had announced a pilot program of grants to Community Information Centres. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that a project has been approved by the Minister for Social Security under the Australian Assistance Plan for Youthsay research into community needs of youth conducted by the South West Sydney Youth Workers and Leaders. [More…]

• What is the present position of the Hobart Eastern Shore Community Health Centre. [More…]

• Who is financially responsible for the physical maintenance of buildings constructed under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Where premises are constructed by the Australian Government with funds provided under the Community Health Program and the Australian Government makes the use of those premises available to another organisation for the provision of community health services, the cost of maintenance of the premises would be the responsibility of the Australian Government. [More…]

• Where funds are provided under the Community Health Program for the construction of premises to be owned by a State Government, a local government authority or a nongovernmental organisation, the cost of maintenance of the premises is an item of expenditure towards which the Australian Government would generally provide financial assistance under the Program. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) Areas of the Reserve are currently being utilised for general community purposes including portions on the western side which are leased to the Langwarrin Progress Association, the Frankston International Small Bore Rifle Club and the Frankston and Peninsula Gun Club. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the final report of the Committee on Community Relations. [More…]

• The requirement for a few members of the South Vietnamese regime who sought political asylum in Australia to undertake not to engage in political activity or to allow themselves to be exploited in political activity arose because there are people both within the Parliament and outside who would try to exacerbate division in the community in the light of the situation that developed in Vietnam. [More…]

• 1 ) Did he promise Mr Callope, the Chairman of the Aboriginal Community Council at Weipa South, that the Government would assist the community to purchase a vehicle to take members of the Community to Old Mapoon. [More…]

• I note also that it is to be set in communal recreation grounds, in the area of the community college and various other schools. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2)I discussed with Mr Callope, while on a visit to Weipa, a number of matters including Government assistance for the purchase of a vehicle for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I subsequently wrote to Mr Callope on 18 February 1975 advising, inter alia, that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs was prepared to meet 80 per cent of the cost of a vehicle for the Aboriginal Community Council at Weipa South. [More…]

• (3), (4) and (5) I am advised that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs has paid the grant to the Community Council. [More…]

• -I ask the Attorney-General whether he can inform the House of the number of community groups, such as the environmental interest groups, which have used the present facilities of the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]

• How many community advisers are attached to his Department and other bodies which are funded by the Department. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) suggested that I would not understand the problem that farmers would face if the polling booths were to close at 6 p.m. My view is that the Australian farming community should recognise that the right to vote is a very important one and that they should express a preparedness to stop work for a few minutes during the day to go to their local polling booth or, alternatively, to take out a postal vote. [More…]

• The community is concerned about the role of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in respect of overseas loans. [More…]

• It is a body that is highly regarded and highly respected by the community at large and by me. [More…]

• In order to determine the best use of the property investigations are being carried out to determine whether there is any Australian Government or community requirement and in addition the State has been approached to ascertain whether it has an interest. [More…]

• This action is in keeping with my Department’s efforts to ensure that all Australian Government lands are used to facilitate the implementation of Australian Government policies for the maximum benefit of the whole community. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled All The People- How Belmont Shire Council, Western Australia Got Funds To Plan Community Facilities For All The People. [More…]

• That copies be free to each Aboriginal community groups, towns, cities, reserves, settlements and missions. [More…]

• subject to the approval of the Minister, part of the advances made available to State housing authorities under the Housing Agreement may be used to provide bridging finance to local authorities or institutions for community amenities that are not the responsibility of the housing authority. [More…]

• Information on bridging finance for community amenities is available from the booklet ‘Australian Government Assistance to local government projects’ which may be obtained from the Australian Government Publishing Service. [More…]

• Of course, many people in the community volunteer their views about the damage being done to themselves and to business and industry by the Opposition’s refusal to pass the Appropriation Bills. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My involvement in the visit was to arrange a dinner meeting at Parliament House to enable the visitors to discuss the Timor situation with the many members of this Parliament who are seriously perturbed at the events in Timor, as are many other people in the community. [More…]

• I wish to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Do many business proposals such as mergers and takeovers create a conflict of interest in that there are advantages to individuals yet disadvantages to the community? [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has been examining in recent times the proper way of establishing the objectives of the Heritage Commission in the most economical and sensible manner. [More…]

• This Government is very concerned about the crippling impact of taxation on the small business community and understands in particular the adversity that the application of Division 7 of the tax law presently has on the small business area. [More…]

• I might say that the Government made it clear in the election campaign that it would introduce 2 specific initiatives designed to assist the small business community. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister has said frequently, this Government is out to encourage initiative and enterprise, and in particular will back the small business community. [More…]

• In view of the considerable public interest throughout the Australian community in the possible mining at Aurukun in northern Queensland, will the Prime Minister indicate what is the Government’s attitude to the possible development and what action it is considering? [More…]

• -I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has recommended to the Minister that nuclear powered vessels - [More…]

• In the course of considering whether such standards should be mandatory, adequate time will be allowed for consultation with industry and with those in the community who are obliged to bear the cost of complying with the standards. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister whether, in addition to the comforting news that there will be no increase in income tax, he can possibly hold out any reasonable hope for at least a substantial and close review leading to the possibility of reductions in income tax for these sections of the community, which more than any other section of the community contribute to increases in productivity. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the. [More…]

• No money has been provided by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, over the past 5 financial years. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What sums, and for what purposes, were given to the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, New South Wales, by (a) direct grants and (b) section 96 grants administered by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development in each of the last 5 financial years. [More…]

• I have no doubt whatsoever that this legislation will result in great benefit flowing to most of the people who are involved in the rural community and in the primary industries of Australia. [More…]

• The delivery of mail is only one of a rural community’s needs and, although important, the quantity of mail involved is generally small. [More…]

• It follows that the frequency of a mail service is very much dependent on the need for the transport service as a whole and this is mainly a matter for the operator and the community he services. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• If the Government keeps on talking about dole bludgers and impresses on people that someone is getting something that they are not getting, or something that they are paying for, it will find it easy to achieve community support. [More…]

• If the honourable member had looked at the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development he would realise that instead of applying from the end of 3 years, as it was interpreted before the last election, it applies earlier. [More…]

• The nature of the new scheme will be dependent upon the outcome of the present examination, however it will rely more heavily on voluntary support from the community than in the past. [More…]

• 1 ) The Commonwealth Government of the day entered a formal and public commitment to construct a community health centre on Eastern Shore, Hobart, at the request of the Tasmanian Government. [More…]

• You will be aware that our Government’s stated policy is to ‘encourage the development of a community-based health system throughout Australia’. [More…]

• What is the Government’s attitude to the establishment of a community health centre on the eastern shore at Hobart. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister has made perfectly clear, the package which was recently brought down in another place by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is one which commends itself to the Australian electorate because of the overall benefits it provides. [More…]

• We have run ourselves into a position where an effective school with an effective community might have a program which would be acceptable to a schools commission but is going to be trampled underfoot because a particular State Minister does not agree with it. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the information gathered by the Task Force to be made available to Parliament and the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received the deputation. [More…]

• (in) Far from withdrawing assistance, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has been asked to advise on a comprehensive policy in the area of youth, sport and recreation. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• It is estimated by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development that a further 10 per cent of the labour force, employed mainly in the manufacture of building materials, rely principally on demand from the building and construction industry. [More…]

• Today we had a representative of the community of Eden which is on the South Coast, in Canberra for E Day. [More…]

• Such services meet a growing community demand albeit at great cost and also provide competition for the Post Office. [More…]

• l ) What payments have been (a) made or (b) promised under the Australian Assistance Plan to the (i) Western Sydney Regional Council for Social Development, (ii) Outer Western Regional Council for Social Development, (iii) Liverpool Interim Committee for Social Development (iv) Baulkham Hills Shire Interim Community Council and (v) Windsor-Colo Social Development Committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Housing and Community Development, or by Departments formerly encompassing the functions now performed by that Department, to each airline for air travel within Australia during the last 2 years. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• It has been widely acclaimed by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Advice received from the Western Australia Medical Department (Hospitals) has revealed that there has been no further planning of the new hospital as there is an urgent need for a Community Health Centre. [More…]

• I suspect that most of the Australian community is beginning to find itself in the same position. [More…]

• As difficult as it may have been, the proposal that it had put initially would have been far worse and the burden would have been placed on the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• It seems to me that members of the Australian Labor Party claim that they are the only ones who have an option on a social conscience; that they are the only ones who would make a contribution to the welfare of our community and the way we live in Australia. [More…]

• All the Government has to say on this matter was said’ in the second reading speech of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), who at the time was Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission entitled Review of the Community Health Program, together with a summary of that report. [More…]

• M.J. R. MacKellar Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development Canberra 28 May 1976 [More…]

• I reiterate that the Government should think seriously about its decision to cut expenditure in this area, as in the long term any cuts that take place in research eventually cost the community more than the saving which may show at book level. [More…]

• Not all members have taken up these entitlements and some operate from the premises of existing Aboriginal community organisations or from their own homes. [More…]

• The Australian Services Canteens Organisation will continue to operate the Community Store at Woomera for the foreseeable future. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• We do not want to get into circumstances in which a translator can be used by a large metropolitan television station to the detriment of community interests, influence, integrity- call it what you like- of a local nonmetropolitan television station which has been given a licence to serve that community. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Did Press reports which appeared following his recent visit to Adelaide correctly represent his views on the desirability of the Monarto project? [More…]

• -The Opposition is not opposed to the amendment just moved by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, but we intend to oppose the amending clause as a whole. [More…]

• Housing Research Council Research Advisory CommitteeThe composition of this committee includes principal officers (or their nominees) of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Experimental Building Station of the Department of Construction, the CSIRO Division of Building Research and each State housing authority. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• What effect has the continuing reduction of the staff ceiling of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development had on that Department’s ability to carry out its functions properly? [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is the Government’s income policy such that any award given to industrial workers, no matter how meagre, should be opposed while income increases for professional people in the community, such as members of the medical profession, even if they amount to $100 a week, should be meekly accepted and applauded as being moderate and reasonable, whether or not they are morally justifiable? [More…]

• -I indicated the view of the Australian Government to the Secretary of State while I was in the United States, and that was that we favoured the involvement of the Indochina states in the international community. [More…]

• So, we have the general functions of Medibank which hopefully will cover most people in the community eventually, and for those in the persistent minority who, it seems, will insist on insuring themselves for inadequate medical services of a private nature, it will be a supplementary function of Medibank. [More…]

• It explains the position in terms which I am certain all honourable members and all members of the community will understand. [More…]

• They constitute a very vulnerable section of the community. [More…]

• It shows the Government’s particular concern for pensioners and those in the community who are less well off. [More…]

• 1 ) Have the results of the 1974-75 Household Expenditure Survey revealed a significant difference in the expenditure patterns of migrant families as against the expenditure patterns of the community at large. [More…]

• If it has been printed in a wide range of languages, why have these pamphlets not been distributed throughout the community. [More…]

• I ask the Acting Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations whether he is aware that the recent welcome announcement of the extension of the National Employment and Training scheme and the youth employment subsidy scheme has already had a most significant effect in focusing the community’s attention on this Government’s concern for the problem of employment of school leavers. [More…]

• Because of the current necessity for restrictions on public expenditure, funds are available under the Community Health Program during 1976-77 for previously approved projects only. [More…]

• The future availability of Community Health Program funds for new projects will depend upon future developments in the Australian economic situation. [More…]

• 1 ) Is money made available for the Community Health Program during 1976-77 only for currently approved projects. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• -I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• This followed growing concern by people working in welfare agencies, and local community groups, that many elderly people were either being forced to live in squalid conditions or placed in Nursing Homes because of the lack of flexibility in the types of services being offered to the residents of the Inner city area. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Why will future Commonwealth financial assistance for community health projects take the form of annual block grants for State programs as a whole. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Hospital and Health Services Commission issue statements indicating that certain community health programs will receive money during 1 976-77 and is it unable to substantiate these claims. [More…]

• I excuse myself from offering any view as to the philosophic attitude of Indonesia in terms of the world community. [More…]

• 1) Has he any plans to assist those people in the community who are chronically ill and need private hospital care. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that recently several letters have been written to the Editor of the Canberra Times suggesting that this Government is progressively destroying the concept of the community health centre in Canberra? [More…]

• As all honourable members know, I follow Ivor Greenwood as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Who are the members of the Task Force that has been set up to examine welfare services and community based programs in the health/welfare/community development area. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• -The Prime Minister will be aware of the great concern in the community about the Industries Assistance Commission’s draft recommendation for the phasing out of Government support for important areas of the arts. [More…]

• At 30 June 1975, regional organisations of councils were in the process of developing preliminary lists of projects for 1975-76, in consultation with State bodies and community groups. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The demonstrations against the Governor-General are by a very small proportion of the community which seeks any opportunity to express its particular point of view in this way. [More…]

• Let me state the case for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and Government policy as succinctly as I can. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Has it been demonstrated that many people in the community believe that the politicisation of the office of Governor-General and subsequent demonstrations have rendered the office valueless in terms of general acceptability. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development gave on 21 September (Hansard, page 1211) but which he himself could not give on 7 September (Hansard, page 775) about the countries through which the New Zealand Rugby Union team had travelled to South Africa. [More…]

• I have been advised by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that the information given by him on 21 September was obtained on 21 September as a result of research by his personal staff in anticipation of the matter being raised during the discussion of a matter of public importance on that day. [More…]

• 1 ) With regard to his comments, as reported in the Courier Mail on 7 September 1976, on the possibility of the Government registering private funds, companies or community groups which want to set up health maintenance organisations based on preventive medicine, what investigations have been made by his Department into the feasibility of the proposals. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I am aware of certain discussions that have been going on in Brussels for some time between the member states of the European Economic Community relating to the removal of quantative restrictions between those member states in respect of sheep meat If those arrangements are in fact introduced they are not expected to have any immediate effect on Australia’s exports of sheep meat to the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of reports that the European Economic Community is likely to restrict imports of sheep meats? [More…]

• The business community with my support, has established the Canberra and Region Development Committee which is also pursuing investment possibilities. [More…]

• 1) Is his Department conducting inquiries concerning the effect of traffic noise upon the community. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns the very important general issue of the protection of our environment and the Government’s and the Minister’s attitudes to environmental issues. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Government is subsidising this table in order to place it within the reach of the needy members of the community. [More…]

• If the wider community wishes to debate these matters, obviously it will be able to discuss the decisions which the Government has so far taken. [More…]

• I call the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I should just like to ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) whether he has had any indication from the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) as to when the debate mentioned in the statement is likely to come before the House. [More…]

• We ought to be encouraging the ethnic community and doing what we as Australians can do to try to resolve the problems and difficulties within the ethnic community. [More…]

• In his comments about the community youth support scheme he neglected to tell the House that the whole concept of that scheme has been rejected by all the youth organisations throughout Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Not to recriminate or to allot blame, but for the purpose of considering how the industry may be restructured on a basis once more rational and in better interests of the community, and of the oil companies, as well as those who find employment in the industry. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Throughout the visit we were received with every kindness and courtesy, and on your behalf I have expressed this Parliament’s thanks to the parliaments and governments of the host countries and to the various authorities, community organisations and commercial interests involved with our visit. [More…]

• I merely request the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, to advise the Minister representing the Minister for Education that I believe that immediate, thorough and favourable consideration should be given to the allocation of special grants to St John’s College, Lakemba, and to other schools- not only in New South Wales but also in other parts of Australiawhose young pupils are faced with a similar souldestroying problem. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• That form would entail extensive detailed listing of capital and recurrent grants provided to State Departments, local government authorities and individual community groups and organisations. [More…]

• Will the Treasurer help to overcome the terrible uncertainty about these currency matters which pervades the community? [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the first annual report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, for the year 1975-76. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What recent action has been taken by him or his Department to have the very high European Economic Community tariff on canned fruit reduced? [More…]

• 1 ) When is the Task Force into health, welfare and community based programs to submit its report. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether he has noted a statement by the Victorian Minister for State Development and Decentralisation that the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation faces a cash crisis and will be out of money in a few days’ time because of a delay in the signing of the appropriate financial agreement. [More…]

• All Australians, all sectors of the community, have an overriding national interest in achieving a soundly based economic recovery. [More…]

• In the battle against inflation any government needs the support of its own community. [More…]

• Too often our institutions seek to sharpen differences in the community, to pursue an adversary relationship with each other for temporary advantage rather than emphasising the common interests that all Australians share. [More…]

• This is a time when all of our institutions and all Australians- business, trade unions and everyone in a position of leadership in this community- must seek to set aside narrow interests in favour of the overriding common interests that we all share. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• -Some wild allegations have been made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, (Mr Newman) that Opposition members have used the Grievance Debate this morning to try to stir and to worry needy people, people living in housing commission homes, by saying that their rents may go up. [More…]

• The Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare, Health and Community Development has produced an interim report only and a full examination of its implications is still being undertaken. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Opposition is intent on gaining the support of the community for this legislation, I will yield to the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) [More…]

• $64.9m is available to the States in 1976-77 for the Community Health Program as a whole, including community health centres and women’s refuges approved under that Program. [More…]

• Is the total Australian Government assistance available to the States for Community Health Centres and Women’s Refuges $64.9m in 1976-77. [More…]

• and (2) Telecom Australia advises me that frequent approaches are made to the Commission by various groups in the community, such as Surf Lifesaving Clubs, for the waiver or reduction of the normal charges for telephone service. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• We are confident that LieutenantGeneral MacDonald, who will now become General MacDonald, will maintain the very high standard of service for government and for the Australian community which has been established by his long line of successors. [More…]

• -I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Almost 2 months ago I released a paper setting out the problems and possible options and asking members of the Australian community to let me have their views in order that I could proceed to make a submission to the Government. [More…]

• The move towards worldwide establishment of 200-mile off-shore economic zones has been considerably hastened by the recent unilateral declarations by the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• There is a clear understanding between the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and myself in respect of these matters. [More…]

• Was the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development present? [More…]

• -The proposed members have been carefully selected to form a team balanced as far as possible in terms of factors including geographical location, educational specialisation, and variety of community experience. [More…]

• If so, does he intend to take any action to improve the standard of service across the counter to members of the Australian community? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• thereby adds to the mounting uncertainty and concern in the community; [More…]

• 1 ) My staff, based on allegations made by Mr Fancher and widely circulating at the time, particularly in the financial community. [More…]

• The need for active support from all sections of the community to ensure the effectiveness of the prices and wages freeze. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) What was the cost of the VIP flight undertaken by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on Sunday, 13 February 1977. [More…]

• How can a government win the trust of the community when promise after promise has been broken? [More…]

• Is he aware that over 45 per cent of those people are under 2 1 years of age and that despite the good intentions of the local community youth support scheme group, very few of them can be helped? [More…]

• The report of the Committee on Care of the Aged and the Infirm included a recommendation that a Community Care Program should be established. [More…]

• The Committee also recommended that ‘no new beneficiaries should be accepted under the Commonwealth Domiciliary Nursing Care Benefit after the introduction of a Community Care Program but the Committees advising on this Program should consider whether or not there is a need for some cash benefits’. [More…]

• The Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health proposed in its report that the domiciliary nursing care benefit, with envisaged possible modifications, be included in a Community Health and Care Program. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• I am incited by the reply of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in his second reading speech - [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1 977: [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, concerns the AlburyWodonga growth centre. [More…]

• That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the honourable member for Oxley making a statement concerning the inadequate explanation of the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs about the Government’s so-called wages-prices freeze, the confusion and uncertainty that the lack of detail on the operation of the freeze is causing for business and labour and the failure of the Government genuinely to encourage the development of broadly based community support for a comprehensive - [More…]

• What has been the result of the invitation extended by the Government to State Governments, the insurance industry and interested community organisations and individuals to make their views known to the Federal Government following the tabling in the Federal Parliament in 1976 of the discussion paper prepared by a working party inquiring into a natural disaster insurance scheme for Australia. [More…]

• Within which electoral divisions have community committees been established in order to implement the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• What community projects have been undertaken by each committee. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Health aware of speculation in the community that the Government may withdraw subsidies to private health insurers? [More…]

• In the circumstances perhaps I should inform the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) desires to present a report to the House before a certain time. [More…]

• the Community Health Program; [More…]

• Can the Minister for Health advise the House at what rate the Commonwealth Government is funding women’s refuges in the States under the community health program? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development: Have officers of his Department had discussions with appropriate State officials with a view to the cessation or lessening of Australian Government involvement in environmental protection? [More…]

• -Last September the Acting Prime Minister told me that the Government had not seen the advantage to Australia in concluding a framework agreement for economic and commercial co-operation between the European Economic Community and Australia such as Canada was able to consumate last July. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development agreed with the request of the Victorian Minister for State Development and Decentralisation for a ministerial meeting on Albury-Wodonga to be held in the next 2 weeks? [More…]

• It does not believe, if we are dealing with competition legislation, that any section of the community whose actions have the purpose of substantially affecting competition should be immune from the implications of that action. [More…]

• There are people in this House and in the community who say that there is a lot of divisiveness between the parties, but I think that this debate in part puts the lie to that and I personally welcome it. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and I refer to the answer he gave me last Thursday in reply to my suggestion that money could be made available to the Albury City Council by way of grants. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a Press statement issued by Mr Jensen, the New South Wales Acting Minister for Decentralisation and Development, last Thursday in which he said that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development was obscuring reality with streams of abuse? [More…]

• In relation to our policy on tariffs and imports there has to be a sensible balance between competing demands in a community. [More…]

• We have a responsibility to look after the social problems of the community. [More…]

• In relation to the Community Development Employment Projects Scheme announced by him last week to provide employment for Aboriginals in particular communities, will the operation of the scheme and the provision of jobs ensure that the work test for unemployment benefit is capable of being applied in such communities? [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development expect the implications of the rise in April approvals for house building to be sustained in the industry generally? [More…]

• 1 ) Has he received complaints that the deficit financed nursinghomesarecatering for the well-to-do rather than the poorer members of the community; if so, will he check the accuracy of this allegation. [More…]

• Should priority be given to the poorer members of the community for admission to the deficit financed nursing homes. [More…]

• -I call the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who will close the debate. [More…]

• 1 ) Did he, when he was acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for some time in 1976, receive the annual report of the Australian Housing Corporation in accordance with sub-section 48 ( I ) of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975. [More…]

• 1 have been informed that the Queensland Department of Health informed the Hospitals and Health Services Commission by letter of 20 July 1976 that women’s refuges in Brisbane and Townsville would be excluded from consideration when financial allocations under the Community Health Program were determined. [More…]

• 1 ) Is his Department closely monitoring various moves in the European Economic Community which may allow large amounts of stockpiled butter to be exported at a price several hundred dollars below the present world price because of a Common Agricultural Policy subsidy of over $2,000 per tonne. [More…]

• I take the point made by the honourable gentleman that the Government needs to be always concerned to close off loopholes of this kind, because where high income earners avoid paying tax it necessarily imposes an unfair burden on other genuine taxpayers within the community. [More…]

• I sincerely hope that there will be a full debate on this report in the Parliament and in the community. [More…]

• As well, Government departments and agencies use their telecommunication services to maintain contact with the community they serve and in view of this the community would be disadvantaged if such action were taken. [More…]

• For the purpose of answering this question, the definition of a ‘community health centre’ is consistent with the definition in my answer to question No. [More…]

• 983, it was expected that there would be 7 community health centres operating in Western Australia as at 30 June 1977. [More…]

• Accordingly it is expected that, at 30 June 1977, there will be 8 community health centres operating in Western Australia. [More…]

• No other Community Health Program funded community health centres have ceased operations since 1 December 1976. [More…]

• Will there still be 207 community health centres operating in New South Wales, 41 in Victoria, 21 in Queensland, 17 in South Australia, 7 in Western Australia and 8 in Tasmania with Australian government assistance at 30 June 1977 (Hansard, 1 December 1976, page 3098). [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March1977: [More…]

• Of the remaining 344 cases,184 were lodged by companies controlled in the European Economic Community, 75 in the United States of America,11 in Japan and 74 in other countries. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• Housing and Community Development, upon notice on 5 May 1977: [More…]

• If so, did he receive it from his predecessor, the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs who acted as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for several months, or did he receive it from the Corporation. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) What measures has the Government taken to evaluate the public awareness of environmental, urban and community development issues. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]

• This report was widely circulated for discussion to many interested individuals and organisations in the community. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August: [More…]

• Under the administrative arrangements applicable to the Community Health Program, primary responsibility for governmental supervision of projects such as the Liverpool Women’s Health Centre rests with the State health authoritiesin this case, the Health Commission of New South Wales. [More…]

• If so, will he ensure that the review be by way of a public inquiry so that all the facts involved can be made available to the community? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Health: Why was there no proper and adequate consultation with the Victorian Government before the Federal Government unilaterally altered the cost sharing arrangements with that State in relation to the hospital development program and the community health and school dental programs? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Transport aware of continuing concern in the community, particularly among tertiary students, at the collapse of AUS Student Travel Service Pty Ltd? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for National Resources and Minister for Overseas Trade say how soon the economic benefits from the mining of Australian uranium will be felt in the community? [More…]

• We have to go away from this conference today with something more hopeful for the community than what is being projected at present … [More…]

• -Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development hear or has he since been shown a transcript of the remarks made on AM yesterday by a committee chairman of the United States Congress to the effect that the United States had a staggering problem of both cost and environmental danger in regard to what to do with the temporarily stored nuclear waste much of which is in liquid form, something like 74 million gallons of the stuff, which has fife of anywhere from 1,000 years to 250,000 years’? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question. [More…]

• I call upon the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development not to describe the objects. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development seen or heard a statement which claimed that uranium and nuclear power is the most violent source of energy known to humanity? [More…]

• There is a determinable need in this community. [More…]

• As an interesting example of a different set of priorities applying in the type of community in which we are presently operating I have an article from the Melbourne Age headed Pre-school Facilities Stun Expert’. [More…]

• The National Country Party has now sold its soul to the big mineral corporations and expects the primary producers, such as the beef producers, to keep their peace while the rest of the community is fleeced and while the needs of the primary producer are totally ignored. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 August 1977: [More…]

• Surely that means that we are getting less in the way of hospitals, schools, community facilities and the like. [More…]

• Petrol will cost the average worker in this community dearly. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and for the information of honourable members, I present the report of Sir Bede Callaghan, C.B.E., following his inquiry into the structure of industry and the employment situation in Tasmania together with a statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on behalf of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton). [More…]

• 1 ) How much was expended by each State on community health services and faculties in 1976-77 and how much will be allocated to each of them for this purpose in 1977-78. [More…]

• How much was expended by each State in 1976-77 and will be allocated to each of them in 1977-78 for (a) community health centres and (b) women’s refuges. [More…]

• The following figures relate to Commonwealth funds provided for community health services and facilities approved under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Since Britain joined the European Economic Community, what imports and exports have passed between the EEC and Australia, classified by years and by commodities. [More…]

• Can the Australian community assume that in line with his anti-apartheid speech at the recent Commonwealth Conference examples of segregation of Aborigines in this country will soon be eliminated. [More…]

• It is a publicly owned enterprise belonging to and serving the community. [More…]

• Was a request made that in the interest of Italian-Australian friendship the deportation order be withdrawn and the case reexamined in the light of the fact that the action taken is regarded as offensive to the Italian community in Australia and having regard to the value of Mr Salemi ‘s work in the Italian community on behalf of the Federation of Italian Labourers, Emigrants and Families? [More…]

• I see, as the first consequence of any action taken, an attempt by a responsible government to provide services to the people and the community that elected it. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 May 1977: [More…]

• Mr Les McMAHON (Sydney) ( 10.43)- I was appalled tonight that the Government Whip, the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier), gagged the debate on the estimates of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 April 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 September 1977: [More…]

• No distinction is made in the table below on the one hand between eligible ex-servicemen and other eligible patients (for example, war widows) nor on the other between ineligible ex-servicemen and other community patients. [More…]

• From the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- [More…]

• How many community health centres were operating with Australian Government assistance in each State on 30 June 1977. [More…]

• The Government will consider early in the next year that Tribunal report, as well as the submissions we have received from the community and from interested organisations. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1977: [More…]

• In view of these prospects will the Prime Minister reassess his Government’s economic domestic policies to ensure that the Australian economy is not plunged into further recession with disastrous effects for the whole community? [More…]

• I only wish that the kind of arrangements that we have developed now for pursuing Australia ‘s interests had in fact been in operation at the times when we were losing our markets in the European Economic Community as a result of Britain’s entry into that Community. [More…]

• The Government is confident that the business community and the public will support the fund raising efforts to ensure Australia ‘s success at Edmonton. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: When is a decision likely to be made on a grant to assist the Australian Commonwealth Games team to compete at the Edmonton Games in August this year? [More…]

• I would expect considerable community debate on it. [More…]

• i- ill* Government would wain to be in ct position of being able to assess the totality of community views and other views which would be put to it before coming to a firm decision on specific aspects of the report. [More…]

• I do not believe it is fair that a whole section of the Australian community should be completely cut off because we are not able to provide them with a sealed road and the return of a fair share of their tax money. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is undertaking a preliminary assessment of the effects of a closure of the whaling company on the economy of the Albany district in connection with the forthcoming inquiry. [More…]

• Last week the Prime Minister, my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and I met representatives of permanent building societies throughout Australia and received their general views on this matter. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to the fact that the Western Australian Government intends to provide for the Minister for Community Welfare in that State to override the Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning and, by extension, the Aboriginal Land [More…]

• As this will conflict with the wishes of the local Aboriginal community and is contrary to the provisions of the Commonwealth land rights legislation, will the Minister indicate whether the concern he expressed for Kimberley Aborigines prior to the recent Kimberley by-election extends to taking action to prevent the State Government disregarding the wishes, in particular, of the Oombulgurri people? [More…]

• I have had the opportunity recently of pointing that out to some of the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• If the Opposition’s amendments were carried, the effect could well be to put a community in a most unenviable situation. [More…]

• The amendments would require the Minister to accept the decision of the council notwithstanding that, by some act of the majority of the people in the community, he knew it was not what they wanted. [More…]

• I point out that the Opposition by its amendments would be taking away from the community as a whole a most beneficial provision of this legislation. [More…]

• I think that the Committee can see that the amendments moved by the Opposition would be quite detrimental to the interests of the community and would not be in its interests at all. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to consider as a proper and honourable course available to this Parliament to have the Committee report progress in respect of this Bill in order that the members of the Aboriginal community who have had little time to consider its implications which vitally affect their future will be given time to give the Bill that consideration. [More…]

• In view of the vast publicity given to the recent arrests of persons for alleged social security frauds, what steps has the Minister taken to assure the Greek community that prosecutions directed at individuals do not imply condemnation of that community as a whole and to thank those members of the community who did their duty and assisted the authorities with their inquiries? [More…]

• It has been asked of me by a number of members of the community and by other members of Parliament. [More…]

• The Government will announce its attitude on recommendations of the report after due consideration has been given to the views of the Premiers and the community as a whole as well as having made its own assessment of the report. [More…]

• With your indulgence, Mr Deputy Speaker, I would like to direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• When was the attention of the Department of Social Security drawn to the findings in the (a) 1959 Annual Report of the Western Australian Department of Native Welfare, (b) 1976 report by the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare and (c) 1977 report by the Office for [More…]

• Community Relations on the difficulties encountered by Aboriginals in finding accommodation in the Guildford area (Hansard, 14 March 1978). [More…]

• I had intended to raise another matter and I notice that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is in the chamber. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 7 March 1 978: [More…]

• What action has been taken, or will be taken, on recommendation 26 of the report on the Middle East tabled in June 1977 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which urges that Australia, as a member of the world community, should participate fully in the development of international measures to counter terrorism. [More…]

• I make it quite plain that I have nothing but contempt for those extremists in our community, no matter from where they come, who adopt methods of violence, coercion or oppression which are contrary to our laws and to our way of life. [More…]

• Some years ago I became involved with the Croatian community in Sydney when I was asked to represent a large number of Coatian people who had been subjected to the infamous Murphy raids as they were called. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• There will always be people who unfortunately seek to denigrate those in the community, particularly those in public life, for some personal advantage. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]

• That the House condemns the Prime Minister and the Government for applying double standards in the equipping of the VIP flight with two Boeing 727 jet aircraft for the comfort and convenience of the Prime Minister, and for the insensitivity shown by the Prime Minister and the Government in embarking on a $40m VIP equipment program at a time when 1,100 workers are to be displaced in industry and when unemployment and deprivation in the community arc at record levels. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1976: [More…]

• As at 30 June 1978, the number of project officers employed on Community Youth Support Scheme projects was as follows: [More…]

• I believe that this legislation, when it goes on the statute books, will be widely welcomed by the entire Australian community. [More…]

• I think it will be a symbol of this Government’s absolute conviction that the Australian community can no longer afford the type of abuse which this legislation is designed to destroy. [More…]

• There has been quite a difference of opinion between the European Economic Community and the United States on maximum and minimum price scales, but I am pleased to say that last week in Geneva in the course of discussions they did seem to get closer accord on their differences. [More…]

• I have seen translations of reports from a number of ethnic newspapers along these lines and I make it absolutely clear to the editors of those newspapers and to the community as a whole that I have not put forward any such proposals, nor do I intend to do so. [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate this matter and issue instructions to re-introduce this necessary service to this disadvantaged section of the community? [More…]

• The salaries of the public service have risen in line with the rest of the community, and so they should. [More…]

• All these things were bound up in the certainty of a great reformed faith which set the foundations for community responsibility and service to the people. [More…]

• (a) Private; (b) A personal appreciation of living conditions of and present assistance arrangements for the Aboriginal community at Mornington. [More…]

• We met the management and staff, leaders and members of the Aboriginal community at Mornington and inspected the town and its facilities. [More…]

• -I inform the honourable member for Tangney and the House that there is no such proposal currently before the Government and I am unaware of the reasons for such a rumour gathering force in the community. [More…]

• But we are abolishing bulk billing for other people in the Australian community because we believe they should have some knowledge of the cost of their health services and we believe that the doctor should have some responsibility for the way health services are provided in the community. [More…]

• Telecom’s profits are progressively invested in the Commission ‘s Capital Program and thus are being applied to finance necessary extensions of the telecommunications network to give improved and increased services to all sections of the Australian community including remote areas. [More…]

• It is part of the subtle campaign by the Sydney Morning Herald to label any opposition to uranium rnining as left-wing opposition and to obscure the real issues which concern a wide cross section of the Australian community. [More…]

• 1 ) I am certainly aware of the concern of the Greek community about the matter raised by the honourable gentleman. [More…]

• As I said in the House on 7 April in answer to a similar question, and also in a press release on 1 8 April, prosecutions directed at individuals do not imply condemnation of a whole community. [More…]

• It is quite unfair to blame a whole community because a small minority of that community may have been involved in something unlawful. [More…]

• 1 ) Has he received any complaints from the Greek community in Australia regarding the inept handling of the disclosure of a racket on social security pensions by a few members of that community; if so, does he regard these complaints as being well founded. [More…]

• Will he take immediate action to assure the Australian public that the vast majority of the Greek community are worthy Australian citizens as my experience in the Electoral Division of Sydney clearly demonstrates. [More…]

• -The Australian Labor Party still opposes this Bill, although it is not opposed to the Senate’s amendments which in effect have been moved in Committee by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) because as we see them they are somewhat similar to the amendments that we moved. [More…]

• The honourable member knows that the Northern Land Council sent a telex to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) asking that the clause be strengthened to permit what is called a class action being taken to protect the interests of the general public. [More…]

• I notice that the amendments to which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) referred have not really been circulated although I have a copy of them. [More…]

• I have listened to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) in his last two contributions. [More…]

• When one considers that this legislation concerns the community, the industries of Australia and the economy of this country, it can be seen that the Opposition is playing a far more responsible role in regard to it than is the Government. [More…]

• They did much to affect the statistics but they caused serious dislocation in the community and brought hardship to many people. [More…]

• The report was commissioned and funded by the Commonwealth to stimulate informed debate within the community generally and by those authorities charged with the provision of sewerage systems. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 May 1 978: [More…]

• What response is the Commonwealth Government making to representations from Australia’s scientific community regarding the urgent need for adequate marine research vessels to increase our relatively meagre knowledge of the seas in which Australia has an interest? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environ ment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March, 1978: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that the honourable member for Holt is wearing a badge on his lapel in the House today? [More…]

• Officers of my Department have been consulting with the Maningrida community both before and since the decision to terminate grants to the Council, and I have received written and oral reports from Departmental officers as well as representations from the Aboriginals at Maningrida. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the article in the Legal Service Bulletin of December 1976 which states that the Aboriginal Legal Service in Queensland faces such serious problems in providing representation and advice that (a) over 6,000 Aboriginals who live on isolated reserves in the Cape York Peninsula receive only one visit per year from were circulated: officers of the Cairns Legal Service, (b) 5,000 Islanders of the Torres Strait live over 500 miles from the Cairns solicitor while the people of the outer islands have never been visited by a Legal Service Officer, (c) the Legal Service does not have the resources to represent any of the estimated 400 people who appear each month before the twelve Aboriginal community courts on isolated reserves and (d) the Cairns solicitor is required to provide representation and appear at 1 7 Magistrates Courts as well as Circuit Courts of the District and Supreme Courts [More…]

• Have there been consultations with the Oombulgurri community or with persons acting on its behalf. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• Is the Treasurer able to give the House details of the outcome of the loan and the implications it has for the Government’s economic strategy, which is a strategy that is widely accepted by the great majority of the Australian community? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 10 May 1978: [More…]

• Equally we reject absolutely the claim of the Leader of the Opposition that his policy would lead to increased employment in the Australian community. [More…]

• The heavy imposts which the Leader of the Opposition seeks to impose upon the business and industrial community would be devastating in their effect. [More…]

• It is the same old story- sock it to business, hit the industrial community, provide more money in transfer payments and hope that jobs will as a consequence be created. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Government decided which commodities will be included in negotiations for freer access of Australian primary products to the markets of (a) the United States of America, (b) Japan and (c) the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The environmental impact assessment procedures were the subject of a Press release by the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 26 July 1978. [More…]

• In relation to those points there are some who might well have said that Telecom had gone too far in accepting those provisions but it did so because it recognised its responsibility to the wider Australian community and its responsibility to contribute to the settlement of what has become a most damaging industrial dispute - [More…]

• The question of conscientious objection to unionism is one which I think is of concern to the whole Australian community as well as to the union- [More…]

• and (2) The principal programs administered by my Department under which funds are made available within the St George electorate are: the Community Health Program the Home Nursing Subsidy Scheme the Hospitals Development Program; and the Australian School Dental Scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 June 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1 978: [More…]

• Does the Acting Minister agree that young people in Australia today are community minded and have a sense of concern about the destiny of the nation? [More…]

• Will the Government consider establishing a voluntary scheme whereby young people wishing to work and serve the community by looking after the aged or disadvantaged groups can do so? [More…]

• What percentage of the markets for (a) beef and (b) dairy products does Australia currently have in (i) Japan, (ii) Canada, (iii) the United States of America and (iv) the European Economic Community. [More…]

• There are many in this community who would say that planners are destroying our society. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Productivity and derives from a concern that may be an incomplete understanding in the community about the positive impact of industrial research and development. [More…]

• Taxation is like a great big funnel: Money from taxation is taken in one end from the people who can afford to pay taxes and is filtered out the other end for community services such as education and health. [More…]

• How many community television antenna systems (CTAS) have been installed throughout Australia. [More…]

• Of the systems established, which of them have been disbanded or otherwise taken over by any Government department from the community committee which initiated the system. [More…]

• Was a CTAS established in the Electoral Division of Braddon in 1964; if so, has it proved satisfactory in supplying an adequate television service to the Wivenhoe community. [More…]

• 1 ) What licences have been issued under provisions of the Broadcasting and Television Act to facilitate operation of community antenna television systems. [More…]

• What licence applications for community antenna television systems have been rejected and what were the grounds for rejection in each case. [More…]

• 1 ) Ten community television aerial systems have been installed throughout Australia. [More…]

• and (2) Community television aerial systems have been authorised in the following areas: [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development admitted that there were low yield atomic explosions through to 1 963. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]

• He has only himself to blame for the dissatisfaction that there is with the Chairman of the Northern Land Council within the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1 978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1 978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1 978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August: [More…]

• -Is the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister aware that there exists in the community much argument and animosity about the degree of generosity extended to Commonwealth public servants because of their superannuation scheme. [More…]

• What consultations occurred with the Aboriginal community, the Federal Government, the Advisory Councils and the Uniting Church before this announcement and what were their responses to the announcement. [More…]

• I am informed that the Northern Land Council held a meeting with the Borroloola community at Borroloola on 7 August 1978 but that the matter of allowing Mount Isa Mines pipeline and port access was not discussed at that meeting. [More…]

• My Department will continue to pay grants direct to community organisations at Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]

• Will the Minister consider the need of ethnic groups in our community to have direct cheap air fares to their countries of origin? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]

• Has he any advice to offer sections of our community concerning the living conditions of people in some parts of Australia? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• Is the Treasurer aware that concern is still being engendered in the Australian business community by private statements of some Australian Taxation Office officials that the future introduction of a retail turnover or similar tax is in fact a foregone conclusion? [More…]

• Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]

• The working party was examining Departmental procedures, migrant selection criteria and community facilities available to migrant women when its tasks were subsumed by the establishment of the Ethnic Affairs Branch in early 1977 and the Task Force on Migrant Women as part of the Inter-departmental Working Group on Women’s Affairs, in June 1977. [More…]

• Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to an article published in the Australian of 1 1 August 1 978 stating that an Aboriginal who killed a man by spearing him through the heart, and who was then released on a bond because tribal punishment had been meted out, has since expressed his remorse and been accepted back into his community. [More…]

• With a view to finding a solution to those difficulties and to ensuring equitable treatment under our criminal justice system to all members of the Australian community, the Australian Law Reform Commission has been asked to examine the whole question of the recognition and application of Aboriginal customary law. [More…]

• The serious threat to the Australian community from the strike in the fuel industry. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 27 September 1 978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development: Liaison with States (Question No. [More…]

• -This afternoon, both during Question Time and during the debate on a matter of public importance, we saw the desperate efforts that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) was forced to make, given the degree to which he had been discredited by the handling of that particular portfolio. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]

• The BUI contains provisions which protect the community from the excessive powers that are vested in the Minister, in that his directions must be laid on the table of this Parliament. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled ‘A Basis for Soil Conservation Policy in Australia’, being the first report of the Commonwealth and State Government Collaborative Soil Conservation Study 1975-77 prepared under the auspices of the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In addition to these projects, the Rape Crisis Centre (Surry Hills), the Pregnancy Help Centre (Strathfield) and the Central Coast Women’s Health Services Co-ordinator (Gosford) also receive financial assistance under the Community Health Program, but the latter projects are not classified as women’s health centres. [More…]

• First of all I wish to say that I have nothing but disgust as, I am certain, has the Australian community, for those who make any comments with regard to the Prime Minister and his personal affairs, so I do not respond to those comments in any way. [More…]

• The Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) also left Australia yesterday for further trade discussions with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition well knows that the content of those sections in the Income Tax Assessment Act is quite different from the overall policy which he espoused with regard to a capital gains tax and which will affect such a great percentage of the Australian community. [More…]

• Those uranium maniacs that we haveand there are plenty in this Parliament and the community outside- ought to think very carefully of what Einstein stood for and his role as a man of peace. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise whether this action has resulted in any increased lending to the small business community? [More…]

• 1 ) Was the national meeting of the Chairmen of the State Committees of the Community Youth Employment Support Scheme held in Melbourne on 27 October 1978. [More…]

• 1 ) What statistical information is available with respect to people affected by asbestos caused disease in the Australian community. [More…]

• and (3) The pamphlet was first distributed by the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development in early 1976. [More…]

• What action does the Minister for Health propose to take in response to the growing anxiety in the community about the use of asbestos in consumer products and the possible effect on human health? [More…]

• 1 ) Funds will be made available to the Indulkana Community in June 1979 to enable it to assume responsibility from the Department of Community Welfare on 1 July 1 979. [More…]

• 1 ) When will funds be made available to the Indulkana Community Council to allow that body to take over the services now provided by the South Australian Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• Funds provided to the Flinders Island Community Association as detailed in answer to Question No. [More…]

• Are the variable levies on imports of agricultural produce imposed by the European Economic Community an unreasonable barrier to international trade? [More…]

• Ecclesiasticus says that the greatest gift that any man can give to the community in which he lives and works is the best that is in him. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Special Trade Representations to inform the House as to the present state of negotiations with the European Economic Community to obtain better access for Australian exports. [More…]

• European teachers going into an Aboriginal community for the first time are made aware of the cultural gap between their lifestyle and that of the community and are better prepared to do their job without offending the community’s wishes and attitudes. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the report tabled in December 1976 by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘The Lebanon crisis- Humanitarian aspects’ in which the Committee made a number of recommendations regarding the broadcasting of inflammatory commentary by community access stations in Australia, including the need for satisfactory monitoring procedures. [More…]

• Mr Neil expressed concern that the Liberal Party- may have alienated itself from the Greek community because of the mass prosecutions of Greek migrants involved in allegations of social welfare fraud. [More…]

• He is trying to ascertain how many Chinese votes he can get, now that the Greek community has been prosecuted for fraud. [More…]

• That this House commends the Carlton United Brewery for its introduction of a low alcohol content light ale, and, in the belief that such a product could be beneficial in helping lower the road toll and also in raising the level of community health, this House recommends that the excise tax for lower alcohol beer be reduced in order to make it less expensive and thus more acceptable to the beer drinking community. [More…]

• 1 ) What are the presently accepted standards for (a) hydrocarbons, (b) oxides of nitrogen and (c) carbon monoxide in motor vehicle emissions in (i) Australia, (ii) the United States, (iii) the European Economic Community, (iv) Japan and (v) Canada. [More…]

• What are the details of (a) capital cost, (b) annual expenditure, (c) number of staff and (d) services provided under the (i) Community Health Program and (ii) School Dental Scheme for each project in each Federal electoral division. [More…]

• ) Is Mrs June Tapp of Killarney Station subsidised by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to advise Aborigines on community work. [More…]

• I am concerned that such publicity may be creating a serious road safety problem and stems from a background hardly worthy of such community reaction. [More…]

• Mr Higgs has held the position of Director of Environment with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and with the Department of Science and the Environment since March 1978. [More…]

• It is a matter of general concern for the community that it must get the best value possible in terms of health care for each dollar spent. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Trade and Resources indicate the response there has been from the business community to the Export Now’ campaign since it was launched in February this year? [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a reply in Parliament by the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Island Affairs (Queensland Hansard 21 March 1979, page 359 1 ) criticising a report on racism in Queensland by the Community Relations Commissioner as bias and provocative nonsense which will not alter one iota the proud record of Queensland in care for Aboriginal people. [More…]

• 1 ) What action has the Minister taken in relation to the request by the Queensland Aboriginal community of Yarrabah for declaration as an Aboriginal Community under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-management) Act 1 978. [More…]

• Did the community ask for 40 square miles of the station land and 60 square miles of vacant crown land, where they have traditional ties, over 7 months ago. [More…]

• The benefit is payable on visits by a community nurse. [More…]

• Assuming that the wages and the ancilliary costs associated with the employment of a community nurse are about $300 a week and the nurse looks after 10 patients a week, it costs $440 to keep people in their own homes. [More…]

• The reports cover specific aspects of the implementation of the Australian Assistance Plan in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia as well as the general issues of interest to people and groups involved in community development and social welfare programs. [More…]

• -The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( I ), (2) (3) Statistics of telegrams sent in relation to Community Youth Support Scheme projects are not separately recorded. [More…]

• Despite the need to restrain public expenditure the Government has been able significantly to improve benefits available to the needy members of the community. [More…]

• -by leave-The Opposition largely supports the recommendations of the Research Directorate of the former Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development which produced this report entitled ‘A Basis for Soil Conservation Policy in Australia’. [More…]

• The Government feels that the Parliament should be setting an example to the rest of the community by declining increases outside those which indexation would have yielded. [More…]

• After three and a half years of intensive work and hard decision-making, the Government has at last been able to ease some of the restrictions that it has found necessary to place on the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• In this Budget, all sections of the community receive benefits. [More…]

• It does not matter whether they are pensioners, small businessmen, taxpayers or those engaged in energy exploration; every section of the community receives some benefit. [More…]

• No section of the community will bear additional costs because of this Budget. [More…]

• It is clear from the economic surveys conducted in Australia by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, which were published in August that the Australian community, the Australian people and the Australian economy will benefit from this Budget, and that we are once again on the road to recovery. [More…]

• Earlier this year, I advised the State Ministers for Health, who have primary responsibility for the administration of community health projects, including women ‘s health centres, of the Commonwealth’s policy concerning the charging of fees for medical services provided by general practitioners employed on a salaried or sessional basis in centres funded under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• This advice was to the effect that Commonwealth policy is that, for Schedule medical services rendered by or on behalf of salaried or sessionally paid general practitioners employed in any community health centre funded under the Community Health Program, charges should be made at the Schedule Fee level for all clients except Pensioner Health Benefit card holders and their dependants, and disadvantaged clients. [More…]

• However, the administrative arrangements for the Community Health Program are such that the States have a significant degree of flexibility in matters of administrative detail such as this. [More…]

• 3 ) Would this move greatly reduce the risk not only to the health standards of workers but also to family and community health standards. [More…]

• In view of expressed concern at alleged cuts in Community Youth Support Scheme programs involving materials and project officers, I ask the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs to inform the House whether there is any substance to the allegations and, if so, to what extent they affect the continuing prospects for the CYSS and thereby the employment opportunities for young people in Wide Bay. [More…]

• -Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations 1979. [More…]

• Was any process of community consultation used in establishing that agenda and priorities, if so, what was it. [More…]

• What are the details of additional funding for voluntary youth organisations and community youth groups as a consequence of the increased status of the Office of Youth Affairs since December 1978. [More…]

• How many persons have been assisted by the (a) National Employment and Training Scheme, (b) Community Youth Support Scheme, (c) Government’s various apprenticeship schemes and (d) Education Program for Unemployed Youth, in each year since 1975. [More…]

• 1 ) While my Department does not undertake or commission opinion polls, considerable survey work is undertaken in conjunction with its evaluation of ongoing programs, internal administrative arrangements and overall assessment of the welfare needs of the community. [More…]

• What has happened to the review of the Community Youth Support Scheme guidelines in view of the fact that community consultations for the review were completed in 1978. [More…]

• If so, should the Commissioner for Community Relations investigate this matter to ensure that there is no discrimination on racial grounds? [More…]

• 3) 1979, the extension of these benefits is further evidence of the Government’s continuing concern for pensioners on low incomes and other disadvantaged persons in the community. [More…]

• This initiative is evidence of the Government’s concern for pensioners on low incomes, and others, such as supporting parents, who are among the disadvantaged in our community. [More…]

• Is he also aware that some community uncertainty is causing a temporary loss of car sales? [More…]

• If the Government has rejected this recommendation, does it reject the Royal Commission’s view that the Government should be in a position to understand and evaluate the needs and problems of the industry from the point of view of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• 1 ) With which countries does the European Economic Community have trade agreements (Question No. [More…]

• What is the growth in productivity for the (a) construction, (b) wholesale and retail, (c) finance, (d) community services, ( e ) entertainment and (f) other industries as measured by (i) annual average increase in GDP per hour worked and (ii) annual average increase in GDP per person employed. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Special Trade Representations: As the European Economic Community is to be enlarged from nine to 12 member states, what steps is the Government taking to safeguard Australia’s trading interests, particularly in respect of dried and canned fruits? [More…]

• and (4) The Depanment has arranged for ownership of the cattle, which have increased in number and value, to be transferred to an appropriate aboriginal community organisation. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Commissioner for Community Relations who is a statutory officer appointed under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, received financial assistance, either direct or indirect, by way of air fares and accommodation from any organisation or person to enable him to travel (a) within Australia or (b) overseas, in the performance of his duties. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the incidence of deafness in the Australian community and what is the relative incidence among adult (a) males and ( b) females in each State. [More…]

• The Government’s failure to protect the rights of the Aboriginal community at Yarrabah Reserve in Queensland. [More…]

• How many Community Youth Support Scheme projects have received continuation grants of (a) 26 and (b) 52 weeks in the periods (i) 1 July to 31 December 1978 and (ii) 1 January to 7 June 1979. [More…]

• The Government’s repeated changes to health insurance which have destroyed the community rating principle and will mean that the elderly, large families and the chronically ill will be unable to afford adequate cover. [More…]

• The Government’s repeated changes to health insurance which have destroyed the community rating principle and will mean that the elderly, large families and the chronically ill will be unable to afford adequate cover. [More…]

• The inquiry has been a wide-ranging one, and other inquiries are going on into the financial structure of the Australian commercial community. [More…]

• Ainslie bus depot, I said that the Government was having expressed to it objections from the unions and also that others in the community had some worries about the project. [More…]

• To enable Australian trade to fit more conveniently into the international mould, my Government will present legislation to establish a Metric Conversion Board, so that a programme for conversion to a metric system of weights and measures may, in consultation with the States and community groups, be put in hand. [More…]

• Has the Government any plans at all to alleviate the burden of high interest rates on the community? [More…]

• Is he aware that some local government authorities are paying interest of up to 8% and more for their money, this rate deterring them from carrying out urgent community development projects? [More…]

• This, of course, is a most complex situation which does not lend itself to simple elaboration, but if one assumes that the pull factors, that is, the conditions in Australia, have remained constant, some of the factors which have influenced British thinking in relation to the downturn would be marginal improvement in economic conditions in Great Britain, the prospects of Britain’s entry .into the European Economic Community, a very good summer in Britain in 1969 and the difficulties which many British people who wish to come to this country are experiencing in selling homes quickly. [More…]

• I hope, and I believe that every honourable member hopes, that it will be accepted by the members of the APWU and that we will get back to normal operation within the Post Office and have the mails moving again to the advantage of the Australian community. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I am sure that this and other matters concerned with the welfare of primary producers of this country were very carefully considered by the Minister for Primary Industry and indeed by the Government generally since there are, as the honourable member would agree, many advantages enjoyed by primary producers which the other sections of the community do not enjoy. [More…]

• Part of the indebtedness has come about as a result of the assistance given by the Government to the rural community to allow it to carry on in such drought conditions. [More…]

• He will recall that from time to time many requests have been made in this House and elsewhere on behalf of business interests, social bodies and other groups in the community for the provision of reliable information upon which action of some kind or another can be based. [More…]

• Accordingly, that survey established an income level that proceeded on a sliding scale, and in any event, the level was only 40% of what the survey team regarded as a minimum standard of living for people in the community. [More…]

• It ought to be intolerable to any elected body, a government, which claims to accept a responsibility to* discharge a moral obliga tion to the community. [More…]

• If that provision of 4 weeks annual leave flowed on into the community generally and if it were covered by employing extra staff, it is estimated that the cost would be $290m. [More…]

• The grave deficiency as I see it is that the provision of the Meals on Wheels service, like so many other social welfare benefits required in the community, is dependent on the response of charitable groups. [More…]

• There are not adequate Meals on Wheels services within the community. [More…]

• Meals on Wheels organisations operating in the community. [More…]

• But the point is that development in the community is on a patchy basis. [More…]

• Rather it is a matter of how the wealth in the community is distributed, indeed it may very well be that the country would be much better off qualitatively if we had a slower growth rate and if the wealth were distributed much more equitably and beneficially. [More…]

• We are living in an age where human values are supposed to be predominant and clearly it is quite wrong to approach the provision of Meals on Wheels services or other community welfare services on this ad hoc basis. [More…]

• We should not regard these services as a series of loose strings lying about the community, with many of them overlapping. [More…]

• There is a whole range of services which should be tied up and the whole lot dovetailed into a domiciliary service to the community. [More…]

• We want to see past the power, past the financial resources, down to a regional body which is well known as being established in the area to give service to the community, which has a high reputation in the com- munity and which is regarded as a personal, integral part of that community. [More…]

• There is a grave deficiency in our approach to social welfare services in the community if we always approach these things on an ad hoc basis. [More…]

• What we need in the Australian community is some sort of inquiry to establish what are our needs in social welfare. [More…]

• It depends on the demographic structure of that community. [More…]

• Some sections of the community would have liked us to retain the whole of the Snowy organisation intact to undertake major water development measures throughout Australia in much the same way as it has tackled the Snowy scheme. [More…]

• In each country, arrangements will be made within the astronomical community for the consideration of requests for use of the telescope and the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board will be guided by this advice in the allocation of time on the telescope. [More…]

• But that in applying this assistance, the Government must have as its aim the long term strength, stability and independence of the rural community rather than attempt to deal with the present difficult conditions by measures prompted by the desire for political popularity. [More…]

• That motion makes me proud to be a member of the rural community that passed that motion. [More…]

• Given the sort of policies proposed by the Australian Labor Party, country people would end up as a second rate sector of the community and would be put in a perpetually mendicant position, in pawn to the whims of whatever government happened to be in power. [More…]

• Clearly, from my meetings, this situation is not desired by the rural community. [More…]

• They want policies which will enable them to continue to hold their heads up in the community and not become a burden on the backs of taxpayers, which they would become if the policies of the Australian Labour Party were ever implemented. [More…]

• The policy for the rural community - and I stress the words ‘the rural community’ because the way in which the Opposition has raised this matter for discussion seems to take it that only primary producers themselves are in trouble - must take account of these international changes and the changes in the economic situation of Australia itself. [More…]

• Hasty illconsidered policies would make it impossible to arrive at the right solution The matter raised for discussion by the Opposition infers that the Government should be stampeded into making this hasty decision which would result in short term palliatives which are not wanted by the rural community because the rural community knows that these policies would not solve the problems. [More…]

• He is not prepared to see the rural community suffer a steadily declining standard of living without any real effort being made to attack the causes of this decline, not just the complaint itself. [More…]

• This has been the policy of my Party in a nutshell: That more people in the community are advantaged when interest rates are low than are advantaged by interest rates being high. [More…]

• Another bone of contention, which is related to economic inequality, is that the sons and daughters of the less skilled workers in the community are less likely to receive a university education than the offspring of professional workers. [More…]

• Last year the Government passed an Act to provide finance for the establishment of senior citizens centres and the recruitment of social workers, dependent on the States joining on a one-third basis with local community organisations. [More…]

• 1 stress this matter because if the Government is genuine in its desire to advance the Aboriginals to the level of the rest of the community, it ought to get to the root cause of Aboriginal backwardness and attack the problem where it begins - through ill-health caused by inferior and scandalous housing conditions and lack of proper postnatal care and education. ‘ [More…]

• We were told that during the drought about $700,000 had been made available for draught relief and that this had been used to employ Aboriginals in various public works in the community - road building, kerbing and guttering, parks, etc. [More…]

• They mentioned also that the local graziers on receiving their cheques spent them at Palm Beach and Toorak, but not in the local community. [More…]

• I should like to comment on a community attitide which was rather disturbing. [More…]

• What we do on each of these matters will go a long way to determining what sort of community and nation we are to become. [More…]

• According to the report, ‘the Canada Development Corporation will be created as a large holding company with entrepreneurial and management functions, to assume a leadership role in Canada’s business and financial community’. [More…]

• Further, ‘it would have the capacity to draw on the expenditure of the financial community and to provide a focal point for the mobilisation of entrepreneurial capital’. [More…]

• Within its boundaries are a wide range of community facilities including a university, a large hospital, schools of all types and so on. [More…]

• As a Parliament we ought to be concerned with political ideas and ideals, prompting our community to be concerned in the same manner. [More…]

• But what do governments provide for the youth of our community? [More…]

• They are offered narrow vocational techniques and promise of material success, but there is little air of community responsibility. [More…]

• Perhaps this is the reason for the growing turmoil among the young and among students, particularly on issues of conscience, as a reaction against the aridity of thought in our community on these matters. [More…]

• The Australian Labour Party was founded by men who strove for the wider horizons of education, the principle of loyalty to their fellow workers and their community, the need for associations to achieve these purposes and concepts of justice and democracy for every individual. [More…]

• Too little account is taken of the needs of the community in the face of the Commonwealth’s overall control of revenue. [More…]

• If so, why was the report of the University of Melbourne’s Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research of an incidence of poverty of nearly 20% in our community received with such amazement? [More…]

• Its actions in the financial field determine the economics of the community in every field. [More…]

• Yet this parliamentary division of functions and responsibility resides in a distribution of constitutional powers arrived at in the 1890s when no-one would be expected to have envisaged the development of Australia, the change in social and economic attitudes in our community and indeed throughout the world, the massive advances in technology that have produced these changed attitudes and the alterations that have occurred in the distribution of personal wealth and power. [More…]

• He explains that the Allies dropped canisters containing germ contaminated insects which could breed and in which there were an abundance of flies, fleas and mosquitoes and poisoned wheat which rats would pick up and further contaminate the community. [More…]

• But when the honourable member for Hunter sees 50 or 100 people gathered together - and this is a failing also of the Australian Labor Party - he suggests that it is the whole Australian community protesting and that the whole Australian community supports him. [More…]

• The best guidance that can be given to anyone in the community is to make a full revelation of his share transactions and indicate quite clearly which shares are intended for re-sale and profit and which shares are intended for investment purposes. [More…]

• It will be spread throughout the community. [More…]

• We have learned long ago that defence needs cannot be divorced from other community needs. [More…]

• The Government has to judge what must be done to enable them to be discharged, and weigh the cost against the other demands that our community makes upon resources. [More…]

• If there are to be no prizes - and equality means no prizes - these people do not emerge and the whole community suffers as the result. [More…]

• But if you reach the stage where everybody is reduced to the same level and there are no prizes for excellence, the whole community must suffer. [More…]

• On the horizon is the possibility of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, which would stilt further restrict our markets. [More…]

• They have expressed their abhorrence of our Vietnam involvement and their dismay at the fact that, to appease certain pressure groups in the community, the Government should make criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens and unnecessarily disrupt and destroy the lives of fine young Australian men. [More…]

• It is with rising confidence that I support the Government’s programme as set out in the Governor-General’s Speech; a feeling of confidence that we can look forward to better days ahead and a better deal for that vital though small section of the Australian nation, the rural community. [More…]

• It is a section of the community that is not sharing in the booming prosperity about which we hear so much. [More…]

• But there are some members of the rural community who arc saying, in effect: Those fellows are not doing a terribly good job up there in front. [More…]

• They are worthy of a status in this community. [More…]

• The Department of Trade and Industry and my Department have been conferring closely with the Manufacturing Advisory Council, which has a technology sub-committee, on the most appropriate form of questionnaire for the business community and we are pinpointing the actual business concerns to which the questionnaires will be directed. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Canning will readily appreciate that no one in the community has a greater interest in restraining inflation and keeping down inflationary cost rises than the farming community, and this is the main objective of the statement by the Reserve Bank and the change to be made. [More…]

• As I undertook yesterday, I have since begun the process of discussion with the Governor of the Reserve Bank about the position of those members of the farming community who in recent times have been suffering hardship. [More…]

• lt should accept as objectives the reduction of Aboriginal nec-natal infant, child and maternal mortality to the low levels of the community generally. [More…]

• The Western Australian Government, after some pressure, accepted the challenge that it should take a look at Aboriginal infant mortality and the immediate effect was that it found that Aboriginal infant mortality in Western Australia was 120 per 1,000 compared with about 19 per 1,000 for the general community. [More…]

• But in most areas, because we refuse to classify people according to race, we do not have the special statistics we ought to have, and so we are dependent on private surveys in the Northern Territory such as that conducted by Dr Lancaster-Jones, which showed that in some areas of the Northern Territory the Aboriginal infant mortality rate was 200 per 1,000 compared with less than 20 per 1,000 for the European community. [More…]

• the units used for the measurement of aircraft noise and any special factors peculiar to Australia which should be considered in the application of acceptable levels of noise for various sections of the community, having regard to the international consideration of these matters; [More…]

• He was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen for his services to the aged, sick and others in the community. [More…]

• They are aircraft noise and its effect on the community - on people who dwell near airports and on the community surrounding airports. [More…]

• If the emphasis were to be placed merely on the selection of new sites for airports and not precisely on the problem that confronts us - the problem that was so dramatically described by the honourable member for Grayndler - the Committee would be abdicating its responsibility to try to effect some improvement in this very serious problem that concerns the community around airports. [More…]

• I think the Committee has taken sufficient evidence from a cross section of the community to allow it to submit certain recommendations which will result in some alleviation of the noise problem for the time being. [More…]

• The positioning and development of major airports are stated as a very complex matter involving intensive and extensive investigation into these aspects: Firstly, the engineering feasibility of constructing a suitable airport on a particular site; secondly, the airspace and air traffic aspects of a particular location in relation to other air space users, including air traffic at other aerodromes; thirdly, the purpose for which an airport is required and the allocation of traffic between that airport and other airports in the general vicinity; fourthly, having in mind the purpose of a particular airport the protection of traffic and the capacity of a particular site to meet the traffic requirements; and fifthly, the environmental questions including community effects of aircraft noise. [More…]

• This means that these conscripts pay a form of tax which subsidises those in the community who do not serve. [More…]

• But this paper increase in defence spending is actually a shift in the tax burden from a small number of conscripts to the whole taxpaying community at large. [More…]

• I think many people would like to see the burden spread over a wider section of the community. [More…]

• That the critical situation of the rural economy both requires and justifies urgent and substantial Government financial assistance, and in applying this assistance the Government must aim for longterm strength, stability and independence of the rural community rather than attempt to deal with the present conditions by measures prompted by the desire for political popularity. [More…]

• But a further consequence of this situation is that the farmer cannot take the measures necessary to increase his production to give him an income level commensurate with the rest of the community. [More…]

• These people do not want direct subsidies, but 1 believe that we have to offer them an alternative, and this is a policy, as I have said previously, which is designed to establish a sound and independent rural community, not a sector in perpetual trouble or forever dependent on higher and higher subsidies in order to maintain income. [More…]

• This situation is resulting in frustration and disquiet amongst the farming community which can see at least a partial solution to its problems but which is unable to do anything about it. [More…]

• Certainly lower rates would have to be paid for by the rest of the community, but it would result in a stronger, more independent primary industry, rather than one continually having to be propped up by direct subsidies. [More…]

• It is inconceivable to me that all of these attributes and qualities would be largely lost to the community by his having to take an unskilled job and I ask therefore that hand in hand with policies to enable efficient, able farmers to increase the scale of their operations should go provision for those who wish to leave the industry to be trained to continue to play a full and useful part in the economy. [More…]

• In addition to ordinary people and doctors by their actions indicating their feelings, organised groups within the community have advocated liberalisation. [More…]

• With community feelings running contrary to the law what is the position of the law enforcement agencies? [More…]

• They are related to, associated with, responsible for pregnant women no more or less often than any other male in the community. [More…]

• One has to assume that policemen are no less aware of abortionists than any other males in the community. [More…]

• To cap it all the community is dismayed by the hypocrisy at all levels and views the law enforcement agencies with scorn, ls it any wonder that the young despise law and order? [More…]

• Many men and women in the community break the law not because they are promiscuous and irresponsible but because they are married, over stressed and desperately seek abortions as the only way out in a perfectly respectable family situation where an unexpected pregnancy threatens the health or welfare of the mother and her whole family. [More…]

• We refuse to recognise that such a law imposes on the community today, and always has if the truth be recognised, an impossible pattern of human behaviour. [More…]

• So today we have a state of affairs in which the resources of local government, particularly in my electorate, are quite incapable of satisfying the demands made on them both in terms of community services and in the pressures for urban development. [More…]

• Let us consider for a moment the pattern of community services demanded of our local government authorities in the electorate of Batman today. [More…]

• The people born and educated in the electorate of Batman since the war tend to make their homes in other areas of Melbourne, so we have a growing number of elderly people living alone and in need of some community support. [More…]

• A similar situation exists with the other community services provided by the Collingwood Council and the other three local government bodies in the electorate. [More…]

• There is a growing awareness in our community of the need for more orderly development of our cities and urgent and constructive action on pollution control. [More…]

• From the local government point of view an immediate effect of freeways and high rise flats is to markedly affect the status quo in regard to the value of land in the community. [More…]

• Thus we have a growing band of astute ‘ speculators cashing in on the profits accruing from the land whose value appreciates and having for themselves for their own private use those profits which more properly should accrue to the community. [More…]

• Some people seem to believe that the only section of the community which should stand on its own feet is the farming section, lt is standing at the end of the line and is unable to pass on its costs. [More…]

• The modest member of Parliament, using the ‘Financial Review’ as a medium for subtle anti-farmer support policies, is undoubtedly having an influence on certain sections of our community, but he is also having a curious effect on certain of our parliamentary colleagues in this House. [More…]

• Demonstrations against the war have been stopped in the most vicious way by the Government, which is endeavouring to suppress the dissent against the war that exists in the community. [More…]

• I would like the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) to explain to me and to the House why one code of law can be levelled against one person or one section of the community and no code of law levelled against another person or another section of the community. [More…]

• Why does the Government pick on a young man and put him in gaol for 2 years when it will not deal with these other gentlemen within our community? [More…]

• Why does the Government treat one person in the community differently to others? [More…]

• What attitude of trust, of confidence, can there be in this area when, in these circumstances, representatives of a relatively small community of expatriates confer secretly on these matters and no indigene is trusted? [More…]

• There may be overheating in some areas, but 1 would submit that in some other areas affecting substantial sections of the community they are very cold. [More…]

• The Treasurer has chosen to see the signs of the times one way and I am not sure that everyone in the community agrees with his reading of the signs. [More…]

• But to exercise the interest rate in this way is to use it as a crude instrument, a rather brutal instrument so far as the least deserving sections of the community are concerned. [More…]

• the rural community. [More…]

• The taxpayer is already a somewhat overburdened member of the community - and of course nearly all of us are taxpayers in some form or another. [More…]

• But it is also equally easy to leave out of account in making these sorts of rather simple and straightforward charges the hidden cost to both the homeowner and the community. [More…]

• But whether through tariff changes or other factors, as technology develops and trade conditions change it is inevitable that some of our existing industries will become economically redundant, and the quicker we can shift our national resources out of these industries and into more rewarding fields the better for the economic well-being of the community as a whole. [More…]

• In many other countries various measures have been adopted whereby the community as a whole meets most of the costs involved because the community as a whole will ultimately benefit substantially from the reorganisation. [More…]

• The States attempt to lure industries by offering special conditions for power, transport or rates or other incentives - concessions for which the community ultimately pays. [More…]

• No blueprint is presented for the balanced development of Australia as a nation, but only proposals to bolster certain sections of the community apparently on the assumption that this will automatically correct the inequalities and the injustices that exist in other less influential sections of the community. [More…]

• The rigid application of free enterprise will only widen the gulf that exists between sections of the community. [More…]

• A casual look at society today confirms that the strong - that is to say, the well organised sections of the community - are becoming stronger at the expense of the weaker or unorganised sections of the community. [More…]

• I wish to speak today mainly in support of the underprivileged and disadvantaged sections of our community. [More…]

• We live today in an affluent society but there are many sections of the community which are not enjoying affluence by any stretch of the imagination. [More…]

• I would also like to deal with the question of civilian widows, another section of the community, once again very small and once again with very little influence, but whose plight is all the more difficult as a result of this because there is not the same tendency for governments to correct the injustices which exist. [More…]

• The same thing applies in respect of handicapped children, another small section of the community. [More…]

• Finally, I once again make an appeal to this Parliament to have a look at the situation of those underprivileged sections of our community, small in numbers, who have such very great problems; those underprivileged sections of the community which do not have the influence because they do not have the voting power but whose problems nevertheless are far greater than those of most of the rest of the people living in this very affluent society. [More…]

• So far as efficiency is concerned, in any section of the community or in any group there are inefficient people. [More…]

• So when we talk of the rights and privileges of people such as Burchett we must also emphasise the responsibility of citizenship and service which they owe to the community. [More…]

• Perhaps I could say it has had an uneven effect because of the pressures brought to bear on certain sections of the community compared with other sections. [More…]

• In particular they are proud of the many volunteer organisations of charitable intent, which labour for the aged and sick, to ease some of the social and physical burdens borne by the community. [More…]

• The unpaid councillors of the local councils of Perth City, South Perth City, Belmont Shire, Canning Shire, all of the electorate of Swan, give their time and services for the good of the community in the face of an ever increasing burden of services that they are being required to provide which often, even though some are subsidised, are still a cost to the community. [More…]

• They do not begrudge providing these services but do need a full and proper approach to them in the provision of federal money to carry out the obligation they undertake on behalf of the Commonwealth to the community in their services to youth, senior citizens and the infirm. [More…]

• Let the community have organised service available to all sections of it and not a disjointed service as exists now. [More…]

• Let our community services be something of right to all citizens and not something of accident of area residence. [More…]

• If it is fitting for the Commonwealth to be represented in this manner in a situation that has brought broad public reaction against it, it is even more fitting for the Commonwealth to take urgent action to give relief to the situation and to ensure that its representatives do not use the arbitration system as a wag: pegging device while prices, taxes and costs to the community go unchecked. [More…]

• To emphasise the dissatisfaction with the Government’s policy by all sections of the community I shall quote from a summary of the retail chemists’ case for an increase in remuneration for dispensing national health prescriptions. [More…]

• Let us hope that these business people will not be branded reactionaries by the Government but that a review of the Government’s industrial relations with all sections of the community will take place. [More…]

• These people are seeking only what every trade union and professional group is seeking - an unbiased investigation into today’s remuneration structure so that all sections of the community will receive wage and salary justice. [More…]

• I would be pleased to name, if required, any number of people prominent in our community who set out on their career in this field. [More…]

• Since Aboriginals are not recorded separately it is impossible to make comprehensive comparisons of their health experience as compared with that of the community generally. [More…]

• For the provision of community nurses in various rural and outback areas the grand sum of $1,500 was provided. [More…]

• All experience in education in countries which are moving and are not static shows this, so that at any given point of time it is always possible to say that in particular areas of education in the community the standards are not as high as would be desired. [More…]

• The improvement involved in the amendments is only minuscule in comparison with the needs for major overhaul in social service and social welfare provisions in the community. [More…]

• The Government always cites average earnings as a marker to show how prosperity is moving in the community and allegedly, how well off wage earners are in the Australian econonmy. [More…]

• For anyone with a sense of moral commitment for the welfare of one’s fellow beings in the community who are in an area of want, we have what should be an intolerable situation. [More…]

• It is quite inadequate for the Minister and the Government to expect when they propose a restricted measure such as this - restricted in its benefits - that the public should accept it as some sort of major reform and some sort of major overhaul in the provision of social services in the community. [More…]

• In a community with rising affluence and rising expectations where, most people enjoy the benefits of the rising affluence and therefore satisfy their rising expectations, it is intolerable that a substantial group of people are not enjoying these improving benefits. [More…]

• What makes it all the more reprehensible is the fact that the Commonwealth is jettisoning a clear responsibility under placitum 51(xxiiiA) of the Constitution, which clearly commits the Commonwealth to providing social services for the Australian community. [More…]

• We ought to throw the whole lot out the window because of these anomalies, this rigidity and the gaps in the provision which it offers the community. [More…]

• Accordingly, we should establish this threshold wherever it exists and provide for a minimum living standard which we, as a civilised community in this affluent and prosperous age, are prepared to tolerate. [More…]

• The approach of the Minister to the needs of the community should have been as I mentioned. [More…]

• My final point on these matters which I have mentioned is that the approach of the Government is too narrowly conceived compared to the needs of the people in the community. [More…]

• Surely this would allow this underprivileged group in our community some sort of help. [More…]

• When all is said and done it works out to 25c a day, so it Ls little enough for this under-privileged section of the community; and they are under-privileged. [More…]

• The Speech was silent on very important matters affecting the welfare of aged people in our community and, indeed, invalids as well. [More…]

• I support the Bill because one has to be grateful for the morsels that fall from the rich man’s table, and that applies particularly to social services where the Government in bits and pieces, by a method of stop and go and by a patching up system occasionally gives some benefit to this most deserving section of the community. [More…]

• The Minister well knows that, deserving as the legislation is, it covers only a tiny number of that deserving section of pensioners in the community. [More…]

• In his report Professor Teakle said that the university must stimulate community awareness of the need for further university expansion. [More…]

• There are too many in our community who have been hoodwinked by the emotionalism of such false phrases as ‘faceless men* and do not understand the great value of this structure. [More…]

• Has ihe Government any plans at all to alleviate the burden of high interest rates on the community? [More…]

• Is he aware that some local government authorities are paying interest of up to 8% and more for their money, this rate deterring them from carrying out urgent community development projects? [More…]

• There arc 60,000 in our community who are inadequately housed. [More…]

• A larger share of this prosperity is being sought constantly by almost all sections of the community and they are receiving it. [More…]

• Because local authorities are closest to the people I contend that they can spend more effectively, in the interests of the community, the money made available than either State or Federal governments. [More…]

• But in presenting that case I would agree that the community should not be asked to support an industry if it is not in the best interest of the community that such an industry should be supported. [More…]

• I put it to the House, however, that there is a clear case that the wool industry deserves the support of the community and it deserves it not only in its own right but in the national interest. [More…]

• I repeat that every section of the community, except the primary producers - most sections of primary producers at any rate - are enjoying a reasonable to a very high degree of prosperity and are still clamouring for, and getting, a gradually increasing share of our nation’s prosperity. [More…]

• The organisation has already received almost $56,000 in donations and if the Commonwealth Government were to give $ for $ the Queensland Countrywomen’s Association would still be providing a very valuable contribution to education in the State at a very low cost to the community. [More…]

• For those who are not familiar with the geographical position of the Blaxland electorate I would mention that it is situated in the western suburbs of Sydney and its business and community centre is Bankstown. [More…]

• These people must be made to realise that the knowledge they may possess would assist all the youth in the community and that there is no personal publicity given to individual cases unless they wish it to be so. [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…]

• My mind goes back to the late 1940s- 1948 or 1949- When Senator McKenna, who was Minister for Health in the Chifley Government, endeavoured to introduce a health scheme but failed because the government of the day got off side with everybody in the community whom it was necessary to have on side in order to implement a proper health scheme. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) have repeatedly, at election time, in this House and in other places, shown that it is this Government’s deep concern to seek out areas of need in the community and to help them to the best of its ability. [More…]

• This is a philosophical value and quite distinct from the situation that exists in our community today. [More…]

• These are the sorts of things that we Socialists are concerned about and which we want to project into the community. [More…]

• Was there in fact any responsible assessment by the Government pf what the true common fee is as it operates in the community at the present time or was this a stab in the dark estimate by the Australian Medical Association. [More…]

• My own belief is that the AMA and the people of Australia would have been far happier if an independent body had been set up to inquire into and establish what the common fees were or are in this community. [More…]

• It is quite apparent that the Minister for Health has been far from candid with this House and with the Australian community in discussing this matter. [More…]

• Is this the end of the spiralling cost of health insurance in the community? [More…]

• standard ward accommodation will be available to every member of the community regardless of means. [More…]

• It leaves the State Governments to house them, educate them, and provide them with community services. [More…]

• The homes savings grant that this Government introduced some years ago has never passed the needs and the requirements of the younger members of the community today. [More…]

• 1 thought that something ought to be done for that fairly large percentage of the overlooked members of this community who are completely reliant upon government handouts for their very existence. [More…]

• All in the community are no doubt aware that people in this category are unable to present their case before any wage or cost of living tribunal and have to rely solely on infrequent handouts by the federal Government. [More…]

• What concerns me is that when we get to the situation where we are not selling the products of the rural community, then a larger amount of the community is affected than would be affected by a mineral project. [More…]

• It is very difficult to help people in the community who are not prepared to help themselves. [More…]

• The farming community today is nol being told by the people who represent them who is fleecing them. [More…]

• The Conference Lines of ship owners started off in the 17th century as pirates on the high seas, and they are pirates today to every man and woman in this community. [More…]

• When the latest figures become available we will find that the present position for this overtaxed section of the community is even worse. [More…]

• All sorts of industries and businesses will feel the effects because of the amount of money that will be taken out of the local community. [More…]

• Soldiers and officers have established homes in Bendigo, have raised their families there and have made friends in the community. [More…]

• It strikes me that the Army has a positive genius for disrupting family life and preventing soldiers from becoming too closely tied to a local community. [More…]

• Some Army camps are located a fair distance from cities and a sense of tension and mutual suspicion develops between the military and civilian community. [More…]

• Indeed, it is known that about one-third of the viewing public sees a presentation on the first occasion and that there are many other people in the community who would like a second opportunity. [More…]

• The letters that 1 have received and which have been received by the ABC have represented, I think, every religious point of view in the Australian community and I think it would be impossible to find any section which as a whole has raised an objection to this film. [More…]

• Is it possible for such a damaging nation wide strike, affecting all sections of the community - not just the families directly involved - to be called without reference to the men themselves? [More…]

• It is obvious also that the Government is trying to save as much as it can or, in other words, to give the least possible amount of concession that it can to the pensioners in the community. [More…]

• It is time that .the Commonwealth accepted its complete and absolute responsibility for pensioners in the community. [More…]

• The rising cost of residential land is, of course, causing a good deal of concern to all authorities responsible for the provision of housing for the lower and moderate income groups in the community. [More…]

• The Government’s decision was taken having regard to extensive enquiries throughout the community made by the Senate Select Committee on the Metric System of Weights and Measures and on the advice of Commonwealth departments. [More…]

• The Government believes that the whole community will, in the long run, benefit from conversion. [More…]

• The aim will be to effect conversion as a whole to the best advantage of the community, and it is expected the Board will make extensive use of advisory committees, each concerned with conversion in a particular sector of the community. [More…]

• I would stress, however, that conversion cannot be implemented by such actions, for this must be effected in the main by detailed planning and action at all the levels and in all the places where changes will need to be made, and this means throughout the whole community. [More…]

• The Government is convinced that conversion is not only in the best interests of the community but that there is overwhelming support for the change. [More…]

• The Government will do all in its power to help and guide them in doing this and looks forward with confidence to co-operation in all sectors and at all levels of the community in bringing the change about wilh the minimum of difficulty and inconvenience. [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…]

• A previous speaker put his finger on the crux of the matter when he said that the Government ought to be providing more resources for these dedicated people in the community and ought to be accepting more responsibility by providing funds so that proper research can be carried out into the needs of the community. [More…]

• If the Minister recognises the needs of the community, for which his Department is responsible - and he honestly does recognise them - and if he puts them before his Cabinet and his colleagues knock him back and his Prime Minister will not accept his proposals, he ought to resign, and thus show his sincerity, as a protest at the manner in which the needs of the Department which he is in charge of have been rejected. [More…]

• Not long before Miss Taylor died she made plans not only to increase the Meals on Wheels services but also to set up a similar type of organisation to cater for many of the needs for which aged people in the community encounter in their day to day life. [More…]

• But the Government that sits in this place, and which is supposed to look after the aged and the welfare of the community, had to wait almost 20 years before it recognised that these organisations were doing a very good job. [More…]

• But more serious than that is the fact that it took the Government almost 20 years to recognise the needs of the community in this regard. [More…]

• It shows that they do not move amongst the community that they profess to represent. [More…]

• He is a person who professes to be a minister of religion and he ought to know the needs of the more unfortunate people in the community, but the honourable member for Evans (Dr Mackay) can only sit in his place and laugh as though it is a great, joke. [More…]

• the wool industry, $27m for another section of the wool industry, $30m for teacher training, SI 2m for an irrigation scheme, $4m for tuberculosis control in cattle herds - and $200,000 for this most deserving section of the community. [More…]

• This means that 2 meals a year is all that the Government is prepared to provide to assist a deserving section of the community in Australia. [More…]

• If the Government has available millions of dollars for a wealth of other things, I see no reason why this deserving section of the community should not get its share. [More…]

• It will also provide another opportunity for the participation of voluntary organisations and other bodies in the programme of caring for people in need of community support. [More…]

• Community response to the home care programme has so far been encouraging In spite of some delays in the completion of arrangements by State governments; however, there ls ample scope for the development still further of the type of service which community effort can best provide. [More…]

• I speak also on behalf of the organisations in the Kogarah, Hurstville and Rockdale municipalities which carry out such a magnificent service in their local community. [More…]

• One might have come, to expect from this Government by now that when it brings down social welfare legislation of this kind it would present to the Parliament some kind of social survey of the community indicating the basis - of need, where it is located and what kind of methods are going to be used to meet the need. [More…]

• If we have to rely on local councils we will get some councils which are prepared to accept the responsibility and others which say that they are so sorely pressed in meeting community needs that they are in no position to provide the assistance that will attract the Government subsidy. [More…]

• Secondly, we must decry the absence of any systematic survey of the whole community to determine the nature and extent of the needs of the aged and the infirm. [More…]

• They were asked what they thought of the provision of these cheaper meals at what they called community centres but what we often call, I think, senior citizens centres. [More…]

• At this stage, I pose this question to the Minister for Social Services: Does this Bill provide a subsidy for meals served in senior citizens centres or community centres? [More…]

• If these people did not need to meet this requirement, and the meals were served in some sort of central community centre, perhaps more of these people might benefit by this service. [More…]

• It is a marvelous example of an integrated coordinated service to tend the people, lt has the same objective announced by the Minister for Social Services when introducing this Bill; that is, to help old and infirm people to remain in their own community amongst their own people. [More…]

• I am sure that the community at large will support the service. [More…]

• Some things have to depend very much on the will and the good spirit of the community. [More…]

• What attempt is being made to identify where the need is most urgent and the most effective way of giving help to these people in the community? [More…]

• Where is it relative to the needs of our aged people in the community? [More…]

• These are well intentioned and hard working individuals with true compassion for their other members in the community, but they are being used as an excuse in the community through its Government to dodge responsibility. [More…]

• This means in fact that many individuals in the community do not receive the benefit of these organisations. [More…]

• The over 65 age group in the community at the moment represents 8i% of our population. [More…]

• We are a regulation ridden community. [More…]

• The Parliament is responsible for the legislation and is responsible to see that individuals get a go in the community, but governments have handed over too many powers to people outside the Parliament and outside the Government. [More…]

• In general, many people in the community will welcome the assistance that they will receive from this subsidy for Meals on Wheels. [More…]

• The more we use those people who are prepared to give their services to the community, the better everything will be for all concerned. [More…]

• I believe that a community service gives far better value. [More…]

• I wish that we knew more about the needs of the people in this, area and I wish that we had a social services department which could carry out, in conjunction with the Bureau of Censusand Statistics, the necessary surveys of our elderly community to find out what their needs are. [More…]

• That is one thing, but the actual flow of ideas and attitudes in the community is the responsibility of the Parliament, which is acting on behalf of the people of Australia. [More…]

• We have given deep thought to this subject, and we feel that we want more freedoms and more open discussion in the Australian community, because we believe that the Australian community should be better informed on foreign affairs than it is at present. [More…]

• In 1968 I was in a parliamentary delegation that went overseas to examine the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We want an informed attitude in the community on foreign affairs. [More…]

• My own parents, like thousands of citizens of this Territory, had utter faith in .lim Fraser as a fellow citizen and a representative, lt would be proof enough to refer to the remarkable vote he achieved in the last election, but more humanly and more movingly there was the remarkable display at his funeral last Friday by the people of this city by all sections of this community - sometimes thought to be the most reserved and restrained in Australia. [More…]

• In the most official, affluent, sophisticated community in Australia there is the greatest need for an unaffected and accessible spokesman, mediator and advocate. [More…]

• This was the judgment of Jim Fraser by all parliamentarians and certainly by the community that he represented and served. [More…]

• The community demonstrated on two quite recent occasions the great respect and affection in which Jim Fraser was held. [More…]

• He will be missed by a great many people in all walks of life and in all sections of the community. [More…]

• Our relations with the United States have always been to take account of the fact that it includes the world’s most powerful black, community. [More…]

• It is regrettable that the Minister for External Affairs, while paying lip-service to the concept of restoring China to the international community, returned to the old doctrine that China must first give proofs of her fitness to be a member of that community. [More…]

• Does the Commonwealth favour the fixation of a minimum wage that will enable each wage earner to enjoy a standard of living consistent with the predominating standards of an affluent community. [More…]

• We, as a responsible Government, try to interpret what prevailing community standards are. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman and his Party say that there should be no censorship and if he believes that present community standards will allow in some of the garbage and rubbish that I have to stop coming in, let him get up and say so. [More…]

• We on this side of the House say quite clearly, much as censorship might offend us as a philosophical principle, that present community standards demand that we do keep some of this material out of the country. [More…]

• After a dispute which should not have occurred there was a 5-day national stoppage of work on the waterfront which involved identifiable costs directly to the community of between $4m and $5m. [More…]

• The Government considered it closely and had regard to the cost of an extra week’s annual leave spread throughout the community. [More…]

• Frankly, my objective in having this schedule compiled is to enlist the cooperation of honourable members and all other well-meaning people in the community towards the expansion of the Government’s very excellent aged persons homes scheme. [More…]

• I find it impossible to believe that the Government has not had comprehensive information as to the need in the community for aged persons homes. [More…]

• In this report we require information about the extent of need in the community for this sort of service. [More…]

• It is further evidence to confirm the suspicions of so many young people in the community who are critically assessing the role of Parliament today and who see so rauch of what we do as a windy, futile exercise in time consuming, as empty rituals and as pointlessness personified. [More…]

• Housing for ex-servicemen is one job the community expects to be done well. [More…]

• The fact is that we do produce a tremendous amount of information which is of great value to the community, particularly education wise. [More…]

• I would have hoped that the Labor Party, which likes to feel that it has a new look in the eyes of the community, would have been capable of seeing the need in the community in years to come of coming to a courageous decision every now and again when it was the correct one instead of making a cheap emotional appeal based on political expediency. [More…]

• Last night, during this debate the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) made the point quite clearly - and I trust that he will agree with this - that the farming community in the irrigation areas in his electorate were at present limited, figuratively, by the assumption, as he put it, that Chowilla Dam had been built. [More…]

• I shall be considering ways and means of making their various but worthy contributions in this field better known throughout the whole community. [More…]

• In regard to the rest of the question, I do agree with what the Minister for Labour and National Service said yesterday, which was that the question of 4 weeks leave for Commonwealth public servants had been carefully examined by the Government and had been discussed with representatives of the various unions but on the grounds of the cost to the community generally and on other grounds in relation to shift work, which the Minister mentioned, the Government decided not to grant this leave. [More…]

• The whole community must recognise the great seriousness of this extreme and unprecedented conduct of the Labor Party. [More…]

• He said that we of the Opposition endeavoured to bring to this Parliament demonstrations such as are happening throughout the community today. [More…]

• This was a great pity, not only for him personally - because I believe that in the eyes of those members of the community who take an interest in Parliament he lost a very considerable amount of ground by his failure to act with responsibility - but also for the Parliament itself. [More…]

• I did not like any part of what took place from last night onwards and I do not like much of what has taken place today because what is a vital matter in my opinion, that is, the standing of the Parliament in the community, was last night placed in jeopardy. [More…]

• Does not the question raised by the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) only this week dealing with war service homes concern hundreds of men in the community who have a desire to provide homes for their families? [More…]

• It must be obvious to everyone in the community who is aware of the number of days on which this Parliament meets that free speech in this place is being suppressed. [More…]

• The whole community needs services and the whole community is entitled to consideration. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lalor was apparently very affronted because in 1964 somebody suggested that he had had an association wilh members of the Communist Party closer than in fact it was, and that there had been some community on a platform which involved a guilty association. [More…]

• The late Senator McKellar was a man of great public spirit; he was dedicated to the service of his community and he served his country in peace and war. [More…]

• Is the preferential treatment intended to give relief to a section of the community in necessitous circumstances? [More…]

• The advances made possible by this Bill, in conjunction with the other improvements introduced by this Government in 1968 and 1969, will bring financial protection against the costs of medical and hospital treatment within the reach of every person in the community. [More…]

• An essential factor in the successful application of the common fee concept is that there be a proper understanding throughout the community of what the new plan aims to do. [More…]

• The Government is confident that this co-operation will be forthcoming because the common fee concept on which the new arrangements are based provides a satisfactory method of financing medical care in a way which takes account of the unique relationship that exists between the medical profession and the general community. [More…]

• These people, not lacking in ingenuity and aiming to attract as much support as possible from the community at large by creating the impression amongst decent-thinking people that violence or disruption had no place in their plans, thought that a word such as ‘strike’ carried overtones too radical for their purpose. [More…]

• The question which is of paramount importance to the Government and to all responsible people in the community is whether a campaign along the lines proposed by the organisers of the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign can in truth be conducted without violence. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, thinking at the time that it was best to promote the view of moderation in the community had this to say in a letter of 18th December 1969, when commenting upon a statement by the secretary of the West Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party: [More…]

• I concede the Minister may not even know this but there is a very deeply felt opposition in the community to the Government. [More…]

• All round the world there is a determination to do something about the issues that people feel strongly about and to find ways of expressing those issues in the making of decisions, not only in Parliament but in every other part of the community that determines and influences the lives of the people concerned. [More…]

• I presume, like the rest of the community, their political views are divided. [More…]

• This shocking decision has been and is being contested by the Colong Committee, which now represents 90 community bodies with members drawn from all political parties. [More…]

• It has done nothing to place a suitable plan before the farming community. [More…]

• Some people in the community are inclined to think that the Labor Opposition was entirely to blame for what happened. [More…]

• If this is carried too far I believe it will have the result of stratifying incomes in the community. [More…]

• It is likely to stratify income in the community, depending not upon the degree of skill that the worker enjoys and not necessarily upon the number of hours that he works, how hard he works, the effort that he puts into his work or anything of that kind, but to be related solely to the industrial power of the work situation in which he is. [More…]

• In addition to the city of Swan Hill, such an office would serve a large rural community. [More…]

• Yet hospitals are undoubtedly the most important area of our health service to the community. [More…]

• T say ‘health services’ because it is more than a matter of merely providing hospitals in the community. [More…]

• It would set about establishing criteria on priority development of community health services according to need. [More…]

• Ancillary to the development of hospitals on a regional basis would be the focussing of attention on community health centres. [More…]

• These are absolutely essential if we are going to provide comprehensive community health services for the public. [More…]

• The Labor Party would investigate ways in which assistance could be provided for the doctors operating these health centres to employ paramedical services for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• Since he considered the cost of the doctors’ bills has become more pressing on the community than have hospital bills, he felt that the first priority was the medical scheme. [More…]

• The important question is this: What is cheaper for the community? [More…]

• Without increasing the pay-out from the individual’s pocket but simply by eliminating the administrative expenses of the voluntary benefit funds, the Government could save the community an enormous amount of money. [More…]

• The economies effected in reducing administrative expenses by simply paying the money direct to the hospitals instead of having patients pay the fees and having the hospitals send out accounts and fill in forms for patients would lead to an enormous improvement in the financial circumstances of the hospitals without taking one cent extra from the pockets of the community. [More…]

• We should be seeking the most efficient way of doing this without increasing the cost to the community. [More…]

• The fact that the only positive proposition put forward by the honourable member for Oxley was a community health centre system is evidence of the Opposition’s desire completely to nationalise every aspect of health and hospital administration in Australia. [More…]

• Let me deal with the community health centres proposed by the Opposition. [More…]

• I think it is very clear to all honourable members, and certainly to the community at large, that the Opposition does not have a health policy. [More…]

• standard ward accommodation will be available to every member of the community regardless of means, [More…]

• They can be employees of one organisation, members of the same church, union or lodge or residents of a well defined community area. [More…]

• The Government has recognised the inflationary trend in our community by increasing the maximum loan under the Act from $14,000 to $15,000 and now to $17,500. [More…]

• When the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) announced in his policy speech on 8th October last that he intended to introduce legislation to amend the Homes Savings Grant Act to raise the permissible limit on the value of a house to $17,500 and to liberalise and extend the scheme generally, there was widespread appreciation by those who were likely to qualify and by the community at large. [More…]

• There can be no doubting that this evidence of further encouragement by the Government will be appreciated by those thousands of young people in our community who are saving towards the purchase of their first home. [More…]

• In a country enjoying the universal affluence which is the experience of the vast majority of the community and where there are constant temptations for young people to spend their money, it is a real source of gratification to all members of the Government that the homes savings grant scheme has focused the savings habit among the younger members of the community towards a home and away from things of a less permanent .and less fundamental nature than owning their own homes. [More…]

• Now, of course, this Government is concerned, as a matter of basic policy and philosophy, not only to keep the economy growing strongly but to keep this growth balanced and to ensure that it applies to the whole community, not the least part of which is the home owner and the capacity of all Australians to become such home owners. [More…]

• In fact, we are concerned to see that all forms of credit are made available to the Australian community and in this pattern we readily admit and welcome the role of credit unions. [More…]

• 1 want to say at least in passing that the cost to the community arising from this inflationary trend of land prices goes well beyond bare monetary considerations. [More…]

• When I was interrupted I was referring to the fact that there was growing affluence among young people in the community when the homes savings grant scheme was introduced. [More…]

• Whether it be a Socialist state or a capitalist community of the kind we are proud to continue to try to develop, pressures will exist. [More…]

• This was of great benefit to young people seeking assistance to obtain a home - people who in my opinion make up one of the most deserving sections of the community. [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…]

• The incidents of Christ’s life as depicted become very real and very alive, and they certainly produce a very favourable reaction in most sections of the community. [More…]

• He went on to say that the damaging action of even small doses of radiation, particularly on the foetus, has been established and accepted by the scientific community for many years. [More…]

• He has not been afraid to do what he believes to be right in a sphere where he cannot be on side, in my opinion, with more than 50% of the community. [More…]

• I am sure that at least 80% of the community - this is a very conservative estimate - would applaud the Minister if he took action to ban the export of kangaroo products. [More…]

• In 1970 it is the most powerful single thing we have in the community, through which people can express their will. [More…]

• It is part of the life of the whole community. [More…]

• A whole phalanx of the community is tied up by our arbitrary and capricious behaviour in this place and it is time that it was brought into order. [More…]

• Before this could be achieved it would be necessary for it to be preceded by a period of working together in some form of common services agreement on lines similar to the East African community. [More…]

• We should attempt to build a community of nations. [More…]

• As an active credit unionist, I would have thought that the Government, realising the benefit of credit unions to our community, would have gone out of its way to assist the credit union movement. [More…]

• If honourable members analyse the figures which have been set out to indicate the reasons why members of our new Australian community return to the countries from which they came, they will find that employment and the difficulty in obtaining houses are rated very highly. [More…]

• Like the last two speakers I come from an electorate that contains a large rural community. [More…]

• Will he take steps to set up a permanent committee to conduct research into the nature and extent of poverty in the community, to identify areas of need and to develop recommendations on ‘need-meeting’ processes as our initial major assault in the campaign against poverty. [More…]

• Whilst it is true that expenditure by all sections of the community has been increasing in recent years, is it correct that government spending is leading the field in this acceleration of expenditure? [More…]

• The practice, which has been followed on earlier occasions, is that those judged proper to speak for the Government, for the Parliament and for the Australian community should briefly express their words of welcome, not only for themselves personally but also in respect of those whom they represent. [More…]

• In the second place, since the inception of the migration programme it has generally been agreed that migrants should not be placed in a position of advantage or preferment in connection with housing or other facilities by comparison with native born members of the Australian community. [More…]

• However this does not preclude measures being taken to offset the disadvantages at which resettlement places migrants vis-a-vis the Australian community. [More…]

• The first question I would put to the Minister is this: How can he possibly talk about interim expansion of the laundry and sterilising facilities at the Canberra Community Hospital if he does not relate that expansion to some alternative which is the end result in view? [More…]

• In support of my argument that hospital services in the Canberra community are in a grave state, that this was avoidable and that the Government has been recreant in its attitude toward hospital services, including the laundry facilities, let me quote from the 1960 report of the Public Works Committee. [More…]

• Preliminary planning should be undertaken now to determine the type of hospitals to be erected in the future and the relationship they would have with the Canberra Community Hospital. [More…]

• Quite clearly, when one talks about the development of hospitals, one talks about all the ancilliary services which are part and parcel of such services in the community. [More…]

• The sad situation was that between 1960 and 1964, although the Public Works Committee stressed the urgent need for the Government to undertake rational planning of hospital services in the community, absolutely nothing was done. [More…]

• It investigated some of the needs of the community for hospital services. [More…]

• What we are talking about today is a system of a general malaise of hospital planning in the community. [More…]

• There has been a long record of delay in the provision of this hospital for the community. [More…]

• So we have this crucial problem of lack of planning of hospital facilities in the community. [More…]

• There have been a number of miscalculations, some of them unavoidable, in relation to the need in the community. [More…]

• In the sort of situation it is quite wrong for the Government to be apathetic or lethargic in responding to the requirements of the Canberra community for hospital services. [More…]

• The Government has shown disregard of community need and I submit that the only basis and the only reason for this disregard - the disregard of our own parliamentary specialists, the Catholic hospital specialists and the needs of Canberra - is that the Government has had regard to two lesser matters. [More…]

• The alternatives were clearly set out in the Committee’s report The first alternative provided for a laundry facility separate from the Canberra Community Hospital. [More…]

• So it is a fairly rare group in the community, to start with, that even accumulates property of an assessable value in excess of $20,000. [More…]

• Those figures typify the existence in an industrialised community such as ours of the tendency to hold one’s property in the form of personalty rather than realty. [More…]

• This is one of the real difficulties that face the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• It is surely of great concern to a community - and most of all to certain parties who pride themselves on being free enterprise in their attitudes - to ask: Is Australia not tending to become a sort of latifundia where property is handed down from generation to generation rather than a place where somebody can just start up by saying that he wants to be a farmer? [More…]

• What we have are groups in the community taking advantage of these sections of our law. [More…]

• This is why we have taken, the opportunity not to give so much attention to the little benefit that the Bill will provide but to try to draw the attention of the House to the serious nature of the problems that are now upon us and the impact that existing and prevailing systems of taxation - both income tax and estate and probate duties - have upon us and to suggest why a measure as small as this, even though it may concede benefits somewhere, is still not fundamentally facing up to the critical problems of the agricultural, primary or rural sections of the community which are still important for their own sakes, for the sakes of the people who live in them and for the sake of the future expansion of the Australian economy. [More…]

• Whilst primary producers, along with every other member of the community, can take out life assurance policies or enter into other arrangements to divest themselves of assets prior to death, these methods, and certainly the premiums, are in the main too costly for the average farmer to contemplate in his current situation. [More…]

• But I do commend the Government for providing this relief for an important section of the community and I hope that this is the beginning of the end of estate duty in the statute book of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Government should give more systematic thought to the incidence or burden of probate and estate duties not only on primary producers but on all sections of the community. [More…]

• This means that organisations such as the European Economic Community and countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom are making radical changes in policy which in fact give high protection to primary industry in order to make themselves self-sufficient. [More…]

• This again is a clear recognition on the part of the Government that primary producers are operating under particular disabilities which are not suffered by all sections of the community. [More…]

• From those figures it seems fairly clear that the burden of federal estate duty is being unfairly borne by this section of the community and that the Government, which professes to help the primary producer, has failed. [More…]

• The non-bona fide farmer is of no benefit to the farming community. [More…]

• There should be a complete restructuring of the whole Act and the effect it has on primary producers and other sections of the community. [More…]

• He hid that among a lot of garbled words, and one can only conclude that his proposition was that there should be a removal of estate duty from all sections of the community. [More…]

• On the other hand my colleagues and I have recognised for a very long time that the rapid increase in valuations is an imposition on the farming community, and that is the reason for this measure, lt is a measure designed to relieve the rural industries of a very substantial cost factor in terms of the maintenance of rural properties so that they might be able to continue not in perpetuity precisely but to continue as the interest of a family or a descendant in a particular way. [More…]

• For that reason 1 say that that section of the community, the small business and commercial sector which can only be interpreted as the non-primary industry sector, is in a much happier position economically than is the primary industry sector. [More…]

• If the Opposition’s only answer is to say that the same benefit should be spread more widely and that it should be given to every section of the community irrespective of its economic situation, I say that the Opposition is being quite irresponsible. [More…]

• If it were to be spread over a wide section of the community or over the total community then, despite the disagreement indicated by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports by shaking his head a moment ago, certainly there would be a reluctance to make the benefits as liberal as they are. [More…]

• I am sure that the rural community is very conscious that it could never risk a situation where a measure of this kind could be in the hands of a government of a different political colour from the one we belong to on this side of the House. [More…]

• We will not promise the community that death duties can be lifted because there are great calls on the Government for finance for education, health and other things that we know about. [More…]

• In Canada lawyers and accountants in the tax field, together with members of the business community and people in government, get together in this body, subsidised by government but mainly financed by contributions from the private field, to carry out continuing research into such matters as estate duty. [More…]

• I gathered from one or two of the speeches made by honourable members opposite that they felt that because the Bill gave some concessions to a particular area of the community we were hopping in and supporting it on an ad hoc basis. [More…]

• There are two main reasons for the price of land being inflated above all other prices in the community. [More…]

• The second reason is the turmoil that exists in our rural community. [More…]

• In terms of the totality of the community, farmers comprise something like 8%, but in terms of numbers they are responsible for one-quarter of the estates that are levied for estate duty; and they pay, as my colleague, the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin), pointed out, 38% of the duty that is collected. [More…]

• Of this, $lm will go to the farms worth less than 40%, but it will still leave the farmers, who comprise 8% of the totality of the community, to pay something over one-third of the total estate duty. [More…]

• We have developed a distorted attitude to the role of lawyers in the community. [More…]

• Not only are the volume, complexity and range of the work of the Parliamentary Draftsman increasing, but the importance of his role to the Parliament and the community is also affected by the increasing recognition of administrative law as a distinct branch of our law. [More…]

• And this is not me talking, but the New South Wales President of the British Medical Association not so long ago - in our system which, in my opinion, the profession must attempt to correct if we wish to avoid more direct government interference in the practice of medicine within ihe hospitals, lt is quite unrealistic for the profession to expect to avoid nationalisation of hospital services if it is unwilling to assume its obligation to the community in this respect. [More…]

• Here I am quoting experts in the field, recognised within the medical community in this country, who quite readily admit that the standards within our hospitals are not good enough. [More…]

• We have not been trying to pour scorn on the Minister but have been trying to make the community outside as well as the members of (he Parliament aware of the shortcomings within the hospital service and the things which medical authorities everywhere in the world - on both sides of the Iron Curtain if we want to worry about that, too - now recognise as requiring steps to be taken to ensure the best possible standards in the functioning of hospitals. [More…]

• He said that I had criticised the present quota scheme, that I had described it as operating against the best interests of the farmers and of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is not a big community but I have the honour to represent it - yesterday put all their possessions up for sale by public auction and prepared to move to other parts of the State. [More…]

• To say that something does not have the confidence of the community does not mean that the statement is true. [More…]

• In answer to the question I would say this: One important factor affecting housing and those in the community, particularly the young people, seeking to buy homes has been the serious rise in the cost of home building and, of course, building materials. [More…]

• What I can say about the philosophies of the Communist movement is that wherever the Communists have set up a government it has been a domination of the rest of the community by the Communist Party. [More…]

• The proposition involved in this Bill is welcome in the Australian community because it does represent an advance in support and fostering of the Australian film industry, lt does, not deserve, however, to be described in superlative terms, but rather in positive terms because it does show an improvement on the situation which exists now. [More…]

• Frankly, not only the majority but also the minority in the community deserve to be pandered to in the production of artistic work. [More…]

• If a corporation board is operated to give advice in an area of health services in the community quite clearly qualified people will be needed to sit on it. [More…]

• It is to be hoped the Corporation will not aim at creating moguls of the film industry in Australia but will seek to develop a fairly broadly based industry, one which will meet the demands of the broad, popular market in the community and help the development of quality films within Australia. [More…]

• What is needed is the development of a vital, creative, imaginative film industry giving a true reflection of the ideas, values, ways of life and aspirations of the Australian community. [More…]

• Also, I am prepared to accept that at this stage the group of advisers that he has around him may well be - I am nol saying that they are - the best available in the community. [More…]

• The fact is that these leading industrialists have a pecuniary interest in various fields of industrial activity in the community. [More…]

• Some concern has been expressed by the Parliament on the need to ensure that such provisions do not infringe on the civil liberties of the community and a new provision has been included which takes account of the main objections raised. [More…]

• This provision should ensure that the civil liberties of the community are not infringed and, at the same time, permit the legislation to be enforced. [More…]

• In a sentence, we must maintain and develop a national concern about our oceanic activities to see that they are directly correlated to the needs and aspirations of the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not speak in the House very often on this subject simply because it does not happen to be my ministerial responsibility, but I assure honourable members and others in the chamber that I, like many of my colleagues - indeed, all my colleagues on this side - believe that it is tragic that an insidious propaganda campaign is undermining the minds of men and women in the Australian community against what we see as the absolutely essential necessity for a defence effort which is capable of preserving this country for the future. [More…]

• If we reach a position in our society where the rule of law, the rule of order and the rule of peace are negated, I believe it would be a disastrous thing for the community. [More…]

• It transpired during the course of the interview that the third party with the two Immigration officials was allegedly an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation agent and that this ASIO agent informed Mr Vorstman that if he was prepared to become an informer for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation - that is an informer on the Communist Party, on political activity and on general radical movements in the community - this would favourably influence the outcome of his application for Australian citizenship. [More…]

• He is contributing to the economic development within the community. [More…]

• His contribution is just as important as that of any other member of the community. [More…]

• He has rights within the community. [More…]

• We do not want a remote bureaucracy making some sort of vague assessment and giving some sort of vaguely worded decision on the rights of a person within the community. [More…]

• The fact that a number of migrants do not make application for Australian citizenship results, I believe, from a fusion of factors which would include indecision at to longterm permanent residence in Australia; the fact that they may be waiting for other members of the family to become eligible before themselves making application; unawareness of the importance of citizenship; or being aware, the fact that they have not come to the point of making application or would prefer to become further established in the Australian community before playing a complete and meaningful part. [More…]

• As I recollect it, the third part of the honourable member’s question related to disabilities incurred by aliens in the community. [More…]

• It has always been the policy of the Commonwealth Government that migrants should become Australian citizens, not so much for the material benefits which this would confer upon them but rather because citizenship, once conferred, would enable them to play their full part as Australian citizens in the affairs of the community and to have the opportunity of total identification with the people of Australia. [More…]

• The true facts, which I put before the House in answer to the question, are these: When Mr Hermes, a gentleman who has given very good service to this community not only as a magistrate but also in connection with other public activities, had it in mind to consider offering himself as a parliamentary candidate or a candidate for pre-selection, he had discussions with the Deputy Secretary of my Department - and very properly had discussions which he sought himself - concerning the procedures which might have to be adopted if he should go ahead with his decision to offer himself as a candidate. [More…]

• by leave - Mr Speaker, one of the major new immigration initiatives to be taken by the Government in the course of this Parliament is in the area of migrant education - an area vital to the effective integration of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]

• There are short and long term social and human benefits for the migrant and for the community in encouraging and providing the means for migrants to learn English. [More…]

• If this programme is fulfilled in the way that the Minister has outlined today and comes to fruition as he has said, it undoubtedly will be a forward step in providing for the education of migrants and their integration into the community. [More…]

• 1 think the House will agree that the people who till the soil and who belong to the rural sector of the community are much more patriotic than are intellectuals who can sell their brains and take their brains with them to some other country. [More…]

• At the same time, he is called upon to finance a lot of things that are happening in the community. [More…]

• The world market situation is overshadowed by the European Economic Community with its huge butter surpluses which now amount to 300,000 tons and which are being sold at subsidised prices on the markets of traditional suppliers. [More…]

• This conclusion does not even take account of the problems that will be posed by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, which could require the industry to take very drastic measures to meet the situation within quite a short period. [More…]

• By the very nature of health services costs will increase at a faster rate than comparable costs for other services in the community. [More…]

• What must be remembered in all this is that Great Britain not only has been more successful than the United States in holding down the rate of increase in the cost of health services but also gives a comprehensive cover to all members of the community. [More…]

• of medical insurance or even of hospital insurance we are only skirmishing around the periphery of a very big problem which involves an approach towards community health services based on an integrated arrangement of those services focused on regionalised public hospitals. [More…]

• It is amazing then that we find the conservative Government of Australia appalled at any suggestion that we ought to introduce universal health insurance to the community. [More…]

• Will it be a matter of substantially increased costs for the community every 2 or 3 years? [More…]

• What the Nimmo Committee was trying to get at was that if we regionalise the activities of the open funds to some extent we can eliminate some of the unnecessary cost factor and contain costs which are the bugbear of health services in the community. [More…]

• They have higher skills than most other professional men, because they have to study for the longest period required of any professional person in the community. [More…]

• Health protection for all people in the community, regardless of means, is available. [More…]

• What are we to do about the provision of community health services? [More…]

• The health care of a developing community such as ours is one of the most important and, at the same time, one of the most difficult tasks of government. [More…]

• The medical profession, the insurance firms and the Government should all aim at achieving the best results, not primarily for themselves but for the community as a whole. [More…]

• If this co-operation can be maintained a voluntary health scheme will work better for the community than any compulsory socialistic scheme, but if this co-operation falters there will be pressures from the community for a system of nationalised medicine, and this would be a disastrous step for the health care of the community. [More…]

• But on the other hand, the general practitioner, as the family doctor, has a most important role in the community - a role that is most rewarding to those who are motivated in this way. [More…]

• Although the postgraduate training efforts of the College of General Practitioners are excel lent, other measures will also be needed to increase the number of general practitioners to meet the needs of the community. [More…]

• I think the entry requirements should be widened to include such factors as common sense, humanity and desire to serve the community, as well as academic standards. [More…]

• After all1, it costs the community - the taxpayer - an average of something like $40,000 for each medical student who completes his university training. [More…]

• There must be, in any community, an optimum balance between general practitioners and specialists. [More…]

• The community as a whole is making very substantial financial sacrifices through the universities to provide an increasing number of medical practitioners. [More…]

• This will be expensive to the community and often highly inefficient and inconvenient for the patient. [More…]

• The contributions have increased to such an extent that they are beyond the capacity of some members of the community and involve considerable hardship for others. [More…]

• He pointed out some of the difficulties, particularly in relation to the benefits that are received by various sections in the community. [More…]

• If this were to be lost, asI said, it would be of great detriment not only to the medical profession itself but also to the community at large. [More…]

• I am sure that no-one else in this House nor anyone in the community would, either. [More…]

• He suggests that this is imposing dreadful hardships on the community, that it is the doctors’ fault and that the Government has had to do something about it. [More…]

• I am interested in having enough doctors for the community. [More…]

• The community is suffering from a shortage of general practitioners. [More…]

• Is it to ensure that the community has the best health services, or is it to ensure that the people can pay for whatever it is that they get? [More…]

• Statistically, most of the medical expenses in this community are incurred by patients visiting their family doctors. [More…]

• When we again apply to these payments the taxation rebate which will be much higher for those earning high incomes we again find the poorer sections of the community will bc paying much more for their medical services than are the wealthy sections of the community. [More…]

• But what will the community pay? [More…]

• He gave some comparisons with other countries such as America, a beautiful free enterprise community. [More…]

• (1958) have demonstrated that the contrary situation exists in that community, the perinatal and infant mortality among patients receiving care from salaried doctors in group practice being substantially lower than under fee for service plans. [More…]

• In conclusion I should like to suggest that the whole business contained in this massive document - pages and pages of fee schedules - is irrelevant to the real problem facing this community in terms of health care. [More…]

• I believe that the general practitioner is still held in such awe by the community that patients will be guided by their advice as to whether to consult a specialist. [More…]

• The community hospital in my electorate has 323 beds. [More…]

• Differential rebates merely serve to suggest to the community that there are 2 standards of medical care - the first rate and the second rate. [More…]

• In Greece it was from the community; in Rome from the army; in medieval rimes from the feudal lord, lt is only since the times of the Mercantilists that a majority of doctors like other traders have started to demand payments on the nail for goods provided over the counter. [More…]

• I hope that I have indicated that there is a responsibility of government, of the medical profession, and of patients to be considered in what sort of care is given to the community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman will know that restrictions on local government finances have led to a policy by local government of forcing developers to provide many community facilities and that these extra costs are simply passed on to home purchasers, forcing land prices upwards. [More…]

• I express the view in this Parliament on behalf of the people from my electorate that they cannot continue to put up with aircraft noise and neither can the people in the community nor servicemen anywhere. [More…]

• lt is to the advantage of the whole community that, wherever possible, a workable solution and a workable plan should be developed by co-operation and consultation. [More…]

• Whilst I believe that the medical profession is entitled to consideration in the formation of a new health scheme, it seems to me that it is one thing to afford consideration but that it is another thing to go overboard and to bc led by the nose to such an extent that the welfare of the community of this country has to take second place. [More…]

• We have been told by Government supporters that it is a very valuable scheme, but from the standpoint of the community the first undesirable feature about it is that there will be a substantial increase in contributions by those required to join hospital and medical funds. [More…]

• We know that almost every community needs psychiatric wards and geriatric facilities at its public hospitals. [More…]

• To that extent the proposal of the alternative scheme, the health scheme put forward by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) at the last federal election, will represent a benefit and advantage to the entire Australian community. [More…]

• I do so with a great deal of concern for the welfare of the community. [More…]

• My concern is that the community should get the benefit of what the Government is offering. [More…]

• This is an accomplishment which has relieved the community of what in fact could be regarded as the greatest burden in this field. [More…]

• In country areas we are concerned - and I have no doubt that this goes for members on both sides of the House, and certainly it is a matter which concerns the Government - that the general practitioner should in any way be jeopardised or should in any way see anything that will erode his status in the community. [More…]

• I am talking of status not only from the point of view of a professional level but also from the point of view of community service. [More…]

• A general practitioner is always seen as someone who serves the community. [More…]

• He is friend, adviser, philosopher and goodness knows what else to families and in many instances has lived a lifetime in a particular community. [More…]

• It is important to get this scheme operating for the benefit of the community and then one area of serious disability will have been resolved. [More…]

• If this can be done we will get for all sections of the community the best possible result. [More…]

• They have referred to the great margin by which the estimates of the Government as to the cost of its proposals to the community was in error. [More…]

• We must be prepared to educate the undergraduates so that they will be able to take a place in the community where they can best serve the public. [More…]

• As the medical profession and the medical scientists can offer more it is obvious there will be a greater usage by the community of those services. [More…]

• No government has ever contributed so much to the advancement of health services and to the establishment of worthwhile health services in the community than this Government has. [More…]

• This is only in furtherance of its Socialistic idea that the ills of the community can be cured by a system of compulsion and control. [More…]

• I mention this only to indicate to members of the Labor Party that they would be advised to have another look at the compulsory scheme which they propose to see the extent of its effect upon the community. [More…]

• The Government’s scheme has been of widespread benefit to the community. [More…]

• That is why I say it will be a sad day in Australia when we deprive the community of the basic general practitioner service. [More…]

• We have grown into an era in which group practise by doctors is providing a great medical service to the community. [More…]

• There are a lot of people in our community who simply cannot afford to meet the costs of hospitalisation. [More…]

• 2.0 The Government’s Responsibility 2.1 I believe it to be the Government’s responsibility and prerogative to secure the best possible health treatment for all members of the community. [More…]

• 5.0 Additional Comments 5.1 The Government in making certain contributions to the need for treatment of members of the community is, I believe, doing what is right. [More…]

• I hope that during the next few years money will be made available for research in many of these areas in order to overcome some of the problems that still have to be faced by the community. [More…]

• Firstly, it should bc heartily challenged because of its gross unfairness and injustice in charging the less well off sections of the community somewhat more than the wealthier sections for their health benefits. [More…]

• This has been a scheme characterised by gross greed in many cases, inefficiency, clumsiness and scandalous waste at the expense of the community’s health. [More…]

• The net cost of medical insurance will be greater to the poorer section than it will be to the wealthy section of our community for the simple reason that in regard to net cost after taxation less will be paid by the wealthier people. [More…]

• Not only will that be the case but also the fees that will be paid actually by a patient to a doctor or to a hospital for that matter will attract a greater rebate in the case of the wealthier section of the community than will come to the less wealthy. [More…]

• There are people in the community who would even suggest that the extra $64.5m to be added to the medical bill is a great under-estimate. [More…]

• This means of course a further tax burden on the community, and while the tax schedules operate in the very unjust way that they do, with heavy penalties on low and middle income earners, this will be a further regressive feature of the whole scheme. [More…]

• All this money that is being socked away in cold storage against the day of some mythical catastrophe or some plague that might befall the community could have been used for all the people who are dissatisfied with the inadequate benefits they receive. [More…]

• The organisations have set up branches in various community centres all over New South Wales. [More…]

• But that is not so in New South Wales particularly, a situation of which I am aware, where ornate and elaborate branch offices are servicing the community or, rather, making a good deal for the organisations. [More…]

• Then there was the heavy advertising engaged in by the open funds in their aggressive tactics of trying to steal contributors from one another and contributing nothing to the community. [More…]

• Some reference has been made to the greater dearth of general practitioners in the community. [More…]

• The community needs them. [More…]

• Something has to be done about it, and the community ought to demand that something be done. [More…]

• I understand that the Government is to adjourn the debate after the second reading stage to give honourable members and the community a chance to have a further look at the Bill. [More…]

• The honourable member for Barton refuses to understand the most elementary facts about the taxation processes in this community. [More…]

• People who work hard, devote themselves to their duty and have the good fortune as a result of their endeavours to have high incomes are also the people who provide the substantial: amounts of taxation in this community. [More…]

• I urge honourable members opposite to beware of the day when the community runs out of Peters and finds itself with a large population of Pauls. [More…]

• We have achieved a situation in which there is special financial assistance to the States for the development of co-ordinated programmes of home care to strengthen home nursing and home care services, particularly for the frail and aged folk in our community. [More…]

• But the complaint of the Labor Party always will be: No matter what you do, we can do better, and at the taxpayers’ expense we will provide more and more for the community in the hope that the people will ultimately vote us into government. [More…]

• It can be seen in almost every form of life in our community. [More…]

• I remember when the scheme was introduced in this Parliament and that former great disciple of Australian Country Party policy, the late Sir Earle Page, said that not more than 10% of the cost of medicine in this country would be borne by the taxpayer or the community. [More…]

• Under this miserable Bill the Government is allowing only $3m for the poorer section of the community in subsidy of medical and health benefits. [More…]

• We have heard too that under this scheme a certain section of the community will get free hospital treatment in public wards. [More…]

• To listen to the Minister’s second reading speech one would think that he is making a major approach to a great problem in giving free hosptalisation to the poorer section of the community. [More…]

• Any person in the community in those days could have free hospitalisation. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite should not feel proud about giving this meagre benefit to people who are on low incomes - people who represent the most deserving section of the community. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Opposition said during the last campaign, Labor’s scheme will suit Australians who want a health scheme that will provide proper services at a cost which the community can afford. [More…]

• Although doctors are a very important section of the community they in turn owe something to the country. [More…]

• I believe that Australia wants a health scheme which will provide a proper service at a cost which the community can afford to pay - a scheme which meets the Deeds of the entire community regardless of age or income. [More…]

• The report has also proved that the Government, by consistently rejecting Labor’s proposals, has acted against the best interests of the general community over several years. [More…]

• I also wish to add that we received almost complete co-operation and assistance from the doctors, particularly in the early stages when the doctors who had been on the goldfields for many years had a proper appreciation of the value of community spirit and also of the value of a good health scheme. [More…]

• I have never heard him discuss poverty in the Australian community and yet in the electorate in which he lives there is quite a deal of poverty. [More…]

• He has never spoken about the extent of this particular problem in the Australian community. [More…]

• If he does not understand the implications of profound economic policy at least be could speak out on behalf of the battling young home seeker in the Australian community who is being asked to bear the brunt of the economic policy of the Government at the present time because it is quite clear that the home building industry is the industry used as the economic regulator in the Australian economy. [More…]

• The people least able to afford to bear the burden of economic stringency are the people who have the greatest degree of burden imposed on them - the average wage earners in the Australian community whether they work in shops or factories or offices, young people who are trying to get a home together. [More…]

• I suggest quite genuinely to the Government that it has contributed more towards guaranteeing the success of the Moratorium than has the effort of any other organisation or person in the Australian community because of the ridiculous way in which it has performed in haranguing the public and indict:ng the character of everyone who has in some way been associated with the support of this Moratorium. [More…]

• But I become outraged at the vindictive and baseless way in which so many members of the Government and supporters of the Democratic Labor Party have impugned the character of decent people in the Australian community because they are genuinely opposed to this disgraceful war in Indo-China. [More…]

• They have implied this if they have not stated it explicitly: ‘We speak for the majority and the rest of the community must accept our decisions. [More…]

• I point out that Fiji’s own delegation will again be headed by her Prime Minister and that Fiji is a highly political and literate community with strong political and commercial links with the major English speaking nations of North America and India as well as Britain and Australia. [More…]

• It has been suggested that assistance to child minding centres is the next logical extension of a programme to help these unfortunate members of our community. [More…]

• It was designed to restrain demand and excess of money over goods and services available over the whole of the community, of which the building industry is a part. [More…]

• I hope that the relevant Ministers will examine it to make sure that Commonwealth employees enjoy the same rights in this area as other members of the community. [More…]

• Today I want to speak about the valuation of land, particularly in rural areas, and local government rating as it affects people in the rural community. [More…]

• It calls on many people in all sorts of ways to conduct social exercises which are very valuable for the community. [More…]

• Is it not time that the RSL and honourable members opposite recognised that this is a matter of great debate in the community and that the consensus is that Australia has been taken into a war? [More…]

• I played an active and effective part in the local community as a member of that organisation. [More…]

• It is insulting not only members of the League and the community generally but also a large body of deep thinking people of great intellectual integrity. [More…]

• Typical of the way in which important segments of the community have been left to the winds of economic exploitation by disinterested Government, exposed to lack of guidelines and the absence of national planning, is the egg industry. [More…]

• The issue is not one of Sydney or the bush; it is one for all the community and all Australians together. [More…]

• at least the small man in the community is really not significant when it comes to loan flotations. [More…]

• That is why, for our part, we are irked by the decision taken recently to increase bank interest rates in the community. [More…]

• It is our view that this increase in interest rates will have very little impact on some sections of the community but that it will have tremendous impact upon those who in no way are responsible for what might be called the speculative upsurge in demand. [More…]

• Of course the result of rationing the purse is always to force out certain people who, in a sense, may be called the most deserving section of-the community. [More…]

• I always read with much interest the papers that are written by the Treasurer and delivered at various learned and nonlearned associations throughout the community. [More…]

• Then if inequity is bowed into the system by allowing deductions for life assurance at the rate of $1,200 per annum - almost $25 a week - how many people in the community could avail themselves of it? [More…]

• The same amount of tax can be collected but it could be distributed very much differently among various sections of the community. [More…]

• It is intended to be a massive strike for political purposes, designed to inconvenience thousands of citizens and to subject community life to dislocation. [More…]

• He is applying economic pressure to housing in our community. [More…]

• Primary industry is subjected to attacks by those who seem to have various obsessions against the primary sector of the community and they usually base their obsessions on the quantitative or tangible figures given in the White papers or the [More…]

• The apparent indifference displayed by the community to the cost problem which is undermining the economy of the export primary industries is based more on ignorance than on any degree of intent. [More…]

• He had the confidence of the community. [More…]

• But, Mr Speaker, how could it succeed unless the main component involved in it did not co-operate and honestly endeavour to make it function in the best interests of the entire community? [More…]

• I was appalled at the genuine and sincere fear of the doctors that as general practitioners their position and influence in the community was deteriorating and that the implementation of this health scheme would further aid and abet this decline. [More…]

• I trust that the efforts made by all will be of great value to the community, particularly to those people most in need. [More…]

• First and foremost I think it should be stated that the concept of this Bill is protection of ali members of the public against embarrassing medical costs, that is, to make possible for all members of the community access to proper medical care in whatever areas of illness they unfortunately find themselves. [More…]

• Nobody could dispute that in an ideal community it would be marvellous for people willy-nilly to indulge all their inclinations in this regard. [More…]

• I have even, I think, gone on record as indicating a general interest in the fact that no member of the community should be unduly discriminated against. [More…]

• Nobody stands in higher regard in the community than do members of the medical profession. [More…]

• One would hope that because of the widespread, in fact universal, operation of this scheme as far as the public of Australia is concerned any problems will be resolved in the greatest possible amity and understanding for the general benefit not only of the community but of the medical profession and anybody who is touched by it. [More…]

• They deal with things which the community does not wish to pay a specialist to attend to until they have been apprehended in the first instance by the general practitioner. [More…]

• I am sure that the general benefit to the community will become obvious when the scheme begins to operate. [More…]

• How many new services will it supply throughout the community? [More…]

• There are large numbers of people - I would think about 10% of this community, and it might even apply to every other community in the country - who have not the kind of expertise that- is required, who are short of money on occasions, who forget about it, who do not know at all or who cannot manage their affairs. [More…]

• Everybody in the community is not covered all the time, and there are no funds available for capital development. [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…]

• The British health system has been the victim for some 20 to 25 years of vigorous hostility from people who have come to this country and from honourable members on the other side of the House who see in this scheme some insidious evil Socialist force which will overwhelm the good health of the community. [More…]

• They have been supported in this belief by the medical profession which until recently, when we on this side had an accession of liberal minded, advanced thinkers from the profession, was generally speaking a fairly conservative group in the community. [More…]

• I ask: Why should a salaried service be the kiss of death to the medical profession, if it is satisfactory for thousands of teachers and scientists and others in the community who are as highly qualified academically as any member of the medical profession? [More…]

• The Labor Party believes that there is room in the community for both private enterprise and a salaried service. [More…]

• I believe that we will not have a total system in the community until we have such a national health scheme. [More…]

• The question before’ us is: Does the National Health Bill comply with the requirements of the community? [More…]

• I believe, and I think most of the community would, that that is a very desirable objective. [More…]

• I am confident that a referral system will be developed which will fully safeguard all sections of the medical profession, the Government and the community generally. [More…]

• I ask the Treasurer: Is the Government aware of the sorry plight of many thousands of citizens in our community, particularly those on social services and retirement incomes, who are suffering severely from a widespread bout of price increases. [More…]

• The area where the villagers have been resettled is now an established community with a market place, school, medical dispensary, reticulated water supply and research farm, all of which would not have been possible in the previous conditions under which the villagers lived. [More…]

• The Committee has called upon the people of Australia to demonstrate in the streets, to sit in the streets and obstruct truffle so that the attention of the community will be drawn to the policy which the Committee espouses. [More…]

• I would like to know whether this means that if I want, to bring about a change in the law or in Government policy or if any other group in the community wants to do the same we arc entitled to block the streets, obstruct traffic and breach the local and State laws, ls that what it means? [More…]

• This Executive pays tribute to those in the community whose efforts are directed in a peaceful manner towards an awakening conscience and stirring compassion in the minds and hearts of the Australian people in the tragic horror that is Vietnam. [More…]

• Whilst he may be able to find I or 2 known Communists or card carrying Communists, as he claimed, there is no question that he will find a very effective cross section of the Australian community. [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…]

• Our belief in private rights giving preference to the private way of economic development has proved right and desirable for all the community. [More…]

• I believe that the broad economic practice of resource allocation in our free private enterprise economy has proved the best for the community of Australians. [More…]

• For instance, most honourable members realise that Great Britain is making every effort to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Australia’s standard of living must decrease considerably when this move by Great Britain and by the European Economic Community is accomplished. [More…]

• If Comalco could only be induced to Gladstone on a subsidised basis and the benefits of decentralistion were thought to outweigh this cost, then a case could perhaps be made out for subsidy, although it is not really as simple as this because an unwitting advantage could be given to this firm at the expense of somebody else somewhere else, and the fairer method might well be to charge for power at its proper economic price and to pay the equivalent of the interest component, say to the Gladstone municipal authority, to provide community amenities. [More…]

• They will be considered in a priority field and in the interests of the community generally. [More…]

• The project itself and the industries it will attract will require development of considerable infrastructure by way of transport facilities, housing, community services, industrial water supply and effluent disposal and other matters. [More…]

• Considerable planning and co-ordination undoubtedly will be required so that each sector within the community, as it becomes ready to do so, will move over to the new metric system from the old imperial system gradually and in line with and related to other sectors of the economy. [More…]

• In collaboration with the Board, it will be the task of all sections of the community to ascertain what is involved for them in metrication and to achieve harmonious conversion with advantage to all. [More…]

• The honourable member will know that I and every other member of the Government endeavour to approach all these things in a spirit of sympathy and compassion and, within available resources, to do the best that is possible for pensioners and all other sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• At talks at Ottawa involving the 5 major wheat exporting countries - Australia, Canada, the United States of America, Argentine and the European Economic Community - figures showed that last year stock holdings of wheat went up by about 900 million bushels, an increase of almost 50%, to well over 2,000 million bushels. [More…]

• In the European Economic Community, although the authorities are not taking action to curtail production, they do have in hand certain reconstruction proposals and they do not expect their exports of wheat to increase in the next 3 years. [More…]

• In view of this, arrangements have been made to admit the family, as a special case, to a Commonwealth hostel in cither Melbourne or Sydney to enable it to make better provision for its move into the general community. [More…]

• Have negotiations between the Commonwealth Government and the New South Wales Government concerning the provision of $8.3m by the Commonwealth towards this important community disability alleviation project been sufficiently finalised despite long delays to enable the proposal to come before the Government and the Parliament for legislative action? [More…]

• At least one could say that the Government is consistent in its approach to the treatment of art and cultural matters within the community. [More…]

• We would adequately fund such a foundation, but first and foremost we would not proceed on this exercise without fully informing ourselves on the need for cultural development in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government has made no attempt whatever to bring the rates of pay for its Commonwealth employees in line with the improving standards in the level of community skills arising out of technological innovation. [More…]

• The salaries that it pay: do not reflect the standard of over award payments in the community at large. [More…]

• In the 1966 annual report he said: lt bas long been obvious that arbitration for minimum payments and bargaining of overaward payments must co-exist in this community. [More…]

• I do agree with what the Minister for Labour and National Service said yesterday, which was that the question of 4 weeks leave for Commonwealth public servants had been carefully examined by the Government and had been discussed with representatives of the various unions but on the grounds of the cost to the community generally and on other grounds in relation to shift work, which the Minister mentioned, the Government decided not to grant this leave. [More…]

• I think that we are all in sympathy in principle with the desirability of increased leisure, but the Commonwealth Government also has a responsibility to the community as a whole for the economic and efficient operation of the civil service. [More…]

• I agree with the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin) that public servants have kept pace with the rise in national productivity, but the benefits of increased productivity can be and are distributed in many other ways - in higher wages, the avoidance of price increases that might otherwise occur, and increased expenditure on community services such as education and social welfare. [More…]

• Obviously, the health of the community will suffer. [More…]

• There was a strong difference of opinion in the community on that matter. [More…]

• Practically every other group in the community earning salary or income has some sort of tribunal which considers the adequacy of its remuneration periodically. [More…]

• We would give comprehensive cover to all people in the community including all those who have pre-ex ‘sting illnesses. [More…]

• If the Committee agrees to the amend- ment we will ensure that the Government accepts its responsibilities with regard to regulations which will be in the best interests of the community at large. [More…]

• This thought leads me to express my contempt for those people of a younger generation who classify the age pensioners as a drag on the community, a bunch of nohopers and damned old nuisances. [More…]

• Not only have they failed this country in the matter of defence but they have failed the very people whom they purport to represent, that is, the members of the farming community of Australia. [More…]

• Have honourable members opposite ever stopped to think of the needs of most people in our community, to consider what could have been provided for them with the money which has been wasted on the Fill aircraft, how many schools could have been built, how many pre-schools might have been constructed or what burden could have been lifted from the pensioners, to refer to one narrow field of welfare? [More…]

• I have said before in this House, and I repeat for the benefit of honourable members opposite, that if they had any shred of feeling at all they should get out of this establishment when the House is in recess and look at the poverty that they have inflicted and continue to inflict on many members of the community. [More…]

• I wind up on this note and hope that perhaps I can continue with the subject tomorrow night and draw attention to even more areas of dire need in this community. [More…]

• If one looks at nursing, one finds that it is almost impossible to formulate a proper assessment of the needs of the community. [More…]

• The point that I am trying to get to is this: Too much of public health administration in the Australian community, most especially at the Federal level, proceeds under a cloak of secrecy. [More…]

• These are the people who, more than most people in the community, need the benefits of a comprehensive range of health services. [More…]

• This is a matter that affects the health of not thousands but literally millions of people in our community. [More…]

• Many of us have been aware of doctors in our own community prescribing a particular drug of obvious benefit to a patient and knowing that that drug was not on the benefit list. [More…]

• lt should be appropriate that the doctors, the patients and the millions of people in the community who are affected by these decisions should have the opportunity of making their submissions to a public inquiry. [More…]

• What kind of a way is this to conduct the business of a national parliament when it is deciding and discussing a matter of momentous importance to the whole community? [More…]

• Can anybody suggest that the Bill is representative of the health needs of the community? [More…]

• At the same time the Bill is completely unrepresentative of the health needs of the community generally. [More…]

• He is dedicated in the first place to the health of the community. [More…]

• It should not be a charge on unhealthy people, lt should be a charge which is equitably borne by the community. [More…]

• So we get some insight into how the Australian public is being exploited by the activities of drug companies, which seem to have a buccaneer’s licence to operate in the Australian community. [More…]

• 1 am sure, in spite of what the Minister might say, that he is caused a great deal of concern from time to time by the cartelarranged activities of drug companies in Australia, because the more they extract from us for a given quantity of drugs over what they should be charging us, the less they are allowing the pharmaceutical benefits scheme to be expanded for the benefits of the Australian community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community alone has a butter surplus of around 300,000 tons or little short of half the world’s annual trade in butter. [More…]

• Even that trade is in jeopardy should Britain join the European Economic Community without first ensuring that there are adequate safeguards for its traditional suppliers. [More…]

• Even with the greatest of effort, their holdings are no longer big enough to maintain an adequate standard of living acceptable in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that there is protection to the Australian community in the preservation, with appropriate interest rates, of the banks. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that concern is felt over a wide section of the Australian community with regard to this foreign investment taking control of our industries and resources. [More…]

• The thing which I cannot understand is what one can only call the squeals’ which are occurring in some sectors of the community. [More…]

• It is quite wrong - I think this is well recognised in the community - for the Opposition to draw the inference that everything the Government has done in the past is wrong and everything it has been suggesting, quite often at the wrong time, is right. [More…]

• I hesitate to think of some of the facilities that would be offered to the people in the community today if the conditions of those days prior to 1949 were still with us. [More…]

• But if they are visiting Australia for purely intellectual purposes in order to present academic papers, there is a real fear on the part of the Government of what thought might accomplish or what stimulation to local intellect may cause within the community. [More…]

• Recently in this House I have raised by way of questions and in debate the very extreme plight that age and invalid pensioners find themselves in as a result of the callous attitude displayed by the Liberal-Country Party Government towards those members of the community who are reliant upon social welfare handouts. [More…]

• Added to the number receiving social welfare payments are those in the community who are in receipt of some form of fixed income. [More…]

• The Government rewards thrift by imposing the so-called tapered means test or, viewed more realistically, it forces these people in the community to the conclusion that savings made by them merely provide their own pensions. [More…]

• Let me qualify my comment in this way: As taxpayers for all of their working lives, these people paid taxes in a way no different from that of others in the community. [More…]

• In addition, the Labor Party proposes to eliminate completely the means test for many in the community immediately and for others progressively so that it is non-existent after 6 years. [More…]

• By its attitude the Government creates a sub-standard life for those members of the community and’ creates misery for those forced, through no fault of their own, to an undignified existence. [More…]

• They refuse to recognise community problems. [More…]

• It therefore behoves the Commonwealth and other sections of the Australian community, against the background of the increasing economic buoyancy of so many of the source countries which have produced our traditional numbers, to do more to ensure that we maintain the figures and increase them in future years. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government is doing more, but this is a responsibility which is shared by the Commonwealth and the States, employers and employees, and the general community. [More…]

• I am prepared to discuss any aspect with any honourable member, not on the basis of interfering with the ABC but at least asking for explanations which I believe the community is entitled to have. [More…]

• It is so absurd that no Minister could run his department on such a basis, no person could look after a family on such a basis, and no person could have relations with others in a community on such a basis. [More…]

• While the Government concluded that the responsibility for the work of ACT law reform should rest with the responsible departments, it decided that arrangements should be made for consultation on matters of a specialist or technical nature to take place with informed sections of the community. [More…]

• in the community after arrival. [More…]

• In Australia, facilities for instruction in reception centres, in hostels and in the community generally will be expanded. [More…]

• Special attention will be given to the needs of migrant women - the married woman and the housewife - for whom, if they are to become full members of the community and if they are t participate in the social life, a knowledge of English is essential. [More…]

• This is a reform that has been widely sought within the community and 1 consider it to be the most important of the reforms recommended by the Manning Committee. [More…]

• 1 believe that its implementation will be of real benefit to members of the public, to the commercial community and to bankers. [More…]

• Mr Prowse warned that Australia should be thinking how cold it might be with Britain inside the European Economic Community, and the gloomy picture that he painted of the possible ramifications for Australia of a successful United Kingdom entry should give every one of us grievous cause for concern. [More…]

• It is quite unreasonable that any group of people who are normally regarded as professionals in the community should be treated in this undignified manner. [More…]

• The nursing profession in the community is directly influenced by the changes in outlook in the medical and para-medical fields. [More…]

• Additionally, the drain - a capital loss to the community because of the value a trained nurse represents - continues after graduation. [More…]

• The case covered the nursing, staff qf the Canberra Community Hospital and certain other nursing staff in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Ultimately, however, the status and rewards given to a career such as nursing must depend on the interplay of attitudes throughout the whole community. [More…]

• The Australian and New Zealand Hospitals and Health Services Year Book 1969 shows that in the previous year the Canberra Community Hospital had a daily average of occupied beds of 409 and a nursing staff of S30. [More…]

• Since there is obviously a concern in the Australian community generally about the problems of nursing as a career the Government, while insisting that wages must remain a question for the proper tribunals, is ready to do whatever it can to ass:st in the areas where it has responsibility. [More…]

• But 1 want to emphasise that there are other authorities which have responsibilities, and nurses themselves and the community generally must also be prepared to examine their attitudes. [More…]

• The assertions made by the Opposition on this matter cannot be supported but inasmuch as this debate will help to focus the attention of the community on the current and future problems of our nurses then I believe it is worthwhile. [More…]

• Nursing is not a profession that people follow merely for the remuneration they receive, but this does not mean that this section of the community should bc exploited. [More…]

• That would be most dangerous not only to a particular union or a particular section of the community but to the Government and our economy as a whole. [More…]

• Yet only a few days ago in this place, in a very political setting and in a very political sense, we finally determined to some extent the salaries of doctors throughout the community and the remuneration that they are likely to receive. [More…]

• I do not think many people in the community would have blamed the Commonwealth Government if it had gone into the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission hearing of the nurses case and had pleaded the public cause. [More…]

• The Commonwealth should have gone to the Commission and drawn attention to the fact that the Government’s great investment in the whole of our national health scheme could be seriously undermined because of the inadequate number of nurses in our community. [More…]

• First of all, the proportion of females in the population aged between 15 and 19, from which we are likely to recruit trainee nurses, is declining in relation to the number of males and females over 65 in the community - the people who will make the greatest demands on hospitalisation. [More…]

• The number of nurses in the community is relatively scarce. [More…]

• To review the role of the nurse and the midwife in the hospital and the community and the education and training required for that role, so that the best use is made of available manpower to meet present needs and the needs of an integrated health service. [More…]

• I think it is no accident that in this second industrial revolution there is an increasing advocacy of greater participation in management and control of industry by the workers and by the community. [More…]

• Also, I think it is a bit hypocritical for the Government to say that there are scarce resources of capital on the one hand and on the other hand dole out public money to some wealthy private schools in the community. [More…]

• It lies in lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding the workings of government, and it lies in community participation in decision making - what we call participatory democracy. [More…]

• The problem has arisen because of the failure of the Government to provide for infrastructures and community services in those remote mining areas. [More…]

• To the extent to which there is a need for it, however, there are honourable members of the Government parties who feel that adequate provision is already available within the existing financial structure of the Community. [More…]

• that each year the Corporation shall specifically review the shares it holds is again an area of protection for the private enterprise sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• The present operations of that policy are having a real and clearly different effect in a quantitative manner on the total loans, advances and so on being made available in the community than would have been the case had such a policy not been operating. [More…]

• In order to neutralise that effect monetary policy would have to be tougher, interest rates would have to be higher, or the quantitative withdrawing of money in the community might have to be more stringent. [More…]

• So if we are to see that its operations are not out of phase with the current practice in the rest of the community, I think the Minister will agree there has to be some kind of check, some kind of data and statistics on what the Corporation is doing, provided if possible quarterly, certainly half yearly, but not yearly if we are to make this Corporation work. [More…]

• That is the effect I fear on the Australian community. [More…]

• I think it would be to the disadvantage of the community generally Whenever a honourable member of this House has asked me whether T would obtain a copy of a script used on the ABC 1 have been able to obtain it and make it available to him. [More…]

• Tt can be made available to honourable members of this House and they can make their own judgment as to its value or otherwise in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• In March 1970 - and this is a most important aspect of this whole issue - the imposition of new regulations relating to import quotas by European Economic Community countries prompted inquiries in Canberra as to the progress that had been made on this matter. [More…]

• I do not think anybody would disagree with my view that if you derive tremendous earnings from a country area it is pretty raw to put those earnings into a palatial building in a capital city, at the same time contributing nothing towards the housing of the community from which the earnings are derived. [More…]

• But it is necessary to obtain the views of all sections of the community on this matter. [More…]

• If the Queensland Government had the resources to do more I would condemn it for not providing hospital facilities in the town but it has only a certain amount of money and can do only so much, lt is vital that hospital and medical facilities be provided for this community. [More…]

• In a mining community the likelihood of serious accident is greater than it is in other settled inland communities. [More…]

• One might ask how the absence of a permanent Government medical officer affects the community. [More…]

• Is it serious to the community? [More…]

• I believe the whole community and both sides of the Parliament - all political parties - have in large measure neglected what would be their duty to people who are disabled by some form such as deafness and blindness and nearly any other physical disability. [More…]

• But the Australian Press, because of its monopolisitc control of the forms of information, has a duty to the community. [More…]

• One factor, I think, is the chronic and constant tendency of the expatriate community of Papua-New Guinea to overreact. [More…]

• In the tragedy surrounding South African sport at the present time there is apparently a complete inability lo see that the decisions made about Basil D’Olivera and Arthur Ashe have had their consequences outside, because the expatriate community is cut off from the mainstream of world thought. [More…]

• Then Sir Hugh Foot went through, recommending a parliament of 100 and various other changes; another bombshell went through the expatriate community. [More…]

• One would have thought that by now they would realise that these are passing things and that the Papua-New Guinea community is evolving like other communities and that they should stop lacerating the nerves of the indigenous community with their infantile reactions to every criticism that is made of anything that is up there. [More…]

• I said to him: ‘Mr Lussick, one of the things I feel that the indigenous members of the House of Assembly should be doing, instead of being encouraged to be roads and bridges members all the time, is to get around the community with a positive intention of creating national unity. [More…]

• But with the interpretation placed on these things owing to taut nerves, and sometimes elaborated upon by expatriate members of the Parliament or expatriates in the community, does have an effect on the indigenes. [More…]

• Ever since the Foot mission the United Nations has been depicted by expatriates to the indigenous community as something sinister. [More…]

• They can be employees of an organisation, members of the same church, union or lodge, or residents of a well-defined community area. [More…]

• It represents only the wealthy sector of the community. [More…]

• It stands by the wealthy sector of the community and will not give the credit unions a fair go. [More…]

• The 1955 Committee considered that no section of the community should receive as an allowance for expenses any sum which was statutorily exempt from tax, and recommended that, in addition to the basic salary of 2,350 to be paid to each senator and member, electorate allowances should be paid … [More…]

• In short, we believe the recommended rates would help Members generally to do a better job for the community. [More…]

• The section goes on to provide that certain matters, such as community of interest, shall be given consideration. [More…]

• I would like to quote a finding by the 1959 Committee of Inquiry: lt is contrary to the interests of the community that members of its Parliament should be underpaid to the point of financial embarrassment. [More…]

• What moral, let alone legal, right does a community have of disposing of its wastes in the water without considering how this will affect the millions of people living along the shores? [More…]

• Despite the fact that there are elements in the community who consider that universities get perhaps more than their just due and that the ultimate provision of full time accommodation for university students is something which perhaps we could do better without, I commend the present trend. [More…]

• These halls provide the opportunity for them not so much to take part in community affairs, although so many of them do - they are not for the minority who take part in excessive university dissent, and they are very much the minority - but they are places where students are taught to think and to question and, if necessary, to dissent and raise problems. [More…]

• But I would suggest that the gaining of a degree is not necessarily the measure of the education of the individual and that many who have failed to finish but who have essayed this part time activity are much better suited for the community because of it. [More…]

• The fact that the recipient and holder of money has, on the one hand, taken over a legal claim against the issuer of the money and, on the other hand, acquired an economic claim against the rest of the community lo be honoured, when he so desires, in goods, services, or other titles to wealth, has been the source of perennial bafflement and endless twattle. [More…]

• The ‘loan’ to the legal debtor and the Moan’ lo the community implied in the exchange of present for future goods or services have rarely been separted wilh sufficient clarity in the students’ thinking. [More…]

• It is not that there is any limit to the capacity to generate credit, but unless there are some limits set on its generation, the real value of those who own assets, those who own money or those who have claims on the existitng levels of activity in the community will be destroyed. [More…]

• I think the difficulty is that it has taken us a long time to accept within a community that a lot of redistribution can be done by taxation, by control with the total volume of credit and by other devices. [More…]

• Moreover, any sales which are made to the Fund will put gold at the service of the international community at large, in contrast with the past 10 years when it was frequently used as a weapon in the diplomatic war between France and the United States. [More…]

• The community may rest assured that the Committee is confident that the cordial co-operation which has existed will continue and that this legislation will benefit the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Areas which require its urgent attention are: Firstly, an examination of the economics of the competitive elements in the industry, which are unique and costly to the Australian Capital Territory; secondly, the supervision of the vending sector to enable it to re-organise uneconomic milk runs, allocate runs in the new suburbs, mediate between the vendors and the milk supply companies, and deal with the complaints of householders against individual vendors; thirdly, the establishment of machinery for close liaison with the New South Wales Government and all other bodies which have influence over supplies of milk entering the Australian Capital Territory; fourthly, the rationalisation of the distribution sector through the introduction of one brand zoning, because, bearing in mind the excellent quality of milk supplied at present to Canberra households, the community simply cannot afford the cost of the type of competition which in some instances involves 2 vendors following each other along a street; fifthly, the introduction of a system of tokens for payments by householders, which would virtually eliminate thefts common to the industry throughout Australia and with them the costly accounting systems used by vendors and would also benefit the community through facilitating alterations in price of less than lc a pint. [More…]

• One of the advantages that I hope will come from the building of this railway is that it will attract light industries to Whyalla which are capable of employing women and so give the whole area, which is after all in a bit of an isolated pocket of South Australia, a more balanced economy, lt would certainly help to make people in the area more contented, which makes for the building of a better community. [More…]

• Our schools are not adequately equipped to draw out the abilities of youth because the community is largely indifferent to them. [More…]

• It has long been known, and more recently recognised in the community, that considerable capital stands in university and allied tertiary buildings, and perhaps others, outside the offices of research workers and other people of that kind and that often they are not used very much. [More…]

• There is an increasing tendency in the community to use them more, to recognise that some of the halls and lecture theatres may be used by associated, affiliated or interested public bodies which have some interest in those buildings. [More…]

• I think that the average university student who is paying his own way, certainly at the Australian National University, would be costing the community more than the average teacher going through the Victorian Teachers College. [More…]

• It is time we turned our attention to the adults in the community who would like to enter the teaching service. [More…]

• I refer to the women in the community, in particular the married women. [More…]

• The statistics show that this is the largest and greatest area of intellectual wastage in the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course teachers play their part in the community like anyone else, but in some ways I believe that teaching offers more threats of isolation from the general thread of the community and the intellectual stimulus that flows in other professions than are found in most other faculties. [More…]

• This concern relates to law and order in (he community, to discipline and to leadership. [More…]

• Committees of the Parliament accessible to the public and to outside witnesses, appointed from time to time, may well tend to allay grievances in the community and, I believe, increase respect for Parliament and intelligent use of Parliament. [More…]

• But I do say this much: Firstly, the method of election of the Senate is apt to leave half of that body well behind current community views which this House alone can accurately reflect; and, secondly, the Senate already has too much power as opposed ro responsibility. [More…]

• ft is very easy to say these sorts of things but let us face up to the fact that Bundaberg is a very highly developed community. [More…]

• Gordon Chenery, and the team of fellows who got together, organised their community and showed the Government that they really meant business. [More…]

• The entire community was involved. [More…]

• As to the International Sugar Agreement, the countries of the European Economic Community did not sign it. [More…]

• The thoroughness of the survey covering the Bundaberg Region must satisfy the Lower Burnett Community as it realises upon examination how well all phases of the major irrigation scheme have been investigated and the conclusion whereby the report declares “That there is a significant degree of urgency for provision of the Stage 1 of the Bundaberg Irrigation Scheme. [More…]

• Ex-servicemen have the same access as other citizens to avenues of housing finance available in the community. [More…]

• He was very well respected in the Ballaarat community as a devoted family man and as a leader of the Anglican church. [More…]

• Did Dr Han Suyin, an exponent of the view that the People’s Republic of China has a rightful place in the world community, appear on the ABC’s ‘Guest of Honour’ programme on 3rd May 1970? [More…]

• There may be a mistaken view within the House and also in the community that the radio and television licence fees which are charged are adequate for the financing of the ABC. [More…]

• Total circumstances within the community, economic and otherwise, change. [More…]

• Because the whole community says that Australia is the driest continent, irrigation automatically is considered to be good. [More…]

• The project was considered on economic as well as regional community grounds. [More…]

• However, I say that the economic aspect as well as the regional community aspect are considered and were considered in this case. [More…]

• There are some admirable features in this Bill because it moves into an area where clearly there is a grave need for community provision, need on a much greater scale than we have seen so far. [More…]

• The needs and priorities of the community have not been established and indeed are being ignored because of this piecemeal way in which the Government approaches social welfare. [More…]

• This sort of cynical standard ought to be rejected, and we ought to have identified and clearly established the social welfare priorities and needs of the community. [More…]

• I will not take the point any further at this stage, but the community could completely recast its approach to this important topic. [More…]

• I cannot expect that he alone will change the situation in relation to resources for private members, but he can do something about seeing that reports are produced regularly on aspects of social welfare policy or on social welfare needs in the community. [More…]

• We are seeking an involvement of each of the tiers of Government, and we are also seeking to mobilise and co-operate with each of these the private agencies which are presently in existence in the community. [More…]

• Let us appreciate just how much this represents in a loss of productivity in the community - this degree of non-productive work force that is out of action - and how much it represents in loss to the community because the rest of the community which is productive has to provide a surplus or to set aside a reserve to maintain these people. [More…]

• With the Federal Government providing money, as it ought to if it accepts its moral responsibility, we might be able to get beyond the obnoxious practice of conducting lengthy telethons, beauty parades with the sort of values which they represent - not the most desirable, I believe, in a tolerant community which is concerned about people’s human qualities rather than physical qualities, which can be deceiving anyway. [More…]

• This is not the way, based on charity, in which to look after those in the community who are unfortunate and who have a greater disadvantage than the rest of us. [More…]

• The situation of handicapped children has been well known to exist in the community for a long time. [More…]

• Yet the mildly retarded person can be absorbed into the community after adequate schooling. [More…]

• Is there in fact adequate schooling provided throughout the community? [More…]

• There certainly is in some areas, but what about throughout the community? [More…]

• If the diagnosis is made earlier, a more adequate arrangement can be made for the services which will be required in the community. [More…]

• I do not care who has the power just as long as the responsibilities are discharged in our community and that the job which has to be done for the Australian public is done. [More…]

• Mental retardation is a widespread problem in our community. [More…]

• Talking about a subsidy of $2 for every $1 of capital expenditure or of expenditure on special equipment is not the way to get an informed attitude on the nature and extent of mental retardation in the community. [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…]

• Does anyone believe that a student or a Commonwealth public servant would learn much in 3 or 4 days about this complex field of handicap in the community? [More…]

• It means that we are ignoring a group of people who have a grave and compelling need, one which cannot be ignored morally in this community. [More…]

• What is being provided is gravely inadequate for what is required in the community. [More…]

• One could be astringently critical of the State government for doing this, but on the other hand one must temper one’s criticisms with the appreciation that the tasks and responsibilities foisted on the State governments today are far beyond the financial resources available to them and that these challenges and these responsibilities can be adequately discharged only by the Federal Government to the satisfaction of the community and as a measurement of the humanitarianism which motivates our society. [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…]

• It is essential that those handicapped physically or mentally are helped early in life to reach a level of independence and become self-respecting adults able to play a productive role in the community. [More…]

• Many of them, if helped, will become adjusted members of our community. [More…]

• But the high and rising costs of day to day running expenses need to be watched by Commonwealth and State governments to ensure that voluntary organisations are not too heavily overloaded in trying to carry out an essential service for the handicapped in our community. [More…]

• The best measure of true civilisation is the standard of social care of the citizens and, perhaps above all else, the manner whereby the community cares for those who, least of all, can maintain their rights and make their claim valid - the mentally ill and deficient. [More…]

• This is the true measure by which a community’s progress and degree of civilisation can be determined. [More…]

• People are beginning to realise that this is not only the responsibility of parents but is a community responsibility that we all must bear. [More…]

• We need to awaken the people to their community responsibility. [More…]

• Indeed, the need for residential accommodation for these people is very great, lt could be lessened if a range of community services were available to help these families to keep a child at home. [More…]

• Such community services could include visiting social workers, physiotherapists, teacher and speech therapist services, financial assistance to the family whose child’s condition requires this, a home help service - especially with trained personnel - and a visiting nursing service for the very young and for the bedridden or almost totally dependent child. [More…]

• I am informed that today the Home not only operates a sheltered workshop for its more retarded school leavers but that last year it placed 29 of its young people in the work force in the community. [More…]

• The result of these successes - and these are only the beginning - is that more people will be able to make a contribution to the work force whereas otherwise they would have been a direct charge on the community. [More…]

• What is the incidence of afflicted people, in the community? [More…]

• The raising of money, as the honourable member for Hughes has said, has indeed been a very difficult task, lt has not been easy influencing service organisations and other interested people into supporting this very important and vital work in our community. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned it is essential to have community involvement. [More…]

• This does not mean that we must inflict every unfortunate parent with the task of raising money by way of fetes and door knock campaigns just in order to preserve this mystical quality of community involvement. [More…]

• Community involvement can still occur while at the same time we insist that the Government fulfils its full responsibility to handicapped children. [More…]

• It is very difficult in the present circumstances to get the staff needed for the medical requirements of the community throughout this country today. [More…]

• If you happen to be lucky enough to be born with money that is good and you will continue as an affluent member of society, but if you are unfortunate enough to be mentally retarded that is just the way the cards tumble and you will continue in that unfortunate position without much assistance from the community. [More…]

• I remember some years ago hearing the Minister for Slipping and Transport (Mr Sinclair), who was then Minister for Social Services, say in a ‘Four Corners’ television programme that it was not the responsibility of a government to look after the needy; it was up to the community to do so. [More…]

• They, want to opt out as much as possible in this field because if the community accepts full responsibility there must be an increase- in taxes. [More…]

• So the Government throws the responsibility on the community. [More…]

• The Government says: Let the community look after them, we will give a little here and there. [More…]

• The honourable member tor Bendigo said that the Government seems terrified lest it upset all those wonderful souls in the community who are raising money for charity. [More…]

• There is so much to be done in the community. [More…]

• If care of the physically and mentally handicapped were removed from the realm of community involvement, fund raising activities could be channelled into the areas where they are sorely needed. [More…]

• In a community there is a basis of need. [More…]

• We must accept the fact that if the Government were to accept responsibility for caring for the physically and mentally handicapped there still would be plenty for the community service organisations to do. [More…]

• There still would be plenty for those good souls in the community - God bless them - to do. [More…]

• lt does not pay regard, nor could it, to the hundreds and thousands of small fund raising activities in every community - the bottle drives, the barbecues, the rallies. [More…]

• With the help of voluntary labour, and once again depending on that good old stand-by, the community service organisations - in this case the Gosford Lions, Apex and Rotary Clubs - the organisation was able to build on the 3-acre grant of land its first permanent home. [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…]

• This is one of the most important sections of those who are disadvantaged in our community today.’ [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…]

• The strong evidence is that the States have not shirked their responsibility in this regard, though an untoward extension of State taxation can have undesirable community effects, apart from the increased severity of the levies. [More…]

• They simply cite these as the sort of difficult situation which faces them., a community that is growing in numbers and in costs,, and they are- dependent on a static formula for reimbursement. [More…]

• As a consequence the Commonwealth for the most part was able to float its loans at a lower interest rate than, for example, the semi-government and other bodies in the community. [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…]

• The main trouble that the dairying industry faces, as has been mentioned tonight, is the difficulty of competing on world markets, which have their prices gravely affected by the quite extravagant price support programmes of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The second is to enable those who remain in primary industry to earn a living commensurate with that of the rest of the community without becoming a perpetual and an increasing burden on the taxpayer. [More…]

• The welding together of a practical approach involving considerations of scientific advances which, these days, can make possible efficiency if there is an economic basis, together with considerations of community welfare give us the spectacle of an industry that concerns people; and people are the concern of this Parliament. [More…]

• On the other hand, a dairy farmer buying a dairy farm alongside his could increase the overall production of butter which at the present time is so overproduced in the world that we have 350,000 tons of it in store in the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• I think it is acknowledged within the Australian community today that leakages do occur in many areas, and in relation to this particular matter that has been under discussion in the public area I said that there was a leakage. [More…]

• The effects of this change will also flow into so many areas with which we are connected in our community life. [More…]

• Of our young people today I think it is completely true to say that the majority accept their responsibilities and are playing their part as citizens in the community. [More…]

• If there is any doubt about this I would point to the fact that within our community we have Apex clubs in which young people are doing something within the community. [More…]

• We should realise that the majority of young people are accepting responsibility as did their forefathers and are making a contribution to the community life of this nation. [More…]

• One can understand that this is only publicity and that the great majority of young people working normally and behaving normally in community life are not news. [More…]

• He said that he recognised that quotas are having a disastrous effect on all sections of the rural community. [More…]

• That is a pretty sad remark for a man who purports to be a representative of a rural community to make - ‘how many people did the honourable member report?’. [More…]

• End of season stocks in the 5 major exporting countries - the United States of America, Australia, Canada, the European Economic Community and Argentina - fell from 60 million tons in 1958-59 to about 33 n, 11ion tons in 1965-66, but they were back to 62 million Ions in 1968-69. [More…]

• But if there is one section of the wheal growing community in this country that is suffering grave hardship as a result of the position in which I hey are placed today, it is the people . [More…]

• I want also to congratulate the Government and the Minister for Primary Industry on showing the same courage in taking what were no doubt in some quarters - and this has been proved - unpopular decisions, but they were the right decisions for the welfare of the Australian wheat grower and the Australian community. [More…]

• This is acknowledged noi only in the Austral ail Country Party but across the broad spectrum of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Labor Party thinks that the farmer should be treated no differently from other members of the community. [More…]

• This matter relates to a request that the former honourable member for Riverina, other honourable members of my Parly and I made to the powers that be in an endeavour to get them to erect more community wheat storages. [More…]

• We believe that the burden should be spread over the whole community and should not fall entirely on the people who cannot afford to pay this subsidy. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that end of season stocks in the 5 major exporting countries or areas - the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Argentina and the European Economic Community - which had fallen under the old International Wheat Agreement price structure from 60 million tons in 1958-59 to about 33 million tons in 1965-66 climbed back again to 62 million tons in 1968-69? [More…]

• Those countries were Australia, Canada, the United States of America, Argentine and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Canada, the United States of America, Argentine and the European Economic Community - figures showed that last year stock holdings of wheat went up by about 900 million bushells, an increase of almost 50%, to well over 2,000 million bushels. [More…]

• We are in the same position as the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Every sector of the community is being affected, which is causing hardship and distress. [More…]

• Masterman, of Sydney, advocated the establishmentof a Federal companies commissionto supervise the activities of companies,less secrecy in the operations of the Commonwealth Trade Practices Act, the right of a private complainant to approach the trade practices tribunal, some form of national control over mergers, urgent and detailed scrutiny of restrictive business practices such as resale price maintenance, and Government support for consumer associations, and claimed that in overseas coun tries legislation designed to protect the community went much further than in Australia. [More…]

• If there were no arbitration commission I fear that the community would descend into a state of outright collective bargaining. [More…]

• by leave - On 2nd June I. undertook to make a statement about the activities .of a group known as the Warmaram group which is trying to bring about reconciliation among the Tolai community in the Gazelle Peninsula. [More…]

• Under the existing set-up; the States create authorities to provide the services basic to every modern civilised community, and then leave them to fend for themselves. [More…]

• During these 2 decades chaos has continued to grow in specific sectors of our community - in education, housing, roads, health and hospitalisation. [More…]

• We believe that the soldier is in a different position from the rest of the community. [More…]

• The serviceman when he enlists accepts a duty to the community which is in no way comparable to the kind of duty accepted by anyone else in the community, even excluding the police forces and such other services. [More…]

• But his is a total, absolute and unqualified commitment to the community. [More…]

• If a citizen accepts a total and absolute commitment to the community then the community has to accept a total and absolute commitment in return. [More…]

• But even on the actuarial considerations I do not believe we give the serviceman the same deal that we give to the rest of the community so far as superannuation funds are concerned. [More…]

• Recently the average wage or income of the community was stated to be $60 or $70 a week. [More…]

• So the serviceman is receiving a lower rate of pay having regard to the general standards in the community. [More…]

• lt is the responsibility of all of us to make the community aware of the true situation so lh:tt young people are not misled. [More…]

• I would not undertake to support for one moment his suggestion that we should become a static community, and I am surprised to hear it from a member of the Opposition. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the whole community supported the Labor Party at that time in its denunciation of the effort of the Government to use this Parliament simply as a rubber stamp for the Executive? [More…]

• I think apart from actually hearing one’s own viewpoint put in the chamber, various groups in the community are entitled to expect their representative to stand up and speak about the legislation under consideration. [More…]

• The Government is sympathetic to this argument and has been ever since the Nimmo Committee submitted its view that Queensland’s policy gives full effect to the Commonwealth objective of affording the community adequate financial protection against the cost of hospital treatment. [More…]

• The decisions of the Government are evidence of its determination to improve the health benefits plan in all its aspects as well as its wish to have this Bill passed speedily and given royal assent so that needless delay does not occur before increased benefits are payable to those in the community who incur expenses on medical treatment. [More…]

• Even more we cannot tolerate the discrimination against patients in the community who have to have spectacles prescribed. [More…]

• We could not see the argument that this was an improvement for the general population when what was proposed was to make health insurance tremendously more expensive to the public purse and considerably more expensive to the contributor without in any way radically affecting in a positive sense the efficiency of health insurance in the community. [More…]

• lt was alleged that Queensland is disadvantaged as compared with other States due to its adherence over the years to a policy of free public hospitalisation At this point, the Government is sympathetic to this argument and has been ever since the Nimmo Committee submitted its view that Queensland’s policy gives full effect to the Commonwealth objective of affording the community adequate financial protection aganst the cost of hospital treatment. [More…]

• I raised this question earlier in the course of my discussion: Whom are we serving in the community? [More…]

• The Minister’s estimated cost of doing this was$2m, which is an extremely small amount of money when one considers that the Government’s Budget allocations amount to about $7,000m a year and that the total amount of wealth created in the community stands at about $27,000m. [More…]

• The Bill is referred to as a National Health Bill but it ignores all the ancillary services such as para-medical services, including optometry, and medical services such as ophthalmology, and tries to perpetuate some sort of myth in the community. [More…]

• i can only hope (hat an annoyed community will take up the case that has been put to the Parliament by members of the Opposition. [More…]

• If these diseases are detected when the patient seeks glasses then a very great deal can be done to reduce the incidence of blindness in the Australian community. [More…]

• Again, careful consideration was given to the terms of reference and the Bill is based on the belief that the Corporation can fit very effectively into the present structure and can carry out a very useful task in the community with the same high standard of efficiency that has been exercised in the past. [More…]

• This, of course, is an arrangement that was decided on as one of the best means of fitting the organisation into the community activity in which it will have to function. [More…]

• Those charged with recruiting engineers to the Commonwealth Public Service today must have an uneasy conscience, lt is their duly to convince graduates that they should join the CPS when they know that the graduate would have a much more rewarding career elsewhere, lt is the responsibility of all of tis to make the community aware of the true situation so that young people are not misled. [More…]

• No doubt action was taken because those in the community who were afforded the opportunity of inspecting the project were high in their praise of the scheme. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (The Minister for Education and Science has provided information in respect of community and private schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• But because of the superphosphate bounty last year the increase in costs to the farming community dropped back to 1.9% per annum. [More…]

• The gross indebtedness to all lending institutions of the farming community now amounts to $2,000m. [More…]

• Today too small a percentage of the return from wool is finding its way back into the farming community, because of which the farming community is depressed and its purchasing power is extremely reduced. [More…]

• In addition business interests within the farming community are also affected. [More…]

• The chain reaction of this influence is widespread and others throughout the community begin to suffer. [More…]

• It is no earthly good members of the Country Party continuing throughout the length and breadth of Australia to tell the rural community that it is in dire straits or that the wool industry should do this or that about its problems. [More…]

• They must recognise in their more honest moments that if they conscientiously represent the rural community they are in a far better position to remove some of the unfair burdens that those in the rural community are now expected to carry. [More…]

• I would hate to see a division between the rural community in Australia on the one hand and the urban and city community on the other. [More…]

• They must not create a clash within the community. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that what the Government is seeking to do is to place members of Parliament on an equal basis in regard to superannuation- -with every, other section of the community, particularly retired public servants and retired members of the Defence forces? [More…]

• Is it not a fact that members of Parliament constitute the only section of the community who have their superannuation rates halved if they accept an office of profit under the Crown? [More…]

• There are in the community a wide range of professions, of contributing workers, skilled and unskilled, of management and technologists. [More…]

• Some recognition by the Government of this special area would be necessary because many other forms of employment in the professional field, semi professional field, shop keepers and various related services that go to make this area an economic community are to be found there. [More…]

• They came buck as community leaders and farm leaders. [More…]

• Because the community is so clearly indicating its wish to be more concerned with the principles and systems of Australian censorship, I decided that I should make a statement to the House on the present censorship position and on the Government’s attitude to a controversial and sometimes emotional matter. [More…]

• The responsibility stems from the Parliament which, in a social matter of this kind must, from time to time, carefully examine the legislation and its application in the light of current community needs; and I remind the House that the regulations have stood on the statute book, in virtually the same form, since Federation. [More…]

• indeed, all social and cultural matters affecting the community at large, against conditions and attitudes as they are, at the particular time. [More…]

• However, community standards are broadening at a slower rate than the rate of permissiveness, not only in content but in themes attempted. [More…]

• A great deal has been done in recent times to keep the censorship system up to date and to ensure that not only the wishes of the community are satisfied but also that art forms in Australia are not unnecessarily inhibited. [More…]

• The membership of the Board is broadly based so that the views of a wide variety of community interests are represented. [More…]

• These concessions are open to argument because it may appear that special privileges are being granted to a small section of the community. [More…]

• The criteria emphasis has been ‘shifted from ‘the tendency to deprave and corrupt’ to the community standards, which is the tacit involvement of the community. [More…]

• With so much discussion about the subject today it seems fairly clear that there are many misconceptions on this subject in relation to its needs and the benefits or otherwise which it gives to a community. [More…]

• I have no doubt that when his statement receives publicity he will receive abundant mail from various members of the community indicating their attitudes one way or the other. [More…]

• I am interested to see in his statement that he hopes to open up the processes of censorship in the community. [More…]

• Again, just how well qualified are the censors in the community? [More…]

• It indicates in my opinion that there is a need for better informed people and more realistic procedures than has been the case, at least on some occasions in the past, to handle this important area of the community’s civil liberties, of its right to express itself and to inform itself. [More…]

• I can never understand why in the Australian community we are so frightened of ideas. [More…]

• When one gets into this area of complete ridiculousness which affects the rights of the people in the community, then one must pose a grave question about the censorship which exists in the community. [More…]

• As the Minister has indicated, we have become less restrictive in applying censorship in the community. [More…]

• The quality of intellectual behaviour in the community is much higher than it has ever been, just as in 10 years time it will be even higher than it is today. [More…]

• No evidence exists that people were undermined, that their morality was completely destroyed, or that the fibre of this community was sapped because these books were available. [More…]

• These art prints and the ‘ABZ of Love’ have been available and in circulation in the community for some time and there is no evidence that they have destroyed people’s moral standards. [More…]

• I can remember the Sunday ‘Truth’ in Queensland a few years ago writing about the ‘Kama Sutra’ and saying that only one volume was available in Queensland and that volume was locked away in the vault of the public library and only those authorised - there were very few of them - such as research students in some fields of social medicine were allowed to see it because any ordinary member of the community would be so enraged that he could not be trusted in the general community. [More…]

• Since censorship on sexual matters has been lifted in that community there is in fact no evidence to relate exposure to these matters to an upsurge in sexual behaviour. [More…]

• I believe it ought to be made available in our community. [More…]

• These associations differentiate between the problems specifically concerned with war service land settlers on the one hand and the general farming community on the other hand. [More…]

• I have replied to Mr Keys, the National Secretary of the Returned Services League stating that the Commonwealth was not able to agree to the proposal, mainly on the ground that the recipients for reestablishment benefits would gain an advantage far greater than that offered exservicemen who might be re-established in other areas of the community. [More…]

• As you are doubtless aware, I am vitally interested in any matter relating to the farming community and look very sympathetically on any proposal made to me for its welfare. [More…]

• Honourable members can see that there is no attempt made by these funds to have the average cross-section of the community represented on their directorates. [More…]

• At the same time we are giving him a protection, a safeguard and a right that is denied every other reputable member of the community associated with the handling of public funds. [More…]

• There is tremendous anxiety throughout the community about the way that the by-law system is operating. [More…]

• Proposals for a change in tariff policy were advocated recently by the Tariff Board and certain other sections of the community. [More…]

• He referred to the European Economic Community countries, Japan, even Great Britain, and the United States. [More…]

• It is a remarkable compliment to our farming community that ii has succeeded in increasing production substantially when faced with such disabilities. [More…]

• But the whole point of having a Tariff Board is so that the Government can get expert and impartial advice on the relative benefit and cost to the community of protecting industry. [More…]

• It has always seemed axiomatic to me that an industry requiring a high rate of protection - a rate that is high by Australian standards - will impose correspondingly higher costs to the community than another with a lower protective requirement. [More…]

• The Board’s approach recognises that activities which by Australian standards, are highly protected will tend to be less economic to undertake in Australia than activities which require a relatively low level of protection because the cost of such activities to the community is likely to be high in relation to the benefits gained by die community from having such activities. [More…]

• The Government recognises that in cases involving relatively high protection the benefits have to be weighed very carefully against the possible effects on other industries and the community generally. [More…]

• Once we honour our obligations in this matter there will come to all of us, as Australians the satisfaction that we belong to a society which refuses to shirk the responsibility which a rich and highly developed community surely owes to the dependants of people whose lives are cut short in the course of their employment. [More…]

• responsible for the inflationary tendencies in the community. [More…]

• My own Department does not have a study for the purpose of attracting women into the work force, lt realises the reality of the situation which is that for social reasons and because of community attitudes more women are going into the work force. [More…]

• Therefore we have to deal with the problems for them and for the community which are created by their entry into the work force. [More…]

• The Committee believes that the solution is a matter of comprehensive urban planning to ensure continued benefit from a thriving air transport industry whilst still having due regard to the well being and welfare of the community which it serves. [More…]

• In the case of the Canberra Community Hospital we noted that sundry debtors for patient fees had increased from about $425,000 in May 1968 to more than $531,600 in June 1969. [More…]

• Does it represent a burden being imposed on one section of the community? [More…]

• It has long been obvious that arbitration foi minimum payments and bargaining for ove award payments must co-exist in this community [More…]

• This is a powerful section of the community. [More…]

• The arbitration system deals with questions on which the community as a whole is divided into 2 camps. [More…]

• That increase was arbitrarily imposed upon the Australian community. [More…]

• We are not seeking a process of law but a system of arrangements between people who perform different functions in the community. [More…]

• We impose upon one area of the community sanctions that we do not impose upon other areas. [More…]

• The Attorney-General talks about sanctions as though the law embodied some implied duty to the community. [More…]

• He is implying that some parts of the community - in this case the workers in industry who happen to be in an industrial dispute - have a duly to the community. [More…]

• It is against the general attitude of the Australian community. [More…]

• The community as a whole - the leader writers in the newspapers and all sorts of peoples - rejects the suggestion that we have a right to force people in this community to work. [More…]

• In other words, the Government is saying that one particular group of people have a duty to the community; they have a duty to work. [More…]

• We believe that each side has its equal rights and neither of them shall be transcended by the rights of the community in this instance. [More…]

• I do not know what the answer is and I suppose most people in the community - large employers and so on - do not know what the answers are: but one of them is the working conditions; another is security; another is the actual salary or wage involved. [More…]

• When I turn up at a large industrial establishment to a political meeting called by the shop stewards I find the men who do the work and make the profits for the employers have to sit outside on the ground and in the dust, I am affronted on their behalf and on behalf of the community. [More…]

• When people who are treated in an undignified manner and are asked to work in conditions that are a denial of the standard of life we expect in this community strike against governments or owners or anyone else in these matters, I am on their side, as I believe a large section of the Australian community also to be. [More…]

• It is understood that concessions continue to be available in respect of a substantial number of accounts conducted by community service and educational organisations including parents and citizens’ associations. [More…]

• Did the 1960 Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works in its report on the new Main Hospital Block at the Canberra Community Hospital recommend that a study of domiciliary service should be made to determine whether it should be introduced in Canberra. [More…]

• The findings contained in the paper were accepted by the Minister who conveyed these by letter to the Chairman of the Canberra Community Hospital Board. [More…]

• That the Government endorse, as a basic minimum, the 5 years residential land development programme of the National Capital Development Commission, and that funds be provided to finance any acceleration of this programme found physically possible, in consonance with the provision of essential community services. [More…]

• The Commission endeavours to meet all requests for speakers; in the past year over 30 addresses dealing with nuclear power have been given to community organisations, clubs and professional groups, and others are scheduled. [More…]

• In five instances commercial and community support is involved with that of the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Two new services are to be introduced as part of our programme for meeting the changing postal needs of the business community, government organisations, and the general public. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, the Post Office is an integral part of the community and is subject to the same pressures in relation to wage variations, increasing costs of services, materials and so on. [More…]

• There can hardly be disagreement that prices generally in the community have an upward trend, and the consumer price index reflects this. [More…]

• I have had a look at some individual charges for well-known services in the community and find a similar pattern of increase over the past 10 years. [More…]

• It may be of interest to the honourable member that social workers of the Repatriation Department have been attending inter-agency discussions arranged by the Hanover Centre with a view to finding an alternative to Gordon House, a community problem of which welfare agencies in general are well aware. [More…]

• On the other hand, it must be fairly clear that should the measure not be passed then those who voted against it would be placing the States in an entirely untenable position and would be attacking the capacity of the States to carry out their responsibilities for schools, hospitals, roads and the other things which the community wants, and that would obviously require responsible people to see whether such irresponsibility could be repaired. [More…]

• Not only have the rights of the accused to be protected but the rights of the community must surely take some place in the judge’s mind. [More…]

• Is this Government to sit back and wait until Britain joins the European Economic Community before it acts to protect our rural industries? [More…]

• If there is one sector cf the Australian community which is putting an impost on primary producers it is the leaders of the industrial unions, who seem to call on strikes at any time. [More…]

• However, all I am saying is that the problems of the farming community are hard to resolve. [More…]

• As a community we have to get to work and ascertain what kind of model reconstruction scheme we ought to have. [More…]

• The demand of the young was in particular for a political system that would create and preserve the individuality of man and the sense of community among men. [More…]

• The question of the effect on Commonwealth countries of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community is gaining in importance. [More…]

• There we will see whether we cannot build up through regional association moves towards new federations through, for instance, CARIFTA- the Caribbean Free Trade Association - and the East African Community. [More…]

• First of all, whether we accept it or not, Canberra is regarded by the community in general as something of a white elephant. [More…]

• Whether the Labor Party is in government or whether it is the Liberal Party which is in government, the performance of Parliament will very largely be measured by the community on the ability of Parliament to put through timely legislation - not 2 years too late or 6 months too late, but at a time when it should be passed. [More…]

• Let me say also that 1 am a member of an organisation in my electorate called South Sydney Community Aid. [More…]

• There is no really reliable way of determining mortality rates in Western Australia for the Aboriginal section of the community since the basic data are absent. [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…]

• That in view of the crisis envisaged in the supply of trained dentists to provide a denial service to the Australian community the Commonwealth Government should, through the Australian Universities Coinmission, give high priority to forward planning for dental education. [More…]

• While I appreciate the position in the community of Rural Youth in Australia I am sorry that I am unable to meet this request for the issue of a special stamp. [More…]

• There can be no question that action of this kind can in no way advance the interests of the community in general or of that section of the community which the ACTU purports to represent, but can only cause loss and damage in a senseless way. [More…]

• The community will lose the production of goods and services. [More…]

• As a result of that the community of Australia was subjected to the wtihdrawal of services and the added costs for a sheer political motive. [More…]

• In 1967 there was a motion to disallow the ACT Freehold Land (Subdivision and Use) Ordinance, the Canberra Community Hospital Ordinance and the Canberra Community Hospital Ordinance (No. [More…]

• Is it the executive suite of the bourgeoisie in the Australian community or is it an organisation that does something on behalf of the Australian public? [More…]

• Its purpose was mainly to assist the Kalgoorlie community which has been heavily dependent on gold mining. [More…]

• Under the Common Agricultural Policy, the Community decides what shall be the price for locally produced foodstuffs such as butter, or sugar, or wheat of a certain grade. [More…]

• Wherever the Community itself, under the incentive of high support prices, produces sufficient for its own requirements, importation of these items is not possible. [More…]

• As Australia has never had an important trade with the present Six countries of the Community, this system has not hurt us significantly up to the present. [More…]

• To inform the House and the country of what I think might be done by Australia to safeguard our trade as much as possible, in the event of British entry to the European Economic Community, is the purpose of this statement. [More…]

• The floor prices to Community producers bear no relationship to the cost of production by more competitive producers elsewhere in the world. [More…]

• This subsidy is paid for collectively by the Community in a manner that does not reduce in any way the return to the farmer. [More…]

• But there is no general willingness of the Community countries to confine themselves to normal competition. [More…]

• For example, 1 am told that Community butter is being offered, delivered in Hong Kong, at as low as 20 Australian cents per lb - a price which would represent about 17 Australian cents at the point of export in Europe. [More…]

• Furthermore, the Community has not shown any great willingness to contribute to stability of international trade in agriculture by participation in international commodity arrangements. [More…]

• The Community sat in throughout the negotiations of the world Sugar Agreement but the EEC, alone of all participants - if my memory serves me correctly, about 70 - declined at the final point to commit itself to the concept of any limitation or quota as to the quantity that it would sell on world markets - and this notwithstanding that the quantity which each country committed itself not to exceed in world markets was the whole central point of achieving price stability in sugar. [More…]

• Similarly, when, a year ago, the International Grains Arrangement was close to failure in providing stability of competition in wheat in world markets, the Community was the only exporter member which sent a representative to a conference without any authority to enter into commitments. [More…]

• Australia’s trade has been traditionally with Britain, not with the Six of the present European Community. [More…]

• Indeed, I was told overseas that if the present total applications for association and special arrangements were to succeed there would be some 70 nations involved within the Community trading orbit. [More…]

• If the Ten countries join it would represent a trading community of 250 million people. [More…]

• So 1 say to the House: This is the moment of time, not a moment later, when wc and others should visualise what the European Economic Community could grow into as a trading bloc: the 6 present countries; the 4 present applicants to join as members: Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway; the associated territories, the former French colonies; the special arrangements with Spain, Greece, Turkey, Israel: the possible addition of Austria; the special arrangements, for example, in meat wilh Yugoslavia. [More…]

• There is no single definable source of power within the Community to whom third parties can appeal. [More…]

• The very structure of the Community - composed as it is of 6 - and perhaps 10 - different governments - means that it develops a policy only out of compromise. [More…]

• This I have made clear in each country where I have had discussions about the policies and practices of the Community. [More…]

• I went to Brussels to make clear to the President and members of the European Economic Commission the Australian trade interest as at present affected by predatory dumping of Community surpluses in our markets, and by the progressive extension of what are, in effect, new preferences to those countries which have been given, or may be given, an association with the Community. [More…]

• Most particularly I spelt out in clear terms the consequences for Australia’s historic trade with Britain if the present Common Agricultural Policy were applied in its present terms in the Community enlarged by Britain’s entry. ] [More…]

• It merely carries out its responsibilities to the letter of the existing Common Agricultural Policy regulations as devised and adopted by the Council of Ministers of the six nations compromising the Community. [More…]

• In accordance with GATT, the barriers to trade which determine trade opportunities must be comparable with those which we faced when the Community was created, and before the Common Agricultural Policy was devised. [More…]

• Agreement on action to ensure that the interests of third countries will be protected against predatory dumping of surpluses arising from within the enlarged Community. [More…]

• Action to ensure that exports from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea are not placed at a disadvantage relative to imports into the expanded Community from other developing countries receiving preferential treatment [More…]

• Consequences for Australian Trade of British Entry to the European Economic Community - Ministerial Statement, 20th August 1970. [More…]

• There can be little doubt that he depicts the European Economic Community as a villian and believes that if Britain joins the Common Market she will also become a villain. [More…]

• In my view the greatest threat of the European Economic Community to Australia, and to world trade for that matter, is the crazy agricultural policies which are being followed by the Common Market countries. [More…]

• An important piece of legislation on which there is divergence of opinion in the community is entitled to the respect of the Parliament and the level of the respect it receives and has received in the past from the Ministry. [More…]

• Aircraft using the north/south runway pass over heavily populated areas in the Grayndler Electoral Division and complaints have been received about aircraft noise from individuals and a number of community organisations. [More…]

• Without attempting to minimise the problem, I doubt that the description ‘distress and suffering’ applies as generally tothe community as fa implied in the question. [More…]

• 1 think the honourable member has raised a matter of great importance to the community and one in which the community is greatly concerned. [More…]

• In the present environment that exists in the Australian community this responsible trend is unfortunately being negated. [More…]

• There has been a gradual erosion of this monument of social justice to the not so fortunate in our community. [More…]

• Provision was made in the initial Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement that certain allocations of money had to be spent on recreation and community facilities. [More…]

• Despite the fact that at the time pressure on the nation’s resources was far greater than it could conceivably be considered to be today, provision was made in the recommendations of that report that as a matter of urgent consideration recreation and community facilities should be constructed with housing projects. [More…]

• to examine proposedhousing projects where Commonwealth financial assistance is desired to ensure that the plans comply with Commonwealth standards for town planning, community facilities and housing; [More…]

• In another section of the report dealing with minimum community standards we find that the following provisions recommended in any new housing estate: [More…]

• Community Facilities. [More…]

• Australia has always been looked upon as a community of people who like to have their small plot of land - a quarter of an acre or whatever it may be - and on it have their own homes and so their independence. [More…]

• Nobody likes to see additional costs but in a country developing as rapidly as this one this inflationary pressure is dangerous not only to the housing industry but also to all the other sections of the community. [More…]

• If it were not dampened down the results would be far greater costs not only to the housing industry and those people who, following our tradition, are buying homes but to all other sections of the community as well. [More…]

• I have made many speeches to show that there are large areas of undemocratic practice in this community. [More…]

• He paid the House and the community the compliment of having the Bill circulated before he finally pressed it through the House. [More…]

• The whole democratic system of government is based on the fact that although there are differences of opinion within a community, free elections are held, a government is elected by the majority and the laws that the Parliament passes prevail. [More…]

• Men in our community have, through turmoil and tears, built our reputation as a staunch and reliable ally. [More…]

• There was a public meeting at which the Trades and Labour Council sought the support of a wide range of people throughout the community particularly to assist pensioners in their fight for a pension which would give them a reasonable standard of living. [More…]

• We have heard recently of agitation by certain sections of the community for a greater Australian content in our television programmes. [More…]

• A small station serving a small community and having a small return from advertising during the screening of such a programme should be able to obtain the programme at a figure within its budget. [More…]

• There would seem to me to emerge the need for a body that would be more widely representative of the whole community to view and review, particularly upon submission from a significant group of people, a certain period of programming. [More…]

• It is certainly an amendment which is in keeping with the changes that are taking place in our community because these are days when pensioners and retired persons rely more and more on television and radio for their entertainment. [More…]

• The Gorton Government thought that greed would be allayed by the spectacular gesture of tax cuts; it thought that the wage earners receiving these tax cuts would be so selfish that they would ignore that they were receiving them at the price of rank injustice to all the underprivileged sections of the community. [More…]

• Despite the Prime Minister’s promise, despite the emergence of a new Treasurer, despite a year of work by the Treasury, we are no nearer a real revision of the tax schedules, no nearer justice and equity in personal taxation, no nearer that fairer redistribution of wealth and fairer distribution of burdens which should be one of the prime objects of taxation in an enlightened community. [More…]

• A Liberal Budget indeed: SIO if you are among the top 1%, Si if you are in the middle, and 50c if you are a pensioner utterly dependent on the community for your income. [More…]

• The monetary policy had the same thrust as the fiscal policy as expressed in this Budget - first against the less privileged groups of our community, then with scarcely less force against the modest income groups. [More…]

• It suits Liberals to do this because it is the best way to restrict government expenditure and the best way to reward their friends, it is the best way to represent all government expenditure as a cost to the community. [More…]

• It helps Liberals obscure the truth that government expenditure is, or should be and could be, the community’s own investment in its own prosperity and its own welfare. [More…]

• Money spent on pollution control, because it is government money, is regarded only as a cost while the loss to the community and the community’s productivity and therefore to government revenue through the ill-health that pollution causes is disregarded. [More…]

• The economic cost to the whole community of road chaos is disregarded. [More…]

• One of the most striking illustrations of this point is in that very field of expenditure which is regarded by orthodox Liberals as a deadweight on the community - as a straightout unproductive cost to the revenue. [More…]

• What is involved is not a judgment about cost, but a judgment by the community as a whole about its social and economic priorities - whether it wants dignity and security for its retired members, or whether it wants to continue a system which cuts by two-thirds the income of most people immediately they retire, and whether it wants to continue a system which inflicts the humiliations and hardships highlighted in this Budget. [More…]

• Yet they will not make the other calculations; the other side of the coin - what does the community lose through the poverty cycle, by which the inheritance of the poor is continuing poverty? [More…]

• There can be no adequate understanding of the cost to the community of operating this system as long as we look only at the requirements of the Slate governments and overlook the requirements of the local and semigovernment authorities which the States have created. [More…]

• Under the existing set-up, the States create authorities to provide the services basic to every modern civilised community, and then leave them to fend for themselves. [More…]

• Australians must now appreciate that while in matters such as health and rural industries it would be possible to achieve much better results for the community and for individuals without increase in our present financial outlay, the provision of proper opportunities in education for all Australians is an undertaking which will cost very much more than any government has so far been willing to find. [More…]

• There is throughout the community a very deep resentment against this particular Budget but even that is part of a more deeply felt resentment and uneasiness that has been growing throughout the community for the past 2 years or more. [More…]

• They were simply these: The country had a high rate of growth in real terms; there was present an incipient inflation and we all know that - an inflation which members of the Opposition have sought to ignore, and we will deal with that a little later; there was a promise that significant taxation concessions were wanted and had to be given to the Australian community; and, even more significantly than some of these, the States of the Commonwealth of Australia were to receive, in real terms, greater and more resources than they had ever received in any other period, and a greater increase in those resources. [More…]

• It is wrong and it is inappropriate to consider that all of this increase in taxation was really an extra burden on the Austraiian community. [More…]

• There was obviously a greatly increased number of taxpayers within the Australian community. [More…]

• There is anger in the community with the Budget because of the miserly approach that it makes to the problem of age pensions. [More…]

• The second matter about which there is perhaps not anger but disappointment in the community is this: The Government has fumbled this opportunity to make really effective taxation reform. [More…]

• In a community that has been groaning for years now about the total burden of taxation, to alter the form of taxation that ought to be the crown of the system by giving flat rate concessions all around up to $10,000 per annum seems to me to fly in the face of all the canons of progressive reduction. [More…]

• In a way inflation is the great argument that goes on in the community. [More…]

• I would say that market considerations are being allowed to dominate the community, sometimes almost to the extermination of human aspirations and other such considerations. [More…]

• This is the great problem which besets the community. [More…]

• Over 80% of the community fall within that category. [More…]

• They are taken out of the ground because they are required for manufacture into products which the community wants. [More…]

• How can you blame them for doing this in a community that is still wage oriented as far as the majority of consuming units are concerned? [More…]

• There may be arguments as to the share which each person shall get and there may be arguments as to whether you solve the problems by taking Budget action or banking action but for certain sections of the community these problems have not been solved and in some cases they have not even been examined. [More…]

• T believe that the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) stated the position clearly when he said: ‘What is the use of all this prosperity, of this increase in the gross national product, if part of the community is being denied a share of it?’ [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, as the owner of the airport, is in no different position from any other citizen in the community in that it has an obligation, as has every citizen, to be a good neighbour and not to cause a nuisance. [More…]

• Paragraph 71 of the Committee’s report states that, having regard to the magnitude of the Commonwealth’s investment, currently rising to $85m, and the care taken by the Commonwealth during planning to ensure the maximum possible compatibility of airport operations with the interests of the community, the Committee supports the proposal to use Melbourne airport on a 24-hour basis. [More…]

• To say that Melbourne Airport has to be used on the basis of 24 hours a day because of the large capital investment in it is to imply that we should base all of our operations only on the amount of money which has been expended and not be conscious of the comfort of individuals in the community. [More…]

• I certainly do not think that people who were living in the vicinity before the airport was even planned should now have to suffer.It is not their fault that that was considered the optimum site as far as the whole community was concerned. [More…]

• For that reason everything should be done to mini mise their discomfort or, alternatively, to help them move away from the area at community expense. [More…]

• This is a social responsibility which rests on the whole community. [More…]

• In essence what I am trying to suggest is thatI accept the inevitability of 24-hour flying at international airports but, equally importantly, the community should ensure that people who will suffer because of the noise from the aircraft should be moved at community expense. [More…]

• When my own local government authority became sufficiently concerned about this proposal to let the people know precisely what the effects were the community of about 150,000 rose in their wrath and with such a voluminous roar that the honourable member for Cook (Mr Dobie), who also represents part of this area, was caused to change his attitude, which harboured the idea of an airport in that particular place. [More…]

• As the local government conducted its campaign in opposition to the proposal with simulated aircraft, the relatively indifferent community, as it was initially, rose up and declared: ‘We are not going to have this and the ballot box will be our redress unless we are listened to by our representatives’. [More…]

• There did not seem to be any deviants from the substantial point of view that permeated out of that community through their spokesmen on the local government authority that the people of Keilor to a man did not want the curfew lifted and they certainly did not want this runway extended close to their community. [More…]

• It is not good enough to have a superficial rubber stamping of executive decisions and to have the community following in the wake of people who want to call the tune about these things. [More…]

• When we look at the Committee’s report we find that, if further developments are to lake place on the present site rather than to move elsewhere within the city to the site recommended by the Committee, there would be a cost to the community of $12m over the next 20 years. [More…]

• There is no doubt that it is mainly the business community which uses these facilities. [More…]

• The business community needs to be able to deliver bulk postage to a mail exchange such as this and there would be tremendous opposition if the mail exchange was moved outside the city area. [More…]

• This parcel of land will not be rated and the rest of the community will have to subsidise the facilities being provided. [More…]

• lt is interesting to refer to the hours worked by other people in the community. [More…]

• Something had to be done to make it more difficult for them to keep increasing the costs of those sections of the community who cannot afford to meet those increased costs. [More…]

• Because I am very concerned about the effect of increased prices on the less fortunate in the community and on the rural sector, last week I asked the Prime Minister what action he intended to take to protect these people against unnecessary increases. [More…]

• There is another section of the community which has been treated in a shabby and disgraceful manner. [More…]

• It would do no harm to again draw attention to the fact that the Government has given certain people in the community tax relief of $500 a year when they already have an income of $16,000. [More…]

• The Government is concerned, and justifiably concerned, with the unrest in our community. [More…]

• In the time that I have left in this debate 1 want to raise one or two other matters which are of serious concern to me and which will create and are creating serious problems within the community. [More…]

• I wish to deal with another matter which is of serious consequence to the community. [More…]

• This is a very serious problem in our community. [More…]

• If the Government genuinely wishes to reduce the level of unrest which exists in our community and genuinely wishes to earn the respect of the people of Australia it should cease immediately its politicking with their feelings and try to determine the real cause of the unrest, seek solutions where they are able to be sought and come into this Parliament and tell the nation that it is tackling the problems of the nation in a responsible manner and a manner which is befitting of a government in a democratic country. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hume referred to the significance of law and order within the Australian community and to the vital significance of Government considerations in relation to the future of the wool industry. [More…]

• He said that he would prefer a degree of inflation with full employment rather than no inflation and a degree of unemployment in the community which would be inconsistent with the social levels that the Labor Party accepts as mandatory in 1970. [More…]

• The pensioner, like other members of the community, is going to be faced with increased sales tax, increased telephone and postal charges and increased transport costs. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Bury) in his first Budget is responsible for squeezing many sections of the community. [More…]

• Finance for housing should be based on the needs of the community and should not be used as an economic weapon in the stop-go policy of the Government. [More…]

• The illness which is being fostered in the community by statements like those of the honourable member for Boothby is known as paranoia. [More…]

• If such a business is practicable will he consider making land available not on the principle of traditional land rights but to facilitate the setting up of an Aboriginal enterprise for a community which already exists? [More…]

• Yet, in typical fashion, the Leader of the Opposition dismissed the great problems facing the primary industries and the rural community of this country in about 30 seconds with a simple phrase - the need to restructure the rural industries. [More…]

• But let us face it: No-oneI am sure would have liked the job of the Treasurer (Mr Bury) of framing this Budget which had to restrain the inflationary pressures that were existent in the economy yet increase aid to rural industries by 55%, provide finance for the new health scheme which will bring tremendous benefits to the community throughout Australia, provide for an increase in education by 25% and yet relieve the lower and middle income groups of taxation to the extent of $280m in a full year. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hume said that he was concerned by the politically motivated disorders, strikes and industrial action which were having an unbearable, harmful effect upon the farming community in his electorate and were contributing to some of the difficulties that were being experienced in the rural sector. [More…]

• As one would expect, I intend to deal principally with the economic difficulties facing the rural community. [More…]

• 1 think that this is due to the tremendous efforts that the Commonwealth and the State governments have made in trying to assist the farming community with freight concessions in moving sheep to and from agistment and bringing fodder to the farmer. [More…]

• The rate burden falls disproportionately on a minority section of the community, rates having risen by 840% since 1947 while the consumer index has increased by 166%. [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…]

• It does nothing to halt rising prices and it adds to the crippling burden of costs, new taxes and charges, thus placing intolerable stresses on all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Even if it is at the cost of some other section of the community, let us place our senior citizens on a standard of living which will allow them to live without worrying whether they can afford enough food to eat and enough clothes for their body or whether they can meet increased commitments for rent and rates. [More…]

• 1 have always been struck by the contradictions between the policy of this Government and its predecessors, which showed complete inability and unwillingness to provide an adequate standard of living and quality of life for the less fortunate in the community and those on lower and middle incomes, and its enthusiasm for our policy of assisting large numbers of people from Europe to migrate to Australia to share these inadequacies. [More…]

• 000m per year in hidden costs, as the Minister said in his announcement, because they cannot be readily dissected from total community spending on facilities such as education, social welfare, provision of water, sewerage, roads, hospitals, etc. [More…]

• As a small boy of 10 in 1945 I can recall the insular, arrogant and bigoted attitudes prevalent amongst a sizeable section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Some sections of the community have, in fact, done very well. [More…]

• The strange thing is that this sensitivity to State rights does not appear to hinder us in our contributions to the rural community, very many of which are provided in areas of exclusive State powers. [More…]

• I emphasise that this Budget has been brought down at a time of great disparity between the levels of prosperity in various sections of our community. [More…]

• I refer to primary industry and those who are dependent upon primary industry on the one hand, and to secondary industry including the mining industry, and indeed the community generally, on the other hand. [More…]

• The type of budget that the Labor Party wanted to introduce would certainly have reacted against that section of the community, lt is this section of the community that this balanced Budget is particularly designed to protect. [More…]

• I cannot do so without referring to the gratuitous insult conferred upon the rural community by the meagre mention of the rural industry in the speech made by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• However, I appreciate that the Government was faced with the problem of trying to balance the Budget in the interests of the community generally as well as in the interests of pensioners. [More…]

• They can no more be separated than can the worker be separated from the community of which he is’ part. [More…]

• Employers must realise that to bow to naked force and accede to wage increases in excess of productivity, simply because it is easy for them to raise prices, is not in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• The modern industrial community cannot afford irresponsible action of this kind, lt is a threat to our living standards, while the inflationary effects of unrestrained wage demands could undermine the Government’s full employment policy - a policy which is not confined to the Government but which is adopted by all political parties in Australia. [More…]

• It would probably be folly for persons today to assess what will be the quality of life requirements of a community living 2 decades from now. [More…]

• One is community attitudes and the other is community wealth. [More…]

• To achieve these things we must have better community attitudes. [More…]

• But to translate community attitudes into fact we must have community wealth. [More…]

• With a fully employed economy, growing as it is at the present time, the way to achieve greater community wealth is by the single method of increased productivity. [More…]

• I am prepared to agree that I would not know, but there are many other qualified people in the community who are capable of assessing the information and giving an informed opinion. [More…]

• Surely we have people in the community who can evaluate the information. [More…]

• lt was apparent from an answer given by the Treasurer (Mr Bury) to a question asked by my colleague the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) in this House last week that he is quite aware of the effect of the present rural recession upon the business community in country areas. [More…]

• No one is asked to contemplate a future Australian community composed predominantly of farmers, nor can anyone be asked to accept the concept of a future Australia collecting its foreign exchange from the export of manufactured goods alone. [More…]

• At this point I should like to recall to the House the threat to the very existence of large sections of Australian primary industry as depicted in the statement of the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) to the House last week on the consequences for Australian trade of British entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The cost pressures to which I have referred do not apply only to one sector of the community; they apply to all export industries whether primary or secondary. [More…]

• If present treads and agitations continue - and apparently only adversity and tough times will stop them - the high cost factor will dampen down still further Australia’s ability to export progressively more costly manufactured goods to progressively shrinking markets eaten away by the impending growth of influence of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• That job is to look actively at the whole question of the indebtedness of the rural community. [More…]

• the economic growth of the Australian community in recent times. [More…]

• justice and equity in personal taxation, no nearer that fairer redistribution of wealth and fairer distribution of burdens which should be one of the prime objects of taxation in an enlightened community. [More…]

• But we have to take other factors into consideration because this Government has introduced a number of social service measures which I believe have been of tremendous value to the pensioner group within the community and tremendously costly to the Australian public. [More…]

• It is not to be expected that, in a developing community such as Australia, with 12.5 million people spread over 3 million square miles of country, with 54% of our population living in 6 capital cities, high expenditure on the development of Australia’s natural resources is avoidable. [More…]

• If you talk to any woman in the community she will tell you that prices are increasing alarmingly. [More…]

• I consider that the worst off pensioner in this community is the invalid pensioner. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite stand in this place and condemn the workers for having the audacity to go on strike or to demonstrate in order to demand more money at a time when profits such as those to which I have referred are being made in the community. [More…]

• Why the Government thinks that aged persons can exist - exist only - on a lower income than other people in the community I will never comprehend. [More…]

• The only possible explanation for the Government’s disregard of these petitions is that it is aware that it has lost and will never regain the vote of the pensioners and the community by its duplicity. [More…]

• This Government continues to disappoint us time and time again by avoiding its obligations to local Government authorities, lt has a way of granting subsidies for aged persons homes and for other community activities. [More…]

• But the fact of the matter is that it is passing on its obligations to the community through the hard pressed local authorities who must first find the initial costs before they can obtain the subsidy. [More…]

• In fact, some people look at it not as a $1 to S2 subsidy by the Federal Government but as a S2 to SI subsidy by local government to the Federal Government to meet the obligations of the Federal Government towards aged persons in the community, for it is to this Government that these people have paid a lifetime of taxes. [More…]

• This is the Government which should be ensuring that all loans to the third arm of government - that is, local government - are at a low rate of interest and in fact should be making major grants of Commonwealth money towards major development projects by shire councils and service boards undertaking projects such as sewerage, drainage and other major works of benefit to the community. [More…]

• lt is no good denying an obligation to the community in this respect, for as I understand it the Government, has not met these obligations in the various States but has met them in Canberra itself and, at the expense of all the taxpayers of Australia, has gone ahead with major projects. [More…]

• Whilst not denying these people the right to have these benefits I ask that similar privileges be extended to the rest of the community and to the electorate which I represent in Western Australia. [More…]

• For this Budget to impose an increased tax on petrol and cars but not to provide properly for this overtaxed section of the community is a glaring avoidance of responsibility. [More…]

• If Communists, or any other members of the community, engage in subversive activities, illegal activities, activities calculated to destory order and good government, they will be dealt with in accordance with the law. [More…]

• This is an indication of how at times unions make gains for the members of their organisations at the expense of the general community. [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…]

• We have lost 238 regular soldiers and 168 national servicemen, a total of 406 men whose lives will never be restored and whose place in the work force and in the community can never be replaced. [More…]

• But unrest is becoming apparent at this moment in the Australian community because it appears that there is a law for these people and a different law for the common people. [More…]

• It is obvious from listening to the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) that he has a general tendency to link everything which is wrong in the community with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• The fact is, of course, that there are many in the community today who believe in the freedom of assembly irrespective of the people who assemble. [More…]

• Certain sections of the community would agree with me, but if our costs are to be kept within reason and inflation kept as low as possible we must limit our expenses. [More…]

• I believe it is a sound principle to keep a close association between the base rate pension and the minimum wage, but I do not suggest for one moment that every time there is a rise in wages in one section of the community the pension rate should be increased. [More…]

• Honourable members on this side of (he House remember, as do many members of the community, the year 1963 when the purchase of the Fill was raised. [More…]

• After all, people are important in this community. [More…]

• I do not for one moment deny the rights of the rural community in the predicament in which the Government has placed it, but I point out that the rural community by and large has seen fit to support the Government. [More…]

• In spite of the criticism levelled at Bob Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, I would most certainly say that he would be a much more competent person to cure the ills of the rural community. [More…]

• If he were prepared to elevate his thinking from the concrete jungle environment in which he has found himself he would perhaps be of some service to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government’ taxes almost anything that is of any benefit to the younger people in the community. [More…]

• The females in the community are, of course, still faced with high taxation on their cosmetics and other articles. [More…]

• Would any honourable member on the Government side regard cosmetics for women as not being a benefit to those in the community who use them? [More…]

• The Budget continues substantial drought relief and other direct and indirect assistance to the rural industries, but above all it is designed to maintain stability and contain inflation, which is of the greatest importance to all people in the community. [More…]

• These requirements are designed to protect the health and safety of the community in. [More…]

• I regard this Budget - and I am sure responsible people in the community do - as one which is designed to maintain stability in the economy and to deal in a responsible way with the enormous expenditures which are involved and which substantially cover large increases of revenue to the States. [More…]

• Sovereignty is applicable at many levels in our community and elsewhere. [More…]

• There is a need for the community at large to be more concerned about the rights within the family group without trespassing on the sovereignty of the family. [More…]

• As some of the families just do not have the facilities to do this themselves the community should take an interest in their position and assist them. [More…]

• I have no doubt that most people in the community agree that a large increase in the age pension should have been granted in this Budget. [More…]

• With the shocking waste that is going on in our community today, with the inadequate and inept attempts to control inflation that we are experiencing under this Liberal-Country Party rule, with the tragic hardships being caused by the rise in costs to so many people who derive their incomes from primary industry, from pensions or from other fixed incomes, is it not time for us to institute a new approach such as I have outlined - a Labor solution? [More…]

• At certain stages of the business cycle, under certain conditions, in terms of community problems, balance of payment situations and so on, one mixture might work better than another. [More…]

• It is easy enough for any group or section in the community, or for the Opposition in a Parliament to say that it is not satisfied, that this should be done, that that should be done or that additional finance should be made available in the Budget. [More…]

• I think this is something that should be given very careful consideration because when from any or all quarters there are requests for financial assistance these requests should be considered in the light of the fact that the only money a government has available to use is money taken from the people of the community by some form of taxation. [More…]

• People are important, and in presenting this Budget the Treasurer has given consideration to people and to the effects that this Budget will have on all sections of the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of (he increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence iti films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to bc the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members’ of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standard’s in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned al what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider lo be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek lo ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of (tinto, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as lo preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at v/hat they consider lo be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian’ community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse’ effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscentiy, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, lo a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned al what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and’ television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of ‘films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• The Leader of the Country Party, the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen), spoke the other day about the European Economic Community and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. [More…]

• I include the United States of America and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• For that reason, I believe, the United States of America, as well as the United Kingdom and the countries of the European Economic Community, has an interest to see that GATT works, lt is not merely a matter of the Minister for Trade and industry putting forward a proposal that is of advantage to Australia alone. [More…]

• I would sincerely hope that the leaders of those other countries will pay attention to his words and that those who are responsible and in control in the European Economic Community and those who are responsible and hold responsible positions in the sphere of international trade will realise that these words are spoken by a man who has had - I think I. can safely say - more experience in the field of international trade than any other man in world politics today. [More…]

• But rural Australia today faces a crisis that has implications going far beyond the confines of the farm or the country community. [More…]

• They blamed the British for applying to join the European Economic Community, they blamed Europe for its trading; they blamed the Opposition. [More…]

• It is evident that the crisis in the Australian countryside will be blamed on European Economic Community, blamed on the callous British and blamed on the tendency of the world to divide into trading blocs. [More…]

• Let us use trade as an instrument of aid, to build friendship and build our own great community of the southeast. [More…]

• it is true that there has been much unrest in the Australian community. [More…]

• If there are tensions in the Australian community; if there are people who are dissatisfied with the way in which the affairs of Australia are being conducted; and if there are people demonstrating in the streets and breaking the law, surely it is the responsibility of the Government which has been in office for 20 years that such a set of circumstances has developed in which these things are happening. [More…]

• In addition to this, the effect of the Budget on the general community will be to increase rates and taxes at State and local levels and of course rents will go up. [More…]

• I believe that the Government has miscalculated the degree of concern in the Australian community for people on pensions, people on small incomes from superannuation and people on fixed incomes. [More…]

• It provides a degree of contact with the local community which is not possible in the case of a large institution situated 20 or 30 miles away. [More…]

• I do not think there would be any person in the Queensland community or in this House who was not pleased to see this. [More…]

• They would like to see the community split right down the middle and the farmers left completely out of the progress and prosperity of this country. [More…]

• There is no doubt at all that these are the factors that will be taken into account in the negotiations that, I am sure, will be launched at the hand of the Minister for Trade and Industry with GATT to try and bring about a better understanding of where we are going with the European Economic Community problem. [More…]

• A better understanding is needed not only by this country but also by our sister country, New Zealand, as well as Canada, the United States and all other traders in the great bulk commodities which will be so adversely affected if the European Economic Community proceeds on the course it has already set and which it has not, at this point of time anyhow, indicated it will moderate in any way. [More…]

• I think it is time that we faced the fact that in certain sectors of the community there needs to be what I would call negative income tax, a direct grant to some people who need assistance. [More…]

• Even more, though, have been appalled at its complete bankruptcy in acknowledging a moral obligation to propose meaningful measures to combat and overcome cultural, social, and economic deprivation which is altogether too extensive in this prosperous community to justify the apparent complacency of this conservative Government. [More…]

• It should be a clear, intelligible statement to the community of the course this country is being set on as part of a programme of achievement into the future. [More…]

• They have shirked the need to rationally allocate and utilise our scarce economic resources in order to maximise for the community the social and economic benefits which those resources are capable of providing. [More…]

• Simply stated, this system of financial props represents a policy of income transfer from one section of the community to another. [More…]

• If it is established that the factors et production tied up in any such industry could produce a better return to the community, net of the subsidy, bounty, or what have you, in another industry then the community is quite unwise to allow the Government to persevere, at great public expense, with this less efficient allocation of resources. [More…]

• As subsidies, bounties, concessions, tariffs, etc., are a cost borne by taxpayersconsumers - the same people really - some thorough going economic analysis is needed of these forms of assistance to establish whether economically and socially a more beneficial return can be provided for the community from the use of the financial, physical and human resources imprisoned by these divers means of protection. [More…]

• Above all, I am urging that for a change the neglected man in our community, the long suffering and much exploited Australian consumer, be given consideration. [More…]

• Planning ought to be based on and applied through regional committees comprised of representatives of public and private enterprise, labour and community interest. [More…]

• All groups of the community stand to gain from the increased rate of growth which could result from the introduction of an economic plan. [More…]

• The resulting comparative stagnation of the public sector contributes to continuing inequality in our society, and has led to neglect of such matters as education, cultural affairs, urban planning, hospitals, and public transport systems for which the whole community suffers. [More…]

• Or is it Liberal Party philosophy that blue and white collar producers are not entitled to fully participate in the benefits of the increased wealth they have helped create for the community? [More…]

• It is fair to say that any Budget brought down by a government cannot please all sections of the community. [More…]

• Firstly, these industries are vital to the welfare and interests of the Australian community, and more particularly those who live outside the metropolitan areas. [More…]

• For these reasons it has not been possible to measure the additional expenditure, on services of the types specified, required for the purpose of absorbing new migrants into the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to’ preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• Money from this fund is spent not only for the benefit of Aboriginals in the area of the discovery but also on community projects, small industries and the like which will benefit Aboriginals throughout the Northern Territory as a whole. [More…]

• I ask also: Will the Prime Minister introduce a capital gains or net worth tax for the same purpose and also with the aim of redistributing some of this accumulated wealth to those in need in the community and to priority areas of public deprivation? [More…]

• 1 think the honourable gentleman, if he puts his mind to it, might agree that a great deal of this wealth is, in fact, being collected for redistribution to the members of the community in that 471 per cent of the net profits come to the Government in the form of company tax and from the Government go to carry out services for the community. [More…]

• So I would say that when companies of this size do as well as this company has done, having invested as much money as it has invested, as a result of the revenue collected by the Government from the company itself and from individual shareholders in the company the community as a whole undoubtedly benefits from it. [More…]

• However, the Government is aware that the various States are now placing more emphasis on expenditure on community mental health projects, such as early treatment psychiatric centres, day centres and hostels and on integrated services, lt also recognises that the emphasis on capital expenditure in traditional mental health institutions is declining in favour of such projects, a large proportion of which qualifies for Commonwealth assistance under the legislation which this Bill proposes to continue. [More…]

• The development by the States of community and integrated mental health services will be kept under observation by the Commonwealth so that, at the end of the 3 year period, the Government will be in a position to consider what future role the Commonwealth should play in the mental health field. [More…]

• Let me further remind all honourable members opposite that, despite their efforts to believe otherwise, the social conscience of the community generally has been aroused by this50c slap in the face that the pensioners have received. [More…]

• However, all sections of the Australian community that have any association with pensioner organisations agree that poverty exists in this country. [More…]

• They will be opposing all those people in the community who are concerned, for example, about Australia’s illegal involvement in Vietnam. [More…]

• I do not think that this will be at all appealing or acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• No longer is the community prepared to have pontifical decisions dropped from great heights by unaccountable people. [More…]

• The community generally, which is affected by the utilisation of motor cars because of air pollution and many other things, also could be represented. [More…]

• The number of age, invalid, widow and Service pensioners in Australia exceeds 1 million and represents a very large proportion of the community. [More…]

• The fringe benefits are available only to a very small proportion of the pensioner community. [More…]

• We have seen crocodile tears for the rural community. [More…]

• [4.251 - ft is proper at this time of the Budget debate to look at the Budget as a whole and to see how its framework satisfies the real needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Our available resources this year are being concentrated on our health scheme which is important not only to pensioners but to the whole community. [More…]

• Let me say in passing that no section of the community has a greater interest than the elderly in the combating of inflation. [More…]

• Surely pensioners as well as other people in the community are entitled to participate in the improvements in our economy in that time. [More…]

• The only real lest as far as pensioners are concerned is: How well are pensioners doing today compared with retired people in other countries of the world and how well are they doing today compared with other people in the community - wage and salary earners, business people and the like? [More…]

• I wonder how many people in the community can afford to invest $1,200 a year in insurance or superannuation. [More…]

• These increases represent costs for the community. [More…]

• I wonder how the womenfolk in our community feel about it now. [More…]

• Not only is the actual position becoming quite desperate but also an increasing proportion of parents, students and the community in general is becoming aware of the situation. [More…]

• The unhappy situation in respect of the farming community, people on pensions, the I million people living in poverty or near poverty in Australia, and the plight of pollution, are among the many deficiencies that excite keen community concern - I say this advisedly - but about nothing else, I believe, is there more widespread dissatisfaction and anguish in Australia than about the appalling and deteriorating conditions of many of our schools. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) to make available to every member of this Parliament and to the community generally the full report on the needs of our educational system. [More…]

• This is very good providing there is full employment in every section of the community. [More…]

• He referred principally to the position relating to Britain’s joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• When this and schemes such as the home care programme, the aged persons homes scheme, the sheltered employment scheme and the Commonwealth rehabilitation scheme are taken into account it is clear that the Government is most concerned about the welfare of the less fortunate members of our community and has taken effective action to improve it. [More…]

• Of more importance is the fact that these proposals would involve a marked departure from the concept that the community should give priority in assistance to those who need it most. [More…]

• Those income grades from $5,000 to $20,000 a year include most of the managerial, executive and professional income earners in the community. [More…]

• The advancement of the community and of the economy depends very greatly on what they do. [More…]

• The ordinary people who are battling to rear and educate a family and who comprise 60 per cent of the community or the more fortunate people who are doing quite well despite the tax scale? [More…]

• Is it right that one section of the community should be paying more than its fair share of the revenue of this country? [More…]

• Is it right that the ordinary wage earner should be asked to substantiate his claim for medical expenses, chemical expenses, gifts to charities and other paltry amounts while that section of the community which can afford to pay is being allowed to defraud the revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars a year? [More…]

• I am going to work as never before to get my colleagues to accept this programme: First, we must have an end to the policies which still discourage savings and thrift and which make a breadline pension inevitable for numbers of Australians; secondly, we must have an end to the position where some people can bludge on the community, spend all their income on non-essentials and know that they will be just about as well off as a man who struggles to educate his family and who saves only a few thousand dollars before retiring or whose superannuation is little if any better and is doomed to decline to the breadline; thirdly, we must face the fact that the vast majority of Australians do not want old people to suffer real poverty, no matter why they are in that position. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I am far from arguing that prosperity should not be shared by the whole community. [More…]

• I ask the Government therefore - and I pledge myself to do all I can personally - to do these 3 things: Firstly, review the age pension base rate at the end of the first quarter of the financial year in the light of known facts about the consumer price index at that time: secondly, set up an ad hoc committee to consider and propose methods for implementing a scheme for national superannuation; thirdly, initiate a nationwide call for restraint in terms of both price rises and wage rises and at the same time give more thought to the ways in which increased prosperity can be shared by both those whose energy and productivity have occasioned it and those in the community who have a right to expect a share in it. [More…]

• Mr GARRICK (Batman) [9.48 1 - I rise to support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) that this House condemns this deceptive and negative Budget because it fails to meet the real needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Nothing has been done to assist them to be assimilated into the community. [More…]

• There are Good Neighbour Councils and all the rest of it, but it is a particular difficulty of the Turks that very few of them can speak English and hardly anybody in the community can speak Turkish. [More…]

• So, one might say, they are shovelled into the community by the Commonwealth Government and left to fend for themselves. [More…]

• Why is it that the person who posts a letter must pay for the service he receives but the person who travels first class on an aircraft with champagne, supper and hostesses to help him to his seat is subsidised from the community purse? [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister implement the Keynesian principle of public control of such profit promotion and capital propagation by imposing a supertax on excess profits leaving Australia to be diverted to consumer, community and employee equity in these large enterprises? [More…]

• This accommodation can be of any one of three types or a combination of them, namely independent living in an ordinary type flat or cottage, hostel-type living with individual rooms but community services for meals etc., or nursing home accommodation for those who are unable to care for themselves. [More…]

• The above list is incomplete, especially since it omits reference to certain services which pensioners share with other less affluent sections of the community. [More…]

• It is easy for an opposition to be critical, to pick out the points of disagreement and play up to sections of the community to create dissatisfaction in their minds. [More…]

• The Government simply had to make these unpopular decisions because it bears the responsibility for the sake of everyone in the community. [More…]

• Certainly it is due also to the State planning authorities and other such bodies which have restricted the proper free flow of land in the community. [More…]

• It would be a dreadful thing if we had competition between governments and private enterprise in a condition of over-full employment in the community. [More…]

• I was interested to receive a pamphlet from the Pensioner Community Service the other day which said: [More…]

• There is also a moral obligation on the Government to ensure that nobody in the community in this day and age should be living in a state of poverty or near poverty. [More…]

• The Minister stated that the people in this income range are executives, managers and the professional people within the community. [More…]

• Socialism does not mean complete strictures on all the economic activities of the community. [More…]

• The object will be to permit clear comparisons with scales of emoluments in the rest of the community and to aid understanding of the true value of the benefit contained in servicemen and women’s allowances. [More…]

• The pensioners comprise one of the most needy sectors of our community. [More…]

• The Treasurer and this sectional Government have in no way considered the enormous profits of a handful of companies, the monopoly or oligopoly sector of our community. [More…]

• lt seems to me that the action taken recently by the Reserve Bank to encourage savings banks to increase their lending will help only a certain sector of the community. [More…]

• There has been a good deal of misunderstanding throughout the community about it. [More…]

• But the Government believes they should secure land ownership under the system that applied to the Australian community and not outside it. [More…]

• I found in discussions I had in Canada last year that the land rights which were accorded to the Indian bands there had had the effect, in practice, of encouraging divisions between the Indian people and the wider Canadian community. [More…]

• Measures which are based on racial qualification are divisive in any community. [More…]

• Of course, where there is need for special educational, social or economic measures to help a section of the community which requires assistance, appropriate assistance should be provided. [More…]

• An unknown factor is how many people might be attracted to move permanently from employment on the surrounding cattle properties to Wattie Creek if a cattle project for the Aboriginal people were started there, ft is quite fanciful to think that a cattle property of 500 square miles in that country could support an Aboriginal community at Wattie Creek at a reasonable standard of living. [More…]

• Measures of this kind by governments have been gaining momentum over the last 20 years, both by direct action and by increasing assistance to church missionary bodies which were endeavouring in a practical way to make up for past neglect long before there was any widespread interest and concern in the community generally. [More…]

• There are now 600 pupils enrolled including 140 at Kormilda College which includes transitional courses to prepare Aboriginal pupils for secondary work in the normal community schools. [More…]

• In most places they now have their own council and also their own incorporated association or cooperative society which runs the store and organises community activities. [More…]

• These stores are substantial businesses, often with quite high turnovers with the profits going to general community purposes. [More…]

• The employment of women in industry in this way represents a significant change in outlook by the Aboriginal community concerned. [More…]

• All of these many and varied measures have the ultimate objective of helping people equip themselves to stand on their own feet in the wider community so that they can take advantage of the opportunities it offers. [More…]

• Let us help those of them whose future is on the land gain access to land, but under the system that applies to everyone in the community. [More…]

• Let us intensify efforts to help others whose future is not on the land to take advantage of the opportunities which the Australian community offers in their chosen field. [More…]

• Let us not, by recognising so-called tribal land claims, encourage groups and families to attach themselves more firmly to isolated and inadequate plots of land, so that those whose future by inclination and aptitude ought to be away from the land are impeded and hindered in realising the best that they can achieve in a single Australian community. [More…]

• Let us rather concentrate on making equality of opportunity in a single Australian community a reality for the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable member for Dawson that industrial stoppages are the greatest single factor causing rising costs throughout the community. [More…]

• Let us have a look at other sections of the community to see how they are treated. [More…]

• This is discrimination of the worst kind against the most deserving section of the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so adminstered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• It is entirely wrong that responsible, elected bodies charged with preserving democracy should take steps which are designed clearly to intimidate and to prevent the expression of those rights within the community! [More…]

• Its purpose was to root out subversion within the community and to protect the security of the country. [More…]

• Just how phony and cynical is the Government when it tries to manipulate the public by creating an atmosphere of irrationality so that it can divert the public’s attention away from the real issues in the community. [More…]

• Of course, we know why the Government does not want to speak about the real issues such as the poverty in the community, the slums that exist in our system of State education, the imminent collapse of many sectors of our public hospital services, the complete failure of the Budget to give any guidelines for the future growth of this country and the overall failure of the Government. [More…]

• 1 hope honourable members will realise what an important step they are taking - not so much with regard to the running of Parliament but with regard to the respect that the community outside of this place will have for Parliament. [More…]

• Community schools under the control of the Department of Education and Science [More…]

• All teachers at Community Schools are employed by the South Australian Education Department, who have made available all of the statistics in this section. [More…]

• Pre-school and after-school education facilities are in urgent need within the Australian community. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable member that we will be looking for the help and guidance not only of the organisations and persons whom he has named but also of other persons throughout the community with a view to implementing what is one of the great objectives announced in the Prime Minister’s policy speech. [More…]

• That follows through in prices throughout the entire community. [More…]

• These are our national objectives and ought to be pursued as the national objective by all people in the community. [More…]

• At the present moment we have a survey in progress as to the dimensions of disability, especially among the younger members of the community. [More…]

• It is calculated to provide aid in specific areas where financial help is needed and to recognise the community service which workshop organisations are providing at their expense. [More…]

• We are not highly rated in the community because we have not rated ourselves very highly. [More…]

• We are dealing with an increasingly educated community. [More…]

• That cynicism which rests in us is compounded in the community in general. [More…]

• But this also applies to citizens in the community. [More…]

• But 1 do wish to record in the strongest possible way my view that we are taking a retrograde step and making a damaging decision if we do not grasp this opportunity to improve our methods and to increase our standing in the community. [More…]

• After all, by our staying here the community is saving at least the cost of our fare back to our electorates. [More…]

• If we were reimbursed the cost of our wife’s fare, the community instead of paying for 2 trips by the member each 3 weeks, would pay for I trip by the member and 1 by his wife. [More…]

• But as time went on and I became more experienced I realised that each member represented a section of the community - a section which it was only right and just should be represented in this Parliament. [More…]

• But I found a lot of people like myself who are only a cross-section of the community. [More…]

• In actual fact, it is an added tax on every section of the community. [More…]

• I feel every honourable member of this Parliament fully appreciates the importance of local government and the part it plays in the interests of the community. [More…]

• As an example, loan fund financing in a modem and well developed economy could always be of inestimable value to the community. [More…]

• No public halls, no community centres, nowhere for the children to play. [More…]

• Those sections of the community with families, those bringing up the young Australians, will be particularly affected by this decision and this abrogation of policy. [More…]

• The swindle of inflation has affected too many people in this community already and the Government should not be a party to such a swindle. [More…]

• I refer to that growing army of unfortunate males in the community who, through a breakdown in their marriage and the divorce that follows, have to pay substantial amounts of alimony to their alleged aggrieved former wives. [More…]

• Most honourable members know that f represent a working class community in the electorate of Hunter. [More…]

• It is futile to think that the American alliance can effectively endure if we affront the world’s most powerful negro community, with the world’s largest negro army. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literatutre and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• I think what is also overlooked by the news media in this regard is the tremendous waste of time of public figures in movement to television and radio studios, in actual recording and in movement back to their normal functions within the community, when the real information of value still does not reach the general public of Australia. [More…]

• the effects of the scheme on the health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• Having regard to the importance of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme to the community, the increasing cost to the Commonwealth or, in other words, the taxpayer and the absence of any Parliamentary review of the scheme, the Government considers that the time is now appropriate for such a review. [More…]

• Even allowing for the fact that costs in the area of health services increased at a faster rate than general cost movements in the community, a cost increase of 74 per cent compared to the consumer price index cost increase of 18.8 per cent in the same period seems to indicate that there is something quite wrong, that there is some deepseated problem affecting cost movements in the supply of pharmaceuticals under this scheme. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition are concerned that the attitude of members of the Committee should be directed towards providing the maximum advantages for the Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian consumer is the most neglected person in the Australian community. [More…]

• If taxpayers have to provide bounty funds the bounty should have a lowering effect on the cost structure of the community whether in terms of other ancillary production or in terms of an overall consumer index relationship. [More…]

• It is not reasonable to expect prices in one section of the community to keep rising. [More…]

• But the plan was not accepted because of apathy and because some members of the dried fruit community put the tale about and told growers at meetings that if they rejected this plan they would get a better one. [More…]

• This is significant because this man is held in high esteem by the rugby union community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards, in the community. [More…]

• So that the community may judge the value of 4 weeks annual leave can the Minister inform the House what would be the increased national wages bill which would be required to pay for demands of this kind? [More…]

• think honourable members would agree that Aboriginal sporting records are good and that one of the best ways to advance Aboriginals in the general estimation of Australians and to encourage them to be part of the normal Australian community is to have them engaging in sport in the same way as other Australians. [More…]

• Members of the American community at Learmouth enjoy air conditioning in their houses but members of the Australian community must be satisfied with fans. [More…]

• I appreciate that what is done for the American community is not the responsibility of this Government. [More…]

• By any reasonable social scale of human and social economic justice the increases proposed are totally inadequate for the needs of people in the community today. [More…]

• After all, is it not reasonable to relate the pension rate to the average level of prosperity in the community? [More…]

• That is, the pension rate increased by less than the growth of spending in the community. [More…]

• So we find this widening gulf between the level of general prosperity in the community and the level of deprivation. [More…]

• It is totally unfair to expect people who are in the area of greatest need in the community - the most vulnerable to movements in cost of living standards because of their low living standard incomes and the fact that these are rigidly set - to have cast upon their shoulders the responsibility of carrying a great deal of the Government’s policies of economic austerity. [More…]

• We do not know what the long term objectives are for social welfare services in the community. [More…]

• She is considerably above the level of sacrifice demanded of other people in the community just to maintain what to us would be a completely intolerable living standard. [More…]

• It is incomprehensible to me that a modern society such as ours with so much abounding wealth in certain preferred areas should allow segments of the community to suffer in this way. [More…]

• So some people in the Australian community can be very wealthy while others suffer a great deal and their want is great. [More…]

• Frankly, I believe in a sharp adjustment of the tax rate so that there will be more effective and humane redistribution of wealth in the community to eliminate this sort of thing. [More…]

• Supporters of the Government waffle along in their grand way, indifferent to the need and indifferent to the clamour of concern in the community. [More…]

• On my assessment I expect poverty in Australia to be established at somewhere near 10 per cent when a thorough estimate is made of its pattern, nature and extent in the community. [More…]

• On the other hand the development of community based field services operated by regional departments of social welfare will be fostered by direct special grants under section 96 of the Constitution to State governments, local authorities and voluntary agencies. [More…]

• Now I turn to some of the statements made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), that self professed emancipist of the underprivileged section of the community. [More…]

• Naturally they are subjected to a much inferior standard of living compared with other sections of the community. [More…]

• It is important when dealing with pensions to bear in mind at all times that pensioners pay the same price over the counter for meat, bread, milk, groceries, fruit, vegetables, clothing, shoes, etc., as does any other member of the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the principal reason for the rising cost of living and the erosion of pensions and the general standard of living has been the holding of the community to ransom by left wing leaders, notably Mr Hawke. [More…]

• By means of continual industrial unrest they have eroded the purchasing power of the whole community. [More…]

• This Bill will provide help for a large section of the community, perhaps not to the extent that we would like to help them but certainly it will improve their position very substantially. [More…]

• The introduction of the health legislation will also be of great benefit, particularly to this section of the community. [More…]

• I think it is tremendously important that we encourage people to rehabilitate themselves and become independent and regain their self respect in the community. [More…]

• There is grave doubt about that as far as some sections of the community are concerned, but if it is so, then every section of the community is entitled to enjoy that affluence. [More…]

• The pensioner, like other members of the community, will be faced with increased sales tax, increased telephone and postal charges and increased transport costs. [More…]

• Surely poverty is a relative thing - this has been said many times here - and the only way in which we can assess the position of pensioners is to compare it with the standard of living which is enjoyed by the community. [More…]

• How much different is the atmosphere in the environment of the poor working class homes compared with that in the homes of the affluent and the middle and upper class sections of our community? [More…]

• In my view what is lost is any respect that the community may have had for this Government’s regard for the underprivileged people in Australia. [More…]

• Our objective is a social welfare structure which identifies the most needy in the community and ensures that those who have no other means are provided with enough to live on, in a modest self-respecting way, without requiring any other assistance outside the pension. [More…]

• What is worse still is the extensive poverty that prevails amongst the pensioner community throughout Australia. [More…]

• After all, this type of installation becomes a matter of obligation when the main reticulation line Ls brought into a community. [More…]

• A properly co-ordinated regional system of social services would incorporate a community aid centre. [More…]

• We would be taking into account the need for psychiatric facilities, not only in relation to wards in hospitals where psychiatric cases could receive proper care, but also community day centres at which people could attend for discussion, for counselling and for matters of this kind. [More…]

• On this basis we could operate not on a remote, centralised and sometimes bureaucratic basis but on a basis of getting down to utilising the resources of the community integrated into community needs. [More…]

• How can we meet the social needs of a community unless our efforts are based on scientific evidence and the type of modern technology which is available through the product of universities and which indeed is in evidence in other parts of the world? [More…]

• We should realise that man does not live by bread alone but needs many other services and the co-operation of all those people in the community and government instrumentalities, at both State and local government level, who are able to assist and co-operate. [More…]

• I am pleased to have the opportunity to say something about it because today we are on the air and whatever figures one is able to quote will go out uncensored and some people in the community will hear what the true position is. [More…]

• We are discussing the number of people in the community who are in an underprivileged area and who perhaps could be described as living in pockets of poverty. [More…]

• I sought to make the point that perhaps people in the community in this situation, the pensioners, would prefer not to have fringe benefits but increases in the pension. [More…]

• I have had many discussions with pensioners, as I know all honourable members on both sides of the House have, and I am quite certain that 99 per cent, if not 100 per cent, of the pensioner community would prefer to retain all the fringe benefits even if it meant a more gradual increase in the direct pension. [More…]

• The Government is on record as being conscious of the needs of the pensioners in the community. [More…]

• I say to them: Just for once let us approach this in a non-political way and stop trying to make political gain out of this section of the community. [More…]

• The Government apparently thinks that child endowment and the family today are old hat, and yet the family is the very basis of our community and these are the people whom we should be looking after. [More…]

• They are a very small section of our community and do not have a great deal of voting power. [More…]

• The elimination of the means test should not be used as an excuse to refuse to look after those underprivileged sections of our community who have not been able to look after themselves. [More…]

• Many different issues are involved, and to try to lay down one standard for the whole community is utterly impossible, and immoral. [More…]

• I believe that this should never at any stage be used as an excuse to refuse or to forget to look after those sections of the community which have not been able, because of the various economic, social and family circumstances involved, to look after themselves. [More…]

• Unless this is done and unless justice is given to all these segments of the community about which I have spoken today - those with families, the civilian widow who has so much to look after, the deserted wife, the invalid and age pensioner and these various other sections of our community who need assistance - this Parliament will stand damned. [More…]

• Unless something is done to give justice to these segments of our community this Parliament will stand damned as not having removed underprivilege, poverty and human degradation. [More…]

• It will stand damned because it has deliberately disadvantaged a large section of our community, forcing those people to continue to live in poverty and, in many instances, in despair. [More…]

• Despite the views expressed by members on this side of the House during the Budget debate, despite the criticisms levelled at the Government in relation to its attitude to social services, despite what has been reported in the Press, over the radio and over the television media, and despite the hostility expressed by the community in general the Government has remained unmoved, lt has refused to accept the opinion of the people and it has refused to alter its earlier decision in relation to social services. [More…]

• Surely no responsible member of the Government and certainly no responsible member of the general community will suggest that the existing pension rates have been sufficient to meet pensioners’ needs in the past 12 months; nor will this year’s meagre increase, when added to the pension, be sufficient for the next 12 months. [More…]

• There are still people within the community who view social services from this narrow and outmoded concept. [More…]

• Some people in the community still complain that the improvident are well cared for. [More…]

• However, be that as it may, the Government’s approach to this matter is that irrespective of how foolish or how improvident people are or whether their present position is the result of misfortune or due to any other reason, there is a base below which we will not allow any person in this community to live. [More…]

• These families are importuned and handicapped to an extent not fully understood and appreciated by the community. [More…]

• The churches have erected halls in the fast growing areas of the community where predominantly young married people reside. [More…]

• I think where buildings have been erected at a substantial capital cost and are being used infrequently that such a scheme would aid these people and the community to a great extent. [More…]

• So what we have really announced in this Bill and in the Budget is that we are going to reduce the income of a million or more people in our community simply because we do not make provision for these other parts of their income situation. [More…]

• So when the telephone bill with the new charges comes in October or November about 9 weeks in advance of the new pension increase will go on that 1 item alone, to say nothing of increased postal charges and increased sales tax on a whole range of items which pensioners buy, just as the rest of the community does. [More…]

• If they do not pay it themselves they will pay it in increased transport charges or in other ways and of course it will be reflected in overall increases in the price of goods and services in the community. [More…]

• Pensioners will be confronted with these because unfortunately they affect basic commodities that every person in the community needs. [More…]

• After all, the figures in the departmental report tell me that there are 44,000 A class widows in the community and I think the total of class A and class B widows is not more than 80,000-odd. [More…]

• We are not going to give a means test free pension to a whole lot of affluent widows within the community; anything but. [More…]

• I could go on with other items - I will not because I do not have the time - such as regulations that are not available to the community at large and lots of people miss out even on the things that they would be entitled to receive. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that people estimate the number of poverty stricken people in our community as running into something of the order of 1 million people. [More…]

• No wonder there is poverty in the community. [More…]

• The cost of crime to the Australian community has been conservatively estimated at $350m per annum but we spend on crime control less than $100m per annum. [More…]

• It is only fair that the community in South Australia and in Queensland should know where their representatives stand on this matter. [More…]

• We approve and applaud that kind of political action, particularly when it is taken with some sort of response to the necessity for the community to carry on its daily work. [More…]

• The Moratorium that was held in Melbourne - and I take it that it was the same in the other capitals - was a credit to the whole community, to the police, and in a sense to the governments to whom the police forces are responsible. [More…]

• lt was a civilised social exercise of political rights and I believe it was a credit to the community. [More…]

• When that happens 1 believe that the community ought to give credit where it is due. [More…]

• The policy of the European Economic Community in respect of canned fruits is not its policy in respect of butter. [More…]

• If a product can be produced by the Community, its policies operate to establish a virtual embargo against the importation of that product from outside the Community. [More…]

• In the creation of the European Economic Community, its enlargement and the device of having associate members the principle of no new preferences is being completelyflouted. [More…]

• We, who have had access to Britain through all the years, will by a bilateral arrangement or arrangements between the Community and Britain have a new barrier to trade erected and in respect of many commodities it will be completely insurmountable. [More…]

• Yet we live in a community which is baffled by a shortage of hospital space and it is quite irresponsible to allow some of these hospital facilities to lie idle. [More…]

• There must be thousands of these cases throughout the community. [More…]

• But where does that amount stand in relation to the community at large? [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…]

• The RSL suggested that a formula should be devised wherein compensation payments would be related to the minimum wage in the community. [More…]

• It seems a modest request to ask that, for instance, the totally and permanently incapacitated pension rate be related to the full minimum wage in the community. [More…]

• Firstly it seeks to lift the rate for totally and permanently incapacitated exservicemen to the minimum wage in the community. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licence, promiscuity and violence in films, books, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that honourable members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literature and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• But it is not thought appropriate by the Government to protect the book industry by a tariff and, to that extent, to raise a barrier between the community of book readers and the availability of books because they are made dearer by a tariff. [More…]

• The community at large has an undoubted interest, justifying the imposition of punishment, in seeing that juveniles are protected from the corrupting depredations of adult pederasts, lt is highly questionable, however, whether it has an interest of such strength as to warrant the infliction of criminal punishment in discouraging adults from private indulgence in sodomy or other forms of conduct commonly described as unnatural. [More…]

• The principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their members is self-protection: That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Chairman, in the discussion of the estimates of the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, I wish to bring before the Parliament some aspects of community unrest which I believe are of the greatest importance. [More…]

• Maintaining civil order is the responsibility of the entire community. [More…]

• However, whilst I do believe this, I also believe that it is very necessary that we should examine the causes which provoke some sections of the community, particularly sections of the student community, to promote, assist and perpetrate actions designed to change the prevailing order of things by disregarding lawful process and, in fact, by taking the law into their own hands. [More…]

• I think that it is relevant also to consider that a significant proportion of the community - and todays students fall into this category - have been raised in a rapidly changing post war world whose standards, attitudes and beliefs are undergoing increasing scrutiny and alteration. [More…]

• This requires open lines of communication and it is only by the establishment of effective communication between various sectors of the community and government that we will prevent a massive polarisation of society, a hardening of attitudes on both sides and a widening of the communications gap which could split and fragment this country. [More…]

• It also said: ‘We cannot fail to be impressed by the apprehension in that community about the effect of noise and how it affects their everyday livelihood’. [More…]

• I believe that it is in the best interests of the community generally and of the future of this country for the Department of Civil [More…]

• That could solve an immediate problem in certain sections of the farming community but it is not the answer. [More…]

• Many others in the community will suffer also and will be obliged to move. [More…]

• Therefore it must surely be the responsibility of the Government, when dealing with such an important industry, to determine which section of wheat growers are working in the best interests of the industry and the community, not just in the short term, as I said just now, but more particularly in the long term. [More…]

• But it would seem that the present Government either fails to realise or refuses to be interested in the obvious fact that the failure of the wheat industry or a serious decline in the number of people engaged in the wheat industry will also have a very serious effect on the whole population and upon the whole business community in wheat growing areas. [More…]

• That they are gravely concerned at what they consider to be the adverse effect on moral standards in the Australian community of the increasing portrayal and description of obscenity, sexual licencepromiscuityandviolence in filmsbooks, magazines, plays and, to a lesser extent, television and radio programmes; [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Honourable Members of the House of Representatives will seek to ensure that Commonwealth legislation bearing on censorship of films, literatture and radio and television programmes is so framed and so administered as to preserve sound moral standards in the community. [More…]

• The increased cost has to come out of the subscriptions paid by ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• Because of the function of the publication in disseminating news and informatior on matters affecting most of the community I suggest that a reclassification into category ‘A’ would be justified. [More…]

• The other unions consider that if the proposed reform took place there would be better service to the community and industrial relations would improve. [More…]

• Within the normal financial structures of the community, local authorities seek money from these financial institutions. [More…]

• the Post Office which must know, year by year on a planned basis, what finance it will have available if it is to give the community an organisation which is sound in nearly every respect that could be named? [More…]

• I am quite prepared to stand here or anywhere else in Australia and give full credit to the employees of the Australian Post Office for the wonderful job which they do for the Australian community. [More…]

• It provides a service to the community through its many and varied communication systems which are rather unique. [More…]

• The community has come to rely on the services of the Post Office to such an extent that modern miracles wrought by the Post Office are taken for granted. [More…]

• These employees are entitled, as every section of the community is, to maintain their earning capacities. [More…]

• The Post Office is a community service and probably more of a community service than any other. [More…]

• Because the Post Office is a community service it deserves special consideration and the criterion that should be applied is that postal charges should be kept to as reasonable a level as it is possible to keep them so that they remain within the financial reach of as many potential users as possible. [More…]

• The Labor Party in this and in all matters is interested only in seeingthat the most efficient and equitable way of operating a service to the community is found. [More…]

• When the community, as taxpayers, provides money for the community, as Post Office customers, it is a matter of judgment whether a price for the use of the money should be exacted from the customers. [More…]

• Had that pledge been honoured the rural community would not today be facing this desperate position. [More…]

• But more importantly there will be subsidies on the inputs and the costs so that’ the farming community can receive some small compensation for the load it has carried over the years - it is of no importance; it is just of historical interest - and the load that it will have to carry in the future if we are going to continue to look on primary industries as a source of important exports earning income for the good of this country. [More…]

• On 20th August last the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) did his thing on the European Economic Community. [More…]

• His finest flourish must easily win him the award of best actor of the year for his characterisation of Australia as little, innocent and largely defenceless in the face of the selfish power play of the EEC should Great Britain enter the Community. [More…]

• The fact is that the proportion of Australian export trade going to Great Britain hasdeclinedfromnearly28percentin 1956-57 when Britain first considered entering the Community, to not quite 12 per cent in 1969-70. [More…]

• Mr Chairman, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), who has just resumed his seat, commenced his speech by attacking the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) on the subject of the statement that the Minister made recently in this House concerning the European Economic Community and the effect that the entry of Great Britain into the EEC would have on Australia if and when, as the Minister said, Great Britain joined the EEC without paying due concern to the situation that would arise in Australia from its action. [More…]

• Industry and his Department had done nothing in relation to trade arrangements with other countries to enable Australia to offset any reaction from the European Economic Community bloc and also from Britain joining the EEC. [More…]

• I also want to say something about the speech of the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), particularly in relation to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In the comments of the honourable member for Oxley I think he lost sight of many of the points relating to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This is one of the aspects of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If the United Kingdom enters this Community she will suffer a loss of sovereignty. [More…]

• In regard to the economic factor in the United Kingdom’s entry 1 have said in this House on a previous occasion that I do not feel that the United Kingdom can take the advantage of the European Economic Community which she anticipates. [More…]

• The European countries will be taking a far greater advantage of the secondary industry section of the Community than Great Britain can take by her entry. [More…]

• 1 feel that a conference should be called of those who are interested - I would think that almost all sections of the community would be interested - who hold responsible positions. [More…]

• By doing this there will suerly be an advantage to all sections of the community. [More…]

• In relation to increased interest rates, broadly speaking, there is a danger that money made available at a greater cost is easier to obtain by those industries or sections of the community that we might call not so necessary’ spheres of industry. [More…]

• Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the honourable member for Oxley was so much in favour of the European Economic Community; it represents a centralisation of power and policies. [More…]

• This undemocratic process has grown rapidly in Australia until thousands of private and public officials made arbitrary decisions each day bearing down upon the community which has no appeal and mostly no knowledge of what has happened. [More…]

• The law enforcement officer will gravely talk about the increasing flow of drugs into the community and will throw in a few anecdotes about young people he has seen ruined by drugs. [More…]

• He says that the average American parents and possibly other people in the community, such as physicians, school counsellors, teachers and ministers, should be given as much correct information about drugs as possible. [More…]

• I strongly recommend that before the Drug Education Committee starts spending money on the usual sort of drug education programmes it should invite before it some of the critics of the drug education programme or read contributions by these people, especially from the United States of America and the United Kingdom, study these matters and determine whether some alternative is available as a way of trying to decrease the number of people in this community who attempt and find it necessary to use drugs whether legal or illegal. [More…]

• The reason for my statement is simply that Britain intends, come hell or high water, to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• While I fully appreciate the impact of this decision on the rural community, nevertheless, in the long run, it may be the best thing that ever happened to Australia. [More…]

• We have the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Or Cairns said last night that the pamphlet had been sent to many members of the Croat community in Melbourne and copies had been distributed at soccer matches bythe Ustasha. [More…]

• Then the honourable member for Lalor connected this pamphlet with members of the Croat community in Melbourne in this way. [More…]

• In the Melbourne ‘Age’ of 27th June 1970, a statement concerning the Croatian community was attributed to you which has caused considerable harm to members of that community. [More…]

• As members of the Croatian community we are not concerned with these pamphlets for which - if they exist - we have no responsibility whatsoever. [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavilytaxed sector of the community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within lt as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• To keep up with community demands for improved services the States have, at the same time, had to increase the severity of their own taxes and charges. [More…]

• This would mean the end of uniform income taxation, which we believe has great advantages for the community and is the system preferred by the Australian public. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government is well aware of the pressure being exerted by the community for an expansion in local government services, just as it is aware of the increasing demands for expansion in other areas of State Government responsibility. [More…]

• He bad been on a mission overseas to investigate, amongst other things, matters regarding the possible entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But more deplorable still is the fact that the honourable member made some mention of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Those members who have been here much longer than I will recall that at one time the present Treasurer (Mr Bury) on an evening programme mentioned the European Economic Community an>i made some individual comment on it. [More…]

• We have not asked ourselves whether wc are educating for national efficiency or whether we are educating for a sane and stable community - what we are trying to do with education. [More…]

• I very much suspect that it is the younger section of the community which votes for the Defence of Government Schools organisation. [More…]

• I believe that this is symptomatic of the very serious concern that is developing in the community for privilege in Australian education. [More…]

• Rather fewer people, but still a great proportion of the community, think that they have something to offer or certainly have some interest in the secondary sphere of education. [More…]

• I would have thought, with respect to the Leader of the Opposition, that for one who holds himself out to the community as one who knows all the answers, he would not necessarily have to behave in such a petulant way because all the questions have not been answered. [More…]

• is well to remind the community at large that that expenditure is now over $300m in a field which is a new one for Commonwealth activity and one that until comparatively recently was the exclusive province of the States. [More…]

• Reasons have been advanced in support of that policy by the present Minister for Education and Science, by other representatives of the Government on numerous occasions and by the community at large. [More…]

• Particularly does this apply to some of the wealthier schools and to children of the wealthiest people in our community. [More…]

• I trust that the Government, in co-operation with the various sections of the community, will press forward and exert every endeavour to ensure that we achieve complete metrication in Australia within the 10 year period which the Minister mentioned when he introduced a Bill some time ago. [More…]

• The trend in the past has been for educational systems to evolve slowly to meet changing conditions and too often changes have been forced upon them by the demands of the community . [More…]

• There is a community loss, too, through the underdevelopment of these human resources. [More…]

• There is no doubt that arrangements for the provision and staffing of educational facilities within Australia have excited more comment and feeling within the community during the last 10 years than most other issues. [More…]

• That is a serious allegation, I believe, because education is to me such a vitally important consideration for the community. [More…]

• We on this side of the chamber believe that much of our education is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the needs of the community for which we turn out the citizens. [More…]

• The PSA Congress adds its voice to those of other responsible community groups calling for the setting of a target date for the granting of full internal self-government to the people of Papua-New Guinea . [More…]

• It can be seen instantly, therefore, that if home rule were imposed in the immediate future the more sophisticated and educated coastal people would very largely control government and public service and, perhaps, army, leaving the highlanders, in particular, as an unrepresented and highly resentful part of the community. [More…]

• The policy of this Government has been that independence should neither be hastened nor delayed, but rather that it should reflect the capacity and the desire of the community to accept greater responsibility. [More…]

• This criticism came from many, many areas within the community, lt came nol only from indigenous members of the Administration but from the missions, the business people and almost every section of the community - and it was volunteered. [More…]

• These officers seem to be highly regarded in Wewak by all sections of the community. [More…]

• There is the serious deficiency of insufficient cash in the community. [More…]

• It is 12 months or so since I visited the Territory but it seemed obvious to me that no Papuan or New Guinea would be able to have the kind of living standard which we had reason to expect in a modern community. [More…]

• We see here a community which is developing very closely beside one of the world’s most wealthy and egalitarian societies. [More…]

• Many of the mores of this community and the attitudes of mind that we have have seeped through into Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• It is true that this development may produce some kind of great overseas credit advantage for the community in the time to come. [More…]

• 1 have never seen figures which have convinced me that in fact these profits will flow back to the community itself. [More…]

• If it- is within the resources of Australian enterprise, k is inside the resources of our community. [More…]

• My own regret is that probably a very large corporation will develop there which a future developing independent community will find very difficult to handle. [More…]

• It is incredible that the shaping, application and development of these services should proceed in this way for in aggregate they represent one of the biggest public expenditure items and one of the greatest users of manpower in the community. [More…]

• As the United States National Commission on Community Health Services noted: [More…]

• Labor’s second thrust will involve the setting up of a national hospitals and community health services commission. [More…]

• respect and will devise practical means to assist the financing of public hospital and community health services developed according to a balanced, integrated plan. [More…]

• I am prompted to deal with the first matter because of the general feeling in the community that doctors are more interested in material reward and their claim of great privileges for themselves than in the setting up of a proper health scheme. [More…]

• Dr J. Magarey- -an address which contained very little humility or sense of community responsibility but plenty of making sure of material reward. [More…]

• For example, in ancient Greece doctors were paid by a third party, the community. [More…]

• Even if we forget the substantial subsidy the community gives Australian doctors in their training and practice there are other factors. [More…]

• We have shifted more toward the community side - away from the hospital doctor - and Blue Shield have come through quite a noticeable shift too, because they simply can’t stand the allegation that they’re nothing more than a tool of the medical profession. [More…]

• In the first place Blue Cross and government together are exhorting the individual institutions which take their money ‘to think on a community-wide basis in planning their future’, and the exhortations are backed by an increasing use of legislation which already exists in all 50 States of the Union, giving the civil power the right to approve or prohibit new medical buildings. [More…]

• I may question the complete truth of the last proposition, but it is certainly one in relation to which Australian doctors ought to wake up and co-operate in giving a decently planned opportunity to the community as is occurring elsewhere in the free world. [More…]

• We believe that the doctorpatient relationship can be preserved, but what is required is a partnership between the doctor and the community, not a constant battle for exorbitant reward for the doctor. [More…]

• These people can support themselves at less than half the cost that the community would incur if they were in hospital. [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…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books,magazines,plays,filmsandtelevisionand radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to ‘he community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and (lives warning of the dangersof theuseof violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavilytaxed sector of the community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• I believe it perfectly proper to point out and will continue to point out that the inflation which follows wage rises which are not backed up by increased productivity is an inflation which damages members of this community least able to look after themselves. [More…]

• inflation; frustration; indignation; protest; panic; angry, divisions within the national’ community; premonitions of McCarthyism. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has tried to advise young men, who find that they cannot carry out the law to which they have a conscientious objection, how best they can do that with least injury to themselves and least disturbance to the community. [More…]

• The third point which intrigued me was the honourable member’s appeal to the principles of law and order and it is his belief that law and order can be substituted for and invoked against the present social order in the community. [More…]

• Universities require this freedom in order to examine the community and seek truth. [More…]

• Nowhere in that statement does the honourable member except families as a part of this process of politicalising power at every stage of the community. [More…]

• Herbert Marcuse in his book ‘An Essay on Liberation’, said concerning the effect of ideas and social organisations in the community: [More…]

• The members of that Commission came from a wide range of community activities in the United States and they unanimously decided that a volunteer force would be better than a drafted force. [More…]

• Some of the arguments advanced for the finding are that conscription is unfair and expects only a certain class in the community to make the sacrifice. [More…]

• The -churches are telling the Government these things as are other organisations throughout the community but the Government has become so complacent that it will not listen. [More…]

• After what I have said, after what has been said by the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and after what will be said by the 2 speakers to follow rae I think it will be clear that there is great feeling in the Australian community against conscription and against conscripts being used in the Vietnam war. [More…]

• Other members of the Ministry who have not fulfilled this requirement are the Postmaster-General (Mr Hulme), the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes), the Minister for Social Services, the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) and the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) - a collection of law breakers impressing law and order on the community. [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Trade to tell us whether he thinks he should continue to go to Russia and other Communist countries when his Party reacts so violently to those people in the community who support a cause with which he does not agree politically? [More…]

• The Government is responsible for the disunity that exists in the community because of the Vietnam war, from which our troops should be withdrawn immediately. [More…]

• The laws have not always been easy or pleasant laws for many of the people to accept but the Australian community has shown a responsibility towards the maintenance of the rule of law over the last 100 years, a record of respect for laws democratically arrived at I would say there is no better record to be found in the world than the record we have. [More…]

• These new fees do not seek to recover costs associated with Commonwealth Government services and certain services deserving of special consideration because of the community interests involved. [More…]

• Other community facilities including school buildings and additional houses will be provided, within the limits of funds available, to meet the growth and development of the area. [More…]

• system as well as meeting the modern community need of speed and efficiency also has economic advantages. [More…]

• It is not to be expected however that the Army requirements for particular skills will necessarily match the normal community distribution of these skills as represented in the national service call up. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material gives a depiction of life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• These are great men in our community. [More…]

• I would urge the Government to make more facilities available for all members of the community in the north. [More…]

• I urge the Minister for the Interior (Mr Nixon) to assist the Minister for Health to see whether it could be arranged that the community hospitals are run from the base hospitals at Darwin, Alice Springs, [More…]

• What the Australian Labor Party proposed virtually would force every member of the community - and I underline the word force’ - to make a contribution out of his or her weekly pay envelope towards the upkeep of Labor’s health scheme. [More…]

• At this point I want to spend a moment in bringing to the House the views of the private sector which is the community in general. [More…]

• Because it arises in such a vital area of community welfare a number of competing interests come into play. [More…]

• For some time a large part of the community has been waiting patiently to hear the completed report of the National Health and Medical Research Council on the request from Dr James for a proved and successful form of asthma treatment. [More…]

• In many countries, particularly the United States and some of the European Economic Community countries, farm acreages are being restricted. [More…]

• Because of the difficulties in the rural community, farmers and farmer organisations have been requesting more and more information so that they can adjust their own production levels or diversify according to what they think will bring them the best income. [More…]

• I think of the reports we have received of the incidence of mental illness and crime among migrants; of the reports that we have received on migrant youth; of the fact that the Australian system has been well commended by international authorities in the field of immigration; of the fact that our experience has been sought by other countries with high level immigration programmes, and finally of the fact that 2.6 million people who have come here in the post-war period have with some difficulties been effectively integrated into the Australian community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s constitutional powers on housing are limited and the scheme must be considered in the wider context of Commonwealth housing policy as a part of the overall approach to the needs of the community. [More…]

• These all encompass a great deal of assistance towards the housing of different sections of our community and I think the Government is to be congratulated and applauded on what it has done. [More…]

• Finance for housing should be based on the needs of the community and should not be used as an economic weapon in the stop-go policy of this Government. [More…]

• When the Government sees a need to reduce the level of demand in the community in order to provide as much stability as can responsibly be provided in price levels and employment levels it can affect demand throughout the community. [More…]

• It has been suggested from time to time that this is not a very large amount, but I put it to the Committee that it is an acceptable amount for those in the community who have need and who are prepared to save. [More…]

• Let us bring the debate back to the needs of young people in our community today. [More…]

• It is levelled at the younger people in the community. [More…]

• It is directed at the home owners in the community. [More…]

• The action taken by the Government was nothing more than a diversionary tactic to direct attention away from the problems of the community. [More…]

• The fact is this: If it is good enough for the Commonwealth to advance funds for the development of the fair city of Canberra and for other territories under the control of the Commonwealth, what is wrong with the concept that the Government ought to accept its responsibility, along with the vote that it receives, to arrest this tremendous burden which is placed upon teenagers and young people in the community as a result of the ever increasing and spiralling cost of land? [More…]

• One could stand for a week repeating that very word but 15 minutes is al) that the Government has seen fit to allot to individual honourable members speaking in this debate of a very serious problem confronting the community generally. [More…]

• The Government has exploited this area of the community and I intend to deal with that matter in a subsequent debate. [More…]

• High land prices, increasing building costs and government inspired increased interest rates on housing and in fact on all institutions serving the community, including local government, have caused prohibitive home repayments. [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…]

• We call on the Government to make grants to the States for the provision of such community amenities in housing estates, constructed with Commonwealth grants, as the Commonwealth itself provides in housing estates in the Territories. [More…]

• Overall, in any section of the community in Western Australia, there is a housing crisis. [More…]

• If the building industry is in a condition of over-production it can create an inflationary trend, which is very serious for the community. [More…]

• The building industry is a great guide* - probably the greatest guide - in making economic adjustments, and it must be kept stable in order to create and maintain economic stability in the community. [More…]

• Save me from- any further inquiries, and for goodness sake save me from some of the planners in the community. [More…]

• I believe also that the standard of housing in any community is a measure of the country’s prosperity. [More…]

• The great problem is the accommodation of the very low income group, the indigent group in the community. [More…]

• I suggest that it is not too much to ask the community to come to the party because a little self help in this matter is indicated. [More…]

• The principal ones were, firstly, the idea that the residual value of land should belong to the community as a whole and not to individuals, and that all increases in value brought about by circumstances which were not the result of the efforts of the land holders themselves should accrue to the public instead of to some lucky individual. [More…]

• They have been told that increased rates will be an income tax deduction whereas payments of ground rent are not, but they know that this will benefit only the wealthier members of the community. [More…]

• This proposal of the Government has much in common with its other proposals that it made in its recent Budget which also benefit wealthier groups in the community at the expense of the less wealthy. [More…]

• If land rent as geared to value is abolished will speculators buy up land with the purpose of changing the purpose clause, knowing that it will result tn increased value, that they will not have to share that increased value with the Government as they have to do now and that it will go to them instead of being siphoned off to the community through the Government? [More…]

• But generally speaking the preferential system is acceptable throughout the community and it is a system with which the people are familiar. [More…]

• The first past the post system, which is advocated by honourable members opposite, is obviously unfair and undemocratic when one looks into it because minority groups in the community would virtually be disfranchised. [More…]

• What this Parliament has to recognise is that this is a community of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• But it is a fact that the Aboriginals have a community and they have an attachment to this area. [More…]

• In the past 25 years it has made a major impact on Australia in terms of economic growth and in the social and cultural diversification of the Australian community. [More…]

• In recent times criticism has been made by some sections of the community of the demands of immigration on our economic capacity. [More…]

• As against that tribute, it must also be borne in mind that there have been significant changes in the requirements and the needs of the community in the intervening period. [More…]

• The article puts forward a point of view that immigration is a cost to the community because it draws on resources that could be applied to other things and that there is not sufficient return to the community to warrant a continued outlay. [More…]

• So apart from my concern for the welfare and well being of all these people, the problems of the migrant community are now of special significance to me. [More…]

• We must have people if we are to remain an economically viable community in this competitive world. [More…]

• The type and calibre of the migrants who have come here are a standing monument to the excellence of our overseas officers and to the thoroughness of their attempts to secure the best people who will become assimilated and integrated in our community. [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…]

• As I said, the whole of our immigration programme has been aimed increasingly at making it possible for all the people we are bringing to Australia to become Australians as quickly as possible, to he assimilated and integrated into the community. [More…]

• This should be a matter of the gravest and greatest concern to the community. [More…]

• This must not be a one-way process though, as there is still a tremendous need for the Australian community as a whole to gain a more knowledgeable attitude and fuller appreciation of the problems immigrants face and the ways in which migrants* contributions to this country’s future can be realised. [More…]

• This requires a degree of involvement, interest and support from all sections of our community. [More…]

• I believe that before this atmosphere can permeate right through this community people must be convinced that the benefits of our migration programme, both individual and collective, outweigh the stresses and strains already being felt in our full employment economy. [More…]

• I firmly believe our immigration policy should be based on the needs of this country, the availability of suitable migrants and the capacity of the Australian community to integrate migrants into our society. [More…]

• It would be wrong not to question what particular skills or qualifications are in short supply; whether there is a danger of developing ethnic groups within major cities, cut off from and falling behind the mainstream of Australian society by educational or language barriers; whether our educational, health and housing facilities are being dangerously over strained; and whether we are, in fact, as a community doing all we can to derive the maximum mutual benefit from our migration programme. [More…]

• If we increase our selectivity and accent the possibility of integration, which I think is now the new word rather than ‘assimilation’, of migrants with the Australia community as we now find it, we will find that those crossroads can be suitably passed and not necessarily in only one direction. [More…]

• In the south Sydney area served by the community referral centre which my colleague the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) helped to bring about, half of the population is drawn from Yugoslavia, Lebanon and Greece. [More…]

• The aim is migrant integration, but how can we successfully integrate such a fragmented community? [More…]

• So many of the families are outside any kind of community activity. [More…]

• I refer to the Good Neighbour Movement, with which I have been associated for 17 years and which works with church and community groups. [More…]

• In 1970-71 it is expected that 30 to 32 community agencies will have been given grants to employ social workers for migrant social problems. [More…]

• This Government - the lawfully elected Government of this state - has maintained and stated that it believes that national service is essential in the national interest to maintain the Army at the level required now and in the future, and the majority of the Australian community would appear to share this view. [More…]

• When I think of the great mass of our community of 12 million or so people calling on the 40,000 young men who have been called up so far to do their duty while they carry on with their business as usual I wonder what has happened to the morality and sense of values of this country. [More…]

• Is it not possible that there has been a change in the morality of the community? [More…]

• At the present time it is business as usual for the largest mass of the community. [More…]

• At that stage there was emotion in the community. [More…]

• A large percentage of the community seemed to agree that it was a desirable exercise. [More…]

• By 1967 a large percentage of the community had faced the fact that the commitment was no longer valid. [More…]

• I refuse to believe that the community at large says that we ought to be in Vietnam any more. [More…]

• I believe that the great mass of the community regards the national service system, and particularly its selective nature and the commitment to Vietnam, as obnoxious and lacking in moral value. [More…]

• Nobody in the community seems to be able to obtain any detailed information on very important factors surrounding the introduction of Australia’s first nuclear power station. [More…]

• We want information, and a select committee will provide that for the Parliament and the community. [More…]

• It has now been recognised that students as members of the University Community have a role and contribution in the making of University policies and decisions. [More…]

• Whereas - (a)It has now been recognised that students as members of the University Community have a role and contribution in the making of University policies and decisions. [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavily, taxed sector of the community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• I have already mentioned in this House that considerable improvements have been made to their job and we will continue to do what we can to see that their position in relation to other jobs in the community is kept at a satisfactory level. [More…]

• The honourable member will also remember that this Government took action in the past with the Reserve Bank and the trading banks to see that when interest on these funds was raised for the community generally in the past, this did not occur in the case of primary producers. [More…]

• As a quick matter of interest to those who think that all tariffs impose a burden on the community, I point out that 56 per cent of the reports of the Tariff Board over that period recommended an increase in protection, 107 reports recommended decreased protection and 117 reports recommended no alteration in the tariff at all. [More…]

• The calculation that has been made in the article referred to - that is, that the burden of tariff on the community is of the order of $2,700m a year - can only be some sort of a calculation based on all industry taking the maximum advantage of the tariff, which is not the case, and assuming that this would be the burden compared with no protection at all. [More…]

• I think it is quite ridiculous to say that this is a burden being carried by the community, for without this policy of protection there would be nothing of the fabric of Australian society. [More…]

• However, if these economies are to be translated into freight savings, it must of course be obvious also that the members of the waterfront sector within the Darwin community must work together in order to ensure the quickest possible turnround of that vessel. [More…]

• I am hoping that both at that conference and in the question of the resolution of demarcation difficulties consideration will be given to the costs that members of the Darwin and Northern Territory community are suffering. [More…]

• It has been held by the High Court that a person wishing to show that he is not an ‘immigrant’, and that he cannot constitutionally be excluded from Australia, has to show that he is ‘a constituent member of the Australian community’ or, in other words, that he ‘has his homein Australia, This means that people in the External Territories, who have not previously lived in Australia, can be as a matter of law prevented from coming to the mainland. [More…]

• and (2) Neither ibe Department’s staff of 15 social workers nor the 25 social workers employed with community agencies engaged in welfare work amongst migrants (whose salaries are financed by the Commonwealth) include a Finnish speaking social worker. [More…]

• The general lack of bilingual social workers is largely overcome by the use of interpreters and counselling officers on the staff of the Department’s State Branch offices and by access to these resources in the community, includingthe Good Neighbour movement. [More…]

• The Department’s social workers and those employed with community agencies, in addition to providing a professional case work service involving more highly complicated personal, domestic and social problems, have also an administrative and supervisory role. [More…]

• While its first application will be in the Northern Territory, both in the community schools and in the Aboriginal schools, its existence will eventually facilitate the operation of a separate school system in the Australian Capital Territory if one is to be established. [More…]

• We would end up having a lot of perhapsers in our community. [More…]

• What an extraordinary policy is being advocated by the Labor Party - that a section of our community should be prepared not to accept the authority of Parliament. [More…]

• The reason given by the Government for these increases in sales tax is that it hopes they will lessen somehow the impact of inflation raging in the community. [More…]

• lt ought to be realised sometimes that you can actually inflate the economy into a deflationary situation if real incomes are not adjusted fast enough to mop up the goods and services available in a community. [More…]

• I point out again, as I have done in this place on more than one occasion, that the wage earner is the preponderant form of economic unit or spending unit in the community. [More…]

• But then the problem arises: What about the other sections in the community? [More…]

• I hope that the Government will grapple with this very serious problem in the community. [More…]

• Something should be done to provide justice to all sections of the community - not only wage earners but those on fixed incomes and those people whose incomes are uncertain, such as the farming section and so on - and to curb the capacity of those who are able to adjust their prices to suit themselves. [More…]

• In the few minutes that remain I would like to draw the attention of the House to the complaints of 2 groups in the community and no doubt there are more with complaints. [More…]

• It is a flat rate tax which cannot be avoided and it imposes the heaviest burden upon that section of the community which is least able to bear it. [More…]

• The section of the community from which the [More…]

• On the 1968-69 figures half the increase will come from that section of the community where the breadwinner has an income of $2,800 or less. [More…]

• The tax burden should be distributed fairly amongst the community; sales tax is not. [More…]

• I do not smoke, but there are still poor unfortunates in the community who do. [More…]

• Certainly the situation in regard to our own industry is that this particular tax should not be imposed at this time because of the effect on the industry, the effect on the growers and the effect on the community. [More…]

• How about coming down to earth with these taxes and prevent the high costs to our community that must be passed on, causing inflation to spiral, because this is a service industry and no doubt it passes on each and every cost if it can. [More…]

• It relates to the totality of investment in the community. [More…]

• He would be aware that the New South Wales Government and a broad section of our community are seeking the restoration of the natural environment of the areas of North, South and Middle Heads and Georges Heights. [More…]

• As the organisers, including one Labor member of this House, have said previously that the Country Party has ceased to be a power in the community, and as these opinions are contradictory, can the Minister clarify the position? [More…]

• Efforts are being made to float bond issues in other capital markets in order to establish the Bank’s standing in the international financial community and enable it to borrow funds to finance its normal lending activities in much the same way as the World Bank now does. [More…]

• Perhaps the medium sized or smaller companies in our community will want to use these convertible notes, but nowhere that I have been able to see has anybody written that convertible notes in the form being put forward by the Government at the present time will be used by them [More…]

• But at least it has brought these sections back into the Income Tax Asssessment Act where they can easily be amended later so that they will be more acceptable to members of the community who want to use convertible notes. [More…]

• But the onus is on the Government to prove that in the form in which they appear in this Bill they are of great use to our community in encouraging investment and for the other purposes which have been mentioned in a very vague sort of way. [More…]

• 1 hardly need outline the hardships being caused in the community at the present time by the high rate of interest which we are suffering. [More…]

• We have only to see how savings banks are forced to reduce the amount of home mortgage loans to applicants because of the present monetary policies, and how building societies are experiencing difficulties, to know that the monetary policies of this Government are creating great hardships in the community. [More…]

• 1 submit that in encouraging a new form of investment and a greater demand for savings in the community which are in short supply the Bill will merely increase interest rates and the demand for money and thus the cost of money. [More…]

• This was because the less governments could borrow on reasonable terms the more they had to obtain in taxation to finance basic developmental works and the provision of community services. [More…]

• It has become an absurd Act to master - an Act which is doing nothing but retard productivity in the community in as much as so many intelligent people are involved in finding all sorts of ways through and around it. [More…]

• Secondly, there is the effect of interest rates on the community. [More…]

• In fact, the Government has received and considered submissions made to it by representatives of the business and finance community since the Bill was introduced. [More…]

• I wish to stress to the House that every effort has been made to steer a course between the needs of protecting the revenue and the needs of producing a detailed scheme that will serve the Government’s objectives in restoring the deduction and will be found useful by the business community. [More…]

• From comments that have been made in the Press since the basic conditions for deductibility were announced, there is every indication that the new convertible notes legislation will be of practical assistance to the business community. [More…]

• How many people in the community can afford to save $23 a week in the first place and are they entitled to be assisted by the revenue for so doing? [More…]

• Very briefly, in economic terms, the Govern ment has the responsibility to make sure that the supply of goods and services in the community - the amount of physical labour that is available in the community - are balanced by a reasonable demand, because if demand outstrips supply we get shortages of goods and inflation. [More…]

• In addition, of course, the Government’s spending, which is only possible because of taxation, has resulted in a number of benefits to individuals in the community. [More…]

• I think that the community ought to understand that because one tends, in the total Budget context, to pick out a criticism here and there and not see the thing as a whole. [More…]

• Where is the Government’s policy on economic growth which is going to benefit those vast numbers of people in the community in the various States and Territories who enjoy no more than the base rate? [More…]

• As anyone in the country or in country towns knows, once the nucleus fails, the first people to be hurt are the farmers, then the workforce, then the industry supplying die farmers and so it spreads indirectly through the community concerned. [More…]

• Reluctantly it has had to reduce this number to 800 employees or below half and it is still in trouble, having incurred a loss of some $ 10m in sales to the farming community in the last year. [More…]

• In reality, even though this sales field is slowly growing it is only minute and cannot keep up with the falling sales in the farming sector as the farming community falls under economic pressure. [More…]

• Whilst commending the Bill one wonders if this is a sufficient answer to the problems, taking into consideration the situation facing its primary market, the farming community. [More…]

• However, the real answer to its problems is an improvement in its market prospects which will only be- brought about by a recovery in the farming community. [More…]

• I feci that this is not the way in which welfare services should be provided in the community. [More…]

• There should be a full explanation of the overall objectives of welfare service policy by the Government, not only in terms of what it has implemented and how that is evaluated in terms of service to the community but. [More…]

• how this meshes into a broad long-term plan proposing adequate welfare services for the benefit of the whole community and of the whole man. [More…]

• This, too, could be done with benefit to the community. [More…]

• It is desirable, although I have reservations about the way in which this is being done, that the hostels the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) has in mind should be provided in the community. [More…]

• The time has passed when new rehabilitation services can be established or present ones expanded without a thorough look in advance at the rehabilitation needs of the community to be served. [More…]

• The point is that there is a general need for this type of service in the community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth sheltered workshop service is a service in the community about which I have some qualifications. [More…]

• My qualifications in no way can be interpreted as a criticism of the quality and dedication of the people the Department employs in this service, but rather are they to the effect that the service tends to be somewhat remote from many sections of the community. [More…]

• Not only is this provided at the Danderid hospital but it is provided at ali the hospitals which serve the Swedish community. [More…]

• Their hospitals are established on a regionalised basis with health centres focussing in on them from various sections of the community. [More…]

• Indeed, 1 propose in a few minutes to suggest that the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service as it operates anyway ought to be phased out in favour of an expansion of community welfare services. [More…]

• Of course, we would seek to avoid duplication, to eliminate gaps and to provide a continuing and comprehensive range of services conveniently accessible and bearing direct personal relationship with the community being served. [More…]

• We aim at achieving this by community involvement in the general decision making and operation of these programmes through the regional department. [More…]

• This ought to be available also to those people who can be defined as disadvantaged within the community. [More…]

• Within the overall concept which I am proposing the programme would be administered by a director for disabled and disadvantaged services and this programme would, of course, involve the provision of sheltered workshops in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that there is an obligation on us here in the Federal Parliament as well as those in the State governments, local authorities and voluntary agencies to see that according to the established needs of the community there are sheltered workshops available. [More…]

• It is completely unacceptable to me that we have to depend on someone running around rattling a tin can to obtain donations from generous members of the public who, frankly, are a minority and who are, all too often, the people who are continuously carrying the burden of these services, that is, they voluntarily carry an unfair proportion of taxes for public services in the community. [More…]

• Then we could use the services of a voluntary committee to operate these workshops within the community. [More…]

• These handicapped people, or those who are fortunate enough to be in the sheltered workshops, have been given a feeling of being useful and of being able to make a contribution to their community. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Services announced in his second reading speech that a survey was being conducted to ascertain the dimensions of the disabilities that exist, especially among the young members of our community. [More…]

• The whole concept of sheltered workshop training is to endeavour to train those people for normal employment opportunities and also to provide employment for those less fortunate people who have no hope of seeking such employment and cannot take their place in the community in that way. [More…]

• Of course, when we add to this the $2m that has been contributed by private organisations and local people, we can see the degree to which not only the Government but the community is trying to assist the less fortunate people. [More…]

• A co-ordinated plan needs to be introduced for the development of workshops in the community. [More…]

• Other countries have some kind of survey by which they keep a tab on the number of persons of this kind in the community. [More…]

• At the present moment, we have a survey in progress as to the dimensions of disability especially among the younger members of the community, ft is of course crucial to give help to the younger group at the lime when training will be most beneficial to them. [More…]

• There is no doubt that some handicapped workers attending sheltered workshops are the heaviest taxed workers in the community, even though their gross emoluments are the lowest in the community. [More…]

• 1 inquired of the Minister for Labour and National Service whether the National Service Act contains any provision for exemption on compassionate grounds of members of the community called up for national service. [More…]

• This Government has been so neglectful of the problems of the community that, it has made no provision whatsoever for a lad to be exempted on compassionate grounds. [More…]

• They are a burden on the community. [More…]

• The provision of medical and hospital services to the community is primarily a State Government responsibility. [More…]

• The United States Armed Forces provide married quarters only when housing is not available in the local community. [More…]

• I might add that the Italian community is now the second largest national group in Australia. [More…]

• It is exceeded only by the British community. [More…]

• The Italian community has made a great contribution to the development of Australia in an economic sense, quite apart from its contribution to the social and cultural diversification of the Australian community. [More…]

• In answer to the last part of the question, I presume it was by mining in the community in the usual way. [More…]

• If not, will the Minister agree that there is a need for such housing and that Commonwealth financial aid would enable the States to provide more adequately for this and so benefit the community generally? [More…]

• The honourable gentleman questions the role of the Department of Immigration and my own Ministry in relation to the provision of permanent housing in the community is not a matter which falls within my responsibility or indeed the responsibility of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Stales are the principal suppliers of low cost housing for the general community, and the honourable gentleman would know the substantial sums which the Commonwealth provides for the States under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. [More…]

• The second comment I make is that whilst the Commonwealth has a responsibility to do all in its power to offset the difficult transition that is involved in the migration of people from one country to another, we should never reach the point where migrants in this community are placed in any position of preferment or privilege vis-a-vis Australians who are born here. [More…]

• Today some 250 flats are available for migrants throughout the community. [More…]

• In the health field, while we have made some contribution to the provision of more bricks and mortar in the States, my office and the Commonwealth Department of Health have been primarily interested in helping the States to improve health services in the areas where Aboriginals are located, and to this end we are financing for a limited period the salaries and costs of community health nurses, public health officers and others in Aboriginal areas. [More…]

• Of course, there is also for the Department of Social Services relief from payment of pensions, and for the community there is greater productivity. [More…]

• That is this: There are some people in the community who are so handicapped physically or mentally that, whatever we do for them, they cannot themselves come up to this average. [More…]

• Because the cost of these services is pretty much beyond the resources of the States to respond to adequately, we would be prepared to sit down with the States and to co-operate with them to set about planning the development of adequate services in the community on a balanced sort of basis. [More…]

• So, once we have established the criteria of need and how we are to set about meeting these needs, a Federal Labor government would accept the responsibility to provide adequate funds for the progressive development of services in the community. [More…]

• They would seek to describe the policies which would be of greatest benefit to the community, according to the needs which are established in that community. [More…]

• It is no good suggesting that the psychiatric health services in the community are of a satisfactory standard. [More…]

• The State psychiatric health services have difficulty in retaining professional people such as psychiatrists because of their dissatisfaction with the restrictions in the service and with the drought within the service which prevents a fertile development of thought, of policy and of services in the community. [More…]

• There has been much theorising and certainly many exciting projects have been undertaken in the field of community psychiatric health services. [More…]

• as much as possible, to get patients back into the community, to get them involved in the totality of their society and, as much as possible, to get them away from mental hospitals. [More…]

• Even in the case of many chronic patients this is possible with the development of suitable hostel services and community-supported services. [More…]

• All of this has been ignored except for a fairly vague and fleeting reference in the concluding paragraph of the statement of the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) to the effect that the Government would maintain a watch on the development of community psychiatric health services by the States over the next 3 years. [More…]

• We believe that the community psychiatric health services ought to be developed on a regional concept and that adequate finance for this purpose ought to be provided by the Federal Government. [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, this House is of opinion that provision should be made by the Commonwealth for adequate financial assistance to allow the development of community and integrated mental health services on a regional bans’. [More…]

• I will develop to some further extent later in my speech the aspect of how we will apply this approach, but firstly I would like to mention some of the historical facts and some of the background to mental health services in the community. [More…]

• It was clear at that stage that this was an extremely neglected area of health services in the community. [More…]

• This is true today with respect to an adequate expansion in the community integrated mental health services. [More…]

• There is clearly a need for national planning, research, evaluation and development of facilities and methods at the national level but in co-operation with the State governments, if for no other reason than to provide the financial resources which are required to develop satisfactory mental health services in the community which are pretty much beyond the capacity of the States. [More…]

• It would be a much more rational and coherent way to define this according to the manner in which it is done each year and to separate it as a special category because it has tremendous importance within our community. [More…]

• The Stoller report recommendation for an increase in community services has been neglected at the federal level. [More…]

• There has been no financial support from the Federal Government in the 16 years since that report was presented to permit the development of community services. [More…]

• It is pretty pointless to provide a small amount of capital expenditure for the development of decentralised community services because this is only a minor proportion of the expenditure involved. [More…]

• The system of mental health services in the community seems to have broken down here. [More…]

• So, I give further accentuation to the point I was making to the Minister, namely, that this is one of the important areas and that until the Federal Government is prepared to provide more finance in this field the provision of mental health services in the community will be defective in a very important area and, as a result, overall we will suffer an inefficiency in the services provided in the community. [More…]

• I repeat that from my own contact with these institutions in Queensland I know that there is a pressing need for many new buildings at the mental hospitals, even if we are to have a contraction of services at the mental hospitals commensurate with an expansion of services at the community level. [More…]

• Hs is a man who, if given the opportunity through adequate financial support, will develop an extremely valuable community psychiatric health service. [More…]

• It always amazes me to think that in this country our responsible representatives - especially the people at the Federal level but excluding members on this side of the House because we are not responsible for the restrained way in which the Federal Government supports mental health service programmes - can be so casual about the need of mental health services in the community. [More…]

• So, this is not a field of minor illness in the community; it is a field of fairly major demand for health services. [More…]

• The essential requirements of those centres were that they provide in-patient and out-patient care, diagnostic and evaluative services, emergency psychiatric units, day and night care, foster home care, rehabilitation, consultative services to other community agencies, and mental health information and education. [More…]

• The boards were to be a liaison between the centre and the tocal community. [More…]

• Many benefits are being derived by the community. [More…]

• The main problem is arising probably because of a failure to mesh in the mental health services concept with the concept of social welfare services, also on a community basis. [More…]

• As our proposed amendment indicates, in Australia we need the development of community integrated mental health services on a regional basis. [More…]

• The re-admission rates show that there is an alarming need for community services to be conveniently and quickly available in an emergency for people with psychiatric illness. [More…]

• But even allowing for that built-in distortion, there is clear evidence that community support is required to help these people in times of need. [More…]

• The services should not merely sit out in the community but should reach out into the home to include home visitors, social workers and psychiatric nurses in fairly frequent contact with discharged patients to ensure that they are looking after themselves and, where required, receiving the regular drug intake. [More…]

• Earlier I referred to the Heyfield survey which indicated that about 18 per cent of the community are suffering from some sort of psychiatric disturbance. [More…]

• The 1964 analysis of the Office of Health Economics in Great Britain estimated that for every patient suffering from mental illness in a hospital, there are 2 in the community. [More…]

• That is the magnitude of the problem that must be faced within the community. [More…]

• They clearly indicate that the open doors of the mental hospitals have become revolving doors because of the breakdown between the services provided in mental hospitals and the need for services in the community. [More…]

• Our approach would be to develop further the provision of psychiatric services within the general hospital concept; in conjunction with the States to establish the pattern of mental health in the community; to provide the sorts of services required for treatment of that ill health; to base this approach on the regionalised community concept; and to aim to reduce the size of mental hospitals as we develop the community health services. [More…]

• In the final result it must be appreciated that if we do not spend more public money in the provision of adequate health services and if we do not evolve in the community the psychiatric health services concept on a regional basis, as I have mentioned, we must bear tremendous indirect costs. [More…]

• The estimated cost of $US7 billion for mental illness in the community in the United States of America for 1963 would be a fairly significant figure when applied to the Australian community especially in view of the fairly large degree of psychiatric disturbance which exists in our community. [More…]

• It is quite unreasonable in a civilised community and a prosperous community inadequately to fund the adequate development of psychiatric mental health services in the country. [More…]

• Community’, published in 1961, summarised the development of mental health services in the past and offered a blueprint for the development of such services in the future in the light of changed community attitude, changed methods of treatment, and so on. [More…]

• These have led to a greater reduction in hospital admissions, length of hospital stay and have returned many people to early community participation. [More…]

• However, this earlier return to the community has required an increase in support of services in the community. [More…]

• It is also the subject of the amendment in the suggestion for the development of community and integrated mental health services on a regional basis. [More…]

• The development by the States of community and integrated mental health services will be kept under observation by the Commonwealth so that, at the end of the 3-year period, the Government will be in a position to consider what future role the Commonwealth should phty in the mental health field. [More…]

• Each of these attempted suicide cases would require follow-up services in the community for effective treatment to enable them to return quickly to a reasonable role in society. [More…]

• The grants should be used to combat those things that delay the patient’s return to the community. [More…]

• As the 2 previous speakers have said, we are dealing with an area of hygiene and health that affects the whole community. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) pointed out, there is a very high incidence of mental illness in the community. [More…]

• Every psychiatrist to whom I have spoken on this subject believes that the only way a mentally ill person can be treated is not to isolate him from the community but rather to try to integrate him back into it. [More…]

• We must also remember that if the States were relieved of this part of the burden they would have more money to spend on education or something else in the community. [More…]

• There is a great need for the Commonwealth to have second thoughts about whether it will apply its resources only to capital areas or will accept its share of the responsibility - as the conscience of the community in the area of mental health - in areas other than capital works. [More…]

• The amendment moved by the honourable member for Oxley states: whilst not opposing the provisions of the Bill, this House is of opinion that provision should be made by the Commonwealth for adequate financial assistance to allow the development of community and integrated mental health services on a regional basis’. [More…]

• The States, at this stage anyway, have not asked the Commonwealth to provide money for the provision of community health services.I shall suggest to the honourable member in a moment why they have not done so. [More…]

• It is suggested that community health services would have been developed to a greater extent than they are now if the Commonwealth had provided more money. [More…]

• The Ministers consider that the future of mental health services involves a much greater emphasis on the development and maintenance of community mental health services and propose to examine and present a comprehensive programme for assistance in this area. [More…]

• The next point I make is, as I pointed out by way of interjection when the honourable member for Oxley was speaking, that there is no barrier in this legislation to prevent the States from using the money which will be made available under this legislation for the capital requirements of the development of community mental health services. [More…]

• These are all projects for the development of community mental health services. [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…]

• The point I am making is that in no way is the provision of assistance in this form preventing the development by the States of these - and I agree with the Opposition on this point - most desirable projects in the development of community mental health services. [More…]

• But the fact is that this is generally recognised, and it was recognised by us when, as the honourable member for Oxley mentioned, we decided to go flat out to institute a community mental health service in Canberra. [More…]

• If the development of community mental health services is cheaper than the provision of the traditional mental health services, then obviously there can be no financial barrier to their development. [More…]

• The Government’s intention is to remove that barrier from Commonwealth schemes so that Commonwealth employees who have spent a considerable part of their working lives in one field of endeavour and who could contribute much more to the community and to their own lives in some other area of Commonwealth, State, university or private employment will no longer feel compelled, by the fear of the loss of thenaccumulated superannuation rights, to remain in their employment waiting only for the effluxion of time and the arrival of their date of retirement. [More…]

• We believe that there are great advantages for our community from an interchange of employees between the Commonwealth, the States, the universities and industry and this Bill and related measures will do much to ensure that the Commonwealth’s superannuation arrangements will not impede this. [More…]

• There are those people in the community who suggest that the ABC should have complete autonomy and that there should be no interference by the Government or anyone else. [More…]

• I think that the contribution which is being made by the Australian Post Office to other countries at their request or at the request of United Nations agencies should be known to honourable members and to the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that if it is known people inside and outside the Parliament will have a better appreciation of the type of person who is employed in the Post Office, the type of person who serves the Australian community in a technical or administrative capacity. [More…]

• lt must be granted that there are great technical difficulties in reporting politics - the actions of men and the issues and ideas - to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a deep need of our community. [More…]

• This concern, as might be expected, comes mainly from the more informed or responsibly minded section of the community, and it is widespread. [More…]

• However, one group of Australians, the most creative and talented section of our community, is going to feel the immediate effect of this decision. [More…]

• I believe that if this sort of procedure were adopted in the commercial field it would be resisted by many people in the community. [More…]

• Why, just because a community is small, rural and isolated, should a less urgent view be taken of its needs? [More…]

• The honourable member for Dawson went on to say - and it is well for the farming community to hear this repeated and to remember it.It was in a speech he made in March this year: [More…]

• Let me pass on to the Labor Party’s suitability to represent the rural community. [More…]

• How could the farmers place any confidence in that Party to continue or in the ability of that Party to continue or to add to the large amount of money allocated quite justifiably in order to assist the farming community? [More…]

• I ask the Treasurer a question which concerns the marked increase in demand by the farm sector of the community for bank loan accommodation. [More…]

• But I think the honourable gentleman would be making a mistake if he said that these people deserve only sympathy - which they do - but that the community should not be protected from them. [More…]

• Moreover, the Government believes that servicemen and service women would wish to have the major aspects of their pay and financial conditions of employment given a thorough examination by a body sufficiently detached from their employing organisations in the government area and equipped to draw relevant comparisons with pay and conditions in the civilian community. [More…]

• In making recommendations under (i) the Committee should have regard to rates of salary in other areas of Commonwealth employment and in the community generally, to the rates paid to other rank personnel of the armed forces, and to the relationship as determined by the Government between the emoluments of Chiefs of Staff and those of heads of Commonwealth departments. [More…]

• His Honour has had extensive experience in industrial relations and wage fixing matters and has played an active part in a wide range of community affairs. [More…]

• There is nothing like an impending election to flush out a little action from an otherwise tardy Government when the rights and entitlements of sections of the community are concerned. [More…]

• If he argues that better pay and conditions will attract only the underprivileged of the community - this statement appears at page 2200 of Hansard - what sort of people does he argue will be attracted now to the defence Services when the pay and conditions are so gravely inadequate and totally unacceptable to the men of the fighting Services? [More…]

• I do not go all the way with that view but, nevertheless, if ever there was a medium at the disposal of the community which is being misused it is the medium of television. [More…]

• So to use a figure of $15m as being their profit gives the impression to the community that this is automatically available for shareholders, for reserves and for expenditure in the area of film, production. [More…]

• The preservation of this notion and this principle is vital if the Australian Broadcasting Commission is to function pluralistically on behalf of the widespread interests and groups in the community. [More…]

• Since I came into this Parliament many years ago the farming community and rural residents generally have been saying that it is costing far too much for them to get telephone communications. [More…]

• I am sure that if these people are listened to and if proper publicity is given to their views other members of the community will come to realise that this is aggression in Cambodia and that we, in Australia, must do all we can not only to see that Cambodia remains free but that it is able to assert its right to neutrality. [More…]

• The Commission’s standing in the eyes of combatants and the community is likely to suffer if Mr Gorton and his Ministers use outside forums to make speeches which might be interpreted as attempts to influence deliberations. [More…]

• its policy is conducive to industrial anarchy, it is harmful to the majority of workers, and it is reckless of the inflationary effects of its policies on the community and the workers. [More…]

• It is conducive to industrial anarchy because it recognises the strength of union leaders in positions of power and authority in those areas where the withdrawal of goods and services from the community or industry would be extreme for those persons. [More…]

• It is inflationary, and inflation is destructive to the community and to the workers who do not have that industrial power. [More…]

• It knows full well that the wage drift goes to the powerful unions and that 85 per cent of the community - the clerks, the carpet layers, the architrave builders and these sorts of people - do not have industrial power. [More…]

• It has long been obvious that arbitration for minimum payments and bargaining for over-award payments must co-exist in this community. [More…]

• The bargaining that is taking place in Australia is obviously having an extreme effect upon the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is a very great responsibility on all affected sections of the community to have placed before the Commission their various views on the various matters before the Commission. [More…]

• I close on this note: All those who are responsible in the employee and employer section of the community and all the producers within Australia have a responsibility to come forward and give evidence or to ensure that evidence is given to the Commission. [More…]

• I submit, with all respect, that the episode of the Fill was an instance of the Government making an unsupported judgment, and it involved this community in a hiatus in its defence planning for a considerable number of years. [More…]

• That is, the Federal Government - will continue to watch the position very closely to ensure that no section of the Australian exporting community is disadvantaged. [More…]

• The Defence Services must be recognised to be as necessary and their conditions must be made as attractive as any other pursuit in the community. [More…]

• Nothing can deny the fact that that approach to defence, as Senator Kennedy indicated in the United States Senate a short while ago, will make the privileged immune from the obligations which arise as a result of defence policy and place the full burden of defence on the under-privileged in the community - people who are working with their hands, people who have been less fortunate in relation to their education and people who are less well off. [More…]

• If it is thought to be a just and honourable course to make other people in the community - the better-off, the privileged, the wealthy, the better-educated - immune from the obligations of defence in that area, that is not a philosophy which I can embrace. [More…]

• We have started to make service in the citizen forces as an alternative to national service obnoxious to the community. [More…]

• I merely make this simple statement, that the Malaysian Government puts it down as the main priority, that China should be brought into the international community. [More…]

• But it must be recognised that the Services are competing for manpower at a time of full employment in a community where civilian opportunities both for potential recruits and experienced serving personnel are considerable. [More…]

• The suggestion put is that training areas remote enough from the community so as not to offend the public should be provided. [More…]

• They are men who develop specialised expertise in a field which cannot be gained anywhere else in the community, and through the way in which their welfare is being indifferently regarded by the Government they are being pressured out of the Service. [More…]

• The Minister specified in another area that is likely to appeal to the better educated people in the community. [More…]

• It has strongly advocated in this printed report that 85 square miles of land in close proximity to Sydney should be released for the establishment of a planned community, the kind of planning concept referred to by the honourable member for Mitchell. [More…]

• In this way housing will be made available under decent conditions for all sections of our community, whether they be young married couples, aged persons or anybody else. [More…]

• The demand rises and falls with fluctuations in the affluence of the community. [More…]

• Today there are tens of thousands of young girls in the community who get together in groups and rent a unit or flat. [More…]

• I have said before in this House that there is only one real problem in housing - and to the credit of the honourable member for Reid, he mentioned it - and that is the provision of suitable housing for the low income group in the community. [More…]

• All these matters are directed towards the encouragement of home ownership which in our opinion is the best kind of community to develop. [More…]

• In particular he should mix with the younger people in our community who are trying to obtain housing or trying, as the honourable member said, to become little capitalists and own their own home. [More…]

• That package deal should cover not only the acquisition of land and the building of the houses but also should go on to help build a community with a decent quality of life. [More…]

• I believe that it should provide for the allocation of local government finance for ovals, community centres and the like. [More…]

• All these facilities are needed to build a community and not just a number of stark homes without the necessary community services around them. [More…]

• We have great mineral, rural and industrial wealth and yet we have this extraordinary situation in which a great body of our people, particularly the younger people, in our community are unable to own their own homes,, have to live with in-laws or. [More…]

• I would challenge anybody in this House to debate the proposition that there is no section of the community at the present time that is so urgently in need of financial assistance as the primary producing sector. [More…]

• After all, what can be more significant for the economic life of a community than the law that relates to corporations or to companies. [More…]

• It is about time he threw off his inertia and helped the Aboriginal community in his electorate. [More…]

• Along with the honourable member for Franklin, 1 advocate that stimulating the arts is an extremely important area of government in our community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is the sole custodian of those funds and he is the only person who doles out these handouts to the affluent and the fortunate within the community. [More…]

• I would like to know, although 1 am not likely to be told and the House is not likely to be informed, why the Budget increases the proposed vote for this body by about 13 per cent, which is a greater percentage increase than was accorded to the social welfare sector of the community? [More…]

• The point I make is that the only way to achieve the aspirations which the people of Australia want - I refer to a sense of idealism and indeed a sense of social conscience - is by community wealth. [More…]

• Community wealth will not be achieved by sheer money wealth. [More…]

• If there is one sector of the Australian community that is feeling most severely the effects of increasing costs it is the rural sector. [More…]

• There is also the question of what kind of internal arrangement we want in the House and what kind of public access there should be for people coming into the House, bearing in mind the right of the community to come here and br heard. [More…]

• Here is another illustration of the widening involvement of local government in the social services which we are trying to give to the community. [More…]

• By this action it is hoped that, as the community grows - and Alice [More…]

• I am mentioning this matter here and now while the Minister is present because a very community minded bunch of people have available to them an architect, a town planner and the necessary land and they will produce an overall plan for expanded homes for aged people in Alice Springs. [More…]

• I ask the Parliament to forget the political advantage of the present system and to find a quick and genuine solution to the plight of the pensioners because they are the ones who have to bear every sales tax increase put on by this Government Every community cost increase caused by wage and other rises and by inflation generally is reflected in pensioners’ living costs. [More…]

• Other persons are more fortunate in that they are being supported in denominational homes which are endeavouring to carry them, but this is not practicable for any length of time because the denominational centres are rapidly feeling the increased costs within the community which are being passed on to them. [More…]

• Because of this these people are subjected to all sorts of community pressures which they cannot withstand. [More…]

• As everybody knows, the amount of rales charged is geared to the earning capacity of the lower income people in the community. [More…]

• I invite the Minister to take up this important issue during this debate and tell the Committee and the people why the Government continues to keep a small section of the aged people of this community in a position well below the starvation line. [More…]

• 1 do not have sufficient time to read his speech, but I am most certainly prepared to layit on the table for all members of the Government to see, because it indicts them for their stupidity and lack of understanding of the problems of aged people in the community. [More…]

• What does this Government intend to do between now and Christmas for this sector of the community? [More…]

• On almost every other page of our newspapers we see statements by people in the community who are concerned about the problem of the aged in the field of housing and these people say that these things should be looked at. [More…]

• In conclusion I challenge the honesty, courage and integrity of honourable members opposite and I challenge them to rise in their places during the course of this debate and answer some of the questions asked about the problems of the aged in this community, ft is no good talking about soldiers on national service. [More…]

• In my view - it is unpopular to say it - the section of the pensionable community which is worst off is that which contains single pensioners. [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…]

• That is most unfortunate and unrealistic, because I should think more than half the pensioner community is made up of former trade unionists. [More…]

• The Minister also said that the cost to the community in the first year would be $2,000m, a pretty significant figure. [More…]

• If it continued for any length of time, this rate of inflation would be quite unacceptable - not just to the Government with economic responsibility to maintain balanced growth and development, but to large sections of the community who are powerless in the redistribution of income, wages, and assets which is the social vice of inflation. [More…]

• To those unfortunates in our community it is sheer social misery. [More…]

• I am appalled at the sheer lack of understanding of the depth of poverty and degradation throughout our community. [More…]

• If there is one group in this community that is suffering at poverty level this group is in that area to which child endowment is paid. [More…]

• My question sought the alleviation of the high proportion in our community suffering in abject poverty. [More…]

• Wage and salary earners throughout this country make applications to tribunals to keep their standards of living level with various costs which rise throughout the community. [More…]

• In this way, the standard of living of pensioners at least will be commensurate with rising costs in the community. [More…]

• It is particularly sad when the Minister, prior to his promotion to the feather bed of high office, was himself so determined in his onslaught on any vestige of encouragement to this dictatorial rule and on any infringement of the rights of the individual in the community. [More…]

• The third characteristic is that it has been responsible for an inefficient allocation of resources in the community. [More…]

• The evasion in the community was enormous. [More…]

• The first consideration of any government should be for the aged, the sick and those people in the community who cannot care for themselves. [More…]

• It is a disgrace to Australia, a disgrace to the Government and a disgrace to anybody associated with it in this time of affluence and prosperity for big sections of the community. [More…]

• I would like to draw your attention to the Pensioners’ Utile Budget Campaign which believes that many Australians are concerned at the meagre pension increase of 50c given at a time when most sections of the community have benefited from wage increases, improvements to hospital and medical benefit programmes and were further assisted financially by tax deductions. [More…]

• 1 want again to take up the matter of the Government’s neglect of this very vital and unfortunate area of the community. [More…]

• The plight of the sick aged in our community is of crisis dimensions. [More…]

• This is only an example and no doubt it applies widely to public and community hospitals. [More…]

• It holds the purse strings and it is time that it showed sufficient principle by untying the purse strings for the benefit of the aged in the community. [More…]

• They should recognise their mistakes and correct them by introducing into this Parliament not later than next week a Budget which will at least go some way towards alleviating a very real social problem within our community. [More…]

• If you have attained latter years of life and would like to spend them in an elderly people’s community where you are able to come and go as you please, have relations and friends visit you at any time, pursue your interests with others, form new friendships, forget the anxiety and stress of everyday life, enjoy privacy, peace, security and loving care, then the accommodation of … is available to you. [More…]

• The plain fact is that the people of this country and, I think, honourable members who sit on the Government side, are aware of the dissatisfaction that exists in the community in relation to the Government’s attitude to both social services and repatriation. [More…]

• I want to do more for the pensioners, as everybody in this House on the Government side and on the other side wants to do more for the pensioners, and all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The only other thing I want to say, because my friend the Minister for Repatriation needs to say something, is this: There has been a change in the outlook of the Australian community in regard to looking after its own old people. [More…]

• That they arc not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• It has to be realised that if costs are increased because tribunals give additional benefits to the work force, then the community in some way or another has to meet those increases. [More…]

• Under our system, it is possible when a new cost arises for most of the community in due course to get an adjustment that enables them to bear that cost. [More…]

• The one sector of the community that is utterly powerless to pass on this cost is the producer for export who must sell overseas with no relationship to his own cost of production but in competition with other sellers of the same products on the same market. [More…]

• I would say unhesitatingly that the introduction of a 35- hour week at this stage, or in the near future as Mr Hawke advocates, would bear unbearably upon a rural community which at present is really in pretty desperate straits in respect of many of our products. [More…]

• Amongst other things, these efforts are designed to alleviate potential problems associated with the possible entry of Britain into the European Economic Community by broadening the basis of our trade. [More…]

• But because I believe that freight charges play such a part in the ever-increasing problems faced by primary producers - these primary producers already being affected by slackening world demand, over-production in some cases, inflated home prices for goods and services, and always subject to the vagaries of climate - in the time available I wish to examine freight cost effects on this at present disadvantaged sector of our community more closely. [More…]

• One of the factors contributing greatly to the primary producer’s progressive loss of parity with other self-employed sectors ot the community is the effect of costs. [More…]

• If this were not so why should such a body of men act so consistently against both their own interests and those of the community they serve? [More…]

• I repeat that there is an overwhelming uneasiness in the wool growing sector of the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless Tasmania, as an island State, as has again been readily discerned - it is self-evident that any island community which is not totally self-sufficient or introverted has to do this - must rely heavily on its lines of communication. [More…]

• We in the Country Party have that as our major objective and I believe that all the Leader of the Opposition is seeking to do is divert the attention of the community away from his own efforts such as his incitement to mutiny, his support for the 35-hour week - all these tendencies towards the disruption of the rule of law and the rule of authority, and all those policies which add to inflationary pressures. [More…]

• The preparation and introduction of this legislation falls entirely within the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Primary Industry who, 1 am sure, is doing his best to see that the rural community gets the benefits which are proposed in this legislation. [More…]

• Naturally, I sincerely hope that this was not the extent of the Government’s interest or intentions because, as I see it, our end target must be the elevation of the living standards, educational standards, employment standards, social standards and so on of the Aboriginal community to those which the people of Australia generally enjoy. [More…]

• order to achieve real positive results - not just quick or isolated results which I believe will come anyhow in the normal course of events, but results which will bring the greatest benefit or the greatest advantage to the advancement of the younger Aboriginal community generally. [More…]

• This will spread right through the Aboriginal community and will have a very serious and adverse effect on future efforts. [More…]

• He represents one of the largest areas of Australia in which there are large numbers of Aboriginal people who need the application of all the talents, wealth and influence of this country to the task of advancing them in the community. [More…]

• It is time we really set out on the objectives of conciliating their affections and advancing them into the community in the way in which George III - no notable revolutionary - directed Phillip back in 1788. [More…]

• For the rest of the community the ratio is about I in 100. [More…]

• As for economic status, how many of our Aboriginal people after all these years are able to stand on their own feet and lead lives such as the rest of the community lead? [More…]

• One can see that this is affecting not only the Aboriginal people but the general community. [More…]

• In the past perhaps the whole community has neglected pre-school education as part of the field of education. [More…]

• This is perhaps for the Aboriginal people to develop for themselves, lt is of no good denying that they live in a community in which they are totally overwhelmed, that they have to fit into the kind of community to which we belong. [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…]

• My other colleagues, such as the honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis) and the honourable member for Darling (Mr Fitzpatrick), who of course represents large numbers of Aboriginal people, can tell the House of the difficulties that have arisen from isolating Aboriginal communities from the rest of the community. [More…]

• When they have been moved into houses established in the general community they have adapted themselves to the standards of the rest of the community. [More…]

• But the community surely has at its disposal the expertise to handle it. [More…]

• One can visit the Yirrkala mission, as I suppose one should still refer to it, in the Northern Territory and compare the kind of housing there with the kind of housing that has been erected for the mining community. [More…]

• On the one band extraordinary wealth is being poured into one community and in the other it is coming forward in the most humble way possible. [More…]

• We should be able to do something for every individual, the same as we do for the rest of the community. [More…]

• This is a community that is accustomed to having individual records, individual care and, for that matter, individual pursuit if it comes to the income tax man. [More…]

• If we want to extend an aerodrome we have no hesitation at all in taking the land, bouse and everything else of any other person in the community. [More…]

• There is a tremendous area of effort and dedication and goodwill throughout the community. [More…]

• The Committee was also formed to see what we might do to better our services to that section of the Australian community. [More…]

• But, of course, there came the time when the Parliament of New South Wales in its wisdom implemented the report of the select committee and said that the Aborigines Welfare Board, should be dissolved and its functions taken over by the various departments of State that were charged with the care and responsibility and welfare of the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is going to take the Commonwealth to stir the States into action, or to take complete responsibility itself if necessary’, within a short period of time to see that this problem is met square on and that we act realising that these people are human beings who will react as human beings, given the opportunity, and therefore take their rightful place within our community. [More…]

• In the town I come from, Port Augusta, there Is probably a larger concentration of Aboriginals than in any other white community. [More…]

• I find that some of these Aboriginal people are ready and prepared to accept responsibilities if they come to live within a certain community. [More…]

• This means that the local community of about 900 Aboriginals is receiving some $150,000 annually at present. [More…]

• But she would never be accepted as one of their family in the sense of marrying into the sort of community in which their daughter moved. [More…]

• We define an Aboriginal as somebody who is wholly or partly of Aboriginal blood, who himself claims to be an Aboriginal and who is accepted as such in the community with which he is associated. [More…]

• One of the other questions I was asked was whether the livelihood of people engaged in rural industry would be put in jeopardy as a result, if it occurred, of Britain entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But the man in the street and the man in the farming community throughout Australia are fed up with the ceaseless caning they have taken from the cost price spiral. [More…]

• There is always capacity to pay in that sense but, make no mistake about it, paying is not just from the employer to the employee or from the wage payer to the wage receiver; the paying is done by the community because of the inflationary pressures. [More…]

• The vice of inflation, I assure honourable members, whether they know it or not, is the redistribution of income and assets in our community so that the persons who have assets or past savings, or who are wage earners in the non-powerful industrial areas, are the people who suffer. [More…]

• Do they deny the Labor Party policy or do they not possess the courage to say: ‘This is wrong’ or, alternatively: ‘I won’t support it because the inflationary impact it will have will be so harmful to the community that the community will bear the scars for a decade’ and they will bear the responsibility? [More…]

• These sufferers are the lesser privileged people in the community. [More…]

• I am sure that that applies to the rest of Australia, too, to say nothing of the effect of high interest rates on the costs of farmers and so many others in our community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Dawson this afternoon in concerning himself with inflation said nothing about banking policy in terms of the philosophy of money and money supply in the community. [More…]

• A variety of skills were brought together to see that the right and proper thing was done and to see that the plans for the utilisation of the water were sound and would return the best to the community. [More…]

• This makes its value to the community so much more than if the costs were not spread to that degree. [More…]

• Under the existing set up, the States create authorities to provide the services basic to every modern civilised community and then leave them to fend for themselves. [More…]

• Where do the majority of people live in the Australian community? [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, .including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• Does the Minister realise that in promoting a particular policy he is recommending a wages policy which would be responsible for slashing by more than half the average of weekly growth in wages and salaries in the community and that such a policy would require fine tuning into economic movements of such a nature as to be beyond the capacity of the present Arbitration Court? [More…]

• What the ultimate outcome will be really depends on whether the community is prepared to have a little more discipline in its economic arrangements or to succumb to chaos, and it will succumb to chaos if it bows down completely before the systematic policy of the extreme left of the Australian Labor Party and the trade unions which control it and direct its main policy. [More…]

• I can say this: We have, as our objectives, the amelioration of the suffering of the old, the sick, the invalid and others in this community, and I believe it fair to say, on the record, that what we specifically promise we perform. [More…]

• It is clear to me that this is a deliberate move to adapt their arrangements in view of their prospective membership of the European Economic Community when they would be adopting the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC. [More…]

• in view of” their prospective membership of the European Economic Community when they would be adopting the Common Agricultural Policy of the EEC. [More…]

• A few moments ago we heard pathetic cries from the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) but in the last 6 years since Britain first made application to join the European Economic Community his Government has encouraged the development of more farm acreage for fruit growing and for the dairying industry. [More…]

• They have urged the rural community to forget its troubles in the hope that they will go away. [More…]

• Indeed, Country Party members in recent days in this House have urged wool growers to concentrate not on the troubles in their own industry but on the dangers created by youthful demonstrators in the community. [More…]

• Secondary industry today, largely because of the work of the Leader of the Country Party, who is the spokesman and main support of the manufacturers in their demands for ever increasing protection, is receiving from the Australian community direct assistance equal to $l,500m a year and, counting indirect assistance, up to $3,000m a year. [More…]

• I know that the people in the farming community are well aware that wool selling is a job for a person with commercial expertise. [More…]

• I live in a farming community and my family has done so for the last 100 years. [More…]

• A lot of problems will face our economy and those interested in the well-being of the farming community. [More…]

• In fact, in Western Australia it has quite culpably failed the farming community. [More…]

• I think that the reverse situation is very likely to occur particularly with the impending entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It has always been the policy of this Liberal and Country Party Government that if the wool industry elects to change its marketing arrangements, the Government is ready to legislate for the change providing that it considers such a change to be in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• We share the hope that the agreements will permit Cambodia, Laos and Viet-Namto play their part, in full, independence and sovereignty, in the peaceful community of nations, and will enable the peoples of that area to determine their own future. [More…]

• On behalf of the Opposition, many people in the community and, I am sure, many honourable members on the other side of the House I ask that when a decision is made it be that the Reserve Bank is the approved bank. [More…]

• It is hopeless to expect local government, which is being forced to accept more duties in the service of the community, to find the funds to do so. [More…]

• The extra demand being made on local government is a reflection on the efficiency and the willingness of State and Federal governments to face up to their responsibility to the community. [More…]

• The crash housing development that is needed creates new areas with demands for clinics, kindergartens, libraries and all the associated services needed by a community. [More…]

• I also call on the Commonwealth to make special grants for infant health clinics, kindergartens and other community services, the need for which is there now and is increasing. [More…]

• By giving the money to the people who are experienced in this field and who know the needs of their community, a real solution will be offered to local government, which is a responsible part of the community and which voluntarily takes interest in and responsibility for the needs of tha community. [More…]

• It will be the best possible means of solving the problems of the community at that level. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Bury) in his second reading speech, admitted that to keep up with community demands for improved services the States have at the same time had to increase the severity of their own taxes and charges. [More…]

• I call on the Commonwealth’ to make grants to the States for the provision of community amenities in housing estates similar to those which the Commonwealth provides, by way of grants, in housing estates under its control. [More…]

• Let the functions and finances of the Commonwealth Government, the State governments and local government authorities be balanced to ensure that resources are developed adequately and that adequate services are provided in the interests of the community. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs. [More…]

• I would ask the honourable member to contain himself until the members of this House on that committee have had the opportunity to submit their advice to Parliament for consideration of what is a very important social problem and a matter that does concern so many people in the community. [More…]

• The report states the belief of the Committee that the aim should be to reduce noise exposure particularly at times and in places of most distress to the community. [More…]

• Can anyone imagine in this day and age that an area in which a capital investment has already been made by both Federal and State Governments to build up this community should now be obliterated because aircraft fly over it? [More…]

• As a centre for the manufacture of aircraft it is ideally situated and as a residential area it could supply the labour for such a development and it is a developing community. [More…]

• It appears to me that, in the community at the present time, we suffer time and again from the encroachment of great organisations upon the ordinary rights of simple citizens. [More…]

• It is not satisfactory to place the training facilities for the Concorde, the Boeing 747 jets and the Australian commercial fleet in close proximity to a rapidly growing community which, according to the State Planning Authority in Victoria, is part of the urban development. [More…]

• In addition to that we want to provide for 3 representatives of the community of the Australian Capital Territory to be elected in a manner to be prescribed. [More…]

• It has, I would say, an exceptionally enlightened group of people con cerned about education within i’.iL community as one might expect having regard to the nature of the community, and we believe there should be 3 representatives of the Canberra community on the governing Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• There is no reason why a community which is as alert on the subject of education as is the Canberra community should not itself directly elect 3 members of the’ Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• We also believe that the presence of Canberra representatives, vigilant of the needs of education in their own area, will benefit the College of Advanced Education and help the community of Canberra to take an informed and intelligent interest in the College. [More…]

• Given, as I think it must be, that the lay members of the hierarchy of such a council or such a governing body will be people of intelligence and good standing in the community, whoever they are, it seems to me that the more important area is the staff representation on the governing body, because the staff members are the people most directly and most constantly concerned. [More…]

• But having the age of 21 years may well exclude some very useful and some very community oriented and institutional oriented students of less than that age. [More…]

• It is of course true to say that it would perhaps be given more direct attention and more direct interest would be created in the 2 chambers of this Parliament if they were represented specifically on the council and of course it may also be true that, if there were direct representatives from the community of the Australian Capital Territory as such on that body, again this might be a further advance. [More…]

• But at the same time one would imagine that all those people at present provided for will see themselves as members of the ACT community and there may be a very fine line indeed in deciding who in fact is the more representative type of person coming out of the ACT on to the governing body of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I would think that it is highly relevant in a community such as Canberra. [More…]

• Is it a community of students? [More…]

• Is it a community of students and staff? [More…]

• Is it a part of the community? [More…]

• I want to see some community participation on the Council. [More…]

• But so far the question of where an institution of this sort fits into a community has not been resolved. [More…]

• I believe that with a smallish community such as Canberra where we have 2 major institutions, one fairly well developed and one getting off the ground, the imprimatur of this Parliament does add something to tha status of the Australian National University. [More…]

• In the firs: instance, members of Parliament represent the community at large; we represent Australia at large. [More…]

• No matter how highly placed a person is whom we extract from the community and place on a board such as this, it is very difficult for such a person to walk in here and say to the Minister: ‘Hey, how about this?’ [More…]

• 1 now would like to refer to the question of community representation. [More…]

• The Canberra College of Advanced Education, of course, does not belong exclusively to the Canberra community. [More…]

• The College would largely be a community education institution, rather more so - or it should be rather more so - than the Australian National University. [More…]

• But we believe that some system of electing people from the local community to this body would be of great advantage. [More…]

• I believe it would be worth while involving the community in the management of the Canberra College of Advanced Education by means of someone directly representing the community. [More…]

• I believe it would not be terribly difficult to have a person elected by the local community. [More…]

• Shudders of despair, horror and disgust ran through a large measure of the academic community of Australia when it heard of this recommendation. [More…]

• One has to admit that Melbourne University and Sydney University have been functioning for 100 years and they have ingrained into them all of the standards and attitudes of the community. [More…]

• Here is the opportunity of experimenting in a community which is largely self contained and which gives us the opportunity to do things that are probably not available anywhere else in Australia. [More…]

• I notice that the Wark Committee recommended a form of government for colleges in which it asked that there should be provided: ‘Adequate procedures for the voice of the community and the voice of the staff to be heard on major policy matters’. [More…]

• I could think of other people in the community who also could make contributions and who are not represented directly on this body. [More…]

• But I do think that there is a place for the community to become involved in our educational institutions. [More…]

• Members of our community should not be precluded because a college of advanced education happens to be a higher educational institution. [More…]

• The Deputy Chairman is Mrs Crisp, certainly a distinguished woman who, besides being the wife of a former professor, is also a very highly educated woman in her own right and associated with a number of very worthwhile community organisations. [More…]

• 1 again say that there is a place, not a dominating place but certainly a place, for representation of the community at large. [More…]

• I would like to see people selected from parents’ organisations in the community to serve on this body. [More…]

• We go further, as 1 have indicated, and suggest also that there should be 3 representatives of the Canberra community. [More…]

• The Canberra College of Advanced Education was set up at a time when the role that colleges of advanced education were to play in the community had not been really thought out in great detail or depth. [More…]

• We on this side of the House ask the Government to go one step further and encourage this trend so that greater fulfilment and greater representation can be achieved between the colleges and outside bodies, members of Parliament, and indeed representative interests in the community - commerce, industry, staff, scholastic bodies and other interested bodies - so there can be this interchange of ideas that we have traditionally tended to associate with universities. [More…]

• Indeed, it will work both ways, because it will give back to this House through members not cut off from the community - not, of course, that members of the Parliament should be cut off from the community - their experience on the Council. [More…]

• In the amendment, there is reference to 3 other representatives on the Council from interests in the community. [More…]

• Most of us would agree that there is too much paternalism in many institutions in this community. [More…]

• The aim surely must be to have a condition as close as possible to participatory democracy in these institutions as in all other institutions in the community. [More…]

• The small 1 liberals - and I should like to include myself among those, and I emphasise the small 1 - and there are many of us in this House, in the political community, and involved at tertiary institutions in this country, argue that they are not, as is continuously suggested, between the left and the right. [More…]

• They are the really radical extremists in the community. [More…]

• They believe that there should be a maximum amount of freedom in the community. [More…]

• We are dealing with a university community which, in theory at leastI would hope, should be run as an almost anarchist type of society. [More…]

• If there is any sort of institution in the community in which it should be possible to have the minimum number of rules in relation to controls and quality of starters, then the universities and colleges of advanced education should be those sorts of institutions. [More…]

• If there is anything that experience of tertiary education in institutions around Australia has shown it is the need for a community interest and a close community knowledge through its representatives. [More…]

• The Opposition proposes to ensure this in 2 ways, by representation of the Parliament and the Canberra community in the governing of these tertiary bodies. [More…]

• That is why I feel that community representation on the governing bodies of these tertiary educational institutes is quite important. [More…]

• I presume the Canberra community representation proposal will also he rejected by the Government. [More…]

• One cannot just look at the Australian scene and divorce Canberra from it as a piece of the community on the one hand and as the national . [More…]

• intentioned and interested and who no doubt have done a stirling job in the past, that there is no prima facie case to suggest that 2 senators or 2 members of this House will necessarily add anything to the councils of governing bodies of the kind we are discussing than any other interested and experienced lay members of the community. [More…]

• ), after paragraph (b) insert the following paragraph: (ba) three representatives of the community of the Australian Capital Territory elected in a manner to be prescribed;’ [More…]

• As a consequence, we have been impressed by the possibility of direct representation of the Canberra community on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I think that the College would gain from such a direct link with the community. [More…]

• People who are distinguished locally can be appointed to the Council of the College, but I think that if the Canberra community had a direct interest in the Council it would be a gain for both the community and the institution. [More…]

• We think it is a very good thing that in this capital city a body distinctively belonging to it, like the College of Advanced Education, should have a direct link with the community. [More…]

• I understand the idea behind this amendment, and I am not in disagreement with the general notion that there should be involvement of the community on the governing Council of this institution. [More…]

• But it will be appreciated that there is no restriction upon the appointment to the Council of members of the community. [More…]

• Of the members who formally are to be appointed by the Governor-General, seven have been appointed, and of these, six are in fact members of the Canberra community. [More…]

• The others are just general members of the community; they are not connected with my Department. [More…]

• lt is not necessary to adopt this amendment to secure the appointment of members of the Canberra community to the Council. [More…]

• 1 am not convinced that it is necessary to go through the expense of an election in order to secure 3 persons who can adequately represent the Canberra community. [More…]

• This again, with a very heavy weighting of Canberra residents, on it would enable it, if it so desired, to use that power to secure able people from the Canberra community to add to the Council. [More…]

• The reasons which he just gave for rejecting the suggestion that the Canberra people should be specifically represented as a community are not convincing either. [More…]

• We have a community here which from my own very small experience I would suggest is one of the most educated communities in Australia, one of the most informed communities and one of the most interested communities. [More…]

• This community is being denied the opportunity of having some direct representation on this Council. [More…]

• I thought I made it perfectly clear that I did not at any stage deny, and in fact I did admire the inclination and capacity of anybody from here or in this case - as we are now talking to a further amendment - members of the Canberra community to be represented on the Council and to take a direct interest in such a body as the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• lt is very nice to think of the community at large taking unto itself the processes of higher education and having equal participation in them. [More…]

• I refer to Emeritus Professor Sir Leonard Huxley, who is a very well known, distinguished citizen of this community. [More…]

• They are members of the community. [More…]

• If I were to be persuaded that the nominees of the GovernorGeneral, for example, or the other 4 nominees of the Council - in all making 12 out of 20 or so of the total - were unrepresentative of the total Canberra community, that they were bad eggs educationally and were otherwise unsuited to the position to which they had been appointed, I would find a great deal more force in the propositions which have been put before us and particularly the proposition concerning the membership of 3 representatives in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that this is a vote of no confidence in the Canberra community. [More…]

• community. [More…]

• They are particular people in the community. [More…]

• All that the Opposition is asking for is that the wide scope of the community should be represented on the Council. [More…]

• Yet, another reason or reasons have been found not to accept representatives of the local community. [More…]

• Wherever we go throughout Australia there is regret that there is not more community participation in the educational process. [More…]

• The Minister was concerned about the cost that would be involved in electing community representatives to the Council. [More…]

• For instance, the election of community representatives to the Council could be run in conjunction with the election of members to the Canberra Community Hospital Board or the Advisory Council. [More…]

• I suppose there are a number of organisations that are elected by the community. [More…]

• We are suggesting that community representatives should be members of the Council because they would enrich the advice that would be coming to that body. [More…]

• If education means anything in a democratic society it ought to reach out and use the advice, the suggestions, the active participation and the interest of so many other people in the community. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Bendigo said, the community in Canberra has tremendous advantages. [More…]

• It has the most qualifications of any community in Australia. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) has said, the most interested and active people which the education commit tee of the Australian Labor Party has run into have been people from the Canberra community. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) spoke with the authentic voice of the Australian philosophy of educational administration when he suggested that the community should be kept at bay. [More…]

• Here, on a very important educational body, it would be a very good thing if in the Canberra community there were controversies - electoral controversies - as to what ought to be policy about this place and in the election of these representatives educational issues would come into focus. [More…]

• One of the points that I made earlier was that Canberra in some ways is a special community. [More…]

• It is an area in which the community is more or less self contained. [More…]

• If we could only start, as my friend from Fremantle (Mr Beazley) suggests, and set up attitudes and systems which could flow throughout the rest of the community, we would be doing a great service to Australian education. [More…]

• But in both of those categories it is absolutely essential that we should be paying as much as we can pay because we are talking here - and T make no bones about this or apologies for saying it - of the best qualified people hi the community in terms of educational qualifications; in terms of what should be paid for having a certificate or passing an examination or something ot that nature. [More…]

• Of course, 1 know that there are other people in the community who have been educated in the university of hard knocks and that sort of thing. [More…]

• But here we are dealing with education per se, and it is absolutely important that universities and colleges of advanced education should be able to compete with industry, with the community at large, for the best possible skills in this area. [More…]

• One of the rewards that the Western Australian community received for its generosity in raising 580,000 or $1,160,000 by private collection to establish a medical school was that the University of Western Australia ceased to be free. [More…]

• The crisis in educataion is, of course, the inability of institutions to adjust very quickly to a complete change in the values in the Australian community. [More…]

• I will not say that someone who is of high quality and who is a genius for giving forms of education immensely valuable to the community but which do not lead to degree courses must be rated as less valuable in the community than someone in a university who is a lecturer. [More…]

• It is a field in which practically everybody thinks he knows, and sometimes does know, what the researchers are talking about because they are talking about people, about teaching them, about entrance qualifications and leaving qualifications and these sorts of things, and almost any member of the community with an IQ of average’ level or above is likely to understand what is being talked. [More…]

• So the task of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education, if it is going to gather the threads of thinking in the community and point them in the direction of effective research in education, is awe inspiring. [More…]

• He mentioned a number of factors that were worthy of mention but which I will not repeat except perhaps to emphasise the great increase in indebtedness that has come over the rural community. [More…]

• Article 119 of the Treaty which member countries of the European Economic Community signed in Rome in 1957 provides that each Member State shall ensure and maintain the application of the principle of equal remuneration for equal work as between men and women workers. [More…]

• What action is he taking to ensure that all migrants who come to Australia are integrated into the community as quickly and harmoniously as possible? [More…]

• The honourable member’s question referred to a very significant and important problem in our community. [More…]

• President Nixon, however, has put forward the compromise proposal that from the 200- metres depth line out to the continental margin the coastal state would continue to control sea bed operations, through administering an international mining code and holding as trustee for the international community a substantial proportion of the revenues derived. [More…]

• Many people believe that a bridge would be more in the interests of the community and conservation generally. [More…]

• No-one has suggested that Western Australia should not have a naval base, but thoughts are centred on an investigation to arrive at the best possible site in relation to the effect that such a site would have on the welfare of the community in time of war rather than to select a site to meet the convenience of the Navy. [More…]

• No doubt even with the legislation being implemeted these investigations could still take place in the interests of the community. [More…]

• But one’s personal opinion is different from community opinion. [More…]

• But if one asked the community to express in the ballot box at the polls its opinion on what I have just said, some people would say: ‘That member James, the member for Hunter, is prepared to leave our country defenceless.’ [More…]

• Students are a special body in the community in this regard. [More…]

• There are those, of course, who say that because they have special rights then the community has a right to impose special obligations upon them. [More…]

• We do not belong to that kind of community. [More…]

• So we have a situation in which we have decided that for the benefit of the individual, and probably more likely for the benefit of the community, the students ought to be able to complete their qualifications - get them out of the road - and then we will pick them up. [More…]

• Our war time experience is no example because there we had a total community involvement. [More…]

• This regulation is quite consistent with our policy and I think it would be consistent with the views of everybody in the community including those who are opposed to national service but who. [More…]

• The fact is that a large proportion of the community now totally rejects the national service system. [More…]

• Let me say that I think he is one of the finest combinations of heart, conscience and brain in the community. [More…]

• Then, of course, what he has done since then has brought benefit to everyone in the community. [More…]

• I refer to the things that he has said and done in this House and been responsible for, such as, as the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said, the Japanese Trade Agreement which has had an effect on the lives of every man, woman and child in this community. [More…]

• Let me finish where I started; I really believe he is one of the greatest combinations of heart, conscience and brain in our community. [More…]

• Of course, it has always been my duty and my privilege to work for the Government of which I am a member and it is quite a wonderful thing for any person to have the opportunity of being a member of a government and so have the opportunity to influence great events related to the well-being of the community or sectors of the community. [More…]

• In considering what new questions should be added to the 1971 Census Schedule, the Government was aware of the danger that the Census could become too great an imposition on the community and was conscious of the sensitivity of people to enquires about their private affairs. [More…]

• Community noise problems. [More…]

• On 16 June 1970, 573 organisations were registered as charities, and an additional 2,085 organisations, such as Apex and Kindergarten Associations, were sanctioned ‘for community purposes’. [More…]

• In Queensland, registered organisations are classified as charitable organisations or as community purpose organisation. [More…]

• Senator Ormonde had especially strong links with the New South Wales coal community, which has sent a remarkable group of men to this Parliament, of whom two became leaders of the Australian Labor Party - Charlton and Evatt. [More…]

• Those in the community and in this Parliament who knew. [More…]

• I believe she was a woman, who was able to mix very effectively in the rough and tumble of politics in the community ‘which I represent. [More…]

• As one of those very distinguished people, Mrs Blackburn is a loss to the community. [More…]

• community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• That they ave not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned thatmoral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• 1 hope that all honourable members will ensure that as far as possible within their capacity farmers see and understand something of the products of the discussion because I am sure that that will be generally to the advantage of the rural community. [More…]

• Firstly, can the Minister inform the Australian farming community how soon it may be able to expect assistance from the Rural Reconstruction Board? [More…]

• Therefore we consider a community standards test as well as an obscenity test when looking at a particular item. [More…]

• The result would be that the entire community would suffer. [More…]

• It has been shouldered with the responsibility under the Act of providing adequate and comprehensive programmes and is required to take, in the interests of the community, all such measures as, in the opinion of the Commission, are conducive to the full development of suitable broadcasting and television programmes. [More…]

• Some further charges that are imposed on the Commission without any concession being granted to the Commission for the community service aspect of its activity are in the fields of programmes on radio and television for schools, the operation of Radio Australia and operations in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• The Commission should not be expected to bear the whole of the financial burden for these or other community services. [More…]

• The role of the ABC in mass communication is important in our developing community. [More…]

• Of course, this represents a substantial amount of money to many people in the community. [More…]

• In 1969-70 the comparable increase was 4.8 per cent, whilst the increase in total civilian and defence forces employment in the community was 4 per cent. [More…]

• For as we see it, the best interests of the community require that inflation shall be overcome, and one of the first steps to this end must be action to restrain our own expenditures. [More…]

• To my mind, the role of the student representatives in presenting Council decisions to the student community is just as important as their role as representatives on the Council. [More…]

• A university is a partnership between the community and the student body which also is an important part of the community. [More…]

• I believe it is nonsense that at this stage in a country such as Australia, in a community which in the past has always established fairly advanced attitudes on what representation means - votes for women and so on - we are being more conservative than most other countries. [More…]

• It has been trained to take a more important and effective role in the community than most others. [More…]

• We are talking of people who are of a mature age; people who can be asked to accept all kinds of responsibilities in the community. [More…]

• It is said that this institution does not belong to the students because the community itself subsidises the university system very heavily. [More…]

• Now, it may be regarded by the honourable member for Wills and some other people as a somewhat conservative and even archaic notion - no, I do the honourable member for Wills wrong; he said something to this effect - to believe that a university is in fact a community of scholars. [More…]

• But, if it is, a university is a community of people of all ranks and grades who have proved their scholastic worth, more or less, and who join at certain times with the administrative echelons to run an academic institution. [More…]

• I think that more than ever universities need to be alive to the problems facing this community and they need to have a more resilient approach. [More…]

• Without a knowledge of the language migrants are not only at a distinct disadvantage in respect of employment but also their general participation in community activities and our way of life is denied to them if they are unable to speak and understand our language. [More…]

• A national campaign seeking the co-operation of voluntary organisations, industries, clubs, progress associations, churches and other sections of the community would be a forward step in the education of migrants. [More…]

• There are short and long term social and human benefits for the migrant and for the community in encouraging and providing the means for migrants to learn English. [More…]

• Whilst not criticising the objectives and the principles prompting the legislation on the education of migrants, I believe that there are still gaps through which countless thousands of migrants will escape the opportunity to learn English and participate in our community, economic and social life. [More…]

• They show that many are suffering and failing to be assimilated into our community because of lack of knowledge of English. [More…]

• The first of those conferences dealt substantially with the problems of migrants as seen by various workers in the field of immigrant education and interest in the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the suggestion is that we have perhaps with some complacence but certainly with considerable agreement across the board or across the floor of this House and elsewhere in the community conducted a programme of immigration which has made various gestures and various activity projects to inculcate into migrants the best understanding that seems possible in a given time of the English language, whereby they could better be assimilated - 1 think the word is now integrated - into the community. [More…]

• In this way they can assist those people to partake community life as a whole. [More…]

• How do we demonstrate the fact that by doing so they will enhance their own status and increase their own usefulness to themselves, to their families and to the community at large. [More…]

• This would appear to be money well spent because we are talking of people who are very likely on a per capita basis to infuse into the community a very considerable contribution not only by their efforts and through their own skills in other areas but also, one would imagine, probably by virtue of the fact of having these skills and being capable of acquiring expression in English - and other languages for that matter - more rapidly are they likely to be leaders of their own communities, insofar as there are communities of new migrants. [More…]

• Will the Minister indicate clearly to the House that, contrary to the opinions of some international moralists, Australia’s non-European immigration policy is our own business and is designed to preserve a community free from the tensions which characterise other parts of the world? [More…]

• The overriding objective of Australia’s immigration policy is to ensure the continuing development of a cohesive and homogeneous community, well integrated and harmonious, without persisting divisions or disunity. [More…]

• If 1 may put that in the negative sense our objective is to avoid the creation within our community of permanent minority groups and self -perpetuating enclaves which may be resistant to integration even in the long term. [More…]

• So far as the question of settlement of non-European persons and persons of mixed descent is concerned the annual rate of .settlement of non-European persons coming to Australia is some 3,500 and the annual rale of settlement of persons of mixed descent is approximately 6,000, a total of 9,500 persons, lt may be felt by some within the Australian community, or outside of it. [More…]

• But the Government believes that we have a duty to learn patiently because the effects of this policy have a very far reaching application on the whole of the Australian community in its life, work and general attitudes. [More…]

• Indeed, the basic aim of the scheme is to help those who can be re-established in operating profitably and to the benefit of the community. [More…]

• 1 believe that our migration programme has been totally successful, although it has created areas of underprivilege in the community. [More…]

• There is a community acceptance of and compassion for these people. [More…]

• I am also concerned about the problems which are arising within the’ Yugoslav community in Australia because, as I recollect, when this legislation was foreshadowed and the immigration agreement with Yugoslavia was entered into a year or so ago the arrangement was that we were to receive a very large number of skilled tradesmen migrants. [More…]

• There is a considerable amount of discontent in the Yugoslav community in Australia. [More…]

• The whole purpose of encouraging migrants to learn English is to try to integrate them into our own community and not allow them to become separate. [More…]

• The honourable member also opposed the ethnic groupings in the community and in this I would disagree with him quite strongly and put in a word in support of ethnic groupings. [More…]

• I believe that they are of considerable benefit to migrants and I am thinking in particular of the Greek community and how much it has done to help Greek migrants in counselling, securing employment and general social welfare work. [More…]

• He also spoke of ethnic groups in the community. [More…]

• The problem of understanding the English language and the ability to communicate with one another is probably much deeper than is appreciated by a large section of the community. [More…]

• We heard speeches today about ethnic groupings in the community. [More…]

• 1 wonder how deep this problem is within the community when we have a need for newspapers to be printed in other than the English language so that people can find out what is going on around the place. [More…]

• Firstly: Are all of the resources of the nation being used in the best interests of the community? [More…]

• These people were joyous at the fact that they were at last accepted in this community and had the opportunity to understand the language. [More…]

• If we could get them to bring along their relatives and friends that in itself would give a great social backing to the advantage of being part of this community. [More…]

• They suffer injustices because they are put into the community in Australia and they have to compete with Australian citizens. [More…]

• We should ask ourselves why so many gave up their studies in a tongue which would improve their job opportunities and enhance their integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• Firstly, there are the young migrants, just out of school, not well educated and thrust immediately on their arrival here into the grinding and mindshackling mills of unskilled employment; and, secondly, there are the older migrants, also not well educated but long out of school and confined to the home and thereby effectively isolated from the community in which they will live out their lives and isolated from the community which is supposed to give meaning to their lives. [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…]

• Should we not therefore adopt teaching programmes designed to cater for the specific needs of the major sub-groups which have entered our community? [More…]

• In conclusion, if we are to make provision in this Bill for the 2 groups of people to whom I have referred, namely the poorly educated adolescent and the poorly educated new arrival who is confined to the smaller community of the home, we must not only teach them our tongue but also we must relate it to their own language, their own culture and in classes of their own people and, more importantly, their teachers must speak and understand the language of the students. [More…]

• I would think that in most of the larger towns outside the metropolitan area high schools or primary schools - in the case of adults most likely it would be high schools - would be as central and as useful as anywhere else in a community as places at which to provide adult education courses. [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…]

• While I am on my feet I want to pay a tribute to the Australian community. [More…]

• 1 believe it is a remarkable social achievement that so many hundreds of thousands of people from other countries have been able to move into our community in the way they have without creating great social tensions. [More…]

• The Australian community has adopted an attitude of great maturity and has received the migrants to its bosom in a very hospitable way, and not often enough does the community get this tribute paid to it. [More…]

• Honourable members ought to examine this question and really think of the problems when one in 5 of the community in Brunswick 4 or 5 years ago - it is more now - were born in Italy. [More…]

• This also means that as the community is poor in comparison with the rest of Victoria -I presume this happens in other States - there are no resources available from parent support. [More…]

• The community which has taken these people into its schools and made available all the other facilities is entitled to the kind of support which we urge should be given. [More…]

• I represent an area in which there are large numbers of people, with almost a total lack of affinity with Australians, who have been admitted to the community reasonably successfully. [More…]

• They have no affinity with the Australian community except perhaps the fact that they have the same skin colour. [More…]

• I have seen other people who have come into that community who have total affinity except for their skin colour. [More…]

• 1 would like to be given an adequate explanation from all those people who are terribly worried about this matter - I realise that it creates problems in people’s minds - as to exactly why the almost total affinity of a Pakistani engineer makes him more difficult to assimilate than a Turk with a total lack of affinity except for the colour of his skin which is supposed to make him acceptable I believe the community has to be much more mature in its examination of this problem. [More…]

• The honourable member for Boothby (Mr McLeay) made some references with which I will deal in passing a little later but one of the things about which he should be assured is that even in a location such as the one I have described with an overwhelming migrant intake which must have come about to give a minority of 2 Australians in the 1 class, where there is a healthy decentralised community the problems of integration can be overcome. [More…]

• I think we should refer to this because after all we are debating a Bill which provides money at this time of supposed austerity to do some thing in relation to migration when there are voices raised in, the community saying: ‘Stop it. [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…]

• Before I get to the specific questions 1 wish to ask of the Minister on this measure I shall refer in passing to the matters that were directed to me personally by the honourable member for Boothby (Mr Mclean who described my comments in relation to some migrants in the community as quite asinine. [More…]

• It was in 1947 that the first migrant education officers were appointed in overseas countries, a shipboard education programme was introduced and the groundwork was laid for what has since become an extensive programme of continuation classes, radio and correspondence courses to reach the adult migrant community in Australia. [More…]

• I recall that the honourable member for Grayndler pointed to the acute shortage of teachers in the general community and queried our capacity to provide the number of teachers involved. [More…]

• Classes at the work site have been part of the normal continuation programme for migrant education in the Australian community. [More…]

• Briefly, the Commonwealth has stressed that in attempting to settle industrial disputes, decisions reached by the Commission should not be such as to have adverse effects on the economy which would be detrimental to the community generally as well as to the parties immediately concerned. [More…]

• While it is true that the decision to create a Commonwealth Teaching Service arose from the South Australian decision to withdraw its teachers over a period of five years from community schools in the Northern Territory, its creation of itself does not have any effect on the administrative responsibilities in respect of education in the Northern Territory or in other Commonwealth Territories. [More…]

• Has the Commonwealth contributed to the cost of any science block or library in any secondary school in any Aboriginal or Island community in Australia; if so, where and to what extent. [More…]

• Has the Commonwealth assisted in the provision of library facilities in any primary school in any Aboriginal or Island community in Australia; if so, where and to what extent. [More…]

• Taking account also of other commercial practices and services to the community, the Government decided not to alter the present trading hours. [More…]

• It is an excellent movement which is meant to help people in the community who need and deserve the help of the Government, the help of honourable members and the help of other people in the Australian community. [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…]

• It did not cost the community anything. [More…]

• This could be done without cost to the community. [More…]

• Those questions are the state of the nation’s economy, the inflationary situation in which it finds itself and its impact on all sections of the community, particularly those wholly dependent on governments for their income or their livelihood or their opportunities. [More…]

• It is itself a major contributing factor to loss of confidence in the community. [More…]

• Nor should we suppose thai the consumer price index is an exact or an adequate measure of the grip which inflation has on the community. [More…]

• The consequences of such an increase are not matters for conjecture, lt is not difficult lo identify those sections of the community upon whom the burden will most heavily tall. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Treasurer endeavour in all their public statements to pin the blame for inflation on any or every section of the community except themselves. [More…]

• They fall most heavily on those sections of the community which are least able to afford them. [More…]

• The sections of our community which got most benefit from last August’s S282m income tax reductions were given totally unnecessary encouragement for consumer spending described by the Treasurer as ‘currently very buoyant’. [More…]

• Equity means for him a continuing reliance on interest rates, indirect taxation, pension skimping and other demand controls which fall most heavily on those sections of the community least able to bear them. [More…]

• As I shall show later, it is through satisfactorily handling the liquidity problems that we have been able to put the brake on intensive inflationary pressures in the community. [More…]

• The true purpose of this was not to get a redistribution of income but, because we had inflation and consequently increased, average incomes, to ensure that there was equity between all income sections of the community and that those who were paying increased taxation because of these two causes should have some, but not permanent and for that matter not total, relief. [More…]

• We knew that the bite of that Budget would not take place until the June quarter of 1970. in other words, we knew that as corporation taxation and personal taxation, although not pay as you earn taxation, came in money would be drawn out of Australia from the spending section of the community. [More…]

• In other words, it does not think for one moment that we should be trying to impose greater liquidity restrictions or drying up the supply of money - certainly not in the June quarter - because it feels that the Budget by that time will be having its impact and i anything that we will have to somewhat liberalise the monetary policy in order to permit the supply of money to keep up with growing demand in the community. [More…]

• May I now come to what are the real causes of the inflationary trends in this community. [More…]

• Equally too if I were to deal with other measures taken I think it would be found that each one was a wise measure in the interests of the Australian community and 1 believe in the long run each of them will introduce an increased element of efficiency which will be passed on to succeeding generations. [More…]

• The first goal is that we want lo ensure that as we cut back government expenditure and we take action to control inflationary pressures we will act so that every section of the community bears an equitable part of the burden. [More…]

• I think that most sections of the Australian community today are not only aware that we have problems of inflation and know the reasons but also are convinced that the Government, stands ready to act and will take whatever action it regards as necessary to keep inflation under control. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has said that we must take action to ensure that Government expenditure is restrained and that we should take the initiative and give leadership to the rest of the community by restraining our expenditure. [More…]

• Somebody has to pay, and every section of the community does. [More…]

• In other words, what we want to find out is the cost to the community, and therefore the increase in the consumer price index, of the inflationary pressures that would be generated by the 4 weeks leave if it were granted. [More…]

• We will try to ensure that no section of the community is unjustly and inequitably treated. [More…]

• But if inflation occurs something has to be done by a government to look after the rest of the community. [More…]

• As a proportion of the work force of about 4.5 million there is nearly a quarter, that is, over 1 million people, of the Australian community dependent either on the pension paid by this Government or deriving a pension as superannuation which is fixed by the terms of the contract. [More…]

• A government has to maintain some sort of equipoise in all sections of the community between growth and stability, and the examples that the Minister for Foreign Affairs gave indicate the difficulties. [More…]

• The whole Australian community must be made aware of this. [More…]

• Government action to cut back on these services inevitably disappoints the community and inhibits the opportunity of everyone in the community to enjoy the benefits of economic growth. [More…]

• It is true that inflation does not affect everyone in the community to the same degree. [More…]

• The unfortunate thing is that inflation leads to action which affects everyone in the community as governments try to restrain inflation. [More…]

• I am not attacking the responsible unionist or businessman but it must be understood by the whole community that it is not the number of dollars in the pay packet that counts but what each of those dollars will buy. [More…]

• Complementary action is needed, and this action must be taken by the Australian people as a community. [More…]

• Surely it is far better to approach the problem of inflation with an informed and responsible community itself finding solutions rather than bringing in bureaucratic controls. [More…]

• Inflation is the concern of everyone in the community and solving the problem of inflation is the responsibility of all. [More…]

• There must be a new pattern of behaviour in the Australian community’s approach to wages, prices and investment. [More…]

• We must bring about a change in the national psychology of inflation if we are to break out of the inflationary complex in which rapid wage and price rises are becoming built into community expectations. [More…]

• An inflationary psychology in the community tends to compel people to offset the effects of inflation by seeking higher and higher wages and prices to protect themselves. [More…]

• The Government is determined to give a lead to the community in trying to change this kind of thinking. [More…]

• In 1961 it was stopped, but the community was so jolted in the process that there were unfortunate and undesirable side effects. [More…]

• One-third of the rural community is in an, impossible position. [More…]

• Price control would sweep the Australian community today if it were submitted to it by way of constitutional amendment. [More…]

• Every group in the community has been asked what it wanted and then told: ‘That is Labor policy’ regardless of the impossibility of meeting all these promises at once. [More…]

• It will not cure inflation by coming in here and suggesting as it has done over the years that one or two particular sectors of the community will have to bear the burden of the shocking inequalities it has imposed through the years. [More…]

• Overtime worked throughout the community was less than the peaks in the first half of 1970. [More…]

• The answer to the present problems is that there should be more restaints on wages, and the onus is on tribunals, union leaders, employers, the Government and the community to put restraints on wages to enable restraints to be placed on prices. [More…]

• We must use all our powers of persuasion and influence to restrain wages, costs and prices, because the wage earner or union member is not separable from the community as a whole. [More…]

• I have never heard an Opposition member in this House talk about the need to improve training for the whole community, to allow the individual worker to realise the full possibilities of his intellect, dexterity and skills so that he could improve his own position and thereby improve the quality of the manufacturing and productive services in the community. [More…]

• It says that the whole community is responsible for what now threatens and that the whole community will be affected by the disastrous effects both of accelerating inflation and of the policies needed to control it if it persists. [More…]

• We want the fruits of labour and management - because the fruits come from co-operation of labour ‘ and management not from just one or the other - tobe shared between labour and management and the community through governments in a real way. [More…]

• We want a community which can provide for its needs without self-defeating and crippling taxation and without being misled by money wages rising which do not in fact mean real wages rising. [More…]

• That is our objective and I believe that this debate has shown that the approach of the Opposition will defeat the attaining of those objectives but that given restraint in wages, increased production and proper sharing of that increased production we will attain those ends, and we will attain them without that overall, constant detailed planning of every section of the community which the Leader of the Opposition asked us to accept. [More…]

• Fourthly, J suggest an endeavour to get a united community effort. [More…]

• He stood in this House tonight and instructed the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that that is the one commodity on sale in this community whose price must be controlled. [More…]

• In theory that is very fine but realistic economists have pointed out that the position that has been reached today is that if you tell the wage earning sector of the community that it must bear the brunt of inflation - the farming community is bearing it now - and that you will do nothing about the level of hire purchase interests which competitively result in dearer land, housing and everything else, since the people have to get the same sort of return they would get from the ice cream sector of the economy, they will not go into the more important ones. [More…]

• If the Government tries to saddle this on one section of the community there will be industrial unrest. [More…]

• Nobody could possibly say, however, that S75m in a Budget exceeding $8 billion - less than 1 per cent of the Budget - will have any significant effect on the community. [More…]

• I wish the Prime Minister well in trying to lead the whole community as a united community to deal with the problem of a potential inflation. [More…]

• He says quite clearly that, as far as his disposition of mind is concerned, he will single out one section of the community only for attack, and that is the wage earning section. [More…]

• I would like to hear him speak about hire purchase, fringe finance and a few other things in these fields and hear what he proposes to do about them, because when he tackles every sector of inflation he is likely to get a united community. [More…]

• It is timely and positive action which has already received the wide support of the general community of this nation. [More…]

• Yet a few moments ago the honourable member for Fremantle claimed that the Prime Minister had not mentioned the problems of the farming community. [More…]

• What the Prime Minister did was to tali about the interests of the whole nation, of every section of the community, and this certainly included the farming community. [More…]

• What of the sections of the community that cannot pass on cost rises - the farmer, the pensioner and those on superannuation? [More…]

• Like all sections of the community who have a reasonable attitude to the problems of inflation they expect this Government to take action. [More…]

• He pointed out that the whole exercise is to be seen as a psychological attack on the inflationary mentality afflicting the Australian community. [More…]

• We as a community have to realise that we are wearing economic hobbles that prevent us from doing the things we all want to see done. [More…]

• We have to have a sense of community endeavour about this. [More…]

• The way to beat the problem of inflation is to make the community realise that productivity is the key. [More…]

• This proposition should be put clearly to the community. [More…]

• If he could spell out this proposition so that even I could understand it we would get an understanding from honourable members in this House as well as from the community that productivity and the ability to produce better is the key to the wage earner getting a bigger slice of the cake. [More…]

• The exaggerated and prejudiced attacks on wages serve only to alienate a large section of the community at a lime when concern to support common objectives ought to be fostered. [More…]

• This is a time for shibboleths, prejudices, and narrow regionalism to be sunk by statesmen concerned about the economic health of the community. [More…]

• Why does the Government not attack inflation where it begins, within the monopoly and oligopoly sector of our community? [More…]

• I am not suggesting that these 2 examples mean the ultimate: 1 am saying that the average person in Australia today is much better off then he ever has been in his capacity to acquire commodities, consumer goods and enjoy the services provided by a government which has some thought for all sections of the community. [More…]

• What miserable, petty little things it is doing to stop inflation in the community. [More…]

• But before I make those comments I would like to say that if we are to have such a system in this country - and that will be while ever the present Government is in power no doubt, and no doubt they feel a system as antiquated and alien as this is reflects the values they wish to foist on this community -I feel the people who are honoured should be honoured on more valuable grounds of merit than those that presently prevail. [More…]

• The more quids they earned and the shorter the time in which they earned them the more likely they were to be on the Honours List and the greater the honour they attracted.I fully recognise that there was a small smattering of other people who might not have been quite so successful in raising a quid in the community, but they are there no doubt to give the system some semblance of acceptability in the community. [More…]

• I noticed that while a prominent newspaper proprietor whose main distinction in life had been to pour money out like a madman churning it off a counterfeit press in an abortive attempt to win a sailing race, another man, a community doctor in the field of public health services was able to rate only a mention in dispatches in the Honours List. [More…]

• To me there seems to be an inversion in priorities in the making of this distribution of national honours, lt would seem to me that the community doctor who had dedicated his life to community service deserved more. [More…]

• There were many other people who were also-rans, and missed out on the top titles, whose contributions to this community have been invaluable and who have been dedicated and selfless. [More…]

• I cannot understand why trade union leaders, housewives, family doctors in small practices, accountants and average people in the community who have made contributions in terms of economic growth, which in turn gives us the wealth that we have to distribute in the community, should not be included. [More…]

• While I appreciate the position in the community of Rural Youth in Australia I am sorry that I am unable to meet this request for the issue of a special stamp. [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…]

• I would like to discuss today subjects such as the International Sugar Agreement, the possibility of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, the present situation of quotas under the International Sugar Agreement and the recent decisions of the International Sugar Council. [More…]

• I would have liked to deal with the very important question of what might happen to the production of sugar in Queensland and New South Wales in the event of Britain joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Over a period of time now there has been a very deep and considerable public concern at the treatment meted out by the Government to a section of the community which has no way of coping with the problems of increasing prices and has no way of coping with the problems which are reducing their standards of living continually. [More…]

• The concern expressed by the Government in relation to inflation and other matters is shared by most people in the community. [More…]

• But these people, who are the hardest hit in our community and whose ability to’ cope with’ increased costs is totally nonexistent, are deliberately denied by the Government, as a matter of policy, any substantial increase in their income. [More…]

• They are the Iilywhites or the candonowrongs of our community. [More…]

• I understand that such pensioners represent about 70 per cent of all base rate pensioners in the community. [More…]

• These people cannot reduce their standard of living, further without seriously affecting their health and their ability to continue living in our community. [More…]

• This policy has produced disunity in the community. [More…]

• This is because of the community of interest between such people as the honourable member for Mallee and myself, and of course the people in our electorates. [More…]

• That they are nol gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• There has been a general deterioration in pension standards vis-a-vis the rest of the community in the postwar period. [More…]

• That is, the House has before it a motion which, if carried, will direct the Government to take action on behalf of all social service beneficiaries in the community. [More…]

• That will allow the House to be tested and to indicate how it truly feels in relation to the situation of over I million social service beneficiaries in the community. [More…]

• There are perhaps more than 1 million people in the community whose standard of living depends entirely on those benefits. [More…]

• The increases in average earnings, which have been brought about by this pressure, are squeezing the pensioners as well as other members of the community. [More…]

• This is at present, as I have said, jamming the pensioners as well as everybody else in the community. [More…]

• But even that 9 per cent is based on the fact that people can pay economical rents for sub-standard accommodation which no civilised community should be prepared to endure. [More…]

• This is a very small section of the community but one which has the greatest need of all in the community. [More…]

• It is regrettable that the unfortunate people in Australia who suffer need should be used as the vehicle for political propaganda and for bringing forward a discussion in the terms that we have had today only for the purpose of trying to gain a political advantage in the community. [More…]

• However, we find that all over the country members of the Australian Labor Party use the unfortunate position of people to stir up class distinction and hatred throughout the community. [More…]

• I now turn to some of the statements made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) - that self-professed emancipist of the underprivileged section of the community. [More…]

• But it is of the utmost importance to bear in mind at all times that pensioners pay the same prices over the counter for everyday essentials as does any other member of the community. [More…]

• It is quite obvious, and always has been obvious, that the left wing Socialist lives on misery and want in the community, and if he can create this feeling and position of want it is all to” his advantage. [More…]

• For instance, he repeated the expression that left wing Socialists live on the misery that exists in the community. [More…]

• Last year’s Budget, with its increases in telephone, telegram, money order and other postal charges, has imposed an increasing burden on everyone in the community but particularly people on fixed incomes and those in receipt of social service benefits. [More…]

• That inevitably affected the cost of goods and services throughout the community. [More…]

• This man and his family are decent citizens in the community. [More…]

• There is abroad in the community a lack of confidence in this Government and a feeling that we are scraping along. [More…]

• Although, like the Community Standards Organisation which has commented on it publicly, 1 join issue with the Minister on a few of his assessments, I rejoice at his constructive and analytical approach lo an age-old problem. [More…]

• One must presume that the government is regarded in that definition as coincident with the community rather than a political philosophy. [More…]

• While censorship is imposed by authority, bowdlerism is a voluntary act, and for that reason should be less emotionally provocative to the opponents of censorship in any form, and perhaps a better indicator of what the community thinks of itself. [More…]

• I disagree with the Minister, as does the Community Standards Organisation, when he argues that ‘the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms’. [More…]

• Why then should the community, in whole or in part, be affronted by filth or licence for the financial gain of a few? [More…]

• This brings us to the questions of community standards and censorship for whom? [More…]

• Not the least of the problem of community standards derives rom the fact that the community is far from homogeneous socially, intellectually or educationally. [More…]

• Perhaps there is something to be said for the old practice of recognising differences in the community, although I understand the viewpoint of those who find offensive differential responses which involve social or economic division, lt was in fact common practice into the 20th century to produce large, cheap, incomplete editions for the many and small, expensive, complete ones for the few. [More…]

• I have a feeling that censorship will always be with us in some degree, if only as a reflection of the different backgrounds, training and attitudes in the community. [More…]

• Why not assume that the rest of the community, or a large proportion of it, will react in exactly the same way? [More…]

• Civilisations decompose not because of sex in student magazines but when people despair of their chance’s “ to contribute to the community’s good, or to draw spiritual sustenance from it. [More…]

• These are the real problems facing the modern community and we should be exposed, through good literature, to all these problems of human relationships - the good and the bad - because we have to be able to cope with the lot if we are to live a reasonably happy life. [More…]

• It is a view, I venture to suggest, that the community as a whole simply would not accept - the community in Australia at this time or the community of any country at any time that I know of. [More…]

• The matters emphasised by the Minister were the essential elements of a censorship system that should be extracted, refined and emphasised, so that the community can well understand what a government’s duty is in this regard. [More…]

• We are here with a mandate or a warrant or a fiat to do no more than to reflect in government action and in legislation what it is that the community as a whole at a particular time consider desirable or necessary for a government to do. [More…]

• So, as the Minister said and emphasised, there is a demand by the community for a degree and a type of censorship. [More…]

• I venture to say that this is something that no community in Australia today or in any other country at any time would accept. [More…]

• As I said, what they want is no more and no less than an adequate and proper reflection in government action and in legislation of those community standards and attitudes that prevail at any given time. [More…]

• The community’s standards test was the roost prominent and most substantial aspect of censorship men tioned by the Minister in his very commendable statement; that is, the general attitude that a government has an obligation and should try to assess the community’s standards at a given time and adequately reflect them in the censorship law and in the manner in which censorship law is administered. [More…]

• In that speech he made the very point that a community itself has the right, through its members of Parliament, to indicate to the government its attitudes and views and standards and that it has a reasonable expectation that those standards and attitudes will be recognised by the government and will be translated into legislation and government policy. [More…]

• He said: lt seems to me that a community organised on democratic lines is entitled to determine for itself, in accordance with its legislative processes, what values it regards as worthy of preservation. [More…]

• It is entitled, through its elected representatives, or through people answerable to those representatives, to define what is harmful to itself as a community. [More…]

• The community is entitled to adopt a subjective approach to the problem. [More…]

• As I said - this is the basic proposition that I think should be put forward in this debate - no community would accept such an abandoned proposition as that. [More…]

• The Minister has relied on the community standards test which seems to me to be extremely appropriate and the fairest and most proper way of administering a censorship system. [More…]

• consensus in an enlightened community and society today is that censorship is anathema to most people but for very different reasons. [More…]

• The first question we might ask is: Does censorship maintain or improve the morals of the community? [More…]

• Censorship certainly might protect the community but I am extremely dubious whether it improves the moral standards of the community. [More…]

• Whilst we may have talked a lot about censorship in the past, many people in the community have refused to become involved with censorship in a meaningful discussion of its merits or otherwise. [More…]

• That the community is now accepting this challenge of provocative discussion and intelligent deliberation is, I think, a step in the right direction. [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…]

• The ordinary, average member of the community goes along to these films as he would go along to a normal film. [More…]

• He went on to say that censorship is set by community standards. [More…]

• I think the fact that the Minister has maintained the commonsense degree of censorship which he has maintained - and which is approved by the community - represents a tremendous tribute to Australia. [More…]

• One hears comments and gauges the general feeling of a mixed community when one deals with the mining community at Mount Isa and then the farming communIty in the lower parts of the Kennedy electorate. [More…]

• We come back to this matter of censorship set by community standards. [More…]

• I think the Minister pays a tribute to the Australian community by the standard he has set. [More…]

• The second is the question of community standards. [More…]

• This is, of course, the reason why the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) and others have changed their line to ‘community standards’. [More…]

• I agree that there are certain standards in the community regarding obscenity, blasphemy, personal attacks and so on. [More…]

• But at the same time I would argue that they differ from group to group and that the statement is true only if by ‘community’ we mean much smaller groups than the whole Australian community. [More…]

• But in any case I would hope that there is another community standard more widespread in this country and that is in regard to free speech and free access to information. [More…]

• Of course, it can be argued that if a member of the community objects to certain words, actions or sights then he can, as the honourable member for Hindmarsh has said, censor them himself by avoiding them. [More…]

• But it is also true, as the Minister pointed out in his statement, that if a immunity believes that the circulation of certain material is objectionable to itself as a community, it has the right, through its democratically elected government to protect itself. [More…]

• I believe we must always be watchful that the moral standards of the community are not whittled away little by little until we reach the stage which Sweden has reached today. [More…]

• With members of the community holding such valid and diverse opinions it is obvious the Minister will never please everybody, and I suppose that is one of the things we must expect in a democracy. [More…]

• We as members of Parliament and I believe the community generally have a clearer understanding of what is involved in the problem of censorship since the Minister assumed this responsibility, and even since this debate started tonight. [More…]

• I think the ultimate responsibility in regard to censorship will fall back on us as ordinary members of the community and as parents. [More…]

• I for one cannot possibly stand for that in any community. [More…]

• We cannot possibly live in a community of complete licence. [More…]

• If we had no standards in our community perhaps the need for censorship would not exist. [More…]

• In our present community standards predetermine censorship; censorship presupposes the existence of standards. [More…]

• The community does have standards even though men may scoff at them, may try to deride them, and may try to reduce their importance. [More…]

• We still do not live in a completely atheistic community. [More…]

• We have some responsibility to others in the community. [More…]

• We have a responsibility to the community; we have parental responsibility; we have educational responsibility. [More…]

• We have got to protect the community from the crank, the faddist, the bigot, the filth merchant, etc., as we have laws to restrain the thief, the murderer and the blackmailer. [More…]

• Whether there is any real advantage in the lifting of the ban on these books depends on the contribution that they make to the welfare and benefit of the community. [More…]

• 1 am one of those who may be a bit old fashioned, but I am inclined to think that the literature that is available to the community at large, is in ample .supply, and I doubt very rauch that many of those previously banned books have contributed very much to the uplifting of the standards of the community when the ban on them has been lifted. [More…]

• But in examining censorship I believe that we should consider what is in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• Of course, the question that then arises is this: Who should decide what is in the best interests of the community? [More…]

• He called for a balanced judgment to be made by the community in assessing what is and what is not offensive to it. [More…]

• I take the attitude that it is not so much a matter of what harm will be done to the community. [More…]

• I think we should look also at the other side and see what good is to be done to the community in altering the position we have taken up. [More…]

• 1 believe that whether or not there has been a public outcry against this matter, there is a responsibility on the representatives of the community to express their view about how we should approach the matter. [More…]

• But I hope that this commendation he has received from certain sections of the community will not contribute to his taking an attitude that will encourage him to go beyond what I believe is a reasonable approach to the matter. [More…]

• Could we reasonably suggest thai those who have no interest in films at all - non-moviegoers - should have no say in the establishment of community standards on films making? [More…]

• These are questions which must be answered if the community standards test is to mean anything. [More…]

• The fact that there may be some people or sections of the people who can see films or other material without it having an adverse effect on them does not mean that it is in the best interests of the community that the same films and materials should be made freely available. [More…]

• The Minister spoke about community standards and I believe we .should take notice of what he said. [More…]

• There is a responsibility upon this Parliament and the members who comprise it to help to establish community standards at as high a level as we can reasonably establish them, at the same time maintaining a reasonable freedom and giving some liberalisation. [More…]

• There has to be a limitation on what can be printed and published in the best interests of the community without depriving people of the full facts on most of the major issues of the day. [More…]

• If any of those who had the opportunity to see the films and the censorship that was applied to them suggest that the scenes that were taken out would be of benefit to anybody in the community in any way, I am afraid, that I do not agree with them. [More…]

• I believe that in maintaining the community standards that have been applied we in this Parliament should try to assist people in our community - particularly the parents and, perhaps to a -lesser extent, the- teachers of younger students - in their efforts to establish those standards which 1 could not understand anyone . [More…]

• I do not know what is to be gained in a national community sense by any of these things. [More…]

• But then when I turn to books and find out what it was like 120 years ago or what it is like in some other community I find there is very little difference indeed. [More…]

• So we are not discussing a dramatic change in the social organisation of this community; we are discussing the way in which a certain area of authority vested in the Minister shall be administered. [More…]

• I therefore find it difficult on this question of obscenity to make the same sort of decision and I therefore again come to the conclusion - I presume I am holding probably the same moral values as the rest of the community - that liberalism or the surrender of control is more desirable than the accentuation of control. [More…]

• Only a handful of them will ever read those books but they will see plenty of violence and hear much bad language and obscenity outside hotels which are so freely established in the community. [More…]

• While I regret that it is so prevalent in the community I cannot find a consistent regime or ritual by which we could establish standards and systems that I could support. [More…]

• Nowadays there is much more open discussion on sex and relationships between males and females in the community than there was 20 years ago. [More…]

• the loss to the local authority in rates and loss to the community in acreage of development area and assets (el the restriction placed on the development of surrounding shires due to existing flight paths and proposed flight paths; and [More…]

• Unfortunately, as the honourable member is only too well aware, the whole rural community is very much going through a process of fundamental change. [More…]

• One hopes that with the flexibility that has been introduced into them in the past, it will be possible to facilitate anything but ossification but rather enable the re-establishment of some form of general economic viability in the rural community. [More…]

• I take- the view that we as the elected members of- this Parliament are, in fact, a cross-section of the people and that we should reflect in this place the views of the community ‘and therefore the attitudes of the community. [More…]

• I think that the community trusts us’ as members of Parliament in this matter. [More…]

• 1 believe that the members of the community feel that, someone has to control’pornographic material and other obscenities.I ‘do not believe that the Press, the advertisers, the exhibitors or the police, because the. [More…]

• There should be as little as possible within the limits of community standards, but not those limits defined by a vociferous and powerful minority without responsibility. [More…]

• Parents in the community do have a responsibility to impose their own censorship but T believe it is also the Government’s job to ‘ assist in the protection of the community. [More…]

• I congratulate him on 2 counts: Firstly, for his decision to provide the opportunity for a debate on censorship, which -I consider is a.. topic of great importance to all people, in the community, whether , they are aware of it or not - I believe many are not aware of the true implications of it - and, secondly, for the substance of his statement. [More…]

• Obviously’ no consent can be reached by al) sectors of the community or all representatives in this House on what is the ultimate in policies at this stage. [More…]

• This debate has provided an example for those in the community who would doubt the wisdom, purpose and existence of democracy in this country. [More…]

• 1 have taken the view that at this stage there should be public censorship and I have done so largely because I believe that the community and individuals within the community are not ready for or desirous of complete lack of censorship. [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…]

• This second reservation applies not only to parents but to everybody in the community. [More…]

• To my mind this is best done by some form of board or tribunal, the members of which represent as widely as possible differing community attitudes as well as expert opinion. [More…]

• There is only one surety about censorship and that is that community attitudes to what is or is not considered offensive will change. [More…]

• To a certain extent, however, community attitudes will be shaped by censorship, and herein lies the danger. [More…]

• The essential thing is to have the machinery of censorship so structured as to prevent the censoring body from ossifying in its attitudes and thereby creating an ever widening gap between the creative members of the community and the community in general. [More…]

• Should this fixation of attitudes occur the creative talents of the community may be actively discouraged and at the same time the cultural horizons of the community at large restricted. [More…]

• The end point is cultural socialism - a mediocrity brought about by the reduction of cultural influences available to the public to the lowest common denominator of community acceptance. [More…]

• Moreover, not only has this subject not been debated in this House but there has been little serious investigation of the subject elsewhere in the community. [More…]

• I do not envy the Minister his task of attempting to assess community standards, particularly as the most vocal individuals are not necessarily the most representative. [More…]

• One of the interesting things about the speeches has been the divergence of views and how each of them represents a community. [More…]

• There have been some criticisms of the community standards test which my Department and 1 are applying to censorship now. [More…]

• The criticism is valid if it means that I am saying there is only one community standard. [More…]

• This very debate has shown that there is in fact a plurality of community standards, that there are many standards and many communities in the one Australian community. [More…]

• We are trying to move towards catering for each community so as to give the people an opportunity of censoring themselves, and we are not, as the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) said, trying to reduce the whole of censorship to the lowest common denominator. [More…]

• There are many aspects of problems on the periphery of society today which interest people in the community, and I see no reason- why people who want to see this sort of material should be prevented from seeing it. [More…]

• There will still bc a community standards test applied to R certificate material, as was demonstrated at last year’s film festivals, when my Board asked the managers of the festivals to cut certain scenes out of two films, ‘Like Night an-d Day’ and ‘A Married Couple’. [More…]

• In conclusion, 1 undertake to the House that my Department, the National Literature Board of Review and the Commonwealth Film .Censorship Board will be making a continuous review of censorship and will adapt community standards to their tests, whichever way community standards move. [More…]

• It should bc limited in accordance with community standards and should take into account all artistic, sociological and literary merit of books and films. [More…]

• One instance of this to my knowledge was the complete curtailment of income tax investigation activities against a particular section of the business community on the instruction., either expressed or implied, of the then Treasurer. [More…]

• Yet it is important that there be a common understanding on a subject that has such personal bearing on us all living together in a community. [More…]

• Of course, our standard of living has increased in other less quantifiable ways also - greater social security, improved cultural facilities, improved community services, better quality houses and so on. [More…]

• It is no wonder, therefore, that the word productivity’ has come to be used with increasing emphasis and frequency in discussions concerning industry and commerce, and the community generally. [More…]

• We need an approach that accepts that people are intelligent adults, one aimed at building an atmosphere of understanding in the community of what contributes to productivity and how it contributes. [More…]

• The Council’s main objectives are to promote understanding in the community of the meaning and implications of productivity and to stimulate efforts towards better productivity performance. [More…]

• The results produced fresh evidence of what I said at the outset about the community’s understanding of productivity and its influence. [More…]

• It has distributed to industry and the general community a number of pamphlets and publications directed at informing people of the potential benefits of higher productivity and its relationship to an increased standard of living. [More…]

• Australia are, of course, not the only bodies that are making contributions to community understanding. [More…]

• How do we explain to the community that absence from work amounts to the reduction of the nation’s work force by 200,000 persons. [More…]

• How do we explain to the community that rapid job-changing costs about $50m a year? [More…]

• Again, not all of this job-changing is avoidable, but, to the extent that some is, community costs could be saved. [More…]

• How do we explain to the community that injury and accident rates in industry alone cause roughly the equivalent of withdrawing some 17,000 persons from the work force? [More…]

• Productivity and (he Community - Ministerial Statement, 23rd February 1971. [More…]

• Part of the argument that 1 want to develop is that one of the reasons for our inflationary situation is the demand in the community for available resources that in aggregate are in short supply. [More…]

• One of the inflationary factors that the Government has done very little about - and I want to say more about this also - is the exorbitant interest rates that now apply in our community. [More…]

• It is becoming very difficult for certain sections of the community to purchase the capital resources that they feel they require when we consider that the Government loan rate is in the region of 7 per cent, that the bank overdraft rate is over that, as is the mortgage rate, and so on. [More…]

• Historically the investment allowance legislation was brought in at a time of slump to endeavour to activate the business community. [More…]

• The $64 question around the world today is whether Britain will join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I would appreciate it if the Minister would have yet another look at the hardship which the Government in its stupidity is inflicting not only upon individual members of this community who are called up but also on those families who are in circumstances similar to those I have described. [More…]

• It is on these matters that I will continue to rise in the adjournment debate to kick the Government and to tell it it is lacking in its duty to the community generally. [More…]

• What about the rural .community? [More…]

• .This is a subject which has been discussed, and debated in the community in the ,last ‘6,. [More…]

• So far as the entrepreneurial section of the community is concerned, I asked for restraint in those sections of commerce where, in a fully employed economy as we have had over the last 2 decades, there is always a situation of strong demand. [More…]

• accurate census information is essential to the orderly planning and progress of a modern community . [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…]

• What baffles me is the complete and utter silence df the international community about it all. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the same arrangement was applied in 1963 to the primary producer sector of the community following the benefits which were given to the manufacturing sector in 1962. [More…]

• This is possibly not an unreasonable attitude in view of the present parlous state of the farming community. [More…]

• Another matter of importance is the cost to the community which I propose to set out but not in too great detail. [More…]

• People are the most precious resources of any civilised community. [More…]

• Last year a budget was introduced into this House which could not be considered by any responsible person to have any other effect but than to substantially increase the cost of living in the community and make money available through taxation concessions to those in the higher income groups for additional investment in the community. [More…]

• Within 6 months of the passing of the last budget, which contained fiscal measures which could only be described as being designed to create investment capital in the community, we find the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) saying that investment is one of the major causes of the present inflationary situation in this country. [More…]

• This Bill does not indicate a responsible approach by the Government to the economic problems which are facing the community. [More…]

• Another instrument which he is using is, of course, this taxation investment allowance but, as I said, one cannot help but have the suspicion that the Government which introduced this measure in great haste in 1962 has now realised that the widespread criticism of it, not, only from this side of the House, but also quite generally in the community, was valid and it is now utilising this opportunity as a way of getting out with grace from the implementation of this policy.. [More…]

• The inflationary forces in the community have been there for some time, but suddenly the Government says: ‘We must tackle them; we -must deal with them’. [More…]

• But no, the Australian community must stand still because the Government says that we are in an inflationary situation, lt says’ that these basic amenities and their expansion create inflation, and that part of the cure is that the Government should cut down on them. [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…]

• the loss to the local authority in rates and loss to the community in acreage of development area and assets; [More…]

• He will be aware also of the community’s interest which is not new. [More…]

• I suppose some theorists will argue - and this is one of the debatable points that always arise - that if one is in an industry that is absorbing a fair amount of capital if the total capital in a community is short and the interest rate tends to regulate whether capital goes here rather than there, one can get some sort of false costing if one treats government undertakings of a commercial variety as opposed to some other kind of undertakings in a different way when it comes to the cost of its capital. [More…]

• No doubt the Government has been a little alarmed about the rate of return in this industry and therefore it thinks that some of this ought to be returned to the community by way of taxation. [More…]

• I would have thought that the Government would have thought this through a little more deeply and decided that the return to the community might have been of a different kind. [More…]

• The return to the community could have been in the form of lower prices for the services that were performed. [More…]

• It must be appreciated that the Overseas Telecommunications Commission operates in a business area and that what we are doing is reasonably well understood as a comparable accountancy operation within the business community and is not merely a Government department involved in one total payment into and out of the Trea sury. [More…]

• They must retain a standard of discipline more rigid than those of other sections of the community. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard lo the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• However, on the practical grounds of demonstrating losses to an established community, whether it.be rural or urban, these losses are valued at a common current denominator. [More…]

• Not only have losses of a rural nature been suffered in this area but also there have been tragic losses in relation to road works, bridging, reservoirs and in the community itself in which many poor ‘people have been homeless. [More…]

• 1 say quite objectively that if we go too far on the question of cost benefits and try to analyse all these things in’ minute detail many projects of this kind for’ the good of the community would never ‘be undertaken. [More…]

• I am sure that the example that has been so well established there will stand for all time as’ a monument to what can be done to curb nature when it runs riot in this way and occasions great loss in the community. [More…]

• For some days great volumes of water had built up over the coastal plain, flooding out farms and vegetation, destroying crops of all kinds, washing livestock out to sea, devastating the countryside in a shocking and horrible fashion and bringing great hardship upon the people of that community. [More…]

• How did the Government get its place as the government in the community in this democratic country? [More…]

• ls it a fact that between (a) full employment, (b) price stability and (c) wage fixation a community may choose any two, but cannot have all three. [More…]

• Equally too If I were to deal with other measures taken I think it would be found that each one was a wise measure in the interests of the Australian community and T believe in the long run each of them will introduce an increased element of efficiency which will be passed on to succeeding generations. [More…]

• Only recently my colleague was able to announce changes insofar as they affected the less wealthy sections of the community. [More…]

• I now emphasise that inflation is a very great difficulty which we must come to grips with and solve if we are to achieve the kind of growth and the kind of community that we so much need. [More…]

• I mention this today because I believe that due to recent occurrences we ought to look at the more needy section of the community. [More…]

• Expressed as percentages of the gross national product the expenditure of various nations on social services is as follows: The nations of the European Economic Community spend J 5.2 per cent of their gross national product on social services, Scandinavia 10.9 per cent, Canada 9.9 per cent, Britain 8.6 per cent, Switzerland 8.2 per cent. [More…]

• This Government is one that represents all classes of the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) said that the Government represents all sections of the community. [More…]

• Whilst the Prime Minister defends the right of private enterprise, under the influence of what we are pleased to call healthy competition, to prise from the community every cent that the market will yield, he trenchantly condemns the seeking or granting of over award payments which represent nothing more than the competitive market value of particular classifications of labour. [More…]

• But since credit restrictions and rising unemployment cause loss of electoral support, as witnessed in the 1961 general elections, a Government which is tied to big business, as this Government is, cannot escape its dilemma by prices control and must either let inflation run riot, as is now the case, or face certain defeat at the hands of an apprehensive work force and the business community whose prosperity rests upon a fully employed work force. [More…]

• Trade unionists will always accept a decision if it is fair because a fair decision is always acceptable to fair people and the trade union movement represents the fairest section of the community. [More…]

• The containment of inflationary pressures is one of the prime elements of the Government’s policy which .is designed to offset some of the unfortunate disabilities with which some sections of the community are now confronted. [More…]

• While there are very considerable pressures around the continuity of the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement and while concern is felt about marketing arrangements after 1974, there is still a measure of cooperation and co-ordination in trying to ensure that negotiations towards possible British entry into the European Economic Community take account of the necessity for Australian sugar to be. [More…]

• All of us can recall, as far as milk powder is concerned, how last year in the European Economic Community some 360,000 tons of dried milk powder were in stock and how all of us wondered how on earth we would get stability back into the dried milk powder industry. [More…]

• The Government cannot be criticised for what it has done for the less privileged section of the community. [More…]

• This has assisted them very substantially to do more for the underprivileged section of the community. [More…]

• The Opposition says it represents the underprivileged section of the community. [More…]

• When did the Opposition argue positively for the training of men and women to realise their skill potential so that they can find work satisfaction and contribute more to the community, or for management skill which is an integral part of an efficiency drive? [More…]

• 1 am aware of some concern being expressed by doctors in Canberra regarding difficulties experienced by them in having patients admitted to the Canberra Community Hospital. [More…]

• and (5) The General Superintendent of the Canberra Community Hospital has advised me that to provide the precise figures requested by you would be a very large task. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable gentleman of the recognition by the Commonwealth of the urgency with which these measures are regarded by the farming community and 1 can assure him that every effort will be made to introduce the necessary legislation and to finalise the agreements as soon as possible. [More…]

• This Government is determined, as the former Prime Minister promised, to do all it can to bring up to date as quickly as humanly possible the fulfilment of the needs of the young people in this growing and developing community. [More…]

• They were going to a State school but we were well aware that had it not been for the efforts of parents who were fairly well off in the community that school would have been lacking in lots of basic requirements. [More…]

• In 1969 the European Economic Community countries imported nearly 400,000 tons of rape seed. [More…]

• 1 hope that in the future my views will be supported by those in the community who hold similar views. [More…]

• Such a scheme is extremely important to Tasmania and to the canning fruit areas of Victoria that are so dependent on export markets, particularly those that can be affected very greatly if Britain joints the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It would be timely on the tariff side both in view of the United Kingdom joining the European Economic Community and because of our own internal and domestic inflationary pressures. [More…]

• At talks in Ottawa involving the 5 major wheat exporting countries - Australia, Canada, United States of America, the Argentine and the European Economic Community - figures showed that last year slock holdings of wheat went up by about 900 million bushels, an increase of almost SO per cent, to well over 2,000 million bushels. [More…]

• Thank heaven that the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby), the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) and other honourable members expose the imposters in this Parliament who claim to represent the country interests in the community. [More…]

• I suggest that he should look at men like Sobers and Conrad Hunte, two men who are respected in the community, in world affairs and in the national scene, and who advocate a solution to this problem which is completely and absolutely opposed to what is proposed by this so-called bishop. [More…]

• Will he agree that it is this sector which is mainly responsible for the inflation in our community? [More…]

• The second is that the industrial law is depended upon by 95 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is in the interest of 95 per cent of the community that the system survive. [More…]

• When it is mobilised to serve an individual commercial purpose the position should be intolerable to the Australian community. [More…]

• If there is a commercial dispute - as apparently there is - it ought to be resolved in a commercial manner, not by depriving this community of the production of the men on strike and not by depriving the families of the men on strike of their income which is so necessary to maintain their standard of living. [More…]

• The general circumstances of the average producer of wool are far worse than the general circumstances of almost any other member of the community. [More…]

• The Australian Government has a responsibility to all sections of the community and to act in such a fashion would be a denial of responsibility. [More…]

• The cost to the community runs into millions of dollars. [More…]

• It is recognised throughout the world that the best method would be to keep them under supervision and to effectively get them back into the community as quickly as possible. [More…]

• It is an opportunity for us to improve the services of law enforcement and related agencies which support law enforcement in the community. [More…]

• When we appreciate the fact that what is called the ‘dark number’ - that is,the proportion of the total number of crimes committed in the community which is not reported to the police - is estimated at 4 times the actual number of crimes reported, and we make some adjustments and find that only about one-third of crimes reported are cleared up, it means that of all crimes committed one in every 15 is cleared up by our law enforcement agencies at the present time. [More…]

• The population increased in the same period by only 18.4 per cent, lt is therefore quite clear that criminal offences against people and the public are increasing at a much faster rate than the population of the community. [More…]

• For example, it was 6.9 per 10,000 of the population in 1964 but by 1968 it had risen to 7.3. lt would therefore appear that, notwithstanding the qualifications I mentioned about the comparability of statistics, there is evidence of a mount ing crime problem in the community and the community has to bear it at a considerable social cost as well as a direct economic cost. [More…]

• The cost factor is why we should become more and more involved in combating crime in the community through direct participation and co-operation with the States. [More…]

• The policemen of today are asked to do all sorts of difficult things for most of which they are not trained, such as working as a literary, artistic and cultural censor in our community. [More…]

• A policeman should be a much more important figure in our community today and he should gain much more respect than he currently attracts. [More…]

• The system of parole and probation is of such unchallengeable benefit to the community that one wonders why we have skimped money in this particular area. [More…]

• These are the people who serve on juries, the pillars of society, probably the only people in the civilian section of the community who are invited to a royal dinner in Kings Hall. [More…]

• To that extent I believe the community should welcome this legislation. [More…]

• They are no better and no worse than people in any other segment of the community. [More…]

• The view is expressed that local government has an important role to play in that in its relatively small area it is the best agency to determine policies and develop programmes responsive to community needs. [More…]

• Secondly I wish to state shortly and simply - 1 would have thought that some of the speeches in this debate could have been confined to this simple proposition - that this legislation recognises a serious need in the community and sets out to meet that need. [More…]

• Some Opposition members seem to hold the unfortunate view that they have a prerogative or exclusive franchise on social reform measures - on those measures that deal with people in the community who are less fortunate than ourselves and with criminal reform which is the example before us tonight. [More…]

• I would go further to state that the loss of human life could well be attributed to the fact that for too long too few have been charged with what has been and always will be the collective responsibility of the community as a whole. [More…]

• lt can be achieved in a very practical way by the police becoming more efficient and providing better services to the community, and by recognition of the importance of the administrative function of the force. [More…]

• What is needed above all is the recognition by this Government of its financial and social responsibilities, and of the importance of police and related agencies in an area which for far too long has been divorced from consideration, by both this Government and a large section of the community, although it is a very important link in the infrastructure of a well balanced social community. [More…]

• While I support the Bill, I remind the Mouse that, in the light of what I have said, this Bill goes only part of the way towards solving this national problem or this national crisis which for too long the Government and the community at large have treated with appalling apathy and neglect. [More…]

• We should be big enough in our government and mature enough in our system of democracy to have reached the stage where, if it is not possible to afford expensive but needed services in the community without increasing taxes, we can confidently explain why it is necessary to raise taxes, why taxes or some other form of income raising will have to be accepted so that we can institute these services. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government seems to be greatly concerned to curb and control this sector of the community and make it conform. [More…]

• First, it should be remembered that if strikes, which are largely due to the operations of the left wing trade union movement supported by Mr Hawke, cause a loss of well over 2 million man days a year, this must affect productivity and it must therefore affect the capacity to pay wages and the standard of living of all but the very strong sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I completely support the principle underlying this question, which is that when an industry makes a recommendation to the government for a particular policy and the Government accepts that recommendation, it is quite irresponsible for any section of the community to take it into its own hands to act in opposition to that recommendation and, as in the instance of the export of merino rams, to prevent that taking place. [More…]

• He boasted that the expenditure of $40m to participate in the Conference Line shipping arrangements would give us a voice to protect the shippers of this country and thus to protect the community generally. [More…]

• As a by-product these cadet units provide a community youth service. [More…]

• If the Navy League Sea Cadet units are to survive their transfer to naval control we must continue to interest the local community in their activities through supervising committees of local citizens. [More…]

• The second field of future activity of the Navy League should be to foster understanding in the community of the role of maritime power and the. [More…]

• I believe that I indicated in my second reading speech that the Australian community, in its corporate sense, is superbly served by voluntary organisations. [More…]

• They are in a similar position to other wage and salary earners in the community. [More…]

• 1 would suggest that if similar actions were taken relative to the High Court or any other judicial body in the community the Minister concerned would be very seriously reprimanded by the judiciary and other people. [More…]

• Honourable members should not have to go out into the corridors and hear from members of the community who frequent this place from time to time that they have been told to look for other jobs. [More…]

• In every case a post office in a community in a country district is a bulwark of its solidarity. [More…]

• But I believe it is important that we ask some scientific research unit to find the basis of the community’s attitude, because in this matter particularly we owe a duty to the people of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• Boundaries should be drawn genuinely on the basis of community of interest and lines of communication. [More…]

• I hope that at the next distribution there will be only one electorate - a new electorate on the outskirts of the metropolitan area - where the electorates of Canning and Moore now exist so that the people concerned will have an electorate which has been decided on the basis of community of interest and lines of communication. [More…]

• What alarms me is that no one appears really to care about the urgency of the problem facing this section of the aboriginal community. [More…]

• There appeared to be little hope of these people obtaining in the near future a house of a standard acceptable in the white community, even though their families were being sent to schools and were receiving the same education as the white population. [More…]

• Consistent wilh this there has always been an understanding between the British and Australian Governments that a broad cross-section of the community, including aged persons personally nominated by family members resident in Australia, would be included in the assisted passage programme. [More…]

• The question of extending the service to other persons in the community is a matter of Government policy. [More…]

• Victorian community and its many industries which are dependent on a continuous flow of power for their plants. [More…]

• We still have no commitment from the Government about what will happen to the range of industries that will be affected by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community or her association with the European Common Market. [More…]

• J believe that in the quiet of the evening some members of the Government still get down on their knees and pray very hard that Britain does not enter the Community. [More…]

• We have no commitment from the Government regarding the survival of these industries in the face of changes which must be made in advance of Britain entering the European Economic- Community. [More…]

• This Bill relates to one industry, yet we have no Government commitment concerning that industry if Britain enters the European Economic Community.I suggest that prayers, however commendable in the dark of the evening, are not a substitute for action. [More…]

• As a matter of fact I would suggest that even before stabilisation there is a need for a firm commitment by the Government concerning the dried fruits industry if Britain enters the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If Britain enters that Community will the Government say: Well, this is bad for that industry. [More…]

• We need a commitment now because obviously action should, be intrain in advance of Britain’s entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But I assure honourable members that the suggestion that nothing is being done to produce an alternative policy in the event of Britain entering into the European Economic Community is incorrect and that exactly the contrary is the case. [More…]

• There has been wide opposition to the degree that members of Parliament received constant delegations from the rank and file primary producers and a crosssection of the community. [More…]

• The 2 major markets on the Continent - United Kingdom and the European Economic Community countries - are the biggest importers of pig meats in the world, but these 2 markets are the most difficult for Australia to break into. [More…]

• These are supplied by the European Economic Community countries themselves. [More…]

• As we are now more familiar with the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community we know that it is virtually a free trade area in itself with a huge protective barrier around it inhibiting imports from countries not in the Common Market. [More…]

• The Parliamentary Committee on Public Works has recently completed ils hearings of evidence relating to the building proposals lor the Darwin Community College and it will be reporting to Parliament shortly on [his. [More…]

• The Community College Planning Committee recently submitted its second report to my predecessor. [More…]

• Pollution not only involves governments and civicminded groups such as yours, but everyone in the community. [More…]

• The community could acquaint itself through the mass media with the evidence presented to this committee and be wiser about the facts. [More…]

• They were not struck because of a realisation of the socio-economic need of a substantial proportion of the population; nor were they introduced because of the imperatives of social and economic justice; nor were they introduced because of a humanly inspired sense of moral concern for and obligation towards the rights of a very large number of people in the community. [More…]

• Had several honourable members opposite supported the proposal of the Labor Opposition, substantial increases would have been granted in social service benefits for many needy people in the community. [More…]

• There has been no allowance for productivity here and there has been no allowance for the general standard of prosperity distributed throughout the community. [More…]

• I can remember well that when I first arrived here about 10 years ago the favourite reference of Government spokesmen when queried about wage standards in the community was average weekly earnings. [More…]

• Let us see how pension payments relate to average weekly earnings, because this is the meaningful way to gauge whether pension recipients in fact are participating on an equivalent basis and in a consistent relationship with the average standard of prosperity in the community. [More…]

• This shows the alarming disparity and the long term erosion in the prosperity standard of people who are dependent on social service benefits visavis the average standard of prosperity in the community as measured by average weekly earnings. [More…]

• We see no radical rethinking, no fresh concepts emerging, no efforts to remould the sort of welfare practices, policies and values which apply in this community and yet clearly we need new values. [More…]

• A national superannuation scheme is clearly needed in this community. [More…]

• 1 think it is reasonable to assume from them that one can get a general trend of the need for this sort of programme in the community. [More…]

• Canada and Australia are comparable countries in this sort of thing and certainly in economic terms and the social welfare programmes that this country is capable of achieving, lt is quite clear that Australia has the capacity to introduce this sort of system for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• We have the power to do it and having the power we must fulfil the responsibility to introduce these things; to give people a sense of security and to assure them that the community is concerned about their welfare and that in times of crisis need especially there will bc adequate support for them. [More…]

• The problem is a social one for which the community at large must bear responsibility, rather than it being a cause for lawyers jousting in the lists provided by our court rooms. [More…]

• As I said, responsibility for such a programme should be a community one and accordingly everyone should have an entitlement to the protection of such a scheme, that is, the aged, the young, the housewife, the self-employed as well as the employees. [More…]

• In this area of social security we must, as a moral responsibility in the community, introduce a system of guaranteed minimum income for those people unfortunate enough to live in the area defined as one of relative poverty. [More…]

• I conclude by suggesting that this House should refer the total area of social welfare, not only the benefits now provided but also the funds of services which should be provided, both financially and by way of welfare programmes backing up financial services, to a select committee of this House so that we can have some objective, in depth, analyses of the needs in this community and so that appropriate recommendations may be made to this House on the kind of policy which should be developed in the future. [More…]

• The day has come when there must be a full revision of social services so that all sections of our community, the aged, the sick, the widowed and all the rest, receive justice from this Parliament. [More…]

• We should go further and use objective criteria of the requirements of pensioners if they are to enjoy the standard of living to which they are entitled and which the Australian community expects. [More…]

• The Government has since made some perfunctory attempts to counter inflation but, having failed, it is still not prepared to protect the most vulnerable group in the community from its effects. [More…]

• I am fully aware that this may mean a reduction in capital formation for investment and that this may mean a slowing down in the economic growth, but I believe that this is a price which the community must be prepared to pay. [More…]

• There are many sections of the community which could be better compared with the position of pensioners than the wool growing section. [More…]

• Surely the worst enemy of pensioners, people on superannuation, salaried people on fixed incomes and people on lower incomes is the man or organisation which continues to force inflation upon this community. [More…]

• The Scandinavian countries spend 10.9 per cent of their gross national product on social welfare; the member countries of the European Economic Community spend 15.2 per cent; Canada 9.9 per cent; the United Kingdom 8.6 per cent; Switzerland 8.2 per cent; New Zealand 6.6 per cent; the United States of America 5.9 per cent; and in Australia the figure is down to 5.5 per cent. [More…]

• T appeal to the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) not to compare the situation of war widows with that of any other section of the community. [More…]

• What evidence there is suggests the reverse, that there is a high sense of responsibility towards elderly persons in the community and that people greatly disadvantage themselves in catering for them. [More…]

• If the Government accepts the Universal Declaration on Human Rights it should drop its piecemeal attitude and adopt an overall social service plan related to the needs of the whole community. [More…]

• I want to mention the position of young invalid people in the prevailing circumstances of our community. [More…]

• That the capital cost of welfare works is higher than the amounts which can be raised by community service organisations or local government authorities on a voluntary basis [More…]

• The Labor Party takes this opportunity to reveal to the rural community just how insincere its approach is to that community’s problems. [More…]

• The Government’s decision to collect outstanding fines could lead to a 24-hour general stoppage costing the community $100m each time each fine is collected. [More…]

• A law that cannot command the general acceptance of the community is a bad law and should be replaced by a law that is acceptable. [More…]

• The constitutional role of the Commission was perhaps best stated by its President, Sir Richard Kirby, in the 1965 national wage case, when he said that whilst price stability for the community at large should be considered - and I now quote him exactly - ‘to give it dominance rather than influence as one factor to be considered is not only wrong policy, but also something this Commission was not created to do, should not do, and has not the competence or power to do’. [More…]

• He asked: ‘How do we explain to the community that the absence from work amounts to the reduction of the nation’s workforce by 200,000 persons?’ [More…]

• Of course, he ended up on a highly political note which had in it implications of maintaining that in this free community the Government alone should by laws provide for greater productivity. [More…]

• The Minister points to the benefits to all in this community in building up greater wealth that can be shared by every individual in the community and which can enable the nation to take its place in the world. [More…]

• I think the most significant thing in what the Minister described was the way in which the Department of Labour and National Service is involving the business community in productivity action through the establishment of productivity groups numbering 183 and representing some 3700 firms. [More…]

• to this stage anyhow, sought to alter, in fact reduce the overall level of productivity in the community. [More…]

• But I doubt very much that the Country Party is prepared to accept the suggestions of the Report of the Vernon Committee of Economic Inquiry, for instance, which clearly indicate that one of the means by which productivity is reduced in the community is by providing subsidies to uneconomic rural industries. [More…]

• There are other activities which have very important effects on the levels of productivity in the Australian community. [More…]

• If we are not prepared to expend the necessary funds to provide the community with the levels and types of skills which modern industry requires then we cannot expect to increase the productivity of our industries. [More…]

• Such restrictions would ultimately, I am quite certain, prove to be unconstitutional but they would in the interim provide such suspicion of the Commission and result in such industrial unrest that the conciliation and arbitration system would be destroyed as an effective industrial organisation in the Australian community long before any legal decision for or against such restrictions could be arrived at. [More…]

• The fact is that the Government has consistently - and with the recent change of Government direction and leadership we can anticipate that this will be even more apparent - placed itself in such a position that every person in this community who works for wages, and every person who is responsible for industrial advocacy by an employee organisation, recognises quite certainly that the Government is one of the forces which is opposed to their interests, one of the forces which will at all times use all means possible to mitigate against the success of any industrial claim made by an employee organisation. [More…]

• In fact, it wants to reduce the level of wages and the purchasing power of wages in the community. [More…]

• The only thing that is wrong in this community is when, the level of wages of employees is increased. [More…]

• I repeat again, because this is something that the Australian community has to recognise: The only way in which the wage and salary earner can receive a bigger share is to get a bigger economic cake to cut up, and the way to do this is to increase the productivity of the worker, and of management. [More…]

• I am a little tired of the argument that this cannot be done because of the constitutional requirement that the principle of one in all in should apply to any concession or monetary advantage that is made available to a section of the community. [More…]

• It goes without saying that I respect the people who have made both of the suggestions I have referred to but the simple fact is that their views cannot be evaluated in the absence of criteria as to the basic standards which the Australian community expects and can afford. [More…]

• The end point of that process, however, is that the means test has to go because if it is a right it cannot be a right based on poverty; it must be a right based on some such concept as a return for a lifetime of work and effort within the community. [More…]

• Our social services, as has been said already many times in this debate, were once the pride of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Minister also apparently overlooks the fact that pensioners generally are a fair minded section of the community whose minds go back to the depression days and to the complete lack of consider ation that was extended to workers and their families during that time. [More…]

• Pensioners do not ask merely for justice for themselves; they ask also for justice for the other underprivileged persons in the community. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Party Government, by the Bill which we are presently debating, continues as in the past deliberately to ignore the needs, plight and suffering of that section of the community which is entirely or largely dependent upon social services for an existence. [More…]

• It is completely consistent in that it is always unfair and it always treats them contemptuously as compared with its treatment of other sections of the community. [More…]

• But, again, the tone of the contributions to the debate from the Government side causes us some concern, and we will await with interest the outcome of the vote before being sure whether members of the Government parties really want to eliminate the poverty and suffering that occur in some areas of the community. [More…]

• That is the contribution that is made for pensioner welfare in the face of ever increasing costs in the community. [More…]

• “Everybody in the community is well aware that it is the cost of fundamental needs of living that are rising in price. [More…]

• These are the goods and services that the pensioners, in common with the rest of the members of the community, have to use and to purchase. [More…]

• By contrast, the average wage earner received an increase of 8 per cent during the 1969-70 financial year, and there was a substantial reduction in income tax for most people in the community. [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…]

• The rest of us think it is bad enough that the average weekly income in the community is S84.80 a week. [More…]

• In line with many people in the community and many organisations, I suggest that it is about time invalid pensioners and those who work in sheltered workshops were allowed to earn $20 a week rather than $10 a week as at present. [More…]

• The European Economic Community countries pay out 15.2 per cent of their gross national product in social welfare, Scandinavia pays 10.9 per cent, Canada 9.9 per cent, the United Kingdom 8.6 per cent, Switzerland 8.2 per cent, New Zealand 6.6 per cent, the United States 5.9 per cent and Australia, with a means test loaded on to it, pays 5.5 per cent, trailing all those countries with which we ought to be able to compare ourselves. [More…]

• There are at least 14 countries that I can quote which now have provision for the automatic adjustment of long term benefits in relation to rising prices or the average wage in their community. [More…]

• There are 14 countries and there may well be more which make automatic adjustments, not at the behest of a Prime Minister desperate to hang on to his position or in the face of an impending election, but regularly and automatically in relation to a fixed index, whether it be cost of living or the average wage in the community. [More…]

• A comparison of indexes of pension variations as against indexes of average incomes in the community in various countries again shows that we are well behind. [More…]

• Comparisons show that as a percentage of the average weekly wage in the community pensions have been going down for a long time. [More…]

• The homes for the aged which are provided under the Government’s subsidy scheme are not being made available to the needy pensioners in our community. [More…]

• It has been introduced in the form of an emergency measure because of the general increases in costs which have occurred in the community. [More…]

• 1 have pointed out that there are certain sections of the community today whose needs receive insufficient emphasis. [More…]

• With relatively little retraining and at a relatively low cost to the community, people retiring from particular occupations could be trained to do something else which could interest them and continue occupying their lives for a number of years while again contributing to the community and saving the community the cost of paying them pensions. [More…]

• There are many jobs in the community which can very adequately be done by elderly people thereby saving the younger people who could do something more useful and at the same time saving the elderly people from the loneliness and depression which so often besets them when they are forced to retire because of their age. [More…]

• We need to consult social workers, occupational therapists, doctors, psychiatrists and other specialists in the community who deal with pensioners who are no longer able to cope. [More…]

• This is one reason why we have moved for the establishment of a committee to be empowered to seek the advice of professional people in the community who look after, often with very little help from the rest of us, the pensioners in our community. [More…]

• In any community the lower income group and the less affluent sections of the community are assisted by the more affluent. [More…]

• Once again this imposes strains on the local councils, charitable organisations and community service organisations. [More…]

• On top of that they are expected to assist in meeting the welfare needs of the community. [More…]

• I was particularly interested tonight in the suggestion - of course this applies, in my view, right through the spectrum of government from local to State to Federal - that not enough attention is paid to and not enough use is made of the rapidly increasing force of social workers that we have in the community today. [More…]

• Our purpose is nothing less than the abolition of the poverty that exists in the midst of plenty and the provision of at least a guaranteed income below which no member of the community need fall. [More…]

• The most important item of the welfare programme must therefore be the development of a new spirit in this country - a spirit of human fellowship which will create a collective national effort for better conditions for all members of the community. [More…]

• In determining the appropriate content for the social welfare programme one of the greatest difficulties is to decide how much emphasis should be placed on meeting the needs of individuals and families in trouble and how much to place on overall schemes which improve the standard of living of the whole community. [More…]

• I was sorry to hear some honourable members criticise the age pensions’ homes scheme which, while I believe it does not meet all the requirements, is a scheme which is accumulating a stock of homes in the community which will meet the needs of pensioners. [More…]

• But the pensioner is not the only person in this community who has needs. [More…]

• Let us remember that our community has in it the young and the old and that both draw their sustenance from the active people of the middle age group who pay the taxes and produce the goods and services on which Australia depends. [More…]

• Indications are that this will happen and the long winter recess will begin without any statement to the Parliament by the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) on the present serious distortions in our trade and on the great question mark hanging over 8 per cent of our exports when Britain either enters the European Economic Community or negotiates a new trading relationship with Europe. [More…]

• It is associated with the fact that 10 years ago the then Minister for Trade and Industry said that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community would be disastrous for Australia. [More…]

• Does this position show an increasing disparity between the share of productivity allotted to pensioners and that allotted to other sections of the community, especially when (he added effect of urban growth produces such a large increase for example, some 165 per cent in telephone rentals in Canberra. [More…]

• Government policy does permit well-qualified Japanese who are capable of being integrated into our community and who have qualifications which are positively valuable to Australia to migrate to this country and settle here. [More…]

• It is not a question of plain responsibility; it is a question of a fundamental social and community duty. [More…]

• How are we to know that the managerial arrangements that will finally be arrived at will be satisfactory to the community? [More…]

• The armed services are not a life of their own; they are an extension of the community and they must not be separate from it. [More…]

• One of the factors in Australian Life which I think has made the armed services, particularly the Army, so closely related to community life is the fact that they have been part of society generally and have been accepted as such. [More…]

• Nothing shook the Australian community more than the Four Corners’ television programme in which four or five cadets from Duntroon were asked what they would do if they were told to fire on civilians. [More…]

• The fact is that we have handed to him the most precious trusteeship in our community - young Australian men - and if he is the responsible person he cannot lay the blame for their actions or what happens to them on the Chief of the General Staff. [More…]

• But small though these sums are in the vast total of Commonwealth expenditure they are important to the individuals concerned and are an appropriate recognition of the debt that our community owes to them for the risks they dared to take and the injuries they suffered on behalf of. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition praised the RSL for its standing in the community, the soundness of its judgment and the wisdom of the proposals that it put forward in the compensation plan. [More…]

• For that reason, the Repatriation Commission is examining the repatriation system, lt is important that the Government and the taxpayers should continue to appreciate that the ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen who served the country so well in time of danger and threat to our existence are entitled to retain a special place in the community. [More…]

• In my view the most deserving section of the community, and the ones which I ranked in the highest priority, were those on the maximum rate pension. [More…]

• The Opposition does not try to achieve productivity in the community because it is hoping for economic problems to arise, but they will not eventuate. [More…]

• I do not know to which particular group of the community he speaks, but I certainly do not find in the Australian community disillusion and demoralisation. [More…]

• On the contrary I find that in the community there is a great belief in the future of Australia and tremendous confidence in the way it will develop. [More…]

• As I propose to show, there is a highly developed community attitude of social conscience which, at some points, runs almost to a sort of guilt sense that we, such an affluent country, are not doing enough to satisfy the social conscience of the people. [More…]

• Earlier I mentioned highly developed community attitudes towards environment, pollution, quality of life and people who are less privileged and less able to work. [More…]

• There are highly developed community attitudes towards external aid for other countries. [More…]

• Demand by the community for money to be spent will always run in advance of government’s ability to finance them. [More…]

• 1 believe this to be one of the most critical problems facing the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• Above all he is lamentably ignorant of what are the really persuasive problems that are disturbing the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• It is the sum of the cooperative efforts of all governments and the community. [More…]

• There just is not the necessary consultation far enough ahead for proper planning in our community when we have examples such as this. [More…]

• We could spend all our time just pointing out the great needs of the community. [More…]

• But since 1949 we have had very little relating to the great needs there are in the community. [More…]

• Increased levels of property rates on the unimproved value of sites will not adequately replace land rents, as a rate is usually ‘struck’ to cover the cost of community services. [More…]

• A credible pattern of rating was essential to any responsible community participation in Ideal affairs. [More…]

• We have a very literate, informed community in Canberra, and the correspondence pages of the ‘Canberra Times’ are full of letters demanding this sort of thing. [More…]

• I am sure that if they did and if they had the good of the Australian taxpayer and the Canberra community at heart they would not have raised this matter. [More…]

• The unearned increment on land value should in their terms accrue to the community and not to individuals. [More…]

• Further, against the argument that none of the capital gains should go to private leaseholders but all should go to the community as a whole is the fact that the possibility of gain provides an incentive to use the land economically. [More…]

• We should not be seeking to bring Canberra down to the level of the other capital cities; we should be restoring the principle of community-owned land in Canberra and trying to bring the other capitals into line with that. [More…]

• One of the major problems in our cities is the fact that land is privately owned; that the increased value of land is being siphoned off to the speculator instead of going to the whole community, to whom it rightly belongs. [More…]

• The benefits of increased productivity affect everyone in the community and bring benefits to everyone, not only because of lowered production costs and lower prices but also because inflationary trends can be dampened down, higher wages and salaries paid, and improved working conditions and increased leisure time can result. [More…]

• It is fruitless for one group to seek to dominate the other because not only are the groups virtually interdependent but also both groups have a real responsibility to the rest of the community to provide essential goods and services. [More…]

• This is a call for the development within the individual of a positive attitude towards individual and community responsibility. [More…]

• These resources, as I have said, are capital, labour and natural resources but they require also the right attitude on the part of national leadership and the community generally for their successful utilisation. [More…]

• If he can achieve something here, he will raise the prosperity of the community as a whole, including, of course, his union members. [More…]

• We have no chance of achieving the huge sums we require for all the needs of our community from a near static gross national product - the funds we need for health, for education or for pollution control or for any of our other goals. [More…]

• The honourable member was concerned about what investment produces for those manufacturers who, as he put it tonight, are the poor in the community. [More…]

• I said in the House the other night, and I repeat tonight, that this Government has not even glanced at what is liable to happen to the Australian community as a result of displacement of the work force because of technological change and because of computers. [More…]

• I emphasise at the outset the importance of this debute which has examined the implications of national productivity for the Australian community, lt has assisted in making clear the difference between the concepts of productivity and production. [More…]

• Quite apart from the wages and earnings argument, it determines what the community can afford by way of urban amenities, our education facilities, the amount of leisure we have, the extent to which we conserve and protect our environment, and other critical aspects of our standard of living. [More…]

• Our capacity to assist the needy sections of our community and to strengthen our defence capability hinges on our productivity performance. [More…]

• Another aspect of this is that if we could achieve higher productivity growth, we would be able to deal more effectively with current inflationary pressures in the community, by narrowing the gap between minimum money wage expectations and economic capacity and by easing the labour shortages that inevitably exist in a full employment economy. [More…]

• Each person in the community tends to assess his individual share of national productivity by his money earnings. [More…]

• Granted that the community as a whole should be vitally interested in stimulating productivity growth, the questions which then arise are: Who can affect the level of productivity? [More…]

• I want to emphasise the sensitive part the attitudes of the community play in developing a climate of productivity consciousness. [More…]

• It is also evident that more extensive factual information concerning the techniques of productivity promotion needs to be available so that the community can form its own value judgments about the types of attitudes to work and social living that produce a favourable productivity climate. [More…]

• So I think it can be a question of judgment for any person within the community, knowing that situation, as to whether it has been discontinued because of its lower rating or because of the new requirement of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in relation to Australian content. [More…]

• is fair to say that there is a legal requirement on the Board to set standards.- The Board has to set those standards having regard to what I feel sure is Government policy in terms of Australian production and what is accepted within the community generally, because it is essentia! [More…]

• Of course, there can never be a guarantee that natural disasters will not claim the lives of citizens in any community. [More…]

• Nothing shook me Australian community more than the ‘Four Corners’ television programme in which four or five cadets from Duntroon were asked what they would do if they were told to fire on civilians. [More…]

• Despite urgent requests from responsible sections of the Australian community, including the wheat industry, to take a commonsense viewpoint towards China, the Australian Government continues lo cling to the coat tails of the United States and to deliver public insults to China. [More…]

• The violence in this community against missions has come from the right wing. [More…]

• Nevertheless a proper balance of a community’s needs must involve a recognition of the right of groups of people to demonstrate, and the community’s rules should be moulded accordingly. [More…]

• To strike a balance between the various divergent interests in the community is no easy task for anyone. [More…]

• Although the right of dissent is one of the features that distinguishes democratic countries such as Australia from oppressive dictatorships, there are some people in the community who abuse this democratic right. [More…]

• But this is no reason why the community should sit by and accept the violent contempt of the law which is increasingly threatening public and private properly and citizens’ rights. [More…]

• There is no excuse for this in a community in which changes of the law can be brought about by peaceful processes through the channels of democratic government. [More…]

• As I see this Bill, there is a degree of responsibility on all sections of the community. [More…]

• Regardless of whether people are university students or come from other sectors of the Australian community, they have a responsibility to uphold the law. [More…]

• I believe that a section of the community which has a big responsibility for law and order as well as many other events which occur in Australia today is the Press. [More…]

• It is part of the strength of the community that in fact most of us are not inflicted with injustices all the time. [More…]

• I have bad experience in the teaching services and in the armed services, as a public figure and as a person who has marched down streets at the head of demonstrations, who has taken part in some that could have become violent, who has had long and close associations with the police force, in Victoria in particular, and in this community. [More…]

• So it is an attempt to foster hysteria in the community. [More…]

• Honourable members know perfectly well from the statements made and the fear that the Government attempts to engender in the public that the legislation is based upon the idea that the community is hysterical. [More…]

• I ask honourable members opposite: Who are the people of violence in the community? [More…]

• What are the ultimates of violence if those violences visited upon the community by governments such as this one are not the ultimates in violence? [More…]

• All these things which place policemen in impossible positions - deciding whether it is a lawful occasion, whether it is likely to cause apprehension and dismay in the ranks of the community or not - are not the kind of rights we ought to give policemen. [More…]

• What we are seeing here is the product of reaction to the degradations of Government policy which have produced undue reaction in the community because there is no other way of answering them. [More…]

• Then there is the definition of what is an assembly and the definition of what is apprehension in the community. [More…]

• I remind honourable members opposite that although there are all these elements in the community, as the honourable member for Lalor said we are on the thin edge of a police state. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) asked us who are the people of violence in this community. [More…]

• I think I have suggested before that the only people of violence in this community are those who seek to wield their influence by physical means instead of by reason and work. [More…]

• Similarly there are many groups in the community whose views would offend protected persons representing the United States of America, Spain, South Africa, Israel and the United Arab Republic. [More…]

• It would be difficult to find a country whose activities at some time would not cause offence to some groups in this community. [More…]

• But what concerns me most of all is the possibility of some 20 growers and their families being forced off their properties and the effect that this would have on such a small town whose community depends so much upon these growers. [More…]

• Obviously it would not be only 20 individuals; it would be them and the families associated with them, the businesses and the community as a whole. [More…]

• Local Government and Community Services (N.T. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted _ to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it: and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• I want to make it abundantly clear, first of all, that the Government’s primary goal is to provide an effective health scheme for the benefit of the Australian community without unnecessary cost to those who have to contribute to the health or medical benefits funds. [More…]

• In other words, we want the People’s Republic to show that it is willing to become a member of the international community and act responsibly. [More…]

• lt may be necessary, and it may be a good thing for the community, for the period of retraining to be extended. [More…]

• Yet this is the group in the community today that has probably been the most intensively educated in traffic problems and hazards. [More…]

• These are salutary facts and, of course, any government, any thinking person at any level of influence or responsibility in the community, should pay attention to them. [More…]

• In all, we as a community come to accept this as a way of life and this Parliament fails to acknowledge the enormousness of the problem and the enormous cost to the community, as well as the grief and suffering of the bereaved and the suffering of those permanently injured in these accidents, the paraplegics or mental vegetables. [More…]

• The cost to the community through lost man-hours in industry, the insurance payments which must be met by the spreading of the costs over all policies - these and other associated matters seldom rate a mention. [More…]

• We have become so sated by the consistency of the horror that we as a community do nothing to demand action by the Government to take immediate measures to stop the carnage. [More…]

• The question the Opposition must ask is: Why are primary producers being singled out and penalised when all other sections of the community are covered by the general principles laid down in respect of the time within which a prosecution for an offence will be launched. [More…]

• Why are primary producers to be penalised when more lenient provisions apply, in the case of summary offences, to the rest of the community? [More…]

• The basic question of principle is: Why should primary producers be singled out and subjected to unfair treatment in terms of the general provisions which apply to the rest of the community? [More…]

• The honourable member for Dawson tried to paint for primary producers the picture that they were being penalised compared with the rest of the community. [More…]

• why its sincerity does not extend to those problems in our community where enlightened action is required urgently. [More…]

• This Bill is a repressive Bill designed to silence the thinking section of our community. [More…]

• All the moral leaders in our community have criticised the National Service Act because it imprisons young men who refuse to fight in an undeclared foreign war that they believe to be immoral, unjust, dirty and repugnant. [More…]

• Hitherto in Australia, as in other countries under a developed legal system, the general law that applies to the members of the Australian community has seemed sufficient to discharge Australia’s international legal duty. [More…]

• He has a nice, tidy, peace loving and peace abiding community. [More…]

• I will be interested, as perhaps some other people in this community may be, to know what the situation in fact was. [More…]

• The fact that we do not have draft cards is not known to most people in the community. [More…]

• There is a way of demonstrating which is wrong and which is resorted to by only a small section of the community with the ultimate aim of engaging in riots - the fun picnic of sticking pins into a policeman’s horse, the fun picnic of throwing marbles under horse’s hooves and throwing rocks at embassies, whether it be the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the United States of America. [More…]

• We want Continental China to be a responsible member of the international community. [More…]

• If this is its policy it is a totally different policy from ours and the time has come for it to stand up and state where it stands, and if it believes in the domination of the small by the large it should make this information available to the Australian community. [More…]

• Already the Mayor of Wollongong has publicly advocated that the coastal community of Coalcliff should be abandoned to the coal industry and the community re-located.- A PostmasterGeneral’s Department telephone repeater station at Maddens Plains could easily become one of the first casualties of coal dust contamination from the stockpile. [More…]

• Clearly the price is too much for the community to pay. [More…]

• In my book, pollution is the unnecessary, ugly or dangerous change in the environment which is not in the best interests of the community; not just in terms of finance and economics but culturally and physically in terms of its health or in terms of the real security of people. [More…]

• Is it not in the best interests of the community in terms of economy and of their physical health, culture and security? [More…]

• 1 wish that honourable members opposite would stop and take a look at the ordinary rights to which people in the community are heirs. [More…]

• Magistrates generally will be required to try people in the community who are apprehended by the police and they will no doubt say: ‘We are here, of course, to hear the submissions made on your behalf. [More…]

• Under the terms of this Bill the Government is providing for legal persecution of people who are going about what I and most reasonable members of the community would regard as a lawful pursuit and pursuing a lawful purpose. [More…]

• He makes his living from the unfortunates in the community who perhaps have to be defended against the laws or who declare themselves to be innocent and run the risk of being declared guilty in accordance with the procedures of the lower courts to which I have referred earlier in this debate. [More…]

• Does he not envisage and does not anyone else on the Government side envisage the possibility that when an assembly occurs, and a member of the police force of the rank of sergeant or above has what he considers to be a reasonable apprehension about it, and gives out an order to disperse, that then any member of the community, whoever he is, is entitled to use whatever force he considers to be necessary to disperse anyone in that assembly? [More…]

• These are the matters before the House tonight - the rights, privileges and freedoms of the community. [More…]

• Since some in the community are seeking to confuse the situation regarding breaches of the National Service Act it may help if 1 explain matters in some detail. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should lake, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• I would like to take this opportunity of saying that though the Committee is made up of members from practically every Australian State, it is in a unique position to assist the Minister and the people of the Australian Capital Territory by conducting inquiries on behalf of the local community. [More…]

• Whilst it can be said that we have attempted to meet the normal needs of Canberra residents and the large visitor population, it cannot be concluded that what is recommended will, if implemented, lead to any threat to the moral strength of this community or to jeopardise the observation of Sunday as a day of worship by those who wish to do so. [More…]

• We should plan its progress with special consideration to environment and the expansion of cultural, sporting, entertainment and community activities in an effort to make it a warm and friendly city, and to ensure that as the years unfold before us, the national capital will develop in beauty and splendour. [More…]

• Surely in dealing with the evils of inflation, but more particularly its effects, a responsible government with any semblance of sensitivity, concern or compassion is politically, socially and morally bound to ask itself: What section or sections of the community suffer the most from its effects and have the least defence against it? [More…]

• There is no similar provision in this Bill and thus a Commonwealth employee who has received compensation will be in the same position as other members of the community who sue the Commonwealth, so far as any limitations on actions are concerned. [More…]

• My remarks simply show some of the inequities that inflation causes among various sections in the community. [More…]

• If the Government thinks that it has to have interest rates at that level, I think it should also be doing something to look after particular sections of the community that cannot stand excessive interest rates. [More…]

• We need to have some selectivity in how the burden of the interest rate is to be distributed among the various sections of the community. [More…]

• I suppose nearly every day every member of this Parliament gets a telephone call from members of a family who have elderly parents and who find that there are not sufficient care institutions in the community for those aged parents to be adequately looked after. [More…]

• There are certainly inadequate provisions for the care of the aged in the community, and in my view it is criminal rather than sound economic sense that suggests that expenditure at that kind of level should be restricted. [More…]

• In listening to the comments and in accepting the broadness of the subjects mentioned at this time of the parliamentary year, I would like to say that with all the talk about the needy in the community perhaps there is no more needy and no more critical area in our social situation than that of the young widow with a small family. [More…]

• But too often we are blinded to the fact that the young widow in the community does not have herself as organised as she might be in order to have a meaningful and strong voice brought forward to this House. [More…]

• Consideration of items of expenditure under the Appropriation Bill conies before this Parliament at a time when the Government is suggesting that austerity should reign in relation to its expenditure and in relation to the expenditure of various segments of the community. [More…]

• These people obviously would settle particularly well into the community because they have links with local church bodies and that sort of thing. [More…]

• The effect of an enlarged, narrow and selfish European Economic Community would be felt around the world. [More…]

• Therefore, the first objective which Japan and Australia could and, I believe, ought to have in common is to do what they can to see that the Economic Community is outward looking in its trade policies. [More…]

• Is there a sufficient area of interest between Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Japan to develop a partnership which would not be selfish, as is the Community, but which would look to the advantage not only of the countries I have mentioned but also of the developing countries of East Asia and of South East Asia. [More…]

• But it is necessary to point out that the isolation of China from the international community has been largly the result of its own international attitudes. [More…]

• If it is true that continental China is moving towards a desire to become a part of the community of nations, and if she has finally realised that the policies which she has been following are preventing this because they are not acceptable to the great majority of countries, the implications are tremendous. [More…]

• It is very interesting to consider the environment in which the original policy of military and diplomatic isolation of China evolved and to see some of the justifications on which this policy of separation of China from the world community was based. [More…]

• Firstly, I think there is a growing awareness amongst us that there is an enormous gap between the intimate knowledge of apartheid of a small informed section of the community and the ignorance of it of the great majority of Australians. [More…]

• Unfortunately we have seen the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) in recent weeks exploiting this massive information gap by resorting to the worst sort of gutter politics reminiscent of the Menzian era when the best form of electioneering was hysteria that played on every prejudice circulating in the community. [More…]

• Nothing could be better calculated to bring them to question their racial policies: And there is no greater service one could render the white community in South Africa than this. [More…]

• Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it. [More…]

• Taxation statistics reveal that in 1952-53 the mean weekly income for doctors was $108.25 and the average weekly income for the community as a whole was $31.38. [More…]

• The real rate of growth in doctors’ incomes thus exceeded the rate for the community as a whole by 40 per cent. [More…]

• Since 1963-64 doctors have increased their fees at a rate grossly disproportionate to prices fixed by other sections of the community for both products and labour. [More…]

• They have enjoyed, that is, since July the increases for which other sections of the community had to wait until December, and their median net income has risen to about $14,000. [More…]

• He makes great play, as do many others, of the fact that everybody else in the community has to go to arbitration and justify their claims for increased wages and that doctors do not have to do this. [More…]

• There is not even a free meal available in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a fundamental of economics that if more resources are to be devoted to a specific area it must be taken away from another area in the community. [More…]

• But if anyone in the community believed that the Government had ceded to the AMA the right to these increased fees then that person would be justified in that belief. [More…]

• expectations of the Community. [More…]

• I would ask this: Are we taking into the new era, as it is called, those things that really matter to the older people in this community - justice, service, self-sacrifice and Christianity? [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlay it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• I preface the question by saying that as a result of recent talks with British Ministers about the proposed entry of Britain into the European Economic Community one was given the very clear impression that such entry posed little or no problem for the great rural industries of this country. [More…]

• I am told that the general estimate of production prior to the placing of this limitation last year was that it would be considerably in excess of 220,000 tons and, as the honourable gentleman would know, there is real concern at the potential of the industry if the United Kingdom should enter into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This would mean that farmers can be expected to move relatively with the movement in interest rates in the community generally. [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…]

• The practice of protecting one section of the community is unsound and unjustifiable. [More…]

• However, I believe that we should look at the problem of the lack of local government finance for such works as roads, footpaths, guttering, playing fields, swimming pools and community centres. [More…]

• There are no adequate playing fields, swimming pools, community centres or the necessary transport and education services. [More…]

• I gained a knowledge of their character, their strength of purpose, their sense of community responsibility and their sense of responsibility, to use the term in its broad sense, to the native people of Rhodesia. [More…]

• So we are hopeful tha the new Prime Minister will quickly realise that the requests for further assistance are quite genuine, and we are confident that if he does make an inquiry into the situation he will quickly realise that there are problems facing the community which can be overcome only by the continuation of the gold mining industry activities. [More…]

• We also realise that the new Treasurer (Mr Snedden) is an ex-Western Australian, and that gives us an added reason for optimism, not because we suggest that he would favour Western Australia or differentiate between Western Australia and other States but because we know that he has some personal knowledge of the gold mining industry, its problems and its communities, and further because we know that he has a realisation of the effects on the community when, due to the closure of the mine, the residents have no alternative but to leave the district. [More…]

• The stark, grim fact remains that, notwithstanding what the Government has apparently accepted as being correct, and no matter what its advisers have told it, the gold fields community will face very serious problems with regard to both employment and economy if gold mining activities are allowed to decline over the next 5 or 6 years below that they are today. [More…]

• I deplore, as do I think most people in the Australian community, the way that Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions by the use of industrial action have achieved what amounts to a resale price maintenance. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Australian community realises that there is a strong likelihood that the ACTU in its takeover of Bourke’s depart ment store will not be paying any income tax. [More…]

• Perhaps the alternative is to have more inspectors, because I believe that there is no justification for penalising a section of the community, particularly when the penalty is more severe than the penalty under the Crimes Act. [More…]

• The February 1969 report of the National Council of the National Union of Australian University Students (now the Australian Union of Students) recognised that where restrictions on enrolments were necessary, Australian universities had a duty to the community to give priority to the education of Australian citizens, but it believed that the presence of substantial numbers of overseas students, particularly students from Asia, had in the past afforded opportunities for broadening of knowledge, interest and tolerance which it regarded as a necessary aspect of tertiary education and suggested that where there was the demand for it, 10 per cent of the total enrolment quota in each faculty in each university would be a minimum acceptable enrolment of overseas students. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs; [More…]

• Now, the 3 bases on which we adjudge whether migrants of non-European descent should be permitted to come in are, first of all, that they should be assimilable because we want one Australian community and we do not want little enclaves that can cause us the kind of trouble that has been caused in other parts of the world; secondly, we want them to have the kind of qualification that is necessary to permit them to fit readily into the work structure of this country; and finally, we want to be sure that they will make a contribution to our development as well. [More…]

• Does he find this situation and its origins compatible with the consistent complaint of honourable members opposite that our industrial firms make excessive profits and that the Government spends too little on various community services such as education? [More…]

• Of course, as the Minister for Shipping and Transport has also emphasised today, the House must reflect on the tremendous economic havoc which this unnecessary and irresponsible strike has caused to the Australian community. [More…]

• The business community must have confidence in the future of Australian industry if it is to invest its money. [More…]

• Protection of industries involves a cost to the community. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of government to seek to ensure that protection is afforded only where the benefits to the community exceed the cost involved, and even then, that the protection given is no higher than is necessary. [More…]

• From the Government’s point of view, the economic worth of an industry to the nation requires a judgment on whether the benefits derived by the community from the existence of that industry outweigh or otherwise the costs to the community of providing adequate protection to it. [More…]

• Clearly, the higher the protection needed the more important it becomes to take the costs to the community fully into account and the more critically must the case for such protection be assessed. [More…]

• Benefits to the community from the existence of an industry which a government must consider in making its judgments on the level of protection provided include, but go wider than, the direct relationships which one industry may have with another in providing inputs or using outputs. [More…]

• The Minister could have explained to the House the importance of preventing some wedge from being driven between one section of the community and another in respect of protection. [More…]

• Protection of industries involves a cost to the community. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of government to seek to ensure that protection is afforded only where the benefits to the community exceed the cost involved, and even then, that the protection given is no higher than is necessary. [More…]

• There have been consultations only with a select section of the economic community, such as manufacturers, Chambers of Commerce, farmers federations, graziers councils. [More…]

• provided by the company, and, above .all,’ the very fine community spirit in this new town - in the treatment of new arrivals and the assistance given to those in need, as only two examples - stand out worthy of the highest commendation. [More…]

• (Quorum formed) Tariffs are a means of using the powers of government to protect or assist members of the community. [More…]

• From the Government’s point of view, the economic worth of an industry to the nation requires a judgment on whether the benefits derived by the community from the existence of that industry outweigh or otherwise the costs to the community. [More…]

• Benefits to the community from the existence of an industry which a Government must consider in making its judgments on the level of protection provided include- [More…]

• The other matter in which we on this side believe and which ought to be made clear is that the higher duty the greater the cost to the community and, therefore, greater justification is required in granting protection. [More…]

• Any industry which asks for a high rate of duty is asking for resources to be diverted to it at the expense of other sectors of the community. [More…]

• I for one - I am sure this is the view of all honourable members on this side of the House - resent the clever lawyer who tries to lessen the capacity of taxation and does so only at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• As a very famous lawyer - I think it was Lord Mansfield - said on one occasion, it is the right of everybody in the community to pay as little tax as he can, but it is also the right of the government, by legislation, to ensure that loopholes through which clever lawyers try to drive carts and horses are closed. [More…]

• Most people in the community do not try to be clever; they try to be honest. [More…]

• We are here to represent the lesser privileged people of this community. [More…]

• Many interpretations could be placed on this expression but there are times when economic efficiency, profitable enterprises and profitability must take second place to the needs of the community. [More…]

• If one section of the community gains from a tariff, there may be another section - frequently there is - which loses because of that tariff. [More…]

• This is something that we in this country understand better than most people in the world because we are a farming community. [More…]

• The Department does not take the best interests to mean the business community or the people who will benefit by travelling, but to mean the people of Australia as a whole. [More…]

• That would be a worse infliction upon the community. [More…]

• Such a committee would have to extend its studies to take into account such fundamental requirements as airport engineering and construction problems, the suitability of terrain in the general vicinity of the airport or a projected airport, its effect upon air safety, the highly complex techniques required to ensure safe management of the surrounding air space, service access to and from the airport and fitting into community requirements the whole of the aspects of an airport and air transport. [More…]

• Its planning has often been difficult because, in common with other airports, it has had a problem in meeting the remarkable growth that has occurred not only in air transportation but also in the surrounding community which it serves and in the commercial requirements of the nation as a whole. [More…]

• In each of these the Commonwealth is increasingly assuming a role in community affairs at the national level. [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…]

• The latter is a most useful form of community service. [More…]

• In the preschool education system what is to be the role of the community, industry, local government authorities and State and Federal governments? [More…]

• The Federal Government of the United States meets up to 80 per cent of the expanse in any community and in poor communities it meets the entire cost. [More…]

• I welcome the additional money which will be made available for the training of pre-school teachers because I hope that they may help to solve some of the problems in our community today. [More…]

• I instance 2 hospitals in Victoria, the Alfred Hospital and the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital. [More…]

• We should look at it as it reflects a great deal of educational change which has been forced on governments and the community because of the rapid technological advancement taking place in the community today. [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…]

• For other large sections of the community progress through the education system is determined less by ability and the desire to learn than by parental wealth and social status. [More…]

• Let us stop cramming together people with homogeneous ecnomic and social outlooks and let us plan for the heterogeneous community. [More…]

• They are excellent people and I am sure that they will form a great community in that area. [More…]

• Governments in Australia are, to a degree, still prisoners of their own and the community’s lack of imagination and vision. [More…]

• Due to the size and sprawl there tends to be a lack of identification with the community within which they live. [More…]

• There is a sense of not belonging to anything, of not having an involvement with the community in which one lives, of not being aware of one’s neighbours and of not even being familiar with or known to one’s neighbours. [More…]

• People took and still do take pride in the achievements of their community simply because they can identify with that community. [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…]

• Why do we have to have one type of home only built in the one community, with single unit dwelling all together in the one area and all home units and flats in another area? [More…]

• I might add that not only should one have in a community different styles, but one should also have dwellings of different styles. [More…]

• The system of a main path, with secondary branches leading to schools, shops, Community Centre, Church, playing fields, and many other communal facilities, will be very well illustrated at Caversham. [More…]

• I believe that a good job has been done and that, furthermore, the people there are extremely community conscious. [More…]

• But when those houses were built and the people came to the area there was a complete lack of playing fields, swimming pools, community centres, footpaths and shopping facilities. [More…]

• In other words, we cannot take people from all over the country and just put them in an area with nice homes and good hard-working communityconscious people, without giving them the necessary package deal with all the necessary services and industrial development that go to make a complete community. [More…]

• It must measure up in terms of the provision of services and community facilities. [More…]

• But over the years the needs, the pressures and the demands of the community became too great. [More…]

• At the same time as that has been happening, that is to say, at the same time as a greater and greater proportion of the community is forced into private, higher priced housing, people have been forced to build on higher priced land. [More…]

• I feel certain that the whole community would feel a sense of outrage if it were to know that the provisions of Supply Bill (No. [More…]

• All that we will see will be additions to the cost burden and the cost structure in general of the taxpaying community and an increase in the population of the cities of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• However, little encouragement is offered to any sector of the community. [More…]

• What is needed, now that there is an awareness of the problem facing the community - it is a community problem - is action and leadership federally to bring a quick solution to the appalling situation by giving special assistance to the Western Australian Government. [More…]

• The great task of the organisation has been to survey the whole field of economic prospects for the vast community of the 21 nations now comprising this body. [More…]

• Yet Australia so far has chosen to ignore an instrument which has been used successfully by nations such as Japan and Germany, and in fact all the member nations of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• lt is also of major social importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• In the course of speaking I drew the attention of anybody who cared to listen or read to the need for everybody in our community to play his part in the realisation of Australia’s potential, because only by realising that potential will we be able to achieve the things that we as Australians want. [More…]

• It is a problem which is commensurate with problems facing the community as a whole, but I think it is fair to say that although one cannot be pleased with the number of Army vehicles involved in accidents, oh a proportionate basis the number of Army vehicles involved in accidents is lower than in the case of vehicles privately owned by soldiers. [More…]

• People on all sides of the community were proud of this great company, which carried the Australian flag through many’ lands of the world and which has had ‘an almost accident free record. [More…]

• This creates congestion right throughout the community and causes economic loss not only to Qantas and other operators but also to all of the people in the area. [More…]

• the community here; the problem of containing costpush inflationary pressures is a large” one confronting all Western economies and it cannot be tackled effectively if there is not a general will to do so. [More…]

• I believe that one of the greatest contributors to increased productivity is, in the long run, the educational levels of the community from which the work force is drawn. [More…]

• concerned a long while ago about what is happening in the loan market in this community. [More…]

• I still think it is deplorable in any community that the interest rate on gilt edged securities has to be as high as 7 per cent because ultimately if the gilt edged rate is as high as that it puts all sorts of punitive rates on borrowings for other than for Government purposes. [More…]

• One of the greatest tasks that faces a community as a whole, I suppose, is how to allocate available sources of credit against the virtual multiplicity of demands that can be put upon the use of that credit. [More…]

• So in a community which has one of the lowest wage scales in this part of the world we now have one of the highest postal rates. [More…]

• I believe that one of the vital elements in a democratic community is intercommunication between citizen and citizen, between government and citizen and between citizen and government. [More…]

• The point is that the Australian community has a large amount of funds at its disposal for all sorts of other purposes. [More…]

• We should see that at some stage in a young person’s life he ceases to be the total responsibility of his parents and is accepted as the responsibility of the community. [More…]

• When the student is at a level at which his competence will be of great support to the community in the future we must accept that it is a matter of being employed rather than being a student. [More…]

• There are plenty of people in the community at present who are only too ready to pay off the bonds of those who have qualified as teachers in order to attract them into private employment or into other governmental employment. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn), who is now at the table, to take note of what I have said and decide whether in his judgment this situation is more desirable so that, our universities will have the capacity to teach the promising section of our community and those with the most potential and so that we may have a vast and important resource for Australia. [More…]

• The question of university salaries of course raises a good deal of interest in the community, although perhaps less now than it did a few years ago mainly owing to the fact, I think, that the university salaries structure is reassessed somewhat more consistently or more frequently than it was once upon a time before the days of the Murray Committee. [More…]

• Also perhaps it is because there is a slight lessening of the anti-intellectual flavour of the Australian community to the point where there is an acceptance of what good works people in universities might do, in particular for the young people coming on and learning something. [More…]

• It may also be due to the fact that there is in general a greater degree of acceptability of some sort of training and education in the community at large. [More…]

• This Bill provides for salaries which could generally be said to be at a fairly high level in this community of ours. [More…]

• It was always my opinion that the university people did themselves some disservice by arguing their case on the basis of professorial salaries because even now to some extent, and certainly so in the not very distant past, professorial salaries seemed to be very large in relation to many other avenues of employment in the community and, as is general with these things, it was not normally taken account of by the community at large even if people knew just what there was behind in terms of time input and training to justify those salaries. [More…]

• The community in many of its quarters was more inclined to think of the chap who happened to live down the street and could be seen to be mowing his lawn at 4 o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon. [More…]

• They were not to know, perhaps, that many more people were probably working 60, 70 and even 80 hours a week, were in their laboratories and if not, their offices, on Sunday afternoons and Saturday mornings and various other times which the 9 to 5 element in the community did not regard as working hours. [More…]

• One can always take into question any system in which certain of its members appear to be having an easy time and in this regard I might point out that university employment is perhaps as much, if not more than any other avenue of the community, a matter of conscience. [More…]

• The point is that I suppose there is no area of employment, of occupation or involvement in the community where the junior member of the organisation so nearly approaches in his time input and even in his input of expertise the amount which is put in at the top. [More…]

• Universities belong to the community. [More…]

• It may be a helpful operation to the ultimate education of the community and, not least of all, if the people involved are teachers. [More…]

• The situation is not quite as simple as it looks, however desirable it may be to give every member of the community a chance and, if necessary, a second chance, at the possibility of university education. [More…]

• He used the device of sending to as many people as possible in the community advice that he had instructed that there be an abatement, I think he called it, of wheat selling. [More…]

• People who were working in these industries are still living in my electorate and, in my opinion, they are just as entitled to the urgent consideration of the Government as are any other people in the community. [More…]

• I agree with those members of the Opposition and of the community who suggest that perhaps the best course for young men to take is to not comply with the Act and to refuse to register. [More…]

• I think that it is a waste of human resources that we take some of the best trained men of our community at a time when they are about to apply those things they have learnt at universities, teachers’ colleges and in their trades and professions and put them into the forces to carry out tasks which are altogether different. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• the loss to the local authority in rates and loss to the community in acreage of development areas and assets. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman has suggested, yesterday’s strike within the New South Wales power industry by certain unions is a further example of the growing militancy of unions in Australia and the attempt by some unions to exercise their industrial power in deliberately seeking to coerce both employers and the general community by taking direct action outside the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• According to the latest estimates of my Department, if the loss in working hours were to be made up by the recruitment of additional labour the cost to the general community would be between $ 1,500m and $2,000m, and if the loss in working hours were to be made up by additional overtime then the cost to the general community would be between $2,200m and $3,000m. [More…]

• It is because of this Government’s appreciation of the importance of restraining inflationary pressures within the general community that the Government has embarked on a deliberate policy of curtailing Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• Successive Liberal governments have systematically eased the burden of hospital costs for these sections of the community which are most affluent and increased the hospital burdens of those sections of the community which are least able to bear them. [More…]

• It will help the States to make them not, as at present, just adjuncts to doctors’ surgeries but centres of community medical care. [More…]

• It was left in the Constitution for very good reasons, among them being the fact that the State governments are much closer to the felt needs of the community than is the Commonwealth Government located in Canberra. [More…]

• The result is, firstly, an imbalance and, secondly, an economic distortion because there is too much investment in the more expensive equipment I have mentioned which cannot be used to maximum benefit for the community. [More…]

• They are having a detrimental effect not only on the hospitals but also on many other sections of the community. [More…]

• However, this $30m is not extra money for the community. [More…]

• It is the actual cost of the hospitals and finally the community pays for it. [More…]

• The most efficient way out surely would be to establish a national health insurance fund with financial collections via the Taxation Office, as is already the case with all other social services financed by the community. [More…]

• This totals $ 18.5m paid by members of the community, but which never goes to pay for hospital services but simply to service the benefit funds themselves. [More…]

• In other words, the survival of the hospital service, with its highly specialised, extremely expensive facilities necessary for the more comprehensive treatment of a wider range of illnesses which only a few years ago were considered untreatable and often fatal, now depends on the few sick individuals in the community, for about 30m a year. [More…]

• A trifling sum if collected from the whole population via taxation becomes an intolerable burden on the seriously ill members of the community. [More…]

• The Opposition could help the community in this respect much better by dampening down such moves rather than making continual extravagant statements supporting them. [More…]

• This may not be direct expenditure on hospitals, but the very fact that thousands of beds are available in the health field to this section of the community means that the Commonwealth is making a great contribution. [More…]

• I envisage that it will enable us to remove censorship from its present purely administrative context within the Department of Customs and Excise and reestablish it in the setting of cultural and community standards to which it properly belongs. [More…]

• It is necessary to understand that these are divided into certain areas of activity within the community. [More…]

• The new Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has taken over the Prime Ministership of this country at a time of great difficulty - difficulty so far as the economy and many sections of the Australian community are concerned. [More…]

• The fact is that there has never been on any public issue in this country, still less in New Guinea, such a vast change of opinion in the community or such a change within Government parties as there has been on this subject. [More…]

• We on this side of the House regard ourselves as having an equal right at least - and I say that with some reservations - to debate the measures which affect the community and the welfare of this country which is so sadly and shockingly neglected by those who sit on the Government benches. [More…]

• I think it is fairly well known in the broad that, as the honourable member for Newcastle suggested, conditions have improved considerably in the waterside industry, perhaps to the extent that some of us believe that probably nobody in the community is better served except perhaps the members of the Stewards and Pantrymen’s Association of recent fame. [More…]

• All his acts are controversial, so that he is not a person who can maximise the unity of the community; he is a controversial political figure. [More…]

• I believe that the expatriate community is ceasing to be so Rhodesia-like; it is beginning to accept the realities of the modern world, and is less likely to try to use the highlanders as a brake on development. [More…]

• If they are continually encouraged they could give the local community sufficient sense of participation to help contain the inevitable tensions with the central government. [More…]

• It is nonsense for the honourable members opposite to say that the Leader of the Opposition created derision, division and so on in the community of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• The community was complacently organised, complacent in itself. [More…]

• I am still puzzled as to how people with any sensitivity at all can proceed with that project about which the people were so deeply concerned, even although I have no doubt that in the long run it will produce advantages to the community. [More…]

• The parliamentary problem will be solved only when there is a large number of members, all with the interests of the community in their hearts and in their minds, voicing those interests in Port Moresby or wherever the capital is. [More…]

• This is hard enough in a mature, hard-bitten community such as ours, where we have to face up to a lot of criticism on questions of salaries and conditions and so on, but members of the House of Assembly will not be able politically to allocate themselves the necessary resources. [More…]

• He has to keep a close scrutiny and a close watch upon the things that the department does and upon those things that the community needs. [More…]

• I think that if there is anything that we can do, irrespective of their politics, to ensure that there is a better line of communication between the members of that Parliament and their community, we should do it. [More…]

• Somehow we, as a community here, have to come to a better arrangement with Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Many of these men have had 20 years service and may have 15 or 20 years more service to give to the community. [More…]

• It would go like a shock through that community and it would start curing the assumptions of superiority that so many of them have. [More…]

• Although it may have stimulated some interest here, I believe it has put fear and apprehension into a great number of people in Papua New Guinea and has fed the overly radical elements in that community. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• The Government also pays for social workers in community organisations which work amongst the migrants. [More…]

• It will make it more difficult for government, for all parties in this Parliament and for the community as a whole to face up to the inflationary pressures which exist today. [More…]

• We deplore this increase because we believe that it reduces funds that can be made available in order to help the more necessitous countries of the world, and funds that can be applied - and very well applied - to See that the less fortunate members of the community can have their prospects of life improved. [More…]

• It has long been obvious that arbitration for minimum payments and bargaining for over-award payments must co-exist in this community. [More…]

• We have to realise that our arbitration system is dealing with questions on which the community is divided into 2 camps. [More…]

• The States Grants (Rural Reconstruction) Bill affects a very large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• This Bill is an extremely important one not only because it refers to such a large section of the Australian community but also because it announces a new approach to the problems of primary industry. [More…]

• It is an erosion which to my knowledge has not been suffered to anything like a similar degree by any other section of the community. [More…]

• I think that the implications are because this has happened so rapidly that whereas in the past the rural community was able to adjust to a fairly gradual rate of change and was able to cope with it, this rate of change is galloping at such a rate now that without special assistance the industry will be unable to cope with it. [More…]

• What we are trying to do is to restore the primary industry of Australia to a situation in which it reaches something like parity with the rest of the community. [More…]

• I am referring to the formation of a Rural Loans Insurance Corporation - or some title like that - that would operate on much the same lines as the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation operates, whereby the traditional lenders to the farming community - the first mortgage lenders - are encouraged to keep their money in the industry, if they are prepared to lend it on a long term basis, say a 20-year term, which is the same as the term referred to in the Bill. [More…]

• The most important thing is that a substantial proportion of Australian farmers appear to be earning incomes too low to give them a chance of financing further investment necessary to enable them to maintain parity with the rest of the community. [More…]

• The Government has not provided the leadership required to establish a unity of purpose in the rural community, but we all know that it has done a better job with the overseas mining companies who have the best of our mineral resources. [More…]

• The Government has not provided the leadership required to establish unity of purpose in the rural community, and claims about the number of primary producers that an honourable member represents will do nothing to establish unity of purpose; nor will it do anything to solve the primary producers’ problems. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, if I believed that this Bill was the only attempt by the Government to grapple with the problems facing the rural community, both socially and agriculturally, 1 would not be very happy. [More…]

• It is meant, as I see it, to provide a measure of social justice to people in the rural community and to a certain extent to help some farmers to obtain a more viable status for the future. [More…]

• The second group will be people who can survive on present prices but who, if they are to continue to have an income parity with the rest of the community which the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) mentioned, will have increasing trouble in servicing their debt load. [More…]

• I do not think that any honourable member from either side of the House has denied that there is a need for some action in the rural community. [More…]

• Today, very few sections of primary industry enjoy anywhere near the affluence which is enjoyed by some sections of the community. [More…]

• Not all sections of the community are affluent, of course, and recipients of social services such as age pensions certainly are not. [More…]

• Government members seem to be optimistic that this Bill does not represent the end of the assistance available to the rural section of the community. [More…]

• When we consider that the economic crisis in the rural community extends over the 6 States of the Commonwealth and that this money must be divided among a number of people in those States, it is a long way from being sufficient. [More…]

• I note that, in the European Economic Community, assistance is being offered on a somewhat similar basis. [More…]

• That scheme is not altogether similar to the scheme under consideration here because it goes much further in providing assistance to the rural community. [More…]

• The basis of the present national service scheme may be explained where that is necessary and the view expressed that the majority of the Australian community share the Government’s conviction that national service is essential in the national interest. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Department of Health is currently conducting an extensive survey of the pesticide residue levels in the total diet of the community in all States during the four seasons of the year. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner) raised the point that in countries belonging to the European Economic Community when farmers are displaced assistance is given and re-training programmes have been introduced. [More…]

• This difficulty is recognised in the European Economic Community and farmers who are displaced are given assistance. [More…]

• I do not know whether a section of the community could be singled out. [More…]

• Therefore, in one year the total net debt of the farming community had risen by $200m. [More…]

• At that date there was a net indebtedness of $63 lm in the farming community. [More…]

• We live in a society which accepts that in the wide areas of economic life community interests are best served’ by a system of free enterprise. [More…]

• The interests of’ the community will be served only if the Government -sees that free enterprise is truly competitive in ways that help ‘tbe- consumer. [More…]

• is in the true interests of the community;. [More…]

• The community accepts that the farming community, faced by changing economic conditions which it is unable to forecast or prevent, should receive assistance to reestablish itself. [More…]

• When his successor, the present Treasurer (Mr Snedden), at last was able to bring in such a Bill he had to accept responsibility for a much more puny child than numerous progress bulletins had led members of this Parliament and the community to expect. [More…]

• It inflicted losses on the whole of the community by over-trading, throwing away discounts and trading in anything at all. [More…]

• I am not much concerned about the cheap goods from the cheap stores such as Coles and Woolworths which, incidentally, have done more damage to manufacturing than anything we have bad inflicted on this community for many years. [More…]

• But this does not do the community any good really. [More…]

• Surely the thing which stands out when one thinks about restrictive trade practice legislation is that it is a set of norms, a set of laws or a set of rules which has an extensive operation throughout the community. [More…]

• The strong comment that people can make on the competitive attitudes of America and Australia is that we did not really become aware of this problem- perhaps our community was different - until a much later/period of time. [More…]

• In the .United States these statutes certainly have not and this legislation that we have certainly will not curb the tendency or the pressures in the sort of community that we have towards ever increasing : concentration of economic power - and perhaps abuse of that power. [More…]

• American public has been made aware of where the economic and perhaps the real power in the community lies. [More…]

• I do suggest that the real power of this legislation when it is eventually put into proper form - it is not in proper form now - will be along those lines, in order to make us understand in a sort of research sense, much as the British have done, just how this secret system that exercises this enormous power in our community does work. [More…]

• We live in a period when the consumers are the majority of the people in the community. [More…]

• It is not good enough to say that if he furthers his own interests he serves the interests of the community as well because basically there is a conflict that must be reconciled in some way. [More…]

• My predecessor has, on a number of occasions, put forward the idea that aH sectors of a community served by a particular outlying port should co-ordinate snipping requirements. [More…]

• I think all members, in this House, and certainly all members of the rural community, are only tooaware of the very critical situation in wool growing communities as a result . [More…]

• Furthermore, the National Safety Council argues that the cost to the community of these accidents is at least $500m per annum and could be as high as $700m or $800m. [More…]

• But he answered this by suggesting that the success of the insurance arrangements under the New South Wales Act was sufficient to demonstrate that the insurance community was capable of providing total coverage at premium rates governed by the New South Wales Act and scheme which were sufficiently remunerative to ensure continued competition for this type of insurance business. [More…]

• There is a need for rehabilitation training, but this is not preventing community problems. [More…]

• I think that one of the most incredible utterances of all time was made in March or thereabouts of this year when certain economy measures were inflicted upon the Australian community with a view to damping down inflation. [More…]

• I believe it is the right of a government to secure equity in financial transactions for all sections of the community, and not just to create sweet lurks that are of advantage to some people who have large quantities of money. [More…]

• The community as a whole has to face up to the introduction of what might be called national superannuation. [More…]

• The vast majority of ordinary workers in the community are not covered by superannuation at all. [More…]

• The other aspect is this: If the Victorian figures that 1 have quoted in regard to those fortunate members of the community who are covered by public or private superannuation schemes are applied to the community as a whole, probably only one-quarter would be covered by superannuation schemes. [More…]

• I appeal to the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) to look seriously at the effects which are being and have been felt in the community because of the Commonwealth’s deliberate withholding of funds from the States. [More…]

• It is a pretty serious indictment of the financial situation which exists in Australia when vital community organisations such as hospitals have their future placed in jeopardy because of Government policy. [More…]

• Because their method of revenue raising is on a flat rate of taxation, the cost structure to the community has no relationship to the ability to pay and has no equity in it whatsoever. [More…]

• But the fact is that it is not the leaders of the State governments or the leaders of the Commonwealth Government who suffer; it is the community which suffers. [More…]

• The community services which can be provided only by local government and State government authorities, and which are so necessary in our community life if - it is to continue to develop, suffer. [More…]

• I suggest that some real efforts should be made to ensure that moneys are available to provide the community services. [More…]

• They require many more services than those that would normally accrue to people who make up the natural increase in the community and who find it easier to assimilate into the Community and to satisfy their social needs. [More…]

• The moneys which are being raised in the form of payroll tax levied on local government authorities could be raised with less difficulty and probably less cost to the Commonwealth and the community if they were raised in the form of income tax. [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…]

• I should draw attention to the fact that not so very long ago, in the very area that, we are debating tonight, a question was posed to the then Minister for Primary Industry, now the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony), about the future of the pear industry if and when Britain entered the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If we are to do that in relation to this unit, what about the future of the industry, not only in relation to the transient difficulties of financing but also after Britain enters the European Economic Community? [More…]

• If Britain enter the European Economic Community, all right. [More…]

• Firstly, has the Government a commitment to the canned fruits industry of the nation - yes or no - irrespective of whether Britain enters the European Economic Community, and secondly, is the commitment now being made to the Shepparton cannery a commitment in principle to all of the important and vital units of this industry in the 3 States concerned? [More…]

• Think of the situation of those people and the effect on a community of creditors waiting for their money for 9 months. [More…]

• I believe that both the Federal and State Governments were justified in the action they took in saving not only the community in Shepparton but also the whole canning fruit industry of Australia, because SPC holds a key position, in the industry. [More…]

• But the truth of what they are saying about the conditions in the State schools is beyond doubt, and they are making the community very conscious of these issues. [More…]

• One could make an appeal, surely to the ordinary common sense of the community and say: ‘These are the people in the greatest need. [More…]

• As we have pointed out from this side of the House on numerous occasions, the adventure into non-state education and its support have been undertaken on a totally haphazard system based upon political and electoral expediency that has no relation to the needs pf the community. [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 this Bill should be seen more appropriately as a continuation and, as the Minister said, within the next few years a conclusion of a programme which has, on the whole, been of very considerable benefit to the Australian school community. [More…]

• It- is an insult to the Opposition, to educationists, to parents, to taxpayers and to the community that this irresponsible method of debating a Bill at such short notice has been used. [More…]

• They cannot understand the needs of certain groups of people in this community. [More…]

• The time was arriving, he said, when such a community could not avoid being exposed to more and various aspects of 20th century life. [More…]

• Parliament, the community in general would be much healthier and politicians in general, would be more respected. [More…]

• Is it realistic that the Nhulunbuy community should not have access to the same social amenities as other Northern Territory towns of the same size? [More…]

• In the meantime the Government has faced the necessity of restraining inflationary pressures evident in the community and : has embarked on a policy of curtailing Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• In my statement on ‘Productivity and the Community’ on 23 February 1971 (in my then capacity as Minister for Labour and National Service), I drew attention to the fact that the incidence of absence from work is equivalent to the loss of about 200,000 persons from the workforce. [More…]

• Community Schools under the Control of the Department of Education and Science [More…]

• At the end of 1970 all teachers at Community Schools were employed by the South Australian Education Department and the statistics in the sections which follow have been compiled with the co-operation of that Department. [More…]

• One of the purposes of this Scheme has been to reduce under-insurance in the lower-income sections of the community. [More…]

• and (2) In the Royal Australian Air Force Aborigines are treated as members of the community, race is not recorded on enlistment and there are no special statistics kept of their number, rank, category or progress in the Service. [More…]

• That is certainly a matter of concern to members on this side of the House and I am sure it is a matter of concern to the Australian community, because I believe that the community at large is sick and tired of the extent to which unions are becoming involved in what are essentially political issues. [More…]

• Finally, activities of this type damage the community generally and the cost is very high indeed. [More…]

• He was thinking of an election in the framework of great violence, bitterness and disruption in our community. [More…]

• I want it to have a new lease of life because 1 recognise the significance to our community and our nation of the other partner in our 2-party system of government. [More…]

• They speak well for our future in the international community. [More…]

• At the private level, servicewomen will now receive 95 per cent of male rates, as in the general community, progressing to 100 per cent on 1st January 1972. [More…]

• The Committee suggested that these reviews might not be limited to fixed intervals but made as necessary to maintain comparative wage justice in the light of general wage movements in the community. [More…]

• community health education, [More…]

• (a) and (b), (i) and (ii), (A) and (B) The following tables show enrolments in Northern Territory Community Schools operated by my Department and enrolments in ‘ schools operated by the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]

• Would the extension of tax deductibility to the cost of effluent and sullage services provide a desirable incentive to householders to contribute to personal and community health through the frequent removal of waste materials form residential and commercial areas? [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• It has to look at the adequacy or otherwise of the Tariff Board’s reports and the probable effects of such reports on the community at large. [More…]

• However I am conscious of the difficult situation that the Tasmanian apple industry is facing and the rather grim prospects it has in view of the present arrangements that have been made between the United Kingdom and European countries regarding Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Firstly, why does his Department insist on a security check on members of the community who are not employed by his Department? [More…]

• Secondly, after such security investigations are made why does his Department contemplate action against employees of the Department by way of demotion, involving loss of earnings, because of their social contact with members of the community? [More…]

• The statement by the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) today, which is but one of his numerous statements made during approximately the last month, confirms the feeling, never more starkly portrayed than on this issue, widely held throughout the community that this Government’s policy is to thrust Australia into the field of nuclear power without any reference to Parliament, and without recourse to parliamentary inquiry, parliamentary debate, public inquiry or public debate. [More…]

• Some sections of the Australian community - high on the list I would put the Australian Labor Party - gave them the barest support in the trials and tribulations which they faced. [More…]

• I would just say about national service that I have arrived at the conclusion at this stage in my life, when I am safely beyond military age, that in the first instance no-one has the right to dispose of another’s life or freedom, that national service is the ultimate act of violence by the community against a minority of its own members and that that cannot be tolerated in a modern democratic society. [More…]

• Our own flag has become the banner of derision because of this, and if honourable members opposite do not understand that and do not realise it they are more completely insensitive to the tides of social feeling in this community than I think they are. [More…]

• We take one section of the community and we impose a burden upon them. [More…]

• What right have we to do that to any particular group in the community? [More…]

• We have taken it as read that we have a right to pick up one group in the community and say: ‘Go there, do this, do that.’ [More…]

• First of all it must be rejected because of the immorality of it, as I see it - this demand imposed upon a section of the community that it shall pay the sacrifice while others get on with business as usual. [More…]

• How can a community such as ours support that view? [More…]

• But there is the utter loneliness of the 20-year-old which is inflicted upon him by the community at large, by the Liberal Party voters in every electorate, by the Country Party voters in every electorate, by the Democratic Labor Party voters in every electorate and by honourable members opposite. [More…]

• Today most honourable members have received a telegram from Community Aid Abroad. [More…]

• Their claims of the great benefits to be bestowed upon the farming community, the people and shippers of this country from the introduction of containerisation are on record in this House. [More…]

• The rural community has suffered more in this regard than have the manufacturing industries. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite do not know how the ship owners con the community and how they prevent the shipper from obtaining markets abroad it is about time they ceased being misled and went along to the waterfront areas to inspect what goes on. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra Community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capita) Territory Education Authority should lake, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• The use of the words sordid intrigue’ reminded me of the thinking of most sensible members of the Australian community about the way in which the Labor Party conducts itself, and particularly the way in which we know the honourable member for Grayndler conducts himself outside this House. [More…]

• I am sure that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition would recognise that one of the problems faced in relation to Army recruiting today is that the Army and the other armed Services are recruiting in a period of growing indiscipline in all sections of the general community, a period of full employment. [More…]

• Secondly, there is Australia’s position in the international community. [More…]

• All of us have heard this charge freely stated in the general community. [More…]

• Furthermore, only a minority of men who have refused to report for service have gone to gaol, a fact which is not widely appreciated when this matter is discussed in the general community. [More…]

• That this is the position in terms of compliance with the National Service Act reflects, I believe, the good sense of the community. [More…]

• The Opposition would remove the question from the court’s jurisdiction to which it is at present delegated and where it has the respect the community accords to, and draws on, the resources of the judicial structure. [More…]

• Arrangements for hearing conscientious objector issues need to be acceptable to the men concerned, the organisations, groups and individuals, such as legal representatives and, of course, the community generally. [More…]

• It is totally inequitable in placing upon one group in the community a sacrifice not demanded .of anybody else. [More…]

• In trying to pander to sections of the community he used cliches and words like: honour their obligations to render service’. [More…]

• But when I ask the community generally about national service, I get no answers. [More…]

• I for one believe deeply that the community has abdicated its responsibility to the young men of Australia. [More…]

• The whole system has done all sorts of things to the Australian community. [More…]

• In accepting this fact, by all means let us try to ensure that China becomes one of the community of nations, but do not let us blind ourselves to China’s recent history of interference and sometimes active aggression in the affairs of other countries, such as Korea, Tibet, India and Burma. [More…]

• The entry of Britain into the European Economic Community is, because of the economic and political implications, a matter of vital importance to the people of Australia. [More…]

• This is quite remarkable when one considers that this is a nation which needs as many friends and as many buyers it can possibly get, particularly at a time when there is the threat to our trade of British entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• That is the reason why 1 felt that it was essential that this administration take the first steps toward ending the isolation of Mainland China from the world community. [More…]

• But Mainland China, outside the world community, completely isolated, with its leaders not in communication with world leaders, would be a danger to the whole world that would be unacceptable, unacceptable to us and unacceptable to others, as well. [More…]

• If everyone adopted the Whitlam approach, President Nixon’s valiant effort to bring this large, great country into the community of nations would fail because all the negotiating cards that President Nixon might have would have been sold before the negotiations began. [More…]

• I believe that the rural community is seriously in doubt as to whether it will place its loyalties with members of the Country Party, due to that Party’s attitude to China in the years gone by. [More…]

• Over the years Australia has made known to the British Government, the Governments of the Member States of the Community and to the Commission of the EEC. [More…]

• Up till the May negotiations, we had been told that the British were seeking a phasing-in of what is known as the principle of community preference. [More…]

• This principle is inherent in the full application of the Community’s common agricultural policy. [More…]

• This community preference is not a preference in the generally accepted sense of the word - for example, a tariff preference - because outside suppliers cannot overcome the disadvantage of the preference by lowering their prices. [More…]

• However, after the meeting in May, we were told that as part of the negotiations the British had agreed that upon entry to the Community - generally regarded as being 1st January 1973 - they would adopt the mechanisms of the Common Agricultural Policy and would apply in full the principle of Community Preference. [More…]

• Community suppliers will be able to undersell Austraiian pro ducts because of the operation of Community Preference. [More…]

• For products which are to be subject to the Common External Tariff, rather than the CAP, the transitional period will provide some relief for Australian exports to Britain, but within 12 months of the operation of the transitional period, supplies of most of the products concerned originating from the members of the Community will receive a preference over outside suppliers. [More…]

• This safeguard clause provides that, if circumstances arise during the transitional period in which significant volumes of trade risk serious disruption, the enlarged Community will take effective action to deal with the situation. [More…]

• I have been given to understand this to mean that the enlarged Community would so manage its complicated protective system as to avoid too big or too sharp reductions in the trade of third countries. [More…]

• The British Government asserts that the safeguard clause will be better from the point of view of protecting Australian trade interest during the transitional period than provisions for the gradual phasing-in of community preference together with a gradual phasing-out of quantitative restrictions. [More…]

• The Australian Government accepted in good faith the statements from the parties to the negotiations that the transitional period would provide for the gradual adjustment by third country suppliers like Australia to the full conditions of access implicit upon Britain joining the Community. [More…]

• From now on Australia will be taking all possible steps to ensure that if a situation of the kind envisaged by the safeguard clause is developing, the enlarged Community will take prompt and effective action to remedy the situation. [More…]

• We recognised that the decision to join the European Economic Community is for Britain and the other parties to the negotiations to take. [More…]

• We have stressed that in negotiating the terms for British entry and afterwards, the members of the enlarged Community should see to it that the Community plays a full and responsible role in international trade matters consistent with its position of the world’s largest trading entity. [More…]

• The British, whose market is still enormous, argue that when they and the other applicants join the Community, their influence will be felt by an acceleration of growth of the total Community and and that this in turn will have a stimulating effect on world trade. [More…]

• Because the enlarged Community will account for about 40 per cent of world trade, we must come to trading terms with this Community. [More…]

• What a sad comment at a time when we should be setting an example of tolerance and community peace in the face of tragic events in one or two Irish cities. [More…]

• One of the greatest areas of need is to be found amongst the sick and the aged in this community. [More…]

• which seemed extremely reasonable in the sense that there was no point in treating psychiatric patients any differently from any other patient in this community. [More…]

• It discriminates in the first instance against the psychiatric patients - a large number of whom are elderly - and, secondly, it discriminates against the not so well off people in the community. [More…]

• What happens to those members of the community who are very well off? [More…]

• This Government banks on the fact that there is still some feeling of guilt in the community about people having a relative in a psychiatric hospital and the relatives of the patients take no active or aggressive steps to do anything about it. [More…]

• I point out to him that any of the farmers in our community who recall the situation with regard to farm incomes at the time when these much vaunted protectors of the country people took office in 1949 will be pleased to recognise one fact which emerges from an examination of the situation after 20 years of Country Party assistance. [More…]

• In fact in a joint communique issued on 26th March Dr Bemporad expressed his satisfaction with the way in which Italian settlers were integrating into the Australian community and establishing themselves as prosperous and productive members of the community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• I agree with the principle which I thought the Opposition was propounding but for honourable members opposite to mock everybody from this side who gets up to speak, claiming that we are suffering from sour grapes, does nothing for the standing of Parliament in the community. [More…]

• For a large segment of the farming community wool price is an important determinant of income. [More…]

• It is not supposed to be for transfer from a grower to the private banks or any other sector of the community. [More…]

• It seems inconsistent with the idea that a person should not be kept in prison any longer than is necessary to effect his reform and also to protect the community. [More…]

• Its purpose as an integral part of the whole judicial system is to ensure that people who have for some reason or other broken the law and need to be incarcerated are properly rehabilitated into the community. [More…]

• Other matters to be considered would be his ability to fit in, his socialising tendencies within the community itself and the environment to which he is likely to return. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman has mentioned, of course the community at large and I have no doubt the great majority of Australian trade unionists are heartily sick and tired of strikes of all descriptions, particularly political strikes involving, as they do, the manipulation of the workers of this country by a small group of trade union leaders for their own peculiar political purposes. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister was the little colonial boy lost running around the great corridors of power in London, hoping desperately that someone would rescue him and his Government from a situation they got themselves into because they had not done their homework in relation to the European Economic Community and Britain’s entry into it. [More…]

• There are too many people in the Australian community who are not going to see through this smokescreen of propaganda that the Country Party, very understandably, is throwing up over this. [More…]

• Apart from a few minority groups such as the little, dogmatic groups that keep the Government in power, there are not many people in the Australian community who agree with the policy of the Government. [More…]

• This has occurred at a time when our trade is threatened by Great Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and at a time when the United States of America is going to sell substantial quantities of wheat. [More…]

• Privilege does not belong in this case, just to the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren); it belongs to the Parliament itself and, in a way, it belongs to the whole community. [More…]

• 1 am the first to admit that there are very serious implications for the community in a possible misuse of privilege. [More…]

• I was hoping that the community as a whole would examine the case in some depth but as most people do when one challenges society, it has only looked at the case superficially. [More…]

• I am talking about justice in the community [More…]

• Nevertheless, we have a role which we play, both in the region of South East Asia and the Pacific, and in the wider international community as well. [More…]

• In concert with our friends we hope she will join in the efforts of the countries of our region and the broader international community to promote peace and prosperity for all peoples in accordance with the Bandung principle to which Chou En-lai himself has publicly subscribed. [More…]

• Japan is becoming an economic and industrial super power; Britain is turning towards the European Economic Community rather than a long way east of the Suez Canal; Russian influence and interest are on the increase; while China - the People’s Republic of China - has adopted a far less inward looking stance. [More…]

• It is the unavoidable result of her decision to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But these ties will loosen as the original stock in our community becomes increasingly diluted in successive generations. [More…]

• He is prepared to play on every prejudice within the community, irrespective of the damage that it does to Australia’s reputation. [More…]

• That is what is happening in the Australian community today. [More…]

• I believe that they have led the demonstrations because we - and by ‘we’ I mean the members of the community - have failed to give them leadership. [More…]

• 1 conclude on this note: It will be a sad day for Australian politics when political parties set out to exploit the prejudices that are beneath the surface of our community. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• I would recommend to them’ that they take to the whole country the simple message that a good day’s work with a good day’s return, with all sorts of emoluments, is a fair and proper thing within this community. [More…]

• At a time when the whole community, particularly the business community, desperately seeks guidance and leadership from the Government, all it gets is Liberal fumbling and feuding. [More…]

• We find in our economy a generally depressed rural community. [More…]

• and: What forms of government spending can bring about savings for the community or for individuals? [More…]

• This Budget is full of examples of how government savings increase private and community costs - how false economies for the government increase the burden to the consumer, the taxpayer, the Australian citizen. [More…]

• He said then that the fight against pollution had to begin now - that was last November and he emphasised the immense but largely hidden costs to the whole community of unchecked pollution. [More…]

• These are costs - costs to the community - as relevant to the Parliament and to the community and to the individual taxpayer, as any item in your Budget. [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…]

• There is obviously a gap and the gap that has occurred has not been passed on to the Australian community in terms of prices. [More…]

• To my mind that points to the failure of budgetary policy properly to regulate the allocation of total resources in the community. [More…]

• A change of attitude in all these people is needed to counteract progressive inflation, and in fact it is difficult to see how such a cycle cr such a spiral can be counteracted in a permanent fashion unless all those elements in the community show a willingness to change their attitudes and hold hard in the interests of themselves in the short run and the economy of the nation in the long run. [More…]

• One town has abandoned its annual show and in the football State of Victoria one proud little community for the first time in this century could not find enough young men to field a football team. [More…]

• This is the man who supports the policy of the Opposition which has done more to increase costs for the farmer and the producing community than has anything else. [More…]

• If this Government has failed in any way it is because it has not been strong enough and has not dealt with the disruptive elements within the community which are the real basis of the rising costs and the declining efficiency in our community. [More…]

• The introduction of a 35-hour week is estimated to cost the community about $ 1,400m to $2,000m and up to $2,900m if extra payment for overtime is included. [More…]

• In addition, it is vital that there should be a re-constitution of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission so that its members will have to accept some responsibility for the economic consequences to the community as a result of its decisions. [More…]

• So the purchasing power of the people in the community - the pensioner, the superannuitant, the man with a large family - is decreased. [More…]

• In a country which pretends to support an arbitration system it is ludicrous to have 2 standards for the population - one for organised labour and another for the mist defenceless section of our community. [More…]

• There is some purpose in this pattern of attack when it is used to attempt to hide glaring deficiencies in the Budget and to attempt to conceal over 23 years of mismanagement by resorting to the trick of attacking part of our properly constituted community, it is a despicable form of politics and can only weaken the framework which goes to make our way of life. [More…]

• It would appear that the ranks of the unemployed will be further swelled by the farming community which is dying a slow death, so to speak, at the moment. [More…]

• I put the case on that ground and on the ground of the more compelling reasons that the honourable member for Reid has mentioned - the fact that these 2 lads I have already mentioned, another 4 who have served gaol sentences and the other 12 whose names the honourable member for Reid mentioned who have been in and out of gaol but who have not been put there permanently, have been used as an example to the other 43,000 in the community. [More…]

• It is about time the Government tried to redress this shocking situation it has created by division and divisiveness in our community and at least made this gesture to the only 2 lads who are serving in gaol at the present time. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educator?, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• That the 5 cents rise in the price of petrol emanating from the last 2 Budgets has inflated the cost structure of every strata of the community. [More…]

• Finally, as he has the confidence of neither the Cabinet nor the community– [More…]

• These works are referred because of the lapse of time since sewerage schemes for Darwin, covering the northern and central zones, were referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works in March 1969, and because of the concern of members of the Darwin community that a satisfactory standard of treatment should be achieved having regard to environmental factors. [More…]

• People will be contributing to help overcome the tragedies that are occurring in the community, such as in our rural industries. [More…]

• If it showed the same concern for the underprivileged sections of the community as it does for its friends in big business there would be no cause for complaint. [More…]

• It would also be unfair to those industries which have done most to absorb their rises in labour costs, and reward those which have been ruthless in passing their costs on to the community. [More…]

• A case can be made for increased taxation to provide increased Government services to the community but it is significant that the Leader of the Opposition does not dare to make it. [More…]

• Throughout my electorate are 4 State Government run hospitals and 9 or 10 small community hospitals run by local district organisations. [More…]

• They are all small hospitals, run by members of the community and relying to a great extent on the efforts of the community in which they are situated. [More…]

• These extra charges will penetrate to every section of the community and particularly to those living in the rural and outback areas of the electorate who are already under great economic pressures. [More…]

• The steepness of this increase certainly strikes at the whole community, and in particular the lower paid family man. [More…]

• As clearly pointed out by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), the increase in taxation concessions for educational expenses from $300 to $400 will certainly give some relief - to the more privileged sections of the community. [More…]

• This would be of benefit to the community at large. [More…]

• I believe that the blame for this falls on the shoulders of those who are prepared to grant concessions beyond those required for the benefit of the worker and the community. [More…]

• People are apt to forget the cost to the Australian community of tariff protection as against the cost of protection for primary industry. [More…]

• I want now to refer to one or two aspects of the Budget which will fall heavily on the rural community which is already suffering great financial disability. [More…]

• Surely the present honourable members on the Government side, and their predecessors, should have been able to ensure that the Government did more for primary producers and others throughout the community than it has. [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…]

• This should not be done only because of the fact that they are the Aboriginal people but it should also be done for the betterment of people in the broader Australian community because there are problems of social tensions and racism developing in inner city areas of all our great cities, including Brisbane, which result from bad housing for Aboriginal people and the complaints that we are getting now in increasing numbers from their neighbours. [More…]

• One thing which is notable about a national superannuation scheme and which influences the shapes and sizes of schemes which could be produced is the fact that the resources have to be transferred to the passive elements of the community, that is, the superannuated people, from the active elements of the community, that is, those people who are employed. [More…]

• Whatever mechanism is employed - whether it be by way of taxation contributions or other means - the broad result would be the transfer of resources from the active to the passive elements of the community. [More…]

• I think the Labor Party and anyone else who attempted to introduce such a scheme would find when they started to evolve the details of it that considerable resistance would develop among the young and among married people who are bringing up families to the providing of resources on such a large scale to the older members of our community. [More…]

• The extent to which people are contributing to superannuation schemes, particularly to schemes run by their employers, is increasing throughout the community. [More…]

• The fact is that the number of superannuation schemes in existence is growing and that these schemes are spreading throughout the community. [More…]

• All the opinions depend strictly on the self-interest of the individual giving the advice, without reference to the effect on other sections of the community, or the long-term effect on the whole community. [More…]

• But these self-same subsidies are an added burden on the urban community. [More…]

• After industrial unrest and lengthy argument before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission wage rises are granted and immediately there is a cry from the business community that, prices will have to rise to offset the wage rises. [More…]

• Whilst all this conflict goes on, increasingly larger sections of the community suffer. [More…]

• Clearly what is good for one section of the community is often disastrous for others in the community. [More…]

• However, when it is stated in this fashion and the hue and cry from the business community is added to the noise - their insistence that the wage increases must be handed on to the consumer because wages are a cost in production terms - the Government would have us believe that inflation is all the fault of those terrible people, the wage earners. [More…]

• Forgive my persistence on this point but 1 fear that there are many wage earners in the community who have been bluffed by claims of the business community and the Government and feel guilty about wage claims made on their behalf. [More…]

• Earlier 1 hinted at the plight of the people on fixed incomes - an increasing proportion of the community. [More…]

• In fact, given the greater wealth of the whole community there is a strong case for setting the pension level to at least 30 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• Still another manifestation of the decline in our standards relative to other advanced countries is the way our spending on community services is lagging. [More…]

• The increase in patient charges for prescriptions, which is expected to raise a mere $16m for the Government in total receipts of nearly $9, 000m, is in fact the imposition of a penalty on patients in tha community. [More…]

• If we were a settled community, of course we could establish a national superannuation fund. [More…]

• I feel sure that the community appreciates that this Government has done a remarkable job in providing for such substantial increases in social services at the same time as it is grappling with the problems of inflation, and would like to join with me in paying tribute to the efforts of the Minister who, as we all know, is always most sympathetic towards the needs of those in hardship, and most active and diligent on their behalf. [More…]

• South Australia has not been able to keep abreast of the population increase following the war years and the influx of migrants into the community. [More…]

• He has also assisted with other types of welfare services in the community. [More…]

• The position is that this gentleman is not allowed to claim, for taxation purposes, any of the money he has spent on doing welfare work for others in the community. [More…]

• He has not become a burden on the community. [More…]

• By trying to adjust to his new life and learning to live with his handicaps he has used his own experience in the service of others and has not become a burden on the community. [More…]

• It has certainly brought a general feeling of despondency, distrust and disgust and has made quite clear the real attitude of this Goverment to the less fortunate of our community. [More…]

• Not only has the Government increased income tax; it has also imposed severe and quite unwarranted increases in indirect taxation, not only upon luxury items which only the wealthy are likely to purchase, but upon what are virtually the everyday requirements of the general community. [More…]

• We have all talked about the importance of Japan in the business community in recent years. [More…]

• In increasing the taxation concession for students, the Government is assisting one section of the community only, a section which is largely privileged, at the expense of those whose need is greater. [More…]

• If one is a member of the coalition parties that represent certain interests in the community that are essentially wealthy interests, what better way would one have to help one’s friends than to encourage or permit inflation. [More…]

• On Thursday of last week the Finance Ministers of the European Economic Community, meeting in Brussels, failed to reach agreement on any form of common action in the matter. [More…]

• The standard of the Australian community has risen, and pension recipients should share in that rise. [More…]

• Discussions have been taking place with the representatives of the Aboriginal community at Weipa, the mining company and the Queensland Government on the development of programs to improve the situation of the Aborigines at Weipa and to ensure that the Aboriginal community derives increasing benefit from the development of the mining enterprises. [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavily-taxed sector of the community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services con:ributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• The South Australian Minister tried to make out the case that the allowances affected only one section of the community and were biased in favour of wealthier sections of the community. [More…]

• If people in country areas, especially those in the wool growing areas at the moment, are regarded by the Opposition as being amongst the most affluent people in the Australian community, that certainly would not be the view on the Government side of the House. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that when one talks about the CMF and one bears in mind what this Government has done for the CMF it must be remembered that it is the Citizen Military Forces and as such it requires assistance from those within the community, particularly employers. [More…]

• On the whole I have been disappointed with the debate that has come from honourable members opposite, because in the current state of the economy one would have hoped that Her Majesty’s Opposition - the alternative government of this country - would have put forward something much more positive, constructive and acceptable to the community than it has done in relation to assisting the economy and giving it the right direction. [More…]

• I do not suppose any of us really envied him his task, knowing as we do the various conflicting pressures in the community and in the economy to which he was being subjected. [More…]

• First of all, may I make a reference to expenditure in the public sector and the community’s desire to see an effective review of government departments aimed at increasing efficiency. [More…]

• It is a matter of general concern within the ranks of the Parties on this side of the House and, I believe, in the community generally. [More…]

• We need more cohesion between the various elements that make up our community. [More…]

• It is a social, political and, in the end, especially a moral problem, involving the whole community and its basic attitudes to the kind of society and economy it wants. [More…]

• In the interests of the whole community, we have to tackle these problems and tackle them now. [More…]

• In the final analysis, of course, the prospects for controlling inflation will be affected, as I have already said, by community attitudes - not by any single group in the community, but by the community as a whole. [More…]

• We have been able to take positive action to meet the various high priority needs of the community, despite the need to restrain Government expenditure to combat inflationary pressures. [More…]

• It is important, too, to bear in mind, however, that the resources of the community drawn upon by all the government instrumentalities that service the community are necessarily limited. [More…]

• It is a sorer point than that with the community. [More…]

• This is an urgent need for agriculture at the present time, and if it is not established the cost to the Australian community will be far greater because more funds will be needed for rural reconstruction. [More…]

• Already the effects of this Budget have been and are still being felt throughout the community. [More…]

• To our friends abroad, including the many responsible members of international banking community who are dedicated to stability in the flow of trade, I give this assurance: The United States has always been, and will continue to be, a forward-looking and trustworthy trading partner. [More…]

• It is a long time since the Opposition members were able to use the term ‘unemployment’ as a political truncheon to belabour the Government, but 2 weeks ago the Leader of the Opposition was attacking the confidence of Australians by threatening the community with 100,000 unemployed. [More…]

• We find in our economy a generally depressed rural community. [More…]

• Every word of his speech was designed to attack the confidence of the community and nothing constructive was said to encourage the Australian people in any responsible way. [More…]

• The constructive policies designed to help the rural community are clear in the Budget. [More…]

• One sees the drift of population from country towns and the closing down of family stores that for many decades had been the sheet anchor of the rural community. [More…]

• Therefore they are folding up, and their employees and other people in the rural community are fading away and drifting to the cities. [More…]

• I suggest very sincerely that these high interest rates are one of the causes of the inflation that is rampant in the community. [More…]

• It is not sufficient and pays no regard to the position, financially or otherwise, of the people concerned, the rate payers of the community, who are called upon more today than they were 10, 20 or 40 years ago to provide further amenities within the community. [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…]

• 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…]

• You Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy, that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority, and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• There are those in the community, including the Leader of the Opposition, who on this and other questions are seeking to generate a psychology of gloom. [More…]

• What effect will margarine sales have on sales of butter to the countries in the European Economic Community? [More…]

• When one compares that with the 130,000 tons, which is the balance of butter imported into all other countries, it places in perspective the very real importance to Australia of being able to retain some access to that market after Britain’s entry, if this should occur, into the European Economic Community as from 1st January 1973. [More…]

• A notable feature of the Aborigine is that he really likes to stay in his own community. [More…]

• In 1964 we were below 10 other countries and the European Economic Community and spent only 0.7 per cent of our Gross National Product on research and development. [More…]

• I suggest that by the adoption of some of the ideas I have put forward in the course of this speech resources and energy can be let free and benefit the community as a whole. [More…]

• Those statements are supported by the majority of the wool growing community in Australia. [More…]

• So we are presented with the extraordinary spectacle of an institution which, far from increasing the services it provides to the blind community, is being placed in the position of restricting and cutting back on the services it provides. [More…]

• If they achieve unreasonable gains, they will do so at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• And the ‘rest of the community’ means not only profit earners and farmers - although these may indeed suffer, and certainly do - but also the very people whom unions claim to protect - the pensioners, the small savers and the lower-paid wage earners. [More…]

• The farmer will think that what sufficed for the last 4 generations will suffice for today, that subsidies will be introduced and that the community will support him in preserving the status, quo even if the status quo is no longer appropriate. [More…]

• A constructive rural policy will help the farmer and help the whole community. [More…]

• The increases made available to pensioners and other sections of the community have been considerable. [More…]

• Problems also can be seen in Great Britain’s proposal to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I intend to deal very briefly with several of the more important national problems as they affect sectors of the community that I have the honour to represent in this Parliament. [More…]

• The establishment of kindergartens in these areas is often prevented by the inability of the community to take the initial step of raising sufficient finance to gain the State Government subsidy for the construction of a building. [More…]

• If the deductions are adequate then the family man’s tax burden over a period of time will not be increasing at a faster rate than the rest of the community’s. [More…]

• In speaking of capital costs 1 am reminded of a situation which is very close to me at the moment in which the State and Commonwealth governments may become interested for the benefit of our community. [More…]

• This Government with its laissez-faire capitalistic attitude allows free enterprise monopolies, land sharks and finance companies to exploit the community at will, and only when a crisis arises does it acf to overcome a situation which competent planning could have avoided. [More…]

• In this debate Government supporters are using the old Goebbels technique of attacking other sections of the community in an endeavour to take the spotlight off the Government’s failures. [More…]

• It explains how all the money which is reefed off the community is to be spent - we hope for the community’s advantage. [More…]

• We all recognise that substantial difficulties are facing the Australian community. [More…]

• He has been here for 12 or 13 years and in not one single speech have I ever heard from him a reference to any vision or any opportunity to expand the community in any way. [More…]

• Education, in a large measure was not even recognised as a general community responsibility. [More…]

• This Budget document and this Government, with its antennae, one might say, spread throughout the community, has a total effect upon the way people live. [More…]

• The type and style of government is tremendously important to every person in the community. [More…]

• But what do we intend to do about the tragic rate of Aboriginal infant mortality which is, I understand, in parts of the Northern Territory 10 times that of the white community? [More…]

• Education must be one of the few areas of public or private endeavour in which the community is basically worse off in 1970 and 1971 than it was in 1939 and 1940. [More…]

• It has gone beyond the stage of just creating difficulties in the community. [More…]

• We are making postal services not part of the community’s social service, which is what they ought to be, but something loo expensive for the people to afford. [More…]

• If we are going to have a scheme like this which is aimed at doing good for a very important section of the community statistics should be readily available to tell us how it is faring. [More…]

• Obviously we are dealing with quite a substantial section of the community. [More…]

• I would say also that there are tens of thousands of people in the community in need who are precluded from assistance under the scheme because of its very stringent means test. [More…]

• For one thing, a lot of the families in the community which are eligible for this assistance simply do not know it is there. [More…]

• Although capital cities are important, I do not think that many members of this Parliament - perhaps some would - would want to see the situation develop where the Australian community was finally convinced that the only places in which opportunities for employment and future advancement existed were in the capital cities. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• I am not aware of the report mentioned by the honourable member relating to a survey of road traffic accidents which estimated the cost to the community as $800m. [More…]

• Does he not feel that in this case there are even more important issues than equity for politicians and that we should set an example of restraint to the rest of the community? [More…]

• Does he realise that these views are causing great concern in the community? [More…]

• The 36c price support scheme is going to help not only the wool growers but the whole community depending on wool growing income. [More…]

• Construction of Community College at Darwin [More…]

• That in accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1969, it is expedient to carry out the following proposed work which was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works and on which the Committee has duly reported to Parliament: Construction of a community college at Darwin, Northern Territory. [More…]

• This is something which is not only badly needed in Darwin but which will give an example to the northern part of Australia, and perhaps the southern part of Australia, of what can be done in concentrated complex community colleges. [More…]

• I rise to support this motion also and to commend the Government on the expedition with which it has brought forward the building of this community college which, as the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson) has said, is the first of its kind in Australia. [More…]

• I look forward with great pleasure to the building nf this community college. [More…]

• So the proposition put to the Standing Committee on Public Works was agreed to in 2 parts, the second part being the community college accommodation. [More…]

• Compulsory military service is traditionally a subject of controversy in Australia; in that context the national service scheme has generated opposition in certain sections in the community. [More…]

• The reduction in the number of men serving fulltime in the Army will not diminish the reserve of more than 20,000 fully trained men that national service maintains in the community; indeed the number will increase. [More…]

• a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community’. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has dishonoured - as indeed has the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) - an important promise to many people in Australia who had been expectantly looking forward to a fairly radical alteration and improvement in the system of providing social welfare benefits and services in the community. [More…]

• There is quite patently a need in the community to tie pension payments to some sort of index which automatically adjusts the payments according to not only cost of living movements but also to general prosperity movements in the community, at least on an annual basis. [More…]

• These anomalies create a great deal of injustice in the community. [More…]

• I refer to the question of poverty within the community and the failure of the social services programme now before us to meet the needs of the people. [More…]

• One would have expected too that in this Budget the opportunity would have been taken to define a broad programme not only involving social security payments but actual welfare services and mobilising the resources available in the community against poverty in the community. [More…]

• If we are able to whistle up at a moment’s notice $60m, $80m or probably more than $100m for relief to the wool industry - and I have no doubt that there are some arguments that would support a case for some sort of financial assistance for that industry - surely we should be able just as easily to provide the sort of financial resources needed effectively to combat primary poverty in the community. [More…]

• This calls, of course, not only for the provision of adequate social security payments but the development of welfare services in the community; an appreciation that a complex of services has to be mobilised and integrated within the community to combat this problem. [More…]

• Perhaps we ought to start at education because to me this is strong and compelling evidence of the need for an expression, as a result of a thorough inquiry, of a dovetailed programme to combat poverty in the community which will mobilise various sectors which are providing public services at the present time. [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…]

• This is a completely inequitable practice to have operating in the community. [More…]

• Any person in the community would interpret this as meaning it was ready to implement; that it had been endorsed by the Cabinet; and that it was merely a matter of formality for it to be introduced in the Budget session. [More…]

• It is necessary, given the facts which I have briefly outlined in my address to the House in relation to a promise or an undertaking given by the Minister for Social Services to the Australian community on national superannuation, and its sudden disappearance as a Government policy programme, to test on behalf of the Australian public the sincerity of the Government on this programme. [More…]

• Where there is a genuine need in the community we must all accept a greater responsibility both in the Government and private sectors. [More…]

• Were they not entitled to expect a really significant pension increase or a system at last of automatic pension adjustment in line with advancing community standards, or a national superannuation scheme at least in outline, or a move towards the abolition of the means test? [More…]

• Only then will the community be able to judge whether it is worth paying for. [More…]

• There is the question of earning limits, which seems to have fallen behind general community standards of income. [More…]

• One could argue, for example, that it would be beneficial from the Australian viewpoint to have accommodation released by departing pensioners for use by members of the community who are still productive. [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…]

• Throughout the Australian community there are’ vast numbers of children who are handicapped in some way. [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…]

• I would that some honourable members opposite would regard this problem more seriously because I blame the Hawke- Whitlam axis for greatly increasing costs to the community. [More…]

• Australian community. [More…]

• He pays the same price as any other member of the community does. [More…]

• Paragraph (6) states: a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Insofar as it has a policy and is not merely opposing for the sake of opposing, the Opposition would like to spread social services equally over the community regardless of need and regardless of the fact that this would inevitably mean less to those who need it most - at the some time, of course, weeping copious crocodile tears for the plight of the poor. [More…]

• Increases in pharmaceutical costs will not affect pensioners to the same extent as the rest of the community. [More…]

• He makes the point that pensioners should pay the penalty for the inflation in the community today and suggests that the reason why the Government could not make increases of a satisfactory standard in the Budget was because of its attempt to control inflation. [More…]

• If we confine ourselves to expenditure on social services as distinct from social services and health and if we compare our expenditure with that of the European Economic Community, we find that it spends 1S.2 per cent whereas Australia spends 5.5 per cent, which is again onethird. [More…]

• I think that a more justifiable comparison would be: How does the pension now compare with the average adult male weekly earnings in the community, that is, with what the average male brings home each week? [More…]

• They will receive only about two-thirds of the measure of prosperity in the community, or what the average weekly earnings provide. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister, if he has a chance in the next 12 months, and if there is not another change in the Ministry, will look particularly at the case of the Class B widow to see why she should not logically receive the same as any other single pensioner in the community. [More…]

• In reply to a recent question the Minister blithely admitted that he had no knowledge of what the average rents in the community were. [More…]

• In this field the proposal for a ‘tapered means test’, which is incorporated in the present Budget, is in itself the greatest step forward yet taken, to encourage thrift, self-help and self-reliance’ not only among pensioners but, even more importantly, throughout the whole community. [More…]

• I would like to see community service agencies such as we see operating in the City of Newcastle. [More…]

• a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community’. [More…]

• They represent the very minimum to the most deserving section of the community. [More…]

• They come at a time when every section of the community realises that those on pensions in thousands of cases are really in want in the fourth wealthiest nation in the world, as the honourable member for Oxley said. [More…]

• Any government introducing legislation of this kind denying pensioners an increase must surely have forfeited the respect and support of every fair minded member of the community. [More…]

• In Australia today to our eternal discredit great poverty exists amongst large numbers in the community. [More…]

• Our social services which were once our pride have gradually deteriorated in purchasing power and benefit to such an extent that they do little more than maintain in a degree of poverty those unfortunate people in the community who may be aged, sick, widowed or unemployed. [More…]

• When one looks at the record of what this Government has not done in the field of social welfare one sees that these handouts are made just tq one section of the community. [More…]

• As I pointed out in my address on the Budget, we have difficulty in establishing a superannuation fund in Australia because we are not a settled community. [More…]

• The point is that we are dealing with tens of thousands of people who simply cannot provide a reasonable and civilised living standard in a community that is exceedingly affluent, in which very great profits are being made and in which unprecedented wages are being earned. [More…]

• Of course, that is a problem that results from Commonwealth policies - the Government’s failure to control inflation in the community. [More…]

• The standard of the Australian community as a whole has risen and pension recipients should share in that rise. [More…]

• That is quite an interesting comment which suggests that in the Government’s view the general community standard has increased very considerably. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, if we use the average male weekly earning rate as a basis of comparison - to my mind it is a fair comparison if we are going to talk about community standards - then pensioners trying to live on the pension today are substantially worse off than they were in the early 1940s. [More…]

• So, as I said just now, it would be very interesting indeed to learn what measurement the Government used in relation to what it calls giving the pensioners a share of the rise in community standards. [More…]

• There is grave doubt about that as far as some sections of the community are concerned. [More…]

• But if this claim be correct, I assert that every section of the community is entitled to enjoy that affluence. [More…]

• The pensioner, like other members of the community, will be faced with increased taxes, increased telephone and postal charges and increased transport costs. [More…]

• a joint select committee should be established to inquire into and report upon the social welfare needs of the Australian community’. [More…]

• I want to point out how much extra this community of ours has directed into social services with a population of 13 million people today compared with the amount involved in 1949 with a population of some 7 million people. [More…]

• Let us hope that it keeps this in mind and continues with this type of assistance so that in the near future those people who now rely upon the Government for assistance will be enabled to hold their heads high with pride and without suffering some of the deprivations that are most certainly evident in the community. [More…]

• In some sort of an effort to justify the present rates of pensions and social services, which I am sure the Minister is not satisfied with, he collated the 1949 figures using price indices and by some strange quirck of the imagination projected those rates into the future and imagined they would still apply despite the changes in the living standards of very many in the community, despite the changes in the average national income and despite all the other changes which have taken place in our community- He then used those figures as a basis for justifying the current rates of pensions. [More…]

• But when it comes to finding money to ease the burdens of those less fortunate than the majority of people in our community, that money has to be totally and fully accountable. [More…]

• Not only are they not to receive any additional income, by way of pension increases but also they are to be taxed at the rate of 50 per cent on any additional income which they earn privately to cover the increases in costs which are taking place in our community. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that the Government has played a cruel confidence trick on at least 17 per cent of age and invalid pensioners in our community. [More…]

• I quote an extreme example of the type of situation which a combination of Commonwealth laws creates in our community. [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 that a humanitarian service would thus be provided to a group of unfortunate women in our community. [More…]

• I agree with this and I will agree that as standards continue to rise so our sights should continue to rise and what would have been considered a satisfactory pension at one time will be inadequate for the future when the general level of the standard of living of the community has risen. [More…]

• Average earnings are very volatile and, as it happens, they have risen very much faster in recent years than the average incomes of the Australian community. [More…]

• The index that we will be looking for is not one which is tied to the favoured section of the community - the wage earners - but takes account of the less favoured sections of the community such as the entrepreneurs, the rural producers, the farmers and sections of that nature. [More…]

• This means that the rural producer is faced with falling real income compared with the rest of the community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• We took action which would give leadership in cost-push but which would leave us free - that is, the Government and the community as a whole - to tackle a single problem and not have an exacerbation of demand pull on top of cost-push. [More…]

• I believe that this rate is more than comparable with normal charges for rent in the community in these days. [More…]

• It is also equally true that the increase in industrial disputes is a matter of very real concern not only to this Government but also to every Australian because the community realises today the very adverse effects which industrial disputes and strike activity can have. [More…]

• I hope that this will be not only the culmination of many months spent in reviewing the role of the CMF but also the commencement of widespread community support for the CMF. [More…]

• Of course that it his right, but it only reinforces the feeling that is abroad in the community that there is something secret or hidden going on and that there is something that a little bit of light should be shone on so we can all know more about it. [More…]

• There is no need to look for an eminent ex-serviceman in the community to be chairman when an eminent exserviceman who has been Prime Minister and Minister for Defence is sitting on the Government back benches. [More…]

• Comparisons with other sections of the community illustrate the unjust treatment meted out to totally and permanently incapacitated ex-servicemen. [More…]

• The Returned Services League, which represents most of the ex-service people in the community and speaks on their behalf, has put pretty simple and I believe thoroughly modest recommendations to the Government. [More…]

• The Government this year has been mindful of the available resources and the allocation of funds between the many competing priorities within the community. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• By any standards the sheer number of communications between people made possible every day by its staff and equipment represents a contribution of tremendous importance to the modern developing community. [More…]

• This was done in other days with the explanation that it aided cultural or religious groups in the community, aided the dissemination of knowledge, and so on. [More…]

• Surely a case exists for not charging licence fees at all to certain sections of people in the community who are no longer gainfully employed. [More…]

• To my mind, some of the advertisements are very distasteful and untrue and in many respects often undo the advantages that educational programmes are supposed to give to the community, particularly to its younger members. [More…]

• During the last debate on the Budget we suggested that the Government should take the opportunity to set up a select committee to look at these questions in depth and to take evidence from interested people in the community. [More…]

• The measures it has adopted have increased the prices of essential goods and services in the community. [More…]

• If we can break down the Post Office into these separate units we can have not only better management and a better spirit amongst those who work in the Post Office, but also a lot more clear thinking on what postal services should and should not be subsidised by the rest of the community. [More…]

• If we were able to study the accounts of a separate corporation dealing with postal services as closely as we should, we would note that the reasons for the deficit relate not only to interest charges but also to the fact that the Post Office provides welfare services and other very necessary services for the community generally. [More…]

• I refer to the educational services in the community. [More…]

• Bulk mail containing educational material which is being disseminated throughout the community, and which should be disseminated throughout the community at a subsided rate, because it is a good educational feature, ought to be costed separately so that it can be argued quite clearly that this should be subsidised by the taxpayer and not by the other users of the Post Office. [More…]

• If we had proper accounting in separate smaller units we would be able to see much more clearly just what the community is spending on decentralisation. [More…]

• The community, and particularly the housewife, has come to realise that increased wages not associated with increased productivity give a very, fictitious feeling of increased prosperity. [More…]

• It is in the interests of the whole community that those wages be kept within the scope of increased productivity. [More…]

• I believe this to be so and I would hope that as we face perhaps more difficult days to come we will get a more realistic approach to this matter by members of the Opposition, the trade union movement and the community in general. [More…]

• The other unions consider that if the proposed reform took place there would be better services to the community and industrial relations would improve. [More…]

• It would not be possible to finance needs in the investment field to meet the community demand, the ever increasing demand for services referred to by previous speakers in this debate, particularly those representing rural areas. [More…]

• The mails did not move for weeks, to the inconvenience of every section of the community and, in fact, to the inconvenience of many people in this country. [More…]

• During the course of this debate we have heard these honourable members say that the increased charges imposed by this Bill should be borne by the people who use the services of the Australian Post Office and how wrong it is for the community to subsidise postal charges. [More…]

• This money will come out of the pockets of every member of the community. [More…]

• As I understand the philosophy behind the Post Office, it is an institution which provides a service to the community. [More…]

• Every member of the community derives a benefit from the existence of the Post Office. [More…]

• If we hold to that premise I can see nothing wrong with the community meeting the difference between charges as they have been and the operating costs as they will be. [More…]

• There is no certainty that a pensioner sends fewer letters or makes fewer telephone calls than anyone else in the community. [More…]

• We get down to the old story of a service being provided to the community and we will find, if this trend continues, the Government pro tern until 1972 will opt out of its responsibility to provide the service. [More…]

• I believe that that $650m should have been spread over the community and paid on the basis of those who had the capacity to pay paying it. [More…]

• No member of this Parliament or of the community would suggest that private business organisations should be expected to maintain as a public service large areas of non-profit making industry. [More…]

• They are services to the community. [More…]

• They are higher than the general increases in costs in the community. [More…]

• Anybody who stands up in this House and says that a postman delivering mail in the streets of any city is being paid a decent living wage is either a fool, does not know what he is talking about or has no thought for the standard of living prevailing throughout the community. [More…]

• It adds to the cost in the community and to the inflationary spiral about which Government, supporters appear to be so worried. [More…]

• Of course honourable members opposite will say: ‘Well, money is being taken from somewhere in the community and now interest has to be paid’. [More…]

• It is a distribution point in the community for income tax forms, social service forms and all sorts of things. [More…]

• I believe that the recent postal charges are imposing upon the community burdens which make it impossible for the Post Office to carry out this function. [More…]

• I think this would be part of the social service to the community. [More…]

• The community shareholding body is represented by this Parliament. [More…]

• The ABC is a very important functionary >n the community. [More…]

• In the Australian community, because we have managed to hand over most of the communications in the rest of the radio and television system to people who also control the newspapers, it is vital that the ABC be expanded, developed and strengthened in every way possible. [More…]

• It is a line of entertainment for a large number of people in the community. [More…]

• In o:her words, the community listens and hears national news disseminated with an instancy and immediacy that cannot be achieved by any other method. [More…]

• The service is 2 things: It is a service to individuals but it is also a general national service in a sense in that it is supplying culture, entertainment and information throughout the community. [More…]

• We have only to look at the names to see that the Government has picked out very powerful people of proven capacity and status in the community. [More…]

• He has an attitude about things and lines of communication in the community which most other people lack. [More…]

• A small percentage of the community listens consistently to Parliament, but the fact that we come on and go off the air at odd times and meet irregularly completely disorganises the programming of the ABC. [More…]

• I believe there should be at least a third channel and possibly 2 more channels throughout the community. [More…]

• Much of this damage is not caused by people who would ordinarily be regarded by the community as vandals. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance ls an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie lt, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• If productivity can be increased, money wages can be increased without increasing prices but unfortunately, in the community, there has been organised sabotage of production and this is one of the most important things that must be considered. [More…]

• He is regarded as one of the ultra conservative people in the Government who is forever defending profits but who, on the other hand, makes a wholesale condemnation of wage and salary earners as being the arch priests and the architects of the price inflation which exists in the community. [More…]

• It is the ordinary wage earner in the community who is the butt of all Government attacks. [More…]

• The Minister, of course, was all out to indicate - as were plenty of other Government supporters - that increasing wages were the real cause of inflation in the community today. [More…]

• Why should it say anything about the finance industry - the hire purchase companies, the extra-banking institutions in the community? [More…]

• Dr Harold Bell, the economic adviser to the Australian Mutual Provident Society and a very respected economist in our community, in a paper titled ‘Desirable Developments in Economic Management in Australia’ in June this year said, amongst other things: [More…]

• We do not know what is the effect of this finance, and this Government could not care less how these big financiers are exploiting the Australian community. [More…]

• But there is another growing section of the economic community in this group, and that is the manufacturer who depends on the export market for disposal of the bulk of his goods, or all of his goods, just as the primary producer does. [More…]

• I am sure that that remark was directed at the Opposition and at the knockers in our community generally. [More…]

• If I am mesmerised by these immediate problems, I think I can still distinguish between the every day parochial problems of a section of the community and the present problems of the rural community as a whole, which, if they are not corrected, will turn into a first class national economic smash, and a social smash as well. [More…]

• They will have favourable effects not only on the wool growers but also on country towns in general and on all who make up the rural community. [More…]

• But the difference this time is that on previous occasions the primary producer has had the rest of the community following up and down in the peaks and troughs of prosperity with him. [More…]

• But now we have what some people term a split level economy with the primary producer and that large group on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances and, generally speaking, the remainder of the community doing very nicely. [More…]

• This is not aimed at any section of the community and it is certainly not aimed at the wage earner because what body in the community is more affected by economic considerations. [More…]

• It is the wage earner just as much as management and the investor for whom continued provision of job opportunities in a sound economic community is so vital. [More…]

• In the past 12 months one of the major achievements of the Government has been to destroy completely any confidence which existed in the Australian community in the Government’s ability to give sound leadership and to provide constructive thought on the problems of the nation. [More…]

• It is my belief that the millions of people who belong to trade unions in Australia are responsible people, people whose major interests in life are to provide themselves and their families with a decent standard of living and to live at peace with the community, without taking a very active part in politics - most trade unionists do not take a very active part in politics - without making excessive demands on the community but expecting from the community that which they have a right to expect in a society with a standard of living as high as the Australian society has. [More…]

• The people who are engaged in production in our community, who produce the national wealth, work a 40-hour week. [More…]

• Only those people who create the wealth in the community will not be allowed to have the benefit of the additional leisure that a reduced working week would create. [More…]

• The crime of those people who would seek to reduce their working hours is that if they reduce their hours the other sections of the community which already have these benefits may well find themselves in difficulty maintaining their situation. [More…]

• These costs have to be borne by wage earners in greater proportion than by most other sections of the community, and wage earners have less capacity to recover increased costs than do most other sections of the community. [More…]

• In contrast, natural increase imposes an immediate net charge on the community, while its reinforcement of the economy is, of necessity, deferred. [More…]

• These districts also need special assistance for transport to remove the chaos which exists on the rails, local government finance for the provision of roads, footpaths, kerbing as well as community centres and playing fields in an area which has probably the youngest population in the whole of Australia and where our future generation is being brought up. [More…]

• I wish now to deal with the increase in prescription costs under the pharmaceutical benefits scheme from 50c to $1 as this is another strike at the family - the very section of our community whom we should be helping and not hindering. [More…]

• I appeal to the Government to have a good look at the humanity of the case for those 2 sections of our community when this review of the $630m surplus in the Budget - which must come - is made. [More…]

• Few, if any, sections of the community have welcomed this Budget. [More…]

• Over 40 per cent of additional taxes will be gained in customs and excise duties and this will have a direct impact on the costs of goods to the community. [More…]

• We are dealing with the sick of our community and the families of our community and a better scheme for public health in Australia must be introduced. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s increasing involvement in the whole educational field is well appreciated as well as the Government’s efforts to bring relief in certain areas of the community’s needs. [More…]

• As for a capital gains tax applied to land developing, there should be consultation with local and State authorities which wish to emulate Canberra by applying a community betterment land tax or by they themselves entering the land development industry, as the New South Wales Government now appears to be doing under pressure from its Labor Opposition. [More…]

• This poses the question: What is the community seeking so avidly that it is in short supply? [More…]

• Changing any laws or regulations that add to costs without giving any benefits to the community. [More…]

• The sooner this Government and its supporters realise the disservice they render to the community and the lack of political mileage they gain from attacking the unions the sooner someone will take the helm and steer our nation on a firm course. [More…]

• To help again it has called on the Wade Shire, which is the most closely populated shire in the State, to appeal to the people to volunteer assistance where possible and to the farming community to volunteer assistance with suitable equipment and manpower. [More…]

• While it might be all right to keep secret whether the Government intends to raise pensions it will not really matter to the community in the long run whether it knows. [More…]

• This Government is not prepared to take the community into its confidence and it is denying its duty to the community. [More…]

• Some time ago, there was a large bushfire in my electorate and a call was made on the Australian community for some support. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• Has the Treasurer received numerous requests from people living in isolated areas asking for an increase in the taxation deduction for education expenses so that that deserving section of the community may be allowed to recover financial stability after years of drought and when, because of favourable seasonal conditions, they might again be in the position of paying tax even though their income- [More…]

• All that one can ay about these 31,000 to 32,000 fortunate people receiving these pensions is that they are in a much better position than are most other people in the community as far as adjustments in their incomes due to the effects of inflation are concerned. [More…]

• At least these people are relatively fortunate when compared with the rest of the community. [More…]

• It seems that increasingly there is a tendency to suggest that these schemes should have a kind of escalator clause in them which would provide that the payment should be adjusted according perhaps to changes in the cost of living or by some method which would allow the people in these schemes to get some share of the increased productivity of the community. [More…]

• Also it is being recognised increasingly that what we describe as productivity - that is, a bigger output for the same input, to give a simplified definition, because of application of technology, educational systems and so on - in a way is an accrual due to the whole community rather than necessarily being identified with the person who works the machine or performs the function. [More…]

• I think it showed that in aggregate about only one-third of the total community is covered by superannuation funds of one kind or another. [More…]

• But at least more than one-half and close to twothirds of the total number of income recipients in the community are not covered by any sort of superannuation scheme. [More…]

• It well may be that after a thorough examination of the whole situation we would decide that we would do better to leave alone what we have, but I am afraid that I do not think I could come to that decision because I do not think the community in total can contemplate for very much longer two-thirds of the working population on the day they retire at 65 years having no prospect before them but to be continuant recipients of social service benefits. [More…]

• That is really the situation which faces the community and that is why pensions become a very political matter. [More…]

• In addition the sum that he would be entitled to on the day he retired would have to maintain its purchasing power, and we might even allow for some sharing in the increased productivity of the community. [More…]

• This is one of those matters in relation to which we should sit down in a spirit of goodwill between all sections of the community and weigh one kind of interest against another, and it would seem to me that a committee of inquiry perhaps would be the proper way to encompass that. [More…]

• I have tried to widen that proposition and to suggest that whatever may apply in that limited field also applies with much more force to the community as a whole, particularly to that vast section which at the moment is not covered in any way by membership of a fund of one kind or another. [More…]

• As they drow old and perhaps are less capable of fighting battles than are some of the younger members of the community, they find themselves in a position where, because of cost of living increases, they consistently have to lobby and to write letters to their members of Parliament. [More…]

• 1 agree with the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) that we should start immediately on debates and discussions about a national superannuation scheme not only in this House but also in the community at large. [More…]

• The Government could overcome many of the objections that may arise by taking the time to bring all members of the community into these discussions. [More…]

• Before dealing with any specific issues relating to the Budget, I wish to outline concisely again the fundamental objectives of the Budget and its effect on the Australian community. [More…]

• There are of course sections in the community who believe they profit from inflation. [More…]

• They are, as I see them in broad, simple terms and not necessarily in order of importance: Firstly, a series of adverse seasons since 1964 over a wide area of Australia; secondly, marketing difficulties, especially export marketing difficulties with such products as wheat; thirdly, the low export prices on world markets for many rural products, wool in particular, compounded by Britain’s likely entry to the European Economic Community; fourthly, the growing use of synthetics, or alternatives to products of rural origin; fifthly, the constantly rising cost of production; sixthly, the international currency crisis; and, seventhly, the whole rural economy has been geared to the era of post war prosperity. [More…]

• The Government’s concern for the rural community is reflected in the provisions made to assist the rural industries staggering under the heavy gross load of indebtedness of over $2,000m that has compounded rapidly because of the factors I have mentioned. [More…]

• There are overlaps and exceptions, but by and large the Country Party represents the rural community and the farmer; by and large the Liberal Party represents the metropolitan middle class and business; by and large the Australian Labor Party represents the wage earner. [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…]

• The aim should be to see as far as government can possibly do so that both systems - the private system and the independent system - work side by side in their different ways with their different techniques to the general community advantage. [More…]

• However, I happen to know that the failure of the Government to make increased provision by way of per capita grants in this year’s Budget has been received with great regret and, indeed, dissatisfaction amongst important sectors of the community and I can understand their view. [More…]

• Fully realising that this was a matter of great importance to the whole community, the Minister for Civil Aviation, when questioned over recent months, has pointed out that he would report on the matter as soon as it was practicable for him to do do. [More…]

• 1 am now in a position to inform the House of the results of the committee’s work as well as the decisions taken by the Government after considering its report, lt has also been judged appropriate to make this statement available concurrently to our colleagues in the State Parliament of New South Wales, through’ the Premier, and to the community at large. [More…]

• Airports are expensive assets and belong to the whole community. [More…]

• Its location in relation to the centre of metropolitan Sydney is therefore extremely important if the air services using the airport are to meet the community needs. [More…]

• We cannot afford, nor do we intend, to throw away such a valuable and important community asset which, despite some difficult noise problems, has very great advantages by comparison with any other potential airport site. [More…]

• The new runway, extending into Botany Bay and over 13,000 feet in length when it comes into operation early in 1972, will make the airport a better neighbour to the community and more operationally effective. [More…]

• The committee is authorised to consult interested Commonwealth and State departments and organisations and to call for the views of other interested bodies, such as the airlines, local authorities and community organisations, to assist in its deliberations. [More…]

• It will be appreciated that access to the airport, a matter for the State authorities, is a matter of essential importance if the new airport is to serve the community adequately. [More…]

• We are very conscious, too, that in matters such as this there is a very broad community interest involved in addition to the detailed civil aviation considerations. [More…]

• The appointment of a Commonwealth-State committee will provide an opportunity to follow through very logically the steps that are necessary to reach the point where we can act in a manner appropriate to the time, to the economic factors that must be taken into account and to the balanced interests of all sections of the community. [More…]

• But at the sme time a vast section of the community depends on the effective operation of the Sydney Airport, and its interests must also be taken into account. [More…]

• Like taxation, too, noise pollution is unfair if its burden is borne too heavily by a single part of the community. [More…]

• The community noise problem involved in the operation of jet aircraft in the Towra Point area would be so severe, that the Minister for Civil Aviation has advised me that he has decided to direct the inter-departmental Committee, convened to consider the future airport needs of Sydney, to exclude this site from its consideration. [More…]

• It is unable to assess correctly the needs of the community. [More…]

• The cost to the community of introducing a 35-hour week would be between $1, 600m and $2,305m per annum on the basis of requiring additional staff, and between $2,400m and $3,450m per annum on the basis of additional hours overtime worked. [More…]

• To be effective this would have to be dovetailed into a system of national planning which, again coming back to community needs, would involve the co-operation of the State Government with the Federal Government in promoting this sort of activity on a regional basis. [More…]

• I do not want to anticipate what the result of my examination will be but I would remind him that to adopt such a course would very considerably redistribute the incidence of taxation within the community and therefore is a much bigger question than it at first appears. [More…]

• Did he also say last year that changes in the national health scheme would help to provide financial protection for every person in the community? [More…]

• It will be generally accepted that there should be periodic reviews of Parliamentary salaries and allowances just as there are in other sectors of the community. [More…]

• I must say, therefore, one or two words on this matter because it is perfectly obvious that the example that is given by this Parliament must have enormous repercussions on the whole of the community in regard to claims for increased pay of one kind or another, or increased prices that people may wish to levy. [More…]

• I merely make the point that what Parliament does is an example to the community as a whole and that inflation is, firstly, a grave injustice to many people in this community and, secondly, it has enormous distorting effects and influences on our export industries and the economy. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party represents all sections of the community. [More…]

• The Opposition asks the Government in relation to this scheme: Will these people be retrained to get out of the industry and to evacuate rural areas like refugees, or will it be part of a scheme to ensure the continuing viability not only of the individual but also of the whole community? [More…]

• I think this is something that should be given very serious consideration by the Government even if it is done at some cost to the community at large because while we recognise the necessity of providing employment for these people it is essential that they be given an opportunity to live and earn a reasonable income in the areas from which they come. [More…]

• For example, we have to look pretty carefully at the attitude that will be taken by the older members of the community. [More…]

• In September 1950 a scheme was introduced by the Government which provided certain life saving and disease preventing drugs free of cost to the whole community on a doctor’s prescription. [More…]

• At a time when the Government is concerned with the continuing sharp increase in the cost of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, it believes that it is not unreasonable for the community at large to bear the cost of the increased patient contribution. [More…]

• This decision is in keeping with the Government’s policy under the Health Benefits Plan to assist where possible those special groups in the community to meet the cost of medical care. [More…]

• Of course, most of that increase is due simply to the effects of inflation in the community and automatically the 2i per cent will be levied on a higher amount than previously and the level of the tax will grow. [More…]

• We point out that, really, all that is happening is a readjustment and that all that the States have is an ability to impose upon the rest of the community a higher tax in relation to the wages bill. [More…]

• In other words, it will eventually pass on to the consumer in the community in higher commodity prices and this will, of course, affect the people with a lower capacity to pay. [More…]

• This brings me to another issue which recently has come to prominence amongst the Australian community at large. [More…]

• 1 refer to the right of dissent amongst members of the community but more particularly amongst students at the universities. [More…]

• The call by this senator could hope to harm only one section of the community - the students he was addressing. [More…]

• This is both a community and a personal responsibility as well as a responsibility of the Government. [More…]

• He wanted a more humane approach to the needy in the community. [More…]

• The shabbiness of many, of our urban areas is part of the price the community is paying for a coalition government in which the bush tail wags the city dog on important developmental issues. [More…]

• I would point out - and here again I must specifically refer to my own electorate of Kennedy - that the Government gave magnificent support to the construction of the Fairbairn Dam - it is very pleasing to see the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), whose name has been given to that dam, sitting in the House at this time - and soon the Emerald irrigation area will be the centre of a flourishing, expanded, prosperous farming and grazing community. [More…]

• They are the only section of the community so treated. [More…]

• We have the city of Mount Isa, no longer a scattered community of transient workers but now a proud city with a permanent population of 20,000 to 25,000 inlanders, including national groups of people who have come from other countries and who have blended in with our rugged westerners to produce a new and richly endowed character - the ‘Mount Isan’. [More…]

• The city of Mount Isa is bursting with development, providing this nation with employment for thousands of our people and producing wealth which is greatly assisting Australia to balance its Budget, yet we find the unbelievable situation where businesses cannot get off the ground because once again those prepared to invest in and provide services for our community are told that they cannot get a telephone in the foreseeable future. [More…]

• In the same way such fiscal or budgetary policies as large domestic budget surpluses, such as the one planned in this Budget of $630m, the siphoning off of funds from the community by higher personal and company taxes and by higher charges for such items as postal and telephone services, broadcast and television licences, petrol and other fuels, the doubling of the patient’s charge for pharmaceutical benefits from 50c to $1 - a wicked charge for so many, particularly young families on lower incomes and in many cases large young families at that - are but some examples of the methods of this Government in this Budget. [More…]

• Are not so many of these charges anyway passed on in higher costs to the community? [More…]

• The share of gross national expenditure going through Government hands is still far too low in order to provide adequately for the community’s needs in such areas as education, health and welfare. [More…]

• Establish clearer guidelines for overseas investors, for the benefit both of these investors and of the Australian community. [More…]

• I have no time to talk further about the injustice and inequity of this Liberal-Country Party Government allowing exorbitant profits to be earned by so many companies in our community, particularly finance companies, and which then has the hide to blame inflation on the workers of this country in the lower income groups because those workers seek wage justice through the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or by other means at their disposal. [More…]

• The rural industry is in ruins, inflation has run riot, the value of money is rapidly disappearing and all sections of the community are alarmed at our economic prospects. [More…]

• I believe that high interest rates operate mainly against the ordinary people of the community and these are the people whom we as a Government claim to represent. [More…]

• It is about time in our community, especially on the part of those on the Government side, that there was an acceptance of the fact that wage price problems are a symptom and not a cause of inflation in the community. [More…]

• They come from the monetary and fiscal policies of the Government because these are the forces which are operating in the economy, which are injecting these increased costs and which in turn are pushing up the costs in the community leading to the sorts of demands that wage earners reasonably set about seeking. [More…]

• In my electorate - and other members can talk about their own electorates - the most serious question that has ever faced the farming community, wineries and many other industries is that they will have to either increase production hand over fist, retrench or put up prices. [More…]

• That is the reason why this Budget has been fairly well received by the community at large and is not to the satisfaction of honourable members opposite. [More…]

• Not only has opposition to the present Treasurer’s Budget been pointed out on television, as we all know, but the radio Press and everyone in the community unanimously rejects it. [More…]

• Already we have known organisations such as the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia, the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia, the Bank of New South Wales and the Australian Council of Trade Unions - any responsible organisation at all in the community today - condemn the Budget. [More…]

• by leave - I present to the Parliament a statement on a matter of great importance to the Post Office and the community it serves. [More…]

• The Commonwealth reiterated its attitude that it is a responsibility of State Governments to ensure that the revenue resources available to such authorities are sufficient to enable them to provide the various community services for which they have been made responsible under State laws. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are representatedrepresentated the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Would it not be in the interests of Western Australia and the Australian community generally for the present service to continue? [More…]

• In fact, although the scheme has not achieved everything one would have liked it to have achieved - for obvious reasons given the particular group to which it is directed - it has covered a very much larger proportion of low income earners in the Australian community than has been represented by the honourable member. [More…]

• This is a conservative estimate, because land in the community generally averages much more in cost than land used by the War Service Homes Division. [More…]

• We are told that the average income in the community is now about $4,000 per annum, but in truth the majority of wage earners - about 70 per cent or more - earn considerably less than this. [More…]

• The land must be serviced with transport, it must be serviced with electricity and gas, and it must have easy access to community services such as shops, schools and hospitals. [More…]

• They want the privacy and the community that is not possible in flat life, - in high density living - unless we equate loneliness with privacy, and being an anonymous face in the street/with community. [More…]

• There is no moral obligation placed on those persons who engage in business and commerce and there is no moral obligation placed on any section of the Australian community other than those male persons who are or will in the future reach the age of 20 - and possibly their wives, mothers and fathers. [More…]

• If morality is the question then where is the morality in choosing a significantly small proportion of the community to carry the entire burden of defence or, as the honourable member for La Trobe put it, effective defence because - if his speech means anything - we have ineffective defence’ if we have only 28,000 men. [More…]

• There are in the community people who have objections to serving in military forces. [More…]

• There are also people in the community who have objections to killing their fellow men, and the requirements which exist at this time for establishing conscientious objection are not only that a person must object to killing his fellow man but also that he must object to defending his country in any circumstances. [More…]

• Unfortunately we have had foisted upon us policies which have now proven not to have been in the best interests of Australia but which have created a situation which is one of the most divisive in Australia’s political history, which have created extreme bitterness among large sections of the Australian community - I suggest needlessly - and which the Government now proposes to continue but with a reduction of the national service period by 6 months not because it believes that 2 years is not necessary, not because it believes that 13 months is the ideal period, but because its budgetary requirements demand that the period of 2 years becomes 18 months. [More…]

• A very small number of conscientious objectors are serving terms of imprisonment because they happened to disagree with a political policy to the extent that they were not prepared to comply with what is a fairly restrictive and demanding law which applies to only a very small section of the community. [More…]

• It has also had the effect of causing divisions within our community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Corio referred to the small proportion of the community which is called upon to carry the burden of defence. [More…]

• Since the inception of the national service scheme a further 30,000 men have returned to the community, having passed completely through the training system. [More…]

• In the Australian community we have a reservoir of approximately 50,000 men who are fully trained and able to serve this country in time of national emergency. [More…]

• As a result of the national service scheme there are 50,000 fully trained men in the Australian community. [More…]

• We make no apology for having in the community 50,000 trained men whom we otherwise would not have. [More…]

• The Bill before the House is like any piece of legislation that affects national service, which is an emotional issue in a community because there are wide differences of opinion in our society as to what level of threat Australia faces at the moment or will face in the near future and how Australia ought to respond. [More…]

• Australia is situated as an outpost of the European community in a South East Asian environment and its associations are quite different. [More…]

• Servicemen and servicewomen rightly have a high standing in the community. [More…]

• Moreover, it seems right that laws make humane provisions for the case of those who for reasons of conscience refuse to bear arms, provided, however, that they accept some other form of service to the human community. [More…]

• Members of a small section of the community are called upon to give up to 2 years of their lives in military service. [More…]

• Many people in the community claim to be Christian and those who accept the doctrine of Christian pacificism can apply for exemption from national service on the grounds of conscientious’ objection. [More…]

• What studies have been made of the long range costs and benefits to the Australian community of new metal industries allowing for the escalation of costs and depletion of natural resources, the effects on soil and ocean ecology, and the diseconomies of scale and greater war vulnerability in concentrating populations near existing cities or in scarce recreational areas. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of binh. [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavily-taxed sector of the community, subsidises the lax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• That consideration be given to one of the most heavily taxed groups within the community, the motorist, and be given the opportunity to enjoy some of the tax fee as charged, by being able to travel with reasonable comfort and safety on the major highways of Australia. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• The motive is solely to express concern which is felt not only by the Opposition but throughout the Australian community at what happened several days ago in Phuoc Tuy province when a number of Australians were killed and a larger number wounded. [More…]

• The Opposition has brought this matter before the Parliament to indicate that it will be subjecting, as indeed the whole Australian community is subject ing, all of these aspects of the withdrawal to very close scrutiny. [More…]

• The penalty of 2 years imprisonment, being reduced to 18 months, is an extremely severe penalty and one which is comparable with penalties for some of the major crimes in our community. [More…]

• Is it another example of the fiasco in Victoria of recent days involving the President of the State branch of the ALP - that man of continuing episodic interest - and others with him in their support for those dissident elements which wish to challenge one of the basic premises of any community, the maintenance of law and order? [More…]

• It will provide a further reservoir in the community of those who, although no longer serving actively in the reserve, have had the benefit of full-time training in the Regular Army in Australia. [More…]

• I suggest that this continuing programme - and I stress the word ‘continuing* which has an element of guarantee in it - of maintaining an army of adequate size, giving encouragement to the Citizen Military Forces, establishing adequate reserves subject to immediate call-up and providing a further reservoir in the community is an immeasureably superior system and gives immeasureably greater security to this country than rh; Opposition’s system which as I read it is one of panic call-up in times of emergency and panic training to get men called up to adequate standards. [More…]

• They had to build up this fear of racialism that may exist within the Australian community. [More…]

• If a true analysis were made we would find that in America and in Australia it is the sons of the poorer section of the community, the lower income groups, who have been predominant in the national seh vice call-up and have served in Vietnam. [More…]

• The honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes) said that educational standards in the community are higher; therefore, people who are educated are not prepared willingly to serve in the Army in the lower ranks. [More…]

• There is no evidence to suggest that service in the armed forces is any more likely to build character than any other type of service in the community. [More…]

• It is also a doubtful proposition to suggest that a trained police officer should be called up into the Army to serve behind an officer’s mess bar - that seems to be a stupid allocation of priorities in any community - or that a trained teacher should be called up into the Army to clean out lavatories. [More…]

• Their work is essential to the community but no more essential than the occupations I have listed. [More…]

• They are people of equal standing with other people in the community and they ought not to be discriminated against in this way. [More…]

• I believe there is adequate provision in the Act for conscientious objection and I believe that if ministers of religion hold conscientious objections they ought to establish their beliefs in the courts in exactly the same way as any other citizen in the community. [More…]

• I do not believe that this sort of privilege is good for the Church or for the community. [More…]

• I believe the Church ought to set up a standard other than that which is generally accepted in the community and I believe that if this amendment is carried it will help to bring about this situation. [More…]

• On those grounds and because there is adequate provision within the Act, on the ground of conscientious objection, for men who are in religious orders or who are training for religious orders to establish that they hold conscientious objection, the same as any other citizen in the community may, I believe that this provision ought not to remain in the Act. [More…]

• I am most dubious whether in such a context there would be the same degree of acceptability for the proposed process as there is now among the men affected, the organisations, groups and individuals who are interested in this matter, and in the community generally for the current provisions. [More…]

• And if it does not trust the magistrates, could it be that it also does not trust the judges of the superior courts who might in some indirect way reflect the thinking of the community on this controversial issue? [More…]

• People have been confined to gaol under the provisions of this Act because of their beliefs, whereas there are other people in the community who hold the same beliefs and think in exactly the same way but are different only in that they have the advantage of being members of a Christian church or some other faith with a set doctrine which enables them to go into court, state the doctrine and say that they conscientiously hold that belief. [More…]

• Community education courses are conducted by the Department of Social Development and Home Affairs in many parts of Papua New Guinea with participation by health workers. [More…]

• Most mental institutions now provide separate open ward divisions for the treatment and training of patients participating in rehabilitation programmes designed to achieve their early discharge to ordinary living in the community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory the Department of Health will, on the basis of funds provided from the Trust Account, establish mobile health facilities for the substantial Aboriginal communities in the Borroloola and Timber Creek areas; and, by agreement with the Western Australian authorities, will provide health and medical services for the Aboriginal community at the small mining camp at Wingellina in Central Australia. [More…]

• These projects involve effort by the whole local community as well as by Commonwealth, State and local government authorities. [More…]

• By investing sufficient money in the right areas over the years immediately ahead we will be making it possible for increasing numbers of Aborigines to become independent of the special assistance now being provided through the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account and in other ways, and, where they need assistance, to be progressively cared for by the general provisions made for the community as a whole. [More…]

• Yet here we are talking about our own region of the world; the region in which the Government makes some assistance available; the region into which Australian people as citizens and individuals, through organisations such as Community Aid Abroad, put funds to help raise living standards. [More…]

• It is the lifeblood of the community. [More…]

• A feasibility study should be undertaken to determine whether railway systems should be a drain on the taxpayer or should be developed as a community amenity. [More…]

• Obviously such development will come only with private companies which will consider their own needs and not the needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• I like most people need a few hours uninterrupted sleep if I am to give of my best to the community and when abruptly awakened for no good purpose, I tend to be irritable. [More…]

• It was because of its appreciation of the importance of restraining the inflationary, pressures which are currently evident in the community that the Government adopted a deliberate policy of curtailing Commonwealth expenditure and it was in the light of that policy that the decision was taken to defer any proposal on child care for the time being. [More…]

• What percentage of intended recipients of the proposed wool subsidy could be expected to receive taxable incomes $500 per annum or more, lower than the average for the wool growing community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• In 1971 enrolments in government schools in the Australian Capital Territory were 60 per cent above those for 1966 and the comparable increase for the Northern Territory for community schools was 70 per cent. [More…]

• At the beginning of 1971 the first teachers employed by the Commonwealth were appointed to community schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Last year the then Minister for Education and Science mentioned the proposal to provide a community college at Darwin. [More…]

• We ought to strive harder than ever before to achieve what no generation has yet achieved: A community composed of men and women for whom human values are more important than material advantage; a community for whom the interrelationship of man with man has become the most important concern; a community in which tolerance and understanding reign and prejudice is abandoned. [More…]

• While the Government is moved by compassion in providing the additional assistance, it does not regard it as an act of charity but as a fulfilment of our obligations to the international community. [More…]

• The passage of almost 2 years since its introduction in January last year has dramatically highlighted in the most compelling way the failure of a system whose objective is not the welfare of people, but the protection of property and profit for vested interests in the medical insurance business and the propagation of party dogma at any expense to the community. [More…]

• The failure of the subsidised medical scheme is yet further proof that the Australian Labor Party’s system of automatic insurance through the pay packet, levied according to ability to pay and with exemptions for low income groups, is not only the most equitable means, but also the only effective means of insuring the entire community against the cost of ill health. [More…]

• lt was inevitable that the Government’s subsidised medical scheme should fail to reach the poor in the Australian community. [More…]

• Yet in inflicting on the community the continued survival of the voluntary health insurance scheme, all that the Liberal Party was doing was inflicting on the poorer people of Australia the massive jungle of paper work and red tape which had already made the system wasteful and irrelevant for the majority of people. [More…]

• The advances made possible by this Bill, in conjunction with the other improvements introduced by this Government in 1963 and 1969, will bring financial protection against the costs of medical and hospital treatment within the reach of every person in the community. [More…]

• So what we are talking about is an inflated figure that pretends that long term cover is being given to a significant number of people in the community. [More…]

• The only way in which it is possible to insure- every person in the Austraiian community is to have a national health insurance scheme in which people are insured through their pay packets. [More…]

• For administrative and statistical purposes beneficiaries under the plan are divided into 3 separate community groups eligible for assistance. [More…]

• At the present time the Department of Health is examining suitable avenues, such as more use of social workers in the community to support the normal publicity measures. [More…]

• This costing is on the assumption that utilisation rates of hospital and medical services by low income earners is consistent with average rates in the community. [More…]

• In fact, what evidence is available suggests that the health needs of these people are probably greater than the community mean for the simple reason that social and economic disadvantages cause these needs to be neglected and to worsen. [More…]

• The mentality which would result from such a policy would in the long nin be to the detriment both of the community and of the individuals concerned. [More…]

• I cannot deal with every section of the community involved in this scheme or the problems which are involved. [More…]

• Would the Opposition deny these people, the low income earners in the community, the right to obtain assistance? [More…]

• I should like to raise some questions about the general concept behind nursing homes because I am far from satisfied that the way in which these services are being conducted is the best way for the community. [More…]

• It may well be, and there is substantial evidence in support of (his view, that a high rate of investment in nursing home beds in the community leads to a tendency to institutionalise aged people and to push them into beds and leave them there. [More…]

• If we are to effectively develop nursing home services for the community, we must back them up with a range of other services, such as hostels. [More…]

• By this means there may be a tendency in our community to get back to the extended family unit. [More…]

• I am of the opinion in any event that in the long term we ought to try to establish an adequate provision of nursing homes in the public sector and in the nonprofitmaking private sector, backed up by domiciliary services on a comprehensive basis in the community plus hostels so that there will be no opportunity for these scavengers in the nursing home business, and 1 would hope that they are only a minority. [More…]

• The services to be provided with that money are for a special section in the community who have rights as well as needs. [More…]

• I reiterate as a purely personal view, that the provision of these services should not be in the profit making sector of the community. [More…]

• The Opposition will not oppose the Bill because it at least improves the position crf the apple and pear growers who are directly dependent on the industry, as well as that of the general business community and the work force indirectly dependent on the prosperity of the industry. [More…]

• What will we do when or if Britain joins the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institu tions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an. [More…]

• The honourable member seems to share with some other members of the Australian Labor Party the philosophy that it is all right for some things in the community continually to rise, namely, wages but that the cost of other things, namely, services and the various provisions made by government should remain static. [More…]

• If a situation exists in which the costs of running universities and other institutions and the provisions made by the States are to increase considerably on an annual basis because of very substantial increases in wage levels it is unreasonable to expect the cost of providing those services to the community - in this case the cost of providing higher education - to remain as it was in earlier times when wages and other matters were at very much lower levels. [More…]

• I think the honourable member would help the situation if he were to direct his plea for restraint not only to the universities but also to other sections of the community as well. [More…]

• But competition from our main rivals South Africa and New Zealand has intensified, and Great Britain’s possible entry into the European Economic Community will mean not only the loss of our concessional entry into the United Kingdom but also the impositionof tariffs on our imports, with the removal of tariffs on exports from the EEC countries. [More…]

• There is no doubt that this would strengthen Australia in its exploitation of present markets and its pursuit of new markets which will be needed in particular if the United Kingdom enters the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I believe that these people are a very .. deserving section of the community, and I - would like to make a few points with regard to them. [More…]

• Rather than oppose them and the burdens which they have inflicted upon the community generally, the Government has gone cap in hand with an odd vessel here and an odd vessel there and said what good fellows we are. [More…]

• On my prejudices before coming to Parliament, I suppose I had the view commonly held by, I would guess, a majority of the community, that parliamentarians are, in fact, fairly useless, ineffectual and doubtful propositions. [More…]

• The committee should have access to any experts it chooses to consult in the community, commencing, of course, with the public servants in the Government department concerned, but it should be free also to call on experts on the topic under discussion who have nothing whatever to do with the Government. [More…]

• Another side effect which can only be helpful is that the committee processes, by the act of consulting numerous people in the community will increase the feeling of community participation in decision making. [More…]

• Once again, this can only improve the standing of the Parliament in the eyes of the community. [More…]

• For these reasons I am convinced that a committee process which will allow quiet discussion with members from both sides of the House, particularly back bench members, taking part, can only help the processes of the Parliament and also enhance the standing of Parliament in the eyes of the whole community. [More…]

• There is the representative function, the executive function, the legislative function and the function which might be described as the scrutiny and surveillance of public activities in the general community. [More…]

• But the rest of the members of the community feel as helpless as we do on the great issues that are of concern to them. [More…]

• What I think I should do is take my time now and at some time in the near future go to Toowoomba, which is the homestead of the Leader of the House, which is a little more devoted to these matters on most occasions, and tell his community what he is doing to this Parliament. [More…]

• Would it be impossible to employ that talent in some executive function directly connected with the community? [More…]

• This total body is the executive instrument of the nation and what we have to do to resolve some of the problems of the community is find the machinery by which we can all have some say somewhere along the line in the executive direction of the legislative programme of the Parliament, while still paying a good deal of respect to the fact that the majority will should prevail. [More…]

• By this I mean that America, the United Kingdom and the members of the European Economic Community make decisions which have a greater impact on what happens in Australia than in their own countries. [More…]

• That is why I believe that the Government must in future, if it has not already seen the light, take more cognisance of what happens in our community and of what happens from Treasury advice and assess the future for Australia. [More…]

• Finance is government and unless the Government is prepared to govern and to control the totality and flow of finance within the economy it ceases to be a government and it ceases to have the respect and will ultimately cease to have the support of the Australian community. [More…]

• If Australia is to continue to call itself a Christian community we can no longer procrastinate while millions die. [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…]

• If so, is the general community of Kambalda being denied facilities which should otherwise be available. [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavilytaxed sector of the community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected bythe government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• He is the author of some wellknown legal textbooks and, prior to his elevation to the Bench, took a great interest in a number of professional and community matters including the Bar Association of New South Wales, the Australian Law Council, the International Commission of Jurists and International Legal Aid Association. [More…]

• His other community interests have included Vice-Presidency of the Marriage Guidance Council in New South Wales from 1963 to 1968, membership of the New South Wales Medical Board from 1966 until his appointment to the bench, and membership of the Asthma Foundation. [More…]

• For a significant section of the Australian community this situation will be reflected in reduced standards of living; indeed it has been estimated that approximately 1 million persons are wholly or partly dependent upon the wool industry for their living. [More…]

• This will go far towards preserving the wool industry’s viability and the beneficial effects will be widely felt throughout the whole Australian community of people, particularly in the rural areas. [More…]

• It is the wish of the Opposition that an in depth inquiry be made into the whole aspect of poverty in our community and of course this particular section of the Treasury - the Bureau of Census and Statistics - would be vital in such a task. [More…]

• A recent survey in Melbourne reported that the incidence of poverty among families without fathers was ‘substantially higher than in almost any other group in the community’. [More…]

• However, in February of this year the Commonwealth Government announced to the nation policies designed to counter the economic virus of inflation in the Australian community. [More…]

• We are aware of the shortage of skilled personnel in almost every profession in our community, and we should be able to understand that in this environment now is not the time for the Commonwealth Parliament to be seeking to extend its influence and thus create unnecessary burdens for the departments of Slate. [More…]

• We might well come up with the view that we have far too many forms of taxation and similar charges in our community, and efficiency and equity would both be respected a great deal more if there was a vast reduction in the number of taxes. [More…]

• They pay just over half of 1 per tent of all tax that is levied in the community; that is, 9.78 per cent pay only .59 per cent of all tax. [More…]

• Another matter of great concern in the community at the moment is that of fares as a deduction from taxation. [More…]

• Therefore, they are paying more in fares than is any other section of the community. [More…]

• So in fact the people who have been hit hardest by the disallowance of fares as a taxation deduction are the people who most need help in our community and in many cases they are young people setting up a home of their own and often being forced to live in some outlying area in our metropolitan centres. [More…]

• Interest rates are used by the Government as a means not of combating inflation but of concentrating its cost upon those sections of the community which can least afford to pay. [More…]

• Employees are no less interested than other sections of the community in ending inflation but they expect anti-inflation measures to embody equality of sacrifice. [More…]

• There would probably be a howl from the community if it were suggested. [More…]

• For this cannery to close would be a disaster for the growers, the employees and the entire community. [More…]

• They need the money; the community needs the money. [More…]

• This afternoon I wish to deal with a few issues and particularly with the controversy which is spreading right throughout the community these days relating to protection versus free trade for Australian industry. [More…]

• At the same time there are some people in the community today who could bc described only as almost complete free traders. [More…]

• We have the United States in isolation, the European Economic Community coming up and the Soviet bloc and we need an Asian common market bloc to safeguard ourselves against the power punches from these other great blocs that have been set up. [More…]

• During each period of depression in the agricultural scene we will find that the farming community is inclined to get up and run frantically after every hare that is put up, particularly marketing hares. [More…]

• But I want to sound one warning - not to them; they would know - to the community as a whole and to this Parliament in particular that any civil servant who has the ability to correctly assess the demand situation for any product is not for long a civil servant. [More…]

• It is a strange thing that while the community at large will accept demands for wage and salary increases and seems to be prepared to accept demands for protection for secondary industry, which I do not condemn providing it is reasonably justified protection, whenever there is a move made to try to protect primary industry, however great and important that industry is, there seems to be opposition to it. [More…]

• Yet, in more recent times, there have been people in the community - some of them to my mind, closely associated with the Tariff Board - who are getting dangerously close to being free traders. [More…]

• The second topic which I wish to mention is the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I now come to the second subject - the European Economic Community - because here the story is much the same. [More…]

• For years we have seen that Britain was likely to go into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Yet, today and yesterday we have had in our midst in this Parliament Mr Les Huckfield, the member for Nuneaton in the British House of Commons who is trained in this economic field and who has told us just how we have missed out in relation to what New Zealand has done in the negotiations for Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I had the opportunity earlier this year to be in Brussels, the capital of the Community. [More…]

• We all know that there is nothing more degrading for any community than to live in a country in which there is unemployment. [More…]

• Of course there is a lot of concern about it in the community. [More…]

• I rise with some diffidence because having listened to speeches by so many experts on tariffs I am one of the confused members of the community as, apparently, there is so little agreement on the subject. [More…]

• Therefore it seems to me that if one can see that there are some weaknesses in the way in which tariffs are structured in this community and economy of ours, we ought to be critical. [More…]

• I have democratic socialist principles and that seems to me to mean that we identify and accept that there arc 2 classes of people in the community. [More…]

• Therefore, if we make a decision on project A without a careful assessment overall of the other projects we might be putting $100m of the community’s money - which after all is only a representation of resources - into that industry. [More…]

• Again, for argument’s sake, the return to the community - and I am using a fairly simplified and hypothetical sort of case - might be only 5 per cent whereas if we had made a thorough analysis through the economy we might have found that $100m in, say, project B, C or D might have given us a return of 10 per cent or 20 per cent. [More…]

• What we are doing is subsidising the relatively well off at a cost to the average member of the community. [More…]

• I conclude on what to my mind is an important point, namely, that there are those in the community - they are usually the people on the Government side - who say: ‘Keep politics out of education’. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, ‘he Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, ‘he Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• It does so at the expense of the community whose convenience is oftentimes put at risk and it jeopardises the normal working of business enterprise. [More…]

• In September 1950 a scheme was introduced by the Government which provided certain life-saving and disease-preventing drugs free of cost to the whole community on a doctor’s prescription. [More…]

• At a time when the Government is concerned with the continuing sharp increase in the cost of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, it believes that it is not unreasonable for the community at large to bear the cost of the increased patient contribution. [More…]

• This decision is in keeping with the Government’s policy under the health benefits plan to assist where possible those special groups in the community to meet the cost of medical care. [More…]

• But I believe that we roust think in terms of the fact that matters of conscience are treated in a very indulgent way in the community these days and whatever the history of this matter, which is relevant, the religious schools in Australia were first in the field and the advent of the State system came later. [More…]

• One can well put the positive argument that whatever governments do or do not do for independent schools, their existence does not necessarily imply more or less expenditure on education in the state sector and it certainly does imply more expenditure on education overall by the community at large. [More…]

• It was a very great business proposition for the community at large but costs have increased, as we all know only too well, since that time but no increase has been made to the per capita grants. [More…]

• So what a bargain it is for the community at large to have independent schools operating at the primary level at a cost of only $35 per pupil. [More…]

• I believe we should ultimately aim at a multi-system of education in which schools are created and controlled as far as possible by the local community rather than created and remote controlled in capital cities. [More…]

• We should be aiming at an end to prejudice and an encouragement to the community to create the diversity in education which it requires. [More…]

• Fourthly, there is the loss of useful effort for the community through the tragic misallocation of human resources. [More…]

• It would allow participation by the community in the management of schools. [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…]

• Surely it is reasonable to assume that this increase is fairly evenly spread over the age groups in the community, and ours is a young community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth, I believe, is trying to carry out a massive deceit on the Australian community. [More…]

• No doubt this could be true for many other spheres of our community life. [More…]

• There are probably good teachers, well respected, worthwhile people in the community, but they are not people who should involve themselves in the administration of what is becoming an enormous business. [More…]

• This is simply aggravating the social inequalities in the community. [More…]

• In a sense, the private schools receiving large sums of money from the public purse become community schools. [More…]

• and that its establishment would benefit the total educational community in its area. [More…]

• Our community believes that by the provision of free primary and secondary education sufficient has been done and that those who fail to make it through the system fail through their own fault and their inability to cope adequately with the education system. [More…]

• Proposed works total $8.2m, which includes $4.2m for the Darwin Community College but which does not include expenditure on the Yirrara Aboriginal College which is to be built just south of Alice Springs. [More…]

• Finally, I would like to mention the Darwin Community College which is in the estimates for this year. [More…]

• The Government has used this section of the community completely to achieve office. [More…]

• The inner city schools, almost by definition, by lack of education basically in that particular community, by lack of income, and as a result of that by the environmental deficiencies that have accrued, have provided less for themselves than some other schools but to me it is negative thinking to say that those people who will or can help themselves should not be helped any further because there are others who are less capable of helping themselves. [More…]

• I suppose that we are all equal in humanity and have a right to equal access to the good things of life in the community, but the objective ought to be an equality of effort for people in the most remote parts or in the most congested industrial areas, as we do in Canberra. [More…]

• That is a real challenge to this Parliament and to the Australian community. [More…]

• Whereasthe Postmaster-General in a statement to Parliament has decreed that the telecommunication divisions of Parkes, Bathurst and Dubbo (with minor alteration) are to be amalgamated in one area, we, the citizens of the community of Parkes, respectfully submit that: [More…]

• If the present staff employed in the telecommunication division in Parkes is transferred from this town, grievous harm will result to this community, inasmuch as the removal of any personnel from the Parkes area will further depress the already straitened circumstances in this town. [More…]

• The destruction of balanced employment and job opportunities for Higher School Certificate holders will eventually result in the enforced loss of many of the community’s potential leadens. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• As to the basic reasons for reconstruction, I think that during the debate in this House when the whole of the reconstruction proposals were under examination it was accepted that the objective should be to try to enable farmers and rural producers to be given some additional assistance which could only be justified if it were to enable them ultimately to become profitable and to operate in the normal community. [More…]

• I think that we on this side of the House do understand the difficulties of the rural community, and we do not, like the honourable gentleman has done, go to other parts of the world in an attempt to prejudice our opportunities. [More…]

• Funds ought to be provided so that we can permit further action which will inevitably be required such as the daily provision of facilities for retraining and rehabilitation, the provision of day centres and day hospitals for senior citizens, a much more comprehensive coverage of the community with domiciliary services and an increased number of nursing home beds available to people, particularly those with limited incomes. [More…]

• Even if it is only 3 days sooner he has saved for the community 3 days of highly expensive hospitalisation. [More…]

• They are ordinary members of the community, the people who pay the taxes and pay the benefit fund contributions. [More…]

• You would collect the money in the same way as you collect the ordinary taxation revenue, without any additional expense *o the community. [More…]

• Whatever the reason, the overall effect on the community will be inflationary in the sort of area in which inflation should not be permitted, let alone created by Government action. [More…]

• The patient’s contribution has not been increased since 1960, and the inference is that now the Government thinks that the general public can afford to pay more because of the change in the relative value of the cost of the service and in the average earning rate of the community. [More…]

• The Government seemingly is unaware of the pressing needs for Commonwealth initiatives in the development of an adequate public hospital system backed by community public health services, including paramedical services. [More…]

• This increased revenue for the Government will be provided by the sick people in the community. [More…]

• This is another misleading argument because the total expenditure by the Commonwealth in the area of health is not really such a large amount in terms of the total community expenditure, public and private, in health. [More…]

• Of course, the Committee was set up to act as a buffer against any political criticism, which is quite rampant in the community, arising from any move on the part of the Government to increase fees. [More…]

• The Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association has submitted certain evidence and certain figures and one is able to make certain calculations from these figures with the aid of other statistics available within the community. [More…]

• It is a Bill which provides some services of fairly questionable quality and quantity in the community. [More…]

• If we are going to improve the lot of the community through the Government, which handles the taxpayers’ money, and improve the lot of the doctor so that there might be some easing off in prescribing habits we will have to provide money for regular in-service training for doctors, particularly education in pharmacology. [More…]

• But we have to go beyond that and uplift the standards of the doctors who are working in the community, to give them more prestige and make their role much more significant than it is at present. [More…]

• Primary care given by health centres - general practitioners leading a team of allied health personnel; secondary care consisting of community hospitals with diagnostic facilities; tertiary care in academic medical centres with highly specialised facilities. [More…]

• It is pointless talking in an ad hoc or piecemeal way about health in the Australian community. [More…]

• When we develop these services I suggest that as a step to upgrading considerably the standing of the doctor professionally and in terms of community respect we would want to develop such services as accrediting through in-service training so that there is a regular refresher experience for the doctor as a professional, so that his standards are geared upwards always, so that he is cognisant of what current practices are and so that he does not get out of touch with the latest trends in his profession. [More…]

• It seems to me that this is a highly essential service which ought to be available to the general practitioner who, as far as we can see into the future, will be the most important man in the medical team - I stress the word ‘team’ - which provides public health services in the community. [More…]

• This could radiate further into the smaller convalescent nursing centre and then into the community health centres which provide day facilities in terms of medical practitioner services, paramedical services and so on. [More…]

• This would be no great problem in the Australian community in terms of cash. [More…]

• Evidence which was presented to the Select Committee on Pharmaceutical Benefits and which related to the sort of thing about which I have been talking, establishes convincingly that we must have this type of service available for the regular retraining of doctors so that they can maintain high standards of service for the community. [More…]

• This is a very small amount compared to the tremendous advantages that would be derived by the community. [More…]

• About 74 per cent of the community is covered by the present voluntary health insurance scheme. [More…]

• This still leaves something like 13 per cent to 15 per cent of the community - between 1.6 million and 2 million people - who have no cover at ali under the voluntary health insurance scheme. [More…]

• It provides cover for the whole community, not only for free public ward treatment - standard ward treatment, as the current terminology has it - but also for treatment by a private practitioner of one’s own choice. [More…]

• Again, one of the criticisms the Opposition makes of this scheme is its failure to uphold the common fee concept which was held out as a promise of providing a special benefit for the community. [More…]

• As I mentioned on Tuesday night of last week, this should be seen as part of the total development of health and welfare services in the community - an integrated, balanced plan for the provision of adequate health and welfare protection for the community. [More…]

• I remind the House that the La Trobe Valley Health Services provide limited pharmaceutical benefits as do the friendly societies, and there is no reason why this practice cannot be extended so that the rest of the community can take advantage of it. [More…]

• In other words, it is becoming a little bit unbearable, and mothers who have to put down $3 on the counter for medicines should be allowed to take out some insurance against the cost as should the whole of the community. [More…]

• In any community the position of the frail aged or just the aged, if honourable members like, must be considered in relation to the excellent homes for the aged system which the Commonwealth has subsidised very heavily. [More…]

• As usual in situations of this kind the criticism exaggerates areas of deficiencies and ignores the tremendous value of the nursing home benefits provided by the Commonwealth to the sick and aged people in the community. [More…]

• Suffice to say that even if we accept the dubious Government device of legislating 60,000 families out of the low income category so that today not 180,000 but 120,000 families are eligible for assistance, the simple fact is that this low income section of the community has been prevented by the over complexity and under publicity of the scheme from joining it. [More…]

• While it took United Kingdom settlers in Australia 10 years to reach the Australian average of 77 per cent of the community being covered, in 10 years only 53 per cent of Greeks and Italians were enrolled in a health insurance organisation. [More…]

• The scheme has numerous defects and the gap is growing between the services offered to one minority in the community and the superior and more extensive services offered for those enrolled in the voluntary health insurance scheme as a whole. [More…]

• There is an appalling ignorance, both among the community at large and in the Government itself, of the health needs of the poor. [More…]

• So we know that as an initiator of forward looking plans of comprehensive health care for the community the Government has failed dismally. [More…]

• In particular they have recommended the establishment of special community health centres in poor areas containing not only general practitioners but also social workers, psychiatric social workers, home nurses, health educationists, community liaison officers and so on to provide not only care but also prevention and education. [More…]

• An extremely important part of such research would be to establish experimental community health centres, especially in poor areas, so that overseas theory and practice can be tested in Australia. [More…]

• This has become common in the United States, and the Federal Government there makes special grants for foundations to set up community health centres. [More…]

• I strongly urge the Government therefore to give all the financial support necessary to the venture by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of Monash University in co-operation with the University of Melbourne to establish a community health centre in Prahran. [More…]

• The centre will co-ordinate and integrate community health and social services. [More…]

• By comparison with the imagination that has been exercised by the United States Federal Government in paying States, institutions and universities to go into the field of community health services, in Australia we are still in the backwoods. [More…]

• In the Melbourne ‘Herald’ of 4th October it is reported that a community health centre is being planned at Prahran by the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Monash University in conjunction with the Melbourne University. [More…]

• But before we discuss how the aged should be looked after we first need some broad statistics on the composition of this group of the community. [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…]

• If we could provide the right assistance we should certainly do so, for it is clearly economically sound for the community to have aged persons looked after in this way rather than to have them institutionalised, quite apart from the happier life the old people would live. [More…]

• All these undoubtedly would be expensive, but they would be a great deal less expensive to the community than having these old people in nursing homes or institutions, which is what we are doing now. [More…]

• Hostels for the aged are the most critical lack in our community, and because of this lack elderly people have to go into nursing homes, at great social cost to themselves and financial cost to the community. [More…]

• But our main aim at the moment must be to improve our home care and hostel accommodation, so that elderly people who do not need or want to go to nursing homes are not forced to go there - at great cost to them and to the community. [More…]

• The cost of nursing home care is perhaps the most serious problem in the whole structure of community welfare services. [More…]

• Because no total programme has been formulated and because the Government has been preoccupied almost solely with acute hospitals, the community has more acute hospital beds than it really needs. [More…]

• A system of comprehensive community health services .will be set up with the family doctor as one of the team, with nurses, physiotherapists, medical specialists, social workers, dieticians and so on. [More…]

• There is a great tendency to have this examination carried out on many patients, but there is scant evidence to indicate that screening the community in this way will result in a healthier community. [More…]

• But certainly the system can encourage scarce medical manpower into this specialty without great return in the form of community help. [More…]

• Not nearly enough is being done to determine the medical manpower needs of the community. [More…]

• A Labor government will give every encouragement to medical skills to become fully involved in community medicine. [More…]

• I would like to quote from a recent article by Professor Saint in the ‘Medical Journal of Australia’ in which he suggested that medical schools must involve themselves more in community medicine. [More…]

• And the answer to the problem of rejuvenating interest in general practice and the elevation of its prestige is not only to attach students to individual practices, desirable though this may be, but to create pioneering academic units in community health … [More…]

• In the final analysis what really matters is deciding where best to spend our money to achieve a high standard of community health. [More…]

• Another matter is the provision of community aid. [More…]

• A magnificent community aid scheme has been established in Lane Cove, which is in my electorate.- Voluntary help is given under this scheme to assist the elderly people with their troubles. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it is not necessarily the elderly people in the poorer section of the community who need community aid. [More…]

• It would be far better to extend domiciliary care in association with geriatric medical teams based on large public hospitals, lt would be far more humane, much more effective and, incidentally, would cost the community much less than the present system of maintaining these people in private nursing homes. [More…]

• They should be situated near where the patient lives - in other words, out in the community - and near where the patient’s general practitioner works. [More…]

• There will be a very serious increase in the cost to the community which will not be measured. [More…]

• lt costs the community much more. [More…]

• Overwhelming evidence exists, even with the limited studies that have been done, that in every State, with the exception of Tasmania where we disposed of our Aboriginal community many, many years ago by most unbecoming techniques and methods, Aboriginal people are receiving the kind of justice which has prompted the Minister to call for an inquiry in New South Wales. [More…]

• I agree that some Aborigines and islanders may be allocated Housing Commission homes, but by and large it is Government money which builds houses for Aborigines, whereas among what might be called the white Australian community people have a choice between being assisted by savings banks, home building societies of various kinds and, of course, housing commissions also. [More…]

• trading stamp companies are essentially parasitic, providing no useful service to the community in return for the profit which they make. [More…]

• Is it not time that the Government started thinking that those in trade unions represent a very large percentage of the wage and salary earners within the community, both white collar and blue collar workers? [More…]

• Some of the lowest paid people within the community are employed in service industries at the governmental level. [More…]

• I would prevail upon him, having regard to the particular state of that industry at the moment, measured in terms of the number of men required on the waterfront today and the number which may be required in the future, to ensure that his Government does not interfere with the rights of the trade union and the employer to negotiate in a right and proper manner for the interests of the people and the humans in the industry and the interests, of course, of the whole community. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Whereas the Postmaster-General in a statement to Parliament has decreed that, the telecommunication division of Parkes, Bathurst and Dubbo (with minor alteration) are to be amalgamated in one area, we the citizens of the community of Parkes respectfully submit that: [More…]

• if the present staff employed in the telecommunication division in Parkes is transferred from this town grievous harm will result to this community. [More…]

• The destruction of balanced employment and job opportunities for higher school certificate holders will eventually result in the enforced loss of many of the community’s potential leaders: Your petitioners therefore humbly pray: [More…]

• It should not discriminate against any section of the community. [More…]

• I know that in a time such as this there is a tendency for the farming community to chase after every marketing hare that jumps up. [More…]

• Over the years this Parliament has debated many important subjects and some minor ones, but there has been no more important subject of benefit to one section of the community than the one we are dealing with right now. [More…]

• Nothing would be more detrimental and more disastrous, not only to the wool industry but also to the whole community. [More…]

• But there is no community consciousness about the need for Australians to use wool. [More…]

• When the role of local government in these areas is considered, it is immediately recognised that it is always the most important employer of labour in any small community. [More…]

• Let me turn to the cost to the community of assisting the wool industry. [More…]

• But the fact remains that if the good’s could be brought into Australia without tariff barriers the lower prices would benefit the community at large. [More…]

• lt is legislation which is of tremendous importance to everyone in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is an amendment covering 2 principal matters, the first being that there should be a means test provision included in the Bill, designed to exclude no-one knows now many of those who are wool growers in the Australian community. [More…]

• I know that honourable members opposite and many people in the community say that that would be creating another great Commonwealth department. [More…]

• I am sure that evidence adduced before the Committee has produced a rolling strike in the community’s consciousness. [More…]

• It is isolated from the rest of the community by the lack of transport. [More…]

• We have isolated a community there and have done little enough for it. [More…]

• Can we not do something for a community such as that? [More…]

• I believe that this is an extraordinarily expensive way of selecting people who arc to receive the richest bounty in this community while reminding the remaining ninetenths of those in this category that, in the eyes of this Government, they are failures. [More…]

• In addition a series of seminars has been introduced, involving Health Services personnel in all areas having contact with the public, on drug abuse in the community - smoking and over indulgence in alcohol being two facets of this subject. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government hat an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an Immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• that, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That concerted action by the world community is an immediate imperative. [More…]

• That concerted action by the world community is an immediate imperative. [More…]

• That concerted action by the world community is an immediate imperative. [More…]

• that, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• that, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as a part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• Therefore I believe it is necessary, in the light of everything that has gone on in the community - in the light of public demand and the way we ought to operate; - that the Standing Orders be suspended. [More…]

• But I believe that we are in a special international and public situation and that the Parliament has to confront the issue in the same way as the rest of the community does. [More…]

• The public response on this issue is greater than on any other issue that T ran tpc* in so on - with a great deal of spontaneity from the community. [More…]

• We have to find some machinery for responding to the expressed wishes and needs of the community. [More…]

• Therefore I believe it is important that this afternoon my colleague from Corio be given the opportunity to move his motion so that honourable members on both sides will be able to express their concern in such a way that - faced as it is with plenty of problems inside the nation such as pensioners who want more and schools that are in short supply - the Government and this Parliament itself can express themselves in such an emphatic way that whatever steps the Government takes financially the community will know that on this issue at least it has the Parliament on its side. [More…]

• Since the Prime Minister rejects the analysis of his colleague and predecessor the right honourable member for Higgins, I ask him whether the General Manager of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce said on Sunday: ‘a lack of confidence is pervading the business community, and it stems from the deflationary aspects of the August Budget’. [More…]

• The modification to !he original arrangements will enable the benefits and advantages of area management to be substantially achieved whilst ensuring that community needs are met. [More…]

• I present to the Parliament a statement on a matter of great importance to the Post Office and the community it serves. [More…]

• diligence and initiative of the New South Wales branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and in particular Mr Peter Evans, a State organiser of that Union, these radical changes, which are of great importance to the Post Office and to the community it serves - there I paraphrase the words of the Postmaster-General - would almost have escaped the notice of the staff and the community affected and would almost have escaped the notice of this Parliament. [More…]

• They have to be considered; otherwise there will be industrial unrest and the Government will continue to blame the workers in the Post Office and in the Public Service generally for the things that are happening in the community at the moment. [More…]

• He has very little consideration for the community at large because he started off his statement of 16th September by saying that thu was a statement on a matter of great importance to the Post Office and the community it serves; but nowhere in that statement or in the statement that he made today does he spell out in any way what is likely to happen. [More…]

• 1 do not think that any honourable member on the Government side could feel any significant degree of comfort from this statement tonight because too much dissatisfaction is being expressed in the community by those people who are intimately and essentially involved in the various forms of art expression in Aust tralia. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that it is unjust, but what I am saying is that this House and the Australian community have the right to full information on this aspect. [More…]

• As the 1951 Tariff Board’s report pointed out, the free circulation of paintings, statues and other works of art is of very great importance to the development of the culture and the aesthetic life of the community. [More…]

• Australian art misses out on the challenge and the stimulation which can be absorbed from the regular and free flow of this sort of art work into the community. [More…]

• This is a most ad hoc and unsatisfactory way in which to be developing a broad and, as much as possible, an even promotion of arts in the Australian community. [More…]

• Because of their background, the peculiar deficiencies of our education system and especially in socio-economically deprived areas, there are people who generationally suffer deprivation and who will not be able to enjoy the benefits of this sort of activity in the community about which the Prime Minister was talking. [More…]

• What we are doing in the field of the arts in the Australian society today, to the extent that we promote it and make it more easily reached by members of the community, is making it cheaper and more easily reached by people who, in fact, are already enjoying the benefits of artistic expression and who are in not as great a need of this sort of assistance as people from the broader bulk of the community and who, particularly in those areas, suffer cultural deprivation. [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…]

• 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…]

• This scheme will involve, I should hope, the expenditure of public finance to establish attractive, challenging, stimulating and creative activity centres at the schools in the community. [More…]

• If we can develop creative activity centres but with, of course, a different pitching in the community where the mums from working class homes and lower income homes can be encouraged to come and participate in various forms of artistic expression there will be a better appreciation on the part of mums and a reinforcing at home in support of youngsters who are absorbing the appreciation and the values with which they are being brought into contact in the creative activity centres in the schools. [More…]

• It would be a simple matter to guarantee a level of income for a number of promising artists in the Australian community for a fairly lengthy period - say 5 years - subject to review and to subsequent extension if this is desirable. [More…]

• I am appalled at the apathy which exists in Australia and in the Government ranks about what we are doing to a nation entrusted to us by the United Nations to administer not only for the benefit of Australia but primarily for the benefit of the local population of Papua New Guinea, to give them nationhood in a responsible manner and to allow that nation to take its place in the world community of nations. [More…]

• Let us remember that Papua New Guinea will be our nearest foreign neighbour with an equal say in the world community. [More…]

• We can well run our own community. [More…]

• It has been said that the people of Papua New Guinea can - and they say they can - run their own community. [More…]

• I have no doubt that might be so; but given the situation of United Nations pressure and Australian Labor Party pressure for ever increasing speed to self-government, the context is not one of running one’s own stone age community. [More…]

• The context is one of running a community which is coming into the ambit of western sophistication - if that is the appropriate word - and the local people have shown very little aptitude for running, for example, their own land system which is perhaps as basic as any problem existing in the Territory. [More…]

• Crises in nations can come from some strategically placed sector in the community and it is quite possible that those who have come into a wage and salary kind of life are able to threaten national unity if there is profound discontent among them. [More…]

• I know it is fraught with all sorts of problems for the Australian community. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as a part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as a part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• that, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should undeline it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• A time when Britain is about to make a decision on whether she will enter the European Economic Community is certainly a time when our Prime Minister ought to be having discussions with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• To the extent that this singling out of banks affects the pattern of the business they undertake, questions of efficiency in the conduct of the community’s financial intermediation arise and on these grounds there is some case for limiting the degree and manner of treating banks differently from non-banks. [More…]

• Roughly speaking one could say that the assets of the financial institutions aggregated something like the value of the total turnover of goods and services in the community in the 12-month period. [More…]

• When one looks at how some of these other undertakings operate one sees that in the long run the excessive charges are wrought upon the ordinary people in the community, either because mortgage money is hard to get at lower rates or because the undertakings are offering higher rates. [More…]

• Of course, the possibility of further legislation may now come into view as far as the merchant banking and finance community is concerned, after the Concrete Pipes decision. [More…]

• In this connection it is worth mentioning - and I am sure that the honourable member for Melbourne Ports has probably seen this already - that Britain has been confronted with very much the same problem - that is the problem of the banks financing a shrinking sector of the community and losing ground continually to other financial institutions. [More…]

• That is a responsible comment by an important economic voice in our community. [More…]

• I repeat: What possible justification in sense or community interest can there be in a system which allows a foreign bank to buy up a hire purchase firm and to charge effective interest rates of over 20 per cent while denying the same bank the opportunity to operate at the normal rate of interest? [More…]

• It has tied us more securely than ever before to the multi-national managements which make the decisions on the maximisation of global profits and not the community good or the national advancement. [More…]

• I wonder whether we will ever wake up to the fact that high interest rates are killing development, killing the farmers and the business community. [More…]

• But I think we should also mobilise directly the sympathy of the Australian community. [More…]

• While on the subject of individual contributions, 1 do not detract from the people from certain classes of the community who have already given so readily. [More…]

• Monetary aid or aid in kind is what is so necessary now and which obviously will be necessary for a long time to come but surely the international community must look at the whole problem. [More…]

• lt is on the conscience not only of the Australian community but also of the whole community of nations to try to work this problem out and to get together and to do something about it. [More…]

• We in this country must play a part in endeavouring to lead the world community to finding some way of solving this problem. [More…]

• From what one hears when moving around one’s own electorate and beyond at this point of time, I do not think that there has been less confidence in the community generally than there is at the present time. [More…]

• Of course, the Prime Minister, as a result of action taken by his Government since it has been in office and indeed by the Cabinet before the one which we now see sitting on the front bench, has increased interest rates to a figure that has placed an intolerable burden on the average wage and salary earner and on the average young person in the community, and probably has placed the acquisition of their own homes far beyond the reach of these people. [More…]

• The Government should show the same consideration for these people as it shows tor other sections of the community. [More…]

• It was almost the type of community to which people came from other areas merely to receive a pay cheque, build up a bank account and move off again. [More…]

• I feel that if opportunities had been offered to the sons and daughters of those people we would have had a more stable community. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• that, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• that, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavily-taxed sector of the community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• That Consideration be given to one of the most heavily taxed groups within the community, the motorist, and be given the opportunity to enjoy some of the tax fee as charged, by being able to travel with reasonable comfort and safety on the major highways of Australia. [More…]

• May I say to the honourable gentleman that I believe that any alteration in working hours is a quite fundamental matter and therefore should properly be the subject of an application before the Arbitration Commission and should not, in fact, be the subject of action taken unilaterally by individual firms, because I believe that such action could be quite inimical to the interests of the Australian community at this time. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman, with his understanding of economics and industry, will well appreciate the difficulties which the essential industries, being required to work over a 5 or 7 day week would face if in fact there were to be a dispersion of the work force from those industries to the less essential industries, which could be those in the community able to afford a 4 day working week. [More…]

• There is far too much calamity howling by some sections of the community about the level of unemployment or stagnation at the moment. [More…]

• That he has had to cope with a small minority of lads who have caused trouble is no fault of his and no more reflection on him than on the rest of our community. [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 newspapers, particularly in the Australian Capital Territory, have been full of comment about a recent scholarly work that issued out of the Australian National University by Professor Butlin and Dr Troy on the cost of motor car collisons to the Australian community. [More…]

• The rigid conditions for home savings grants tend to favour the better-off sections of the community, but, even so, a comparison of reports shows how rising costs are forcing postponement of house purchases and” increasing the potential interest burden. [More…]

• We should be aiming to build in Australia a home ownership community in which every man will have the opportunity of owning his own home. [More…]

• I do so, because housing is probably the most fundamental question that faces the community. [More…]

• But in what greater way could he condemn the Liberal Party than to stand up after 21 years of Liberal Party Government and admit that there is still a housing problem in the community? [More…]

• What greater condemnation could this Government suffer than that inherent in the fact that after 21 years of uninterrupted role housing problems still exist in our community. [More…]

• This Government has given great consideration to the needs of the manufacturers in the community and the speculators in the community but no consideration has been given to the home owners. [More…]

• Although the Government has been in office for as long as it has, unfortunately, it has not learned from its experiences from year to year or from decade to decade and has abdicated its responsibility to the young people in the community. [More…]

• Rather, the Government has stood idly by, with an attitude of indifference - that is perhaps the best way to describe it - and allowed the speculators in the community to make vast profits on transactions which have involved a change of ownership of land. [More…]

• The young people in the community today are often criticised but they have my deepest sympathy because they have an intolerable burden placed on them to provide themselves with a home of their own. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite get up and talk about the average wage that is earned but they completely and conveniently overlook the fact that at least 70 per cent of the people in the community receive much less than the average wage. [More…]

• I suppose that there are very many young people in the community who cannot achieve a home of their own unless the wife takes a job after the marriage. [More…]

• A committee of both Houses should be set up, representing a wide section of the community, including business and local government interests, to make a proper study of this matter so that the Government can tackle the problem of providing that basic thing required by all of us - shelter over our heads. [More…]

• By doing nothing about it the Government has created a burden for the younger members of this community which they will have to carry for the greater part of their working lives. [More…]

• It is time that honourable members opposite, in the time that is left for these estimates, stood and were counted for the Government’s absolute and utter neglect of the young people in the community in regard to this basic need of most, if not all, people. [More…]

• For example, it is clear that they will be looking closely at certain aspects of their trading relationships with such key countries as Japan, Canada and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• For example, if a loan of $8,000 were to be made for 45 years with quarterly repayments at the interest rate of 7 per cent, which is the rate normally paid in the community, the interest payments would be about $18,000. [More…]

• Community resources are affected by the demand created by importation of families and considerable strains are imposed by inflation. [More…]

• They aimed towards the development of a secure and cohesive homogeneous Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian community, and especially the working man, is the target. [More…]

• Fifthly, this new policy surrenders the development of a homogeneous Australian community to a lassez-faire. [More…]

• From overseas experience, as well as from our own history, we know that to alter this important aspect of Australian community life poses a very real threat to the security of the Australian people, especially of the Australian working man. [More…]

• Every Australian Minister and shadow Minister for Immigration has, until now, pressed the desire for a socially cohesive, homogeneous community. [More…]

• Uncontrolled migration clearly threatens a homogeneous community. [More…]

• Rather, the Government would prefer to divide the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• That immigration scheme has added 2i million people to our community. [More…]

• In these days when it is fashionable to blame migrants for every ill in the community, it might be just as well to place on record that if Australia ever closes its door to migrants we will indulge in cultural incest and nothing but decadence will result. [More…]

• There is a proper questioning in the community about the numbers of migrants coming to this country and about all aspects of a policy that was in fact launched by our Party and has been carried on for a quarter of a century. [More…]

• I ask: How can 18 per cent of the community which provides 23 per cent of the work force be blamed for either of those types of inflation? [More…]

• Because migrants constitute a higher percentage of the work force relative to their total population than does the rest of the community they contribute substantially to taxation revenue and help to spread public expenditure on certain items - for example, defence - over a larger number of taxpayers. [More…]

• Our policy has been based on the ability of our migrants to assimilate, to become part of our community. [More…]

• What will happen if Great Britain joins the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The next highest figure is for the Italian community, of which 62 per cent of the eligible people have so far become naturalised. [More…]

• Indeed, one could never expect to witness within the entire community anything like unanimous approval for everything that is done or not done in the field of immigration. [More…]

• I say that, because those same people, both young and old, are spread over the whole of Australia, which in turn means that the whole Australian community, those whose parents were born here and those whose parents were not born here, and who also have different interests, outlooks and attitudes and, in some cases perhaps, memories or knowledge of events in the early part of this century which were not entirely palatable, is vitally interested in immigration. [More…]

• Therefore, to my mind it is very important - in fact it is vitally necessary - that, in the interests of the Australian people, those who have come from elsewhere to live here and those who may be born here or migrate here in the future, we do everything possible to ensure the continuation of the generally harmonious relations which have existed up to date within the community. [More…]

• ensure that they will be able to fit into the Australian way of life and become part of the general community, not just an isolated section of it. [More…]

• Australia has a good name as a country where migrants are well accepted and taken into the community. [More…]

• Does this mean that anyone who wanted to come here, provided he could feasibly fit into the Australian community, could do so? [More…]

• We certainly have problems in certain sectors of the rural community, but Australia’s economy is as sound as that of any country in the world. [More…]

• It would be a worthwhile exercise and in the national interest for a real inquiry to be conducted into our immigration policies, the effects, the benefits and such detractions as immigration has brought about in the Australian community. [More…]

• A balanced annual intake of migrants would fit easily into the mainstream of life in the present Australian community. [More…]

• As far as I can tell, despite the great pressures on the community, there has been no substantial social discord or dissent created by these people. [More…]

• So the first thing I want to do is to compliment not so much the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) or his Department, but all the Australian community for the way in which it has taken these people to its bosom, accepted them and. [More…]

• But what this has done firstly, if to place an extraordinary pressure upon the schools in the community. [More…]

• These people come into the community and do not cause any real disruption. [More…]

• I just do not believe that within the Australian community that single disaffinity is enough to create great social discord. [More…]

• We are placing upon the members of the Australian community a set of values which I do not think they hold when we say that it is not possible for them to accommodate in their midst people who are different to this degree. [More…]

• They were the first Indians in the street and in the community. [More…]

• I personally believe that the migration system has shown that the Australian community has a great absorptive capacity, a great tolerance and a great resilience. [More…]

• This falling, disintegrated rabble has suddenly discovered , that it can work on the latent and dormant prejudices in our community and build, them up into an issue. [More…]

• They thought they had one going for them when the Sprinkbok tour was on because they thought they could play on the prejudices in the community. [More…]

• In the last 12 months the whole of our community has been questioning immigration. [More…]

• Robertson specifically referred is an issue in the Australian community today, it is an issue only because there has emerged in the ranks of the Opposition very deep and persisting divisions in relation to its policy towards it. [More…]

• It is not a secret in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is that this matter is a question of some importance to the Australian community and that the policy of the Opposition should, in fact, be clarified. [More…]

• It is completely absurd for the Opposition to seek to provide some facade of unity on an issue which, as the Australian community recognises, shows deep division within the ranks of the Labor Party and shows that its policy can be described simply as the complete opposite of what ought to be the policy pursued by the alternative government of this country. [More…]

• Is it a fact that (a) in one particular week in July 1971 the Maternity Ward 2 at Alice Springs Hospital, which is designed to accommodate 14 patients, held 25 patients, (b) as a temporary expedient to meet this situation which will not be finally resolved until the new hospital is completed in 1975-76, a building known as New Ward 3, will be re-opened shortly, (c) to avoid expenditure on staffing, New Ward 3, which is some distance from Maternity Ward 2, is to be opened as an annexe of that ward to avoid salary commitments for an additional senior Sister and that there is no plan otherwise to increase the total nursing establishment to enable the reasonable operation of the additional ward, (d) the staff from the old Ward 3 has been used to open a special isolation ward 7, and this will place unreasonable burdens on already seriously over-taxed senior Sisters, (e) there are only 15 positions for senior Sisters at Alice Springs Hospital, causing such a strain that not more than one can be on leave at any one time, (0 senior Sisters cannot afford to be sick and that their responsibilities are being imposed on junior nursing staff, (g) New Ward 3 has been used for the training of nursing assistants and that the hospital authorities are now forced to shift this training centre to a small building previously used as a store-room by painters and carpenters, (h) the United States community at Alice Springs, the breadwinners of which staff the Pine Gap Space Research facility, have made such representations about inadequate hospital facilities at Alice Springs, that as a result, a medical practitioner appointed and financed by the United States Government is to commence duty at Alice Springs Hospital on about 4th September 1971, (i) the St John’s Ambulance Brigade in Alice Springs, which provides ambulance services for the Alice Springs Hospital on Saturday nights and otherwise attends at sporting fixtures, is facing difficulties in meeting operation and maintenance costs, (j) the Northern Territory Director of Health has refused to recommend the allowance to the Brigade of a subsidy of $50 per month and (k) the St John’s Ambulance Brigade will cease operationif this subsidy is not received within the next few weeks. [More…]

• There hare been no representations by the United States community about inadequate facilities at Alice Springs. [More…]

• In the early stages of the Pine Gap project the American authorities offered the Department of Health the services of a surgeon because of the large number of people they were adding to the community. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action on behalf of those suffering and left without home or work through their effective expulsion as refugees from East Pakistan. [More…]

• That, as a part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action; [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• That they are not gravely concerned that moral standards in the Australian community may be changing, particularly in regard to the community’s willingness to treat adults within it as reasonable and responsible people who are capable of making up their own minds as to what may be perfectly acceptable or unacceptable material in books, magazines, plays, films and television and radio programmes, and particularly when this material depicts life in human society, including language habits and sex habits and gives warning of the dangers of the use of violence and narcotic drugs. [More…]

• In view of the disastrous condition of a number of primary industries and the Australian economy I ask the Acting Prime Minister in his capacity of Minister for Trade and Industry to tell the House what action the Government is taking to deal with the trade problems which will follow the United Kingdom’s decision to join the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In such circumstances the levy would make it virtually impossible for our goods to enter the enlarged community. [More…]

• These people are doing a service to the community by adopting children. [More…]

• Here we have a united call for action by all sections of the community, yet the Government has done nothing other than keep the same tax rating system and increase the rates in this Bill by a further 2i per cent. [More…]

• Here we have diverse sections of the community all advocating the same thing. [More…]

• But in addition people in far away places, who are a very important section of our community, would have a right not only to claim on the high cost of fares and accommodation but also to claim in relation to costs of uniforms, books, fees and so on in a like manner to those who have no need to consider fares, etc., and who therefore, if their circumstances permit it, are able to expend the maximum permissible amount on books and fees and so on in the knowledge that the whole of that amount can be reflected in their taxation returns. [More…]

• The Government has to realise that in this day and age it has to take the community into its confidence during these winter recesses. [More…]

• The Government should stop continually feeding me with the answer that it cannot do it because unscrupulous members of the community will take unfair advantage of it. [More…]

• I say quite bluntly that if the information were freely and readily available to all in the community, honourable members opposite would agree that individuals would find it extremely difficult to take any unfair advantage. [More…]

• There would have been a great deal of taxation avoided in the meantime and this is a burden on the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• Mr FitzPATRICK (Darling) (10.20) - The standard of living of all sections of our community depends to a large degree on the smooth operation of the Department of Labour and National Service and thi smooth operation of the various functions that are its responsibility. [More…]

• The appropriation of $12,500,000, a large sum of money in my opinion, could be justified only when it is used for the compilation of industrial statistics coupled with unbiased interpretation of those statistics, when it is used to build industrial harmony between employer and employee and when it is used to remove artificial or imaginary barriers that exist between one section of our community and another. [More…]

• On the contrary it has been used at least some of the time to divide our community and to turn one section against another. [More…]

• These things are generally accepted by members of the community these days. [More…]

• We have often heard members of the Government tell us how prosperous the community is and how healthy the economy is - and of course credit is claimed by the members of this LiberalCountry Party coalition Government. [More…]

• Surely, when speaking of prosperity it should follow, to be consistent, that that prosperity be shared by the community and that no section should be excluded. [More…]

• If our society or our community is as fair and equitable as supporters of the Government believe it to be they would be looking for improvements to all sections of the community rather than only to the workers, those who produce. [More…]

• I wish to make a plea for a different group - the handicapped persons in the community. [More…]

• I mention Denmark only as one of a group of countries in which efforts are made to provide an effective help to persons who cannot by themselves find a place in the working community so as to enable them to earn a living insofar as their mental and physical capabilities permit. [More…]

• Fourthly, industrial relations are not confined to watertight compartments insulated from the community as a whole. [More…]

• Indeed, industrial relations to some extent tend to reflect general community behaviour, and if this be as I believe it to be a period of rapidly changing attitudes and of growing indiscipline in various sectors of our national life, it would not be surprising if there were not some rub-off of this malaise of our times in the industrial relations area. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• Will the Acting Prime Minister give this Parliament as a matter of urgency the opportunity to debate his statement and those of his predecessor on trade, particularly with the United Kingdom, and the implications for this country of the British decision to enter the European Economic Community, or does he intend to leave Australia’s interests, particularly with the EEC countries, to Mr Heath and his Government while denying the opportunity to this Parliament to debate in detail and at length this important matter to this nation? [More…]

• Secondly, there is the concern that we have shown and everybody feels and the community is sharing with us on the confusion between the various departments. [More…]

• These men who have been Ministers in this community for many years are the people who are on trial. [More…]

• Khmer Republic and the Royal Lao community, whatever its official title, or even of the 2 Vietnams by Australian military action, no matter how effective our troops. [More…]

• I believe that the community of South East Asia is prepared to talk to Australia as partners and equals. [More…]

• My Department has already commenced inquiries amongst other Commonwealth departments and community organisations. [More…]

• I am sure that all Australians will do all they can to see that the experience Papuans and New Guineans gain through living, studying and training in the Australian community will not only improve their skills for the well being of Papua New Guinea, but will also develop the bonds of personal friendships between Papuans and New Guineans and Australians. [More…]

• When you think of the odd remarks by the honourable member for Newcastle about Lufthansa, which sits in the middle of Europe and an economic community of 500 million people, you need an abacus because you would need to consider the facts in relation to potential markets. [More…]

• But from the Commonwealth’s own viewpoint it gives every appearance of poor and lax management at a time when every other section of the community is being exhorted to greater efficiency and productivity. [More…]

• This interest is a very welcome sign that the community generally is becoming more aware of our responsibility to assist Aborigines to overcome the disadvantages they suffer in comparison with the general community. [More…]

• People often comment that the Government has established settlements for Aborigines in places where there is little opportunity for the sort of economic development necessary to sustain a permanent community. [More…]

• Plans for the future include the development of a community area at Katherine which will provide essential facilities for those people who camp there permanently but who lack the skills to obtain permanent employment and the sophistication to take tenancy of a housing commission home. [More…]

• The real solution seems to be the provision pf balanced programmes of assistance which will give a real opportunity to Aborigines to exercise the same responsibilities in personal matters as is accepted by the general community. [More…]

• But there are other areas of industrial agricultural enterprise which I feel could be investigated by the Department of National Development for the benefit of a community and a State and in the national interest. [More…]

• Thus, it is a large distribution system to serve the needs of the district and of the farming community, and qualified for consideration under the Si 00m scheme. [More…]

• What we have is a situation where the teachers colleges are expected in the eyes of the community and the Education Department to be more and more tertiary institutions, yet their facilities do not meet the requirements of those institutions. [More…]

• However, for the years 1970-71 and 1971-72 the Commonwealth has made available a total of one million dollars for use in programmes designed to educate all sectors of the community on the dangers of drug abuse. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• That, as a part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as a part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• the loss to the local authority in rates and loss to the community in acreage of development area and assets; [More…]

• There are 2 groups of discussions, one for the Pacific region which includes principally Australia, Canada, the United States and Japan with observers from the European Economic Community countries and the United Kingdom and the other for the European countries. [More…]

• I hope this urgent action that all sections of the community are recommending is not long delayed. [More…]

• They are nothing more than mere crisismongering the only effect of which can be to depress confidence within the community. [More…]

• However, the process of successfully matching so many young people possessing a wide range of abilities, personalities and job ambitions with employers who have an almost equally wide range of vacancies cannot be done overnight, at least not in a democratic community where people are not only free to choose employment but also free to refuse employment. [More…]

• I refer here, of course, to the dramatic developments in the world economy over the last 12 months, and to the new economic policy of the Nixon Administra tion and Britain’s prospective entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The squeeze on the primary producer carries through the entire community - to the business houses, the service industries and to local government bodies. [More…]

• I have more than 300 - more than there has been in a whole generation in the most prosperous rural community in the nation. [More…]

• There will be certain difficulties in relation to changes that will come about as a result of Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Let them look at the figures relating to repossessions by Custom Credit Corporation Ltd and these other burglars within the business community as a result of people being thrown out of employment and being unable to keep up their payments. [More…]

• I am talking about people in the community who are actually affected. [More…]

• Why does it not allow that money to work for the community instead of sitting over there on the Government benches in a stupid fashion and saying- [More…]

• There are those members of the community who think, and rightly so, that some of the forms of procedure in relation to privilege are inadequate in this day and age and likely to produce injustice. [More…]

• After all, the community is concerned just as much as we are about privilege. [More…]

• It does not belong only to the person who is affected, it belongs to the whole House and the whole community. [More…]

• I believe that there is now a greater urgency with respect to this having regard to the fact that the United Kingdom is going to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• However when something like this appears in a responsible newspaper - I could include the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ in this category - and is read by the more serious members of the community, there is greater need to take notice. [More…]

• In this position he brought to bear upon the problems of advanced education the same high intellectual ability for which he had always been noted, coupled with an enthusiasm and drive which has resulted, in the comparatively short space of 6 years, ii the colleges of advanced education becoming firmly established in the Australian community as an integral part of the fabric of tertiary education. [More…]

• It would be wrong to inflate these lists and disadvantage the most needy elements of the community. [More…]

• They are more hypocritical in the light of the fact that they have intended to deny members on this side of the Mouse an idea of what the Government’s real role ought to be in conformity with a proper concept of employment within the community. [More…]

• This is of no benefit to the Australian community. [More…]

• To honour an undertaking is the basis of morality in the community and the basis of proper dealings between man and man, community and community, government and electors as well as government and management of industry. [More…]

• The agreement entered into between the New South Wales Liberal Government and Clutha Development Pty Ltd is now a cause for criticism from almost every section of the community in New South Wales. [More…]

• In addition, on the southern side of the Murray there are the community owned research farms at Swan Hill and Kerang which have been mentioned in the report and because of the increasing amount of research that is being done on these community farms in the best interests of reducing salinity it is becoming increasingly difficult for these farms to carry on. [More…]

• The honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) will be mentioning similar organisations on the northern side of the Murray River and it is my hope that the Minister will give careful consideration when this is presented to him in due course to providing some form of assistance to these unique community backed and sponsored organisations and research farms. [More…]

• The honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) referred to the development of regional community, research and extension groups. [More…]

• This concept provides a system for departmental and community co-operation and partnership to give the most effective use of both public and private resources. [More…]

• The United Kingdom, the European Economic Community, the United States and Japan have all given this matter a deal of attention. [More…]

• The realisation in the long term of the lowest energy costs for the community as a whole and of reasonable and stable prices for each consumer. [More…]

• I find that more than 1,100 personnel are employed in Australia House while Canada, which is almost the same size as Australia, seems to manage quite well with a staff of 500, and New Zealand, which is smaller than Australia but which obviously put its case forcibly and practically to the United Kingdom concerning the European Economic Community, has a staff of 320. [More…]

• I believe that the Public Service Board is large enough, its functions are important enough and the relations of the Public Service to the rest of the community, and to the Parliament and the morale of the Public Service are important enough to be a full time job for a Minister. [More…]

• Some departments of State which have a very large area of authority in the community have been treated as if it did not matter who was running them. [More…]

• I believe that it is perpetuating a system of mistrust in the community. [More…]

• I believe there must be another more satisfactory way in which we can find out whether anybody in this community is being subversive. [More…]

• The fact that $4im and a large number of people, perhaps 300, 500 or 600, are involved in it in the task of keeping nit on the rest of the community is completely un-Australian. [More…]

• The Prime Minister will visit the United Kingdom and I am sure that even the honourable member for Dawson, with his criticisms of the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), would agree that there have been few times in the history of our relations with the United Kingdom when it has been more important for the leader of our country to have discussions with the leader of the United Kingdom than at this time when momentous decisions are being made for the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It should be able to set an example to the rest of the community. [More…]

• To date the Trust has taken charge of a number of reserves which are not occupied by Aborigines and one Aboriginal community, at the Point Pearce Reserve, has applied to have the Trust assume responsibility for that reserve. [More…]

• That concerted action by the world community is an immediate imperative. [More…]

• the loss to the local authority in rates and loss to the community in acreage of development area and assets. [More…]

• There are some areas where business is still very brisk; certainly in the retailing section of the community there is a high activity. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman has suggested, the present situation in the shipping industry in relation to the inter-union row is one of considerable cost to the Australian community and may well be of greater cost to the Tasmanian community if the shipping dispute continues. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable gentleman and to the House that the area of inter-union disputes is surely one major area of concern to the Australian Council of Trade Unions and one to which the ACTU should direct its best offices in seeking a solution to these problems, which certainly affect the community at large from the viewpoint of the costs imposed. [More…]

• Defence of the community against external threats is probably the oldest function of govern ment, and it is still the most vital. [More…]

• I am not going to say that I am the only person in this chamber or this community who has applied a rational analysis to the problem. [More…]

• I believe, as many others in the community believe, that what Alan Barnes said in an article in today’s [More…]

• I am also firmly convinced that whether or not the United Kingdom enters the European Economic Community, the forces of the United Kingdom will be available to defend Australia in the rare circumstances of Australia being attacked without there being a global war in progress. [More…]

• Interestingly enough, the former Defence Secretary also referred to the ‘quasi monastic life’ led by military men separated in their training and everyday living apart from the ordinary flow of community life. [More…]

• These men are living in military establishments divorced from contact with community life. [More…]

• He asked whether it would not be better for people who are concerned with defence to be more associated with the ordinary run of community life. [More…]

• It relates to situations where regular Army units are based within or near a civilian community. [More…]

• equally importantly, allow those people in the community - and that is the totality of our population - who will draw on it at some time to express their views as to how best to operate the scheme; how the scheme would be likely to affect currently operating private superannuation schemes and similar retirement schemes; how we could best adjust the proposals we would have in mind so that undue strain would not be placed upon the resources of such people. [More…]

• After nearly 20 years of promises to the Australian community that he was the man to eliminate the means test - and justifying his argument on the basis which I have already mentioned - we find that, when he was projected into the situation where the Minister can take constructive action to eliminate the means test, he has failed, and failed sadly. [More…]

• The present system of pensions is totally inadequate for the needs of the community; it is unacceptable by any sense or scale of social or moral justice. [More…]

• It is obvious that the present system of paying pensions is unacceptable and creates grave injustice and social and economic deprivation for many people in the community. [More…]

• We are in a far better position not only because we are one of the wealthiest nations in the world but in particular, in comparison with European countries, we have a better age distribution of the community. [More…]

• The age groupings between 20 and 64 years, the people who will be supporting a national superannuation scheme under any concept, be it by way of a funded scheme or by a pay as you go scheme, remain at around 54 per cent to 55 per cent of the community. [More…]

• The facts are that the economics of the problem were such, the costs of the operation were such, that he knew full well that in an aging community the impact of this extra taxation upon the young people would be so great and so intense that they would never support it, and that problem exists today. [More…]

• Over and above all these things there will have to be a particular commitment from the young people in an aging community. [More…]

• If a national superannuation scheme is to cost $ 1,800m in this financial year - and I venture to suggest that the honourable member for Oxley would not be exaggerating that figure because in political terms I suspect that it helps his argument if he can keep it down to a minimum figure - then I suggest that in the present economic environment, with inflation in the community and with the rising cost of living, the cost of the scheme over the next three or four financial years would increase at an alarming rate. [More…]

• I very much doubt whether the younger people and the lower and middle income groups, who were paying taxation at such a high rate some years ago that there was enormous political pressure from people in the civil service and from people throughout the community to reduce the rate of taxation upon the lower and middle income groups, would be prepared to meet that extra commitment. [More…]

• Like every other honourable member, I admit that the very operation of the means test is in itself an injustice; it prevents thrift; it encourages people to spend their money in order to qualify for the pension; it brings out in the community qualities which we do not wish to encourage. [More…]

• One can imagine the problem when one looks at the necessity and the demand in the community for proper assistance for those in most need. [More…]

• But the problems are economic and social, and there will be antipathy from the younger people in the community; of this there can be no doubt, and anyone who denies this and so tries to mislead this chamber does the nation no real service. [More…]

• Its record in this field is a clear indictment of its total bankruptcy of any constructive attitudes or policies to alleviate the suffering that is rife throughout the community. [More…]

• I believe that if it is possible to bring in a national superannuation scheme it should be introduced, but it will have to be brought in in a way which will allow it to be incorporated into our economy without placing an undue strain on the community generally. [More…]

• European Economic Community countries spend 15.2 per cent of their gross national product. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the most deserving people in our community have been let down and a promise has been denied. [More…]

• The present situation and likely future needs and problems of (he various categories of retired people in our community; [More…]

• It is enough to say that the wharfies in Darwin have tended tq raise the costs and they are in turn inflicting a hardship on all the community. [More…]

• That,’ as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• There are problems that we have to face up to, such as the extent to which the Post Office is a community service and the extent to which it is a business enterprise. [More…]

• But the post office gives a lot of service to the community. [More…]

• The Australian community is completely different from the American or British community. [More…]

• To put it more simply, there is no evidence of a lack of creative ability in our community, yet it is still argued in some quarters that it is impossible to produce more and better programmes of Australian content because we do not have the talent to support them. [More…]

• One area in which a section of the community has been charged very heavily for services rendered is in the delivery by mail of daily newspapers to people who live in outlying areas. [More…]

• They are being drawn from the academic field, the community service field and, to some extent, from the business world. [More…]

• Various directives and memorandums have been sent out to certain people suggesting - I do not say instructing - that perhaps the line that they are adopting is not quite the right line for a certain sector of the community. [More…]

• In discussing the estimates for this Department a number of observations have already been made by honourable members but I think some reference should be made to the important role of the Department and the services it renders to the community as a whole. [More…]

• Ultimately it may be the only business operation left in a small community from which people have dispersed to other centres. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that the responsibility of the Postmaster-General’s Department is to provide service first, to see that there is reasoned economy and that the results achieved both in the high level services and in the lower echelon are the best possible for the community that is served. [More…]

• However, the answers I have received in relation to the exorbitant accounts that some individuals in the community are receiving are not convincing. [More…]

• These people are a very deserving section of the community, and I hope that consideration will be given to providing them with larger local service areas so that they may make local calls to towns where medical and professional services are available or to the main business centre and so that they will receive a service in line with services provided in other areas. [More…]

• They have given great service to the community and I hope that what can be done for them will be done and that they will be given every consideration by the Department. [More…]

• Its whole range of community services and facilities are as good as those which are provided in the metropolitan area. [More…]

• Surely above all else the Postmaster-General’s Department provides a service to the community. [More…]

• I appreciate that these charges were increased because the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) and his Department are trying to run the Department as a business concern and I accept the fact that it is a business concern, but we have to remember that the Postmaster-General’s Department renders a service to the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) referred to the fact that the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, the estimates of which we are considering this afternoon, provides a service to the community. [More…]

• I believe that it would be in the interests of the community if occasionally the PostmasterGeneral (Sir Alan Hulme) pointed out to his Department that in making decisions for the provision of public telephones and letter receiver it should give more attention to the provision of services to the people than to the fact that the Post Office should pay its way, which I believe is the paramount consideration at the moment. [More…]

• I believe we made what the community would say was the correct judgment when we leased them to a commercial station. [More…]

• They are done with great care and consideration for the people who are concerned and in very few cases, in my view, would there be any substantial detriment to individuals within the community. [More…]

• A word that is on the lips of everybody in our community today is ‘decentralisation’. [More…]

• The honourable member for Robertson no doubt would be aware, as would the honourable member for Newcastle, that both the National Association of Australian State Road Authorities and the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads are studying the operations of the Commonwealth Aid Roads Act and will give close attention to the needs of the community before they come back to the Government with their report on the present operation of the Act and any changes which might be desirable. [More…]

• If that initiative is successful, it could well contribute very favourably to Australia’s standing in the international community and contribute to peace and stability in the region, which is in itself in Australia’s interest. [More…]

• One other matter that I will raise in the short time left to me is the problems that confront Australia - I think through lack of initiatives rather than through initiatives - arising out of Britain’s proposed entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Thirdly, unless the world community is able quickly to contribute the $700m a year to maintain the refugees, India’s own resources will run out and the situation rapidly will get completely out of control. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That consideration be given to one of the most heavily taxed groups within the community, the motorist, and be given the opportunity to enjoy some of the tax fee as charged, by being able to travel with reasonable comfort and safety on the major highways of Australia. [More…]

• Her decision to join the European Economic Community was to my mind almost inevitable, but nevertheless it has far reaching effects not only for Australia but for many countries of the South Pacific community, and to the world. [More…]

• I believe that there is a real danger that the Community could become more inward looking, erect even more formidable trade barriers and hence become even more isolationist. [More…]

• The acquiescence and the sheer force of it all mean that the individual counts for less these days when it comes to conflicts with the community and the State at large than in probably any other place in history. [More…]

• I regard the bombing of civilian communities or any community as an act of barbarity that should appal us. [More…]

• Can we not do something to get the international body politic or the community of nations into this act so that we can entice peacefulness among the people there and at least try to do something to protect the neutrality and the territorial integrity of these 2 countries? [More…]

• It had been my intention on this occasion to discuss the delivery vehicles for better health services in the community. [More…]

• I would like to have developed a discussion of the Commonwealth-State relationship in the development of a community public health services and to relate this to concepts of planning and evaluation in the development and maintenance of these services. [More…]

• The figure that the Minister is trying to attach to the Labor Party’s proposal includes both the Commonwealth contribution and contributions from members of the community. [More…]

• Preventive medicine is probably the most important aspect of community health care. [More…]

• It has been reliably estimated by the Chief Medical Officer of Health in Britain that approximately 10 per cent of all deaths in the community are due to smoking-associated diseases. [More…]

• The community as a whole has been widely informed, through education programmes on the perils of smoking. [More…]

• This code prohibits cigarette advertisements before 7.30 p.m. so as to prevent young people being exposed to cigarette promotion, but this voluntary code is an insult to the intelligence of the community. [More…]

• But the Government has an over-riding responsibility for community health. [More…]

• We have taken action to ban other addictive drugs in the interests of community health. [More…]

• If we are to refer credibility in these fields, and in the interests of community health, we must ban all promotion of cigarettes as contining a drug of addiction which is a known health hazard. [More…]

• There is a significant number of people in the community who are unable to pay for health insurance. [More…]

• The great danger in any government-aided health scheme is the tendency to develop a psychology of dependence and diminished personal and community responsibility. [More…]

• ( would like to quote some facts and figures to confirm the suggestion that we are making that a salaried service, far from increasing the rate of usage of medical services, would tend to reduce it and would certainly reduce the cost to the community. [More…]

• I wish to speak on this subject because the Government in its 22 years of office has committed many sins of omission and commission, but I can think of no greater sin of omission, certainly on the domestic front, than its total failure to do anything to try to improve the dental health of the Australian community. [More…]

• But I do not think that this should be regarded as the basis for a scheme for dental health care in the community because, if the Government decides to come in and say: ‘We will back this system of voluntary dental insurance’ I think we will have the same terrible difficulties we have had with this Government’s voluntary health insurance scheme. [More…]

• The dental health of the community would not improve as a result of it. [More…]

• As the scheme progressed we would expect the standard of dental health in the children’s community throughout Australia to improve considerably. [More…]

• It is not really doing anything to improve the community standard of health unlike the policy which will be implemented by the Australian Labor Party after the next Federal election. [More…]

• Our policy is to do something to really improve the community standard of dental health. [More…]

• The Government has done nothing for community dental health over the past 22 years, and for that reason deserves to be roundly condemned. [More…]

• I suppose there is some consolation in the fact that now the 3 east coast States have at last introduced legislation to fulfil this need in our community. [More…]

• I think that most honourable members of this House, as indeed most members of the community, would abhor the personal attacks and personal abuse which is a characteristic of the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) as well as other honourable members. [More…]

• Over 20 years later, perhaps we shall have an extension of this service so that other citizens of this community can have recourse to a law service. [More…]

• While one can understand the motives of such people in the circumstances, a wider community interest is involved. [More…]

• In the first place, the recalcitrant individual is taken away from his usual avocation and therefore ceases to be productive; secondly, the cost of his sustenance, lodging and being guarded has to be borne by the community. [More…]

• We have heard speakers on behalf of the community, spokesmen for local government authorities and others contending that thousands of people would be denied their right to watch their television, to listen to their radio or to receive a phone call in reasonable circumstances. [More…]

• This places a further burden on the local community. [More…]

• On Monday of this week I held a meeting in my office, at which a number of very prominent members of the community were present, to discuss the calling of a public meeting so that the people of the Central Coast could express a collective view about the possible siting of the airport at Somersby. [More…]

• Personally, I am opposed to the siting of the airport in this area, but 1 felt it was important that the people in the community should be able to express their views on the proposal. [More…]

• If the community wants the airport in this area, then I shall support the proposal. [More…]

• The introduction of an airport into that area will have a deleterious effect on the community. [More…]

• The Board entered into this activity as a commercial venture in association with local capital with the aim of diversifying export markets for Australian dairy products when Britain was making its first bid for membership of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Indirectly, it will benefit the whole community by enabling more persons to obtain a home of their own. [More…]

• I am sure that all honourable members share my concern regarding the dangers that drug abuse already poses for the Australian community. [More…]

• The danger signs have certainly been alarming enough to engender this Government’s support of whatever prophylactic measures can be taken to afford the Australian community the maximum protection from those unscrupulous people who are prepared to sponsor drug abuse for their own personal gain. [More…]

• No matter how active the Government is, how efficient our law enforcement agencies, how effective our education programmes, the answer to the problems of drug abuse lies with the community itself. [More…]

• Does the report conclude that (a) economic but not moral resources are adequate to eliminate tragic, and intolerably costly, rural poverty in a prosperous country, (b) relief plans must be a joint local, State and Federal government responsibility, (c) public enterprise must be used where necessary to give equal employment opportunities and check the drift to cities, (d) the poor must be actively involved in regional economic planning encompassing rural and urban area’s using Federal grants, loans and development subsidies and State and local tax reform, (e) the impact on individuals of schemes for rural amalgamation, submarginal land retirement and moratoriums on new farm land development until demand warrants increased production, must be investigated, (f) food supplements should be available to the hungry, (g) community health centres should be provided to overcome the shortage of rural medical care and (h) pre-school, school, drop-out adult and teacher education facilities should be of the best national standards. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and adminstration [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• That the middle income group, the most heavily-taxed sector of the community, subsidises the tax commitment of the upper income bracket through the amount of social services contributions collected by the government and not spent on the purposes for which they were imposed. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Prime Minister, in view of the reports that he achieved important gains in the United Slates with regard to the alleviation of the added United States surcharge on wool and also in Britain in securing more favourable conditions for the export of primary products, particularly sugar, to the United Kingdom during the transitional period for the entry of the United Kingdom to the European Economic Community, when will the Prime Minister inform the industries concerned of the good news? [More…]

• Or are the real facts exactly as they were before he left Australia, that is, that the United States will not reduce the added surcharge and that the European Economic Community will carry out a systematic study of sensitive Australian exports, industry by industry, as was announced 6 months ago, under the EEC safeguard clause, which is of little benefit to Australia when viewed in the overall Australian context? [More…]

• As to the second part of the honourable gentleman’s question, I did have long discussions with Mr Rippon about the conditions of entry of the British into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Its real value lies in the fact that it is an association of parliamentarians who, irrespective of race, religion or culture, are united by a community of interest. [More…]

• Again, one can be excused for thinking that they are not as well apprised of the realities of things as are some groups in the community. [More…]

• One of the ways in which the Government could quickly give some relief in respect of the total tax burden and to most sections of the community - certainly in regard to costs; - is to abandon these measures. [More…]

• No regard has been had to the effect on the community. [More…]

• On the one hand the Government makes, .loud statements as to the effects of inflation through wage increases and the private section of the community which increases charges to meet added costs in the never ending spiral of the small person attempting to meet everyday living costs. [More…]

• We have here just one example of Government inspired inflation where the cost will be passed on in the community. [More…]

• Is it too much to expect this Government to return to that section of the community some part of the increased charges? [More…]

• The Minister should assure the House that the extra tax gleaned from diesel fuel will be spent in areas such as this, for this is one of the most heavily taxed sections of the community. [More…]

• Transport operators are in a service industry which affects rural, building and living costs for a high proportion of our community. [More…]

• If this Government wants to contribute to the inflation about which it so loudly speaks but does nothing, it must realise that this tax is one of the surest ways to increase the costs to all sections of the community - no doubt large sections of the same community fail to realise how or why these increases occur. [More…]

• A new balance is emerging which includes the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the European community, including Britain. [More…]

• My visit to the United Kingdom followed immediately after the House of Commons had voted in favour of British entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In London I had detailed discussions with the Prime Minister, Mr Heath; the Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home; the Minister for Defence, Lord Carrington; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Barber; the Minister responsible for the British relations with the European Economic Community, Mr Rippon; and the Governor of the Bank of England. [More…]

• Naturally, I spent a great deal of time discussing the British entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Generally, I expressed the hope that Britain, having made its -decision, would now use its influence to ensure that the community was outward-looking and international in its approach, that it should be flexible in its approach to world trade, rather than regionally exclusive in its attitude. [More…]

• 1 was assured by Mr Heath, Sir Alex Douglas-Home and Mr Rippon that Britain would use its influence to see that the European Economic Community adopted an outward-looking policy. [More…]

• For our part we should concentrate on representing Australia to the world as a tolerant, stable, healthy member of the international community - increasing in size and strength as it develops, but threatening no-one. [More…]

• Constantly now we see certain sections of the Australian community tending to downgrade it, tending to criticise it and tending to challenge its relevance to modern affairs. [More…]

• Europe, formerly the cockpit of world wars on this globe of ours, shows increasing stability and security with the prospects of the Berlin Agreement and the entry of Great Britain into the European Community. [More…]

• As to the entry of Great Britain into the European Economic Community, the visit of the Prime Minister at this time was of great importance to Australia. [More…]

• The unpalatable facts are that what t the Prime Minister has told us tonight about the European Economic Community and its relationship to Australia is at least 6 months out of date, and every word of what the Prime Minister has informed us on the EEC and the attitude of the United States to war is well known. [More…]

• From the way he makes play of the fact that Britain will study commodity by commodity the effects on Australia’s exports of primary products to Britain or to the European Economic Community once Britain joins that Community one would almost believe that this was new. [More…]

• But let us examine the official version given by Britain in June, 5 months ago, when it stated categorically in an official release (hat Britain at first sought a transitional period before it would adopt full Community preference, obviously to protect its traditional food suppliers for as long as possible, but France would have none of it and it was plain that Britain would never achieve membership if it insisted on a gradual application of EEC preferences. [More…]

• Britain succeeded in inserting a safeguard claude last June that would allow the Community to take special action in the case of sudden dislocation of British markets. [More…]

• The official communique indicated that if Australia or any other Commonwealth country found that it was suffering a major loss of markets in Britain, the enlarged Community could be asked to take remedial action. [More…]

• With respect to sugar, which is the commodity which the Prime Minister has concentrated on, what Australia wants to know is whether Britain will use its best endeavours to get the European Economic Community into the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s visit to the United Kingdom, with special reference to the European Economic Community, has achieved absolutely nothing. [More…]

• Some months ago we witnessed the incredible and petulant outbursts by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry when he was in London negotiating with respect to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Such attacks have been deeply resented by the British Government as well as by the 6 European Economic Community nations. [More…]

• Certainly such illfounded outbursts by the Deputy Prime Minister have not helped in getting the best deal for Australia when Britain joins the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Australia welcomes the advent of China into the world community, but at the same time we believe that it can be only to Australia’s advantage for mutual attitudes to be explored between the President and the. [More…]

• The decision by the British Parliament in favour of entry into the European Economic Community is a momentous one. [More…]

• It represents a major change in the relations between Australia and Britain and the European Economic Community itself. [More…]

• With the entry of Britain, the European Economic Community will become by far the largest trading entity in the world. [More…]

• As the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) has said, we hope that Britain’s entry brings to the Community a new sense of responsibility for the wellbeing of world trade as a whole. [More…]

• These have been brought to the attention of Britain and the European Community before and during the negotiations by a succession of Australian Ministers and officials.. As events turned out, Australia believes Britain could have done more for Australia during the negotiations; but notwithstanding this, Britain did succeed in obtaining some safeguards to mitigate the effects on countries such as Australia if serious disruption is threatened. [More…]

• For its part, the British Government has assured the Prime Minister that it will watch our interests, industry by industry, in the transitional period of Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• At a time when Austraia’s trading opportunities are being severed by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, at a time when we should be seeking further opportunities for trade, at a time in particular when we should be seeking dialogue with China particularly in preparation for any possibility of a high level conference over the Indo-China situation - at a time such as this the Australian Government is returning to the talk of revolutionary China. [More…]

• The fourth event which is of great significance to us and to others is the decision of the House of Commons to take the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Some of the things that concern the world include the present trade relationships between the United States and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• lt is important for the United Kingdom to try to do what she has said she will do, and that is to ensure that the EEC becomes an outward looking community concerned for world trade and not merely for the narrow selfish views of an affluent and rich Europe. [More…]

• But whether the United Kingdom can have these views sufficiently incorporated into the policies of the European Economic Community is something that yet remains for decision. [More…]

• It is claimed that the Community has given cause for concern in its trading policies and the restrictions that it has placed on the exports of other countries for a number of commodities. [More…]

• If Britain is to become merely a member of an enlarged Community the problems for third parties will be magnified many times, and if Europe is to remain a narrow and inward looking trading bloc the problems could well have an impact on policies in other countries, particularly in the United States, leading to a downturn in world trade and to problems for many other countries such as Australia and Japan. [More…]

• In recent years, of course, Australia has been doing a great deal to diversify her trade to make the impact of a possible British entry to the European Economic Community less severe on many of our industries. [More…]

• But these matters are still of great importance to Australia, and whatever the impact might be on specific industries that have depended on markets in the United Kingdom for many years, the impact in total terms of the general attitude of the European Economic Community is something which is of paramount importance for all of us. [More…]

• The need for an outward-looking European Economic Community is something which cannot be over-emphasised. [More…]

• The truth seems to me to be that the most pressing and immediate difficulties facing the Australian community today are all in one sense or another economic. [More…]

• In general, the matter 1 have tried to put to the House is that the essential and immediate problem which is facing the Australian community is one which has been recognised by the Prime Minister but which was not met in any way by his tour or by his report on it. [More…]

• I wish him good health to have many more such tours, preferably in sone sort of Opposition capacity, but I do not want the impression to be left that anything he did on this tour in a practical sense in terms of positive results other than high expectations on his part and lofty words on the part of others has any relevance to the real problems which are facing the Australian community today. [More…]

• In the Prime Minister’s statement to the House last night and in the Australian Press report of his Press conference in Honolulu, he referred to the need to strengthen our diplomatic representations to the European Economic Community in Brussels. [More…]

• When this matter is discussed, because of the importance of agricultural production trends in Europe to Australian agricultural market prospects, will consideration be given to the inclusion of representatives who will be able to provide early and accurate agricultural marketing intelligence on agricultural developments within the European Economic Community? [More…]

• The figures should provide ground for confidence on the part of the business community. [More…]

• I am advised by the General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission that the Commission is conducting a research, having regard to the introduction of daylight saving, to ascertain what are the broad wishes of the community in relation to news and other regular broadcasts or telecasts. [More…]

• Is not this change in most common fees a retrograde step which increases the cost of medicine to the Government and to the community? [More…]

• I see it as a great benefit which will involve considerable savings to both the Government and the community. [More…]

• It will be a long, hot summer break in many ways because of a hotting up’ of many issues in the community. [More…]

• Later 1 hope to deal in some detail with the social consequences of the Government’s policy on housing which flow to certain sectors of our community. [More…]

• A contrary point of view is that these people are very often in their present situation for reasons beyond their control, and that they have a special call upon community support and assistance. [More…]

• No real examination is being made of the social problems which exist in our community. [More…]

• The priorities which this Government has adopted insofar as the welfare of the community is concerned have been very poor indeed. [More…]

• One can readily visualise that most enterprising people - and these things spread very quickly through the community - would ensure that, whatever else they owned, they had the largest possible mortgage they could have on their houses because, with the lower rate of interest, they could undoubtedly invest their funds elsewhere at a much higher rate of interest. [More…]

• He dealt very adequately with the fact that it is the responsibility of government to meet the housing needs of those sections of our community which are so disadvantaged. [More…]

• There is no doubt that under the existing framework there is insufficient capacity for the States to meet the demands of these disadvantaged sections of our community. [More…]

• Furthermore, community leadership there is excellent. [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 community spirit is very good and nobody could criticise it, but 1. think most people agree that it would be far better if the housing commission acquired some sites in large private housing estates. [More…]

• I say this although 1 represent large sections of the community including the Mt Druitt and Seven Hills area in which community organisations have been set up. [More…]

• In this way we would ensure that the younger people in our community who today are very badly off and who are finding it virtually impossible to obtain housing would be given more opportunities. [More…]

• It means making a onceandforall outlay to help State governments buy land to develop in the community interest. [More…]

• The societies provide a very good community service. [More…]

• They are an important section of the community and accommodation should be provided for them. [More…]

• Finance for housing should be based on the needs of the community and should not be used as an economic weapon in the stopgo policy of this Government. [More…]

• The difficulties confronting the building industry are important to the whole community so both the general public and our Governments should be made aware of what is happening. [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…]

• There are a mixture of these, with factories of various sorts and sizes, of churches with a gothic touch, and others displaying a Norman style, while a few are modern, and shops whose purposes and styles are as varied and seemingly unconnected as its houses, gives the community a vitality that 1 regret is being undermined by uncertainty about the future. [More…]

• Many of the residents do not care about this community. [More…]

• They see it as a mess of old run down houses and they will sell out for flat development, which also will add to the variety of the community. [More…]

• It has not caught up with the needs of vast sections of the Australian community depending so totally on the financial assistance that should be forthcoming from a Government which should be showing national leadership to overcome the problems of housing in Australia. [More…]

• In addition to that, it has not recognised its obligations to the people in the community who are desirous of Owning their own homes. [More…]

• We will promote regional devel opment and provide housing land at the cost of sub division and servicing and construct housing estates with such community amenities as the Commonwealth provides in the Territory. [More…]

• I pause there for a moment because I want to tell the Minister once more - I think I said it to him the other week - that here in this area of so-called land develop-, ment is one of the most shocking outrages that the young people of the community have to put up with. [More…]

• It has been going on for years Some people in the community often say: We wish we had had the foresight to buy land on the fringe areas of the metropolitan area.’ [More…]

• It is so high now that in some areas - Sydney is one - it would be impossible for a person receiving about the average income of persons working for wages as opposed to the average male income, which is a fictitious figure which has no relationship to the majority of the community, and purchasing a house without a substantial proportion of the capital to meet the repayments. [More…]

• There are plenty of people in the community who are not able to pay an economic level of rent. [More…]

• This housing is made available below its true economic cost for social reasons, and there arc long waiting lists for the homes largely because they are relatively so cheap, lt would be wrong lo inflate these lists and disadvantage the most needy elements of the community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman who has posed the question will appreciate that it would be quite improper for me in this forum to canvass matters which are now before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, but I can say in general terms - and I do not go beyond the generality of observation - that the Commonwealth, in intervening in the national wage case, will be putting very strong arguments which go to the point of suggesting the need for the strongest possible restraint at the present time in relation to the need to contain excessive wage increases in the general community. [More…]

• It generously looks after its own needs, sticks its bib into more and more State responsibility, then distributes the balance after satisfying its own needs to the Slates which have to provide all the basic community services. [More…]

• These firms are in my electorate and are owned by the community as shareholders. [More…]

• But of course the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community will seriously affect Australian wine sales. [More…]

• The use of sultanas could drop even further this season if, as is expected, the United Kingdom enters the European Economic Community. [More…]

• by leave - In my recent statement to the House on my overseas visit, I mentioned the representations which 1 made in London on the problems for Papua New Guinea arising from British entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The British Government has accepted an offer from the Six under which exports originating in Papua New Guinea will be able to enter the United Kingdom until 1st January 1978, under the conditions which apply at the time of British accession to the Community. [More…]

• In making these arrangements for the Territory, the Community has stressed the exceptional features of the Papua New Guinea position both from the point of view of its international status and from that of its economic strength. [More…]

• In accepting the offer by the Six, the British Government expressed its confidence that the Community would make reasonable arrangements for Papua New Guinea in the context of any review. [More…]

• 1 am sure the House will join with me in expressing appreciation for the special efforts made by the European Economic Community to recognise and provide for the unique needs of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Community - Ministerial Statement, 25th [More…]

• The European Economic Community offers no particular barriers to countries of tropical agriculture and 1 presume that this decision means that New Guinea coffee, cocoa, tea, rubber and one or two other tropical products, including tropical fruits, can enter the EEC market. [More…]

• North Vietnam is the most powerful Communist country remaining outside the world community. [More…]

• We hope that, in the inflationary situation, it will take a look at the inadequacy of the pensions for meeting the kinds of costs that men rehabilitating themselves into the Australian community today will be called on to meet. [More…]

• I do not have to worry about the great burden because, putting aside all the problems that a parliamentarian has, at least I get a salary which is far in excess of what most people in the community receive. [More…]

• These are very big figures and this scheme has had a tremendous effect upon the community. [More…]

• There is no reason in the world why special permission could not be given to the HLIC to guarantee a second mortgage taken out by an ex-serviceman at the normal current rate of interest which may be 7 per cent or 74 per cent in certain cases to enable the borrower to bridge the deposit gap under better than the normal conditions in our community. [More…]

• In resuming the debate on the War Service Homes Bill I want to say, as other honourable members have said, that the war service homes institution in Australia is highly regarded right throughout the community. [More…]

• That is what people are paying elsewhere in the community. [More…]

• Therefore one looks askance at the proposition that, because it is allegedly a profit making activity, it ought to be expanded to cover the whole community. [More…]

• The converse argument would be that, because it is in fact not a profit making activity, it may be impossible to expand it to the rest of the community. [More…]

• Were such a scheme to be expanded to cover the whole of the community an extra S880m would be involved each year. [More…]

• I suppose about 90 per cent of the Australian community want homes of their own. [More…]

• I believe that a person who puts on a uniform, particularly in the regular Services - and this applies also to people who put on a uniform in the citizen forces- has accepted a different kind of responsibility, duty and sacrifice to the community than anybody else has. [More…]

• One would hope, of course, that sacrifice will not be demanded of them but those people who put on a uniform, no matter now humble the rank, no matter how dull the employment, still at some time are readily available to make the supreme sacrifice for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• We on this side of the House would like to see the system extended to the community at large. [More…]

• So that in the community there are some 600,000 to 700,000 people qualified by reason of their service in those 2 wars, plus those with service in Korea, on special operations or Vietnam. [More…]

• That is a different matter altogether but it is quite amazing how the Government, which can impose taxes which take from the Australian community a surplus of $630m and immobilise it, cannot face the possibility that some of that $630m might be used to transform the capital equipment of education in some of the states. [More…]

• Whether that makes them in any sense unique in this community I doubt. [More…]

• But I think every honourable member is conscious of the fact that there are many very able students in our community who are not able to win one of the comparatively scarce Commonwealth scholarships and who are debarred from getting to the university because of the fees that are charged. [More…]

• Plenty of studies have indicated that many of the people who get Commonwealth scholarships are people who are already economically, socially and culturally privileged in our community and that those for whom a scholarship is vital are deprived of the opportunity of ge ting to university even though they have an inherent ability to master a university course if they could only get to university. [More…]

• In 1967, of the 17 to 22 year olds in the community, 7 per cent of males and 3.2 per cent of females enrolled at university. [More…]

• Not long ago the Minister for Education and Science spoke about trying to extend equality of educational opportunities throughout the community. [More…]

• In fact, the university system is such that it takes from the top of the school system in Australia - I do not like the term ‘cream’ but certainly some special section of people who are able to handle the situation, lt is still a very narrow group in the community, and it may well be that with our form of university education it will always be so. [More…]

• If the 100,000 young people who are at universities exclude themselves from public affairs it is to the great disadvantage of the community. [More…]

• If there is anything wrong with the Australian community it is the failure of people to participate in politics; it is the failure of people at ail sorts of levels to take an interest in political affairs and accept a political commitment. [More…]

• If one of the products of the last few years has been an increasing commitment to political action of young people, particularly those who are going to be leaders in cultural, commercial, industrial and professional life of the community, then it is all to the good. [More…]

• But the facts are that it is unlikely that in the present system or in the foreseeable future the States will have at their disposal large sums of money upon which they can draw for expanding needs in the community. [More…]

• So the elitist concept which still 1 think lies pretty heavily on the minds and consciences - what there are of them - of the people opposite has been discarded by the rest of the community. [More…]

• No honourable member on this side of the House would say that he knows the absolute answer but it is our belief that by the time a person is 17 or 18 years of age he should be beyond depending on the charity of his parents if they are rich or, if they are poor, on the charity of the government: and because of what will happen to that person and what he will do for the community the Government should supply him with an adequate living allowance. [More…]

• And we do it in many other areas of the community. [More…]

• It is my belief that the university system has to become more accessible to the community and that there are large areas of higher education which could be developed by such adventurous and imaginative techniques. [More…]

• I would like to take a quotation from an essay titled ‘Colleges and the Community’ by S. Murray-Smith in which he had this to say about our colleges of advanced education: [More…]

• This move would be beneficial not only to the individual students but also to the community at large because it would make it possible for people to attend tertiary institutions who are able to render as a result the most service to the community. [More…]

• I think that teachers or student teachers can be raised in a rather ratified atmosphere where they go out of school into a glorified teachers college atmosphere of something like a school and then go back into a school without having mixed much with the community at large. [More…]

• If there is not, the cost to the community will be very heavy or there will be restrictions in Commonwealth expenditure in other fields. [More…]

• I hope that the community at large gives credit to the Government for the steps it has taken to increase educational standards in the community. [More…]

• Everybody, myself included, is particularly enthusiastic to see this college increase in its standing in the community and increase in its standing among people involved in tertiary education and among those who would employ its diplomates and future graduates. [More…]

• In another area, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology already has been forced into the degrading position of having to beg from the community in order to put up additional buildings. [More…]

• It is a staggering reflection on Government priorities that an institution of this magnitude and of this value has to go round begging in the community for money to put up its essential buildings and facilities. [More…]

• Moves are already under way to try to raise, by debentures, money from within the community. [More…]

• I conclude by pointing out that this is a matter which in Griffith has touched the whole of the community - its businessmen, its growers, its workers and all its townspeople. [More…]

• Despite the apparent or obvious wealth of the 5 accused, their counsel, one of Australia’s most eminent Queen’s Counsel, Sir Jack Cassidy - whom we never hear of appearing for a conscientious objector or a person of low income - in my view is throwing mud in the face of the Crown and the Australian community or the Australian taxpayer by now asking that the costs of the trial be awarded against the Crown. [More…]

• In my view, this whole situation is ‘brought about by parliaments and politicians failing in their duties to the community and not being prepared either to legalise or to stamp out this sordid evil of which so many of our womenfolk in the community have at some time in their life been forced to seek to avail themselves. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to an official statement by the Indian Foreign Ministry on 20th October 1971 which, as reported in the ‘Canberra Times’ of 22nd October 1971, stated that India was determined that Pakistan should create conditions for the safe return of refugees, and if it did not, the international community was expected to put pressure on Pakistan to reach such conditions but if the international community failed then India would have to think of ways and means and reserved the right to take any action which might be in the national interest. [More…]

• In addition, I have instructed my Department to examine more effective means of inducing eligible persons to avail themselves of the assistance under the Plan and it is proposed that this examination will encompass greater utilisation of social workers, charitable organisations and other appropriate welfare groups in the community. [More…]

• Through its export control powers the Commonwealth no doubt could exert some control over forestry operations and associated conservation problems to the extent that it could refuse approval to export wood chips to any company whose wood procurement operations were considered likely to be incompatible with the best interests of the community. [More…]

• Before any export approval is granted, the appropriate State Government is consulted in judging whether the project is in the best interests of the community irrespective of whether it is based on private or crown land resources but save as indicated above the Commonwealth does not seek to intervene in the State Government responsibility for environmental aspects of woodchip projects. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• We are a country which believes in some equity as between one section of the community and another and we are one that acknowledges that the balance of payments, exchange rates and terms of trade are highly significant as far as the destiny of our people is concerned. [More…]

• We are tired of the continual fobbing off by the Prime Minister and the Treasurer in particular as the two who ought to be the custodians of the overall economic health of the community. [More…]

• The war service homes system was conceived in 1917 or 1918 - I think honourable members will find this in the debates of this House - to give those who had served Australia overseas access to housing as a special right because those people had accepted some duty to the community which is not ordinarily accepted by other citizens. [More…]

• There are probably between 300,000 and 400,000 people in our community who have qualified under the war service homes scheme but who have never received this assistance. [More…]

• What we suggest is that the scheme should be broadened in the logical way to include those people who have accepted the kind of responsibility that a serviceman accepts to the community. [More…]

• Let the Minister stand up and justify the action of the Government that discriminates against this, section of the community, those who have served this country in a war that this Minister has consistently supported. [More…]

• There are very many essential occupations in this community which are short of enough men or women. [More…]

• Reports compiled by Government departments show clearly the increasing costs imposed on the community by this Government. [More…]

• In other words, were such a loan to be paid off over 40 years at interest rates which are chargeable by other organisations in the community and under the same conditions as apply under this Act, a person would pay $10,000 more than one who was repaying the money under the conditions of the War Service Homes Act. [More…]

• Up until now, the Government has been prepared to deride the Australian Labor Party when it says that it would not make finance available irrespective of needs in a community. [More…]

• So we can see that there is a very fundamental need in our community to provide adequate library facilities not only in secondary schools but also at the other levels to which I have referred. [More…]

• This should disturb the national Government which is concerned with the health and welfare of its community, and also with its labour force. [More…]

• So we have all this evidence of need in the community which is not touched on properly because the Government gives only fragmentary attention to these matters, in the kind of programme before us at the present time. [More…]

• I believe that there is a real necessity to examine the needs of education in our community, and in a way which will indicate where the greatest needs lie and what actions are necessary in order to meet those needs. [More…]

• The community is suffering from an unplanned approach to educational needs. [More…]

• With some planning and cooperation with the States it should be possible to provide adequate libraries which could be utilised as a community facility, especially at primary schools, which are fairly evenly distributed through most built up areas. [More…]

• In country areas the operation of library bookmobiles would most likely be of great advantage to the education system and to the community, without incurring the great deal of extra money that is being expended at the moment to duplicate facilities. [More…]

• The school system and the community should, wherever possible, be integrated. [More…]

• They are not made on the basis of the educational opportunity needs of any- given community. [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…]

• The goals as I have listed them - 1 repeat that they are not necessarily listed in order of importance - are: Firstly, the maintenance of full employment; secondly, price stability; thirdly, a satisfactory rate of economic growth; fourthly, efficient use of resources; fifthly, equitable distribution of incomes in the community; and, sixthly and finally, what might be described as a balance of payments equilibrium. [More…]

• wrought upon the ordinary people in the community and many of them are beginning to rebel. [More…]

• What about equity of distribution for that large section in the community which numbers now about one-quarter of the work force - that is, recipients of social service pensions of one kind or another, plus those who are on private and public superannua- tion and whose incomes are fixed? [More…]

• To do so would be to deny the interests of all in the community except the clever and the powerful. [More…]

• There is no reason for the lack of confidence apparent in some sections of the community. [More…]

• We can do better, and with the conscientious participation of all sectors in the community we will secure the nation’s high objectives. [More…]

• Establish clearer guidelines for overseas investors, for the benefit both of these investors and of the Australian community. [More…]

• The closing of markets relatively in the European Economic Community need not be a tragedy for this country. [More…]

• If the community can restrain its income demands the Government would be able to adopt a more expansionary economic policy than it could now prudently adopt. [More…]

• The effects of industrial disputes on the community are not simply measurable on the basis of the loss of man days. [More…]

• This is not to say that the Government is relying solely on community self-restraint for the success of its economic policies. [More…]

• So successful has this Government been in its economic management during its term of government, so high are the standards which it has set during these years, that there are people in the business community who view even the slightest signs of a slow down with a measure of disquiet. [More…]

• A Government that can maintain such a performance is a government which is entitled to the full confidence of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is most notable that not one Opposition speaker has this afternoon gone into details of the economic problems of the rural sector of the community. [More…]

• In fact, precipitate action could create even bigger problems for exporters, lt is important that ail sectors of the Australian community recognise the need for restraint and cooperation if the existing basic soundness of the economy is not to be undermined. [More…]

• First, there are the possible adverse effects on some of our traditional exports following the enlargement of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This of course meant a tremendous loss of purchasing power and was to the disadvantage of the ordinary members of the community. [More…]

• One of the things which struck one’s mind while the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) was speaking was the most extraordinary statement that this government, unlike a number of other governments, has managed to produce in this community both unemployment and inflation. [More…]

• Birt far more compelling and effective than budgetary action is the action of wage rises and price rises which following wage rises throughout this community. [More…]

• and in realising the great opportunities which lie before us, if we still have inside our country, as we have, pensioners, those on superannuation, those on fixed incomes of all kinds, lower paid members of the community, those struggling in rural areas against higher costs and lower returns, those seeking to develop export markets in manufactured goods - all those people feeling and knowing only too well that however strong our economy may be and however bright our future prospects are. [More…]

• lt is left to the Arbitration Commission, and if economic results are not taken into account by the Commission, then, we have an irresponsible section of the community. [More…]

• 1 do not think that one can expect the wage earning section of the community to pass a self-denying ordinance and say: ‘We will not press for higher wages. [More…]

• But surely we can expect that the organised trade union leaders of Australia would be prepared to sit down with the organised leaders of industry, and with the Government, and try to work out a system or an agreement which could be seen to be fair to all whereby they would say: ‘Because it is to our benefit - we trade unionists being affected by rising prices perhaps more than are other sections of the community - we will therefore, confine our requests for wage increases, for arguments sake, to the increases that can be shown to have occurred in the cost of living. [More…]

• If you can do that and we do the other, then we can bring about a pause, for some years at any rate, in this real root cause of oppression of some sections of our community.’ [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• If companies want the protection of limited liability and certain other rights in the community and want the right to be called public companies, I think that they are under the duty to expect some son of public restraint on their operations. [More…]

• The subject with which it deals is the restrictive trade practices which exist in the Australian business community today. [More…]

• I think its importance flows from the fact that it relates to one of the relatively few levers or devices that the Commonwealth Government has with which to influence the Australian business community. [More…]

• A very important role is played in the Australian community by the big corporations. [More…]

• Although a decision is made which conflicts with the interests of the Australian community no-one can question that decision because it is made in the interests of such things as maximising profit and providing security for the business. [More…]

• All these things flow back to the original decision taken by a body which is exercising great power in the community but which is not responsible to anyone. [More…]

• I think it is well known and probably would be agreed to by everyone here that the Australian community is one of the most highly concentrated industrial and commercial communities in the world. [More…]

• This has been said by many people over many years, ft is comparable in many ways to the German community and even the Japanese and American communities. [More…]

• The real explanation for why the Government has not done anything about trying to solve the restrictive trade practice problems which exist in the Australian community is either because it does not care or because the Government reflects the business and economic interests of the people who support it and those people do not want this action to be taken. [More…]

• His proposals were laid before the Australian community for examination, discussion and debate. [More…]

• I have never anywhere read or heard of any Government spokesman uttering any claim or any thought of what the Government has in mind about the problem of restrictive trade practices in the Austraiian community. [More…]

• But 1 have never heard or read of anyone, including the Minister representing the Attorney-General, saying that there is great social mischief in this community, that it requires attention, that we are going to do something about it. [More…]

• All that we can keep doing is to prod the Government and protest in the hope not that its conscience will in some way alter its future record, but that the Australian community will get the message in some way and realise that the record speaks for itself, that people should be judged on what they do, not on what they do not say while simply getting on the bandwaggon and trying to take advantage of the situation. [More…]

• It is power that is exercised often against the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a form of legislation creating a criminal offence which places members of the business community in a situation where, because of the vague nature of the proposed offence, which involves a subjective element they do not know whether they have committed an offence until a jury finally has brought in a verdict and they find that perhaps for some years, although they may have been advised to the contrary, they have been committing an offence. [More…]

• Therefore, from the business community’s point of view, it is a type of clause which causes it considerable difficulty and confusion. [More…]

• Yet, although it would be difficult to enforce, it would be extremely confusing to members of the business community who were seeking to know whether they were engaged in lawful conduct. [More…]

• I think it will do so in the long term, because in the long term I believe that a strong single marketing authority will bc able to negotiate bilateral agreements with the European Economic Community countries, with Japan, wilh China and with Russia- with the Communist bloc. [More…]

• The dairy industry went through a phase in which there was a surplus of butter throughout the world, mainly in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Refusal of entry is not mandatory, however, and discretion is exercised on the basis of a number of factors including risks to public health, the probability of the person’ concerned becoming a charge on public funds and the capacity of the person concerned to integrate into the community. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the University of Western Australia respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the University of Western Australia respectfully sheweth: that the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]

• The bumble petition, of citizens, of the community of the University of Western Australia respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• That, as part of the world community; the Australian Government has an immediate responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• The first report that I have received showed that the cost of a national superannuation scheme to the community would bc immediately somewhere about $440m a year. [More…]

• It represents a great deal of revenue foregone, which should have been provided from some sections of the community - again, significantly, sections which are better able to provide that sort of revenue than people in lower income groups. [More…]

• Of course, every $1 of tax revenue foregone because of some concession or some avoidance which is allowed to exist in the tax law must be made up by some other section of the community. [More…]

• generally speaking, very wealthy mineral organisations in our community. [More…]

• They are being met by the taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• They are extracting the subsidy from the community; they do not need this subsidy at the taxpayers’ expense Secondly, because of the limited life or the exhaustible nature of our resources in this country, there must be a reassessment of our approach to the extraction of what are limited mineral resources in this country. [More…]

• These are real problems which not only are causing damage to our international reputation but are creating a hard core of impoverished people within our own community. [More…]

• Some of the people who have been concerned with the problems they are facing in Australia and who have contacted me have said that they could go home if they had not sold up, left their positions of employment, bringing qualifications to Australia which would be normally acceptable but because of the current economic trends they are unable to fit into the community and often place a heavy burden on the welfare services both official and voluntary. [More…]

• The point I make about these people who have close relatives in Australia and who wish to come to Australia is that they would be able to fit into our community without being a burden on the social services system. [More…]

• The only other section of the community in respect of which the rest of the community and the Government tolerate these conditions is the Aboriginal section. [More…]

• I point out that when I speak on these matters I realise very fully that the measures I am asking for will not affect a great number of people, but they are a section of the community which is helping to promote the welfare of Australia generally, and they are utilising for the benefit of the community areas which are very difficult to utilise. [More…]

• It would not cost the general community a great deal to provide a translator station of the type I have spoken about in these areas where it is certainly needed. [More…]

• I have gone around my electorate showing films, pleading and begging” with the community ‘o get going and provide senior citizens’ clubs, senior citizens* centres, retired persons’ centres or whatever you like to call them. [More…]

• All 1 want to say is that high ranking Public Service and statutory officers in the Commonwealth of Australia are no different from any other section of the community. [More…]

• Designed as it is to meet the emerging social and economic problem of unemployment in non-metropolitan areas the scheme will, I believe, be warmly welcomed by the House and by the community at large. [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…]

• The honourable member got off on his usual kick that only the profit makers in the community matter and that only the measure of profits determines the prosperity of the community. [More…]

• But the effect of this interest rate increase flowed through the community and the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, as well as many other statutory authorities fell victim. [More…]

• One can see that the propositions being advanced by the Australian Labor Party are supported by many people in the community. [More…]

• Conversely, of course, no automatic relief can be given to the needy in the community. [More…]

• It seems fairly clear to me that if a little imagination were shown by the Government in the financing arrangements of this country and if it showed willingness to use the fiscal measures available to it to meet the cost of providing national assets, the burden would be spread faT more equitably throughout the community. [More…]

• Surety this is the premise on which government -and the maintenance of equality in the community are based. [More…]

• These sorts of deliberations should be in public so that the whole of the community may know what is going on at these most important conferences. [More…]

• There is much more that I would like to have said about planning in our community, but I know there are others who want to enter this debate. [More…]

• I think that people in New South Wales who know the electorate of Robertson well will know just how many senior people in our community go there to retire. [More…]

• That is, the Commonwealth would provide one-third of the money, the States one-third and the community, made up of perhaps Service organisations, shire councils, senior citizens and pensioners themselves, would make up the balance, the other one-third. [More…]

• This meant that the rest of the community then had to provide two-thirds of the money. [More…]

• There are 2 groups in this community which have substantial amounts of money available to meet their proportion of a matching grant. [More…]

• In order that we might be able to utilise the money that has been made available by the Commonwealth I ask the Minister for his assistance and the assistance of his Department in sending departmental officers to the electorate of Robertson so that they may sit down and have a talk with the Slate Parliamentary representative, the members of the Gosford and Wyong shire councils, the members of the community service clubs and also the pensioner and senior citizens organisations, so that we can get a programme under way. [More…]

• I think 1 am correct in saying that that amount of $60,000 was a matching grant with the local community. [More…]

• I find it quite incredible, living in a community such as the one in which I live where there is so much social need, so much deprivation, so many underprivileged people and so many pensioners that $100,000 for social workers should go begging with nobody bothering to do anything about it. [More…]

• If the initiative does not come from the community it should come from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• I do this because as far as I am aware - although I have from time to time made representations in this Parliament on matters concerning the welfare of these people - the peculiar problems which apply to a very small section of the community but, nevertheless, a very important one have never been placed on record. [More…]

• As the tables attached to the Ministers speech make clear, a sum of $7,000 is provided to pay salary and expenses for a community development adviser for Cape Barren and Flinders Islands. [More…]

• I think that more attention should be given to this feeling that exists between one section of the community and the other. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, I think that except for the racists and the so-called snobs in the Australian community the average Australian accepts the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation statement on race which points out that according to present knowledge there is no proof that groups of mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics or in respect of their intelligence or temperament. [More…]

• There is a complete lack of social workers in the settlements to train housewives in budgeting and the like so that those who choose to do so might make an orderly transition to the broader Australian community. [More…]

• just too difficult a task for young people or middle aged people who have spent almost all their lives in a position of dependency to be thrown from their society into the highly competitive community that we have been used to all our lives or, al least, certainly since we left school, and expected to make a success of it in 1 or 2 years. [More…]

• There is no easy solution to that problem because in some of these areas the more enterprising young Aborigines have gone into the outside community looking for work in the pastoral industry and the like and the people who are left behind often do not have a great deal of leadership capacity. [More…]

• They would not need to be trained in all the ramifications of social work that are met in the broad outside community. [More…]

• We have programmes that meet the people on the settlements; we have programmes such as secondary school scholarships for Aborigines whose families are assimilated in our community. [More…]

• This is a very interesting experiment and, at the end of its first year, we can say that it has certainly done a lot to draw that Aboriginal community together. [More…]

• I think that we need to build on to projects of this kind with some form of community centre, around which a range of programmes could be established [More…]

• I am confident there springs a reasonableness, sympathy and understanding in the community that neither organisations such as this nor the Government have tapped. [More…]

• Constitutions perfect on paper will work only if there is a consensus of agreement surrounding them in the community. [More…]

• The constitution of the United Kingdom works because there is a disciplined and restrained community. [More…]

• The constitution that we are enacting tonight will work if there is a real sentiment of mutual respect for one another in the langauge groups in the community. [More…]

• That brainless convention can be endured in Australia because the basic sentiments of the community are so united; this is a nation. [More…]

• At the same time, because they have special resentments it is most unwise for the Administration or for planters or for anybody in the European community to seek to manipulate them. [More…]

• It is not so easy for other elements in the community to put people on the next plane south. [More…]

• It is a difficult situation, let us face il, because the European community is affluent and large numbers of the native community are not. [More…]

• They are easy meat for the troublemakers, and there are troublemakers in Papua New Guinea just as there are in every community. [More…]

• I firmly believe that one of the by-products of this system in Australia is the creation of divisions within our community. [More…]

• The industry has made a contribution to the community internally and to our export position, and the people engaged in it work hard and well. [More…]

• I have had it put to me by people in the community and by honourable members in this House that such a stabilisation scheme was another measure to try to soft soap primary producers. [More…]

• Furthermore, the problem of rates of duty to apply in the future when the United Kingdom joins the European Economic Community is legion. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Commitee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• I will put the request in that context, weigh it against all the others and then make a balanced judgment as to the extra imposition of income tax which of necessity will have to be made on the community in broad in order to achieve that exemption. [More…]

• The academic community in Canberra is concerned about it. [More…]

• We want to do the best we can for the community which has us here representing it and seeking to make laws for it. [More…]

• There is a great deal of debate in our community today as to the extent to which those offences which are loosely defined as ones of private morality - ones where a person or persons together do acts voluntarily which cause no harm to anyone but themselves - should be included as criminal offences or whether in the words of Prime Minister Trudcau of Canada the law courts have a place in the bedrooms of private individuals. [More…]

• Evidence could be given by social scientists - sociologists, social workers and perhaps even social anthropologists - as well as by lawyers, medical people and members of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps there are totally different ways of operating the processes of the law in the community. [More…]

• One has to appreciate, I repeat, that the blackmailer is the most offensive type of person in the community. [More…]

• It has taken massive culpability on the part of the world community to allow so massive a human tragedy to become possible. [More…]

• The task for the community of nations is to try to see that it comes into being through an internationally guaranteed settlement rather than by prolonged war. [More…]

• It has now made the decision that it wants to go into the European Economic Community, and in future it will be associated with European and not with Australian producers. [More…]

• It is important because the results that flow from the operation of the system provided in the legislation affect every member of the Australian community, either as a wage earner or citizen. [More…]

• Whereas then (he community was prepared to accept a high level of unemployment as inevitable and normal, full employment is now accepted as a cardinal objective of government economic and social policy. [More…]

• Thus, the determination of wages and conditions of employment cannot always be left to the parties themselves to decide without regard to the social and economic effects on the community as a whole. [More…]

• They may see short-term advantages in this course of action but the problems are merely postponed and the disadvantages to the wider community are considerable. [More…]

• The effects of industrial disputes on the community are not simply measurable by the loss of man days. [More…]

• The important fact is, however, that it continues to have general acceptance, not only from employer organisations and trade unions generally, which are most directly concerned with its operation, but also from the general community. [More…]

• In 1947, during the period when the Labor Party occupied the Government benches, Dr Evan was moved to ‘assert confidently that the Australian worker, the employer and the Australian community have been far better off with the court than they could possibly have been without it’. [More…]

• community as a whole’. [More…]

• most important, will protect the interests of the whole community in the settlement of industrial disputes. [More…]

• In making this statement well ahead of the introduction of legislation, the Government is taking the opportunity of outlining its proposals to the entire community. [More…]

• If the Government had observed the need for reform at the time when nearly every other section of the community first became aware of its defects, why did it not act at least 10 years ago? [More…]

• I say that such a policy is a disgrace to a modern community. [More…]

• It is some 10 years since the first whispered conversations began between people in Australia and people in the United Kingdom as to the possibility of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• One of the reasons why fruit is being allowed to fall to the ground, and one of the reasons why one member of the community who took up land in the Shepparton area went berserk last year and threatened the lives of some unfortunates on a weighbridge adjacent to one of the great establishments in the canning industry, is the lack of foresight of this Government. [More…]

• The success of the cannery is most important to a whole rural community. [More…]

• The whole community depends upon the factory. [More…]

• All these people who are involved in the industry are extremely dependent upon world trade conditions and those conditions are related to Britain going into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In the meantime, if tariff barriers go up against our canning industry overnight we are going to be in great trouble not only from countries which can provide canned fruits from within the Community such as Spain and even more so, Italy, but also from competition from the United States of America. [More…]

• Does the Government feel, from its marketing knowledge, that when Great Britain goes into the European Economic Community Japan will take its place as a country with which we can trade in this industry? [More…]

• I heard an honourable member on the Government side tonight say that a particular community could be in serious trouble - that a viable unit has been overlooked. [More…]

• The present controversy about the Tariff Board has developed within the Tariff Board itself; it is not something which has been generated by manufacturing industries, by their organisations or by the Opposition in the Parliament as the Prime Minister would have the Parliament and the community believe. [More…]

• It is time that the activities of the Tariff Board were investi gated to see whether its staff is being economically and efficiently used and whether the attitudes at present adopted by the Board are in keeping with the opinions of the Parliament, the Government, industry and the Australian community. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the Flinders University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institu- tions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Indeed, it seems paradoxical to most primary producers that they alone in the community are unable to pass on costs with which they are faced in marketing their produce. [More…]

• Nowhere do we see any opportunity taken to follow the advice of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse that treatment and rehabilitation of addicts based on humanitarian approaches should be developed in this legislation which the Government is introducing to affect an area of drug trafficking and drug offences in the community. [More…]

• However, one could put it to the Government that, given the nature of this problem and the broadness with which it occurs within the community - not in a narrow area related only to the Customs Department - and given the legislative authority which the Federal Government undoubtedly has, one would have expected a comprehensive approach by the Government. [More…]

• If one is not prepared to accept those levels - and they seem a bit harsh although, perhaps, we are used to a fairly heavy drinking pattern in this community - there is the well established pattern, which has been verified by Professor Basil Hetzel, who is in charge of the social and preventive medicine department at the Monash University, in a survey which was carried out at Prahan in Victoria, which shows that on the basis of his parameters, 1 per cent of females and 5 per cent of males in fact have a drink problem. [More…]

• We turn a blind eye to them, riot realising how damaging they are in our community and not appreciating, in respect of the damage to the community, the tremendous expense, direct and indirect. [More…]

• There is a developing problem in the community in this respect. [More…]

• AH I am trying to put to the House in the first instance is the need for some type of balanced approach to and some type of rational appreciation of the distribution of this problem in the community. [More…]

• General attitudes in the community would indicate that most people think that we are talking about long-haired hippies who come from universities and who are in their late teens or early 20s. [More…]

• Party prejudices, Party philosophies or Party commitments should not divide people on this sort of problem because I believe that in this sort of problem sound grounds exist for a bipartisan approach providing we will accept this comprehensive approach I am urging on behalf of the Opposition to the drug problem in the community. [More…]

• Not only we people in this Parliament but also people in the Press and the community generally have to be responsible in the way in which we discuss this problem. [More…]

• Then, it becomes pretentious about avoiding the spread of drugs in the community. [More…]

• It should be exposed by those who, like myself, see it as a lethal enemy of the intellectual community as well as those who, apparently like the honourable member for Herbert, have a more apocalyptic approach and see it as the lethal enemy of life itself. [More…]

• They are hardly users of the popular sorts of drugs which are widely accepted within our community and used by lots of people. [More…]

• The next point I would like to make, from a personal point of view, is that about 2 years ago at the beginning of the Senate select committee inquiry into the drug problem my view on marihuana was the same as the view of most people in the community. [More…]

• The judges in this community, thank goodness, do have hearts. [More…]

• Then I suggest that the community would readily accept the same approach which the British are adopting and toss out the idiot approach, the punitive approach. [More…]

• We seem hellbent on adopting this approach which will do only one thing - cause a dramatic increase in the drug problem in the Australian community. [More…]

• But the point is that alcohol is a lethal substance let loose on the community without medical prescription. [More…]

• It has been strongly urged by very many members of the public that I should, in these inflationary times, recommend less than I would otherwise do, so that Parliamentarians may stand as an example to the community, presumably in the hope that others in the community will follow the example and mitigate their own salary claims in the future. [More…]

• Members have already made a monetary concession in holding back, though they had the power in their own hands to do otherwise, their entitlement to salary increases while salaries in the community have been rapidly rising. [More…]

• They are among the few in the community who have had no salary increases whatsoever over the last three years. [More…]

• adopted, will come to them as part of, and- at the end of, a round of salary increases which almost everyone else in the community has already received. [More…]

• But the clause which the Labor Party seeks to omit from this legislation is a clause which, if passed by the Parliament, would operate in an enormously significant field - significant because this legislation is fraught with grave consequences for good in protecting the Australian community, particularly young people, against the abuses that can arise from narcotics. [More…]

• In the way it is drafted at the moment, the Bill provides a perfect escape for the people who may be the very worst types in the community. [More…]

• But let me say now that it is hoped that it is one of the short term actions to safeguard the community until a more effective long term objective can be achieved. [More…]

• In conclusion, while I accept the good intentions of many arguments put by honourable members opposite and the honourable member for Oxley in particular, I believe the Bill should proceed without delay or amendment to afford the community the kind of protection that it deserves. [More…]

• Honourable members and members of the community in general are aware of the desperate situation in Pakistan and the miserable efforts made by this Government towards the alleviation of that situation. [More…]

• by leave - Earlier in the session I indicated my intention of making a statement to the House on the Citizen Military Forces, its role, its place in the community, its problems and, hopefully, some solutions to these problems. [More…]

• As might be expected, the reasons advanced for the decline in recruiting, gome of which have their effect on retention, cover a wide spectrum embracing 2 broad categories - those of external and general community origin and those internal to the Army itself. [More…]

• CMF, like other voluntary organisations in the community, is competing for its members with a great number of alternatives and distractions open to young men now. [More…]

• In other cases, adverse attitudes in some parts of the community, the views of vocal extremists or opposition on the part of some employers must all exert an influence on the potential recruit. [More…]

• One attractive proposal is for greater involvement of CMF units in local community activities on a nationwide basis. [More…]

• Apart from the resultant contribution to community service, such a scheme would enable people everywhere to come into direct contact with units and to make their own personal assessments of the merits of the CMF. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the training a member obtains in the CMF is of value to the community at large and particularly to his employer. [More…]

• Australian governments and instrumentalities and many private organisations have given an exemplary lead in recognising the overall value to the community of the CMF service performed by members of their staffs and in releasing them for training. [More…]

• A novel feature of the statement was the hint given by the Minister that the CMF would become much more involved in community service. [More…]

• The Regular Army is much too remote from community activity. [More…]

• There has been little attempt to develop in Australia the peaceful use of military forces in community work. [More…]

• It is ironical that community work performed by the Australian [More…]

• With an end to military commitment in sight there will be pressure on the Army for a much more productive use of its resources within the Australian community. [More…]

• The Minister has seen the logic of the need for greater involvement of CMF units in the community. [More…]

• 1 hope he will extend his insight to recognise the need for greater participation in the community by the Regular Army. [More…]

• As 1 see the role of the CMF, not only must its status be recognised by this Government but I believe there is a responsibility on the community as a whole to recognise the importance of the role that the Citizen Military Forces can play. [More…]

• I could not care less what the Government thinks of it, but honourable members on this side of the House do not want to bcategorised as people who do not care for the dignity of Parliament, as people who walk out and let the Parliament collapse, particularly when these suggestions are untrue and affect us in the community. [More…]

• the loss to the local authority in rates and loss to the community in acreage of development area and assets. [More…]

• 1 have a general appreciation of the retraining programmes which are offered by a number of countries in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I do not favour the use of revenue procedures to encourage or discourage something which relates directly to the health of the community. [More…]

• Of course, as the honourable member knows, subsidiary benefits spill over into other industries such as tourism and the programme provides a service to the community generally. [More…]

• The scope of these basic changes is beyond this debate, but a majority of small country centres have been so affected that even a small change in the composition of the work force spreads hardship in the community. [More…]

• An example is the proposed reorganisation of postal services throughout the Commonwealth; this may involve the transfer of only a few personnel and families but it can have a serious impact on economic activity in a small community. [More…]

• When a measure is introduced to provide employment for rural workers caught through no fault of their own in the massive restructuring of the rural industries and the rural community, the Government’s response is contemptibly lethargic. [More…]

• Designed as it is to meet the emerging social and economic problem of unemployment in nonmetropolitan areas, the scheme will I believe be warmly welcomed by the House and by the community at large. [More…]

• Therefore the Government has shown a national outlook in bringing a statement like this forward for the good of the whole community. [More…]

• I resent the fact that we have not tackled the Teal problems of our community as they exist at the present time. [More…]

• It is clear that the Opposition wants to give all the assistance to the farming community. [More…]

• If we are to employ people we have to employ them gainfully so that what they do is worthwhile, not only for them but also for the community. [More…]

• We have 2 types of unemployment; we have metropolitan unemployment which is certainly growing much more rap idly now, but it is not of the same nature orproportion as it is in rural areas where there is large long-term hard-core unemployment brought about by the structural changes in the rural community which have been caused by the crisis in rural industries. [More…]

• He continues with another bright idea, not that he is just trying to be bright but because he perceives a need in human terms for the community. [More…]

• I would suggest that it is time we recognised that this community is rich enough to afford a little bit of adventure, a little bit of inspiration and a little bit of courage in grappling with something that is new, some thing that we have not tried before. [More…]

• In any case for the future health and welfare of this community in terms of its intellectual and emotional development it is vital that we should develop this new form of communication. [More…]

• For these reasons I feel that the Government is betraying itself and the whole community is being so timid and so reluctant to proceed with what was in my view a very modest proposal put forward by the Interim Council. [More…]

• I take the firm view that most people in the community cannot avoid the legal obligation to pay taxation and that those who try to be clever about the inadequacies of the law deserve to be met with the harshest consequences if it is felt that they are subverting the principle of an Act. [More…]

• I and my Party are with the Treasurer on any legitimate attempt to close these loopholes to those who might be described as the shrewd lawyers in the community; alt praise to their professional ability but no praise to their zeal as far as bending the law is concerned. [More…]

• I think it is a terrible thing in the community when literally anybody with virtually no capital, and not having even to indicate any provision in relation to the policies he writes or in relation to the risk that may be incurred, does not have to spell out any kind of ratio. [More…]

• This goes for the people of Pakistan and the suffering refugees who, more than ever, will become the responsibility of the world community. [More…]

• They have very definite personal responsibilities to the people whom they represent, and they have definite personal reponsibilities because they are a part of the Australian community. [More…]

• It became no longer work but a service to the Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• 1 want to say something about the remarks made by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) w’.-.en he sought to defend the extraordinarily high salaries that had been set for certain statutory officers at a time when the Government was calling upon the ordinary wage plug in the community for restraint. [More…]

• lt went to the Senate, and in the Senate there was a discrimination against members of the wage earning sector of the community who are equated with the Second Division and who historically have received the same increase as was awarded by the Arbitrator to the Second Division. [More…]

• Is it realistic that the Nhulunbuy community should not have access to the same social amenities as other Northern Territory towns of the same size? [More…]

• Evidence as to the provision of amenities such as a canteen and provision for the families there in a community centre was given by the Site Administration Officer at Nabalco. [More…]

• The text of a statement issued recently on the matter by the Bishop of the Northern Territory, the Right Reverend K. Mason and the Church Missionary, Society Field Superintendent, Mr P. Leske, is given at the end of the answer as it puts the Church and Mission views on the effects of drinking on the Oenpelli community. [More…]

• I also spoke to the Oenpelli community about this matter earlier this year when 1 visited there. [More…]

• The Minister for Health has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The health services field is extensive, covering such areas as hospitals, nursing homes, mental health institutions, medical services, community health, environmental health and quarantine. [More…]

• The Council has since met at least twice a year, with advice and recommendations on a wide range of matters affecting the health of the community flowing from these sessions to both Commonwealth and State Governments. [More…]

• I have also instructed my Department to examine more effective ways of encouraging eligible persons to participate in the Plan, lt is envisaged that the examination will encompass wider use of social workers, charitable organisations and other appropriate welfare groups in the community. [More…]

• Also, in my statement to the House on December 7 on the outcome of that review, I said that the Government was taking the opportunity to outline its proposals to the entire community to enable responsible consideration to be given to hat is intended by the Government. [More…]

• Does the Government, regard the sustenance of the East Pakistani refugees presently in India as the primary responsibility of the (a) Indian Government, (b) Pakistan Government or (c) international community. [More…]

• Latrobe Vasey, Portland and Wodonga Albury in the Melbourne metropolitan area for call charging purposes would entail an extension of the limits of the existing Melbourne local call area which simply could not be justified on economic grounds H .would also entail a heavy increase on the rentals for telephone services in those country areas, which, although offset lo some degree- by a reduction in call fees, would be objected to strongly by those subscribers who did not have a marked community of interest with the metropolitan area and therefore did not call Melbourne subscribers very often. [More…]

• The provisions relating to expenditure on community facilities are as follows: [More…]

• lt can be argued that cockpit audio recorders involve, in some measure, considerations such as invasion of privacy and, for these reasons, the Federation was concerned that, in matters such as litigation, their members were exposed beyond the extent of exposure of other members of the community. [More…]

• The respective State Governments are responsible for the provision of State health services including community health ‘ centres. [More…]

• government schools and pre-schools in the Australian Capital Territory and community pre-schools and schools in the Northern. [More…]

• l( he was unaware of the powers, will he now use i hem when necessary in the community interest. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the University of Western Australia respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• That, as part of the world community, the Australian Government has a responsibility for concerted action. [More…]

• These have come from private individuals within the community rather than from commercial interests or the media. [More…]

• It sows dissent and division in the community; it favours the rich and suppresses the poor and the average citizen. [More…]

• However, the Labor Party is not reticent about making exorbitant promises at election time, promises to help in this section of the community or in something else which would ultimately mean crashing taxation or runaway deficit financing. [More…]

• Unfortunately there is a widespread view in the community that the answer to all our economic problems lies in the simple solution of wage and price controls, lt is easy to say that we should have such controls, lt is easy to say that they would work and that they would have the desired effect but the evidence of experience in other countries suggests a different result. [More…]

• Here is their chance to insert controls on the economy in the directions which they desire; and regrettably there are prejudiced people in the community who think that this form of controlling inflation has appeal. [More…]

• The Committee considered that the Commonwealth now had to discharge a responsibility of government which did no; exist when the Constitution was originally framed, namely, to safeguard and promote the economic welfare of the community of Australia. [More…]

• Not only have wages and salaries risen considerably faster than the volume of goods and services being produced but they have also risen faster than all other incomes, including profits, in the community. [More…]

• I believe that this House and the Australian community are indebted to the Opposition for making it clear that it stands for a system of price control in this country, a system which honourable members on this side of the House know to be a discredited system which is an ineffective and inefficient way of curbing prices. [More…]

• A government which continues to give higher and higher tariffs to a company that extracts higher and higher profits from the community is a government that is not fit to govern any longer. [More…]

• The Government seeks to evade a vote on the suspension of Standing Orders because it does not want the public to know how it is protecting its great and wealthy interests in the community irrespective of the effect on the living standards of Australians everywhere. [More…]

• The Australian people should realise that there is patronage unlimited for BHP; there is suppression for the workers of this country; there is unlimited unemployment under the policy being sponsored by this Government which refuses, on a great national issue affecting every wage earner in the community and every person in the country districts, to allow a vote to be taken. [More…]

• While the Government is taking measures to increase employment there are certain elements in the community which are deliberately working to create unemployment. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster) pointed out, people are living in poverty in the community today. [More…]

• It must be seen in the light of Government economic policy aimed at increasing unemployment for the purpose of reducing any wage bartering within the community. [More…]

• But the Government has attacked the wage and salary earners of the community. [More…]

• Within our society the position of economic independence in the light of what I am putting to the House from sources regarded as fairly powerful authorities in the field of welfare work emphasises that reasonable money resources play a dominant role and is essential to the mental welfare of people in our community. [More…]

• There are no proposals to allow for the rate of inflation which is accelerating in the community and which will erode the purchasing power of this money. [More…]

• there has been an accelerating push forward and no attempt has been made by the Government to combat these real causes of inflation within the community. [More…]

• It is obvious that there is no adequate programme to overcome unemployment within the community and, least of all, in the metropolitan areas where the greatest number of unemployed reside - more than 56 per cent of the total number of unemployed. [More…]

• Just think of the things we have to do, of the hospitals which are so urgently needed in the community, the schools and sewerage reticulation. [More…]

• Think of all the road and rail services that need to be provided, the desperate shortage of houses for so many people in our community. [More…]

• The honourable member also went on to talk about the cause of unemployment and alluded to other causes of which we are all very conscious at the present time, lt is true, and it is accepted in the community, that a good deal of unemployment is a deliberate result of Government policy. [More…]

• It was aimed at preventing what the Government expected to be over spending in the community. [More…]

• The Government believed that the public had stored up so much savings that it was just about to descend on the community with a spending splurge which would give greater impetus to inflation in the country. [More…]

• We had steep increases in both direct and indirect taxation in order to take away some of the community’s spending power - in other words, to contract employment and business and economic activity in the community. [More…]

• Those who go around our electorates are hearing complaints frequently from business people who say that there has been a loss of confidence in business circles in the community and that there has been this contraction of economic” activity. [More…]

• There is this Curbed demand, this incidence of what is called ‘stagflation’ in the community today with restraint on investment. [More…]

• A little later in my speech I hope to get around to speaking about the effects it has had on apprenticeship intake in our community - a very vital part of our economic life. [More…]

• This is the cost to the whole community. [More…]

• In three or four years time this community will pay the penalty in the lack of skilled manpower to do the jobs that would be done by those apprentices had they had the opportunity. [More…]

• I have tried to indicate the woeful costs to the community at large, but in my view they are nothing compared with the sadness and demoralisation of many of our young people and not so young people. [More…]

• Australia is now facing a very important trade upset at the present time with the United Kingdom about to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We will never have full employment until we restore confidence in the community as my friend the honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe) so rightly said. [More…]

• It has to have the co-operation of those sections of the community which are so vitally affected and whose actions have such a bearing on the unemployment and inflationary problems facing Australia. [More…]

• So it boils down to the fact that there must be an effort by the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• If unemployment becomes, as it is at the moment, a great risk in the community, people will want higher wages and greater savings. [More…]

• In my electorate it has been left to the churches, community service groups and the Springvale, Dandenong, Berwick and Cranbourne local councils to supplement assistance in the form of food vouchers, with very little active participation on behalf of some employers. [More…]

• It is about time that employers realised that they also have a responsibility within the community in which their products are produced. [More…]

• One cannot readily assess the importance of a voluntary effort within a community. [More…]

• As these increased subsidies are urgently awaited within the community, I am sure that this Bill will have a speedy passage through the Parliament. [More…]

• The National Radiation Advisory Committee was appointed by the Government in 1957 lo provide guidance in any matter pertaining to the effects of ionising radiation in the Australian community. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• Exploration rights will be granted on the basis that the granting of development rights will be deferred if, in the Government’s view, they would be detrimental to the interests and well-being of an Aboriginal community in the area. [More…]

• It is possible under these proposals for a community or group of Aborigines to obtain a 50-year lease of land at a nominal rent for a variety of purposes. [More…]

• It does not mean that if the community still has the same needs it cannot obtain a further 50-year lease. [More…]

• On the other hand, the granting of a freehold title to a community provides a degree of inflexibility which may not be in the best interests of future generations. [More…]

• It is interesting that, in an interview that Mr Roy Marika and other members of the Yirrkala community had with the Prime Minister a few days ago, they intimated that they were contemplating applying for a general purpose lease in the Gove area. [More…]

• At the Port Keats mission community I saw Aborigines engaged in making bricks, sawing timber and erecting their own homes - in fact, entering into this new way of life. [More…]

• At Yuendumu the Aborigines have made remarkable progress; they have their own modern community hall, a community store and various worthwhile enterprises. [More…]

• The boundaries of the reserves of the Northern Territory represent the facts of history and not areas which were set aside to provide an economic future for each clan or community. [More…]

• 1 think that that would tend to divide the Australian community. [More…]

• This might be said to reflect what is happening in the wider community. [More…]

• Residential colleges for students progressing to community high schools are operating in Darwin and Gove. [More…]

• It is expected that in 1975 over 1,100 children will be attending community or special secondary schools. [More…]

• These local communities carry on many activities, such as the conduct of stores and market garden enterprises and social ventures which promote community development. [More…]

• I believe it is essential that we should avoid situations dividing the Australian community. [More…]

• We should treat them as Australians and try to ensure that they become living elements within the single Australian community. [More…]

• The situation has now been created in which Aborigines are joining the Australian community. [More…]

• The Aborigines who step into the community to assert their rights, to show what they stand for and to speak in their own right are speaking as part of the real Australian community. [More…]

• It is all right for the Minister to talk about equality and about putting people into the community with an equal identity. [More…]

• In the last 160 or 170 years we have done everything to create for the Aboriginal people a state of mind whereby they do not feel identified with the Australian community. [More…]

• Compare that with the community in which we live. [More…]

• This is a community in which 40 years ago we almost achieved the world’s best figures in infant mortality and today we have the world’s highest mortality rate for the world’s most ancient people. [More…]

• Nobody in the community can feel equal unless the economic conditions behind them and the Government resources placed at their disposal arc equal. [More…]

• If permits were granted to these people to carry weapons, any other member of the community must be granted a permit also. [More…]

• We recognise that many Aborigines who live on settlements and reserves in country areas will choose to come to the city where greater opportunities exist just as many people who live in rural areas choose to come to the city, but we believe that the decision to assimilate with the broad Australian community should be made by free choice. [More…]

• Until all Aborigines become independent members of the Australian community, land must be reserved for their use normally within their tribal territories. [More…]

• It sees Aboriginal land rights as being a transitional phase in the history of the Aboriginal people from which they eventually will emerge when they merge into the Australian community. [More…]

• However, what we do say is that the Aboriginal community in this country is the most easily identifiable group of underprivileged people and of culturally deprived people. [More…]

• It is our task in this generation - in our time - and it is our responsibility as members of the Federal Parliament with a direct responsibility in the Northern Territory to carry into effect such enlightened policies as will enable people in the future to say: ‘Many wrongs were done to the Aboriginal people of Australia but in the 1970s the Parliament of the day rectified the position and set the Aborigines on the road to equal opportunity in the Australian community’. [More…]

• He spoke as though it is virtuous to talk of the Aboriginal people or their tribal situation and local communities and of placing them into Kormilda College at Darwin and Yirara Community College which is being built at Alice Springs. [More…]

• He spoke as though it is desirable in any community to take the young men and women away a” a tender age because the Government of the country is not prepared to do for Aboriginal people what it does for white people in every State. [More…]

• That is the state of the Aboriginal community in Australia. [More…]

• It is a meeting place for the community. [More…]

• The Post Office is also a service organisation for the community. [More…]

• In either area it is necessary that there be business judgments and that there be judgments in relation to the elements of service which are to be provided for the community. [More…]

• I believe that that is sufficient indication that the Post Office is regarded as a service organisation and thai the motive of profit is not considered in relation to (hat element of service to the Australian community. [More…]

• I want to say to the honourable member for Macarthur and to the House that the criteria in relation to whether a post office stays open or is closed is a matter for determination by the efficient officers within my own Department and under no circumstances is a post office or a postal service to be seen to be a drain in relation to wasteful expenditure within the community. [More…]

• At that time what was the method of transport in the Australian community? [More…]

• It was necessary to serve a small community with a post office because it was virtually impossible, due to the condition of the roads and the method of transport, for people to move into the larger and more populated areas. [More…]

• This is part of the changing scene which makes it unnecessary in my view to serve a small community with a post office. [More…]

• 1 say that the changes which have taken place within the community have justified a new approach to be adopted by the Post Office in its administration of postal services. [More…]

• It is not my responsibility nor is it the responsibility of the Post Office to maintain that sort of loss situation throughout the community. [More…]

• Would it say that the Post Office must accept a liability of $1,000 or $1,500 a year merely to serve a community of 30 or 40 people who, generally speaking, find it more convenient to travel to a larger place to carry out their postal business? [More…]

• They might form only a small community, but does the Postmaster-General’s Department take this other factor into account? [More…]

• Surely the criterion is the service that that post office gives to the community. [More…]

• The largest groups of teachers in mainland Australia of direct concern to the Commonwealth are those employed in community schools in the Northern Territory and in government schools in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• A first purpose of this Bill there fore will be to make immediate provision for Commonwealth staffing of the 2 school systems for the Northern Territory, that is, the community schools conducted by my Department, which have been staffed until recently by South Australia, and the special Aboriginal schools staffed by teachers employed by the Department of the Interior under the Commonwealth Public Service Act. [More…]

• It is the Government’s belief that educational decisions should be made as far as possible in the school system serving a particular community and that the school system should reflect any special elements df the community it serves. [More…]

• I, personally, would be surprised if, over the years, significant and worthwhile differences did not develop between the system of community schools ultimately adopted in the Northern Territory and the school system adopted in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• My Department is at present responsible for the operation of community schools in the Northern Territory and, as such, is an authority under clause 16 (2) of the Bill. [More…]

• The Australian Teachers Federation has also suggested that the Commonwealth Teaching Service Commissioner should be assisted by a recognised advisory council representing all sections of the community. [More…]

• We would all be aware of the deep concern in the Australian community at these tragic and appalling events. [More…]

• This is not the atmosphere in which to build a new era of community relations and civil peace. [More…]

• It means a just allocation of community services, such as housing and education. [More…]

• Isolated noise measurements are not in themselves meaningful and do not indicate general community noise exposure. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• I give the House and the community the assurance that the completion of the 7th stage, or even further advancement in terms of extension of national services to the people of this country, will not be interfered with by the introduction of colour television on 1st March 1975. [More…]

• The citizen in the street who has some problem - he might not be particularly well educated and, he may be in the lower income group of the community, and b; deficient in funds - often does not know where to turn for help. [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…]

• They comprise a very deserving section of the community. [More…]

• The outcry from all sections of the community is causing it to have second thoughts, not because it does not want unemployment but because it is concerned at the effect this will have on its electoral prospects. [More…]

• Everybody in the community recognises the inadequacy of the Government. [More…]

• Members opposite know that the higher the unemployment, the more they can confuse the issue and take away the confidence of the business community and others and the greater they can take away the enthusiasm of people who want to invest in this country, the greater will be their chances of success. [More…]

• I say that the real cause of unemployment is the failure of this Government in the economic field and its failure to provide in a sound and sensible way a policy that will maintain full employment throughout the community. [More…]

• Even though the product may be oversupplied in some markets, the Board should be congratulated for the initiative it took almost 11 years ago to diversify into markets other than the traditional market in the United Kingdom, particularly when at that point of time and since then there had been warnings given of the inevitable joining of the European Economic Community by Great Britain. [More…]

• I do not think that anybody would argue positively that we will retain a significant share of the European Economic Community market. [More…]

• At present it is divided into powerful economic trading blocs dominated by the European Economic Community, [More…]

• I say this although in the last week there has been an emerging problem of surpluses cropping up in European Economic Community areas. [More…]

• This is a remarkable achievement in an area where there is tremendous competition for markets, especially now that Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community is a reality. [More…]

• The price of butter to the English consumer will rise when the United Kingdom firmly enters the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But I do feel that there is still an opportunity for us to sell our products in the United Kingdom and in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Indeed, 1 believe there has been general agreement in the community that these measures will strengthen business confidence and provide a stimulus to economic activity generally. [More…]

• What it does do - and it has not only a right but also, in the public interest, a duty in this connection - is to point out to the arbitral authorities the facts of the economic situation, and the consequences of their decisions for the economy and the community. [More…]

• The achievement of our objectives will also require the co-operation and determination of the community to provide full support to these policies. [More…]

• From the viewpoint of the community, 2 important things stand out from what I have said. [More…]

• This, I think, is now being recognised, and it means among other things that members of the business community can make their decisions with full ‘confidence in the continued steady growth of the economy. [More…]

• The tackling of inflation is the’ responsibility of every person in the community and it is in everyone’s long term interests. [More…]

• I submit - and we said this only 2 days ago - that insofar as consideration is given only to wages as the generator of inflation in this community, this economic decline will continue. [More…]

• I think we of the Opposition expressed it in this way: While wages may be the greatest single element of costs in any community they are also the greatest single source of consumer spending. [More…]

• There are still many people in the Australian community who do not receive enough. [More…]

• This is happening in a community that calls itself a Christian community which is supposed to believe in the blessings of family life and so on. [More…]

• The latest forecasts for the European Economic Community countries point to a build-up of 265,000 tons by the end of 1972. [More…]

• We know that in the last 2 weeks the figure has increased - that is, to the end of January or mid-February - to about 190,000 tons, and dumped sales of butter have been recommended by the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In the grain industry this buffer stock has been developed to the stage where the European Economic Community and the United States of America have been able to get together and say that they agree to increase the stockpile of grain to help to stabilise world grain prices. [More…]

• I know that it is easier and cheaper to store wool and grain than it is to store dairy products, but I believe that the advantages of a guaranteed -supply and the great importance to the future stability of international trade in dairy products make it of vital importance that the international dairy community accepts the desirability and the inevitability of some form of buffer stock or stockpile situation. [More…]

• I am sure that whilst there is a basis for some real heart to come into this industry in the immediate future we must still proceed with a degree of caution and that caution must, of course, be related to the ultimate effect of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It has been suggested tonight by some members of the Opposition that there was nothing to worry about in the days when there was an apparent surplus in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Indeed, unfortunately there is already a developing circumstance within the European Community which, as the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) said a moment ago, has led to current statistics showing a level of about 189,000 tons of butter in stocks, which I am told represents a surplus of around 50,000 tons. [More…]

• As a result the European Economic Community, with its price support mechanism, has already reintroduced export restrictions on bulk butter at the rate of $US400 per metric ton. [More…]

• Those honourable members who are interested in dairy exports will know that, as a result of the price increase in butter following the shortfall in European Economic Community supplies, there has been a reduction of some 25 per cent in the consumption of butter in the United Kingdom. [More…]

• I am advised that the Community’s intervention prices which will apply after Britain’s entry will probably be fixed at around the current levels of butter prices. [More…]

• That, combined with the already apparent increase in butter production in the European Economic Community and with other forces in the producing world - for example, the United States export position which this year has seen a sales programme involving sales of some 61,000 tons of butter but which at 1st December 1971 has still left stocks in the United States some 8,000 tons higher than the 60,000 tons in stock a year earlier - leads us to be apprehensive about future aspects. [More…]

• position of the European Economic Community stocks and world market prospects is one of uncertainty, and I think it is foolish for those who in this House today and tonight have encouraged dairy farmers to produce without limit to think that by so doing they will add to the profitability of dairy fanners. [More…]

• to present a balance of views on issues of concern to the community. [More…]

• to present a balance of views on issues of concern to the community. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• I would have thought that such a state is not reached by promising to spend money every time a group in the community makes a demand or that such a state is not reached by advocating on every occasion less work and more pay, as do the Labor Opposition and many trade union officials. [More…]

• The Treasurer has indicated that the increased costs to the total Australian community resulting from a 35-hour week would be $2,600m a year. [More…]

• For the rural community it would add 13c to the cost of producing a bushel of wheat. [More…]

• After all, they do not have to pay the extra amounts; it is the community that pays. [More…]

• There is in the community, I believe, at the present time a strong sentiment, to which I for my part subscribe with firm conviction, that it just is not correct to place all or nearly all of the blame for cost-push inflation on the activities of the trade union movement under the leadership of Mr Hawke. [More…]

• It is a policy of a prices justification authority to determine whether there is justification for the prices being claimed for the basic commodities in our community. [More…]

• 1 know that there are difficulties about providing good public transport, but the answer is to provide it and accept it as a charge on the community rather than try to limit and restrict the service to service based upon some outmoded test of how we can make it pay or whether it can produce a profit, because it clearly cannot and it never has. [More…]

• In this period there has been a substantial increase in wages and salaries generally and, of course, the services to the community ultimately must be paid for by somebody. [More…]

• This Ordinance has been widely canvassed in the community. [More…]

• I would hope that in the very near future an announcement will be made along these lines to try to improve the general services to the Canberra community. [More…]

• Our suspicions of the motives of the Government are increased when it is noted that the ownership and control provisions of the Act are again to be amended to give protection to certain privileged persons and companies in the community which have more than a prescribed interest in television and broadcasting stations and are likely to lose that protection by an alteration in their shareholding. [More…]

• It is not correct to give certain people in the community who had these interests before 1964 advantages that are not now offered to any other television licensee or to any other person who now buys into television or radio stations. [More…]

• If these interests turned against this Government in the next 6 months Government supporters would hardly have a seat amongst them and I do not believe that any person who is not answerable to the community and the people at the ballot box should have that power in his hands. [More…]

• The one doubt I do have about this proposal, having been engaged in the industry myself for many years, is that it may well encourage the very substantial - if I can use the phrase without any disrespect - crackpot sector of the community to wish to have access to every utterance that is made both on radio and in television. [More…]

• It is incumbent upon the licensee to provide a diligent and intelligent service to the community. [More…]

• In my view, it is essential that the licensees display a much greater sense of community and public responsibility. [More…]

• As the Anglican community of Sydney pointed out about a fortnight or 3 weeks ago, the proprietors of mass media must realise the great debt that they owe to the community and they must realise that statements made in the newspapers and by the other mass media have to be truthful and factual in every detail. [More…]

• We can all realise from the escalating costs of our own electioneering broadcasts the utter impossibility of the ordinary worker or small businessman wanting to serve the community in this field, meeting the costs of a properly presented, full representation of himself and his policies. [More…]

• It is time that a firm decision was made and ensuing legislation brought down for the provision of equal free time for local government candidates, State parliamentary candidates, Federal parliamentary candidates or, for that matter, any person standing for an elected position of important community function where most of the community population has the right to vote or will be affected by an election. [More…]

• It seems to me that to bring consideration or these groups together and to make the work of the Board satisfactory - I emphasise the word - for the benefit of the community and the Parliament, first of all, it is desirable that there be a spread of work and, secondly, it is necessary to have this 6 months to 3 years provision to enable the groupings to be made and dealt with in the future satisfactorily. [More…]

• He suggests, of course, that these are great monopoly interests which have no interest on behalf of the community. [More…]

• They exist among members of the Australian Labor Party as well as among other people in the community. [More…]

• 1 ask honourable members to look at the position commercial television and broadcasting stations hold in the community and I use figures from the 23rd annual report of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]

• What can be more significant in the community than the influence of television, particularly at a time when the Government is to introduce colour television? [More…]

• After all, all the revenue of the commercial television stations and commercial radio stations comes from advertisers, and the cost of advertising is added to the prices of the goods and services which the people in the community pay. [More…]

• This is the kind of rape of the community that is going on at the present time, particularly in the name of commercial television. [More…]

• In my view television is one of the most magnificent media ever placed in the hands of a community to use, but we have allowed it to be taken over by these commercial operators. [More…]

• In a community that is supposed to be a democracy an undue influence is being exerted by the media. [More…]

• The point is that if we can lower these everrising costs to organisations, whether they be television stations or manufacturing firms, no matter what they are, the community is surely better off because of it. [More…]

• The whole viability of the community in recent days, so far as I am aware, has been the capacity of the people to do research, to invent new methods and to become efficient, and this is reflected in the benefits to the community. [More…]

• I return once again because I think it is important to the problems facing the small broadcasting stations and those marginal television stations such as Channel 10 in some States which are not making a profit but which are providing a service to the community, which televise programmes with an Australian content on matters that some of us think are important and that some of us think are worth watching. [More…]

• Last Saturday morning I called in at the local hotel and was immediately confronted with an irate constituent who said that he was disgusted with the methods used by this Government in bestowing knighthoods on various citizens in the community, claiming that it was most unfair, unjust and discriminatory. [More…]

• When Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson opened the hostel on 5th February no Aboriginal leaders had been invited to attend although the whole point of this was to get the Aboriginal community involved. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Has he noted that the Australian Medical Association has roundly condemned and repudiated this outrageous attempt by 1,000 medical men, who have been educated at public expense, to exploit the poorer sections of the community? [More…]

• The public advocacy by anyone in a position of authority and of responsibility such as the Leader of the Opposition holds, of disobedience to a valid law passed by the Commonwealth Parliament necessarily tends to undermine values that are basic to our way of life and that axe unquestionably accepted by the vast majority of citizens in the Australian community. [More…]

• That implicit principle is that until a law that is regarded by someone or by a group in the community as unjust or unconscionable is changed by due parliamentary processes, it ought to be obeyed. [More…]

• How does one judge the sincerity of a government that is prepared to prejudge a young man in our community because he holds a conscientious belief? [More…]

• According to John Stuart Mill: ‘The only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will is to prevent harm to others.’ [More…]

• I cannot readily envisage that there is likely to be much objection raised about technical standards because very few people within the community would know what the technical efficiency of a particular broadcasting or television station is. [More…]

• I do not believe that that would be the expectancy of the Opposition or of this Committee or even of the Australian community. [More…]

• I should like to know what is expected to be gained from such an inquiry, because I have no doubt in my mind that the intelligent people of the community, appreciating , the things which I have said, would in fact make representations to the Board. [More…]

• Of course, I can believe that there would be plenty of representations made by the cranks of the community but would these people really be contributing anything to broadcasting or televising? [More…]

• If the Board must visit the local area at the time, of application for licence renewal, as it now does at the time of an initial licence issue, a good deal of time will be taken up unnecessarily by the Board in visiting local areas in our widespread community. [More…]

• Do members of the Opposition have no regard for the costs of maintaining these operations and can they not make an assessment between the costs and the virtue or the value that is obtained from the extra expenditure I say to the Committee, as I say to the Australian community, that I do not believe there is any justification for increasing the number of Board members or the staff of the Broadcasting Control Board and, therefore, the cost to the community of maintaining this organisation. [More…]

• There is a great feeling amongst many people in the community that a number of licensees are using some sort of escape route. [More…]

• Even in the public interest one might find that it is not just ratbags in the community who are interested in how a particular station applying for renewal of its licence is handling its affairs but a number of interested groups who are realising more and more the power of the media and the wide range of subjects which may be raised not only at national or local level but also at international level. [More…]

• Most of us are concerned with the impact of television on the community. [More…]

• The impact of radio on the community cannot be compared with the visual impact of television. [More…]

• We have heard many criticisms of the impact which television programmes showing the American way of life have on our community. [More…]

• The people in the community, cranks or otherwise, who want to go and listen to the evidence that is produced by a company on its operations and to listen to the criticism that the Board might make about a licence holder would be able to do so. [More…]

• Of course the community has differing views about programmes and advertising content. [More…]

• The Minister decided that he would make an alteration so that those people who are in a privileged position in the community in holding more than the prescribed interest in television and radio stations could retain those interests without losing the safeguards that they have. [More…]

• I repeat that what is patently clear is that there is a very great deal of concern in this community today, and quite rightly so, that people should be concerned about the monopolistic control of media that have such an influence on our minds and our actions. [More…]

• It is timely, it is just, it is fair and it protects the citizen of this community. [More…]

• I think that in the first instance a person - it does not matter who he is in the community - should be entitled to know what some television station or radio station flashes through its network all over the country without giving notice or information to the person of what it has said or what it intends to say. [More…]

• The ordinary little person in this community is horrified and terrified by obtaining a court order. [More…]

• Practically everybody in the community values income more than they value their jobs and more than they value work. [More…]

• But what is most immediately harmful about loss of work is that it forces the person losing that job to exist on an income which no person regarded as a human being in a civilised community should be required to live on. [More…]

• In this instance 1 want to deal with a specific case to indicate how overprotection in the past has imposed and is imposing continual burdens on the community. [More…]

• Sweden of course is not a member of the Europen Economic Community; it belongs to the European Free Trade Association. [More…]

• People sell according to their station of life and, of course, some of them come from poor families and become some of the greatest citizens of this country and do so much for the community. [More…]

• What would really occur is that the exporters from the overseas countries and the importers in Australia would know that the Australian community would accept a certain level of prices. [More…]

• We took a great interest in cherry processing and the Government changed its mind because we were able to follow the logical argument that if a particular type of cherry processing were stopped, it would have an effect on the employment, community and business leaders that would be felt right through the local economy. [More…]

• I talk here not only of the farmer but also of the community which forms the nucleus of cotton production. [More…]

• Let us remember this: A lot of fixed costs are involved not only in the commodity or industry concerned but in the community generally. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party does not stand for a policy of simply reducing drastically a subsidy or a tariff that will indirectly smash the infrastructure of a community unless there is some viable and accepted alternative. [More…]

• I suppose it would be too fanciful to hope for ari attempt to build at least one worth while decent-sized city in each State in which an industry such as the textile industry and other industries might be aggregated to form a new community. [More…]

• This will be our opportunity because if we take a longer term view - I recognise that there are problems regarding employment in Australia today - with Britain entering the European Economic Community there will be considerable unemployment in the north of England. [More…]

• We have to look at Australia as generally speaking a largely self-contained community. [More…]

• There are some things in the community which are no dearer now than they used to be. [More…]

• I will do everything in my power to protect him and I will do everything in my power to show to the Australian community the immorality of the people who are pursuing him. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Comonweallh revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• This question effectively demonstrates the lack of concern by members of the Opposition about the operations of private enterprise in this community. [More…]

• It is submitted that these characteristics of metropolitan Sydney are adversely influencing the quality of government and community organisation, the character of socio-industrial relations, and the overall quality of the living environment. [More…]

• It could not be anything else for a party that looks after the sort of people in the community that we look after, whose jobs need protecting. [More…]

• In the future one can expect that this trade will increase because the trade preferences between the United Kingdom and New Zealand can be expected to be phased out as Britain joins the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The basic problem as I see it is that there is a difference between an established industry in which the resources are established and which has an infrastructure built round it - there might be communities, cities or towns, and any decision of a major nature can affect the whole economic life of that community - and an infant industry, a new industry starring up under the umbrella of protection. [More…]

• The honourable member for Dawson seems to be concerned that some of our motor manufacturers are going to New Zealand and will be selling parts back to Australia to cheapen the product to the Australian community. [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…]

• This is the position to which sections of the community are being driven. [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…]

• Council in October 1970 set up a sub-committee of its Nursing Committee to consider the present and future roles of the nurse in relation to the needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• As our principal export commodity it has secured, not only for those engaged in its production but also for those engaged in other sectors of the Australian community, a measure of benefit which has contributed to the old saying that Australia has virtually grown up on the sheep’s back. [More…]

• It has been in recognition of this fact that the Government has been progressively over the last few years introducing a number of specific aid programmes designed to combat both the economic and social adversity which wool growers and the Australian community face as a result of the price decline. [More…]

• If that should be so, it is a matter of recourse to the normal facilities available to the members of the community for the breach of any contractual arrangement. [More…]

• It is not as if the community will lose money. [More…]

• They repay manyfold the community’s investment in them. [More…]

• That possibility has to be weighed against the possibility of increased costs to another section of the community. [More…]

• This exhibits a lamentable lack of understanding of the attitude of the farming community. [More…]

• Moreover, there may result unnecessary hardship to employees and a grave loss of skills to the community. [More…]

• As my friend the Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Labour and National Service has said - it is a very significant truth - the fact that this scheme has not been so much availed of as the honourable member for Kingston quite illogically suggested it should have been, is a tribute to the fact that the problem of redundancy due (o technological change in this community is, happily, not as great as it was feared it might be. [More…]

• It is a matter of extreme good fortune and it is a matter of congratulation to the employers in the community that the need for it has not been as great as was feared. [More…]

• The retraining scheme is a mockery and an insult to fanners and the farming community. [More…]

• Australia needs a single coherent and integrated system of retraining for the community as a whole. [More…]

• Until we have a single training scheme in the community as a whole we will continue to squander the future of thousands of people in this country, including those in the farming community. [More…]

• Those honourable members on the other side of the House who are weeping tears over the problems of the rural community are the very ones who are creating the only real problem we have, that is, the problem of costs. [More…]

• I refer to the Canberra Community Hospital, the Woden Valley Hospital, Calvary Hospital, Belconnen Hospital, and at a considerable time in the future, the Tuggeranong Hospital. [More…]

• I think that the kernel of what the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) was putting to the House was this: How did the responsible authorities - I exempt the Committee, which was asked merely to make a considered judgment on a Commonwealth works undertaking and that alone: it was not given a broader brief - sitting in Cabinet and in the Department of Health make the decision that this centralised feature will provide not only greater economic but also greater social advantage to the community? [More…]

• It is a matter of planning and projecting the needs of the community into the future, not only for hospitals but also for public health services. [More…]

• To change the scheme as fundamentally as is proposed here with out at this stage looking at the broader question of the community as a whole would be. [More…]

• quite an unfortunate step to take because at least we are getting the community to come around to the point where it believes that something in the nature of national superannuation should be introduced. [More…]

• When one takes the community as a whole, there are something like 690,000 people in Government funds, which represents only about oneseventh of what is described as the work force; the number in private funds is very difficult to ascertain. [More…]

• They are viable only in the social contractual sense, and that is that those who are contributing today are prepared to allow those who have retired to purchase goods and services produced by the rest of the community. [More…]

• I think it was well described by somebody in a graphic way that while individuals grow old and proceed from the cradle to the grave, the community does not grow old. [More…]

• It is the community as a whole that pays one way or another for those who are in retirement. [More…]

• At least this makes rather a jest of what were called ‘actuarial computations’ in the past; but I think this jest becomes unjust if those who happen to have been unfortunate enough to have contributed to those funds in essence are compensated for these things by the rest of the community. [More…]

• I suggest that this ultimately is what the community as a whole has to decide. [More…]

• At least the contributors to the fund are beneficiaries of the higher interest rate, but the rest of the community are debtors in that kind of situation. [More…]

• I hope that it will acknowledge not only that there is a community obligation to the Commonwealth and the States as more model employers than some others but also that something has to be done about the vast majority of the community who live as employees of what is described as ‘private enterprise’. [More…]

• Activity in the European Economic Community also will not assist us. [More…]

• 10 per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Today the South Vietnamese have a community which is politically stable and economically suitable. [More…]

• There is nit picking by the Opposition and an attempt to prevent question time from being satisfactorily used in order to elicit information that will be valuable to the community. [More…]

• The widening of access to and understanding and appreciation of the arts in the community generally, the expression of an Australian identity through the arts: and [More…]

• I am pleased that the Government recognises, or seems to recognise, the role that the crafts can play in our society, but I sincerely hope that the committee will see a broader perspective of people involved in craft activity in the community than merely to equate craftsmen with tradesmen, which is the sort of inference that 1 draw, not exclusively but overwhelmingly, from the Minister’s statement. [More…]

• The problem is one of extreme alienation of people in the community. [More…]

• To me, although the proposition which we have here is some further encouragement to our effort in relation to the arts and culture in the community it is also further evidence of what I see to be the inherent defect in everything the Government does, and therefore everything the Parliament does, because the Government’s majority determines what is going to go through. [More…]

• By and large, support for arts and culture in the Australian community is support for middle class people. [More…]

• It is obvious that this must be so, given the present structure of our educational system and the general socio-economic disadvantage in our community. [More…]

• I feel more than aggrieved; i feel extremely angry, because I believe that the great bulk of people in this community are being deprived of a very valuable thing in life. [More…]

• The motivation which will encourage people to take up the sorts of policies we develop in this community, by and large because of the peculiar sorts of experiences we have between class groups, belongs to the middle class people rather than to the people in the lower socioeconomic groups. [More…]

• I conclude by reiterating that I hope the Government is not going to suspend the valuable work which has so far been conducted or supported by the Arts Council in an effort to expand activity in the crafts in the community. [More…]

• More importantly, 1. suppose, though to some extent concurrently, it will be catastrophic for many of the low income earners in the community [More…]

• A volunteer body such as this which is performing such valuable service to the community should never have to worry about raising sufficient finance to maintain its operations. [More…]

• I ask the Government to consider seriously some form of financial assistance to help these volunteers to continue their valuable service to the community around our coastline. [More…]

• is prepared to union bash, to assial the 5.5 million blue and white collar wage and salary earners in the community, lecturing them on the need for wage restraint, intervening in wage claim cases to oppose these wage and salary earners claims, and imposing harsh penalties for those who break the rules. [More…]

• The fee for service system has no regard for the broader aspects of community health, such as preventive medicine. [More…]

• This will provide, not on a compulsory basis but parallel with the existing private medical service, an adequate salaried structure which will enable an overall programme of total community health care. [More…]

• In some cases, I know, there have been complaints that organisations have raised their maintenance charges to occupants, but with rising costs in the community, particularly wage costs, some increases are inevitable. [More…]

• 1 think honourable members will recognise that our aged persons homes legislation not only has given happiness and security to the people who become residents under it, but also has taken a load off the remaining small fraction of the pensioner community which still rents its accommodation, because the construction of these aged persons homes and their occupation by pensioners has substantially reduced the pressure on other accommodation and has made this other accommodation available to other pensioners, under less crowded conditions or at a cheaper rate. [More…]

• The Minister knows as well as I do that the people at greatest risk to poverty in the Australian community, following on the Melbourne survey into poverty, are the aged. [More…]

• If we throw in the fact that quite a number of these people have accommodation problems and also the fact that they are in the worst situation of all where they are totally dependent on the age pension we would then get some concept of a problem of poverty existing in our community directly related to inadequate housing. [More…]

• The demand for accommodation in many suburbs for the section of the community so deserving of our help is greater than the supply and many elderly citizens still live in substandard housing conditions. [More…]

• What a great impact on accommodation in the community has been made by the provision of aged persons homes, hostels and nursing homes. [More…]

• I have pointed out that religious organisations conduct the greatest number of aged persons homes, but this should not deter other responsible and community institutions from taking over the sponsorship of such homes. [More…]

• Service organisations such as Rotary, Apex, Lions, Quota and Jaycees have great community interest in many “ot our towns and have interested themselves in the establishment of aged persons homes. [More…]

• I think this is a good thing because it gives people in a community a sense of citizenship. [More…]

• It must give them great satisfaction to know that they can contribute to an age institution or a hostel in their community that will provide comfort and solace to aged people. [More…]

• They realise that you know that they have been citizens of the community and that they have given their lives in service to the community. [More…]

• But I think that when we start talking about record numbers or record achievements we have to line up what has been achieved against what the need is in the community. [More…]

• So, on that index alone of the waiting time for a housing commission home these are people in the community who are in very great need to be served. [More…]

• But, of course, we have to keep in mind that as the years go by the numbers of elderly people in our community also will increase. [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…]

• How does this measure up with the Minister’s protestations about wanting to establish equality of educational opportunity in our community? [More…]

• One can understand - although I do not always countenance the kind of propaganda used - the demand that is growing in our community for some public accountability for these amounts of public money that are made available to these approved educational institutions. [More…]

• I sympathise with them in their dilemma but I cannot for the life of me understand why hard pressed schools within the private sector get only the same amount that is given to the wealthy schools in the community. [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…]

• There is no doubt at all that not only in education but in practically every other field the incentive of competition is a valuable and integral part of the progress and development of many other aspects of community life, lt is certainly of value in the field of education. [More…]

• One Bill deals with assistance for government schools and the other provides badly needed assistance to our independent schools so as to enable them to continue doing valuable work for the Australian community at great saving to the community as they have done over many years. [More…]

• Here is a great opportunity for experiment in Canberra - control by the community and the participation by the community in the school. [More…]

• It is significant that, despite the conservatism of the Victorian community, I think that this is happening more in Victoria, in isolated cases, than anywhere else. [More…]

• Are we not basically dedicated to what might be called an equalised community? [More…]

• But at least the public facilities at the disposal of the community ought to be equal as between individuals, and this is where we come in. [More…]

• The community is entitled to expect this when repeated efforts are made by a number of unions with members employed by Commonwealth agencies to interfere with the activities of those agencies. [More…]

• The speech delivered by the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) was obviously designed, to create the feeling that the Government wants to generate in the community - that is, to divide the people of Australia. [More…]

• This will be a perpetual source of resentment and opposition in the Australian community until it is replaced by a distribution based on need. [More…]

• When they come to the part about government and Catholic schools and the situation with respect to training teachers for those schools - it is interesting when I read this paragraph to recall the absurd allegation made by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, that the Government is endeavouring to divide the community on this matter - they say: [More…]

• I wonder who is endeavouring to divide the community - and which is their main justification for the perpetuation of their separate school system, is a matter to be entrusted to their own religious orders, and should not, in fact probably cannot under the Constitution, be a matter with which the Commonwealth Government can concern itself. [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…]

• I suggest it is a proper recognition of the role played by independent schools in the community and a proper recognition of the contribution that independent schools make and have made for many years to education in this country. [More…]

• It has been alleged that the Labor Party is trying to drive a wedge into the community. [More…]

• Until we reached the stage of having a state education system there was a large section of the community whose needs in this respect were ignored. [More…]

• The question of privilege can be supported only if it is backed up with an education so if there are people who, without the benefits of an education, remain ignorant there is a division in the community with one section of the community standing in a position of privilege because it has enjoyed the benefits of an education. [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…]

• Honourable members opposite have talked of Government members attempting to drive a wedge into the community. [More…]

• If that is not driving a wedge into the community I do not know what is. [More…]

• It draws all sorts of constitutional red herrings across the path to make it look as though there is good constitutional doctrine in favour of their stand which can only drive a wedge into the Australian community, a community which believes in freedom and diversity in education. [More…]

• We believe in a system of education whereby parents and the community have a very great involvement and whereby a school grows out of the involvement of the parents. [More…]

• Instead we would have the community rising and saying: ‘Let us put the school here’. [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…]

• Last year the League of Rights played on dormant racist feelings in the community by its overt support of the South African sporting teams and it attempted to gain some political mileage over minor changes in the Labor Party’s immigration policy. [More…]

• Firstly, it is a serious matter to make a racial or anti-Semitic statement in a multi-racial community such as Singapore as a senior supporter of the Government and indeed as a senior member of the Parliament. [More…]

• He should have made it very clear on behalf of the Government, as we would make it very clear on behalf of the Opposition, that any anti-Semitic references at any time in our community are completely and absolutely unacceptable. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• The Humble Petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• Indeed, I am given to understand that that union has been substantially responsible for encouraging the number of petitions which are circulating in the community at present. [More…]

• My intention is to reduce, not increase, drug taking in the community. [More…]

• There are now 5 major power groupings: The United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the European Community. [More…]

• It is true to say that Government supporters can place a notice of motion on the notice paper, but in the absence of any sincerity it does not mean anything to the people in the community who are concerned and who believe that something ought to be done to undo the damage that was caused by this Government imposing such a tax upon the wine industry. [More…]

• Large numbers of people in our community do not get the mythical average wage. [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…]

• I suggest to those Catholics in our community who consider their Catholicism to be the most important part of their makeup and who probably, in a significant proportion of cases, vote for the Australian Democratic Labor Party in States such as Victoria, that they talk to some of the Liberal members of Parliament, to the Liberal Ministers, to the Malcolm Frasers, the Robert Menzies, the Malcolm Mackays, the David Fairbairns, the Geoff Gilleses, the Tony Staleys and the Jim Forbeses about parochial schools, or Ireland, or the monarchy, or a truly independent Australia with a new flag and a new anthem and see how much they have in common with those people. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• The Labor Party would like to penalise these people who are voluntarily relieving the community of a substantial burden. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general actitivies which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• The humble petition of citizens of the community of the University of Tasmania respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• More than that, I think it is important that at a time when we have changing relationships with the United Kingdom because of Britain’s impending entry into the European Economic Community it has a long term significance for us. [More…]

• All that the Opposition has been putting forward in this and so many other areas is a policy which would conduce to inflation; certainly it is not a policy which would inhibit the present inflationary pressures in the Australian community. [More…]

• It has been estimated that the application of a 35-hour week throughout industry would add in excess of 9 per cent to unit costs of production, and the impact of that statement I believe will be self-evident to the Australian community. [More…]

• Establish clear guidelines for overseas investors, for the benefit both of those investors and of the Australian community. [More…]

• It increases our capital resources and adds immensely to the capital formation available in this country, without which there is no doubt that our advancement in the post-war years would have been seriously retarded and the advancement during the 1960s which has been so great and in the 1970s which promises to be even greater would not have been able to be achieved and, the general standards of living of our community would have been consequentially less. [More…]

• The Government is fulfilling its responsibilities in this vital matter in the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• If we look at the total scene we will see very clearly that if we had acted in a more precipitate fashion towards foreign investment in the last 12 months there would have been added a restrictive element which could well have made the total situation less favourable for every section of the community. [More…]

• Coming back to the points that we have made in this debate, the provision of an advisory council to assist the Commission to be representative of the community and of educational research bodies is an important consideration. [More…]

• I am right to make it answerable to the Public Service bureaucracy and I am right to exclude any members of the community from having any representation on an advisory council.’ [More…]

• What we are proposing in relation to this Bill is dignity for the teaching profession, freedom of movement of trained teachers into various educational authorities without direction, great flexibility for this body to be used in the Pacific generally than is provided for in the legislation, greater flexibility for these teachers to be used within the States, higher professional standards by developing and utilising educational faculties in universities, the participation of teachers in the government of this scheme, and the participation of the community. [More…]

• When the Minister is speaking, as he often is, about the further decentralisation of education, bringing into the educational process the interests of local communities, he advances the argument that the minds of qualified people in the community brought to bear on educational problems are a valuable addition to the government of education. [More…]

• We accept that argument and we will be interested to watch how the Minister will vote on our amendment providing for the representation of the community generally and specialised educational research bodies in the advisory council, not a governing council, to assist what we hope will be 3 commissioners responsible to the Minister, not one commissioner responsible to the Public Service Board. [More…]

• It may well be true that we have here an example of over centralisation, of authoritarianism, of lack of community representation, a downgrading of professional qualifications and various other matters of a lesser order. [More…]

• I suppose one can argue that the public in some form or other - the community - should be represented on almost anything one cares to think of, but I tend on occasions to be specialist conservative enough to think that there are some people who have learned about particular fields of interest who may be able to run their own show. [More…]

• So I do not think community representation would ensure very much. [More…]

• Yet the honourable member for Denison has just said that he saw no great merit in having participation in the policy making and administration of education by the community at large. [More…]

• I am sure that that is a view that would not be shared by many of his ex-colleagues in the teaching profession, or by the many informed people in our community. [More…]

• As I have already intimated, no obvious attempt is made in the Bill to stimulate wide community involvement. [More…]

• As a result so many people from overseas are quite amazed by the lack of community involvement and community participation in our schools. [More…]

• But not only teachers have to be considered; the community at large ought to be entitled to have some say in the running of schools. [More…]

• In America, in Great Britain and in many other countries parents and the community at large are involved in the running of schools as part of a democratic society. [More…]

• As I said previously, it is belittling the professional status of teachers and it is disregarding the genuine rights of parents, citizens and all those in the community who not only pay the piper but also have a definite interest in the educational process. [More…]

• This view was pressed very strongly by the teachers and by various community groups, but again the Commonwealth rejected it. [More…]

• Firstly, it is designed to democratise the policy making and administrative procedures of the service and to gain a genuine community involvement in the educational process. [More…]

• One of the advantages that the Austraiian educational systems did provide for the community generally was that no matter how remote you were there was an opportunity to have as qualified a teacher as if you were in a city area. [More…]

• They have transferred from the community schools to the welfare schools or vice versa. [More…]

• The provision of an advisory council to assist the commission, this council to be representative of the community and of educational research and administrative bodies. [More…]

• Where a situation develops in which members of a State teaching service are being replaced by Commonwealth teachers - for example, in Northern Territory community schools - the transfer of members of the State teaching service to the Commonwealth would be on the basis of negotiation in each individual case. [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…]

• As a result of this Bill, there is no doubt that already there are moves afoot to form some type of industrial organisation, if I may use that term, by the teachers in the community who will be seeking employment within the provisions of the Bill. [More…]

• In the increasingly cosmopolitan nature of the community this proviso is another one of those things which make people from Europe and America feel a little less at home. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• the loss to the local authority in rates and loss to the community in acreage of development area and assets. [More…]

• At the Premiers Conference on 14th February we decided that as there was expectation in the community that we would honour the word ‘suspended’ action would be taken. [More…]

• Firstly, I wanted to ensure that when the United Kingdom went into the European Economic Community we would not be placed at any disadvantage so far as the flow of money to and from Australia was concerned. [More…]

• I also took up with Mr Heath, Mr Barber and their Minister representing the United Kingdom at the Council of Ministers of the European Community the point that when Britain went into the Community it should be outward looking and consequently that it should ensure the greatest freedom of multilateral! [More…]

• A few minutes ago my colleague the Treasurer mentioned his concern at the implications of inflation in our community. [More…]

• One of the consequences of the policies that have been pursued by those who sit on the other side of this House, by those who support generally an escalation of wage rates out of line with the ability of the community to pay, is that significant parts of our economy are priced out of economic operation. [More…]

• In Tasmania there is no doubt, the apple industry is very seriously hit by the inflationary effect of escalating costs which have been very substantially assisted by rising wages out of line with the ability of the community to meet them. [More…]

• Can the Minister give any explanation as to why we maintain a system which is producing a military establishment which is unnecessary and which is causing great division inside the community? [More…]

• My purpose was to ensure that leading members of the Australian community and the Australian Parliament will not get away with making statements of this sort and will at least be dissociated from by their other colleagues. [More…]

• Quite apart from those savings, everybody in the community is a charge on the community even in such remote matters as police, libraries and the like. [More…]

• Put in those terms, there is no cost whatever and perhaps some savings to the community from this Bill or from the Minister’s prospective Bill. [More…]

• When 1 was in Italy I had no difficulty in securing a volume of bilateral treaties and conventions which Italy has made on social security, not only with the European Economic Community but with other countries which are not in the Community such as Yugoslavia and the Iberian and Scandinavian countries and also with Brazil and Argentina. [More…]

• At the present rate Britain will recognise European qualifications before we do because she will be joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• New South Wales, the Maltese Community of New South Wales, the Latvian Community in Sydney, the Lithuanian Commmunity in Sydney, the Association of Australian Slovacs, the Swiss Club of New South Wales, the Ukrainian Society of New South Wales- [More…]

• I refer now to the ‘Maltese Herald’, one of the major newspapers of the Maltese community in Australia. [More…]

• This is not accepted by the Maltese community as we feel it is a retrogressive step rather than a concession. [More…]

• The migrants of Australia, especially the 100,000-strong Maltese community, will be watching your government on this just and reasonable request. [More…]

• In many areas the Vietcong had almost a free hand in coercing the population and disrupting community life. [More…]

• The Interim Council considered that it was essential for the institute to be located on the mainland for ease of access though it was also considered important to locate the Institute close to an existing academic and scientific community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Stirling alleged that undue pressure was exerted on the Public Service Board in order to prevent wage rises, but he said nothing about the irresponsible pressure exerted by certain unions on other workers and the community generally when they refuse to make use of the means available to them to deal with their claims and resort to direct action, when ‘hey refuse to take advantage of the very processes of conciliation and arbitration which the honourable member for Stirling says he supports. [More…]

• Considering the number of workers engaged in the Public Service area and the tremendous influence they exert on the economy and the community generally, this is a ridiculous situation. [More…]

• I would hope that this may bring home to those whose acts have resulted in their fellow workers being denied the right to work some appreciation of their responsibilities to the workers they have disadvantaged and to the community as a whole. [More…]

• Public servants, like the community, should also be puzzled as to why the Minister for Labour and Conscription - National Service - should misrepresent to the Parliament and to the nation the full extent of the powers which this Bill confers upon Federal Ministers and the Public Service Arbitrator to intermeddle in any dispute which may incidentally affect public servants. [More…]

• The greatest cause for concern for the Parliament, the community and public servants is the downright slipshoddiness in the drafting and conception of this Bill. [More…]

• They are expected at all costs to keep the system running, to keep faith with the public need and to put the service of the community above their personal interests. [More…]

• It is time that the honourable member took a realistic view of the attitude of the public, the workers and the whole community in this regard. [More…]

• Is that a fair go for the community? [More…]

• It has had an enormous effect upon the community at large. [More…]

• No voices were raised by the Opposition against strikes which affect the community. [More…]

• If one were to go through the details of the bans that have been introduced in recent times one would see a record of disaster for unionism, for government administration and for the community itself. [More…]

• The Government has played its part in bringing forward legislation to deal with the situation, but the responsibility also rests with all sections of the community. [More…]

• community. [More…]

• Why has he attacked this large body of responsible people in our community - people with public school backgrounds, people with tertiary education, people who have often held commissioned rank in the armed services when they so willingly served this nation? [More…]

• The only hope these people have is for a Labor government to give them a new Minister with a new approach to their industrial problems, someone who will find the core of the problem, not as is envisaged here, by preventing people from carrying out most of their duties in a normal manner, with the minimum of inconvenience to the public, and leaving the section of disputed work to a later date when the dispute itself is settled, thus causing a minimum loss to the community. [More…]

• The penalties that would apply for not handling an unsafe object or working in an unsafe way are so severe that the only course left to the employee - I say ‘employee’ and not unionist’ or ‘association member’, for they are all involved in this legislation with equal penalties - will be to stop work, with all its inconvenience and loss to the worker and the community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therfore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• That consideration be given to one of the most heavily taxed groups within the community, the motorist, and be given the opportunity to enjoy some of the tax fees as charged, by being able to travel with reasonable comfort and safety on the major highways of Australia. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Does not the Opposition know that the action of the ACTU in relation to this matter has led to ill feeling in the community, which I think distresses all of us. [More…]

• How does the Opposition think the people in the community regard the actions of the ACTU which deliberately imposes this kind of hardship on both big and small breeders? [More…]

• What kind of feeling does the Opposition think this breeds in the community? [More…]

• There should not be this kind of ill feeling between the union organisation and the rest of the community. [More…]

• We owe it to the community, and to the future parliaments and governments representing them, to have in our 3 armed Services and in our industrial and scientific support an adequate readiness against contingent threats looking, in some types of equipment and works expenditure, as far ahead as the late 1980s. [More…]

• The Government is not merely concerned with the remuneration paid to servicemen, important though this is, but we endeavour to improve the status of the serviceman in the community, to increase his job satisfaction, and to minimise his disabilities, while recognising that there will always be distinctive features of Service life, particular attention is being given to the improvement of Service housing, both as to standards and numbers. [More…]

• The Australian Environment Council has commenced an examination, of the financial and technical problems associated with community waste together with ways and means of sharing costs between polluters and the community. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australia Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable member, without making any commitment regarding his suggestion which I shall refer to my colleague in another place, that everything possible is being done to study the ultimate effects, if any, which this may have on the community or on the environment. [More…]

• It was suggested, of course, that the education commission would be representative of teachers themselves, the practitioners in the field; that it would have represented on it also parent organisations and various other interested community organisations. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) put his finger right on the matter when he said that in this Bill the Government has failed to provide the kind of control that ought to be provided, namely, that there should be 3 commissioners one of whom would represent the teaching service thus giving teachers a professional dignity and democratic participation in the service in which they work, one representating other interested sections of the community, and a third representative appointed by the Minister for Education and Science or the Government. [More…]

• Once the Commissioner, or any authority, is given power to determine salaries and promotional opportunities in the Service he is going to have a lot to do with the quality of education that we get in our community. [More…]

• They are a nomad community. [More…]

• Fortunately this is one rural industry which it does not appear will be affected when the United Kingdom joins the European Economic Community because Europe is a large importer of honey and does not have a honey industry of its own to protect by means of high intervention prices and similar sorts of devices. [More…]

• I can only comment that 1 could not agree more with the Minister for Social Services when he suggests that fair is fair in relation to these matters and if one is to take a stand on the rights of people to express an opinion in this or any other community one should be consistent and say that coercion and threats should not be allowed to stop people speaking. [More…]

• The humble Petition of citizens of the community of the Australian National University respectfully sheweth: [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• In our community people should not think that they are able to break into premises, steal property and use it in this fashion. [More…]

• I gave an instruction that the relevant Ministers and the relevant departments examine the regulations with a view to making them more consistent with common sense and so as not to prohibit information of a legitimate character and of a character which a mature community like Australia should be permitted to see and to make up its own mind about. [More…]

• Of course, there are very real problems associated with this industry in relation to the potential entry by Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• As the situation is even worse for home visits, when does the Government intend to act, or can the community expect to continue to meet the cost of these visits largely by direct payment until there is a change of government? [More…]

• This doesn’t mean to say that this can or ought to be done without regard to other matters, to the underprivileged, without regard to the quality of life issues, without regard to the environment Greater economic strength and enterprise is compatible with and consistent with these other objectives which a modem community requires. [More…]

• Much of the pressure within our community comes upon governments to assist the weaker, the less well-off, the underprivileged groups within our community, and governments have a great and serious obligation and responsibility In this area. [More…]

• After that statement was made I, as a chartered accountant in the community in Adelaide, saw the wheels of reaction start to grind. [More…]

• There are probably few people in this House, and indeed I go so far as to say that there are probably very few people in the community at large, who are able to grasp the workings of the whole host of tariff regulations and schedules and the multiplicity of figures and so forth that confront any one who wishes to do research on any one item that is subject to a tariff. [More…]

• It would be appreciated by those in the community, at both employer and employee level, if the greatest possible assistance could be given to them when they approach the Customs headquarters in the various States. [More…]

• I would be very pleased if he were able to refute that and say that such measures are not necessary to gain the information that is required by a number of people within the community. [More…]

• Meanwhile, it becomes every day more necessary to consider the plight of those members of the community who are largely defenceless against the erosion of their real incomes resulting in the main from wage inflation. [More…]

• At least he seems to have ackowledged that the stimulus to economic activity in a community is soundness in consumer spending and that the business people do not respond in advance. [More…]

• We claim to be a democratic community. [More…]

• Informed debate on this vital subject is of the utmost importance to our community. [More…]

• We owe it to the community, and to the future parliaments and governments representing them, to have in our 3 armed services and in our industrial and scientific support an adequate readiness against contingent threats looking, in some types of equipment and works expenditure, as far ahead as the. [More…]

• He said that he would take our forces out of Terendak and put them in Singapore so that they would not be involved in a communal situation or the in-fighting, if I may use that terra, between the Malay and Chinese sections of the Malaysian community. [More…]

• $3,840 was allocated and spent on information leaflets which were distributed widely in the rural community through the Commonwealth Employment Service, Shire Offices, offices of farmers’ organisations, relevant trade unions, country secondary and technical schools, agricultural extension officers, young farmers’ organisations, many branches of banks, and on advertising in a leading farmers’ journal, ‘The Land’. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth , revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• European Economic Community to consider modifying the role of sterling as a reserve currency after the British entry into the European Economic Community caused the Treasurer any concern? [More…]

• The British Government has said that on accession to the European Economic Community it is prepared to consider a gradual and orderly rundown of official sterling balances. [More…]

• In the first place, the question of man-days lost in the Australian community because of industrial disputes is one of continuing and very great concern. [More…]

• Indeed, the review supports my belief that the scheme will be of real long-term benefit to all Australians, not just the farming community. [More…]

• Traditional financial institutions in joining with the rural reconstruction agencies in advancing funds to applicants for reconstruction and in debt composition will make a positive contribution to the restructuring of rural industry to the advantage of farmers, traditional lenders themselves and the community. [More…]

• that this be recognised and that the law which, normally might prevent any kind of action being taken in this way should be administered in a way that peaceful and reasonable demonstrations should become anaccepted part of community activity. [More…]

• The Minister attacked young people in the community. [More…]

• It is just idle chatter for a Minister to stand up and suggest that the Australian Labor Party, the university students or someone else in the community is responsible for a lack of defence preparedness. [More…]

• The Government’s policies are responsible for such defence as there is and it is Government political decisions which have in fact brought us to a situation where the Australian armed forces, especially the Australian Army, are not highly thought of in the community because we have to compel people to join them. [More…]

• Something like 3 million or 4 million man days have been lost in our community because of mistakes made months ago. [More…]

• We find that it is not only a matter of equating the smaller real cost to society as a whole against the higher pay roll, but also of how the load is distributed throughout the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that when one relies on national service, one is placing a much higher burden of cost on a small portion of the community instead of distributing it fairly throughout the community. [More…]

• On the international side, there will be comprehensive multilateral trade negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade beginning in 1973, which will give Australia the opportunity to pursue our trade objectives with the enlarged European Economic Community, the United States, Japan and others. [More…]

• I do not know of any area in the world - and I have tried to read in this field, as most people have to do when they talk these days about ecology, pollution, conservation, the sensible use of natural resources and so on - which is an advanced society and which has been able to stop its cities growing faster than the rest of the community. [More…]

• I think we have to get around to some more sensible method of social accounting whereby we can count the various sorts of subsidies that are paid in the Australian community - the revealed subsidies - and match them with the kinds of concealed difficulties that are occurring. [More…]

• If one were to consider the application of these moneys to hospitals in the community one would find that the same thing is happening. [More…]

• Unless grants can be applied to these purposes, the community will be faced with 2 problems: Firstly, a lack of facilities in the way of physical buildings for the training of appropriate doctors to man the health services and, secondly, a lack of appropriate buildings to accommodate sick persons. [More…]

• We have further demands, as will occur with any developing community, for further educational train ing of people in institutions that are not the normal education institutions. [More…]

• The initiative has gone in the development of essential facilities in the community. [More…]

• We are failing to assist persons in the community because we fail to face up to a different attitude to the provision of State grants. [More…]

• It is all very well to say that they will enable works to be carried out on hospitals, schools, water, sewerage projects and the like, but this kind of Bill completely ignores the requirements of the growing community that must be met by the States. [More…]

• Responsibility must be accepted by the Commonwealth, and there must be a reassessment of the relationships between the Commonwealth and State governments and the nature of the grants and loans that are given if we are effectively to plan our community for the benefit of man and see that we all receive a reasonable share of the community wealth and enjoyment as we should. [More…]

• the States do need a lot of funds for their purposes and the Commonwealth has the responsibility of seeing that the taxation burden on the community is no greater than is required to keep the prosperity of this country at the level it desires to see. [More…]

• I shall quote from the Labor Party’s policy and give some examples of programmes in our community whereby the Government will make special provision for people who have special disabilities or who live in special circumstances. [More…]

• So, in the period immediately ahead of us we have to discriminate in favour of Aborigines in order to give them equality of opportunity in the Australian community. [More…]

• I want to give the lie, if I can, to the idea that discriminating in favour of the Aborigines in the way in which the Labor Party proposes to do it - in housing and other ways - will cause racism in the Australian community. [More…]

• Those children go to school with the children of people such as you and me - the ordinary people in the Australian community. [More…]

• Discriminating in favour of Aborigines by policies in this way is not only ensuring that problems of racism in the long term are minimised but also making a great contribution towards the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• The Labor Party is not blind to the needs of other people in the community such as people on low incomes and people living in the outback in isolated places. [More…]

• There are a great number of problems in the Australian community and not all the problems affect the people who are of Aboriginal or islander origin. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• It will have regard to the equity of tax and to the need that governments must have to raise revenue in order that they can respond to the very reasonable requirements of a community for expenditure in the community on the services it wants. [More…]

• The facts are that demarcation disputes in the Australian community are among the most difficult disputes to solve. [More…]

• I believe it is intolerable that the community, and the business sector in particular, should be the victims of disputes of this type which, quite clearly, lie within the responsibility of the trade union movement itself to solve. [More…]

• 1 want you to know, and 1 think it is impor.tant that the rural community should know, that the much publicised announcement by BHP of a price increase averaging 5.3 per cent does not apply to supplies of steel required for the manufacture of farm machinery, or in fact most other machinery. [More…]

• The second Commonwealth committee is the National Radiation Advisory Committee (NRAC) which reports to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and advises the Commonwealth Government on matters concerning the effects of ionising radiation, whatever its origin, on the Australian community. [More…]

• Then there are the comprehensive trade negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, those arising out of trade objectives with the enlarged European Economic Community, with the United States, Japan and others, and of course those problems arising out of the termination of the United Kingdom- Australia trade agreement. [More…]

• I notice that almost everybody in the community is pleased. [More…]

• Yet in 2 years we have not had the opportunity for a full debate in trade and tariffs and on the implications of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This is a matter of more than passing concern when we consider the future of our trade and of the community which depends upon it. [More…]

• In relation to Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, the Minister for Trade and Industry has been discussing the. [More…]

• These are the things which are important in relation to Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I do not believe that, as one hears so frequently in this House, by a sweep of the hand one can easily overcome the contest, the spirit of playing politics, the necessary coercion or the almost implied political blackmail on some occasions by the leader of one community or of one State who tries to increase his own proportion of the funds available from the Federal authority. [More…]

• debate which was held recently and which, as honourable members will remember, went on for 3 hours and was viewed by a large cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think the thing that probably impressed itself most on most honourable members and on most members of the Australian community was the statement made on more than one occasion that, although it was apparent that more and more capital funds would be required for education in this country, there was a limit on the amount of money which the taxpayers of this country could find to put into the confined and specialised area of education. [More…]

• Arising from the statements in the great debate on education was the worry in the minds of education experts as to whether we were getting proper results for the huge amounts of money that this Government finds annually from various forms of taxation imposed on the community for education. [More…]

• I am not going so far as to suggest that, notwithstanding how desirable this is, we should look at that one topic of community involvement only. [More…]

• I am not going so far as to say how important community involvement is as a focal point in small country schools. [More…]

• If this is so, and where this is so, I ponder whether we should, in our attempts to get better performance per input, spread the availability of things like school libraries instead of leaving them as a sort of holy cow that only one small section of the community is game to approach, and then with great care in case it is booted. [More…]

• I suppose it is true to say that as a race politicians probably talk more nonsense to the square inch about decentralisation than most other sections of the community, and that is saying plenty because they talk tons of nonsense also. [More…]

• I devoted the entire half hour that we were allowed in those days to a dissertation, having had the opportunity of attending university and studying this sort of exercise, on the proper economic principles that can work to the community’s benefit in relation to decentralisation. [More…]

• It is for this reason that I would like to look into the future and say how important I think it is for the governments of this nature - I am being consistent in what I have said in this House two or three times previously - to be involved with the important facets of our community existence such as the formation of this provincial centre. [More…]

• We would get hold of a city or community preferably of 30,000 people or 15,000 if we stretched it. [More…]

• We would then pour capital quickly into this community which would be founded on some raw material. [More…]

• Having got that base, if we took hold of the community and injected capital into it rapidly enough we would soon build the population to 70,000 or 90,000. [More…]

• It is also common sense that Commonwealth finance should be earmarked specifically for these new developing areas to provide swimming pools, community centres, playing fields and youth centres. [More…]

• That is a dreadful state of affairs and one which should not be countenanced in a modern community. [More…]

• When all is said and done, far too often the funds which go from this Parliament to a State are put into financing the pet little theories and propositions of the Ministers concerned, without consideration for the overall good of the community. [More…]

• We wanted to give portability to those who have worked in the Australian community irrespective of whether or not they had become formally naturalised. [More…]

• If I may differ- this being a non-party area - from my friend the honourable member for Wills, I do not believe that in a modern community 125 people can get anywhere by just voting on the merits of any issue. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [More…]

• I think that to raise a question like this does no good to the Australian community and is making too much politics out of the problem of unemployment. [More…]

• I have no reason to doubt any of the figures which are placed before me in relation to the employment of migrants in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that this is the best way in which to have a full hearing of the needs of these important people in the community. [More…]

• In this situation it would have been expected that all sections of the Australian community would have been prepared to recognise the valiant efforts of South Vietnam to maintain its identity and territorial integrity. [More…]

• I would like to think that the Parliament is playing a more useful and integrated role wilh the community because those who engage in compiling petitions and seeking signatures and presenting those petitions to Parliament are doing a useful service on behalf of the nation. [More…]

• But what is the purpose of people, electors, in the community taking the trouble to prepare a petition and obtain signatures if the petition is to be lost in the dead sands of Parliament and the very purpose of the petition dies with its presentation. [More…]

• It serves Parliament and it serves the community. [More…]

• As I have said, if ever there was one momentous matter which interested, concerned and vitally animated the whole of the Australian community it was a Bill introduced in 1947 to nationalise banking within Australia. [More…]

• It is just possible that there are citizens in the community who have no confidence in their members. [More…]

• It is just possible, too, that there are people in the community who are not attached to any of the parties, lt is just possible that they take seriously the fact that the Parliament is the repository, or is supposed to be the repository, of the people’s rights and so they go past the member, they go past the Party and they go direct to the democratically elected Parliament of the nation sitting as a Parliament - to what has been called the grand constituency of all the people. [More…]

• They want to think of a living parliament - a parliament with links and ties with the community. [More…]

• This proposal does not go so far as to say that the community - the people - will indicate the type of law they want by writing a law. [More…]

• Is it not proper that, if our people - the community; the voters in this country - petition the Parliament on a specific matter, in the sense of good manners if not good parliamentary practice, a reply ought to be made? [More…]

• When petitions come before us they should be referred automatically to a petitions commitee, which would systematise them and say: ‘We think that some of them are ephemeral or are serious but cannot be effectively dealt with by the existing mechanism, and others indicate serious opinions within the community that not all is well’. [More…]

• It is true that very occasionally they may have up to several thousand, but more often then not in present times when these chain petitions are operating, petitions formally organised by particular bodies in the community - perhaps they are no less representative for that reason but they are nevertheless organised, as against voluntarily organised petitions emanating from the will of the public and untutored by any other element in the community - the average number may well be nearer 10 or 100 than a thousand, although I do not know. [More…]

• Do not let the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) pretend that this is not a political situation, whether or not there is a free vote on the issue here, merely because some people in the community genuinely believe that they have a case to put and that this might be the best way to put it. [More…]

• Is it a fact that pre- 1964 membership of friendly societies included a greater proportion of people of pensionable age than is the case for the general community. [More…]

• If so, can the Minister give comparative breakdowns and make an appropriate breakdown of the demand for pharmaceutical benefits from friendly society members of (a) pensionable age and (b) under pensionable age vis-a-vis these groups in the general community. [More…]

• What proportion of the adult unemployed are semi-skilled and unskilled, would this be generally the lowest income earners in the community and does he suspect they would have considerable difficulty in living on $10 per week unemployment benefits. [More…]

• If the Commonwealth Police are allowed to use their discretion, does this mean that they are making political decisions and he is abdicating his ministerial responsibility to the Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• Ten per cent of Commonwealth revenue to local government for general activities which now include social welfare, health, conservation and other community needs. [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…]

• There is a view put that the operation and proliferation of so-called sex shops have passed the bounds of community tolerance. [More…]

• Because of the uncertainties associated with the longer term outlook for dairy products, particularly with Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, the Government recognises the need for an assurance of continuing Government support to the dairy industry. [More…]

• The Australian dairy industry has taken advantage of the present strong market situation to diversify and develop alternative outlets away from the United Kingdom as an insurance against the loss of access to the United Kingdom market when Britain joins the European Economic Community early next year. [More…]

• At the same time it will provide employment in the forest and in forest industries thereby stimulating employment opportunities in rural areas; it will complement our existing resources of native forests and enable a wide range of forest products to be available to the community, and it will reduce our reliance on the import of forest products from overseas. [More…]

• That means in very ordinary terms that of every $100 wealth created in the community in those days we spent $2.44 on age and invalid pensions. [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…]

• Surely this is the sort of relationship one must use to gauge what are the real, comparable standards of prosperity for the people in the community. [More…]

• They should be measured in comparison with the average standard of prosperity which is allegedly available within the community. [More…]

• Given increasing rates of productivity, there should be greater disposable income being distributed in the community, and the rate of increase in this should be going ahead at a faster rate than prices are going ahead - a fact which arises from increased productivity. [More…]

• As the Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research in Melbourne pointed out, people’s living standards should be measured in comparison with the average living standard which is being provided by the community. [More…]

• So there is no room for satisfaction on the part of the Government for the way in which it is treating pensioners in the community. [More…]

• I remember only within the last couple of weeks in this House the Minister glorifying the housing situation of so many aged people within the community. [More…]

• Let us look at the so-called minibudget which has been put up to test the generosity, the priorities and the sense of equity and moral and social justice in the community. [More…]

• But a single chap earning $160 a week, without any dependants at all, who is doing very well in our community, is going to receive $54.34 a year cash in his pocket as a rebate on the taxation that he has to pay. [More…]

• We should scrap the whole sorry system of pensions and the distinctions which are made between payment of the various forms of pensions to people in the community. [More…]

• That would have to be related to the capacity of this community to pay, and pay much more generously than it has, and to the standards of prosperity in the community. [More…]

• The then Speaker of the Parliament, Mr Deputy Speaker - and a member of your own Party, Mr Lucock - a memorable and remarkable Speaker in every way, a very intelligent Speaker and a Speaker with great foresight and great respect in the community, the late A. G. Cameron, held that the position of the Under-Secretaries, who were the equivalent of the Assistant Ministers in this Parliament, was unconstitutional and he refused to give them even a chair in Parliament House. [More…]

• Travel House of Australia having got its hands on the hard earned money of people in this community - many of them migrants who want to visit their homes for quite understandable reasons, and who in my experience are moderate or low income earners and who have worked very hard to accumulate a little money with a long term saving aim of returning to their home - some of the people find that they cannot travel on the selected date because of personal reasons which are perfectly legitimate, perfectly understandable and quite unavoidable in regard to the need to cancel the trip. [More…]

• Surely the swift and unanimous response of this House 4 weeks ago was not just because a valued part of the Australian community felt insulted. [More…]

• The substance of the problem is the need to strike back at these wherever they occur, and especially when expressed by prominent and leading members of the community, particularly within the Parliament itself.’ [More…]

• I must conclude with one other field of prejudice in the community and failure by the Government, namely our Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I state that I believe there are good and loyal Croatians in this community. [More…]

• This is proved by my warm and close association with the Serbian community as well as with loyal members of the Croatian community. [More…]

• As I heard the debate and remarks of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in an impromptu fashion and without any notice, it seemed to me that he made a direct imputation that I had been associating with people who were in turn associating with extremists views, if not actions, in this community. [More…]

• As far as I am able to recall the facts - I have checked them with one telephone call - I think that the particular meeting, reported in the ‘Review’ of 8th- 14th April and I presume quoted from by the Leader of the Opposition, was a meeting at the St. Carlo Hall in North Hobart at which the Archbishop of Split, Dr Franic, was welcomed by the Croatian community. [More…]

• There was no banner, as the newspaper reported, saying ‘Glory to the Fuhrer of the independent State of Croatia’ at that meeting or at any other meeting of the Croatian community of Hobart which I attended or which I did not atend That statement is made unequivocally by the secretary of that group, Mr Micheal Furjanic. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition has joined in this attack on the very foundations of respect for law in our community. [More…]

• We disapprove acts of terrorism and intimidation in this community directed against another Government. [More…]

• I am informed that on about the 9th April he was on Channel 7 news where he publicly expressed the opinion that Croatians were responsible for the attacks and threats on members of the Yugoslav community, that the leader was a Catholic priest, Father Kasic, and that he was responsible because he had the backing of the Catholic hierarchy, who must accept moral responsibility for all that he does. [More…]

• I certainly deprecate and deplore the activities which are occurring among members of that community in Australia. [More…]

• Gut on the valid social objective of pre serving an essentially untied and cohesive community. [More…]

• We of the Opposition are just as much concerned about the farmer as we are about the ancillary work force and the business work force which depends directly and indirectly on the farming community. [More…]

• The other aspects of primary industry which concern me arise from the problems which will be engendered by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Therefore, when the honourable member for Balaclava expresses concern at the impact which this agreement, if ratified by the Waterside Workers Federation, will have on costs throughout the general community, I respond most vigorously by saying that that sense of concern is very much shared by this Government. [More…]

• Surely this is one of those instances in industry where an agreement is made in relation to wages and conditions on the basis that the parties concerned recognise that they can pass on those costs by way of increased prices throughout the community. [More…]

• This is one of the very real difficulties which face the Australian community at a time when cost-push inflation is of such critical importance. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman will be well aware that the present position is that concessions on telephone rentals are available to pensioners throughout the community and that concession is certainly availed of by them. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister invite Archbishop Loane to supply him with a report on the degree and nature of hardship suffered by certain sections of the community in the Sydney diocese, derived from the information available through the welfare and pastoral services of his church, with a view to providing appropriate and more adequate aid to those who are suffering hardship? [More…]

• It is a question which concerns the total community because of the impact that increased costs will have in one sector and also because of the fact that those increases will have a flow-on effect, which the honourable gentleman conveniently tends to ignore. [More…]

• So far as the matter of basic hours in this country is concerned, this Government takes the view which apparently is not shared by the Opposition, that this matter is of such critical importance to the Australian community that it should go before the appropriate arbitral tribunal. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman has often stated that there is a deep seated structural problem in the Australian community. [More…]

• At page 1871 of Hansard for Thursday last the honourable member for Denison made a personal explanation because, as he said, I had imputed or suggested or implied - he used those 3 terms - that he had been associated with people who in turn were, associating with extremists’ views, if not actions, in this community. [More…]

• I stated then that our aim was to ensure that the Act would provide for the orderly conduct of industrial relations in this country, benefit both workers and employers and protect the interests of the entire community. [More…]

• The Bill will be recognised by the community as evidence of the objective, balanced and constructive approach taken by this Government. [More…]

• In the ultimate, however, the system cf conciliation and arbitration exists to serve the community. [More…]

• It follows, therefore, that the behaviour of the organisations which use that system to assist them in the resolution of their differences should not be contrary to the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Although the Government is not directly involved in the day to day affairs of the system as are the immediate parties, the Government’s role is no less important because it represents the community and not simply the immediate parties. [More…]

• There are 3 parties to the industrial relationship - employers, trade unions and government, representing the community interest. [More…]

• What happens in the field of industrial relations between employers and unions can be of profound significance for the community. [More…]

• The effects of industrial disputes on the community are not simply measurable by the loss of man-days. [More…]

• I have no doubt that this provision will be supported by all members of this House as a warranted recognition of the valuable service given to the community by the holders of that office. [More…]

• The extent to which those parties make a genuine effort to have the new provisions operate successfully will mark the extent to which the community itself enjoys the results of better industrial relationships in this country. [More…]

• Our system of conciliation and arbitration is a sophisticated one and I believe it extends to the parties to industrial relations every facility to enable them to resolve their differences amicably and without disruption to the community. [More…]

• It evolves according to changes in community standards and needs. [More…]

• Touching as it does the very life of the community, it must be responsive to change. [More…]

• This subsidy would operate in the same way as do other subsidies paid to other sections of the community. [More…]

• He is concerned that the Australian community might be asked to contribute something towards maintaining high standards and therefore he believes that we would be better off using slave labour and the low wage conditions of other countries. [More…]

• 1 am all for high wages, and men can earn these wages if they do not cause ridiculous industrial trouble on the waterfront for which the Australian community must pay. [More…]

• Transgressing somewhat for the benefit of the honourable member for Mcpherson - seeing that he mentioned the point I think that I may be permitted to reply to it - the honourable member suggests that the cost of freights to the farming community has been brought about by seamen. [More…]

• He should have a look at the conglomeration in Sydney and Melbourne - built at tremendous cost to everyone in the community. [More…]

• This was because it seemed ‘less than equitable that the community as a whole should pay for search and rescue actions, especially those which result from the less than responsible approach taken by some adventurers’. [More…]

• Above all, miners who have gone into the bowels of the earth to win its riches for the benefit of all Australians must be given the security of full employment and the sanctuary of the home and the community in which they and their families live. [More…]

• I make no apology for talking about these problems because there is a great need in the community today to ensure that rural industry is kept viable. [More…]

• There never is sufficient money to provide all the needs of a community. [More…]

• This would not cost the community a great deal and it would provide a service which would enable people from country areas to remain in the city while attending their doctors for the special treatment that they require. [More…]

• Surely honourable members on either side of the House would willingly admit that the service provided by the Postmaster-General’s Department is a community service. [More…]

• It is a community service whether one lives in the city or in the country. [More…]

• I cannot too strongly condemn the attitude of a government which neglects to give the community this necessary service. [More…]

• the economic cost to the community of road accidents in Australia in terms of - [More…]

• The injuries suffered on our roads through accidents are quite appalling and they are costing the community dearly. [More…]

• Queensland now has an enterprising government which is out to develop the State’s resources for the benefit of the whole community and it has to do this in a few years, unlike the southern States which had wiser governments during Queensland’s 39 years of Labor. [More…]

• European Economic Community, we will certainly lose our share of butter and cheese on that market. [More…]

• The purpose of the devaluation allowance is no longer applicable because sales to the British market are only one-sixth of what they used to be and will be nil when Britain enters the European Economic Community in 1973. [More…]

• I do not think that they envisaged that the bounty would be frozen at that figure, but I have at each subsequent renewal asked for an increase in the amount to take into account the change in value of money and to bring the incomes of dairy farmers into line with salary and wage increases which have improved the incomes of the whole community except those in primary industry. [More…]

• The Government’s alibi for its cut-back policies in dairying lies with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If we look at the effects of the survey carried out recently by the European Economic Community we find that 57 per cent of farms with dairy cows had one to 5 head, 78 per cent of the farms bad one to 10 head and only 9 per cent of the total number of farms had more than 14 dairy cows. [More…]

• I congratulate the present Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) and the former Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Anthony, and also the industry as a whole, for their courage, enterprise and sense of responsibility in facing the future and the fact that Australia is likely to be in trouble when Britain enters the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I am afraid that I find it hard to see the future for the industry other than one in which it must relate its volume of production to the available markets which will fluctuate and which, regrettably, will be dependent not only on the marketing effort that is taken by the Australian dairy industry but also on a marketing effort influenced substantially by the considerable stocks which in the past have been built up by countries such as those in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Indeed, our policy is to ensure that within the rural community those people who operate will operate profitably. [More…]

• The dairy farm build-up scheme was designed to help those farmers so that they could get into a position of profitability relatively equal to that of those in other professions or trades or employment in the community. [More…]

• Finally, will he reconsider his announced opposition to a priority for friends and relatives to be sponsored here and to chain migration, in the interests of the migrants themselves and of the community at large? [More…]

• It was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald” on 28th April that a spokesman from the Anglican Church stated that some members of Parliament did not seem to be aware of the hardship of many people in the community. [More…]

• We appreciate the action of the Commission in paying particular attention to this needy section of the community. [More…]

• The community generally is aware that our resources now are predominantly overseas owned and it is not sufficient for the needs of Australia for this Government to announce a few months before the introduction of a budget that is making this small taxation concession to the exploration industry in Australia. [More…]

• Canada in the Pacific and Herr Brandt in the Atlantic community have been true friends of the United States because they have eased the United States’ path to sane relations, in the one case with China and in the other case with the Soviet Union. [More…]

• It seems indicative that because of the lack of confidence in the business community there just is not so much investment taking place and not so much recourse to the trading banks for loans as there was previously. [More…]

• If Australia is to continue to call herself a Christian community, we can no longer procrastinate while millions face famine conditions. [More…]

• If he did so, not only would his interest in the Bible be stimulated but also he might get an inspiration to do something about the menace of aircraft noise in the community today. [More…]

• It can do a lot about it, but is not prepared to intervene where the profits of airline operators are concerned, irrespective of the effect on the people in the community. [More…]

• To amend the Aged Persons Homes Act in the way suggested by Council would have the effect of changing the concept of legislation, the purpose of which is to provide an incentive to community support for aged persons homes. [More…]

• To provide an incentive to community support for aged persons homes’. [More…]

• Of course, one is there referring to suburbs in which there is less than average earnings, where the community itself is not able to supply the amount that can be raised - in more affluent suburbs to allow these aged persons homes to be constructed in order to make accommodation available for the aged. [More…]

• Yet because of the requirements of this Aged Persons Homes Act, the purpose of which is to give an incentive to community support, these already deprived suburbs are unable to satisfy the needs of the elderly people. [More…]

• For the community, the cost of one vehicle carrying one passenger to an across-town destination is hideously high in terms of road space occupied and congestion created. [More…]

• Instead of having men employed on high labour content jobs in the respective shires and allocating money for the sole purpose of reducing the number of unemployed men, this money and the men should be used for jobs that will be everlasting and more beneficial to a community such as the people of Wyee who so urgently need water to be installed to their little township. [More…]

• Has a study been made of proposals for the formation of an Asian-Pacific Economic Community with Australia taking the initiative. [More…]

• While proposals for the formation of an Asian-Pacific Economic Community have been followed with close attention by interested departments, the Government has not contemplated any initiative with regard to the formation of such a Community. [More…]

• In the normal course there have been discussions, both bilateral and in multilateral forums, relating to matters of regional economic interests although such discussions have not been directed specifically towards the formation of an AsianPacific Economic Community. [More…]

• However, the Acting Postmaster-General did indicate publicly what the decision of Cabinet was, that additional power to control Sunday morning telecasting could be given to the Board so that telecasts at that time would conform to a standard developed by the Board, namely that Sunday morning might be given to the particular considerations of minority interests or groups within the community, to religious services and items of that nature. [More…]

• Will the Prime Minister invite Archbishop Loane to supply him with a report on the degree and nature of hardship suffered by certain sections of the community in the Sydney diocese, derived from information available through the welfare and pastoral services of his Church, with a view to providing appropriate and more adequate aid to those who are suffering hardship? [More…]

• In terms of gross national product, the countries of the European Economic Community spend on social services 15.2 per cent, Scandinavia 10.9 per cent, [More…]

• I strongly support the remarks of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in putting forward the claims of Archbishop Loane and Bishop Hulme-Moir for eliminating poverty in our community. [More…]

• There is undoubtedly a continuing problem of want in the community and I am afraid there always will be, for various reasons. [More…]

• The introduction of a blind person’s pension, which is not subject to a means test, has been of inestimable value and has helped a lot of blind people to rehabilitate themselves, in many cases, back into the community. [More…]

• The announcement at question time today by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) that there would possibly - not definitely, not positively, but possibly - be an inquiry into poverty in the community indicated all the elements of a snap decision. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is in no more convincing a situation, In March last year on his assumption of office following the palace revolution, one of the undertakings he gave was that there would be a far reaching review of social services in the community, and for the year 1971-72 the findings of this review would be implemented. [More…]

• There has been a continuation of a system that just managed to grow along, patched here and propped up there, never adequate to the needs of the community and certainly falling far short of what this wealthy country is capable of supporting. [More…]

• The Minister quoted with some satisfaction a statement by Professor Henderson that there is about 5 per cent of poverty in this community, lt this is true, that involves about half a million people. [More…]

• So what in fact occurs in the Melbourne poverty survey is a gross understatement of the extent and the nature of poverty in this community. [More…]

• Of course, par for the performance would be for the Prime Minister to be objectionable to a minister of religion who cared to speak out on poverty in the community. [More…]

• The existence of poverty in the community has been a long-term thing, asI mentioned earlier. [More…]

• Some honourable members on this side of the House have lived in such areas for much of their lives and know only too well what it is like to be deprived and not only to suffer the financial deprivation which is part and parcel of relative poverty in the Australian community but to know before one has progressed very far in life that socially and culturally one will be disadvantaged and that the greatest aspirations that one can reach out for are fairly limited. [More…]

• One would assume that an inquiry into poverty would be something good for the community. [More…]

• If this were done I think that we would do the Australian community a great service. [More…]

• I do not believe that there is any person in the community who would object to such an inquiry being held. [More…]

• Australian industry and the community in general cannot afford to lose too many of its professionally qualified people to other industrialised countries. [More…]

• Because of the increasing importance of Australian industrial research and development the Government intends to remain in close touch with developments in this area with a view to implementing further policies at a future stage that would be in keeping with the needs of industry and the community in general. [More…]

• With cigarette smoking so widely indulged in throughout Australia the health hazard presents a public health problem of such a dimension as to impose a significant social cost on the community in both resources and money. [More…]

• Is he saying that the 4i million employees and their families in Australia are not part of the community? [More…]

• Does he believe that it is in the interests of the community that 64 per cent of employees in the work force should receive less than the average weekly earnings while some of the balance receive increases ranging from $19 a week to as much as $80 a week? [More…]

• We are slowly but surely coming to grips with the problem, but we cannot come to grips with it unless we find a different atmosphere in both the Labor Party and the trade union movement - an atmosphere that is favourable to moderation and an atmosphere that is favourable to giving a fair go to each and every worker in the community. [More…]

• They are based on philosophical considerations, and I believe that they are philosophical considerations that should be of great importance to the Labor Party and the Government as well as to the community. [More…]

• Our concern is for the community and for the individual worker. [More…]

• It has, I believe, served the community well. [More…]

• I think too that perhaps the community does not always realise the very great value to the community of our system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]

• The Government is itself perhaps the most important party in industrial relations because it represents the community. [More…]

• It is what the community is entitled to expect of tha Government and they will get it. [More…]

• I must stress here and now that we have long held the view that it is important to the community that there be a strong trade union movement. [More…]

• It is designed to ensure that the interests of the community are not lost sight of when parties sit down to settle disputes. [More…]

• That philosophy may be summed up as one which aims to protect the community and the individual in the total area of industrial relations, and that is vital to our success and prosperity as a nation. [More…]

• All these functions have one factor in common, the object of ensuring a ‘fair go’; whether h be in settling disputes between management and labour, or ensuring that wages are not dependent on the use or misuse of industrial power, or watching so that the community in general, the public interest, ls preserved in the above processes. [More…]

• Leaving aside for the moment the industrial relations aspect, if management attempts to make unreasonable profits by keeping wages unreasonably low, the purchasing power of the wage earners in the community is reduced and this eventually will be reflected in lower overall demand and lower business activity. [More…]

• The inevitable result will be to disadvantage those sections of the community in the weakest industrial position - the pensioners, those on fixed incomes and very importantly, from a national point of view, the producers who cannot pass on their costs. [More…]

• Lord Balogh, Economic Adviser to the last United Kingdom Labour Government exposed the fallacy of the arguments in favour of collective bargaining when he pointed out that while the practice might show benefits to some highly organised sections of the community, these had been gained at the expense of other sections. [More…]

• This is a self evident truth and I have no doubt that it is clearly appreciated by the Australian community. [More…]

• Award wages are minimum, not maximum, wages and any employer who charges more than the community is prepared to pay for his goods or services will soon be out of business. [More…]

• Australia is a country with a great future but that future will be realised only if all sections of the community are prepared to take a responsible attitude to their own particular job, and to realise that obtaining a temporary sectional advantage will eventually prove to be an illusion since it will have to be paid for by somebody in the end. [More…]

• This Bill represents the combined efforts of a great many people and deserves and will get the support of the community. [More…]

• In fact its aim is to create dissension in the community purely for political purposes. [More…]

• It is then dealing with a powerful section of the community. [More…]

• In this Bill the Government is making an honest attempt to try to update the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in order to protect all sections of the community - not only the workers - and to ensure that there is a fair deal for everybody. [More…]

• The industry concerned suffers and the matter snowballs through other industries and the community itself is affected. [More…]

• The reasons the Government gave for this delay were the state of the economy and the possibility of Britain entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• As their activities affect industries on which the whole community depends - transport, power and the like - somebody has to lose. [More…]

• I feel that the militant unions will continue their so-called struggle for more money and better conditions despite the effect that their activities have on the balance of the community. [More…]

• The shadow Minister for industrial relations, Mr C. R. Cameron, forecasts major strikes throughout the country affecting all sections of the community. [More…]

• Everybody else abides by the decisions but, far too often for the good of the community, they do not. [More…]

• The conciliation and arbitration system was based on 4 fundamental principles which, to me, still appear to be valid - firstly, that industrial disputes can be settled most equitably and reasonably by a process of conciliation and, if that does not work out, by an independent adjudication based on the merits of the dispute and not on the parties concerned; secondly, it is a fundamental principle of conciliation and arbitration that neither side should be able to use superior bargaining or economic strength to coerce the other party in the dispute or in the arbitration; thirdly, it is held that, insofar as constitutional difficulties permit, the protection of the system should be available to all with impartiality and with equitability; and, fourthly, it is held that the community should not suffer through the inability of sections or groups to reconcile their differences. [More…]

• Again, I believe it would do a great deal of service to the community if those honourable members opposite to a man were able to keep those basic principles in view when they are considering this particular field of interest and, sometimes, of conflict. [More…]

• However, we are not here talking about wage induced inflation in the sense that it is an individual problem but rather in the sense that the aggregation of individual workers is making it a problem for the community. [More…]

• To put it bluntly, one would have to be a shingle short to try to write these propositions down as being pure political provocation when, in fact, they can be read and be seen to be totally constructive proposals which have been made in an endeavour to make a more flexible system for the general good of industrial relationships and for the betterment of the community and the general economy. [More…]

• They are at least as able as their interstate counterparts - a situation not easily achieved by the small Tasmanian community, in competition with larger entities. [More…]

• In these days the identification of principles is not the hallmark of our community. [More…]

• Over wide areas this income fall has been disastrous for thousands of farm families and others in the rural community dependent upon them. [More…]

• We have had a retraining scheme brought in which provides schooling for one year, but one year is not enough to train people for other professions, to take them out of the industry and fit them into some other place of useful service in the community. [More…]

• It provided for this country the professional men and the tradesmen that were required; it allowed those people to take a more useful place in the community and it established them for the rest of their lives. [More…]

• 19 and 20-year-old men and women felt more intensely than any other people in the community at that time are still matters upon which they feel intensely. [More…]

• I know we are in the game of politics, but I think that perhaps in the game of politics you can pursue this sort of line too far for the good of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I want to get onto a point here about the view of the community - about the feeling or the groundswell in the community on this issue. [More…]

• Undoubtedly in this community and in the more modern Western communities tremendous pressure is being imposed on young people by the systems of education, by our desire to make them better citizens and to make them add more to the community in one way or another. [More…]

• It would probably be true to say that had there been strong pressures within the community, the State governments would have acted in concert rapidly to give assent to legislation granting the franchise to 18-year-olds. [More…]

• Having regard to the deep implications of the proposals embodied in the Bill, and in the light of all considerations, particularly in relation to the position of the States and the lack of uniformity to which I have referred, and certainly in the absence of community pressure, the Government’s position is that the Bill ought not be given a second reading at this stage. [More…]

• This would allow them to be politically articulate in the community - a state of affairs which is denied them now simply because they are not aged 21 years or older. [More…]

• Again, by what magical process is it assumed that every person aged 21 years and over is mature, intelligent, politically alert, community minded and responsible? [More…]

• That by 18 most young people are ready for these responsibilities and rights and would greatly profit by them as would the teaching authorities, the business community, the administration of justice, and the community as a whole. [More…]

• I submit that the virtue would be this: It could possibly act as a means whereby more information would be fed throughout the community and, as a consequence, there would be a greater measure of understanding of the difficulties associated with this section. [More…]

• I invite the Minister and the Government to consider this process of trying to inform the Australian community as to the difficulties associated with legislating under this power. [More…]

• But if all parties realise that they have a stake in the community and a right to seek to get proper rewards or recompense :or whatever they do, then I think to that extent we will have industrial peace and some measure of sanity in the conduct of our affairs. [More…]

• Then he says to the small people in the community: ‘You can go to hell. [More…]

• It is on a par with their desire to destroy many of the other institutions in our community. [More…]

• I think we must beware of expecting this provision to make a radical change in the industrial scene, as some people in the community seems to believe. [More…]

• Although the disputes are minor the consequences to the community may be great - Witness the West Gate bridge or the trouble over the construction of Lysaght’s [More…]

• Perhaps the most blatant of these deals was that made recently on the waterfront, where the employers were confident - justifiably so I am afraid - that they could pass the costs on to the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless we must recognise that there is in the community, a strong feeling for some form of price control. [More…]

• If there is no competition from imports the competing employers can pass the cost on to the community, for all will be paying the same increase in labour cost. [More…]

• If the Minister is really interested in and is trying to protect the welfare of the whole community he should have taken steps to initiate action to raise productivity in individual industrial undertakings which, of course, would be the main responsibility of managements. [More…]

• What struck me very forcibly in the Minister’s second reading speech - this has not been taken up by any member of the Opposition - is the fact that the community is the concern of this legislation. [More…]

• The Minister stressed the importance and interests of the community on several occasions in the first few paragraphs of his speech. [More…]

• interests of the entire community. [More…]

• The Minister again stressed that this is a Bill to serve the interests of the community. [More…]

• He mentioned members of the community as a whole and said that they are the people who are most affected by labour disputes and irresponsible union attitudes. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) suggested that the community is the worker. [More…]

• It is so utterly ridiculous for a community to be put out by these rolling strikes and these lightning strikes. [More…]

• Is it not about time that the Government tried to do something to provide the community with these services which are so necessary in a complex and vigorous community such as we have in Australia? [More…]

• The honourable member for Hindmarsh has said that the community is the worker. [More…]

• We had the case of the metal trades employers coming to an agreement with the metal trade unions last October, I think it was, when an increase of about $6 or $9 a week was granted, and from this rise we had a flow-on throughout the community. [More…]

• This would be all very well if the employers were paying for this sort of industrial peace, but they are not - the community is paying for it. [More…]

• None other than the community of Australia and, particularly, the exporters who provide the real wealth, the mining people and the manufacturers who export as well as our great rural producers. [More…]

• The community will have to pay for these things unless the Minister can find some means of controlling these outside agreements. [More…]

• The unions and the employers come to an agreement and as a result the community has to pay. [More…]

• I have already dealt with his remarks in regard to the community. [More…]

• He said that the community was the worker. [More…]

• We hear a lot of talk in our community, from the Press, and from the members of the Opposition about price control. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mcpherson (Mr Barnes) spoke of the interests of the community, but he failed to realise that unionists are the community - that returned soldiers, post-war school graduates and migrants are all workers, and that they are the very people about whom he complains. [More…]

• Being a Country Party member, he made no reference to the cost to the community of Australia of rural subsidies, for which the community pays; yet he complains bitterly about some of the costs of strikes. [More…]

• What supreme contempt of this Parliament to so rapaciously attempt to bring the raise in through the back door after its being rejected in a move which could be said to be in line with what the Government says should apply to the rest of the community. [More…]

• This Bill increases wages for a select section of our community who will no doubt find the money harder to spend than would those whose wages they seek to freeze by their actions and the intent of this Bill. [More…]

• Apart from being an effort to reward them for services rendered to the Government, is this Bill not a sop to the strong investment lobby, other political groups and all those whose one fanatical desire is to prevent a truly community representative government, a Labor government? [More…]

• It is far past the time for proper recognition to be given to the part which unions play in the economic community. [More…]

• They care nothing for the effect of their acts on the community and the bankruptcy that overtakes contractors, particularly in the building and transport industries. [More…]

• But the overall costs of non-payment of wages and debts must be borne by the community - the taxpayer. [More…]

• We need it particularly to protect the community against the excesses of irresponsible action by or the overwhelming strength of the strong unions. [More…]

• I was glad to hear the honourable member for Mcpherson (Mr Barnes) use the illustration of the waterside agreement, because it shows how the community is being clobbered and is being asked to pay the extra cost brought about by what I would call an irresponsible union. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mcpherson spelt out with admirable clarity in this case that the exporter pays in particular and the community pays in general. [More…]

• There can be a change of community attitude and a change in the legislation. [More…]

• Let us deal firstly with the community attitude. [More…]

• That is the first thing I ask the community to realise. [More…]

• If productivity is the key, we as a community must realise that every strike and every effort to do the boss in the eye does not do the boss in the eye and that the person who is done in the eye is the weekly wage earner, the chap who does not want to join a militant union or take part in bitter strike action. [More…]

• If we got to the stage where the community accepted that as inevitable and union leadership accepted it as inevitable we would go immediately along an easier road towards getting what we all want, that is, a bigger slice of the cake for the workers. [More…]

• Going back again to community attitudes, one of the things we are told by the unions is that they would be more responsible if we could hold prices down. [More…]

• Let me go on with my plea for a change in community attitudes. [More…]

• The other ways in which we could get a different community attitude, as several honourable members responsibly said, is by having a different kind of attitude towards tariffs so that we would not have this unused tariff protection which would enable manufacturers to put their prices up if the labour unions took industrial action which made their position more difficult. [More…]

• There are many other things that we could do, but I beg of the House to realise that however good this legislation may be - I have nothing but commendation for it because I know how hard it has been worked over, and it is, generally speaking, a great improvement - it is foolish for us to pretend that it will do any good unless we have a change in thinking in our community. [More…]

• The long term hope that we have, as other honourable members have said today, is a different attitude amongst the community. [More…]

• All that this clause does is ensure that the people who set themselves apart from the rest of the community because of their training do not necessarily have to have had experience in the settlement of disputes. [More…]

• A lot more good would be done for the community if we were to take a man from the floor of the factory, if that were necessary, because of his experience in solving disputes at that level and give him authority to sit in judgment on these matters rather than select a man simply because he is a lawyer. [More…]

• There is no mystique about lawyers; they do not stand apart from the rest of the community. [More…]

• And is, in the opinion of the Governor-General, by reason of his qualifications, experience and standing in the Australian community, a fit and proper person to discharge the duties of a Deputy President. [More…]

• I am interested in what the words ‘standing in the Australian community’ mean. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Within the term standing in the community’, what would disqualify a fit and proper person who was qualified under other sections of the Bill from the appointment as a Deputy President. [More…]

• In relation to the point raised by the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) the phrase “standing in the Australian community’ is, I think, selfevident. [More…]

• I would be very surprised if the honourable gentleman cannot understand that phrase because the position of Deputy President is one of some considerable responsibility in the Australian community. [More…]

• If one refers to a position of standing, one is referring to the .person’s position in the community - to a person of repute and of capacity and one who is well and favourably known throughout the community. [More…]

• is, in the opinion of the GovernorGeneral, by reason of his qualifications, experience and standing in the Australian community, a fit and proper person to discbarge the duties . [More…]

• It would destroy the respect of the people who have to appear before the tribunal - the people representing the trade unions and all other sections of the community. [More…]

• Surely in this enlightened age there ought to be in this Bill a clause which specifies the people in the community who can be appointed Deputy President and President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• Once again I ask the Minister to inform me and the Committee what is meant by the words experience and standing in the Australian community’ in proposed new sub-section (1a.) [More…]

• It is impossible to prescribe a narrow or precise definition of ‘standing in the Australian community’. [More…]

• I suppose one could paraphrase this expression by saying a senior person - a man of good reputation in the community. [More…]

• After all that it says, ‘and is, in the opinion of the Governor-General, by reason of his qualifications, experience and the standing in the Australian community, a fit and proper person to discharge the duties of a Deputy President’. [More…]

• I have no doubt that this is provision will be supported by all members of this House as a warranted recognition of the valuable service given to the community by the holders of that office. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Chairman, in speaking to the Bill and in speaking to that particular clause - I repeat, Sir, in speaking to that particular clause - it is an intolerable situation when the words written in the clause spell out by way of percentages, Mr Deputy Chairman, a 37i per cent increase for people who do not need it and who are not entitled to it on the basis of the community standard that this Government has forced upon wage and salary earners in this country. [More…]

• I am sorry that I have to stand here during the Committee stage of the Bill, Mr Deputy Chairman, and endeavour to point this out to the Government and to a Minister who thinks nothing of grabbing almost $40,000 a year of the taxpayers’ money and who wants to force through a Bill of this nature the purpose of which is to deny a proper and just salary to the majority members of the community. [More…]

• The Arbitration Commission’s national wage case decision was responsible and would have long term benefits for the Australian community, the Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, said yesterday. [More…]

• These things will not bring wage justice to the community. [More…]

• Those people who produce goods must work not less than a 40-hour week and all those people in the community who provide services - the tertiary industries- 7 can work less than a 40-hour week at higher wages and this does not damage the national economy. [More…]

• The people who produce the goods - including the farmers - and who are responsible for the creation of the wealth of the community must work 40 hours at low wages, but those people who provide secondary services and who produce nothing are entitled to less than a 40-hour week and a higher wage. [More…]

• This clause should be defeated and if Government members are to be consistent, they cannot support this clause, for they have stood up in this House consistently, day after day, saying that wage increases are the most evil thing that occur in the community, and that no rises should be granted to those people who work for thenliving, to those people who produce the goods in the community. [More…]

• the victims of a wage freeze as distinct from other sections of the community. [More…]

• I think it is extremely unfortunate that the salaries of men who will undertake a very difficult and responsible task in this community have to be the subject of so much acrimonious debate in this place. [More…]

• How much was said, how much could be said by a responsible government, and how much ought to be said by an honest government with any sense of responsibility about the standards in the community at large, under the heading Arbitration - the employee and the economy’? [More…]

• As long as the Minister and the Assistant Minister continue to get to their feet and, in some fashion, attempt to answer the criticisms or the questions put by honourable members on this side of the House, we will continue to rise and point out where they have failed dismally in their responsibility to the community at large. [More…]

• It affects a large section of the community. [More…]

• The comments of Government speakers have led us to believe, and have endeavoured to lead the community to believe, that this matter is of importance to the whole community. [More…]

• About 4.5 million people make up the worker section of the Australian community - those who make things and provide goods and services. [More…]

• If the families of these people are taken into account it can be seen that a major section of the community is involved. [More…]

• It is alleged to endeavour in some way or another to solve the problems that the members on the Government side claim confront the community. [More…]

• We have heard Government supporter after Government supporter speak about the difficulties that are brought into the community by trade union members taking all sorts of actions. [More…]

• There is no way in the world by which this proposed legislation, which is bad, and the principal legislation which it seeks to amend and which also is bad, will be able to solve industrial difficulties that might confront the community from time to time. [More…]

• The community seems to be divided into 2 fairly clear areas. [More…]

• There are those in the community who make and provide the goods and services - the comforts for all of us - and also a very small section of the community which enjoys those comforts without doing anything to make or provide them. [More…]

• They bring down legislation to take to one side that very large section of the community that makes and provides the goods and services and put it in a different position to the very small portion of the community which enjoys the comforts that are provided by the majority. [More…]

• It seems lo me that his opinions at that time were no more popular than they are now amongst the Australian community. [More…]

• But the extra 60,000 unemployed that the Minister and his Government have brought into the community have meant the loss of 12 million mandays a year, and there is no word about that from the Government. [More…]

• Even worse still - this is perhaps much more serious in the eyes of the general community - it will cause more industrial unrest than any other factor in industrial relationships. [More…]

• Opposition members are proud to admit that we are mainly concerned with the disadvantaged and underprivileged sections of the community. [More…]

• I should like to refer to statements made by an eminent member of the Darwin community who is also a mariner. [More…]

• It would be a sorry and pathetic spectacle and frightening in its implications for the Australian community if ever a government of the type which is represented on the other side of the chamber were to come to power in the Federal sphere. [More…]

• I believe it is clear from what we have heard during this debate that it would be the spectacle of a government controlled by the power of the unions which would be able to strike with impunity against awards of the Commission; a government which by withdrawing the sanctions provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission would relegate the position of that Commission and effectively erode its power; a government which wanted for the trade unions all the advantages of arbitration but apparently was not prepared to accept the obligations which that system necessarily imposes; a government which certainly would condone an increase in industrial unrest and strike activity; a government which would fail to protect the public interest in proceedings before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; a government which apparently refused to recognise the fundamental reality that the rapid escalation in wage and salary costs is the mainspring problem of inflation in Australia’s present circumstances; and a government which, because of that, certainly would fuel the fires of inflation and not contain them as contained they ought to be at present because of the impact that spiral has upon the disadvantaged groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government, however, has a total responsibility for the economy of the country and what happens in the field of industrial relations between employers and unions can be of profound significance for the community. [More…]

• I am reminded of the remarks of that eminent Justice of the High Court, Sir Isaac Isaacs, who in 1917 said that the real raison d’etre of the arbitration power in the Constitution is not the mere decision between 2 contesting parties as to disputed industrial conditions, though that in itself is undoubtedly important, but the desirability, sometimes amounting to public necessity, that the community may be served uninterruptedly and not compelled, when threatened with deprivation of perhaps the essentials of existence, to look on helplessly while those whose function it is to supply them stop their work to quarrel. [More…]

• It is not the approach of the great Labor leaders in the various States of this country or in the federal sphere because we know, and the community knows, that the Labor Party would withdraw the sanction provisions against breaches of awards made by the Commission. [More…]

• I thank my colleague the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) for his very clear insight into some of the most fundamental questions which face the Australian community at the present time. [More…]

• I want to indicate to the House that it is the Government’s intention that this regulation be administered in accordance with our belief that a person who institutes bona fide proceedings in the Industrial Court is not only protecting bis own interests but also the interests of his fellow members and indeed, therefore, he is carrying out a community service. [More…]

• The British Government replied that it now had a safeguard clause which could be introduced if there was disruption to certain agricultural commodities going to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This development has attracted considerable interest, and indeed concern, in the community. [More…]

• I can understand these provisions where unions are directly involved or organisations are directly involved but for a penalty of this sort to be hanging over the heads of people who are more or less innocent bystanders in a dispute is more than the average person should be called upon to bear and is more than the average person in the community would tolerate if he knew the full facts of the case and the implications of the subject. [More…]

• The whole community will pay for it. [More…]

• The community in its corporate sense is involved, and somehow or other the body making the decision must listen to a view which comes before that body on behalf of the corporate community. [More…]

• It means that a lot of people in the community are receiving much more than the minimum wage. [More…]

• He made the point that the whole raison d’etre of the arbitration powers was not the mere decision between 2 contesting parties, although that of course was undoubtedly of importance because ‘h purpose of the legislation was to resolve industrial disputes; the object of the Commission must always be that the community be served uninterruptedly and not be compelled, when threatened with deprivation or perhaps the essentials of existence, to look on helplessly while those whose function it is to supply them stop their work to quarrel. [More…]

• So, in relation to those 3 matters which are the principal causes of debate on proposed new sections 28 to 31 - certification of agreements, matters reserved for the full bench and public interest - 1 maintain that the proposals of the Government are designed to improve the system and maintain the public interest of the community of Australia. [More…]

• I believe that this is a very dangerous process to put into a system in order to determine by a fairly unscientific manner what levels of wages and conditions should be provided within the community. [More…]

• Wages have a decisive impact on the community but the fact which cannot be got over to the Government is that what is wrong at this point of time is that extra weight is being put on one end of the scale and nothing on the other end. [More…]

• At the same time I concede that a good deal of what the honourable member for Hawker in particular had to say was persuasive and even tenable because he was concerned about a situation where he can point to various groups in the community, particularly those on the higher levels of income who do not appear, on the face of it, to be subject to the test of public interest. [More…]

• We saw this last week in relation to clause 8 when members opposite were not prepared to recognise that some people would be in good community standing. [More…]

• He knows that if anybody wants to attain an acceptable standard of living and a decent quality of life, disregarding the monetary factor for the moment and the number of persons in a family who have become earners or working units, the only way in which young people in a community can afford to overcome the 1,000 per cent increase in the cost of land in many of our cities and suburbs throughout the nation is for both of them to contract to work. [More…]

• Will the judges take into consideration reports such as we have seen in the past 48 hours from the University of Melbourne in regard to poverty in Australia as it affects wage earners in the community and people who live below the poverty line? [More…]

• We have gone from the actual needs of the community to what industry can afford to pay. [More…]

• In fact, it brings about a situation in which, by a low wage structure based on ‘public interest’ objections, or lengthened hours in the ‘public interest” in industries such as the Public Service, public transport, hospitals and other essential service industries, this plea will be used to subsidise industry, to control the wage cost structure, to escape the cost to the Government or, as they would say, restrict the cost to the community, the taxpayer, but in so doing we create another section in the poverty area. [More…]

• By wage freezing and hours freezing, which are the intent of this legislation, the situation will be perpetuated - so much so that until some governmental action is taken to make the family unit what it was, what people fought and died for in 2 world wars - the fundamental bastion of our society - the family will become embroiled in some of the most bitter industrial disputes just to obtain enough income to suffice in our modern community. [More…]

• Justice not only needs to be done but needs to be done in such a way that every man, and woman in the community at large understands what is being done. [More…]

• This clause increases the legal ammunition which must be paid for by the community in disputes of a technical nature. [More…]

• I would be more impressed, as I feel the community would be, if no profit whatsoever were to be made in the taking of industrial cases by those who have a vested interest in causing the dispute and subsequent delay in payment of the wage increases. [More…]

• I was not arguing this but I was arguing that there is a corporate responsibility in the community which must be acknowledged, heeded and taken into account whenever any decisions are made. [More…]

• I am much on the honourable member’s side in saying that whenever there is an opportunity for people’s wages and salaries to be increased in terms of the community’s capacity to pay he will hear no complaint from me. [More…]

• This matter is of importance to a large section of the community. [More…]

• We must be reminded that there are 4.5 million people in this country who work to produce the goods and provide the services that are required by the rest of the community. [More…]

• As I have explained, these are the people who work and provide the goods and services for the rest of the community. [More…]

• In my book, the public interest - I notice that the honourable member for Moreton is not interested enough in what I am saying to listen - is the Australian working community. [More…]

• Is it considered to be in the public interest if some stupid arrangement is manipulated for the advantage of only one section of the community, with perhaps a selfish employer who is prepared to take advantage of the situation for his own good but to the detriment of the country and of other people in other industries? [More…]

• They are in the legislation for one reason and for one reason only, that is to make a particular section of the community - one may say a very large section - do things whether they wish to or not. [More…]

• If any employer, manufacturer or any person who provides services in this community found that it was unprofitable to make these goods or provide these services and decided he no longer would remain in that sort of business no matter how much those goods and services were needed by the community, this Government would not take a stand anywhere at all to ensure that these goods or services were provided. [More…]

• I do not think that there would be any disagreement in the community with that proposition. [More…]

• It is a denial and a refusal by the Government to accept its rightful role in the community. [More…]

• I am not quarrelling with the right of the Commission to be inconsistent because the inconsistencies are fundamental inconsistencies which clearly illustrate to me - and I do not hold myself out as a paragon of the community but I think I am a average member of the community and I believe that most members of the community share this view - that the Commission has demonstrated on more than one occasion that it is incapable of considering and not properly equipped to consider the questions of the economy which are placed before it. [More…]

• The State, in attempting to exercise compulsion over trade unions, is dealing with a powerful section of the community. [More…]

• The arbitration system deals with questions on which the community as a whole is divided into 2 camps. [More…]

• The system would be strengthened if this Government were to accept the reality of the situation which is that in our community there are issues and conflicts so acute that no court could hope to find an acceptable solution. [More…]

• Other organisations are deemed capable of administering their affairs, and indeed of making decisions that affect the whole community, without having to take a poll of all their members - in the case of business undertakings, their shareholders, and in the case of Members of Parliament, their electors. [More…]

• The members of the unions are terrified by the use of the concerted union machinery to create anarchy in the community as a whole. [More…]

• We have a situation continued in this Bill that makes retrospective payment to people in the community who do not deserve it, do not need it and ought not to get it. [More…]

• Why does not one of the honourable members opposite get to his feet tonight and admit that measures such as this and previous measures that we have had from the Government - and the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) is laughing his head off over there - have been responsible for benefiting the less deserving section of the community. [More…]

• If a community body submitted an application to conduct a lottery in aid of aged persons it would be considered on its merits, as was done with the lottery referred to in (1). [More…]

• I believe that this also applies to other members of the community who have this interest in a safe, orderly community. [More…]

• This is an interesting question relating to the problem of trying to maintain the family environment in the Aboriginal community and at the same time increasing education standards. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Attorney-General aware of growing community concern, even within the legal fraternity, over the high cost of divorce and the punitive nature of its provisions? [More…]

• Community will undergo fundamental change and it will be more important to take every opportunity to make our own point of view known to Europe. [More…]

• The distance between the points is relatively unimportant; land features or oceans cease to be obstacles and there is no part of a community, however, remote or temporary, which needs to be isolated from a communication aspect. [More…]

• I should now like to deal with another matter, education, only a small matter in relation to the Bill before us today but quite a large matter in the community. [More…]

• It would be bad enough if that were the sole side of the picture but the situation is such that concern is felt in many areas of our community about the cost of the continued growth of our capital cities and the strategic danger that is inherent in having so large a percentage of our population residing within the 5 major capitals. [More…]

• He said that it seemed indicative that because of lack of confidence in the business community there is just not so much investment taking place and not so much recourse to trading banks for loans as occurred previously. [More…]

• So, a higher cost will be imposed on the private section of the community to protect what might be described as the public environment. [More…]

• It does not matter at what price we endeavour to sell our primary products in such places as the European Economic Community because we have little prospect of doing so. [More…]

• Unfortunately the whole community will have to pay for their actions. [More…]

• My argument is directed to the priorities that should be given to expenditure by the Government, particularly if it is within the capacity of the Government in today’s economy to provide the large sums of money that will be necessary to introduce colour telvision for the community at large. [More…]

• One of the greatest costs facing people in the community is the cost of telephone services in areas where those services are available, although this point is of secondary importance. [More…]

• I am speaking on behalf of a very deserving section of the community, human beings. [More…]

• The salary of the Director has to be adjusted to the rates applying in the rest of the community. [More…]

• We believe that in respect of an Australian corporation operating in a community which already has within its shores somewhere near 1,500,000 people who are not naturalised or who have not been in the country for very long, the provisions contained in this paragraph are unnecessary and may well inhibit the recruitment of staff. [More…]

• There are conservative elements - perhaps I can put it this way - in the Australian community, reflected at certain State levels. [More…]

• When will the Minister and his Government, if they are serious in fighting inflation, seek to restrain the employers of the community instead of merely following their shallow policy of blaming the employees? [More…]

• When that industrial power is used it leaves a legacy of difficulty for everybody else in the community, except those possessed of industrial power. [More…]

• At these preparatory meetings the Commonwealth has been represented, I believe, by a strong delegation on each occasion and it has taken an active part in canvassing the various possibilities which might receive sufficient general assent amongst the international community to have the chance of being embodied in a convention, which would obtain general assent. [More…]

• The international community is not particularly keen on inserting the federal clause in international conventions, but it is in some conventions, particularly in some of the ILO conventions. [More…]

• The effects of the present Commonwealth taxation system, and of any proposals formulated by the Committee, upon the social economic and business organisation of the community and upon the economic and efficient use of the resources of Australia; and [More…]

• There is little dispute outside of interest groups in the community that smoking can be fatal and that it certainly causes serious illness. [More…]

• In the meantime many people have died and many more have suffered serious ill health, mostly of a chronic nature, as a result of the effects of cigarette and tobacco smoking in the community. [More…]

• It is rather remarkable in our society that the respectable conventional drugs such as alcohol and nicotine are amongst the most damaging drugs in the community but create less concern and less distress among the community in terms of the community being upset about their effects than drugs such as marihuana. [More…]

• There is an economic cost and a social cost which the community is being asked to bear. [More…]

• In a way it is a subsidy for a most unwholesome industry, the tobacco industry, because the rest of the community is bearing this cost. [More…]

• In our community, enormous sums of money are being expended each year to promote the sale of this so-called respectable drug which is so devastatingly damaging in its effect on people. [More…]

• As someone has observed, Stuart Wagstaff is doing more for lung cancer than anyone has done for the humanitarian needs in the community. [More…]

• This means that each year about $1 per person in the community is being spent on the promotion of cigarettes and tobacco which, I repeat, are clearly so damaging - indeed lethal - in their effect. [More…]

• There is something clearly wrong with the sense of priorities in a community, when we can underspend in an area of obvious need, cancer research - an area concerned largely with the effect of cigarette and tobacco smoking - and yet spend an inordinately large amount on cigarette and tobacco advertising which is causing a great deal of this problem. [More…]

• I have noticed in some of the daily newspapers and in some telegrams which I have received a suggestion that there is no evidence to support the contention that the banning of this sort of advertising results in a diminishing, on a per capita basis, of tobacco and cigarette consumption in a community. [More…]

• But in any event, no-one argues that because people are continuing to smoke marihuana at an increasing rate and to consume hard drugs, we ought not to ban advertising of these particularly deleterious influences in the community. [More…]

• In 1967 it had warned of the increased rate of death in the younger age groups and of the increase in non-fatal illness occurring in the community because of cigarette smoking. [More…]

• If we allow for a slight diminution in the consumption of tobacco, we find that there was still an increase of more than 60 per cent in the consumption of tobacco in the community. [More…]

• In the face of this, there was compelling evidence, linked with the urgency felt about this matter by the National Health and Medical Research Council and other organisations and qualified bodies, to indicate that the Government had a moral responsibility to the community fully to inform it of the dangers of cigarette and tobacco smoking. [More…]

• We believe it is completely immoral to have allowed the cigarette and tobacco interests in Australia to have operated for so long as they have operated and to have been responsible for so many deaths in the community, for so much chronic ill health and for so much unnecessary and excessive demand on scarce and very expensive public health services. [More…]

• It has been reliably assessed by the Chief Medical Officer of Health in Britain that approximately 10 per cent of all deaths in the community are due to smoking associated diseases. [More…]

• It is a health risk only to a very small proportion of the community - a small proportion of unborn foetuses. [More…]

• There would be outrage in the community if it ever came on the market again. [More…]

• We have so many tobacco addicts in the community that this is a totally impractical course but it does not follow that we should do nothing to control the promotion of cigarettes and tobacco. [More…]

• The first is ‘.hat lung cancer in particular is a very nasty death, and the second is that a lot of smoking induced deaths come at the breadwinning stage, in the age bracket 45 to 65, which imposes a loss on community output and severe hardship on the family. [More…]

• I think the inescapable conclusion is that the Government has to take action to control promotion in the interests of community health. [More…]

• I accept and support the idea of putting warning labels on cigarette packets, although frankly I do not think it will have a great deal of effect, except in showing the young people that the community does not approve of cigarettes or that the community recognises that they are dangerous. [More…]

• It has been made quite clear over the years that the Opposition has felt that a measure of this kind - although we do not oppose it, we do not think it goes quite far enough - was more than welcome not only to people in this House but also to the community generally. [More…]

• However, the legislation does not go far enough or is wide enough in grappling with the problems of a very terrifying health hazard especially to young people in the community. [More…]

• Even if all cigarette advertising is banned I doubt whether consumption would drop until community attitudes towards cigarette smoking change. [More…]

• However, I have grave reservations about the priorities or wisdom of a government in a so-called free society enforcing such warnings on advertisements for cigarettes when there is no suggestion that possibly other more dangerous factors in the community such as alcohol, or perhaps the most dangerous of all, the motor car with all its ramifications, will be touched. [More…]

• Even if this forecast is too gloomy, such valuable community services as local news and national news on relay will be affected as these 2 items are the most expensive that country television and radio provide as services to the community. [More…]

• As my time is somewhat limited, I should like first of all to commend those people who are anxious to improve the health of the Australian community. [More…]

• If they are forced to close that will be a distinct loss to the local community which would then have no medium for radio advertising. [More…]

• In this day and age where great pressures on the community are being exposed everywhere - one does not have to be a follower of Ehrlich to accept that the population explosion is causing untold misery in the world - the Government persists in banning the advertising of family planning services and persists in banning the advertising of contraceptives or contraceptive devices, the pill and all the rest of them. [More…]

• It bans the advertising of ideas, probably the most exciting and stimulating thing a community can have; and in the area 6f family planning it also bans the propagation of ideas. [More…]

• To the cost to the community of hospitalisation we can add the cost of paying widows’ pensions to a great many women much earlier than they would have received them had their husbands not died of heart disease or lung cancer attributable in a very large measure to smoking. [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council is well respected in the community. [More…]

• It draws on the support of an eminent public authority in the community and one whose publications are highly respected. [More…]

• So honourable members can see that on this issue I can speak as one who really believes in the health of the community. [More…]

• Above all it is a puny attack <n the whole general health problem of the use of socially accepted drugs in this community. [More…]

• Rightly or wrongly they feel that the Government has looked upon them as marriage fodder to correct an imbalance in the Australian community. [More…]

• Further, is the Minister aware that Commonwealth land holdings in the Belmont Shire amount to 25 per cent of the total Shire area and will rise to 33 per cent with further airport resumptions, thus restricting the development of the community amenities for the Shire? [More…]

• The entry of Britain and other West European countries into the enlarged European Economic Community will have serious implications for our exports of certain agricultural commodities. [More…]

• I think it is time that the Minister in charge really looked at this question if he wants to run the Parliament as a representative sample for the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs continued in his statement to cover a very wide range of areas including the European Economic Community. [More…]

• On the other hand it can be argued that if a close friendship and community interests have been established the need for a formal treaty scarcely exists. [More…]

• The Minister in his statement made some reference - and I was glad about this - to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Therefore we must work towards the creation of closer economic and trade ties with individual EEC nations in the Community itself. [More…]

• They are not being met now, and they must be met by the industry concerned alone or with assistance from the State, from the community or from the Government. [More…]

• The Government had to play that game; it had to do something dramatic in the area of tariffs because it had been under pressure from all sections of the community and did not know quite what to do. [More…]

• I quote the article here in full for the simple reason that time after time in this House the manufacturing industries and their representatives are painted as the big, bad bogeyman against primary industry and our community generally. [More…]

• I could be wrong, and doubtless people will question this, but to me that does imply a very considerable accent on applied courses which have almost immediate community application; in other words, courses in the field of business tuition, business administration, accountancy, journalism and so on. [More…]

• I might say parenthetically that 1 am not in any sense advocating any lowering of standards; I am trying to catch the people who get outside the higher educational net and who may, if persevered with a little longer, be brought back into the net for their own and the community’s good. [More…]

• That means that they go out into the community searching for other jobs - it might be nursing or clerking or what have you. [More…]

• But there is certainly evidence to show that some of these people who have just missed out at that formal level of testing would, if persevered with and given a little chance to mature - and this is true of the universities, and it should be true of the colleges of advanced education - prove their worth and develop their particular attributes and abilities, as I said earlier, to the betterment of themselves and the community. [More…]

• So it can be readily seen that as far as the producer is concerned in the best interest of the industry generally, and as far as the general community is concerned and as the Act stands, the lesser the subsidy the better pleased everyone will be, including, no doubt, the Treasurer (Mr Snedden). [More…]

• If the Government would take the same sort of attitude about decentralisation generally it would be much better for the community. [More…]

• In deciding its war compensation priorities the Government has been mindful that, within the limits imposed by their disabilities, general rate war pensioners are able to work and thus share in normal community prosperity. [More…]

• The Commissioners agreed to direct the attention of the heads of their respective Crime Departments to undertake research in depth into a number of areas of serious crime currently causing concern to the community. [More…]

• Already in certain areas - such as Cockburn Sound, where the vital sea grass community which stabilises the sandy bottom of the Sound is dying from pollution, and Botany Bay, where the State Government of New South Wales still pretends that land filling and industrial and port development are still compatible with oyster farming - the damage is possibly beyond repair. [More…]

• We know that the Minister for Trade and Industry says that he made it patently clear to the British Government what was required for Australia to protect its interests when Britain goes into the European Economic Community, but we find now that there were no firm proposals from honourable members opposite. [More…]

• No one section of the community can expect continued assistance from the Government unless it is prepared to do this. [More…]

• The present rural crisis not only concerns the man on the land but has widespread sociological, community and centralisation problems. [More…]

• In this year alone it will provide anything from $100m to $150m to the wool growers of this country and will also benefit every other section of the community. [More…]

• The Convention aims to accord to the consulate and its staff that degree of immunity which the international community considers necessary for them to perform their functions free from interference or harassment, while at the same time the rights of citizens and the receiving State are protected to the greatest extent possible commensurate with that need. [More…]

• In reporting favourably on the proposal the Committee recommended: If tests and evaluations justify the use of carpets as an economic floor covering and if there is no doubt about its suitability, it should be used in single cabins at HMAS ‘Stirling; service scales and standards of accommodation should be amended to provide carpet as a floor covering in single cabins; the advice of experts on environmental problems should continue to be sought and implemented during development and occupation of the naval support facility; because of the widespread nature of community interest, day to day care and management of areas of Garden Island open to the public should be a State responsibility. [More…]

• Since the Commonwealth was making the gesture of allowing a park of about 1,800 acres to remain on Garden Island it would have been an elegant gesture if it had carried the financial responsibility for the development of the park as some return to the Western Australian community for the loss of what was once a very great natural area of pleasure. [More…]

• However, the Western Australian community should appreciate the fact that 1,800 acres are to be left to it and I suppose we may rejoice that the State Government will have a recreation facility even if it must carry the expenses of developing the recreation facility. [More…]

• Most people in the community who are taxpayers - wage earners and recipients of relatively small incomes - have very little opportunity to convert their incomes into anything else or to avoid one cent of the tax that is legally payable by them. [More…]

• They are achieving them at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• For the sake of the future of this nation - I hope I am not making in a biased fashion - I do not believe that it is a tenable proposition to tax economic rural properties out of existence any more than that it is to tax any other section of the community out of existence. [More…]

• It will result in the use of the unquestionable wealth of, for example, the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) for, I hope, the good of the community. [More…]

• It should not be necessary for me to point out that if the liability for taxation is escaped by one section of the community it has to be borne by another section of the community. [More…]

• The wealthier section of the community is transferring its share of the burden to the poorer section. [More…]

• As it is, the present taxation legislation is heavily loaded against the average and middle income group section of the community. [More…]

• If the Government had taken notice of me then, when I first raised this subject, the Commonwealth Treasury would have gained many more millions of dollars from that section of the community which could afford to pay it. [More…]

• As this is, to my mind, a good thing - that is to say, that the small investor, as distinct from the highly affluent or professional investor, should be encouraged to take a stake in the community where he might find it not only for his good but also for the good of the community - I believe that the eradication of that assumed barrier and the removal of those apparent doubts is in the best interests of the country. [More…]

• It seems to me that that could be a function of taxation, in the proper sense, which would still allow people who believe that they are doing a highly valuable job in the community to take the level of income they receive and to derive whatever benefit they do from the status accruing from that job, and yet to be kept within reasonable bounds in relation to the general level of the population m their net incomes. [More…]

• In looking at the amounts involved in these 2 Bills, one realises the immense investment in the airline industry and the immense cost to the community in indebtedness - $28.5m to Trans-Australia Airlines for four 727-200 jet aircraft - making a total indebtedness in this field by TAA of approximately $70.6m which will be outstanding, with an additional $25. [More…]

• They should support it if for no other reason than that they believe in true competition and private enterprise based on fair dealing to all sections of the community, and to ensure that we discharge our duty as members of Parliament to sec that the taxes we collect are properly spent. [More…]

• This is a matter of concern to my Department because it represents underemployment in the Australian community. [More…]

• We in the Government are seeking the maintenance of a profitable farming community. [More…]

• A profitable farming community depends on individual wool growers being able to generate sufficient returns from their activities to enable them to maintain a reasonable position in relation to others in the economic structure of this nation. [More…]

• There are re lated problems quite outside the wine excise, problems such as Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community, contracting export market opportunities and import competition in Australia. [More…]

• As a result of establishing these 3 functional commands the present State command headquarters will be disbanded and State and other residual matters such as works and housing, the acquisition and disposal of property, recruiting, civil emergency and general community activities, which must be performed on a geographic basis, will become the responsibility of small military district headquarters created in each State. [More…]

• It is certainly possible for 2 parties to agree on a particular matter which may well be to the detriment of a third party ot in fact the community itself. [More…]

• Although the honourable member made some reference to the increase in recent years towards a system of collective bargaining, I am certain that he and other members of the Opposition would be very well aware of the impact which collective bargaining wage negotiations can have on what I call the outside groups in the general community. [More…]

• Although the honourable member for Newcastle has in passing been critical of the Arbitration Commission, I believe it is wise that one should remind the community of the simple fact that the workers of this country have gained immeasurably by the operation of the arbitration system over the very long period since 1904. [More…]

• If that system is to be put in peril because of direct negotiations, industrial unrest or unions acting in defiance of the system, in the long run the workers of this country will be the losers, and certainly those groups in the community who are disadvantaged by wage negotiations but are not party to them will continue to be disadvantaged, as 1 believe is happening at the present time. [More…]

• He is a well known Oxford economist and he makes very clearly indeed the point that direct industrial action in the United Kingdom during the period of the Wilson administration was certainly counter productive to the needs and the position of disadvantaged groups in the general community. [More…]

• For reasons which I need not repeat now, it is quite clear that the Australian community pays less for people who receive their pensions overseas than it inevitably has to spend on them from Federal, State and municipal sources if they continue to live in Australia. [More…]

• In material terms, the community is not out of pocket if people who have earnt pensions choose to receive them overseas. [More…]

• There can be no objection, therefore, to reducing the period for receiving age pensions overseas to 10 years residence instead of 20 years residence, because it will not cost the Australian taxpayer and the Australian community another cent. [More…]

• As I told the House over 2 months ago in introducing my Bill, when I was in Italy last January I had no difficulty in securing a volume of bilateral treaties and conventions which Italy has made on social security, not only with European Economic Community countries but with other countries which are not in the Community such as Yugoslavia, the Iberian and Scandinavian countries and also Brazil and Argentina. [More…]

• The whole sorry story, the whole historical cavalcade of events, makes a laughing stock of any sincerity which the Government claims about its concern for the welfare of our migrant community whose desires and interests have been denied. [More…]

• I remind honourable members that when we talk of the United Council of Immigrants, the Council whose policy has been embraced today completely and unambiguously by the Australian Labor Party, we are speaking of the Central Council of Croatian Associations in Australia, the Italian Welfare Centre Co., the Netherlands Society of Sydney, the Association of Australian Slovaks, the Swiss Club of New South Wales, the Ukrainian Society of New South Wales, the Federal Council of Polish Associations, the Estonian Society in Sydney, the Hungarian Council of New South Wales, the Maltese Community Council of New South Wales, the Latvian community in Sydney, the Lithuanian community in Sydney and the Australian Romanian Association. [More…]

• He merely related the process of mystification whereby he hoped to persuade the Australian community that the Government had a genuine concern for the people who had worked hard to create this country’s wealth and whose reasonable hope was to enjoy their retirement in the country of their birth. [More…]

• The more the Government speaks out on this issue the more obvious it becomes that this Bill is merely a mirage intended to mislead our migrant community and other deserving Australian citizens who are thirsting in this Government’s dry, barren desert of social services. [More…]

• The Government has introduced this Bill because it is afraid of the outraged voices of the migrant community, whose legitimate demands through the correct channels it has for so long ignored. [More…]

• In view of the fact that it has been shown that the Australian community would show no financial loss as a result of the unilateral introduction of portability of pensions, because of the savings in pension concessions presently made by transport, housing, medical and hospital authorities - concessions which pensioners receive if they stay in this country, but which they will not take with them when moving overseas - could we not agree that there was some substance in the remarks of the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) in this House recently? [More…]

• I am astounded by this revelation, because what the Minister is saying is that his Government is quite prepared to deny justice to some members of this community to gain justice for some members who are owed justice by another community. [More…]

• Secondly it will provide encouragement to these migrants to become more involved in our community because they will feel more a part of it. [More…]

• The truth is that after many years during which our social services were regarded as so many forms of charity there is at last some generalised agreement that social services are not a charity at all but a right - a right based, most often, on one’s contribution to the Australian community but, in special circumstances, on simple membership of it. [More…]

• I know these people to be hard working and loyal citizens who are a credit to the community in which they reside. [More…]

• We are all hopeful that migrants will eventually want to become naturalised citizens and participate fully in our community, but if they for their own good reasons do not wish to relinquish their original citizenship we should not seek to discriminate against them. [More…]

• By limiting the provisions of his Bill to Australian citizens he invited this national Parliament to discriminate against a large section of our migrant community. [More…]

• Twenty years is not really such a long time and it could never be disputed that in 20 years a person makes a significant contribution to the community as a whole. [More…]

• Therefore, he may have contributed only 4 years of productive work to our community - not a bad deal for him. [More…]

• Already I have mentioned to the House, as the Minister did some time ago, the ways in which the Opposition - in both its Leader’s abortive Bill and now in its equally abortive amendments - has betrayed the real interest of the migrant community. [More…]

• I submit again that the Federal Government by its attitude to pensions, is perpetuating undesirable divisions in the community. [More…]

• We have divisions now in the community, but we are going to increase the number of divisions. [More…]

• It seems to me that the provision in the Government’s Bill meets all the proper cases because we are thinking of people who have come here and have by their skill and industry added to the prosperity of the Australian community. [More…]

• Hugh Dalton was asked and forced to resign by the Attlee Government when he released information touching upon matters of this character and this Parliament owes it to itself, to the community and to the great Australian nation never to allow a Minister entrusted with secrets of State to be in a position where he can handle them idly, carelessly, recklessly or in a way which would enable other citizens, especially privileged citizens of the community, to make enormous sums of money. [More…]

• The Group Charging system, incorporating Extended Local Service Areas (ELSA), was approved by Parliament in 1959 as an integral part of the Community Telephone Plan and people in outer metropolitan areas gained considerably from the adoption of this policy as did the majority of subscribers in country areas. [More…]

• The telephone network has since been developed in accordance with the Community Telephone Plan and there are no current plans for a revision of the overall policy. [More…]

• Furthermore, as the letters have now been posted and received by all honourable members, no doubt including yourself, do you consider that the letter should be brought to the attention of the Minister for Customs and Excise in order that he will be again reminded of the filthy literature being distributed and that many people in the community believe that it is time he took appropriate action to prevent its publication? [More…]

• Does the Minister further agree that a wife who stays at home to look after a sick and aging husband instead of hospitalising him, which would represent a much greater cost to the community and the Government than the payment of a reasonable pension, is doing a service to the community and should be rewarded? [More…]

• Does the Minister recognise that beer is by far a more popular drink within the lower-middle income community, and if so, will he take immediate steps to remove or substantially reduce the excise on that beverage? [More…]

• There was such an outcry from all sections of the community that it had second thoughts, and tried to rectify some of the wrongs that it had done, not because it did not want unemployment, but because it was concerned with the effect unemployment would have on the Government’s electoral prospects. [More…]

• Until we can get stability in wages, costs, prices and so on and a general spirit of greater contentment in the community about these matters we will continue to face very serious problems, and amongst these serious problems will be increasing unemployment for a good many industries and a good many trades and individuals quickly pricing themselves out of the market. [More…]

• But until we recognise these phenomena, and the general community recognises them, these things will happen. [More…]

• The reason why we should be spending this sort of money on producing beer, which is one of the great vices of our community, is lost to me. [More…]

• Was the grant provided to these companies for the purpose of trying to cure an ill in our community? [More…]

• Australian industry and the community in general cannot afford to lose too many of its professionally qualified people to other industrialised countries. [More…]

• At the other end of the scale wage increases could well be considered in the interests of facilitating and providing decent living standards for the whole community. [More…]

• The Aribtration Commission’s national wage case decision was responsible and would have long term benefits for the Australian community. [More…]

• Is it not tragic that at the expense of the vast majority of public servants and others a small section of the community is receiving huge increases running into thousands of dollars per annum. [More…]

• What must pensioners in the community think when judges are given $6,000 and $7,000 a year increase by the Government, when public servants’ salaries are to be increased by up to $7,000 and when this will take them not to $10,000 or $11,000 per annum but to $29,000 and $30,000 in some instances? [More…]

• We on this side of the Parliament realise that large sections of the community - 64 per cent was mentioned by me a moment ago - exist on levels below the average income and they in turn can get only $2 a week when their case goes before the national wage fixing authority. [More…]

• I just say to the Government that it is nearly time that it woke up; it is nearly time that it gave wage justice to everyone in the community from the lowest to the highest. [More…]

• This is a Government that has listened to a debate this afternoon in regard to a number of workers who are becoming redundant in Western Australia but has offered nothing by way of constructive debate so far as those unfortunate people in the community are concerned. [More…]

• However, I do know that people making up a large percentage of the Australian community are on a minimum wage level which places them just SOc a week above the poverty line, according to the adjusted figure for the poverty line which was established at the end of last year. [More…]

• This section of the community requires some action. [More…]

• I want to say very definitely that at some point there must be standards of morals and standards of material that go into this community. [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…]

• In fact, its aim is to create dissension in the community for political purposes. [More…]

• Perhaps in the Government’s view - once again, my friend the honourable member for Stirling mentioned this - trade unions’ standing in the community is different from that of other organisations. [More…]

• Does it oppose the amalgamation and establishment of organisations that are formed primarily to support the interests of that section of the community which is not in the best position to protect itself? [More…]

• The amendment which has been produced is a direct result of the pressure which was applied by a minority political party in this Parliament, supported by a minority group in the community. [More…]

• We said that it was bad when it was proposed in this place and it has not been improved by the Democratic Labor Party, whose masters in the community insisted that certain amendments be carried. [More…]

• Over wide areas this income fall has been disastrous for thousands of farm families and others in the rural community dependent upon them. [More…]

• Canthe Minister give figures for (a) adults, (b) teenagers and (c) the community generally in respect of the incidence of each of the main forms of venereal disease in (i) each State and Territory and (ii) the Commonwealth for the years 1950, 1960 and 1970. [More…]

• For the community generally, the figures in respect of syphilis and gonorrhoea, which are the main forms of venereal disease, are as follows: [More…]

• Smoking prevalence varies widely from school to school and from group to group and depends on many factors including local community conditions. [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 a classic example of the extent to which unemployment in the community at the present time is caused by sporadic stoppages of the type which have been mentioned and which have been condoned consistently by members of the Opposition. [More…]

• which is the confidence of the business community in relation to investment and of consumers in relation to thenspending patterns. [More…]

• During the recent oil strike in this country fuel was cut off to the community, some tens of thousands were thrown out of work and the jobs of hundreds of thousands were put in jeopardy because a small group of trade unionists in this country was prepared, against the interests of the great majority of the wage earners of Australia, to refuse to accept the interim decision which had been handed down by His Honour Mr Justice Moore and to down tools at the expense of their fellow unionists and at the expense of the country. [More…]

• There are people in our community who will seize on this opportunity to use the ‘aboriginals for their own political gain.’ [More…]

• It is not something for which any of us can prescribe easy solutions, but what we have clearly stated as a Commonwealth Government is that we have an objective towards which we are moving, namely, to create in Australia a single society while at the same time recognising the disparate history of ethnic, cultural and spiritual characteristics of the Australian community. [More…]

• The next point I would like to make is that I do not believe that it is a common sense or sensible proposition that at a time when you are having an election and when the whole attention of the community should be directed to election issues you should attempt to confuse those issues by introducing such a matter as constitutional reform. [More…]

• Does it mean that the Commission should operate without interference from the government of the day on the premise that its powers are exercised fairly and impartially in the interests of the whole community, since it is the community as a whole that nourishes and sustains it? [More…]

• The Commission is required to provide adequate programmes having regard to the community which receives those programmes, whether broadcasting or television. [More…]

• In my view those employees are in a situation similar to that of the employees of any department or organisation within the community. [More…]

• The latter Committee was established by the Government in 1957 to provide scientific information in matters associated with the effects of ionising radiation on the Australian community arising from any source. [More…]

• The NRAC is, therefore, a body of scientists with wide experience in appropriate scientific disciplines, charged with making its own independent judgment on the effects of the various sources of ionising radiation on the Australian community. [More…]

• In part of its evaluation of the hazards to health of the 1971 French tests the National Radiation Advisory Committee followed a practice adopted by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, namely, that of comparing the radiation doses from nuclear weapons tests with the doses inevitably received by the community from natural background radiation. [More…]

• The Budget of last year failed to recognise that the great problem that we were facing was consumer resistance in the community; that the money was there but that it was in the hands of the wrong people. [More…]

• If the Opposition were serious about this issue it would certainly pay attention to those factors which have had a direct effect upon economic confidence, which is the central problem facing the Australian community. [More…]

• The outcry from all sections of the community has caused it to have second thoughts, not because the Government does not want unemployment but because it is concerned with the effect unemployment will have on its electoral prospects. [More…]

• It was more especially predictable that they would blame industrial relations in the community. [More…]

• The Minister must think that the Australian community are fools who are going to believe this nonsense. [More…]

• A fundamental structural change is taking place in the labour force in the community and in the structure of the economy, and this has far reaching implications. [More…]

• This is the sort of suffering that has been created in this community. [More…]

• Many of them were misrepresentations and they would stand no quiet, calm analysis of the position which so clearly is needed to attempt to solve any community or economic problem in this country or any other. [More…]

• However, it should be noted that cases of typhoid occur each year in the Australian community and have occurred for many years. [More…]

• Any person entering Australia who is ill on arrival or suspected of suffering from an infectious disease is seen by a quarantine medical officer, who takes appropriate measures designed to ensure that any infectious disease discovered is not spread in the community. [More…]

• However, sufficient power will be radiated towards Koolyanobbing (22 miles distant) to permit the operation of a translator or community aerial system from the hill above this town. [More…]

• Can he say whether one-party regimes, which suppress trade union activity and criticism of their government, notably South Africa, Spain and Portugal, have sought favoured nation status with the European Economic Community in the event of the United Kingdom, which gives them tariff concessions, entering the Community. [More…]

• Spain already has a trade agreement with the EEC, under which that country receives tariff concessions on a wide range of her exports entering the Community. [More…]

• Such assurances were given, subject to the establishment of a buffer zone around the reactor to protect the community. [More…]

• As far as the dissemination throughout the Australian community of public research material of CSIRO scientists is concerned, the Organisation would be actively wanting to seek ways and means whereby that distribution could be increased and the results of their researches brought into a wider compass and put to greater use. [More…]

• In asking for urgent consideration of this request, I would suggest that the Government take full note of the fact that it is a dual purpose scheme that would benefit an area that is the fastest developing community in Australia, with the exception of Canberra. [More…]

• It is quite amazing to see, from moving about in the community, the mergers that have taken place within Australia. [More…]

• Then we have irresponsible and wasteful industrial strikes from which everyone in the community suffers. [More…]

• This is something that is lost to our community. [More…]

• If there are some defects in it certainly we should amend the system, but at least it provides some means in our complex society for resolving difficulties without having the whole community suffer. [More…]

• The Government has taken special steps to help particular groups in the community where it is clear that these groups are faced with special difficulties in their education. [More…]

• direct employer of teachers in Northern Territory community schools, South Australia having commenced to withdraw its teachers from the beginning of 1971. [More…]

• There have been interesting new developments in community involvement and co-operation between schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I have decided to establish an advisory committee, with a strong community representation, to help in relating the curriculum of community schools to the needs of the Territory. [More…]

• I welcome the report’s emphasis on community involvement in the running of schools and the delegation of increasing authority for professional and administrative decisions to school staffs, school principals and school committees on which local communities play a major role. [More…]

• The Government’s broad objectives in education are: Equality of opportunity; a healthy degree of independence for, and variety in, tertiary education institutions; assistance for deprived groups; freedom of schools from excessively centralised control; development of parental and local community interest in schools; freedom of choice for ‘consumers’ of education; and a continuing improvement in the facilities available to teachers and students at all levels, in the content of courses and in the teaching methods applied in those courses. [More…]

• Is it any wonder, Mr Deputy Speaker, that there is this great concern throughout the community about the deterioration of the role of the CMF in Australia and the complete disregard for the CMF by the Government and those on the Government side of the chamber who accept responsibility in this Parliament for matters of defence? [More…]

• Apart from filling the Regular Army ranks to the level of 40,000 required, a secondary but most important purpose of national service is to insure against emergencies by building up a reservoir of trained soldiers in the community, as was mentioned quite specifically by my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in his splendid speech last night. [More…]

• If there has been a deterioration in that wonderfully Australian characteristic of wanting to get into the Army and serve, it has been due very largely to the vicious elements which the Opposition has infused into the community. [More…]

• I believe that national service ruins the Citizen Military Forces and divides the community. [More…]

• 1 think that we completely underrate the technical and other skills that lie dormant in the community and are not called upon in any way. [More…]

• Here, in this community, are the backdrop services - the workshops. [More…]

• Here in this community are dozens of young men who drive heavy equipment. [More…]

• It came into office fairly soon after World War II when there was in the Australian community a great number of people who but recently had served in that war. [More…]

• We saw, when Australia was involved by common consent on both sides of the Parliament in a war in Korea, supporting the United Nations, that there was a great number of trained personnel in the Australian community who were able to rally to the colours. [More…]

• We all realise that the war in Vietnam was not a popular war in the sense that the whole Australian community was committed to it. [More…]

• What will be the consequences to the child and the community in the future? [More…]

• Tonight I make a plea for action to protect the aged, the infirm and those people in the community who are uninformed on business methods from the dishonest transactions of snide salesmen and people who engage in door to door operations with people who are unfit to match them in business methods. [More…]

• But the Commonwealth Government is unable to depart from its policy of accepting only those people who can integrate successfully into the Australian community. [More…]

• We believe that this is in the interests not only of the Australian community but also of migrants coming to Australia for settlement. [More…]

• This deliberate policy has been pursued by this Government and until now it has never been contradicted in the Australian community that people should have the opportunity to claim deductions when pursuing that course of action. [More…]

• If this were to happen not only would the ordinary person in the community be seriously affected but also the flow of funds through the insurance companies to the development of resources, thereby improving the standard of living in this country, would be seriously prejudiced. [More…]

• We believe that to meet the real needs of the Australian community much more attention should be given to the part-time student. [More…]

• In other words, we believe that there are many valuable people in this community who did not get educational opportunities in the past and who could get them through these means. [More…]

• The Commonwealth scholarships system - the Australian Council of Educational Research itself has demonstrated this - is directing the money towards the more well-to-do sector of the community. [More…]

• First of all, there is a greater community awareness and appreciation of the educability of children in these early, tender years. [More…]

• The important point is to relate that expenditure to the known needs in the community. [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…]

• If they do not get this opportunity when they come into our community, they will be further behind in their rise up the educational ladder. [More…]

• I add my congratulations to the many people around Australia who are giving their time and money to assist and ensure that pre-school education is functioning in their own community. [More…]

• The community has at least equalled that amount in investment. [More…]

• There was not a word to imply that any of the economic set-backs and human hardships now occurring and mounting in our community are in the slightest part the Treasurer’s own making. [More…]

• This Budget, more clearly than any I can recall, defines exactly the Liberal Party approach to the relationship between the national Government and the national community. [More…]

• This Budget asserts, more strongly than any in recent times, the Liberal view that the real links between the national Government and the national community are the tax laws and cash payments. [More…]

• The second part of- .the -Treasurer’s ‘portrayal’ is ‘pensions up’/ There is deep resentment in the community about the deal given to pensioners. [More…]

• The community’ instinctively feels the injustice, and the hard figures bear the feeling out. [More…]

• In the only real measure of the cost of a decent life and the resources available to the community, pensions in the last Gorton year and the McMahon years are at their lowest level ever. [More…]

• The: fact is that the business com- :community and the general ‘ public have no guidance at all as to where the economy : will be in 5 months, much less 5 years. [More…]

• If the community, if governments by doing nothing or by deliberate action raise the cost of the other charges he must bear, then he is being taxed as surely and deliberately as he would be if the income tax were increased. [More…]

• But if Commonwealth involvement is limited just to providing cash, then there is no true national commitment at all to promoting the quality and equality of that community service. [More…]

• But the typical Australian cannot believe he is living in a society committed to justice and equal opportunity when he sees his national government content to have 100,000 and more of his fellow-citizens unemployed, when he sees one million of his fellow citizens living near or below the poverty line, when he sees the operation of one law for wage earners and another for price fixers, when he sees men of great wealth able to avoid, through tax dodges, paying millions of dollars, when he sees the Aboriginal community suffering from the world’s highest infant mortality rate, when he sees millions of dollars spent on a handful of the wealthiest schools in Australia while most State and parish schools are struggling to meet basic standards, when he sees a health system which costs the richest man scarcely half as much as the average man has to pay. [More…]

• The longer we delay proper regional development, the longer we defer regional development schemes, the less chance -we have of preserving any semblance of community balance and community identity in our countryside. [More…]

• Those who aspire to lead this nation must do so on the basis of co-operation with the whole community, not by confronting key sectors of it. [More…]

• This is the root of the present national sickness - the feeling deeply held by whole sections of the community, the employees, large sections of the employers, the youth, the poor, the Aborigines, that their own elected Government is . [More…]

• And indeed, in its policies on cities and schools there is an attempt by this national Government to establish an actual physical as well as a cultural and economic division between the sections of the community. [More…]

• It is in these things - things close to the national spirit - that the discontent of our community lies; the industrial, student and political unrest is just the most publicised manifestation, of. [More…]

• It is very strange for many people in the community to find, in terms of what the Leader of the Opposition said, that they are rich men because they are getting $6,400 a year. [More…]

• Every single thing that anybody in the community has ever asked for the Leader of the Opposition said tonight we should do or we should give. [More…]

• There is idealism in our community - an idealism we try to foster. [More…]

• Let me make this point clear: No matter how highly developed the idealism is in a country, that idealism cannot be translated ‘ into action without community wealth. [More…]

• The Australian community simply does nol want its entire life to be shaped by the Government, even those in the community who might agree with the desired nature of the shaping. [More…]

• These are just the headings, and there are many other vital community matters towards which this Budget is directed. [More…]

• The fact that these are not part of an overall plan which lays down the law about all facets of economic and community life reflects the Government’s understanding of the emptiness of relying on words rather than on deeds. [More…]

• Attempts to make political capital out of the situation, if successful, strike at the very confidence of the community and are to be deplored. [More…]

• The Aboriginal people are part of the Australian community and we do not have one law for the Aboriginal people and another law for other Australian people. [More…]

• Does the judgment give us any hope that other sections of the Australian community will be protected from similar vicious actions by overweening union power? [More…]

• Well might the honourable gentleman be concerned, as I would expect the Australian community to be equally concerned, at a situation in which the trade unions of this country would be put beyond the law because they would not be subject to action in the civil jurisdiction. [More…]

• There are some people and some elements in this community who would like exactly that form of settling disputes if they could have it. [More…]

• The mind can only boggle at the implications that would cause for the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a resolution which incidentally is apparently adopted by the Executive at the insistence of one of the great betes noires of the Opposition members in this House, a man well known to the Australian community. [More…]

• Presumably the Premier of South Australia believes that that unions and union officials should not be subject to the same law as applies to all other sections of the Australian community in cases of this type. [More…]

• Citizens in South Australia are entitled to ask, as they have done, and as newspaper editorials have done so eloquently in expressing their condemnation of that action which has been taken, whether the law of the land and the welfare of the community can be safely entrusted to a Premier and a Government who treat law with such contempt as honourable gentlemen opposite would have that law treated. [More…]

• Markets in Europe are contracting as storage techniques there are improved; serious problems lie ahead in the light of the United Kingdom entry into the European Economic Community and returns have been eroded by significantly higher costs particularly by drastic freight increases - just to mention some of a range of difficulties with which the industry is faced. [More…]

• He said that it lacked integrity, that something would have to be done to restore its standing in the community. [More…]

• Furthermore, amalgamating, as it were, the desire to make for individual prosperity, clearly a budget must seek to improve community life. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition were to look a little bit behind him and a little bit forward to the forthcoming election campaign I think he would see in true measure that the Government is not unaware of the national goals which the Australian community should be attempting to achieve. [More…]

• In talking to young people at their doors and elsewhere 1 find that those who have attempted to save, as this Government wants them to do, to add not only to their own situation but to that of the community at large, are indeed very well served by this governmental provision and it is entirely in train with Liberal Party philosophy that that should continue to be so. [More…]

• Costs rose steeply in industry almost without exception and the 40-hour week back in the late 1940s, owing to an increase in overtime and casual work, meant no additional leisure for many sections of the community despite the fact that the Arbitration Court saw the introduction of the 40-hour week as having as one of its effects an increase in leisure for the average working man. [More…]

• Loose ideas in the community about controlling and vetting transactions to achieve some purpose which the holders of these ideas vaguely have in mind and to which some political folk are altogether too apt to pay attention, would go far to stifle such a market at birth. [More…]

• It is a document which spreads largesse to many sections of the community - to taxpayers and pensioners in particular. [More…]

• Unless this new money is circulated through the community, how can it stimulate business? [More…]

• The slowdown has been very marked in the business, community, which normally supports liberalism. [More…]

• Only when faith returns and confidence is reborn will increased spending money really be circulated to any degree of influence upon the business community or business recovery. [More…]

• It has developed very considerably over the past few years and now has a very substantial farming community. [More…]

• In other words, almost the entire farming community of the Dundas and Esperance district will be denied at least for several years the benefit and enjoyment of a facility which has now been available to city people for quite a long time. [More…]

• The community is investing very heavily in educating the young and in expanding elementary education, vocational schools, training colleges and secondary education. [More…]

• I believe that the community must aim to offset these developments by investing in a major expansion of adult training designed to reduce and bridge the educational gap between groups and between the various generations. [More…]

• The prime object must be to give every person in the community the right to work. [More…]

• It must be remembered that the members of this Parliament are a cross-section of the community Some of them might like to hear this horse race and some might not. [More…]

• The sugar industry faces problems arising from the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If we have an attitude of blackmail, which today seems to be prevalent in Australia, with great favour shown in the negotiated agreements which are approved by honourable members opposite, 2 great power groups - the people who control our large industries and our large industrial unions - can come to an agreement to suit themselves their attitude being: ‘Hang the rest of the community who have to pick up the tab’. [More…]

• The community will. [More…]

• The cost will be spread through the whole community. [More…]

• These disputes have repercussions throughout the community and obviously affect employment. [More…]

• I do not think any honourable member on this side of the House wants to see the worker without his fair share of our gross national product, but when wages rise faster than productivity the whole community loses - even the wage earner himself, because his increase in wages will be swallowed up by cost increases and inflation. [More…]

• But I say again that the community has to pay. [More…]

• The amalgamations we have seen recently pose a great threat to our community. [More…]

• The Treasurer knows very well that the few extra goodies that he has in his basket this year have been more than paid for by the unnecessary hardships has has inflicted on the community over the last year and which his predecessor inflicted on the community in the previous year. [More…]

• Virtually every section of the community will benefit from the proposals now before the House, with the greatest benefits going to those most in need of relief. [More…]

• The Treasurer mentioned that the Government is currently reviewing policies in regard to capital inflow into Australia and I believe that this need for review is in line with the general feeling in the community. [More…]

• It believes in giving to those who fix prices a free rein, lt is not a question of price control or no price control; it is a question of who controls the prices in this community. [More…]

• It is not a part of a Budget to do this, but it is a very proper thing for a Treasurer to point out when he has introduced his Budget, that that still large remaining task is for the community as a whole to tackle. [More…]

• They are tired of a government that gets its policies from the gallup poll; that reacts to every test of leadership and statesmanship by playing on every prejudice and fear lying dormant in the community; that acts in every national or international crisis only in terms of the political advantage it can squeeze out of it - whether it be China, South Africa, Bangladesh or French nuclear tests, or whether it be poverty, industrial relations, racism or rural depression. [More…]

• Even if it is not, loneliness, boredom and a feeling of not being a useful member of the community are common ailments that cannot be measured in dollars and cents. [More…]

• Do they want to see a peasant population in this community? [More…]

• So, what we are asked to accept is that instead of having all those things that I have just mentioned - all those great public utilities for which the community cries out - it is preferable in order to increase employment to concentrate on more takeaway food shops, more pizza bars, more petrol stations and that sort of thing. [More…]

• Is there an example of the Government getting together with business and with the employed classes in the community and working out some kind of objectives? [More…]

• No wonder we have industrial confrontation in our community. [More…]

• I also suggest that it is high time the Government and the Reserve Bank took positive action to identify the nature of foreign money coming into Australia and exert sound exchange controls as is practised in the United States of America, Japan, Canada, Germany and other European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• These disappointments have been registered in some sectors of the community. [More…]

• I doubt whether the industry will need funds or will need to act on the guarantee but this decision has definitely served to put confidence not only into the industry itself but into the whole business community and those who depend on wool. [More…]

• Local government bodies there cannot get any assistance whatsoever from this Government to finance the building of roads, playing fields, civic centres, community centres and the requirements of youth. [More…]

• It also appears to correct - I say ‘appears to correct’ - some of the mistakes of the Budgets of 1970 and 1971 which were the genesis of the growth of unemployment in the community. [More…]

• Admittedly, they form a very small section of our community with little voting power, and apparently are accordingly ignored by the Government in this election year. [More…]

• So we could go on with the neglect of this Government for the community as a whole - its refusal to correct the health scheme chaos, the lack of an Australian securities and exchange commission and so on and so on. [More…]

• As if this were not enough, we have had Britain entering the European Economic Community, which has affected other of our exports, particularly primary exports. [More…]

• So, at a time when there is unemployment we seek to increase the expenditure of the community in order to absorb the unemployed. [More…]

• Those who have to be dealt with by the police are only the small dissenting minority of little consequence, but we cannot enforce the law unless the vast majority of the community believes that the law is right. [More…]

• For the sake of 1,000 men here or a few hundred men there a whole industry and a community is thrown out of work. [More…]

• What we must have in this country is a government that, when it really comes to the crunch and we have a situation of open defiance, and this is what it amounts to, can go to the people and seek a mandate from the whole of the people to deal with those few who are holding the community to ransom. [More…]

• The first need of any modern community must be order; otherwise it reverts to the jungle. [More…]

• Anybody interested in such matters is entitled to ask how the pension is related to pensioner needs, the poverty level, the cost of living and the average wage structure in the community. [More…]

• Is it not about time this attitude was dropped and the whole basis of our social services whether for pensioners, the ill, the physically and mentally handicapped, etc., became a matter of providing for the maximum use of our natural resources - in this case, human beings - by a responsible government accepting its responsibilities in an enlightened community and not pushing the responsibility on to voluntary agencies. [More…]

• I feel sorry for anybody in the community who is forced to fight his way through the small print and the jungle of the Repatriation Department in order to get a pension that is fair and reasonable. [More…]

• I wish to call the attention of the Parliament to what I regard as a deliberate attempt by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to impose a blanket of secrecy over the information of the Department of Education and Science and deliberately to deny to members of this Parliament, myself in particular, information that otherwise would be available to almost any person in the entire community. [More…]

• If such works can be found in this single area, surely the Commonwealth, if it were to take a close look at all its respon sibilities in the metropolitan area of Perth, could give meaningful stimulation to the building industry by meeting just its own needs and that of the community. [More…]

• The significance, of course, of the first payment is that it means that not only will the wheat grower get money into his pocket immediately but also the whole of the rural community affected by incomes from wheat will get an immediate flow of money, which helps to sustain the people in the towns and the people in the cities who are providores to those country towns. [More…]

• I have announced that some additional trade commissioner posts will be established at Sao Paulo in South America, at Belgrade in eastern Europe and in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I said that if these companies were to succumb to the blackmail there would be a flow-on effect throughout the entire community which would have disastrous economic results. [More…]

• The ultimate aim is to secure a 35 hour working week in circumstances which will ensure fair treatment of all sections of the community. [More…]

• The school canteen has been located as a division between the primary and infant sections of the covered assembly areas planned at the rear of each school and within convenient distance of the adjoining community oval. [More…]

• It does not see that the possession and use of industrial power by waterside workers, seamen or power workers is the way to improve their position at the expense of increased prices for the rest of the community. [More…]

• ls the ALP seeking to represent the workers in this community, or the homosexuals? [More…]

• Too long society has been sort of kept under if you like and we have been forced to shut up and not discuss things because of the very, very conservative sections of the community who have held sway over the vast majority. [More…]

• It appears to me that such a large sum of money should be adequate to eliminate most pockets of need in the community. [More…]

• The proposal to introduce new integrated measures to help not only chronically ill patients in nursing homes, but also to assist aged infirm people who can be looked after in a home environment will meet the support of all those Australians who have detected within our prosperous community a tendency for families to avoid their responsibilities to their elderly people. [More…]

• I believe that this is a remarkable and very valuable step forward in the concepts which have been introduced by this Government over recent years and it will have a profound effect upon the environment of the average family in our community. [More…]

• 1 am sure that many elderly people in the community who look forward with great concern to their ageing years and who pray and hope that they will not be beset by ill health, will be supported in the knowledge that there is to be an increase in financial aid to them from the Commonwealth Government as expressed in this Budget. [More…]

• The article poses the question: ‘Can the community afford to allow this enormous drain on its physical and financial resources to continue?’ [More…]

• Compensation, whilst needed by the individual, is a loss to the community. [More…]

• I suggest that if the Government were to set up a branch of the Commonwealth Bank to go out and compete with the big private banks and the lending institutions, at interest rates that they are prepared to charge on war service homes, those institutions would have to lower their interest rates and because interest on overdrafts would be much lighter, the incidence of inflation would be reduced very quickly and this would help each and every one in the community. [More…]

• Also, his remarks are precisely such as could encourage a rush of investment from overseas which would come in to make a quick kill at the expense of the Australian community. [More…]

• The child care policy of this Budget entails the proposition that the community will control the child care centres. [More…]

• Let me quote some of the Treasurer’s own admissions of the Government’s failure to discharge its obligations to the community. [More…]

• It is a depressing and a degrading record, reflected in the stinted growth and progress of the country and the community. [More…]

• Minister for Primary Industry, his front bench colleague the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson), was busy warning the rural community of what a Labor government led by the honourable gentleman has in store for it. [More…]

• At the same time its members argue among themselves only a few months away from the time when they will be seeking; to bluff the community that they are united and responsible and have an acceptable policy programme. [More…]

• The Budget is a budget of which every member of the Australian community can be proud. [More…]

• The statement he made could lead to widespread unemployment in the Australian community. [More…]

• It was a statement which every member of the Australian community needs to take into account when assessing the suitability of this man for the leadership of this nation. [More…]

• The firm agreement to abolish the means test within 3 years means that throughout the Australian community people will .henceforth be able to benefit from the range of social welfare to which they contribute through their taxation payments. [More…]

• Similarly, the concession in gift duty and the reduction in personal income tax demonstrate the sincerity of the Government in moving towards a low tax Budget and yet helping towards the restoration of economic prosperity in the whole community. [More…]

• The conviction of the Leader of the Opposition that the dollar should be revalued and that there should be a wide tariff reduction dearly shows that he has no understanding of what effect such a move would have on those members of the community from which the ALP claims to draw its electoral base, let alone the effect it would have on Australia’s export industries - the rural, secondary and mining industries. [More…]

• I reject what he has said and call on him to desist from trying to inject doubt in the minds of the community over the future of the Australian dollar at a time when Australia is actively pursuing a policy of sound, balanced economic growth directed by the responsible management team in government. [More…]

• Xenophobic economics holds that immigration causes inflation, unemployment, capital loss, depletion of resources, housing shortages, inordinate strains on community facilities, excessively high economic growth and, of course, excessively low economic growth. [More…]

• I emphasise that we on this side of the House do not believe that the vital area of community health services belongs to the free enterprise market place as though the mystical concept of perfect competition prevailed. [More…]

• I think that the Australian community owes a great debt of gratitude to the 2 Sydney Archbishops, Archbishop Loane and Archbishop Freeman, who forthrightly declared their opposition and criticism of the Government at the existence of poverty in the community. [More…]

• But examination of poverty in terms of inadequate income is the most fundamental, basic approach to the problem and the provision of adequate income is a primary need which in a rich, civilised community can and should be met. [More…]

• The deprivation, discrimination and repression of Aborigines in the Australian society, whether they are fringe dwelling urban residents or living in rural communities, stand as a monument to the selfish and cruel indifference of this wealthy community of ours. [More…]

• I suggest a clearer and much more positive statement by the Prime Minister that the sort of areas of poverty to be analysed and researched would have been the broad conspectus of poverty - primary, secondary and cultural - all of which exist in this community of ours. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley and many others of us have constantly pointed out that it is not merely a question of what a person’s income may be, even when that person is injured, bereaved or unemployed; it is also a question of the availability of advice and services in the community. [More…]

• The whole of this inquiry could be carried out and there still could be avoidable deprivation in this federal community. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), in a statement to the Senate on 16th August outlined the results of the Government’s’ decisions following its comprehensive examination of the role of nursing homes in caring for the chronically ill aged and how best to extend furtherassistance to nursing home patients and to other aged people in the community who need nursing services. [More…]

• These new benefits are the result of the Government’s comprehensive review of the particular needs of the elderly chronically ill people in our community. [More…]

• The number of elderly people in our population is increasing each year and therefore the requirement to provide community services and benefits based on the particular needs of this segment of the population needs to be given special consideration. [More…]

• But the Government wants now to see that they receive, on behalf of the community at large, more than just admiration. [More…]

• These new nursing home and domiciliary care benefits, taken together with the other initiatives in the field of social welfare announced in the Budget, demonstrate the determination of the Government to correct imbalances of opportunity within the community and to assist those who need it to receive health care and comfort without loss of dignity or independence. [More…]

• There is not much opportunity available for people conducting nursing homes in the community. [More…]

• What the Labor Party would do would be to build public nursing homes throughout the community. [More…]

• But by and large, for the bulk of the community the high standards of excellence which the Labor Party aims at in public nursing homes, run relatively autonomously at the local regional level in terms of administration, are the things that ought to be aimed at. [More…]

• We would take steps to break this dependence on State commitments and go direct to the community, direct to the voluntary agencies and local authorities to see that the development of these sorts of services is adequately funded. [More…]

• We would build nursing homes as part of public health services in the community, the aim there being to develop market forces which would restrain the speculative exploiting tactics of certain, but not all, private investors in nursing homes. [More…]

• We would provide money for the development of adequate domiciliary services in the community and would give this higher priority than nursing home services for the reasons I stated earlier. [More…]

• The way in which no distinction is effectively made between the qualitative standards of nursing services being provided in the community is quite crazy. [More…]

• We will go dirctly to the community and effectively develop these sorts of services. [More…]

• These increased rates represent only a very small part of the story of what the Government has done in this Budget for the less fortunate people in the community. [More…]

• However, there has been no indication of where the money is to come from or what it will cost the community. [More…]

• The Government did not have the courage to say to our aged community that it would tax them $2,000 to $4,000 to obtain admission to an aged persons home. [More…]

• The diligence and initiative of these mothers- in not placing their burdens on the community should be recognised. [More…]

• This is what happens to our pensioner community. [More…]

• This can be done only if the cost of goods and services to the community is stabilised and the employer, the worker and the arbitration authorities have time to stop and look at the overall costs which every worker in the community must meet. [More…]

• Why is a stand not made in the interests of the community, the farmer and the worker? [More…]

• The honourable member is obviously against a decent wage level in the community. [More…]

• One of the real concerns in the community which is of even greater importance than the issues that my friend the honourable member for Paterson was talking about is simply bad government as such - a failure by the Government to administer the country in any kind of effective fashion. [More…]

• This rise in prices and costs has, of course, grave social and economic consequences for many sections of the community. [More…]

• There is something in the community that makes people jack up the prices no matter what. [More…]

• In these areas of present problems such as unemployment, would it be terribly difficult to put 100,000 Australians to work on some of the social needs of the community? [More…]

• It is only fair and sensible in the interests of the Australian community and the operators that security should exist for proper plans to be made well enough ahead. [More…]

• But worse still - and this is the problem with which I am concerned, although the other is of great importance to the community as a whole - all of these difficulties, inequalities and limitations are emphasised by the economic stagnation of inland towns. [More…]

• It is a Budget which caters for the more deserving sections of the community which the Australian Labor Party claims to represent. [More…]

• I have always felt that the PostmasterGeneral’s Department should be a department which is not only one which is of service to the community but also one which can be used to help to promote decentralisation throughout Australia. [More…]

• What we must get over to members of the community, as, I think, many of them already realise, is the fact that increased productivity is the key to all the things the community is striving for - improved education, better social services, a more pleasant environment and so on. [More…]

• In either case the community as a whole is worse off. [More…]

• I do not believe that that person exists on either side of the Parliament or in any section of the community, lt is a pretty poor state of affairs in the Parliament when an honourable member tries to make cheap political capital out of supposed moral issues and in doing so misquotes members of the Opposition. [More…]

• People have been shifted out of country areas because they could not get employment opportunities there and they have been forced to settle in areas which will not have community services for many years. [More…]

• The Government is consistent in the belief that those persons who receive the highest salaries in the community should fix their own salaries or have their salaries fixed with total lack of interference, but when we get down to the day labour employee of the company the same executive cannot be trusted to fix a salary. [More…]

• It does not deal in any depth with the real community problems which exist. [More…]

• It does not and the Government will not deal in depth with these problems because the Government does nol believe that it should accept the responsibility of ensuring that the people in our community have equality of access and equality of opportunity. [More…]

• The facts of life are that many thousands of people are unable to do this and they need community assistance. [More…]

• As we profess to be a Christian community, 1 suggest that we must accept responsibility for meeting the needs of those persons who are dependent on the community in which they live. [More…]

• It has shown that this McMahon Liberal-Country Party Government is concerned with the welfare of every section of the community, and its concern for the social welfare of all Australians has been clearly demonstrated. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that it spares no effort in informing of the fact, those people in the community who will be entitled to a pension under the new proposals. [More…]

• It is significant that those who give economic advice on all matters to all sections of the community have been surprisingly supportive of this Budget. [More…]

• In every respect the Budget is evidence of the strong leadership of the nation by the Liberal-Country Party Government to the advantage of all sections of the community. [More…]

• Consequently the demands of some militant sections of the trade union movement for exhorbitant wage increases should be discouraged in the interests of those concerned as well as of all sections of the work force and the community in general. [More…]

• The fact that these militants dictate to the Labor Party and ride roughshod over it should be perfectly clear to the community at large. [More…]

• The Budget is intended to produce a climate which will benefit all sections of the community. [More…]

• The Budget, in brief, supplies some very useful features so far as the average member of the community is concerned. [More…]

• What a contrast this Budget is to that of last year when a gloomy Treasurer told with foreboding of the inability of the Government to do anything for the poor suffering sections of the community. [More…]

• Even with the bonanza that the Government will give out on this occasion, not a penny extra will go to this section of the community and the poor devil who is unable to get a job and who is willing and able to work must exist on $25 a week under this Government at a time when the average income is about $100 a week. [More…]

• But, of course, one listens to the honourable member for Grayndler for entertainment but rarely for instruction, and nothing that he can say in this House can hide the fact that this is a magnificent Budget, which has been well received by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Any forecast now of what the figure will be in precise terms at the end of this year or early next year is purely speculative and irresponsible in the extreme and can serve to do nothing else but undermine confidence throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• To go beyond this - for example, through a wideranging system of price controls, as the Opposition would implement in the period ahead - would be to create rigidities and inefficiencies which could do incalculable harm to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is not my intention in this debate to seek to analyse that problem in any depth, except to refer in passing to the simple fact that it will add greatly to inflationary pressures through its addition to costs in the Australian community and, of course, will adversely affect the 4 major groups which are disadvantaged as a consequence of rises of this type. [More…]

• I refer to the pensioners and the superannuants, those on fixed incomes and those in the rural community. [More…]

• It is not something which has just emerged in the Australian community. [More…]

• It can no longer ignore it and it is high time the Leader of the Opposition was prepared to speak out and condemn policies which he has refused to condemn in areas which the Australian community knows to be of very real and significant substance. [More…]

• In the same way the cost of lighting streets, sweeping channels and maintaining drains and roads can be accurately measured and equally allocated among the community. [More…]

• The provision of a library service is regarded in this day and age as an integral feature of the education of the community; yet the ratepayer again bears the biggest share of the financial burden. [More…]

• The pensioners in our community and those who exist on social services are prob ably hit harder by municipal rates than the community generally. [More…]

• When one looks through the Budget, reads the Budget Speech by the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) and gives consideration to the factors that he mentioned in that speech one has an understanding that this is a Budget presented by a government that has given consideration to the responsibility of government on the Treasury bench and also to the need for some stimulation in the economic spheres of our country and in relation to certain sections of the community. [More…]

• There are also throughout my electorate many small community base hospitals that are caring for pensioners and which now receive from the Federal Government $5 a day to cover the costs incurred in caring for these pensioners. [More…]

• It is responsible, and helpful to all sections of the community. [More…]

• Therefore, noting that there is still a need to meet the position of the rural producers of this country, I am glad to see included in the Budget the provision of $20m for long term lending to the rural community. [More…]

• That is a euphemistic way of saying that the wage earner in fact gets less and the Government gets more whilst the business community gets at least as much as it used to get before the rise. [More…]

• To try to balance this and restore the total purchasing power of the community so that it can increase its spending and so restore ‘punch’ to the economy, the Government pays out unemployment benefits from its increased taxation revenue. [More…]

• The purpose is to restore the total purchasing power of the community. [More…]

• The private sector fails the community by being unwilling to spend when the welfare of the community is at stake. [More…]

• That is a minor point really - although I know it is important if we have not got enough school rooms or teachers - compared with a far more serious crisis facing the whole community. [More…]

• Meet a collection of lawyers and you have met a group of the most ignorant people in the community, although they may well be skilled in the law. [More…]

• These people might even be restored to more active participation in the community and in their families. [More…]

• The rate at which Australia has absorbed new settlers has undoubtedly placed considerable strain on our economy in the field of housing, education, hospitals and all the other various facilities which a rapidly growing community requires. [More…]

• One section of the community which has been greatly disadvantaged in the past is the chronically in in nursing homes. [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…]

• But if Commonwealth involvement is limited just to providing cash, then there is no true national commitment at all to promoting the quality and equality of that community service. [More…]

• I do not wish to put this matter on a personal basis, but the cant and hypocrisy that I heard this afternoon and yesterday has sickened me and I am certain that it has sickened the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is a wellknown fact that the bulk of the revenue collected from income tax is borne by one section of the community and one section alone - the poor old salary and wage earner. [More…]

• But what happens with the wealthier section of the community - the wealthy taxpayer, the large company? [More…]

• When this task has to be performed in relation to the entire community, without an unacceptable level of interference in private affairs, delicate balances have to be maintained. [More…]

• On the other hand, a taxation system will enjoy community confidence only when it is possible to ensure a sufficiently high degree of compliance to satisfy fair-minded taxpayers that they are not being called upon to bear an excessive share of the total burden. [More…]

• There are sufficient trained staff in the assessing area and there are enough trained accountants, but more men are needed in the investigation field where they can be used fully and effectively in collecting - and I say this quite advisedly - hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars payment of which is being evaded by the section of the community that can afford to pay. [More…]

• The overall result of this Government’s action - or in some cases inaction - has been, I believe, that the price of petrol in our community has been 2c to 3c a gallon more than it need otherwise have been. [More…]

• He has applied himself diligently to the work, of the Parliament, his constituents and the community. [More…]

• I want to advise the House that the honourable member for Chifley has done the community a disservice that the people will not forget nor forgive. [More…]

• Mr Whitelaw is a self-employed business man who is widely respected in the community for his diligence and honesty. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes), I am glad to say, shares the same sort of views as I had when I held that office, namely, that the Government should do everything possible to put the migrant on the basis of being able to integrate into our community as painlessly as possible. [More…]

• Nor do we consider that improvement in the public transport system alone will reduce the community’s reliance on private motor vehicles. [More…]

• This disturbed me, as it should disturb every member of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a task which should be shared by every member of the community, and I am just as firmly opposed to the Opposition’s proposals that this responsible load should be borne on the shoulders of a few members of the entire community who have no alternative but to accept this burden because they are the dedicated regular soldiers. [More…]

• Not only is it of great importance to Australia through its contribution to our earnings of overseas exchange and the additional income it generates within the Australian community; as an instrument of goodwill and understanding between ourselves and other countries of the world it is invaluable. [More…]

• I would suggest an even greater step forward which would benefit the industry: Because it is such an ideal overseas exchange earner, because it could be the means of employing many more thousands of our people, because it would generate more internal income within the community and because it is such a valuable avenue to build up goodwill between countries, I would advocate that in the Federal sphere tourism be administered by a separate Ministry, designed to co-operate with State Ministers of Tourism for the country’s overall benefit and to co-ordinate tourist activities between ourselves and other countries. [More…]

• The project arises from the long standing and widespread concern felt in Government and voluntary agencies and the general community over what appears to have been a large increase in the number of deserted wives and unmarried mothers seeking assistance from community agencies. [More…]

• The areas to be included in the study will include the incidence, causes and consequence of family breakdown; the emerging new family patterns and structures; and community services available to the Australian family. [More…]

• It is rather remarkable that this should bc so because the Government has been in office for nearly a quarter of a century and until about a fortnight ago had seen little virtue in having inquiries in’.o various aspects of welfare needs in the community. [More…]

• Why not inquire into the broad aspect of social welfare in the community into which the needs of the family dovetail very neatly although representing only one section of a vast range of high priority needs in the community. [More…]

• For instance, if we are concerned about social costs - believe me, I appreciate that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) is not only aware of them but is genuinely concerned - arising in our community because of the destruction of the nuclear family unit, we also should be concerned about the tremendous social and economic cost of the single unattached male in our community and of his particular problem. [More…]

• It is typical of a capitalist system that the provision of a little bit of money in some sort of miserable and inadequate system of social services to get them out of the way and to get pressure off one’s back from the morally concerned people in the community is the only sort of remedy that is sought. [More…]

• If the inquiry into this particular area dealt with by the Minister is to be meaningful, just as an inquiry into the broad aspect of social welfare services in the community is to be meaningful, questions must be raised about fundamental philosophical values, about the role of society, the relationship of people within society, the position of the productive system and what its purpose is within our society. [More…]

• I refer to such things as the problems of drugs, alcohol, neurotic behaviour and the very distressing upsurge of suicides and attempted suicides in the community, more especially among young people and young girls particularly - and if we can define or refine that even further, among young girls in what are called relatively deprived areas. [More…]

• The work by the Monash University team from the medical school in the Prahran area has established that what I have said in relation to young girls in deprived areas is a fact and is a problem which is gaining considerable momentum in the community. [More…]

• In the case of young unmarried mothers, it may very well be that their position as a rising proportion of mothers in the community represents a fundamental change of values in society, and that change may not be an undesirable sort of thing. [More…]

• The Budget provides benefits to people on low incomes, to retired and semi-retired people on superannuation and fixed incomes, to the old, the ill or the infirm and to those who are just growing up - the young people of our community. [More…]

• The trade patterns all over the world have altered, particularly through the United Kingdom joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Reid is on record also as saying that Labor will increase war service homes loans to $15,000 at 3 i per cent interest, broaden the scheme to include all personnel of the permanent forces - I do not know whether honourable members realise the millions of dollars this would cost - and progressively include others in the community. [More…]

• If any section of this community deserves justice with compassion it is the people who receive pensions and who in human terms have been responsible for the great development of this nation. [More…]

• As a consequence today, this Budget sets out to restore confidence to the community, to ensure that consumer spending is boosted, to give impetus to employment and so forth. [More…]

• But if the Commonwealth involvement is limited just to providing cash, then there is no true national commitment at all to promoting the quality and equality of that community service. [More…]

• For example, a cut of, say, $100 or $125 in each taxpayer’s liability - no matter what the size of his income - would have led to a greater expansion in total community spending than the present tax cuts. [More…]

• The Federal Government, as a result of its Budget, has inflicted on the community the unemployment of some 112,000 people. [More…]

• We have better government, social, welfare and education services through the whole Australian community. [More…]

• All these are measures which are directed quite specifically at the average family person within the Australian community. [More…]

• If we look at what the Government is doing for the older people in the community - particularly for the aged and ill - we can see that the nursing homes benefits are vastly improved. [More…]

• The Budget responds with compassion to the need we all feel to help the less well off, the ill and the aged in the community. [More…]

• So, that proposal involves an enormous additional cost merely to pursue a socialist objective without achieving any better service for any single person within the Australian community. [More…]

• When we come to the rural community and the community generally, we find that the Leader of the Opposition has pledged or promised to support a 35-hour week, which would add $3,000m to costs throughout Australia, reduce the incomes of farmers by up to 40 per cent and do great harm to all secondary industry. [More…]

• But this is not only a threat to the farming community; it is also a thr eat to industry and to employment in the metropolitan areas because Australian industry would be placed in a more difficult competitive position as a result of that policy. [More…]

• If this primary industry nucleus is allowed to wither away, then the workforce and business community will collapse also. [More…]

• Much of the impact of the Budget is directed towards that large group of people in the community who, I believe, have not received sufficient recognition in the past for their difficulties. [More…]

• Yet they are probably the most vital section of our community - the workers and the builders of our nation. [More…]

• But is it in the interests of the community to push up costs, to increase the cost of living, to make our exports dearer and less competitive, to reduce the spending power of the worker’s weekly pay packet? [More…]

• Is it in the community’s interest to add to the costs of local government so that rates become an even bigger burden than they are now? [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the Labor Party very seriously misunderstands the national interest and the community interest in this matter. [More…]

• We seek a responsible place in the international community, giving aid to the needy countries. [More…]

• It is: a Budget which almost every political commentator and political writer judged to be the type of Budget that would be brought down, for 2 reasons: first, it was an election year and, secondly, inflation was riot in the community. [More…]

• To most members of the Labor Party and to most members of the community the only real surprise in the Budget is the fact that families have been virtually neglected. [More…]

• Families have been neglected and families are the life blood of the community. [More…]

• It will be too late, although I predict that something will be proposed by the Government in its policy speech, for some families in the community if they have to wait much longer for assistance. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Government have placed a lot of reliance on the fact that the Budget has introduced into Australia policies which will give concessions to sections of the community that deserve them. [More…]

• Some of them became quite pale, others sat without moving and others were fidgeting in their seats as the Treasurer unfolded the many benefits for the community. [More…]

• This is something of which the Australian wool grower, and therefore the community, should be very proud. [More…]

• The amount of tax is one thing in relation to the total needs of the community, but how the burden of taxation is distributed among the various citizens of the community is a separate matter. [More…]

• Of course, like anything else, it has increased because of inflation, because there are more people in the community and, fortunately, because of some increase in standards in the community. [More…]

• I make the point, because I am quite sure that many people in the community are not fully aware of it, that these proposals affect everyone, not only employees but also employers. [More…]

• Of all taxpayers in the community, in my view the one in most trouble is the oneincome taxpayer with a family to support. [More…]

• The honourable member alleges that as a result of the Government’s actions the price of petrol in our community is 2c to 3c a gallon more than it need be. [More…]

• On behalf of my Party, I express our deepest sorrow and sympathy to the Australian Jewish community in this hour of frightfulness for Israel, and for all Jews and for the friends of Israel around the world. [More…]

• Unfortunately there are quite critical problems facing the canned fruits industry, not only with existing markets but because of the potential entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think that this matter does not lend itself to that type of speculation, because what these statements do - confused and divisive as they are - is simply to seek to destroy and undermine what is the critical question before the Australian economy, and that is the confidence of the business community and in particular of consumers in relation to their spending patterns. [More…]

• I believe that far too often members of this House - indeed parliamentarians generally - are inclined to think that the whole world revolves around them and that the whole community is interested in what we are doing in this place. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Snedden), in introducing the Bills, was preaching to the converted when he said that the inter-action of money incomes rising with inflation and the progressive rates scale have led to income taxation becoming too heavy a burden on some sections of the community. [More…]

• There is a tremendous amount of talent in the legal profession, the accounting profession, the universities and the community generally which should be brought to bear on the continuing problem of taxation. [More…]

• The honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) made much play of the actual revenue that will accrue because of higher incomes which are now being earned in the community, but he failed to point out that the Government is responsible for the payment of incomes to about one-third of the Australian work force. [More…]

• He is one of the fortunate persons in the community. [More…]

• But, like so many other things in the community, there is not a great deal of logic used in deciding what should bear tax and what should not bear tax. [More…]

• If one looks over the range of items necessary for the welfare of blind people in the community one finds that they carry a certain amount of sales tax. [More…]

• I conclude my comments on the honourable member’s remarks by emphasising that the reason why the Government has not reduced sales tax, apart from the particular reason that the Treasurer gave - namely whether in fact that reduction would in reality be passed on to the consumers - nevertheless the Government decided to concentrate on reducing the level of income tax in the community at a cost to revenue of $480m. [More…]

• The Government has already demonstrated its opposition by its intervention in wage cases which include claims for a reduction in hours to 35 a week, and by frequent ministerial statements designed to warn the community of the price it would have to pay if the Labor Party and the trade unions had their way. [More…]

• In the national context, a shorter working week must be set against the wishes of most people for improvements in social services, housing, education, health, and other services of a practical kind affecting the individual and the community. [More…]

• They do not want to pursue a 35-hour week when they know it is only there to be bought at a price which the community as a whole has to pay. [More…]

• Let us not put the brake on progress just when we are moving forward to a period of growth and increasing prosperity for all people in the community. [More…]

• The ultimate aim is to secure a 35 hour working week in circumstances which will ensure fair treatment of all sections of the community, [More…]

• But the ultimate aim of a Labor government would be to secure a 35-hour working week in circumstances which would ensure fair treatment to all sections of the community. [More…]

• The simple fact is that the various interpretations of the employment projections given by the honourable member for Hindmarsh, the shadow Minister for Trade, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns), and the shadow Treasurer, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), are different and divisive and, in fact, create no other impression in the Australian community than one which is contrary to the general concept of the psychology of confidence at present. [More…]

• No-one in this House can seriously claim that this is not a proposal which will certainly flow on throughout the general community. [More…]

• This is one of the disadvantaged groups who are unable to pass on their costs in the general community. [More…]

• But the honourable member is prepared to bleed the Australian community dry in simple support of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]

• Does the community put a reduction in the working week above all other priorities? [More…]

• The community believes, as does the Government, that the future of this nation cannot be built on a philosophy of less work for more money, and that conviction has been clearly evidenced in successive gallup polls. [More…]

• It would exacerbate the inflationary spiral; it would be contrary to the real interests of the Australian wage earner; and it would impact itself upon those groups disadvantaged in the general community. [More…]

• All that is being done, of course, is a very sordid attempt on the part of the Government - and I see that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) has entered the chamber to take part in the debate - to take the minds of the community off the state of the Australian economy by talking about what might happen when something that we do not have comes about. [More…]

• The only explanation I can think of is that the Labor Party completely misunderstands what is in the national and the community interest. [More…]

• Are the national interests and the community interest best served by pushing up costs, by increasing the cost of living, by making our exports dearer and less competitive on overseas markets, by raising the spending power of the workers’ weekly pay packet? [More…]

• Or are the national and community interests better served by people who are responsible enough to take the unpopular course of speaking out against the things which would lead to a worsening of the individual’s economic position? [More…]

• I think that this misunderstanding by the trade unions and the Labor Party of the national and community interest, that is the interest of all Australians, represents a betrayal of those who have supported them over the year, and I think it is Labor’s misunderstanding of this whole question which has made it very clear that it does not like being picked up and having its policies exposed. [More…]

• Australians as a whole will see the response of these corporations as a real test of how much they are concerned about the welfare and the stability of the Australian economy and the Australian community. [More…]

• The introduction of a 35-hour working week or the reduction of all weekly working hours by five would have a drastic effect on the farming community. [More…]

• This would create an impossible social and economic situation for rural communities as against other sections of the community. [More…]

• Government supporters believe that if they can create an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty in the community about the consequences of a 35-hour week they will help to get themselves elected. [More…]

• The ultimate aim is to secure a 35 hour week in circumstances which will ensure fair treatment of all sections of the community; [More…]

• If there is this reduction it will mean less production, and as the living standard of a country depends on the goods and services produced and as there will be a 9 per cent reduction in the goods and services produced there will be a 9 per cent reduction in the standard of living of this community. [More…]

• Imagine the work force of this community having a wage cut of 9 per cent right across the board. [More…]

• The powerful unions are trying to advantage themselves at the expense of the community. [More…]

• On this basis the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government will take every opportunity it can to put the facts before the Australian people and to resist this proposal which can result only in a reduction in standards of living and increased infllation to a crippling degree which will affect the unprotected in the community. [More…]

• I need merely mention, leaving out all the machinery in the interim, that the Australian Labor Party and the ACTU have the ultimate aim of securing a 35-hour working week in circumstances which will ensure fair treatment of all sections of the community. [More…]

• I am talking about enlightened changes that have the approval of the whole community irrespective of what side we happen to be on politically. [More…]

• I have mentioned in passing that parliamentary committees would enable more active participation in decision making by many more people in the community. [More…]

• One of the great malaises in society today is the feeling that most people have that they are irrelevant to the decision making in the community. [More…]

• In my view another important by-product of the committee system would be the process of educating parliamentarians and the community. [More…]

• Yet there is a growing discontent in the community about the whole question of education, and neither side is really discussing that issue. [More…]

• There is no hint of enlightenment or endeavour to break new ground or to think anew about the way we are parliamentarians might fulfil our functions on behalf of the community which elects us here. [More…]

• It does discredit to us, simply disappoints the community and increases its disenchantment with the parliamentary process. [More…]

• I refer to the growing opinion in the community that the conduct and standards of this House have deteriorated in the last few years. [More…]

• Adequate remuneration should be paid so that no person in the community can say - I am not casting any reflections on flight stewards - that members of this Parliament are not performing a more responsible task than leading flight stewards employed by Qantas. [More…]

• I cannot understand why in a growing and maturing democracy, in a commonsense community we put up with this. [More…]

• Others hold interesting academic arguments that huge and powerful economies such as West Germany and Japan are not moving at this stage and that indeed the United Kingdom will be posed fairly shortly with entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Veterans without service-connected disability and under 65 years of age who had honourable service during a war period or since 31st January 1955, are eligible for necessary admission provided a bed is available and they indicate their inability to defray the expenses of hospital care in a community hospital. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to a statement by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr Geoffrey Rippon, in the British House of Commons on 15th May 1972, regarding transitional arrangements for Australia on Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Will he indicate how the satisfactory arrangements referred to by the British negotiator are satisfactory in regard to the Australian canned fruits industry which was established largely to serve the British market within the terms of the Ottawa Agreement and continued under the Anglo-Australian Trade Agreement which will be abrogated by Britain on entry into the European Economic Community on 1st January 1973. [More…]

• I have heard many comments from different sections of the community suggesting that the Commonwealth should have taxation laws to assist industry to go to country areas; in other words, in the cause of decentralisation. [More…]

• These are newly settled areas where there is a great lack of community facilities and community spirit. [More…]

• There are a number of recommendations designed to assist married women to pursue employment of their choosing in this community. [More…]

• The fact that there is unanimity among the members of the Committee, irrespective of Party, on this subject is surely a strong reflection of the feeling in the community on the dangers of unlimited growth. [More…]

• The decision of the Full Court yesterday aroused great hopes among the Aboriginal community that their expectations could be fulfilled and their aims achieved through the operation of the normal processes of the law, through what an increasing number of Aborigines are coming to describe as ‘white man’s law’. [More…]

• A decade ago, when Britain first was negotiating to enter the European Economic Community, some 19 per cent of our exports were sold to Britain. [More…]

• At the present time the major one is the European Economic Community. [More…]

• industries that are affected by Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community that we have overall primary exports worth $2,000m, of which probably only $158m worth will be affected by the decision of Britain to enter the EEC. [More…]

• Apparently this was referring to Britain and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Writing again to Mr Huckfield, M.P., on 8th June - shortly afterwards the Minister for Trade and Industry in Australia said that he had proposals before the Government of the United Kingdom and before the European Economic Community - Sir Alex DouglasHome stated: [More…]

• Surely the Parliament of Australia has a responsibility to ask for and to receive further information after 10 years of expectancy that there will be serious consequences of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• During that time the logical administrative needs of 50 or 60 years ago when Canberra was a tiny community have suddenly become a writ for a community that is nearly half as big as the population of Tasmania and it has no representative function in the legislation. [More…]

• I believe that the time has long passed when we should have established for Canberra a satisfactory representative government in which these laws are passed through the ordinary representative systems of the Australian community and in which the people who have made them have to answer for them. [More…]

• I say, and I hope it is supported by the vote of this House, that the community should no longer tolerate the kind of governmental authority that is being exercised by the people sitting opposite. [More…]

• He went on to condemn anybody in the community - ministers of religion and so on - who dared stand up and state what his attitude was to land rights for the people who have just as much right if not more to live in this country as you and I. Mr Speaker. [More…]

• They are unanimous in their verdict, as expressed through the South Sydney Community Aid Centre, to the effect that they were absolutely disgusted, just as I was and so many other people were in the first place, at the removal of the tents or the Aboriginal embassy in the park opposite Parliament House. [More…]

• I spoke about the South Sydney Community Aid Centre. [More…]

• If a Parliament fails in its duty to consider cases that are presented before it - cases related not only to individuals but also to communities - it is not carrying out its function, lt is the individuals within the community who are the significant part of the laws that are enacted. [More…]

• We believe it is necessary to ensure that in relation to Commonwealth lands which are not just in front of Parliament House but right throughout the Australian Capital Territory there should be a specific understanding that there is a continued opportunity - indeed, a right - for people to demonstrate, to be present on those lands and to express their views as a minority or majority group, lt is not a right to erect tents or to create what all of us saw, in the language which the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) used quite effectively this afternoon, as a presence which we found objectionable not because of its intrinsic presence but because of its failure to achieve what the honourable member for Moreton and so many others on this side of the house believe is a valid cause of Aborigines in the community. [More…]

• I, like the honourable member for Moreton, feel that there is a great deal we can do to help the Aborigines in our community but we should do it in such a way as to help them positively. [More…]

• The action the Commonwealth took was in accordance with the minds and directives of most people in the Australian community. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that lawyers belong to a club or anything of that sort but I do believe that there is a community of interests or sympathies or loyalties to a sense of value that this Government has completely rejected and thrown out the window long ago. [More…]

• 1968- 69: $50,000, including $25,000 paid by the New South Wales Government from the Commonwealth’s grant to the State under the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1968; 1969- 70: $65,000, including $51,500 for a Walgett community centre. [More…]

• Otherwise, doubts and uncertainties could arise in the business community, with detrimental effect on forward planning and export sales together with doubts on investment decisions. [More…]

• They are important improvements but they are narrowly conceived in terms of the overall needs of the community geriatric services in Australia. [More…]

• The Government started with the institutions instead of starting in the community. [More…]

• It should have tried to keep people at home and to keep them involved and stimulated and interested in their community. [More…]

• It has been an ad hoc approach, largely establishing priorities according to pressures which occur in the community. [More…]

• Once we can identify these goals, establish where the gaps are, and, most importantly, what the needs are, we can develop an integrated and balanced programme of geriatric services in the community. [More…]

• Is there a lumpiness in the distribution of these services in the community? [More…]

• I think that one of the reasons why welfare services in the community have been under-developed in many ways is that the Commonwealth has tended to take the easy way out by tying its expenditure allocations to some sort of formula which requires a commitment from the States in a fixed capacity or in a fixed amount. [More…]

• They should be given more authority, more prestige and more significance in relation to the extent of administration that they discharge in the community. [More…]

• In the long term one can see local government, co-ordinated in a regional concept, accepting much greater responsibility in the administration of the public affairs of the community. [More…]

• That would be a much more meaningful way of discharging democratic government in the community. [More…]

• Here in Canberra we tend to be remote from a great deal of the community for which we are responsible. [More…]

• Local government authorities seem to be the best seat at which to aim if we are to try to improve democratic representation in the community. [More…]

• I conclude my remarks by saying that these Bills, particularly the Aged Persons Hostels Bill which provides for a 3-year crash programme, will provide something which has been desperately needed in this community for a long time; they will provide a challenge and an opportunity for many people to accept some worthwhile assistance for the frail aged and the people in our community who need assistance and whose numbers are increasing as a percentage of the total population. [More…]

• From working with the Minister and with that Committee I know just how sincere and keen he is and how hard he works to do all he can for those who are in need in this community. [More…]

• But it is obvious that no one person is able to fulfil all the needs that are so apparent in investigating the areas of social welfare, housing, health and the like as they bear on the aged pensioner section of our community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community countries are expending 15.2 per cent of their gross national product on social welfare. [More…]

• Many aged persons homes which previously did not attract a subsidy and which were in business before 1954 will, because of their character and the services that they have rendered to the community, receive the total subsidy to which I have just referred. [More…]

• But he made a lot of play in his second reading speech about how this would relieve the nursing homes; how a tremendous number of people in nursing homes, who are costing the community a lot of money, may be transferred; and how we hope that they will benefit under this legislation and therefore relieve the nursing homes. [More…]

• On the other hand, elsewhere in his speech he talked about the 834,000 people in our community who are pensioners. [More…]

• For a sum which is far less than the sum required to put up a new unit, existing units could be modernised with great saving of resources to the community. [More…]

• The Cottage Homes Incorporated organisation is at present attempting to raise funds in South Australia in order to modernise its units and save the community the resources about which I talk. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt) mentioned earlier in this debate, the higher average age of the community in rural areas places a heavy responsibility for the care of aged people on local hospitals, filling beds in the hospital with what are really geriatric cases and on the smaller percentage of working age people. [More…]

• This occurs because of the higher average age of the community in rural areas. [More…]

• The provision of these funds will reduce this burden on both local hospitals and that section of the community which is called upon to assist with everything that is required to keep a rural community going. [More…]

• Finally, the channelling of these funds through local community and religious organisations, as the Government is doing, I believe will mean that there will be more personal and involved concern for the aged people who are to be cared for. [More…]

• One must admire, as I do, people like those of the Jewish community who always attend to their old people. [More…]

• I do not want to join him in any bitter debate on this point but I think he has overlooked the fact that under previous governments, of different political complexion or persuasion, there was a rebate system under which a percentage of the money allocated by the Commonwealth was given to the various State housing authorities or trusts which made a direct contribution by erecting homes for the elderly citizens in our community. [More…]

• Some of these organisations are very large, catering for the very infirm down to those people who merely want accommodation in their declining years and who are still quite active and are not as unfortunate as others in the community. [More…]

• However, there is one such organisation and one such home that I have had something to do with, namely, the Judge Book Memorial Village in Eltham which is run by the Community Welfare Foundation of Melbourne. [More…]

• We have heard comments this afternoon from various honourable members about the problems of growing old, and the Minister mentioned in his second reading speech the alarming trend in the community for families and relatives to look to nursing homes to solve the problems of the accommodation and care of the aged. [More…]

• It would be of very great assistance to the Committee, the Parliament, and the community at large if a scale of priorities was determined by the Minister. [More…]

• But we also have to look at the cost to the community over all. [More…]

• Evidence was also given by Mr WesleySmith, a very enterprising young fellow who shows a deep interest in community affairs in the Northern Territory and throughout Australia. [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…]

• Her criticism included the contention that there is very little interaction between the Aboriginal people and the white people in the local community. [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…]

• This is a Public Service community; so much of the Northern Territory is like that. [More…]

• The College will play an increasingly important part in educating Aborigines who, in turn, will be able to influence their families and other Aboriginals in the community to recognise the advantage of a better educational standard. [More…]

• The Aboriginal people face a different challenge from the challenge facing the rest of the community, most of whom are able to live in a totally Western European type of society. [More…]

• As has been pointed out this afternoon, we will have to turn all the wit, will and expertise in the community to the problem. [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…]

• They will be isolated from the general community so we must develop many more techniques for parental involvement and community involvement. [More…]

• Hospitals, dental clinics, nursing homes and rural health centres have been established and community health nurses have been placed in many rural and outback areas. [More…]

• It is, it seems to me, our task in the urban situations primarily to remove those handicaps which prevent the Aboriginal citizens from playing a full part in the urban community. [More…]

• During a visit which I paid some months ago, I was personally most impressed at the work being done by the Aboriginal Medical Service in south Sydney, and believe that the Aborigines and non-Aborigines involved are providing a referral or treatment service to numbers of Aborigines in the Sydney metropolitan area who would not at this stage have the necessary confidence to seek treatment in the first instance from the normal community services. [More…]

• These persist more or less strongly depending upon the background and history of the community involved. [More…]

• We should seek to encourage and develop new and different types of employment, such as conservation work, crocodile and turtle farming and community enterprises, preferably those related in some way to the land. [More…]

• We are now able to acquire land off reserves for Aboriginal communities throughout Australia, and are in the process of granting Aboriginal communities on reserves in the Northern Territory gen eral purpose leases covering substantial areas and a wide variety of purposes so that a community itself may decide upon the precise allocation of the land as between those purposes. [More…]

• No consideration was given to the overall planning of the metropolitan area; instead, the metropolitan areas, in relation to the placement of flat accommodation, hospitals, schools, community services and road patterns in these areas adjacent to the airport, have planning laws based on the needs of the- airport and not on the needs of the community. [More…]

• But would it not be far easier and cheaper to find an alternative site where proper planning for the good of the community can be undertaken? [More…]

• No wonder some large sections of the Western Australian community react against being dictated to by what they consider to be the eastern bloc. [More…]

• State and Federal authorities must co-operate for the good of the community, no matter what the political differences are. [More…]

• The Australian community and, to a great extent, parliamentarians themselves, have grown accustomed to the Government keeping all information to itself and not informing the public about the criteria on which it bases its decision. [More…]

• What economic factors did it consider - the cost to the community, the cost to the farmers or the cost to the people who have to suffer the noise? [More…]

• How does it evaluate the feelings of the local community and the needs of the local community? [More…]

• A number of astute judges who are highly placed in the tourist industry, including one whose name I do not wish to mention but I can assure honourable members that he is extremely high up in the industry, are now questioning the massive expense, not to mention the massive dislocation of community life that such an airport will spawn. [More…]

• I do not like to see injustices done to individuals in our community. [More…]

• If money is dear and hard to get the burden of charges must inevitably be passed on to the community. [More…]

• I briefly refer to the problem of sales tax which bears with equal severity on all people in the community. [More…]

• Governments are expected to govern democratically and mete out equal treatment to all sections of the community. [More…]

• least, distasteful and unpalatable to the majority of the community. [More…]

• Irresponsible use of public funds is a most serious matter, in fact almost a criminal act and no sane, thinking community will ever condone it. [More…]

• Inflation effects the lower wage earners and the battlers more than it affects anyone else in the community. [More…]

• It is undermining confidence in the general community. [More…]

• In the employment market is a derivative of the lack of confidence which has existed in the community, particularly the lack of business confidence but also the lack of confidence on the part of consumers in their spending patterns. [More…]

• However, this side of the House in particular believes in realism; that is, we like to ensure that whenever there is an increase in average earnings in the community at least that increase can be supported by productivity and that it does not lead immediately to a vast increase in inflationary pressures and an increase in the consumer price index. [More…]

• by leave - As foreshadowed in my recent statement to the House on international trade I wish to give details of certain tariff action that will be taken by Australia following the expected determination of the United KingdomAustralia Trade Agreement (UKATA) The position is that once Britain assumes its obligations to the enlarged European Economic Community, she will be unable to continue to carry out her obligations under UKATA. [More…]

• The control of or support of (bush) fire brigades, the control of advertising hoardings, town planning, public immunisation campaigns, industry development and subsidy schemes, parklands, libraries, orchestras, bands, art galleries, hospitals, rest centres, sporting facilities, camping and caravan areas, tourist information services, ambulances, life saving schemes, kiosks, meals on wheels’, and a host of other similar community services. [More…]

• The supply of electricity, gas, water, abattoirs and community hotels. [More…]

• There is no sensible assessment of the overall transport needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• The glamour form of transport, aviation - I give the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) great credit for what he said about it - has money lavished on it, and it is used by fully 3 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• There would be a great saving to the community and to the Army, if recruits were not only organically sound and therefore trainable, but were also functionally fit. [More…]

• Many European governments, concerned by the trend towards physical inactivity, have attempted to compensate for this lack by establishing a government body with the responsibility of encouraging physical recreation in the community. [More…]

• Each average-sized community needs centralised indoor and outdoor facilities, staffed by, Physical Education specialists. [More…]

• A national playing fields committee, I believe, is also essential to inquire into and recommend a programme of providing adequate sporting facilities in each community. [More…]

• However, the idea that most appeals to me, because I believe it has many functions that will have widespread coverage for the people of each and every community - I hope to see a Federal government take these initiatives - is that the Government undertake a programme of building community gymnasium-swimming pool complexes. [More…]

• With community participation and the economies obtained by building thirty or forty such complexes a year, the cost to the Commonwealth should be limited to about $225,000 for each. [More…]

• I have no doubt that sceptics will say it cannot be done and that the anti-sport lobby in the community will say it should not be done and that we should place more emphasis on cultural and intellectual pursuits than in the worship of the great god, sport. [More…]

• I am talking about the health and physical well being of the whole community. [More…]

• Internationa] performances by our sportsmen are just a byproduct of total community participation. [More…]

• I believe, however, that there is one body of sportsmen that requires a special consideration above all others because of the rather unique position it occupies in the community. [More…]

• The Australian Surf Life Saving Association serves the community in 2 ways. [More…]

• It not only provides excellent physical recreation and sport for a large number of young people but it also provides a valuable service to the community. [More…]

• Many thousands of young Australians guard Australian beaches throughout the summer months without any remuneration other than the camaraderie of their friends, the competition of the surf life saving movement and the knowledge that they are providing a vital community service. [More…]

• But I will not remain silent in this Parliament while assistance is being given to one sector of the school community and is being denied to another. [More…]

• In other words, the information that he has about the needs of one of the most deprived sectors of the school community accounts for only 20 per cent of those schools. [More…]

• That includes $196,000 to build, equip and stock a brand new library - which would probably be big enough to suit a whole community in a country area - plus $346,000 in laboratory grants which should build at least 12 brand new laboratories. [More…]

• To achieve the best results for the Australian people as a whole, we must together define the relationships, roles and contributions which will characterise our future co-operation in what we in the Commonwealth believe will be a major step towards further enriching the quality of life in our Australian community. [More…]

• Accordingly we find that the largest semigovernment authorities in Australia, the ones which have most conspicuously failed to meet the requirements of a civilised community, are to have no help from the Commonwealth as far as the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is concerned and no help from the Commonwealth as far as the present Prime Minister is concerned. [More…]

• One has only to compare the level of efficiency of agriculture in the European Economic Community countries and study the manifold problems there in order to realise how fortunate we are to have a balanced agricultural industry. [More…]

• The commission said this was not the responsibility of the settlers as such because water was a multipurpose commodity and it could not be divided up like a sausage and the costs apportioned to one section of the community alone. [More…]

• The difficulties in agriculture are well known to all of us who have been associated with the rural community. [More…]

• In circumstances of that order there was a general acceptance in this Parliament and in the community that we needed to look at our agricultural scene quite critically. [More…]

• We needed to look at it in order to ensure that the people who were on the land in all their different sectors could again be restored to economic operation and instead of being dependent almost entirely in some instances, on State or Commonwealth assistance should receive prices for the goods they produced sufficient to enable them to sustain themselves and to make a positive contribution to the community, as they have always done. [More…]

• The product of this improvement is that many of those in the farming community again are able to operate profitably. [More…]

• Beyond that point, the Government does not believe that there is a need at this stage for further action to be taken, because the impact of the measures which have already been brought down by the Government - 1 think of those taken over a 9 month-period - against the immediate impact of the stimulatory measures provided in the last Commonwealth Budget will provide an incentive which will, I believe, be the subject of a response by the community and the business sector and, in particular, by consumers during the months ahead. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Primary Industry whether he has seen reported statements by Mr Casey, the South Australian Minister for Agriculture, to the effect that brucellosis vaccination of cattle must now be totally charged to the farming community? [More…]

• These difficulties are certain to be accentuated when the United Kingdom is fully integrated into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• On top of this Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community next year will compound the problems. [More…]

• A community spirit is developing in Darwin of which the rest of Australia can be very proud and from which many parts of Australia can learn a great deal. [More…]

• Although he stood his ground, there was dissension on the part of a large number of people in the community. [More…]

• First of all, this Government has to meet the crisis in the private home building sector of the community. [More…]

• If the Minister recognises that fact, is he prepared to acknowledge that among those people will be some of the most hard working, conscientious, diligent and hard saving young people in the community? [More…]

• It sought to encourage a rental community and not a home ownership community. [More…]

• The Labor Party seeks to encourage a rental community. [More…]

• We realise that it does provide an amount of gain for a number of people in the community. [More…]

• When speaking about the decline in the value of money in this community I am reminded of the promise made in 1949 by Mr Menzies, then Leader of the Liberal Party, when he said: ‘We will put value back into the pound’. [More…]

• The main purpose of legislation such as this should be to reduce the misery which is present in our community due to lack of adequate housing, lt is to this that we should turn our minds when considering the legislation. [More…]

• But I believe that all the worthwhile surveys in our community on this legislation have shown that the greatest benefit has gone to the speculators. [More…]

• Another thing which this legislation has done, rather, than house more people - and we can see that it has not housed sufficient people because of the waiting lists to which I have just referred - and which is of benefit to the community is to improve the standards of housing. [More…]

• But as far as we on this side of the House are concerned, if we are basing policies on greatest need then the greatest need is to house more people so as to overcome those social problems in the community which are so well exemplified in housing trust wailing lists. [More…]

• In almost the same period, from 1961 to 1971, the average weekly earnings increased in our community by only 80 per cent. [More…]

• In his decentralisation statement, inadequate though it was in so many areas, he at least conceded that we have to have a few growth centres throughout Australia, that we should concentrate on them and that the Commonwealth itself must take up land in these centres because it is only by this means that we are going to be able to tackle the problem of the supply of land in our community. [More…]

• I think there is no greater social problem in our community which should be tackled than this. [More…]

• It will stimulate demand but if the real problem is to be tackled we have to do something about the supply of land in this community. [More…]

• I summarise by saying that we do have a housing crisis in this community, that this Bill does not help it in any way, that our problem is a shortage of serviced land, that housing construction costs have increased but in no way has that increase been at the same rate as the increase in the price of land. [More…]

• Indeed, the Government has indicated that it is prepared to buy up land, but until we are prepared to buy up land around our cities as well as in growth centres we will not be able to do anything about this problem of housing in the community - a problem which this present Government has had 23 years to do something about and a problem which steadily is getting worse from day to day. [More…]

• Then again, the lack of Australian Labor Party speakers could mean that in considering this further development and widening of an already successful scheme to assist and encourage people to move into the first home of their own it has become obvious that the Opposition has no manageable or acceptable alternative method in which to assist this vitally important section of the community. [More…]

• I would commend this subject to these economists for serious and deep economic research at all levels in our community. [More…]

• Rather, in showing a concern to see that all forms of credit are available to the Australian community, I then stated that in this pattern the Government readily admits and welcomes the role of credit unions. [More…]

• Credit unions, because of their very self help nature - I wish on this occasion the member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) were in the House - are stable and efficient members of the Australian financial community. [More…]

• As one who is closer to the age group that this Act assists and benefits most, I might say to the honourable member for Reid that young people have as much right to be considered and assisted by government as has any other group in our community. [More…]

• Are not the State governments, because of the restrictions placed upon them by the Constitution, forced to go overseas to speculators and to areas of finance that are costly even on the standard that this Government has imposed on the community? [More…]

• Let him get up this afternoon and repudiate what I have said about this Government not wanting to make grants tothe States to stabilise land prices in the interests of the young people in this community. [More…]

• Are honourable members opposite able to say to this Parliament - as responsible individuals in the community, as socalled responsibly elected members of a governmentin office - that there are vast areas of land in Western Australia, South Australia, and Sydney where millionaires have been created overnight who have not placed one road in those areas, who have not dug one trench for sewerage services, who have not done one thing- [More…]

• I wonder why we cannot extend our logic as expressed by the Minister, whom I have quoted, on the general philosophy of saving as being of very useful community constructiveness. [More…]

• I believe it is a matter with which the Australian community has been deeply concerned for many years. [More…]

• It has been reported that today .some people are using do-it-yourself divorce kits, proving to the community that they can obtain a divorce at a total cost of about $30. [More…]

• To put it in different words, the law should apply to all without favour to one section of the community or another and without exempting one section of the community or another from its operation. [More…]

• This is the last opportunity I will have to speak on the Estimates, but I should like to make the point clear that the police comprise a section of people in Australia which is not treated very well by the community, I believe that we have to make every effort to build a police force better able to deal with the problems of crime and disorder in Australia. [More…]

• The day we cease to uphold the responsibility of the police force to enforce the law of the land for which it is responsible and weaken its administration in any way we will be doing a great, disservice to the community. [More…]

• Whilst some of them may not be physically powerful, the very impression created by a police force which is capable and efficient gives one the feeling that one has security and this is a feeling which permeates the whole community. [More…]

• The day when our sons, daughters and wives cannot walk down the streets without feeling secure is when we really will have to worry and those who undermine the authority of the police force do a great disservice to the community. [More…]

• If there are people as lax as that in the Organisation I would not like to see them reporting on any person in the community if their report could affect the promotion or position of that person. [More…]

• This is such a mysterious organisation and from what I can see of what is happening in the community today, it is not effective in some respects. [More…]

• I make these submissions to the Minister not to be critical but in the hope that they will be taken into consideration, particularly as they refer to ASIO because in the community today there is a concern over its activities and the fact that there may be files kept on public servants who know little about them and because of which many are suffering. [More…]

• The farmer whose property provides neither full employment nor an adequate income is as much a victim of the concentration of our population in 6 swollen capitals as the suburban householder who pays more than he can afford for an unsewered block situated in an under-serviced community and is separated from his place of work by 20 miles of overcrowded roads and inadequate public transport. [More…]

• In the long term in every instance affluence has defeated the community. [More…]

• This would involve the coordination of the activities of every community service club that can be of help in publicising, defining and combating local drug abuse. [More…]

• The help of medical, social and law enforcement bodies, the news media, churches, schools and all other related community groups could be enlisted in the effort. [More…]

• The National Standing Committee could be the co-ordinating body when this action is initiated and it could seek to broaden its scope by volunteering manpower and funds for the effort as well as contacting and organising community leaders in law, medicine, religion, education and social work to form a community drug education committee. [More…]

• Developing an effective community programme to combat drug abuse is not easy, but the consequences of doing nothing ultimately may be much more severe. [More…]

• As I see it then, Labor’s aim in the 1970s must be to persuade the lower income groups that we would increase their share of the cake, the whole community that we would increase Australia’s share of the Australian cake and that we would move towards establishing a civilised (‘permissive’) society. [More…]

• The entry of Britain into the European Economic Community will make it all the more imperative for Australia in its marketing to become quite aggressive in its efforts to find and hold new and expanded markets. [More…]

• It is not reasonable to expect that gross returns to primary producers should remain static and I hope that the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) and the Government will give consideration to examining the position of the wheat growers to ensure that they too receive their share of the prosperity of this country and that they are contributing generally to the welfare of the community. [More…]

• I believe that now is a good time - the lift in wheat prices will cushion the cost to the community - to enable these people to receive a reasonable return for their investment and labour. [More…]

• So the United Kingdom is still a very important market for our meats despite the fact that it is entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Experts coming back from the European Economic Community are advising us here in Australia that the Community will offer a great market for Australian meats in the future. [More…]

• It is estimated that by 1980 the European Economic Community will be in the market for 600,000 tons of beef, which cannot be supplied by the countries in that area. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the leaders of our primary industries, the Department of Primary Industry and our trade agencies throughout the world are making every effort to foster and develop our trade in the European Economic Community in relation to the supply of beef. [More…]

• He said, ‘The general feeling is that there has been an upturn in the economy and the business community in general is confident that there will be a progressive improvement. [More…]

• It gives us hope that maybe there is an air of tolerance coming into our community that would allow single women to do that. [More…]

• What is happening now is that about 10 per cent of total births in the community are illegitimate. [More…]

• I do not think any evidence exists of any such doubt in the Australian community. [More…]

• As I have stressed so many times before in this House, the relevant comparison to make is to relate the amount of money being provided in pension payments to the average standard of prosperity being provided in the community, measured by average weekly earnings which cover more than the cost of living increases but also include the capacity of the economy to provide a higher living standard. [More…]

• I have put the case strongly to those who happen to be listening and to whomsoever I can reach in the community that they have to argue that no matter what Party says what about eliminating the means test that Party and indeed all Parties must be committed to tying the pension rate to an index so that there is at least an annual adjustment to the rates which will be provided, and it must be average weekly earnings. [More…]

• It will be an automatic social welfare benefit in the community. [More…]

• It has not touched a whole range of important areas which affect people’s living standards, but most importantly of all it fails to concede that what is really needed in our community today is a comprehensive national system of social security in which the benefits paid are above the poverty level and tied to an index so that they are adjusted at least annually. [More…]

• Finally, we commit ourselves to developing welfare services in the community, because money alone is no answer to the big welfare needs of Australia at the present time. [More…]

• The appointment by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) of Professor Henderson to inquire into all aspects of poverty in the community should highlight the areas of greatest need and be a great guide to future governments as to where our limited resources should be directed. [More…]

• In the past, however, there have been those who, in order not to be a burden on the community in their old age, have joined superannuation schemes and have gone without some of the pleasures and comforts of life so that they would have an income in their old age. [More…]

• These are the former hard working citizens of our community - people who have never in the past made great demands upon the nation’s resources, but who now find themselves, through no fault of their own, on the poverty line. [More…]

• Such a scheme would encourage thrift, self-help and selfreliance in the community. [More…]

• He is a man of compassion with a driving zeal to achieve happiness and security for those in the community for whom we have a special responsibility. [More…]

• We, as a Government, want everyone in this community who is entitled to a pension to know what his entitlement is. [More…]

• But, to listen to the spokesman for the Opposition in this field, the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), one would imagine that there was not tha picture that can be seen by anyone who has eyes to see, but something that was parsimonious and indeed discriminatory against large sections of the community. [More…]

• If the Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay) was confused about the treatment of superannuation in the new means test, he can imagine what confusion it will cause to the many elderly people in the community who have to make application for pensions. [More…]

• Bill to establish a stable relationship between pensions and an index of community welfare. [More…]

• The Labor Party, in line with pensioner organisations, supports the view that pensions ought to be tied in a fixed relationship with average weekly earnings in the community. [More…]

• We think, and so do the pensioners, that it would be better to have pensions related to average weekly earnings because wa feel that this would be a better index of community prosperity. [More…]

• Senior citizens or pensioners ought to be entitled to share in such prosperity as exists in the community. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s solemn pledge is that we will at the outset fix pensions at 25 per cent of average weekly earnings in the community. [More…]

• Countries which have this fixed relationship between pensions and some other index of community prosperity or price costs include Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Uraguay. [More…]

• Like the rest of us in the community they are faced by escalating council rates and water board rates. [More…]

• We will cut out all forms of means tests and rely upon income tax, which to me is the fairest and best way to test anything, whether it is in respect of education, social services or anything else in this community. [More…]

• Up to dale the means lest has been a fairly efFective barrier designed to reduce the total cost to the community of pension provisions. [More…]

• In essence, the abolition of the means test means a redistribution of the total resources of the community in favour of persons over the age of 60 or 65 years. [More…]

• How many people in the community can claim the maximum allowance of $1,200 per annum for life assurance premiums. [More…]

• As I see it, there are at least 3 groups in the community whose interests have to be considered. [More…]

• The reality is that two-thirds of the community, comprising mainly the poorest sections of the community, are excluded from this benefit and up to date have had to rely on the hazard of politics via the age pension scheme. [More…]

• Then there is the other section of the community, comprising quite a large number - something like twothirds of the population. [More…]

• One can only regret that the Prime Minister in a government which has been in office since 1949, when he was Treasurer something like 3 years ago said, in response to the suggestion from this side of the House that there should be a national superannuation scheme, that it was beyond the capacity of Australia to have it despite the fact that every other Western community has it. [More…]

• Throughout the Australian community over the last 23 years there has been a progressive and substantial rise in productivity. [More…]

• The sad fact remains that the Repatriation Act is being widely painted in the community as some sort of benefit bonanza. [More…]

• Too many people in our community, including many on the Opposition benches - not including, I am glad to say, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) who, although making a good election speech, was out of tune with a large section of his Party - have forgotten the purpose of the repatriation system, which is to repay a debt the community owes to those who risked death or injury in the defence of all of us. [More…]

• Too many in the community think we are paying excessive attention to them. [More…]

• Thirdly, of course, we have reestablishment measures which generally apply within a fixed period after discharge from the forces to assist servicemen to resume their places in the community. [More…]

• What we must judge is whether these pensions are fair, as we believe they are, or whether they are excessive, as some sections of the community allege. [More…]

• I think the structure of repatriation pensions represents a fair recognition of what we, the community, owe to these people who fought in our defence. [More…]

• I think this is a very important step forward which will relieve a severe community problem. [More…]

• In deciding its war compensation priorities the Government has been mindful that, within the limits imposed by their disabilities, general rate war pensioners are able to work and thus share in normal community prosperity. [More…]

• We have to realise that is a different community from the one into which we were born. [More…]

• Nobody can say that we did not conscript him into a lifetime of poverty in comparison with the relative affluence of the community and what may well have been his potential. [More…]

• It seems to me that among the people with whom I associate this is occurring more in relation to ex-servicemen than in relation to people in the general community in the same age group. [More…]

• I do not know whether a close run has been kept on, say, an infantry battalion so that its members could be tracked down in order to compare them with a control group in the community of 700, 800 or 1,000 people. [More…]

• It is not even fair to say that their casualty rate from heart disease is now identical with the rate applying in the rest of the community. [More…]

• When they enlisted they were not identical with the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is a question of commitment by the community of the same order as the servicemen accepted when they committed themselves during wartime. [More…]

• The United States has established a system whereby ex-servicemen who cannot avail themselves even of ordinary insurance rights because they are regarded as a greater risk than most other people in the community are given the benefit of a privileged insurance system. [More…]

• TPI pensioners receive other concessions which members of the community who are earning the minimum wage do not receive; for instance, in the medical field, telephone rentals, sales tax and so on. [More…]

• Farm incomes overall have picked up from the last few years of depressed prices but they are declining in comparison with average incomes in the rest of the community. [More…]

• For the rest of the community there is acceptance of a steady increase in average earnings. [More…]

• The dairy industry is disadvantaged compared to the rest of the community. [More…]

• He is a credit to the nation for his enterprise and contribution to the community. [More…]

• The exigencies following Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community are such that in the pome fruits industry and the canned fruits industry that circumstance certainly is present. [More…]

• It is true that it is likely to be well below the expected quota but when the expected harvest is in the bags it might be possible to make an assessment of the circumstances of the rural community and if there is a necessity for any aid to be provided the matter will be considered at that time. [More…]

• I think that no-one should rule the community from the grave. [More…]

• As I indicated, at least the United Kingdom acknowledges the problem of the farm in relation to the total economic activity and gives that section of the community a double exemption as against that which applies to the rest of the community. [More…]

• We have to consider whether there are many people within the community capable of distributing substantial gifts of money among their close relatives and friends during their lifetime, and if so at what level these gifts should be taxed. [More…]

• These are all matters of social concern which should be studied closely by the community from time to time. [More…]

• In other words, the Government’s attitude seems to be not to worry about it while things are going smoothly but to introduce it with the hope of wooing a few votes when the community has not been properly satisfied with the previous situation. [More…]

• I for one hope that the State governments take note of the fine lead being given to them by the Commonwealth Government and I hope they act accordingly as did the Queensland Government following the breakthrough, as I call it, in 1969 when this Government and this Parliament recognised the very great burden that death duties were imposing upon a particular section of the community - the people with assets connected with primary production. [More…]

• It has come down with a decision, without the benefit of recommendations by a committee, which is a very practical one and which will give at fairly low cost to the community very real benefits to a needy section in the community. [More…]

• I give credit to this Government for going ahead without the Committee and bringing down a Bill which gives very great benefit to that most deserving section of the community within this field of taxation. [More…]

• What happened on the lawns outside Parliament House under the supervision of the Minister for the Interior, who is in the House now, was an example of how stupid the Government can become in applying violence to a situation of this kind, ft is certain that anger and indignation will rise in the younger people in the Aboriginal community because of the circumstances in which they are forced to live. [More…]

• They are in part of the general community statistics. [More…]

• This Government once made such a statement in relation to the abolition of tuberculosis in the European community. [More…]

• If we say boldly: ‘We will eliminate the diseases of yaws, hook worm, tuberculosis and leprosy from the Aboriginal community as well as reduce the neonatal, infant and child mortality’, we will have nailed our flag to the mast; we will have adopted goals and all our expenditure and all our policies will be forced to conform. [More…]

• What is wrong with people living in a community on their own, away from other communities? [More…]

• Being a part of a community has no geographical significance whatsoever. [More…]

• Is the man who serves in the lighthouse at Wilsons Promontory, tens of miles from anywhere, still a part of the Australian community? [More…]

• I can think of no reason at all why an Aboriginal community, even if it is 200 miles from anywhere, cannot be a satisfactory Australian community, asserting its own individuality and still being a part of the Australian scene. [More…]

• We have a community that can administer every Australian. [More…]

• Those of us who have belonged to it for all these years are gratified that it has such a singular impact on the community. [More…]

• I place on record my respect for all those who, over the 15 or 16 years in which the Federal Council has been in business, have selflessly and in all sorts of dedicated ways thought and worked for and expanded the opportunity of the Aboriginal people of Australia to be an effective part of the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) said that there was no mention in my speech of aims and goals for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• If honourable members opposite say that education, health, employment and housing services should all be on those lines, surely they are advocating that in the long run we shall be moving towards one community, preserving distinctive cultures of Aborigines but certainly moving in the more material things of life to one common community. [More…]

• These sites which have been of significance to the Aboriginal people for 4,000 years bear the same sort of relationship to Aborigines as do churches and other sacred areas to other parts of the Australian community. [More…]

• We are ahead of what the Opposition would desire to take place in the field of housing, because over the last 4 years we estimate that we have provided sufficient housing for more than 14,000 members of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The negotiation of immense loans of this nature in these troubled times of growing general unemployment and threatened unemployment in the aircraft industry in a manner which does nothing to alleviate that unemployment in any sector of the community indicates that this Government’s priorities are completely out of touch with the needs of the community, particularly when the loan is being negotiated long prior to its actual date of requirement. [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…]

• This does not matter, of course, if one is not concerned about the needs of the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• It is a pity that the Labor Party seeks to divide the community on the matter of State aid. [More…]

• I think it is time that the community itself paid very close scrutiny to the way in which schools are being financed and the way in which the Commonwealth has entered the field, lt is part of the play by honourable members opposite to decry the suggestion of a schools commission. [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…]

• If ever this were true, it certainly is not true now, for this Government’s approach to education has been to move into many areas to break down problems of inequality and, indeed, positively to discriminate in favour of certain under privileged or less privileged groups in the Australia community. [More…]

• I also instance the notion of community involvement in education and I instance the importance of quality and not just quantity in education. [More…]

• We in the Liberal Party say that the crying need in Australian education today is for things like parental involvement, community involvement in the setting up and running of schools and teacher involvement with parents and the local community. [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…]

• Mir REYNOLDS (Barton) (10.52) - It would take all of my speech if I were to check on ali of the erroneous statements made by the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) about Australian Labor Party policy and what the attitude of the various sectional groups in the community is towards the Government’s performance in education. [More…]

• We say that what is spent is inequitably spread among the various sections of the Australian community to the disadvantage of those most in need. [More…]

• If there has been any research it has not been placed before this Parliament or the Australian community. [More…]

• It could be just a figure pulled out of the air for all the community is concerned. [More…]

• But the whole idea is to have parental involvement, community involvement and decentralisation of educational decision making in Australia. [More…]

• One can readily conjure up in one’s mind the vast difference between the poorest parish school and the best GPS school in the community. [More…]

• They will be children who have a lack of environmental stimulus in their home and a lack of community environment. [More…]

• B. M. Fuller, M.L.C., Minister for Decentralisation and Development, and Vice-President of the Executive Council, New South Wales; The Honourable R. C. Dunstan, D.S.O., M.P., Minister of Water Sup ply and Minister for Public Works, Victoria; The Honourable N. T. E. Hewitt, M.M., A.F.M., M.L.A., Minister for Conservation, Marine and Aboriginal Affairs, Queensland; The Honourable J. D. Corcoran, M P., Deputy Premier, Minister for Works and Minister of Marine, South Australia; The Honourable W. F. Willesee, M.L.C., Minister for Community Welfare and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, Western Australia; The Honourable N. L. C. Batt, M.H.A., Chief Secretary and Minister for Transport, Tasmania. [More…]

• Now that the Government, on the admission of the Minister in his reply to a question a few moments ago, has accepted the basic philosophy of the Australian Labor Party on health services, namely, that the cost burden must be shifted from the individual to the Government - I think the Minister mentioned that it had been shifted from 35 per cent to 19 per cent - does the Minister concede that the best way to collect these funds from the community is through a national health insurance fund, rather than through a multitude of inefficient and expensive so-called voluntary funds, which are compulsory anyway since failure to belong to a fund deprives one, if ill, of the Commonwealth benefit from one’s compulsory tax payments? [More…]

• It is only because of the adoption of the priority basis of giving consideration to all sections of the community in relation to telephones that we have been able to avoid more frequent increases in telephone charges. [More…]

• The cost of those buildings, which has been borne by the poorer section of the community in my electorate, is close to $500,000. [More…]

• Ail that we are seeking is justice fo: that section of the community. [More…]

• Both St Luke’s at Revesby and St Christopher’s at Panania employ a high number of lay teachers for which the poorer section of the community, which is my electorate, are paying. [More…]

• This Government’s justice favours what could be called the wealthier section of the community. [More…]

• One wonders whether it is not time to assess the whole problem of whether many of those who fail in their courses at university would not have obtained meaningful qualifications for use in the community if a different attitude had been taken to their future education. [More…]

• I regret that the Government has not taken any notice of the needs survey undertaken in 1970 and that, far from living up to its promises in respect of education, it has been derelict in its duty to many young people in the community. [More…]

• I believe that it is not sufficiently recognised in the community that the Commonwealth provides the major part of the current revenues of the States. [More…]

• They take in quite a wide range of the community but in particular they take in a large sector of the community who are on fairly low incomes by comparison with those people in the central suburbs of Melbourne such as Prahran, St Kilda, Camberwell, Hawthorn, Essendon and Kew. [More…]

• It will not make a scrap of difference to the child in the country school, the child from the working class family, the child from the migrant family and all those whom we regard as being in the low income section of the community. [More…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• are dealing with a farming community there are problems with boarding the students, and there are many other problems. [More…]

• The problems of isolated children really apply to a large, part of the farming community. [More…]

• I merely say that it is quite impossible, to imagine that the scientific community of Australia would have advised that we should have postponed the acquisition of an adequate vessel at this late stage, in scientific history. [More…]

• There seems to be a failure in communication between the scientific community and the Government, and that has to be remedied. [More…]

• There must be some new means by which the scientific community may tender to the Government advice which represents the best thinking of the scientific community on fields of research. [More…]

• He performed 2 important services for the community. [More…]

• The community could well do with some explanation for why there has been a 194 per cent jump in the Commonwealth’s subsidy for medical benefits since 1969. [More…]

• We on this side of the chamber say that this is a vital guarantee - it has proved to be so - of high standards of service to the community. [More…]

• In the Adelaide Hospital today the seething mass of medicos are up in arms, particularly the younger ones, because they doubt whether the huge amount of work that they have put into their training over perhaps a 9-year period will be warranted; or whether they will be salaried on their present scale somewhat below the average of the community if it is worked out on an hourly basis for work. [More…]

• Doctors and hospital administrators in this community have asked that a system of accreditation of hospitals and the personnel attached to them should be instituted. [More…]

• One of the falsities of these figures is that many specialists are fortunately adopting the attitude of preferring to go into general practice and to practise their speciality out in the community as doctors of first contact, and this is to be commended. [More…]

• One could deal with many other matters in the estimates, such as the distribution of doctors in the community, the scarcity of doctors in rural areas and many problems which this Government has failed to solve. [More…]

• I do not know on what basis he made that claim, but I think what we must really go on is the quality of health care and the standard of health in the community. [More…]

• Additionally, the community generally is better educated and questions the justification of the medical profession seeking to play the role of God among mortals. [More…]

• However, for the community as well there is the potential loss of a large pool of professional training, skills and experience, and perhaps a government sponsored scheme of retraining into related fields might well be justified in order to minimise the wastage that would otherwise occur. [More…]

• Of course, the answer is that a Labor government will, I trust, give a reasonable reward to doctors in the same way as, we hope, socialised lawyers get a reasonable reward from the community when they become judges. [More…]

• They have held their jobs for a number of years and are well respected members in the community. [More…]

• They are well respected citizens and they produce much for the community. [More…]

• In these years migrants of a high standard have joined our community. [More…]

• The Government has clearly stated its policy so that the community can formulate informed views on future immigration. [More…]

• Most migrants seem to live in the cities and this does not prevent troubles which are often witnessed at sporting fixtures and other community efforts. [More…]

• I believe there is a very strong feeling in the Australian community that all possible steps should be taken to keep a close watch on our selection and screening processes in order to ensure that we allow in only those who are reasonably certain to be assimilated successfully. [More…]

• As the time available to me this evening is brief 1 will not devote any more time to that point, but I am sure that the Australian people will take those remarks of honourable members opposite for what they are worth and disregard them completely because I think that today they are well aware of the actions of this Government as it moves one step at a time towards injecting tear into the community in the hope that Government supporters will retain their seats in the Parliament and that the Government will regain office at the forthcoming election. [More…]

• The purpose of the hostels is, rightly, to provide services to assist new arrivals to settle into the community with the minimum of heartbreak and in the quickest possible time, to provide welfare officers to assist them with their problems of education and social services, to provide housing advisory officers and employment services. [More…]

• We need to build a high standard of living in Australia and the only way in which we will do it is by developing our own community here and resisting the migration of those people who are trying to come in and undermine our standards. [More…]

• 1 deplore the immorality of letting in only those who will easily fit into the community. [More…]

• There is a feeling of very grave disquiet right throughout the community and many people are very disturbed about the State school system. [More…]

• All I am saying is that if the Government can do this for one sector of the community, it can do it for the other sector as well. [More…]

• They themselves are overcrowded and have needs, as their survey shows, but the Government is going to penalise both sections of the community. [More…]

• I do not know on what basis he used that figure but he was trying to argue, I think, that because they went to university the community paid much more for their education than it did for people who came from government schools. [More…]

• without help from the community. [More…]

• He, as one honourable gentleman on the other side of this House, knows these sorts of charges are false and that they seek to put a misinterpretation on the situation which can only be misleading to honourable gentlemen on both sides and to the community at large. [More…]

• by leave - I apologise for having spoken at some length at question time today, but this is a matter of some interest not only to members of the House but also I think to a wide section of the community outside the House. [More…]

• By publicity of various kinds we hope to get this knowledge out into the community. [More…]

• There are electoral organisations, public servants and a whole community waiting around Australia for a decision on this matter. [More…]

• The Minister made one or 2 replies to questions that were asked from this side of the House’ by honourable members who had sought leave to make statements and the Government then decided that it should not spend , an extra 10 or IS minutes on this vital matter which affects all sorts of people in the community and that the debate must come to an end. [More…]

• Therefore, it was extremely disappointing to find when we started to talk about national codes and standards for pipelines those people who should have been responsible in a professional sense were prepared to sacrifice integrity to virtually thrust on the community standards which would have been, I believe, letting down the community in the manner they were. [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that the Government has failed to protect Australian employment and the interests of the Australian community in this matter. [More…]

• It can be extremely disappointing to find when you start to talk about national codes and national standards that those people to whom we should have looked responsibly in the professional sense were prepared to sacrifice their integrity and virtually thrust on the community standards which would have been, I believe, letting down the community. [More…]

• The Government of the Commonwealth has the right to control our natural resources, the right to give by-laws or refrain from giving them and the right and the duty, as far as the Aus tralian Labor Party is concerned, of seeing that our natural resources are used in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• This will be an important by-product of the legislation, providing information which will be valuable to insurers in managing their businesses as well as being of importance generally within the community. [More…]

• We have heard frightening words like ‘foreign takeovers’; we have heard expressions like ‘selling a bit of the farm’ and ‘having tummies tickled’ and all these statements have tended to conjure up in the mind of the Australian community the picture of some giant ogre from overseas advancing to destroy us with one huge gulp. [More…]

• Chain production at Benalla is of particular significance to that community. [More…]

• Alternatively, if it is not possible to restructure activities economically and closure is necessary, the holding action provided will permit consideration of alternative measures of assistance to alleviate the consequential sociological effects on the Benalla community. [More…]

• We believe these to be reasonable and practical criteria which will enable the national interest to be served with the minimum practicable interference in the business community and the rights of shareholders. [More…]

• In fact, national income does not measure the well being of the community in any meaningful way at all. [More…]

• Who will build and finance the houses, the streets and schools, hospitals and fire stations, court houses and post offices, and the community centres and recreational facilities? [More…]

• Australia is the largest island continent in the world, yet the most urbanised community in the world. [More…]

• This has been contributed to by all levels of the Australian community. [More…]

• It has been contributed to by both sides of this Parliament, at the State level, at local government levels, in academic circles and by the business community in general. [More…]

• As basic production processes become more automated more people will find their employment in servicing the community rather than in the production processes. [More…]

• This would be totally unacceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• There are no copies of that report available at all - the report of a planning scheme which was far more advanced and basic to the needs of the Australian community than the one the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has produced some 24 years later. [More…]

• This will cause serious loss not only to them but also to industry and the community. [More…]

• One answer could be to follow Canada’s lead of last year and provide employment in seasonal community service work. [More…]

• Recently I circulated to members of this House a report presented to me by officers of my Department about uniformity of telephone charges throughout the community and uniformity of trunk charges within the community. [More…]

• If this system is used properly by people within the community it is believed there can be substantial savings. [More…]

• The Government accepts the fact that there is a demand in the community for the services of such stations, and will look to the Board to put forward detailed proposals in due course. [More…]

• I trust that we will see the Department of the Environment really spelling these things out and being not a nebulous structure but something with real force and real effect in the community. [More…]

• This state of affairs could very easily work against those least able to withstand it - the less privileged of the land, the pensioners, the fixed income earners, the socially deprived - and could result in a backlash by the community against those responsible for this state of affairs. [More…]

• What he ought to be doing as a Minister is to stand in this place and say what ought to be said in the interests of the community. [More…]

• The provision of natural gas to the community will require the construction of long pipelines. [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…]

• It is important to acknowledge that this initiative comprehends assistance at 3 levels - that of the child, of the family, and of the community. [More…]

• 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…]

• Provision in the Budget of funds for capital grants in this financial year should enable a substantial expansion of the number of child care places in the community. [More…]

• The fees normally charged to parents of children not in financial need will bc of the order presently being charged in the community. [More…]

• Family circumstances, particularly in the more needy section of the community, are subject to considerable fluctuations. [More…]

• Organisations Li receipt of grants will be required to operate the child care centres concerned for the benefit of the community in which they are located and generally to the satisfaction of the Minister. [More…]

• The Government intends to ensure that developments in its provision for child care continue to have regard to the wide variety of views that are known to exist in the community on the subject. [More…]

• One practical application of this proposition will be studies to review how the scheme provided for in this legislation is meeting the needs of the child, the family and the community, and to identify inadequacies, if any. [More…]

• The community’s attitudes to the working mother and working wife have changed dramatically in the last decade or so; there is certainly no question about this. [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…]

• The evaluation will reveal what is happening in the centres and what their impact is on the community, on the families involved and on the chilren themselves. [More…]

• Child care centres will be community oriented. [More…]

• This is implicit in the references I have made to their impact on the community. [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…]

• This is worth achieving while research into related developments is being evaluated, lt is very important for honourable members to appreciate that significant though the increase in physical accommodation is, of much greater importance is the provision for improving the quality of child care that will be available to the community in future years. [More…]

• This represents an increase of $34m over the estimated expenditure in 1971-72 and an increase of $19.8m over the actual expenditure of $200.2m for the 12 months ended 30th June 1972.- 1 believe that there is general support in the community for the Government’s continuing programme of assistance to developing countries as an integral part of our foreign policy. [More…]

• I take this opportunity of paying tribute to the World Council of Churches and also the Roman Catholic Church for the sums that they have appropriated to build up the Action for World Development programme and of saying how valuable I think it has been in our community. [More…]

• As we move into the 1970s, 2 great problems stand out above all others: (1) how the world community can avoid the kind of conflicts that might lead to all-out nuclear war; and (2) how we can utilise world resources so that mankind may be able to meet the urgent challenge of poverty and then move on to better things. [More…]

• But let us not overlook the fact that the community in Australia admits to the success of our aid programme and commends the Government for it. [More…]

• While the rest of the world has gradually been coming around to the view that this very large and significant nation is naturally a part of the community of nations, we have waited for 20 years or more for others to make up our minds. [More…]

• It develops an individual and community conscience, together with a desire to eliminate all forms of suffering, to spread knowledge and to bring about social justice and international peace. [More…]

• There is a fairly widespread awareness throughout the community of the desirability of Overseas aid. [More…]

• A movement called Action for World Development has spread itself fairly effectively through numbers of community groups and numbers of people, largely through a church basis. [More…]

• We just have to help as much as we can to get this rather precipitate development in the direction of self-government to a point where all members of that community are to the best of our assistance going to share in the autonomy that develops. [More…]

• During that visit I opened the Darwin River Dam on 29th June and, after opening the Ord River Dam, visited Gove on 30th June and 1st July, during which time I visited the Yirrkala community, opened a Transitional College at Dhupuma and opened the alumina plant. [More…]

• is the direction in fact an indication of the overwhelming clerical domination of the Department and the tendency to see Social Workers as message carriers, whose main role is to mollify the irate members of the public and make life a little more tolerable by distributing sympathy and compassion rather than requiring the Department to fulfil its obligations to the community; (g) why are the officers referred to in the letter seeking, either on their own initiative or through the initiative and direction of others, to set up some sort of insulated hierarchical relationship which can only serve to establish remoteness in contact between Social Workers, with a key function and responsibility, for clients, and decision making members of the bureaucracy which in turn can only be to the disadvantage ultimately of members of the client public; (h) why should Social Workers be denied the right of advising a client member of the public that he can approach his Member of Parliament to make representations for him on his application or any other matter of complaint against the Department and why is it only at this late stage, as referred to in paragraph 6 of the letter, when a client indicates his intention to make such an approach on his own initiative that the panic buttons are pressed and everyone is alerted and full attention and maximum activity is directed to that client’s case; (i) does this mean that Members of Parliament, who are completely untrained as Social Workers, have more influence on the industry and application of departmental officers in their processing of a client’s application than does a Social Worker intimately, involved and presumably, much more fully informed of the case at the personal level than a Member of Parliament working from his electoral office. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware of statements by some medical authorities that animal fats are not the major contributor to the incidence of heart disease in the Australian community? [More…]

• As this higher growth rate continues so all the slack in the economy will be taken up, the unemployment rate, which has been too high for our purposes and for community and social purposes, will diminish’ and the general tenor of the economy will be one of great activity. [More…]

• The stresses and strains of growth are having an impact on the living conditions and the environment of the entire Australian community. [More…]

• The Government believes that unless we embark on a vigorous, imaginative and responsible programme of urban and regional development, in partnership with the States, our efforts to secure a better quality of life for the Australian community through a wide variety of existing programmes will be compromised. [More…]

• We believe too that a properly conceived and well managed programme of urban and regional development will be approved and welcomed by the community generally. [More…]

• The Casuarina High School has been allocated $2.2m, the Darwin Community College $4m, Nakara primary school Si. [More…]

• I think it is essential to realise that in the cities of Melbourne and Sydney the Government and the community does have a requirement for the location of a great number of public servants in the central metropolitan areas. [More…]

• The other factors are the expansion of economic and general community services to cope with the rapidly growing population, and large scale new investment, particularly in the mining industry. [More…]

• It seems to me that when we talk about wage rates and working conditions, we should keep in mind that a very large section of the Australian community is either involved directly in earning wages and obtaining good working conditions or their families are relying on it. [More…]

• Because it is iniquitous the Act has fallen into great disrepute in the community recently. [More…]

• In this case the Government tries to divide the community by trying to show to the community how the 35-hour week, in the Government’s view, can only be of detriment to the community. [More…]

• It is one of the features of our community that only those who are directly engaged in manufacturing have awards containing a 40-hour week requirement and are bound to work that 40-hour week. [More…]

• I would like to read from pages 11 and 12 of the document which I believe to be significant because we must bear in mind the comments 1 have made about the enormous cost that will be incurred by the Australian community on the introduction of the 35 hour week. [More…]

• Therefore, if we have a scheme that encourages younger people to leave instead of encouraging the older group in agriculture to move out, this can have dangerous implications, not just for dynamic agriculture but social problems in the sense that we have fewer people available in the rural community to provide leadership in the community, to provide the backbone for community services required in a rural community, whether this be in regard to the school committee, the hospital or anything else of this nature. [More…]

• The idea of this is to see that the older people who are less mobile in a rural community are moved off the farms so that there is a better opportunity for younger people to stay in agriculture. [More…]

• In addition, we should do something to ease the older generation out of agriculture - and the abolition of the means test is of considerable significance here, with the property component so far adding to the immobility of older people in agriculture - and allow them to move into a nearby rural community where socially they are happier and they are still in their own environment. [More…]

• By legislating, by interesting itself in these aspects, the Government will do a service to the community and in fact reduce the call on the services of the Department itself by people affected by unemployment arising out of the situations which are being felt so much in the critical national unemployment situation which exists today. [More…]

• In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Labour and National Service first of all I would like to commend the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) and the Government on their desire to see that the arbitration system in this country operates in the best interests of the employee and the employer as well as in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Undoubtedly this is often the result of the activities of left wing socialists and communist union leaders who have little regard for the welfare of the people they represent or the community as a whole. [More…]

• But the attitude of honourable members opposite to industrial disputes so often results in financial loss to the wage earning section of the community as well as to the people as a whole including, of course, businessmen and all residents of country towns. [More…]

• So the rural community in general will have to bear this heavy cost, and therefore it is those people who are most concerned about it. [More…]

• We have an arbitration system which, if utilised fully and effectively, can settle industrial disputes without placing added burdens on the wage earners and the community as a whole. [More…]

• I make the plea for co-operation from all sections of the community in making the arbitration system work in the interests of every Australian. [More…]

• It is a general diatribe designed to generate in this community a sense of gloom, despair and despondency concerning Australia’s economic climate. [More…]

• We recognise how industrially naive this is simply because of the inevitable effects of flow-on throughout the general community. [More…]

• It is no good the Minister saying that this situation does not exist in the community. [More…]

• How can State governments with their meagre Budgets and with no access to the income tax field pay more than a mere pittance of $50 a week to the bloke who works for water boards and sewerage boards and does the lousiest jobs in the community and gets the least for it? [More…]

• You cannot expect people in the community to exist on a few lousy dollars a week at a time when an employed person taking home $100 a week can still get something from the Government. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite who purport to have the interests of the community at heart should be looking at those aspects about which I get emotional and concerned. [More…]

• The attitude of the various sections of the community to these issues will in turn either facilitate or hinder the achievement of our aims. [More…]

• making grants to permit public housing authorities to be responsible for (i) ensuring that electricity wiring is placed underground, (ii) tree planting and landscaping and (iii) community centres in public housing communities; [More…]

• We would grant the State housing authorities moneys to put electric light wires underground, undertake tree planting schemes for streets, retain nature areas and if they are not in an area we would help to develop them and we would help build community centres within public housing authority schemes. [More…]

• If that is not a significant proportion of the Australian community I am afraid that I have lost as much touch with the community as has the honourable member for Bennelong. [More…]

• One could almost repeat the speeches made in the past on the same subject in this chamber and they would be as relevant today as they were when they were made because nothing has changed in the intervening period and nothing has been done to make the position any easier for those who seek to avail themselves of the basic requirement of those who live in a civilised community, and that is shelter from the elements. [More…]

• I presume that is the necessary land to which the amendment refers, and that is virtually all the land that will be needed in the community henceforth. [More…]

• It is the same for people right throughout the community. [More…]

• The Committee said that there had been no questioning in depth of whether it might not be beneficial to the community and/or to the Commonwealth to consider significant decentralisation of some city-based operations. [More…]

• Certain groups in the community say that we need something to encourage tourism and that the construction of a tower, such as one that has been built somewhere else in the world - we are trying to copy or ape such a structure - will help to do this. [More…]

• It is true that my aesthetic senses would not be as brightly polished as those of some of the more academic members of the community. [More…]

• I think the significant thing to say about these 2 matters - that is, the power station and the school - is that the Public Works Committee has satisfied itself that the community is to be sustained and will grow in the future. [More…]

• An oval is to be provided which will be used by the community as well as by the school. [More…]

• So there is a need for supportive action by the community. [More…]

• In fact they have been the only section of the community to suffer a decline in their income and living standards in recent years. [More…]

• We believe that that is the only way to protect the grower, the community generally and the whole industry. [More…]

• The market for these products is shrinking, particularly on the European market following Britain’s joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Perhaps the most important one is the pending entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• These difficulties are certain to be accentuated when the United Kingdom is fully integrated into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Some of the problems that the fresh pear export industry will face with the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community are becoming more and more apparent. [More…]

• Perhaps these factors were the precipitation of the severe difficulties 12 months earlier than was expected because of the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The meeting was presided over by Mr Frank McDonald, a justice of the peace and a person widely known for his excellent work for the age and invalid pensioners and also the community. [More…]

• Mr Grassby, Labor’s alternative Minister for Primary Industry, has a grand socialist plan for Australia’s rural community. [More…]

• It would be remiss of me if I did not express on behalf of the community appreciation of the efforts of the expert group and the many others who contributed in one way or another to the national review. [More…]

• I am dealing now only with the safety aspect and not in any way with the cost to the community as a whole in relation to the loading of trucks and the like. [More…]

• It makes very constructive criticisms that can help this Government and the State governments to overcome what is one of the most appalling problems within the community. [More…]

• Thirdly, a unified effort is required to build up the South East Asian and Japanese markets, especially as Britain is entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The prospective increase in supplies of apples coming forward from other southern hemisphere suppliers indicates that Australian apples are likely to experience strong competition on the United Kingdom market The’ entry of the United Kingdom into the enlarged community, and the eventual relaxation of measures restraining imports of apples into the United Kingdom are likely to result in greater supplies coming forward from France and Argentina. [More…]

• The various technical and technological problems - freight problems and so on - to which honourable members so far have drawn attention in this debate will become even more pertinent when Britain becomes a full member of the enlarged European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is time that the farming community of Australia realised that the Labor Party Executive decided that there should be no more payouts to primary industries for other than specific purposes and for other than a very short period of time. [More…]

• It is not fair for the rural community in Australia to have to listen to 3 or 4 things at the same time. [More…]

• This is insincere and is not a very good method of building faith and trust in the farming community. [More…]

• I am hopeful that as a result of these discussions which are largely between the industry, the States and my own officers, we will be able to devise ways in which we can offset the escalated costs which growers have to face and make the whole of their industry a little more profitable, bearing in mind the very real impact that the British entry into the European Economic Community next year will make on so many growers in the fresh fruit sector of this industry. [More…]

• At the same time, the Minister for Health and myself are commencing discussions with the States for the purpose of working out with them a co-operative scheme for improving throughout the community the services which are available to the sick and the elderly who still live in their own homes. [More…]

• Meals on Wheels organisations were established originally without Commonwealth aid by voluntary organisations whose members saw the potential good which they could do in the community, and the system is a most excellent example of personal initiative, purposefully applied for a charitable object. [More…]

• I think that one of the most vicious aspects in the community is its reliance for the raising of revenue upon the predatory instincts of its members and that it is regarded as a virtue that various States have a general level of the amount of revenue they raise by indirect taxes, particularly taxes on gambling. [More…]

• The Government is trying to take credit unto itself on the basis that, by what it calls fine tuning to the extent of providing $20m or $10m or, in the case of Tasmania, $7,600,000, it somehow is doing justice to the community. [More…]

• He refers only to free hospitals and says nothing about the fact that people can attend the doctor of their own choice in their own community and have a better professional relationship for a fee of 50c a visit, providing the doctor charges the common fee. [More…]

• They have decided to blackmail the community - to blackmail Queensland. [More…]

• I believe that we have had a degree of responsibility on the part of unions, but a left wing group is trying to blackmail the community. [More…]

• Australians, as a whole, will see the response of these corporations as a real test of how much they are concerned about the welfare and stability of Australia’s economy, and of the Australian community.’ [More…]

• The first thing I should say is that the Post Office is a very big spender of money within the Australian community. [More…]

• I am in favour of government spending of all moneys that rationally can be spent within the community, but I must say also that I am not in favour of increased taxation, and sometimes it is a little difficult to reconcile substantial increases in expenditure with maintenance of the level of income tax. [More…]

• On average today a telephone costs approximately $1,000 to install, and if we move into the area of carrying the cost of undergrounding telephone wires, it will require probably an additional $5m to $7m per annum, having regard to the number of homes that are built in the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course, this means that in the more densely populated areas of the Australian community a very substantial amount of additional money would be required to acquire extra land and, of course, for the construction of car parking areas. [More…]

• The Post Office merely accepts the principle that it should conserve and keep at the lowest possible cost telephones which are supplied to the community. [More…]

• I believe that the burden is high enough and that it should not be increased merely to satisfy a particular area or the particular attitudes of individuals within the community. [More…]

• The Postmaster-General’s Department is abetting the process whereby every person moving into a nev/ suburb or an area of urban or regional development must make a capital contribution to the provision of services which 20 years ago were provided by the community through its elected bodies. [More…]

• The extra charges could well be borne by the whole community because the effects spread further than just among people who want a telephone. [More…]

• It has been nothing but a political refuge because it has no community of interest,, communication and certainly no unity of representation, but it shortly will have that. [More…]

• These figures demonstrate the strong measure of community support which the colleges are receiving, especially among school leavers seeking a tertiary education orientated to the needs of industry and commerce. [More…]

• But there are other areas of industrial and agricultural enterprise which I feel could be investigated by the Department of National Development for the benefit of a community and a State, and which would also be in the national interest. [More…]

• Combining these thoughts of long term planning, the use of land, planned development, decentralisation, benefits for the community and the State, and national interest, one such industry to which I feel more attention should be paid is forestry. [More…]

• The matters I have mentioned earlier such as community benefit, the State and national benefit, decentralisation, planned development, sensible use of land and long term planning are all embodied in these 2 projects. [More…]

• The irrigation community would welcome and support the diversion of water for that purpose. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) referred in detail in his initial comments to an arrangement through a subsidiary of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd whereby Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd has taken over the Avonmouth Smelter and is now marketing metal through that company into European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• Whilst this situation exists, the PostmasterGeneral’s Department is obviously compelled to increase charges, but by increasing charges it is adding to the burden on industry and the community gener ally. [More…]

• The Government’s policy of increasing Post Office charges has inflicted a burden on the business community out of all proportion to what is required to meet the Department’s costs. [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…]

• These are all matters to which I should like to refer in some detail to show that, to begin with, while the Postmaster-General’s Department may really be making progress, it is not making sufficient progress to keep up with the growth and development of the Australian community. [More…]

• I have always looked to the ABC as the means of providing the community of Australia with objective news broadcasts and I believe that it has succeeded very considerably. [More…]

• Unfortunately, not everybody in the community is honest. [More…]

• In the community interest public transport must compete with the private motor vehicle, which form of transport itself is constantly subjected to updating by manufacturers in order to effect sales and by governments in order to improve safety and efficiency standards. [More…]

• This attitude is ingrained in our whole community and it will remain with us until such time as governments recognise the need for fast, regular comfortable, and economic forms of public transport. [More…]

• Someone in the community has to pay for the redevelopment of old areas in order to accommodate the car. [More…]

• The real cost to the community has never been ascertained. [More…]

• We have a community of 13 million people that says: ‘We want 12,000 people for the Services.’ [More…]

• So, in a community in which there are something like 2 million men of military age, we pick out those 12,000 and we send them off to become members of the Services. [More…]

• We have a remarkable civilian potential and a basically homogeneous community and we have neighbours who actually have no aggressive capacity whatsoever. [More…]

• This sort of education of the community I believe to be essential and every opportunity is now being taken by my Department to develop this theme. [More…]

• This is the sort of education of the community we desire to achieve. [More…]

• That SI 00m could have been used to provide for the community many of the things that the community, and experts, believe that the community needs. [More…]

• It could provide things of great value to the community. [More…]

• Part of this amount is to be given to an Army that is supplemented by young men taken from the community against their will, placed into military establishments for 10 weeks, where they are bastardised and brutalised by the people in these places. [More…]

• Young men are taken from the community, from their occupations where they are performing worthwhile tasks, and for a 10- week period some of them are driven to distraction. [More…]

• The community ought to be told - this ought to be well known to the people of Australia - how we are training these men to defend this country, which is what the Government says they are being trained for. [More…]

• He was taken from the community and from his job because he happened to be born on a particular day of the year. [More…]

• But the community thinks that it can sleep safely in bed because this young man has been taken from a community and trained, as the community believes, to be a soldier. [More…]

• The amendment strikes at the heart of what is contained in the Bill, which is precisely the sort of thing which all interested parties in the community have been looking for from this Government - that is, an authority which can advise governments in Australia on policy. [More…]

• A characteristic of a small community, particularly in those days, was that it tended to govern itself. [More…]

• It was not greatly inhibited by remote, distant central government; it went about its own life and work and retained a sense of community. [More…]

• In that type of community there is more community between home and work and between community organisation and government. [More…]

• In that type of community which existed and which still exists in some parts of Australia, the work of the head of the house was generally seen to be crucial to the survival of the family. [More…]

• What the father did mattered to the family and the family and the community hung together. [More…]

• People in that type of community knew that they had a place in life and that they belonged. [More…]

• arc nol sure that their work will matter to them and they are not sure, which is more important in the terms of the Bill before the House, that they will matter to their community. [More…]

• The pace of change and mobility in mass cities and mass organisations in the mass cities have exacerbated the problems of the home, work, the community and government in contemporary society, lt is not without point that our democratic forms of organisation grew in quite different soil to that which exists today. [More…]

• There is a tendency in our sort of communities for government to grow away from the people and the modern city so often lacks a sense of community. [More…]

• Prime Minister and Premiers, on the best sort of advice which they can get in the whole community. [More…]

• The proposition is not that the Commonwealth should go helter skelter into the land business full scale but it relies on the notion that it would be important for Governments to be prepared to purchase land suddenly in an area which has been utterly secretly chosen for development without the fanfare and fuss which could lead to a vast escalation of costs for government and hence for the community. [More…]

• The Government believes that unless we embark on a vigorous, imaginative and responsible programme of urban and regional development, in partnership with the States, our efforts to secure a better quality of life for the Australian community through a wide variety of existing programmes will be compromised. [More…]

• He wants to have all the planning carried out first and to have some grandiose scheme for the whole of Australia to try to change completely the whole pattern of administration in State and local government as well as in the Commonwealth Government - to completely change the pattern of every aspect of commerce, industry and community development as we know it and replace with a rigid, planned scheme. [More…]

• If local and semi-government authorities cannot provide basic facilities, what hope have they of providing such things as recreational facilities, libraries, youth centres, swimming pools, cultural amenities and a host of other needs that go to make up a balanced community, that go to make up what is generally defined as quality of life? [More…]

• How can anybody ever develop a region with a certain community of interest - various definitions are accorded to it - which usually focuses on one particular centre and therefore becomes a nodal region? [More…]

• These are the areas in which active development committees, supported by local councils and conscientous members of the community, have been working very hard to develop their areas in order to increase their prosperity and the quality of life that is being offered to the citizens. [More…]

• These not only are labour intensive, and therefore a boost to ‘the economy, but most importantly to many groups in the community - such as dentists and doctors, who are in short supply in country areas - to have an institution like this alongside ‘the Bendigo Institute of Technology, the Bendigo Teachers College or the School of Nursing would also act as a positive incentive for people to come to Bendigo and to stay there. [More…]

• This situation has existed for thousands of people in our community not for a few weeks but for many months. [More…]

• It said that the only way of doing this was by lowering the level of economic activity in our community. [More…]

• This is the sort of misery that has been brought on the community as a result. [More…]

• The fact is that if a child of one of these unfortunate families in these circumstances turns 16, and if the child has ability and his family and the community generally want that child to stay at school and perhaps go forward to university, the allowance payable for that child ceases immedi ately. [More…]

• 1 wish I had time to dwell further on this sad situation of unemployment in our community but I want to pay tribute to the Brotherhood of St Laurence for the documents that they have drawn to our attention and for the very heartrending way they have written on this subject. [More…]

• I ask him to take into consideration the published material of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and so many other organisations in our community which know so well the misery that results from these miserly payments to the unemployed. [More…]

• They are the organisations to which individual members of Parliament representing a city community, such as myself, turn in relation to so many of these unemployed and other people who are beset by poverty in our community. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) deserves a great deal of acclaim for what he has done to benefit the pensioner section of the Australian community. [More…]

• As I said at the beginning of my speech, the repatriation content of the Budget has received widespread acclaim from many sections of the community and many ex-service organisations. [More…]

• Veterans without service connected disabilities and under 65 years of age who had honourable service during a war period or since 31st January 1955 are eligible for necessary admission provided a bed is available and they indicate their inability to defray the expenses of hospital care in a community hospital. [More…]

• However, I think that if it is known in a community that the boards and commissions are rejecting claims of this sort it may cause some reaction and stink so that these things can be rectified. [More…]

• One cannot be too sure that the increase in stocks in the European Economic Community will not very shortly have a further dampening effect on general world prices for dairy products. [More…]

• of section 19a is amended to include the new Woden Valley Hospital in the Australian Capital Territory, part of which is expected to open early in 1973, as a public hospital for the purposes of medical benefits, and to change the name of the Canberra Community Hospital by removing the word ‘Community’ to accord with ACT legislation. [More…]

• Of course, this is a reflection of the very serious underdevelopment of domiciliary para-medical services in the community. [More…]

• But I think we should do a ‘ number of things to enlarge the provision of health welfare services in a way which will absorb or eat up the enormous amount of accumulated reserves which these funds have, and quite unreasonably have, given the fact that the money has been contributed for the provi sion of health services in the community. [More…]

• The Government should explain more forcibly to members of the community that they as taxpayers are always pumping in this extra money. [More…]

• We would in fact build good quality nursing homes at various points in the community according to various types of plans. [More…]

• They would be not large complexes but small personal complexes related directly to the community for which they were established. [More…]

• Given some of the criticisms I mentioned earlier of a tendency among some medical practitioners to be not as careful and as assiduous as they ought to be in discharging certain responsibilities in the community, how can we be sure that the issue of certificates will be done on a reasonably strict basis. [More…]

• I mean reasonably’ in the sense that it is accepted as a responsibility of the community to see that this provision is not abused and to see that certificates are not handed out to unjustifiable cases merely because the patient or the patient’s family happens to be a good friend of the doctor. [More…]

• The evidence we received convinced every one of us that there was a clear case of overprescribing by doctors in the community today. [More…]

• The cost of it must be met by the community. [More…]

• To the extent these things occur unnecessarily, there is irresponsibility occurring in the community, and accordingly there must be built in a more effective system of supervising the issue of certificates to attract domiciliary nursing care which for a full year will cost SI 5m. [More…]

• As honourable members are aware, the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) has outlined proposals for increasing the amount of hostel accommodation in the community. [More…]

• In the Navy there has been a move back to naval personnel of the reserve handling craft on their own account and I hope that in our defence planning we are coming to realise that the tremendous resources of the community that are available in both manpower and industrial reserves should be integrated with the Services. [More…]

• Because a citizen operates in these forces on a part time basis and has a special relationship to the community, and because he is in such a totally different position to the regular servicemen, he needs to be treated differently. [More…]

• Employers want peace, but peace at a cost to the community. [More…]

• The community pays for this sort of irresponsibility. [More…]

• The Government takes the view that we aim to maintain the maximum amount of local interest, community interest and interest of organisations which in many cases have dedicated themselves to this form of child care. [More…]

• Through its initiative the Government will solve a serious community problem which relates to the needs of today’s community and which is reflected in the rising proportion of married women in the work force. [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…]

• Thirdly, for the community as a whole there will be an extension and upgrading of an invaluable community service supportive of the family and the community generally. [More…]

• It is an exciting initiative, providing yet another example of the Government’s determination to meet emerging community needs in a rapidly changing society. [More…]

• I regret it very much and I am sure that the community will not benefit by this kind of procedure. [More…]

• What the Government is doing under this clause - we would like to have it remedied - is to abdicate proper responsibility for a very important educational purpose in the community. [More…]

• There is no indication of what part parents themselves might play in regard to pre-school education by going along to a community centre and helping those who are already professionally trained for this purpose. [More…]

• There are a good many in the community who have done a good deal of practical work in this field and some of them have qualifications of some academic character. [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…]

• Let us try to obtain a cross section of the community on them. [More…]

• They are open to misinterpretation and do not see people as the community sees them. [More…]

• What benefit comes to any community when you have a system whereby insurance companies jostle each other to force one claimant out of one category and into another so that he makes his claim against one insurance company and not another or against one insurance fund and not another insurance fund, or when one plaintiff tries to make his claim against a workers compensation fund instead of, say. [More…]

• Heaven knows what it costs the Australian community in lost effort. [More…]

• In the meantime, those charges would be to the cost of the community. [More…]

• Insofar as the Universities Commission is making these recommendations about non-residential or non-collegiate types of accommodation for students it is abandoning the concept of the university, of a community of scholars. [More…]

• This quite effectively subverts the whole concept of the community of scholars. [More…]

• But I am talking about total numbers and the opportunities available to a particular community must be quite closely related to the total provision which a nation makes. [More…]

• The Government is urgently examining how this might be best undertaken, taking into accout the needs of the rural community and the facilities provided by the existing financial institutions. [More…]

• The scientific theme of the Conference was ‘Drug Delivery’, a matter of uttermost concern to the Government and community generally. [More…]

• The Conference therefore provided benefit to the profession of pharmacy and, through it, to the community al large. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister noticed that another political party seems to be departing from that principle - thus giving some concern to some sections of the community and, indeed, to sections even within that party - and will he give an assurance that that practice will not be followed within his own Party or the coalition? [More…]

• By the same token I in no way denigrate good Australians who believe in a certain course of action, but there are communists in Australia who are endeavouring to hop on every bandwagon they can in order to divide the Australian community. [More…]

• I am against any organisation or any political group that is hellbent on dividing the Australian community. [More…]

• The one cloud on the horizon is that both Greece and Turkey are likely to become or are already associate members of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this land is to be used for community amenities, including aged persons homes? [More…]

• The Government’s attitude is not to give replies which are geared to satisfying a particular group in the community. [More…]

• It has concern for the whole community. [More…]

• The whole community in this case includes the insurance industry which has operated in this country since the first settlement. [More…]

• We are asking, not only as as a matter of parliamentary responsibility but also as a matter of responsibility to the servicemen in this community, who are appalled that this has not happened so far, that there be a full debate on this issue in the Parliament. [More…]

• But it should be remebered that, even with this enormous outlay of money, the whole of the community is not covered by health insurance or the other forms of health benefits I have mentioned - the pensioner medical service and so on - and that an addittional cost of $40m would be involved in achieving a universal cover. [More…]

• The Labour Party’s programme, based on universal contributions providing a universal cover for the community, would involve a total outlay of about the same order as is currently involved in the Government’s scheme. [More…]

• The distinction is that the Labour Party would cover everyone in the community - not 90 per cent but 100 per cent of the community. [More…]

• It would have to go up to near $700m to achieve that sort of cover for the community. [More…]

• That is the order of subsidy which we decide the public has to provide to medical practitioners in the community. [More…]

• His career has been totally and irrevocably wrecked by people in the McMahon Government who are more committed to serving the wealthy interests and the establishment interests in the community than to catering for patients rights and maintaining some responsible restraint on the way in which the public’s money is thrown about in the community. [More…]

• I say it because the very people and the very Party which is criticising us as a Government in those terms proposes itself to inflict on the Australian community a health scheme which will be enormously more costly, both to the taxpayer and the individual, than the scheme we have at present. [More…]

• The levy will be imposed on everybody in the community, not only on each family but but where there are 2 people working in a family it will be imposed on each member of the family who is working. [More…]

• I do not think the people of Australia would mind increased costs of health services if this really were to result in a healthier community. [More…]

• We are faced with great public health problems in the community now - the problems of the pollution of air, water and soil, problems of road accidents as well as other problems such as the rising incidence of mental disease which results in a huge increase in the prescription of drugs, and the rising incidence of heart disease. [More…]

• The result is that we are getting this escalating cost of medical services and the Government’s only answer has been to pay more and more without any improvement in the health status of the community. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party government which will be on the treasury bench after the next Federal election will look at properly organising health care not just in the Australian Capital Territory but throughout the whole community. [More…]

• The Government in recent years has been driven by the desire to see that sickness does not cripple people while at the same time ensuring that the community is not crippled with the sort of medical care that would itself make people sick. [More…]

• Nobody else in the community trusts it. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, before the suspension of the sitting I was criticising the honourable member for Chisholm, who had preceded me in this debate, and was pointing out that he was putting up a case not for the average person in the community but for people in a completely different socio-economic group. [More…]

• Nobody else in the community would believe the Government if the Government said: ‘Let us see what will happen in 24 months time’. [More…]

• This is a much higher percentage increase, and of course actual increase, than any other section of the community has received. [More…]

• Whilst the costs of a particular firm are important, the costs of the industry and the costs of the community are equally important. [More…]

• Where would we be if we had a rigid and compelling situation so far as interests in this country from outside were concerned, especially at a time when the European Economic Community will require that we must have new outlets and fresh markets? [More…]

• The Premier claims that we would not continue to operate the line despite significant operating losses and would not recognise the value of community services. [More…]

• The simple fact is that the 35- hour week is an issue in the Australian community simply because the unions have made it an issue by including it in their log of claims against certain industries. [More…]

• The second fact which is also undeniable is that the gallup polls which have been taken in the community on this question of substance indicate full well that the position which has been taken by the Government is supported by the overwhelming majority of Australians. [More…]

• But in terms of the concept, as alleged by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, of seeking division in the community, there is no doubt that the policy which is offered by the Australian Labor Party is, in fact, divisive because that policy seeks to set Australian against Australian and seeks to confer on some a benefit which at the. [More…]

• This policy is contrary to the egalitarian trend of industrial relations in this country, is discriminatory in the context in which I have mentioned before in this House and, finally, is totally naive because it ignores the whole concept of flow-on throughout the genera] community, about which concept, of course, the honourable gentleman who asked the question is vitally concerned because, as he indicated, such a flow-on would have disastrous effects on the rural community, the export industries and on those groups in the community least able to protect themselves, namely, the pensioners, the superannuitants, those on fixed incomes and, of course, the men and women on the land. [More…]

• The policy of this Government is one which is well supported in the Australian community. [More…]

• Indeed, if this recommendation flows on to other people in the community I do not think that will do any harm whatsoever. [More…]

• It is felt that a group of people having no means of transport who move into a remote ama where there is little chance of employment in order to set up their own community could hardly be accepted as having taken reasonable steps to obtain work. [More…]

• I am not trying to pass any judgment on their decision to retire from the normal life of the community and to try to set up on their own outside that normal life. [More…]

• But having made that decision, they are not entitled to ask the remainder of the community to assist them with the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• The Metric Conversion Board appointed under this Act was concerned initially with planning conversion of the various sectors of the community and creating a general awareness of conversion. [More…]

• Currently, the Committee is engaged in a very important inquiry into the proportion of municipal and State-type costs which should be met by the Australian Capital Territory community. [More…]

• I suppose that the listening public who hear us speak in debates in this place on occasions may wonder how we can all work so harmoniously together on a committee such as the Public Accounts Committee for the good of the community. [More…]

• But at the same time, people in the Greek community are concerned that there was an incident on that aircraft, and they would know more about that than the honourable member or I would know about it. [More…]

• All that people outside the Greek community can do is to take note of what happened and ask themselves whether the rumours are true or false. [More…]

• ‘Mr Brown’ will be loose once again in the community in a minimum time of 9 years and his accomplice in 4 years, and they will be free to do what they did on the previous occasion. [More…]

• We should not allow people of ‘Mr Brown’s’ calibre to get their ideas from these sources and commit crimes and offences against the community. [More…]

• I have little quibble with this proposal except that it seems to me that there should be more co-operation on the part of the Commonwealth Government - this was revealed in the evidence given to the Committee - about noise abatement and examination into the effect that extensions to this airport will have on the Townsville community. [More…]

• It is a matter of great social importance within the community and one towards which the community would not accept a willy nilly approach, an approach to get rid of the operation at any cost to acquire more land for another purpose. [More…]

• I recall the scream that went up, when the Government was buying in wool, about all the money that this would cost the community. [More…]

• This happened at the Community Hall after a meeting held in December 1971. [More…]

• His parents, his brothers and his sisters all bold very responsible positions in the community. [More…]

• For this purpose it is contemplated that an Aboriginal operating company will be formed, but details are to be worked out in consultation with the Aboriginal community and the South Australian authorities. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community will be assisted in the undertaking by an Adelaide-based firm of pastoral consultants, which has prepared a development plan. [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…]

• If it is known that a girl objects to meeting a marriage obligation she is assisted to live away from home for a time to avoid pressures from her community. [More…]

• Aboriginal community at Bathurst Island. [More…]

• There is a community acceptance, however, that the marriage does not take Place normally until the girl has reached 16 years of age at least. [More…]

• The principal terms of reference were directed to the general medical and hospital services available to the community generally. [More…]

• First, the manifest desire of large sections of the Australian- community, particularly the youthful majority, for a more tolerant, more open, more humane, more equal, yet more diverse society. [More…]

• My advisers attach great importance to education measures as part of their endeavour to reduce further and future growth of inequality in the Australian community. [More…]

• My Government believes that measures to improve the welfare of deprived sections of the Australian community, or to promote equality within the whole community, however far-reaching and valuable in themselves, will ultimately fail unless basic and urgent attention is directed to the places where the people live and must live. [More…]

• The Minister for the Capital Territory will also give high priority to a review of the land tenure system, housing policies, consumer protection and community facilities and the public transport system in the national capital. [More…]

• In developing the Australian economy my advisers will be seeking close participation by all sections of the community. [More…]

• It is, however, deeply conscious that economic growth and material well-being no longer reflect the whole aspirations and expectations of the Australian community, and that prosperity alone is no longer exactly equated with true progress. [More…]

• The Government recognises that the use of leisure in a modern society presents problems and opportunities involving profound questions of the relations between man and his community and man and his environment. [More…]

• These include plans for community centres based upon the schools, and youth leadership courses. [More…]

• He made an active and full contribution to the Parliament in the 12 years he was a member and was also active in outside community activities. [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…]

• As honourable members have heard, his concern in general for the problems of the rural community resulted in his election to the State Parliament as the member for Wammerawa in 1922 and later as the member for Castlereagh. [More…]

• He is recognised for this particularly among primary producers in the rural community. [More…]

• In the later years of his life, Bill Riordan was very active in many community organisations in Cleveland. [More…]

• As a result of the work of Tom Burke and his associates many of them did become so, and that was a valuable community service indeed. [More…]

• He was one of several enlightened Canadians who have worked to transform their country’s reputation from that of an imperial dominion subject to British colonial tutelage and American economic power into an independent and distinctive force in the community of nations. [More…]

• It preferred to deny this well recognised democratic right to an important section of the Australian community - the youth of this country - although the franchise for those 18 years and above is well recognised throughout the world. [More…]

• It recognises in the only tangible way that those who accept responsibilities to the community should enjoy an appropriate status. [More…]

• This Bill is one of the most far-reaching reforms within the Australian political community for generations. [More…]

• Unfortunately some people in the community worry that a modest rate of unemployment benefits, as we propose, will destroy the industry and moral fibre of the nation. [More…]

• I emphasise that these measures represent a first step towards ensuring that social security beneficiaries receive a rightful share of the community’s increasing prosperity. [More…]

• However, as I have stressed on so many occasions, the relevant comparison to make is to relate pension increases to increases in average weekly earnings; average weekly earnings themselves give a fairly good indication of the average standard of prosperity in the community. [More…]

• This dual eligibility has placed these people in a more favoured position than other members of the community, and the substantial improvements being effected, and to be effected, make it advisable that steps be taken to gradually correct this situation. [More…]

• The action of the Government in making the repeal of these discriminatory provisions one of its first legislative acts is a token of our determination to banish racial discrimination within our community and is also a step towards building on equal terms the family of the nation in citizenship. [More…]

• They will force on to the community a new morality because in many ways they make the old morality redundant. [More…]

• These measures represent the basic steps in the development of a national welfare policy, freed of discrimination by sex, age or economic condition - a welfare programme which is a real response to our national conscience and which should be a basic condition in any civilised community that has a respect for its own citizens. [More…]

• A national welfare policy should provide a dignified way of life for the minority groups in our community which cannot contribute to the economic processes. [More…]

• Proper education and retraining programmes provide a flexibility of labour and ideas which are basic to a creative productivity in our community. [More…]

• Too often education becomes lopsided because the community attaches status to certain qualifications such as university degrees, and underrates others such as trade qualifications. [More…]

• It must allow people to move in and out throughout their lifetime and contribute to the community by re-education. [More…]

• The assumption that management and labour must always be at war underlies the community concept of industrial relations. [More…]

• Interdependence between the social groups within our community and economic progress go hand in hand. [More…]

• The first step in this movement lies in closer consultation between all community groups involved in the economic processes rather than the divisive basis which has formed the philosophy of our approach to various economic sectors in our community. [More…]

• The potential productivity that can be enjoyed will be unleashed by using the total skills and experience of our community. [More…]

• Without any rules of the game competition will defeat itself or the community may have to pay the price of inefficiency. [More…]

• As a starting point it should be recognised that when Government policy is directed at increasing the standard of living of the whole community the farm business suffers in many respects. [More…]

• It is therefore essential that we have credit arrangements for the farming community which are geared to the unique farm business requirements. [More…]

• To have a balanced community and a virile country town business it is essential that we base our farms on the family farm unit. [More…]

• Many of the issues which are of concern to our community are clouded by a failure to define clearly the political and other responsibilities involved. [More…]

• In most of the debates about the environment the missing element is a definition of the community objective and priorities for a particular area. [More…]

• Thirdly, we need the management that will allow us to control these resources in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• In a wider sense the political responsibility of defining the objectives and priorities has been clouded in the political sphere by too many superficial questions and a tendency to divert attention from the substance of community priorities to the details of management. [More…]

• Instead of focusing political debate on the purpose for which we should use our resources for the community welfare we find people concentrating on the use of resources to satisfy short-term political pressures or concentrating on the details of management, for instance by asking where the money is coming from instead of asking whether the priorities are right. [More…]

• I commend the Governor-General’s Speech to this House as a speech concerned with the real political issues of our country and outlining the basis on which we can build a new creative productivity from which the whole community will benefit. [More…]

• Of course, much of this comes back to a view that the Government has a responsibility to legislate and govern for some sections of the Australian community but not for the total Australian community. [More…]

• Before the election we found in rural newspapers and journals that the rural community had been promised $500m at 3 per cent with a repayment period of up to 40 years. [More…]

• The honourable member for Canning could speak about the problems of ohe section of the community only - admittedly a very important section - our farming community. [More…]

• When will the; Country Party broaden its ideas and become a nationally minded party instead of looking ‘at one small section of the community only. [More…]

• Now that it is in Opposition its members must surely reflect that their inactivity was just not acceptable to the Australian voting community which soundly rejected them. [More…]

• Now they are saying that the rest of the community should pay. [More…]

• They are afraid that such a union would represent power and would challenge the power that they and their political bosses pretend to wield over the whole community, such power being maintained by the forces of the State. [More…]

• That position will be changed, and I should think it will be changed very quickly, so that the amalgamation of unions will be made easier and the efficiency of the working section of the community will be increased. [More…]

• It is material that could be freely available -at any stage to the Press and the bulk of the public, and the community would be no better off and no worse off as a result of this. [More…]

• However, there is community welfare as well and that means the welfare of the man in the street. [More…]

• The whole concept of them is to give to 3 highpowered personnel - commissioners - powers to assess the needs of the Australian community, to look at the structure of the Post Office and to evaluate what should be done from the point of view of the administration and tariff structures. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, with the indulgence of the House I should like to speak on the subject of local government which has been the cause of growing concern among many segments of the community particularly over the last decade. [More…]

• It is not that reasonably happy state that elsewhere was the progenitor of central government, that local government which grew, on the one hand, from parish responsibilities for the poor and the sick and, on the other hand, from what citizens of market towns saw as necessary for the good government of the community of interests. [More…]

• Although such a system did not eventuate until some years later, it might be noted that there was no mention of parks, libraries, community centres, town planning, health services or baths, let alone such modern day concepts as meals on wheels, immunisation campaigns, etc. [More…]

• Local government responsibilities since 1906 have been extended into wider fields of community service essential to the needs of all people. [More…]

• In conclusion, might I say that today there is a very large gap between the cost of building the standard of community the people want and the adequacy of rating as a system to meet this cost. [More…]

• The only way that any government, particularly this Government which I support : so enthusiastically, will be able to carry out its great social policies, its attack on poverty and improvements to the standard of living for people not only in the cities but right across the countryside, is to guide the allocation of resources in our community in a more enlightened way, seeking the ultimate achievement by the optimum allocation of resources to a far greater extent than any conservative predecessor of our Government has achieved hitherto. [More…]

• It is developed through community means. [More…]

• It is developed through the resources of the whole community. [More…]

• Therefore it is morally sound that those advances be used for the benefit of the whole community. [More…]

• I look to the new Government, particularly the leadership of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), to ensure that we can develop leadership in this country on both a national and community level. [More…]

• He drew particular attention to the most important problem facing the Australian industrial community and ‘the principal parties which are operating within it - the employees and the trade unions. [More…]

• That problem is the development of what I would call in terms of the theme which the honourable gentleman put before us ‘a community of interest in the Austraiian work place’. [More…]

• This is a community of interest in which all employees will experience a sense of job satisfaction which goes far beyond the receipt of a pay packet and the undertaking of a routine task. [More…]

• I have no doubt that all honourable gentlemen in this House would join with the honourable member for Phillip in saying that if the purpose of work means anything in a modern industrial community it certainly must mean far more than the receipt of a pay packet at the end of a given period. [More…]

• Cameron) will highlight this pressing need iri his approach to Australia’s industrial relations because until such time as a community of interest can be established in the Australian work place, no attempt by him or other members of his Government will be successful in seeking solutions to those problems which have bedevilled Australia’s industrial relations in recent years. [More…]

• I believe that this 28th Parliament will be one of the most critical in the history of Australia because we have a government which has not experienced office for some 23 years and which proposes many sweeping changes in the Australian community, some of which would seek to alter the very fundamental basis of our society. [More…]

• Of course, this is a philosophy seen in contemporary terms and not something which is a plea for laissez faire in the old sense such that governments may become disinterested in their concern for persons who are disadvantaged in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is the function of government to provide opportunities for disadvantaged groups in the Australian community, but we reject that which is the Government’s underlying philosophy. [More…]

• Although the Government’s first 100 days honeymoon has not yet concluded, it is a matter of record that already that experience is beginning to sour in the Australian community because the Government, by its many actions in so many critical areas in the Australian community, has indicated that it is prepared to subordinate the national interest to the dictates of Party policy. [More…]

• In the area of trade unions and the business community, as I said in the terms of my opening theme in response to the honourable member for Phillip, we join with the Government in seeking in the industrial area a community of interest in which no-one can say there are not faults on one side or on the other side. [More…]

• But are we in this Parliament to be confronted day after day with all of the things which the Government is seeking to do in the interests of one group in the Australian community and in which area we have many supporters. [More…]

• The honourable member expressed concern about overdependence by the people in the community, and in fact in all western nations, on governments. [More…]

• the manifest desire of large sections of the Australian community, particularly the youthful majority, for a more tolerant, more open, more humane, more equal, yet more diverse society. [More…]

• We have a growing movement by women, young and old, in the community to assert their rights and their position in this society. [More…]

• They are seeking equality of rights and recognition of their place in society as people, not just as chattels of men or as the housekeepers of the community. [More…]

• Depending on the atmosphere in the community at the time, the aggressor could be any one of half a dozen nations to the north of this country. [More…]

• It is time that we sought to lower the anxieties of the world community by agreeing to things such as the Treaty to which I have just referred, seeking to show that we are prepared to trust the present nuclear nations and that we do not aspire to compete with them. [More…]

• The Government intends to press for the establishment of Aboriginal land rights, far better health services and better nutritional standards for Aborigines so thu no longer will they be the poverty-stricken section of this Australian community with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. [More…]

• Once these statements are prepared, they will be made public so that the community may know about them and be in a position to criticise them. [More…]

• We also intend to provide opportunities for public hearings so that the community can express its views before such statements are finished and before they are presented to this Parliament or to the Cabinet. [More…]

• In this way we hope to evolve a system whereby the community can have a far more direct say in the way it is developed. [More…]

• We seek to understand : and recognise that the gross national product is not necessarily an accurate measure of how much the welfare of the community is improving. [More…]

• The programme set out in the Governor-General’s Speech provides for welfare benefits which will bring some dignity to many longforgotten sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I rose tonight to remind honourable members, if I might presume to do so, and particularly honourable members who have just been elected into the Parliament on the other side of the House, of their responsibilities as I see them to the Australian community. [More…]

• But a community of Aborigines near Redlynch engendered a lot of newspaper publicity and a public telephone was installed in their area immediately. [More…]

• A most critical stage has been reached in the water supply for the community and to keep in operation what is now the largest rnining complex of its kind in the world. [More…]

• An early reference in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech related to the manifest desire of large sections of the Australian community, particularly, it was said, the youthful majority, for a more tolerant, more open, more humane, more equal and yet more diverse society. [More…]

• After hearing for so many years how impossible it was to act in so many areas it was almost laughable that the only criticism the conservatives in the community could come up with was that we were going too fast. [More…]

• What was evident to the rest of the community was how easily these reforms could be carried out by a Government with the wit and the will to apply itself to the task. [More…]

• We live in a community which is rich enough to provide for the needs of its citizens. [More…]

• These committees and individual members will need to be provided with the necessary secretarial and research facilities if this Parliament is to make sure that legislation and proposed legislation is properly considered and if members are to be able to carry out their tasks with efficiency while retaining a very necessary contact with their own electorates and the community. [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…]

• I believe that we need to start thinking of education not only as a service for the young but as a service to the whole community, to be used as and when necessary - like health services. [More…]

• The proposed use of schools as community centres is long overdue. [More…]

• The action promised to encourage economic growth will be welcomed by the whole community. [More…]

• This rise in prices is causing hardship to those members of the community who are not in a position to fix their own wage or price structure. [More…]

• Not only do municipal rates fall most heavily on particular groups in our community, namely those on fixed incomes and farmers, but also little regard is given to the the ability to pay. [More…]

• This expenditure produces nothing of real worth to the community. [More…]

• To be truly educated is to be aware of the world we live in - the city, the street and the block, environment, housing and community. [More…]

• Failure to understand the worth of community, whether at local, State or Federal level, is to fail to appreciate the validity of government. [More…]

• But I venture to refer to the rigid apparatus of agricultural protectionism associated with the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Economic Community as an outstanding instance, to the widespread judgment - it is extremely difficult to document - that the controls of this sort on imports into Japan are particularly severe, and to the quotas and especially the voluntary restraints on imports of traditional manufactures of the United States. [More…]

• Far from being a weak element in the international community, the United States has presented the world with a choice. [More…]

• The people of La Trobe have realised that Australia faced a crisis - a threat to the quality of life that should be due to all Australians and would be restored only when more emphasis was given to community programs in schooling, housing and employment. [More…]

• Our present education concentrates too much on preparing a person for a job-slot or earning an income rather than fostering a community spirit of freedom and justice, tolerance and social responsibility. [More…]

• To achieve this objective there will need to be a change in thinking by all those concerned with health services, away from professional and commercial profit and towards a government sponsored and private co-operative community service. [More…]

• We are organised to receive the benefit of the best minds in this community from commerce, from industry, the universities and other tertiary and specialist areas to assist us with our policy development. [More…]

• We are reestablishing the bridges to all sectors of the community. [More…]

• It achieved this by the development of some new policies but largely it was by the manipulation of symbols and the exploitation of that community feeling that democracies are best served by giving the other party a go. [More…]

• We know the community will be ignored by the Labor Government. [More…]

• Then they set about the most prejudiced and biased pursuit of trade union interests at the expense of other groups and the community at large. [More…]

• Thirty substantial towns and cities are distributed throughout the region, each community being closely knit socially and culturally - a proud achievement resulting from the harsh pioneering days not so long past. [More…]

• Community pride and responsibility have made each centre a stable, important part of the total electorate and we wish to retain our individuality. [More…]

• Today they have to meet the needs of their ratepayers in the field of community activities and social welfare. [More…]

• I am convinced that local government can administer best and meet most efficiently the requirements of the community and, more importantly, the individual. [More…]

• Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community is calling upon our export industries to expand and broaden their market outlets. [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…]

• When the sitting was suspended I was pointing out that our social welfare system must be further expanded if we are to meet all areas of need in our community. [More…]

• What greater growth has there been in the community in recent years than th.it of an interest in the environment? [More…]

• Parks and reserves have an extremely high community value and wherever possible should be preserved and not desecrated. [More…]

• Conservationists and environmentalists are fast becoming one of the most militant sections of the community. [More…]

• Whether or not we are poor depends not on our actual income alone but on that income compared to the incomes of other people in the community. [More…]

• It follows that its elimination can only be achieved by a concerted attempt to ensure, firstly, that those at the bottom of the income ladder are not so far below the average income level that their incomes could not be regarded as reasonable by general community standards, and, secondly, to ensure that that continues to be the situation by providing that those lowest incomes increase in step with those of the community generally. [More…]

• The Social Services Bill is, of course, only the first step in raising the levels of benefits to equitable levels and it is intended that when those levels have been reached they will be kept in step with community standards by moving them in accordance with the general index of wages as represented by the average weekly earnings index. [More…]

• In this way, their value relative to other incomes in the community will be retained, and that is basic to the elimination of poverty. [More…]

• Associated with policies to put pressure on prices through the establishment of a prices justification trubunal and stronger controls on the existence of monopoly power, this Government will be placing the emphasis on inflation control where it should be - on those who set the prices of commodities and services in this community and not on those who have to pay them. [More…]

• The problem is to find sufficient money to carry out all those works which are required in a modern community, such as underground drainage, sewerage, water reticulation, street lights, surfacing of roads and the provision of parks. [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…]

• But after 15 years of Country Liberal-Party Government at State level in Queensland and after 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government at the Federal level, the free hospital scheme so proudly introduced by an Australian Labor Party government has come in for criticism, not necessarily from Labor Party people but from other people within the community. [More…]

• It is completely and utterly unjust to members of a section of the community who, as my friend the honourable member for Canning (Mr Hallett) said the other day in this chamber, were the main contributors in allowing the Australian people to have a credit balance at the end of the last quarter of last year. [More…]

• The butter industry on the Downs is in serious difficulty - due to harsh seasons, Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and the increases in the margarine quota, and a price received completely unrelated to the cost of production as it does not take into account the value of unpaid family labour - and, I emphasise, the Australian ethos has been built on the family unit. [More…]

• With every other section of the community receiving substantial benefits I hope that something can be done to save this Queensland industry for, say what they like, Butter is better’. [More…]

• In Forrest we have all the infrastructure of a rural community, dozens of small to medium size towns, with Albany and Bunbury being the ports and main regional centres of the electorate. [More…]

• The other 50 per cent are Aborigines clearly defined amongst themselves, whose attitudes are clearly expressed and who are clearly accepted by their own Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We all know of Aboriginal families who are satisfactorily housed, satisfactorily placed and satisfactorily employed in the community. [More…]

• But on the other hand, almost 90 per cent of the Aboriginal community is living in a state of absolute, acute social depression which a wealthy country such as ours should not tolerate any longer. [More…]

• There is no evidence to suggest that the Aboriginal people have not the same intellectual capacity as anybody else in the community. [More…]

• In some areas of Australia 90 per cent of the Aboriginal community is never in full employment. [More…]

• Throughout Australia we have not attempted to produce for the Aboriginal communities the same health services as we produce for the rest of the community. [More…]

• Australia is a community that places great stress upon health services. [More…]

• And so it will be with the community programs which we hope to develop. [More…]

• There is just no reason why they should not be of the same standard and character as any other Australian community. [More…]

• So, we are taking steps to establish - with the Aboriginals and by consultation with them - community centres or municipalities in which they will conduct their own affairs. [More…]

• Because of the itinerant nature of his occupation a regular serviceman is at a considerable disadvantage relative to other members of the community in acquiring a permanent home. [More…]

• This is the area which desperately needs locally-based, co-ordinated social services such as legal aid, emergency housing, community aid and professional counselling services. [More…]

• As a member of the new Australian Labor Government I am pleased to have the opportunity of cementing the first brick in the foundation of a social security structure which will put the welfare of the community on a rational, socially-just basis and, for the first time since the last Labor government, offer some hope to the working man and his family. [More…]

• We feel that the general community should be prepared to contribute to assist people who have lost their jobs through circumstances beyond their control. [More…]

• Unbalanced increases would cause damage to the pensioners more than to anybody else in the community. [More…]

• The opportunity and indeed the challenge will then be faced of tackling questions of greater complexity, such as how to integrate cash benefits with community welfare services and health services, housing policies and education programs, to mention just a few. [More…]

• They are far from free to the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is quite natural and quite proper that, as this country becomes more affluent, all sections of the community should have some share in this affluence. [More…]

• While recognising the responsibilities of government to make proper provision for those who are unable for some reason or other to make provision for themselves, we should try to ensure that such a situation existed for the minimum possible period and that policies should, where possible, be directed towards encouraging and enabling those disadvantaged sections of the community to become self-sufficient and an economic asset rather than an economic liability. [More…]

• But in making this provision, we on this side of the House are concerned that the methods used do not destroy the will and desire of those who, with encouragement and assistance, could lift themselves and their families from a position of being dependent on the rest of the community to a position where they are making a positive contribution to the economy. [More…]

• Those responsible for evolving them and putting them into practice usually have a very real concern to improve the living conditions of the disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• This side of the House will work in Opposition, as it did in Government, for the betterment of the old, the sick, the disabled and all other truly disadvantaged sections of the community, but never let us forget that the nation’s capacity to help them and make proper provision for them is determined by how well the rest of us work, because if we provide needed finance or a needed service to someone who lacks it someone else has to earn the money to pay for it. [More…]

• Of course the priorities will not be merely of a negative kind, that is, looking after those who have finished making or who are unable to make their contribution to the community. [More…]

• We also heard the cry: ‘You will pay’, showing a complete disregard for the real needs of the under privileged within our community. [More…]

• In addition charges are made for rubbish removal, for the attendance of a welfare sister and for a community centre. [More…]

• It is universally accepted that this is a community responsibility - a government responsibility. [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister for recognising and accepting this community challenge. [More…]

• Throughout Australia, particularly in Western Australia in relation to which honourable members have spoken of boom years for industry, enormous development and profits, no one can escape the shame of our community which allows people to be cold and hungry and, so often, too proud to ask for relief. [More…]

• We can only hope that the benefits proposed in the Bill will not be opposed, but that in this area of long neglect these genuine attempts to raise community standards among our social service beneficiaries will receive unanimous support. [More…]

• If they can learn this they will become a useful Opposition, able to contribute constructively to the Parliament with ideas to improve standards in the community. [More…]

• They pay no regard whatever to living standards in the community. [More…]

• They suffer more from inflation than any other group in the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that if a high percentage of a country’s GNP is devoted to welfare in relative terms it could be said that those people are better off than are other people in the community. [More…]

• I think they were rightly complaining because in relative terms they were badly off compared with other people in their community. [More…]

• I agree that it is important to have relative welfare within a community. [More…]

• We have to be careful also that in some areas our social welfare payments are just to all in the community and that the penalties we impose on certain sections of our society do not outweigh the justice we are doing to others or, put another way, that we do not give to one section on the one hand and take away from another section on the other. [More…]

• We have to be sure that in its application our policy is just to all sections of the community and that this backlash or reaction does not develop and retard the progress of true social justice in our community and, as a result, hurt more those people whom we are trying to help with this legislation. [More…]

• The difference between the March and December quarters, for example, is obviously fairly well known but, more importantly, it is itself subjective and is itself indicative only of a section of the community. [More…]

• It needs to be pointed out that at the present time pensions are paid out of general revenues, revenues collected through a tax system, which in some areas is admittedly in need of reform to ensure proper equity across the community. [More…]

• To simply conceive a national superannuation scheme which involves a massive transfer of the responsibility of payment for present pensions away from the general tax revenue to a fund derived from contributions will impose upon the Australian community a burden which will be greater upon the middle and lower income groups than on the higher income groups. [More…]

• This is, without any shadow of doubt, an impressive, record of care and concern for the needy and underprivileged in our community. [More…]

• On this side of the House we recognise the very real impact which inflation has upon all members of the Australian community, particularly those for whom the Government party has alleged a monopoly of concern - pensioners, people on fixed incomes, the rural sector and other disadvantaged groups. [More…]

• I believe that by the end of this year the full impact of these 2 crazy decisions, making the Australian dollar the most overrated currency in the world, will make its presence felt in this community. [More…]

• Contracts have been arranged for the supply of 38,000 tons of beef to Japan, 400,000 tons of beef to the United States of America and, provided the Government does not mess up negotiations, we will be supplying 600,000 tons within the next few years to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It will be charged with the task of evaluating health care delivery at all levels, not just in hospitals but also in the community outside hospitals, with setting guidelines for the States, denominational hospitals, private hospitals, and, of course, hospitals in federal territories. [More…]

• We believe that there must be far more emphasis on community health care, on preventive care and on keeping people out of hospitals. [More…]

• Representations have been made not only by the honourable member for Casey but also by the Victorian Council of Churches, the Victorian Federation of Mothers Clubs and many people in the community and I share their concern. [More…]

• That commission will be given many tasks, one of which will be to assess the problems of handicapped people in the community in conjunction, of course, with such documents as the Senate report and the Griffith report, and to come down with firm recommendations to help these people. [More…]

• This matter of public importance brought forward by the Opposition concerns a critical issue in the Australian community and one which properly calls for debate in this national Parliament. [More…]

• This of course is the technique of the socialist monolith, using the bludgeon of the State, to enforce its will upon the Australian community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes the community has a right to be protected from this blatant misuse of authority. [More…]

• On the question of cost the public interest is very much involved, to the extent that the community expects the Government to have regard to the cost of its capital works and to use taxpayers’ money in the most economical manner. [More…]

• In his public declamation of the Board the Minister is seeking to convert that body - with its long-established history of independence - to a rubber stamp for union demands and to force the Board to become the pacesetter for wages and conditions throughout the community; this, in spite of a very clear interpretation of intention in the Act that the Public Service should not be used for purposes of political patronage by whatever government happens to be in power. [More…]

• We now have a concerted operation on 2 fronts, both in the public and private sectors of the community, to advantage the trade unions. [More…]

• We condemn the Government for the opportunities which its new procedures provide for abuse and corruption; for the total disregard it has for the community interest and of the concept that programs should be undertaken at the least cost to the taxpayer; for its complicity in forcing the introduction of compulsory unionism, and for its absolute divergence from the principle in the Prime Minister’s policy speech that the Government would stand aside from interference in industry generally. [More…]

• But that Senator Cavanagh should so introduce proposals as a demonstration of his dislike without regard to their effect on industry and the community at large calls for the repudiation of these proposals by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• The effect of what Opposition supporters are seeking to do is to establish a degree of employer-employee anarchy and to create industrial disorder in this community. [More…]

• It further shows our intention of ensuring that the whole of the Australian community and not just a small portion of it can look to the future with confidence. [More…]

• So far as I am concerned, when a person puts on a military uniform he accepts an absolute and unqualified commitment to the community. [More…]

• Probably the keynote of all such debates as this is the constant search by the Parliament on behalf of the community to find an answer to the question of what we do for people who took on service in the military forces in time of war and have suffered thereby. [More…]

• 1 believe it is a continuing insult to the whole community to suggest that any group of people needs security clearances. [More…]

• The objective of those on this side of the House is to raise the standard of living of those who live on community benefits to the standard that they would otherwise have had. [More…]

• We have to adjust the rest of the community’s standard of living, taxation schedules and so on to meet it and that is why we are dealing with this legislation today. [More…]

• I believe we ought to take a sample of people, say an infantry battalion, and run the rule over them as far as their medical condition is concerned and find out whether there is any significant difference between their current health and that of the rest of the community. [More…]

• But of course when the ex-servicemen enlisted there was a substantial difference statistically because the people who went into, say, the infantry battalions had to be absolutely physically fit and much fitter than the rest of the community. [More…]

• Another matter which we ought to get round to dealing with is an examination of the medical system of the Repatriation Department with a view to ascertaining whether the hospitals under its control could be widened in their scope to accept more people from the community. [More…]

• But I for one will do my best to preserve the integrity of the Department as a body which provides a social service to a particular group of people in this community no matter what assaults are carried out upon it by those who happen to make some money out of books or those who are dissatisfied because a neighbour down the road seems to be receiving a benefit to which they themselves are not entitled. [More…]

• I should like to refer also to the extraordinary action of the Government in announcing the intention to use Government contracts as the vehicle for its political program, rather than weighing the cost and value to the community. [More…]

• A community cannot have more by working less or less efficiently. [More…]

• It is, however, deeply conscious that enconomic growth and material well-being no longer reflect the whole aspirations and expectations of the Australian community, and that prosperity alone is no longer exactly equated with true progress. [More…]

• Without a matching moral and ethical advancement, without a sense of community responsibility, without respect for others, without personal and government integrity, without a massive caring for others, without a sharing of opportunity, without a love of justice, without a love for the underdog, without a tolerance for opposing viewpoints and without a faith in something beyond ourselves, true progress is impossible. [More…]

• I think the difficulty and the problems which will confront Australia will be in the implementation of some of these policies and the continuation of policies that are to the benefit not only of certain sections but also of the whole community. [More…]

• The Commission said that where those improvements in conditions and production did not create redundancy or any difficulties so far as employment was concerned it felt that those benefits should be passed on to the whole of the community rather than merely to that section of industry even though it had contributed to the improvement. [More…]

• If benefits in these 2 sections of industry were passed on to the whole of the community there would be a reduction iti the price of petrol and, electricity. [More…]

• If this happened those members of the unions employed in these industries would get the benefit as would the whole of the community. [More…]

• The older people in the community, in many cases pioneers, are forgotten in their home units or flats. [More…]

• This Government will revolutionise the community’s approach to the problems of welfare, particularly the problems of the aged, the sick, the handicapped, the retarded and the migrant. [More…]

• We should no longer tolerate the view that, once the Government has decided the level of cash payments, the community has discharged its obligations to those who depend upon the community for their sole or main income and sustenance. [More…]

• We can double and treble these benefits but we cannot make up by cash payments for what we have taken away in mental and physical wellbeing and social cohesion through the breakdown of community life and community identity. [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…]

• Think of the pressure groups in the community which are advocating abortion on demand, whether the girl happens to be married or single. [More…]

• It can use this power in order to control the pricing policies of the corporations producing basic commodities in our community. [More…]

• We believe that this is of great benefit to the community. [More…]

• Like culture, tradition certainly has some place in our community. [More…]

• We have all the social problems that a community of this nature would have. [More…]

• There are ways of dealing with balance of payments problems, but this is not one which will apply equitably right across the community. [More…]

• The fact is that the Government intends to elevate the trade union movement to a unique position in the community. [More…]

• Even the most cynical and apathetic in our community have been impressed. [More…]

• The increases in sectors of unemployment benefits will be most significant for a great many people in our community. [More…]

• It should be made clear also that the Bills are not a response to what many people in favour of their introduction continue to claim is the wish of the overwhelming majority of the community. [More…]

• Some endeavour to convince the community of the soundness and Tightness of their point of view by overt demonstration; others are just as concerned but remain silent. [More…]

• By 18 most young people are ready for these responsibilities and rights, and would greatly profit by them, as would the teaching authorities, the business community, the administration of justice and the community as a whole. [More…]

• This would be to them a challenge to develop the awareness that is necessary to play an articulate political role in the community - responsibilities far too often shunned by people who have the vote solely because they are 21 or older. [More…]

• The simple fact is that this matter has been unfortunately interpreted in the past as politics at its lowest level; not politics as it should be and not politics in the sense that it is a democratic exercise of will or power to implement changes that are to the advantage of the great majority of members of our community, bringing into play a clash of ideas, a clash of ideologies and a clash of thoughts so that all people will benefit as they will by the passage of this legislation. [More…]

• The concept must be accepted that 18-year-olds are mature enough to take their place in the community as adults or we must provide on a conditional basis to meet their needs. [More…]

• I know that there are some in the community who are still to some extent reluctant to grant this reduction in the voting age; and they tend to do so on the basis that some young people participate in demonstrations to a greater extent than others, though on my own observations I have seen a broad cross-section of the community both by way of age and by vocational background in demonstrations before us. [More…]

• It is important that both parties should be ever more conscious of the demands of young people and of their’ need as parties to appeal to that section of the community. [More…]

• Of course, the point that has escaped the honourable member’s mind is that there has been a change of administration and we know that it will be an administration that will be fair and equitable to alt in our community. [More…]

• We always hear from the conservatives in our community that politics should not enter into high schools or local councils. [More…]

• But it is still an historical fact that, throughout the centuries, men and women who were eligible to serve their country in a military capacity were also regarded as being adult enough to do many other things in the community. [More…]

• It is easy for them to sit in this House and to scoff and laugh, but people in the community regard these matters seriously. [More…]

• The community at large no longer is prepared to be persuaded by the hollow, archaic arguments that are constantly presented by the Opposition and found to be fallacious. [More…]

• Not only that, but also it has taken from the Northern Territory responsibility for the administration of the police, the Survey Branch of the Lands Department, the Abor iginal affairs authority and the body responsible for community affairs. [More…]

• I firmly believe that the whole of the community has the right to determine the kind of future it wants. [More…]

• They have a role to play in the community and a right to be heard. [More…]

• By this means they have made an immensely valuable contribution to Australian community life and it is a source of strength that the idealism of youth is being expressed in such creative and positive directions. [More…]

• Our institutions and entrenched values ought constantly to be challenged, as well as defended, and out of the polemics of this challenge and defence should emerge a new consensus of what is valuable, real and important to our community interests. [More…]

• Providing young people with the vote adds to the reforming influences in our community. [More…]

• It makes the pace hotter for the community to adjust to, but those who are seeking to build a better society will welcome the momentum. [More…]

• Further, that as people become older their voting pattern solidifies; the voting patterns of young people reflect pretty well in party political terms the overall pattern of voting in the community. [More…]

• The Liberal Party, on the other hand, will seek new ways in changing circumstances to give fuller meaning to the aspirataions of individuals throughout the entire community, and to youth in particular. [More…]

• Young people will always provide political parties with a challenge, but it is a challenge that we as a Party will meet and in the process the quality of our community will be enriched. [More…]

• In other words, we should not be looking at this as a piecemeal matter and as something to pander to the demands which have been made strongly by a few in the community but we should say that 18 years of age is to be the age of adulthood and therefore 1 8-year-olds must accept all the rights of adulthood in Australia and all the responsibilities that go with being an Australian citizen. [More…]

• Community or diversity of interest, [More…]

• Community of interests within the division, including economic, social and regional interests; [More…]

• However, we recognise that Aboriginal Australians remain, in general, a disadvantaged section of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is also true that the complexities of our legal system often necessitate the provision of legal advice and guidance which can be beyond the financial resources of people within the community. [More…]

• I would like to think that the non-Aboriginal community of Australia was totally dedicated to sobriety. [More…]

• This state of affairs can only occur because some form of discrimination, not necessarily conscious in the administration of the law in the courts but in the way the police operate and in the way the community accepts its duties in these matters, affects Aboriginal people more than it affects nonAboriginal people. [More…]

• I commend this Bill to the House and hope that the same principle will be considered for other areas of risk in this business community of ours. [More…]

• The Australian timber sleeper industry is important to the livelihood and wellbeing of the whole community. [More…]

• The loss of this market will also cause long term hardship to the business community in the south west of the State and to a large number of persons residing in the Forrest electorate who rely on sawmill employment as a means of financially assisting their farming activities. [More…]

• Finally, I believe that the timber industry in all States provides basic stable employment leading to a confidence which allows the establishment of local economic business interests, community activities, development work programs and tourism, and provides an incentive to rural pursuits. [More…]

• He has raised a query about crime in the community generally and has referred to the concern of many people who have come here since the war - there have been 3 million of them - and who for some peculiar reason still have the title of ‘immigrant’ in many cases. [More…]

• I assure him that the amendments to the AIDC legislation will be brought in with full responsibility to air sections of the community and will make the Corporation into a most effective instrument to serve the interests of the Australian nation. [More…]

• The irony, of course, is that the inflation generated by the policies of the present Administration adds disproportionately to the problems of those already disadvantaged groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• The point that is simply being reflected here is that if there is any misconception on this side of the House as to the Minister’s intentions and the Government’s intentions, the Minister has a clear responsibility to the Parliament, the Australian people and the migrant community of this country to make his intentions clear through the medium of a ministerial statement. [More…]

• If the Minister can arrange with the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) for the courtesy of a full and extended debate, members on this side of the House would be very happy indeed to find out where the Minister stands on so many critical issues which, as I have said, concern the migrant community very much. [More…]

• Perhaps he is unconcerned that they happen to be the largest community of migrants in Australia. [More…]

• 1 shall confine my remarks to the abolition of sales tax on contraceptives and the role of women in the community. [More…]

• The Government’s all-male Ministry and all-male Parliamentary Party has shown a degree of realism in relation to the women in the community that I did not expect. [More…]

• I focused on this aspect of the Bill because women in our community are a most conspicuous example of a group in our society which is under-involved. [More…]

• Unwanted pregnancies are occurring in excessive numbers in all sections of the community, and they are occurring most frequently in those sections of the community which can afford them least. [More…]

• Whereas only 7 per cent of married women with 13 or more years of formal education have never practised family planning, 11 per cent of those with 10 to 12 years of education, 13 per cent of those with 7 to 9 years of education, 19 per cent of those with 1 to 6 years of education and 22 per cent of those who are devoid of formal education - they are a significant group within our community - have never done so. [More…]

• It should be remembered that unwanted pregnancies involve a community not only in familiar moral and social problems, to which I have referred, but also in economic problems which are less well understood. [More…]

• Whereas the former Government subsidised family planning for Aborigines but not for other Australians, the present Government has already made available $300,000 for the development of family planning in all sections of our community, including those whose interest is restricted to the ovulation method. [More…]

• The removal of the sales tax has not changed that about which women in the community are anxious to achieve for themselves and about which many are campaigning. [More…]

• Much has been achieved by women and for women to overthrow patronising and discriminatory attitudes aimed at providing full equality for women in our community. [More…]

• It is a significant community problem of which we must be conscious and which we must tackle as a community. [More…]

• The boredom and frustration of some housewives give rise to a whole range of other pressures and problems which are not easily identified in relation to family life and general community fulfilment. [More…]

• We need to consider the problems of women in employment, women in the home, women in relation to their role as mother and women in relation to the community in a broader sense. [More…]

• We need to raise for consideration areas where institutional arrangements, assumptions and practices have not kept pace with the change in community attitudes. [More…]

• The more information we have as a community about these problems, the better we will be able to handle them. [More…]

• I should not like the removal of sales tax from contraceptives to in any way be seen as the end of the process of elevating women to their proper role of equality in our community. [More…]

• 1 wish to speak also about the problem of the less advantaged families in our community. [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…]

• I think that in the future we will see in a more real sense the development of community centres probably centred around local government bodies. [More…]

• I hope that in the future there will be professional social welfare, workers whose services will be an ordinary, natural, normal addition to the services which will be available to people living in a community. [More…]

• I hope these professional social welfare workers will be able to do what they can to relieve the pressures that build up which cannot be handled by some people in the complex industrial community that we live in today, and in which the complexity continues to grow. [More…]

• He was referring to young girls in the community who become pregnant and have an unwanted child. [More…]

• The honourable member seemed to imply that it was necessary to provide free oral contraceptives to every young girl in the community so that she would not become pregnant. [More…]

• This raises a new problem in our community, namely, that of young people who grow up in single parent families. [More…]

• A child care centre is a very important area of the development of our social attitudes in our community- [More…]

• We have to examine what will be the pressures of a complex community on these young people, who will be the future generations. [More…]

• I believe that zero population growth is the ultimate in unacceptable policies for any community like Australia to adopt. [More…]

• In truth the removal has not solved the problems, nor has it satisfied the normal and proper aspirations of women for equality in our community. [More…]

• We need to continue as vigorously as we can the evolution of policies which will probably take some time but which in the end will answer the aspirations of women in our community who, as I mentioned, possess 50 per cent of our intellect. [More…]

• It is an institution which must remain, and I do not believe that any member of my Party - and I think I can speak for the Australian Country Party - would want to see the institution that the family, and all that means for cohesiveness and good in our community, in any way weakened. [More…]

• To the individual the saving would be about $3 per year, but to the community the saving is inestimable. [More…]

• These social problems not only lead to misery for the individual and the family but also increase enormously the cost of community services - social, medical and legal. [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…]

• I pose this question to the Treasurer: Would not the cost involved in placing the pill on the pharmaceutical benefits list have better served the community, particularly that section of the community which is being discussed in this House today, if the money had been spent on more family planning clinics and child care centres? [More…]

• 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…]

• It is important that, in considering child care centres, we think of them as providing a service not only to those women who work but to the whole community. [More…]

• If we are, those members of the community who are less competitive in society will suffer. [More…]

• Ideally the staff should be drawn from the community in which the clinic is situated. [More…]

• We will do everything we can to see that they are integrated into the Australian community. [More…]

• There are, no doubt, equivalent organisations and other local community organisations in other States. [More…]

• In my view, this is the basis of so many problems within the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt about that even though sometimes, I must admit, as one who supported the abolition of sales tax and so forth, that I was somewhat depressed by reasonably intelligent women arguing the way the previous Government had argued, namely, that many people in the community who became pregnant were unable to take the pill because of the cost I do not accept that argument. [More…]

• It was not introduced earlier because of the lethargic attitude of the previous Government, which did not apply its legislative programming to the needs of the poorer section of the community. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties, as they generally are, were concerned about the wealthy section of the community and not the poorer section. [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…]

• There is an understandable concern in the community about possibilities of malpractice and there are misgivings and fears. [More…]

• That is not to say that the misgivings and fears that the community may have should be wiped aside. [More…]

• The community may be quite justifiably concerned. [More…]

• House to relieve an obligation of a section of the community for the payment of excise, tariffs or taxes of any kind, it would be strange if most honourable members did not support it. [More…]

• There are, however, very real problems that the community needs to be conscious of when considering the implications of this Bill. [More…]

• At the same time, I think that it needs to be said that in our community there are groups of luxury items which traditionally have been turned to as areas from which revenues can be raised for the purpose of running the Government. [More…]

• I personally do not see why, if, for example, the tobacco industry, is regarded as an industry on which a levy should be charged for the purpose of raising funds for administering the Government, or if policy is that beer consumers should be taxed for their consumption of beer, other sectors of the community should be exempt. [More…]

• The combination of currency adjustment and entry into the European Economic Community has meant very real problems for the wine industry in relation to its ability to sell the same quantity of wine in the United Kingdom as it used to sell. [More…]

• That although repugnant to some sections of the community, spotlight shooting wilh rifles equipped with telescopic sights is the most effective and humane method of killing kangaroos. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Prime Minister, ls the honourable gentleman aware that his recent comment that the next election could be contested on at least an optional preference system has been widely interpreted throughout the Australian community as a dishonouring or a repudiation of the clear, earlier understanding given by the honourable gentleman that the Australian Labor Party would not change the voting system for the next election? [More…]

• Will consideration be given by the Government to implementing or setting up a national committee to combat racism and racial discriminanon which would include groups from all sections of the community so that as well as educating our black population we can start to educate our white population as to the reasons for the plight of underprivileged groups of people, not only Aborigines but other sections of the community such as national groups and ethnic groups? [More…]

• However, there are times when projects costing less than the specified amount are important to the community. [More…]

• Other little, smaller men, people for whom we should have consideration - we should have consideration for the little men in the community - deserve our help and our support. [More…]

• Surely the welfare of a community requires such amenities and necessities and their provision should not be based upon economics alone. [More…]

• While people in urban areas will be paying their share, so will the whole community. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will give greater consideration to the social needs of the community and not just weigh them totally and wholly on economics. [More…]

• I hope the Committee will also call on the knowledge of other Australians with special experience in these areas including academics, journalists, the trade unions and the business community. [More…]

• As is well known, the Labor Party as part of its propositions during the recent election campaign suggested that because of the wide concern in the community about inflation, and arising out of our belief that wages are not the only factor to be considered as leading to inflation - we believe that prices should also be considered - we would establish certain mechanisms to assist in the regulation of prices and to try better to adjudicate the social equation as between prices and wages. [More…]

• One surely knows that there are enough complaints from the public and that often the Mrs Joneses and the Mrs Smiths of the community in the face of rising prices do not know precisely where they can go about their complaints or where they can go to seek an explanation as to what is wrong. [More…]

• Psychologically it is a great benefit for a family to have their own home because they are inclined to be much more community conscious, which leads, as we know, to a great deal of desirable parochial pride. [More…]

• Therefore, whenever it is possible to distribute this affluence more equitably throughout the community by easing the restrictions on access to finance to build more private homes it must further benefit this great country that we have. [More…]

• If supply can keep pace with the demand in the home building industry it would be of even greater benefit to the community than just easing the availability of finance. [More…]

• There will be other demands of economic development which will impose certain social strains because they require adjustments to old established patterns of life and work in the community. [More…]

• The system now seeks people who can go out and find out what needs to be done, and then not merely make a speech about it, send a telegram to a member of Parliament or call a public meeting, but put in writng the aims, aspirations and needs of a particular community or a particular family and convey them to the Minister or to the Department in order that the problems might be looked at and, if possible, solved. [More…]

• This Government is very conscious of the needs of other needy people in the Australian community. [More…]

• But we also can help them because they are the most easily identified group of underprivileged people in the Australian community, and all members of this Parliament, irrespective of their party, should support the endeavours of this Government. [More…]

• I have, made representations both to the State Minister for Youth and Community Services and to my friend and colleague the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs for help in providing more adequate facilities for these people. [More…]

• The Committee is representative of all sections of the community, including well known cotton growers who want to see the Aborigines helped and given decent conditions which will allow them to live with at least some sense of dignity and to work under conditions that are acceptable to them. [More…]

• No government agency can do as much, in a real sense, as local community organisations working at the grass roots of the local problem. [More…]

• Five are to be built by the New South Wales Housing Commission and 12 are to be purchased by the Department of Youth and Community Services. [More…]

• There has been a rapid integration of the Aboriginal population into the Moree community in the past, few years. [More…]

• I believe that they should be given a choice as to whether they want to integrate into the town community. [More…]

• Moree has an active community based Aboriginal Advancement Association which is keeping in close contact with the people and the problems that exist there. [More…]

• There is a great desire on the part of the community to do something about the problem. [More…]

• I turn now to the general problems facing our community and the philosophical approach to meeting the problems in the broad sense. [More…]

• No matter how strongly one may work for the Aboriginal cause, one cannot ignore the fact that the Aborigines cannot be isolated from the total Australian community. [More…]

• The former Government tailored a special purpose lease designed to suit the diverse needs of an Aboriginal community to meet their commercial, recreational and ceremonial requirements on reserves in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• If the land has no sale value, what security in terms of capital value has he or his community? [More…]

• The closing was unnecessary and unwarranted and, therefore, against the best interests of the whole community; [More…]

• I must say that I am surprised at the tenor of the question asked by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition because the records of my Department indicate that he when Minister for Immigration was deeply concerned at the activities of criminal elements in our community, a small group of people in the total migrant intake but nevertheless too many because one person in our community who is addicted to violence is too many in terms of the acceptance of these activities by the Australian people. [More…]

• As the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has raised the question of the status of migrants in our community, I place on record in this House that since World War II more than 3 million people have come to this country and the overwhelming majority of them have been great citizens. [More…]

• I want also to take the opportunity to tell the House that the last time there was an inquiry made into criminality in the migrant community the figures spoke for themselves. [More…]

• A start can be made, however, in communities where only one language is spoken or where there is a dominant language acceptable to that community, where that language has been linguistically analysed and recorded, where there are Aboriginal people able to teach in it and where the Aboriginal people themselves want it to be used in their school. [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…]

• He spoke of those parts of ceremonial life which are approved by the community. [More…]

• A tremendous amount of ceremonial life is local and should not be the object of open study in an Aboriginal community, because from the Aboriginal point of view the efficacy or the nature of the ceremony depends upon the details of that ceremony being restricted. [More…]

• I think it might be useful for this House if the Minister asks his officers to document what has been attempted, the successes that were achieved and the failures that resulted from some of the efforts in that area, not restricting the examination of the paper to what has occurred at Katherine but including other examples where special efforts have been made to solve some of the problems of education and of Aborigines in the wider community. [More…]

• Most honourable members are under a compulsion to admit that if it were granted in the oil industry there is no doubt whatsoever, following the Gallagher award and its consequences, it would flow on to every other section of the community, no matter how long the period involved. [More…]

• The Opposition is more interested today in people and the humanitarian aspect of this situation because these wage claims, approved by the Government, have a moral significance and an economic effect on the less fortunate sections of the community and, consequently, must be carefully considered. [More…]

• Frankly, that is something that the Opposition wants to avoid and it is the reason that the Opposition believes that there should be the closest scrutiny of wage demands and that every effort should be made in the interests of those people to keep wage demands to a reasonable amount, an amount which could, in fact, be economically sustained by the community. [More…]

• By direct Government action the cost to the community will be something like $168m for the balance of this year and $33 1 m in a full year. [More…]

• It then affects all other sections of the community. [More…]

• I could go on and list many factors that are concerned in this and why there should not be this fear that the Opposition and its supporters try to inculcate in the community. [More…]

• Mention was made of the efforts of the last Administration to help the less fortunate members of the community. [More…]

• I believe that in the Government’s program there is a much sounder basis for benefits for the less fortunate members of the community than was ever shown in the last 23 years. [More…]

• It is pleasing to see that this Department has been given individuality and a structure of its own to deal with the very real problems that it will have to deal with in our community today. [More…]

• I refer to the problem of the solid waste mess in our community today because it is a matter that is tended to be overlooked. [More…]

• Despite the fact that much has been spent on them there is very little activity in certain areas to endeavour to salvage these young people and what they have learnt and to allow them to use their knowledge in the community. [More…]

• I believe there is much waste in the community today, particularly with later year students who for some reason or other fall by the wayside and find themselves unable to be employed in a great variety of categories in the community. [More…]

• lt is perhaps fitting that the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) should be sitting at the table at present because one of the problems in the Australian community is, it is suggested, a relative shortage of doctors. [More…]

• But when there is a high community need such as we saw during and after the Second World War courses may be, and are, shortened. [More…]

• I know that the next set of Appropriation Bills will indicate the very real advances that are being made in policies and conditions for the ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• The second factor which highlighted the question of Croat terrorism in Australiaand which attracted special attention from the Commonwealth and State police was the occurrence of 2 bombing incidents in Sydney on 16th September 1972 involving premises and persons connected with the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• These incidents left unaltered the then Attorney-General’s statement that there was no organised terrorism among the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• 1 understand your apprehension is that he is a man with a propensity to violence and that, in view of recent happenings involving violence to persons and property, we have a paramount obligation to the Australian community to remove him from the country. [More…]

• I think that the type of work in which some of the former unemployed were engaged, such as removing weeds and grass, had a somewhat demoralising effect because those engaged in it felt that they were not doing a constructive job of a permanent nature and from which all the community would benefit. [More…]

• We are also a part of the world community and our concern should properly extend to all regions of the world. [More…]

• It reiterated our community of interest with the nations and the peoples of the Pacific and emphasised the deep concern of these people at the continuation of the tests. [More…]

• This is a great and prosperous city with wonderful ethnic groups of people from all nations who have combined to form a magnificent community. [More…]

• The Opposition represents all people in the community. [More…]

• The Labor Party represents the professional bludgers in the community. [More…]

• Employers are a small minority in the community [More…]

• But the bludger, the professional idler, the parasite on this community who just will not work should not, in my opinion at any rate, be paid unemployment benefits. [More…]

• I think the smoking of marihuana is completely and absolutely, beyond any shadow of doubt, a far greater danger to the community than any aspirin would be. [More…]

• Suggestions have been made that drug manufacturers lack a sense of responsibility and are interested only in selling their product so that they may make money out of it, that they do not have any regard to the benefit to the community. [More…]

• The company believes that such decision is very important to the community and cannot be rushed. [More…]

• I feel that the company to which I have referred, the Australian Motorists and General Insurance Co. Pty Ltd is acting in a way which is not in the best interests of the community and is bordering on dishonesty of purpose. [More…]

• Western Australia has placed its community X-ray surveying under suspension for a period of 5 years. [More…]

• Voluntary X-raying of a community is ineffectual in detecting cases of tuberculosis, whereas compulsory, X-raying of persons uncovers practically all the pulmonary tuberculosis. [More…]

• For instance, Holland has made it mandatory for doctors not only to have more community medicine content in their undergraduate courses but also, before they are recognised to practise as general practitioners, for them to undertake 2 years’ full time training in a position which is subject to supervision by qualified general practitioners. [More…]

• My Department is looking at the possibility of encouraging medical schools which are making moves in this direction, of increasing the content of general practice in undergraduate courses and of making available Government sponsored community health centres staffed by salaried or fee-for-service doctors with ancillary workers and other team facilities to upgrade the standard of general practice. [More…]

• The Post Office is very anxious to meet the needs of the community and this is obviously a facility that is being well patronised. [More…]

• It is true also that retired people in the community feel that for health reasons a telephone is an essential aspect of living and is required in order to obtain urgent medical assistance. [More…]

• Excess profits cannot be justified in any circumstances but a community must stand to benefit from a fair and real level of profit return. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the Government has a primary responsibility to appeal for restraint throughout the general community in the interests of the total community and particularly the wage and salary earners who work within it. [More…]

• Such legislation may be directed towards Increasing the rate of flow of innovation into our community because quite often price rises are due to a restriction not necessarily on prices charged but on ideas that are accepted in the market place. [More…]

• There needs to be a flow of information and the best way to carry out that flow and to have a sensitive contact with the community is through this House and its members. [More…]

• What the trade union movement and the Labor Party are acquiescing in is the creation of class distinctions in this community among wage earners, depending on whether as an organised trade union they possess industrial power. [More…]

• But we do not intend to depend on moral force alone, strong though that may be in the new context of a Government concerned with the welfare of the community. [More…]

• The object of appointing a joint Parliamentary committee on prices is to make that committee part of the machinery that the Government wants to set up for prices justification in the community in order to inhibit price rises and thus reduce the rate of inflation and increase purchasing power. [More…]

• For a number of years the great economic problem in our community has been stagflation*. [More…]

• At certain stages of the business cycle under certain conditions and in terms of community problems, the balance of payments situation and so on, one mixture might work better than another. [More…]

• We want the parliamentary select committee to act as a clearing house from the community to feed material to the prices justification tribunal. [More…]

• So whereas we heard the Opposition ranting about wages being the only reason for inflation in our community- [More…]

• They have not brought to this House any alternative method of attacking what we know to be the great ill in our community economically, namely, inflation. [More…]

• We think it is essential as the clearing house in the community. [More…]

• A lot of the information which comes from the community will not necessarily go to the prices justification tribunal. [More…]

• and here I agree with the Leader of the Opposition, a great deal of ignorance in the community as to the cause of inflation. [More…]

• Why should this Committee not use the information coming to it through these reports to educate the community about the nature of inflation? [More…]

• In terms of those who produce the goods which make this country profitable and which have enabled it to grow and to survive, there is probably no sector of the Australian community which has a greater interest in prices than has the rural community. [More…]

• Indeed, I think there are 2 sectors of the community which suffer more than others from inflation - those in the export industries and those on fixed income. [More…]

• Unlike many others in the community, they are unable to pass on the costs that they have to meet to survive. [More…]

• This measure is designed to provide in this Parliament an opportunity, through a committee system, to inquire not into prices paid overseas, not into prices specifically relating to all the goods which are inputs of the cost structure within the rural industry, within the Australian productive industry or indeed within the Australian community, but only into prices charged by private industry about which complaints have been made. [More…]

• I would hope that if the supporters of the Government are sincere in their concern for prices and the effect of prices on the community and particularly on those on fixed incomes, they will see fit to accept this amendment. [More…]

• It is true that meat prices affect every housewife in our community. [More…]

• All of us who live in this community are concerned about high prices in one area or another. [More…]

• What I have said about the price of meat and agricultural commodities and the economic law of supply and demand to my mind applies also to the whole field of prices in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is extraordinary difficult to introduce any form of government intervention which will effectively overcome those normal forces which affect the price and supply of goods in the community. [More…]

• I do not see it as in any way a meaningful attack on the inflationary forces in our community. [More…]

• For that reason I do not believe that this sort of committee is anything more than a facade to try to placate those forces within the community which are justifiably concerned at the increases in the cost of living. [More…]

• One hears the Treasurer come forth with statements of concern about the way in which general activity within the community ls starting to build up, thus foreshadowing a concern that inflationary forces may well be rife later this year. [More…]

• For this reason, I should like some members of the Country Party who obviously represent in this House a sectional interest - not the interests of the community as a whole or of the majority of the housewives in Australia - to visit my electorate or the electorate of many other honourable members on both sides of the House. [More…]

• In other words, members of the Opposition are not going to serve on this committee to be watchdogs for the housewives and for the community as a whole; they are going to serve on this committee for one purpose only - to protect the interests of the 100 top companies of this country. [More…]

• It is well and truly time, as was expounded in the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) when he was Leader of the Opposition at the end of last year, for the establishment of some ombudsman-type organisation to act as a link between the people, the Parliament and the bureaucracy to ensure that justice is done to all in the community and not simply to one section of it as, for instance, the Country Party. [More…]

• The second is that the way to overcome inflation in the community is merely to increase the forces of competition and to allow the free interplay of market forces. [More…]

• Wage earners do not operate by taking a conscious decision to plunder the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is only if they cause price increases that they can have deleterious effects on the rest of the community. [More…]

• Sufficient to say that when proposed in December 1971, salary increases were overdue and the proposals came at the end of wage adjustments for most other sectors of the community. [More…]

• The measures which the Government is now putting forward, particularly in respect of parliamentary salaries and allowances will, no doubt, come in for the usual criticism from certain sections of the community. [More…]

• During that time there has been a very considerable decline in the spending power of members’ salaries and their relativity to the incomes of the rest of the community but no reduction in their necessary personal and political expenditure. [More…]

• The reason is of course that there has not been the gradual improvement that has benefited other sectors in the community. [More…]

• In stating the attitude of the Australian Country Party to this Bill 1 point out that throughout this afternoon we have been discussing the inflationary impact on the community of changes in prices and of wage relativity to prices. [More…]

• However, in the rest of the community annual leave entitlements have changed considerably in the last 35 to 40 years. [More…]

• In France legislation in 1968 provided for a minimum of 4 weeks leave for all employees and many employees receive additional days leave, according to a publication from the European Economic Community called Trade Union News, No. [More…]

• 5, Winter 1970/71 - a publication of the European Economic Community press and information office in London. [More…]

• He maintained that the granting of the additional week of leave would require recruitment of a large number of additional Commonwealth employees, thereby substantially increasing the wage and salary bill of the Commonwealth and ‘straining the labour resources of the community’. [More…]

• It ill behoves the lunatic fringe to malign in this place under parliamentary privilege the Australian trade union movement which has done more than have any honourable gentlemen opposite or their predecessors put together to lift the standard of living of the Australian community to the level at which it is today. [More…]

• What they seek to establish is the right of every person in this community to exercise licence to determine whether or not he will embrace the system of conciliation and arbitration that this community has decided shall be established. [More…]

• As the honourable member well knows from his own association with and involvement in community welfare services in his home area over many years, we must also provide services. [More…]

• Briefly, the purpose of this commission which will be staffed from people of many disciplines, highly qualified in their fields, will be to identify long term objectives and to assist in the development of a rational framework of social welfare programs which will hang together in a balanced, planned sort of way to provide for the evaluation of these programs so that we are continually aware of their relevance or of their need for improvement or redirection in certain areas as community needs and aspirations change from time to time. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a considerable number of migrants believe that a slur has been cast on the migrant community in general by the statement made on Tuesday by Senator Murphy and that many of them who are not yet naturalised are fearful for their safety? [More…]

• Will the Minister give an assurance that before any action is taken by him to deport any member of the Yugoslav community or any other migrant community in Australia he will require the production of substantial evidence and that if such evidence has been provided solely by a communist government it will be disregarded? [More…]

• The position is that the greatest slur that has been cast on the migrant community in Australia has been cast upon it by the handful of people who have brought discredit on all of the community by their acts of violence and by their law breaking, and this is resented by the vast majority of migrants who resent being associated with people who are criminals. [More…]

• I would be at one with the honourable member in saying that there is no-one, I would hope, in this Parliament who would denigrate the overwhelming number of people that have come to this country since World War II - more than 3 million of them - and who are now an integral part and a fine part of the Australian community. [More…]

• The British Government is expected to confirm assurances that secure and continuing markets for sugar will be available to the Commonwealth developing countries in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We will be conducting separate negotiations with the British Government through the auspices of the Commission of the European Economic Community in London and in Brussels. [More…]

• Both these gentlemen have tried to work for the Parliament as an institution and develop the importance of this Parliament to the people of this country when all the influence of the media and other pressures in the community have been directed towards focusing attention on the Executive Government, on the Prime Minister, on the Cabinet and on things that take place at that level. [More…]

• One of the sad facts of life is that there are few people in the Australian community who really understand how the Parliament works. [More…]

• On the contrary, I can see positive advantage both to the Parliament as an institution and to the community in so doing. [More…]

• We had plans further to develop our policies in relation to Africa, the Middle East and the enlarged European community. [More…]

• It could be described as nothing better than a study group of about the same quality as the workers education classes that are conducted throughout our community. [More…]

• I agree with one previous speaker that in a consideration by a committee it is possible to arrive at a more bipartisan view of the facts presented because of informal discussion when members are not grandstanding as they are when they are out amongst the community or in this House. [More…]

• We believe that Commonwealth public servants ought to have the same conditions as are general throughout the community. [More…]

• The Public Service ought not to lead and neither should it lag behind the increases in wages and conditions throughout the general community. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister of this country at the present time is determined to have the Public Service lead the community in the levels of industrial benefits, let him introduce legislation into this Parliament rather than seek to exert control over the Public Service Board. [More…]

• Unlike the Government we believe that industrial benefits of this nature ought not to be selectively applied to various sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Well he might regard it as a matter for humour, but if he puts his mind to a serious examination of the problems which are confronting the Australian community I hope he will be the first in this House to agree on the need for a debate of this type, and that it should take place in the context of an examination of costs and, of course, the authorities who have prepared the cost estimates for the Government. [More…]

• The Government has an obligation to the community to outline clearly the cost of the introduction of 4 weeks annual leave both into the Public Service and its consequent flow-on impact, throughout the general community. [More…]

• The introduction of modern technology is said to be for the advantage and benefit of the whole of the community, including the employees in the industry where the technology is introduced. [More…]

• We know that in a measure of this nature where so much is involved there will be a cost to the community. [More…]

• Improvements in working conditions throughout Australia can be obtained as we move along but they can be obtained only at a certain cost to the community which has to pay for this item. [More…]

• Costs are still rising and still present a problem in the community, not only in relation to primary industries but also to the whole nation and particularly to people on fixed incomes. [More…]

• But I suspect that the United States Supreme Court, if it found that this concern for historic boundaries, this concern for community of interest, this concern for natural boundaries resulted always in electorates which favoured one party it would become extremely suspicious. [More…]

• That does not mean that the farming community is not becoming a more important segment because of increased productivity and so on. [More…]

• One of the great objectives of the new Government we are told is the elimination from the Australian community of division and inequality. [More…]

• This kind of thing is multiplied over and over all through the area that a country member represents and throughout community life and its activities. [More…]

• In the interest of electoral justice and responsibility to the Australian community the Bill must be rejected. [More…]

• Twenty per cent of the electors live in the outer urban areas of Brisbane, part of the urban sprawl with all the challenges of the rapidly developing new community requiring services, amenities and facilities. [More…]

• It allows the Commissioners to give due consideration to community of interests including economic, social and regional interests, means ot communication and travel, the physical features of the divisions and trends of population changes in the States but deletes any reference to disabilities arising out of remoteness or distance, density or sparsity of population and area of the division. [More…]

• If the Government forces this Bill through the House, it will run the undesirable risk of showing contempt for the intelligence and, more importantly, the common sense of the Australian community. [More…]

• He said that Country Party members exercised power above and beyond their responsibility in the community because they had limited and material objectives and did not worry about the community’s interest. [More…]

• Many people who voted against the Labor Party at elections have done so because of fears that have been built up about the Labor Party, the fear that allegedly it would destroy the American alliance, sell out Australia to Peking and Moscow, and destroy all morality in the community. [More…]

• I think this is worthy of serious consideration and I think this is a very humane approach to a problem which exists within our community. [More…]

• The wiping out of the interests of the small man has helped to remove the competition that ought to exist in the economy and in the community to provide a check not only on prices but on services as well. [More…]

• We are not in the business of underwriting convalescent homes and nursing homes, which in the period of the last Government and particularly the last Parliament, were able to gain such astronomical profits that the organisations concerned were listed on the stock exchange and reaped a great harvest at the expense of the sick in the community. [More…]

• Prior to 1965 what appeared in section 19 was a provision to the effect that the redistribution commissioners should take into account community of interest or diversity of interest. [More…]

• The commissioners were at liberty to consider all of the factors that went with a community of interest or with a diversity of interest. [More…]

• What is proposed by the Minister is community of interest within the division, including economic, social and regional interests. [More…]

• Does the Minister seriously suggest that Kingaroy has community of interests with Mount Isa? [More…]

• It is whether to support the democratic principle that is embodied in the Bill - one vote one value - or whether to continue to support the manipulations that exist in the present Electoral Act whereby one group in the community continues to be over-represented. [More…]

• In other words the Commissioners may be forced to make them even larger by adding people from other communities to an electorate where in fact they may not have a community of interest. [More…]

• Another point of interest to me was that when the honourable member for Moreton was talking about the electorate of Kennedy he made the point that there was no community of interest between Mount Isa and Kingaroy. [More…]

• In the case of huge electorates or even an electorate of medium size, such as the one represented in this Parliament by the honourable member for Gwydir, there obviously would be no community of interest between areas that are some distance apart. [More…]

• Probably no community of interest exists in the Sydney metropolitan area between residents of Vaucluse and Paddington. [More…]

• There may be community of interest on the matter of transport to the eastern suburbs, but even there I doubt whether people in Vaucluse would adopt the same attitude as would those in Paddington. [More…]

• The proposition that apparently wa9 put up by the honourable member for Moreton is that there must be a complete community of interest to have one electorate. [More…]

• In fact, in a pluralist society like Australia it is difficult to argue what community of interest exists between any 2 people or number of groups of people and whether, at any point, the people are completely opposed in regard to community of interest. [More…]

• We need only to look at other matters which the Government has done or has not done in its short few months of office to see where it has either recanted utterly on promises made to the rural community or forgotten about them completely. [More…]

• Two great rural spokesmen for the Labor Party promised $500m at 3 per cent interest for loans for the rural community. [More…]

• This is the record up to the present time of the Government’s attitude to the rural community of Australia. [More…]

• This Electoral Bill would reduce the rural voice within this Parliament and would make it possible for the great metropolitan cities to utterly swamp other sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• I would be delighted to see the fight on this measure on any occasion and the empty threats of the Minister for Services and Property about a double dissolution on a measure of this kind will carry no particular weight with the rural community. [More…]

• the benefits of increased productivity itself from utilisation of advanced technology belong to the community to be shared by all for the general good; [More…]

• productivity gains belong to the community as a whole and not to a particular group of employees (or, presumably, employers); [More…]

• As from 1st February 1973 Britain adopted the European Economic Community’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which provides for the application of variable general levies to most agricultural commodities in certain circumstances. [More…]

• It ls most important that, when offenders are brought before a court, the full rigour of the law should be applied so that there can be no doubt as to tha determination of the Australian authorities to put an end to this form of violence in the community. [More…]

• The general community of interest that is apparent at meetings is exemplified in gatherings of this kind. [More…]

• It is the Government’s policy to increase the numbers of qualified social workers in the community and the main purpose of this Bill is to provide unmatched grants totalling $75,000 for the University of Sydney and $240,000 for the University of Melbourne in the current triennium to enable the universities concerned to increase the numbers of students being trained as social workers at those universities, commencing this year. [More…]

• A rural society, because of its minuteness, particularly in relation to voting strength, but because of its strength in relation to the economy and its effect on the rest of the Australian community, has to be protected from under-representation. [More…]

• The present form of electoral distribution results in equity as between the various sections of the community. [More…]

• Clause 3 of the Bill refers to community of interests, means of communication and travel, the trend of population changes and all of the factors for which we need to have research assistance. [More…]

• We are not here to preside over the dilution of citizen rights in this community, and those people who say that as a matter of some almost divine right they should have more say than others are people who do not and cannot claim to have any sympathy with the democratic concept. [More…]

• We all belong to the rural community of Australia. [More…]

• The idea of this sort of legislation is to give equality to ail sections of the community as near as it can be physically done. [More…]

• The aim will be to achieve the greatest possible voluntary involvementof members of the community in extending a spontaneous welcome to newcomers and helpful, practical advice and assistance to facilitate their successful settlement. [More…]

• This has afforded the opportunity for informal discussion with key members of the Good Neighbour Councils and representatives of ethnic organisations and other agencies with the aim of encouraging wider participation in the voluntary community work of assisting migrants in their settlement. [More…]

• in mind that the community pays in a different way for a privately operated public transport system. [More…]

• No-one denies anyone a wind fall or a bit of luck; but, when it ls being paid for by the community in the way in which a system such as this makes the community pay, it gives offence and it is time that something was done to stop it. [More…]

• But, in the long run, the community pays and there is created a system, whether it be for transport services or milk distribution services, which is fragile, which does not work, which breaks down immediately it is subjected to any sort of pressure and which requires a comprehensive and unwieldy system of control. [More…]

• What is concerning us on this side of the House and the whole of the Australian community more and more as it understands the facts is the attitude of this new Government towards stifling the civil liberties of people. [More…]

• The action of going to ASIO has spread terror and fear amongst the whole Yugoslav community in Australia and that fear is spreading further to all new Australians. [More…]

• There is in this place a very real need to ensure that justice not only be seen and observed but be practised if it is to be seen, observed and practised in the rest of the community. [More…]

• So is any suggestion that in any way the administration of the previous Government failed, because we quite effectively demonstrated efforts to try to ensure that if there were any terrorist activities in the community they should be contained. [More…]

• The fact is that the former Attorney-General yesterday in another place produced a series of references which effectively demonstrated how during the course of the life of the last Government we endeavoured to pursue to the ultimate inquiries into all segments of extremism in our community. [More…]

• It is only by having an opportunity to make statements to rebut the charges of the Prime Minister that we on this side of the House can for all time lay at rest the thought that in any way we were less than diligent in our efforts to ensure that justice was duly exercised and that in any way any one of us would condone violence in our community or subscribe to the allegation that we were puppets of people here or in any other part of the world. [More…]

• There may be no more than 2,000 people who display the flag, who honour the photograph and who celebrate the anniversary, but they do create tensions in this community, and by nothing that we say or do or shout in this place should we give comfort to the minority and bring distress to the overwhelming majority. [More…]

• The best site is the one that, for a given set of benefits, imposes least cost on the community. [More…]

• It is essential, therefore, that the benefit-cost study has sufficient freedom to produce ultimately a selection of the best site having regard, on the one hand, to the community’s need for efficient air transport services, and on the other, to its desire to avoid unnecessary economic or environmental penalties. [More…]

• Wherever this airport is established, not only will it avoid problems for the neighbourhood communities, but it could bring to the area great advantages in the form of fast road and rail systems, a properly planned urbanisation, new job opportunities and community services such as communications, water supply, sewerage and power reticulation. [More…]

• It may well be that careful benefit-cost and environmental studies will show that some or ali of these sites are not the most suitable for Sydney’s second airport but it is clear that the decisions of the Liberal governments were uninformed and were vain attempts to preserve its electoral chances rather than responsible decisions of governments dedicated to decision making in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I have seen in this whole episode a slur against the migrant community. [More…]

• These functions included a wide range of community services and State functions and a lot of control over many forms of social legislation including, for example, workers compensation, gambling, censorship, consumer protection, the rights of women, the rights of minors, daylight saving and control of firearms. [More…]

• I do not oppose inquiries of any sort because I believe that generally in the long term the community benefits from them. [More…]

• In such a vast territory I think there need to be more regional locations of departmental administration in all the major community centres. [More…]

• The Northern Territory Administration was offered also responsibility for the functions of varying forms of community services such as libraries, fire brigades, building standards, bus services, cemeteries, inspection of scaffolding and machinery, and a range of other things of that nature. [More…]

• A government which spends the country into serious inflation can, on no criterion of responsibility, be seen in the Australian community to be successful. [More…]

• The Government has a responsibility to these people and to every person in the Australian community to return sanity to the area of Government spending. [More…]

• The previous Government saw itself as having a responsibility in order to achieve a balance in the interests of the people oi this country because if inflation runs riot, as ] believe it is starting to do now, every person in the community suffers, and some more than others. [More…]

• The best means of doing this is for the Commonwealth to provide finance, for the States to strengthen their agencies of consumer protection and to have voluntary bodies in the community which can help to monitor the system. [More…]

• Treasurer of some years ago - spoke about the vast increase in the volume of money in the community, again implying that such an increase had taken place only since 2nd December. [More…]

• I notice that one of the newspapers this morning was trying to quote the latest monthly figures from a Treasury document and, as often happens, the newspaper misquoted them, saying that the amount of money in the community was now $ 1,684m, while 12 months ago it was $l,206m, implying somehow that that indicates an increase in inflation of about $400m and suggesting that it has all happened in the last 2 or 3 months. [More…]

• It is a serious problem to regulate an economy in total and it is always a serious problem when the biggest single means of income distribution in a community is the wage system. [More…]

• In the ultimate, the greatest problem that a democratic community must face is the problem of equity in the distribution of the total resources that the economy is capable of generating. [More…]

• At the same time it should be pointed out that one of the restrictions upon the previous Government and upon any government in introducing reforms which give benefits to a section of the community is the state of the economy and the effect that what the Government is doing is going to have on the generality of people in Australia. [More…]

• This involves a question of equity between different sections of the community. [More…]

• This multiplies the cost to the community and in the case of small businesses may lead, in relation to rates of insurance, to problems for them in maintaining their viability. [More…]

• As the Treasurer (Mr Crean) was saying in a previous speech tonight, wages and the work force generally are the accepted system through which the wealth of the community is distributed and redistributed. [More…]

• I seek leave to table a document listing more than 50 incidents with connotations of violence within the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• Leave is granted for tabling the list of incidents with connotations of violence within the Yugoslav community. [More…]

• I address my words now in particular to the Croatian community. [More…]

• The Government will play its part in assisting that community and its genuine leaders to remove the few extremists who besmirch the decent and overwhelming majority, but the remedy also lies in the hands of the. [More…]

• community itself. [More…]

• Terrorism will wither on the vine if the community turns its back on the few malefactors in the midst. [More…]

• It is a matter of the deepest affront not only to the great majority of Yugoslavs in Australia and not only to our Jewish community but to everybody who fought in or had relatives fighting and dying in the war against Hitler and against fascism. [More…]

• What would we say if a German club were to display portraits of Hitler and the swastika flag and to commemorate and celebrate the day Hitler became Chancellor as a community national day? [More…]

• In particular, I wish to remove any grounds for discrimination in matters of citizenship and employment against migrants or any section of any migrant community. [More…]

• Its greatest disservice was to the Croatian community itself for by its silence, indeed acquiescence, it allowed terrorism to take root. [More…]

• My Government and the Croatian community together will root this evil out. [More…]

• In the Croatian community, there are men willing to display their sense of nationalism and hostility to Yugoslavia in ways which can lead to violence. [More…]

• The effect of Government action and statements has been to erode unfairly the good name of an important and highly valued section of our migrant community. [More…]

• The continued disquiet among the Yugoslav community generally in Australia must also have a deleterious effect upon their ability successfully to integrate in the Australian community which I have little doubt is the primary desire of the great majority of Yugoslavs in this country. [More…]

• There are in the Australian community today more than 140,000 people who were born in Yugoslavia, and the great majority of them are good, sound citizens and residents of this country. [More…]

• They, even more than the community generally, have reason to condemn the acts of political terrorism which have taken place. [More…]

• Under the Migration Act, the Minister for Immigration has authority to exclude from Australia any persons who are not members of the Australian community. [More…]

• I give this pledge on behalf of the Government of Australia: I pledge myself to justice - justice to the community, to the individual concerned and to the many thousands of good people who, with faith in us and in our country, have pledged their future with ours. [More…]

• The Parliament aud the people are entitled to know the full facts of this whole astonishing affair which has caused widespread and wellfounded concern and disquiet in the Australian community. [More…]

• It contains a tale of violence, terror, threats, intimidation and extortion by this extreme minority among the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• The Croatian community cries out as much as anyone else to have it stopped. [More…]

• I say without any sense of real offence to the Minister for Immigration that he seemed more at pains to defend his own actions which have led to such hysteria in the migrant community than to defend the Attorney-General in another place. [More…]

• It is true to say that the migrant community, as a group, is now fearful. [More…]

• The Government has cast a slur on the total migrant community. [More…]

• By its actions the Government has been divisive in this community. [More…]

• There is today a genuine fear among those members of the Australian community who are migrants to this country, particularly those who came from Eastern European countries, that those midnight and pre-dawn knocks on the door, which are reminiscent of the very reason for their leaving their own countries, are likely to be repeated in this country. [More…]

• There is concern about the adequacy of evidence in regard to terrorism in this community. [More…]

• We want to know how the scheme will be financed and how the financing of this scheme, in conjunction with all the other Government expenditures, many of which are reckless, will affect the community. [More…]

• We do not object to that but I point out that this would involve a cost to the community. [More…]

• The cost of providing this standard of compensation should be taken into consideration when assessing the final cost to the community. [More…]

• In common with other speakers I welcome the reference to the need for continuing efforts to be made to reduce the number of accidents and to improve the health of the community. [More…]

• 1 feel that the Government stands in good light and is in good standing with the whole of the community for removing something which was obnoxious, which did not yield very much to the coffers and which was an impost on a few enterprising people who attempted to do something for themselves in the interests of their families and friends. [More…]

• That we are deeply concerned at proposals in the community to alter the law to allow the termination of pregnancy for non-medical reasons; and [More…]

• Two such developments that are of the closest concern to Australia are the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community and the rapid steps being taken by Japan and the [More…]

• I have no doubt that trade unions and other pressure groups in the community, such as employer pressure groups, which sometimes can be as irresponsible and selfish as any trade union pressure group, have got to him. [More…]

• That will cause hardship and worry for 2 sections of the Australian community, namely, the trade unions concerned and the employers concerned, or perhaps members of the industry concerned. [More…]

• After this period in Australia substantial numbers of fine migrants have come to know Australia, feel settled here, want to identify themselves as members of our community and are in fact living as such without friction or problems. [More…]

• At these ceremonies, so well known to honourable members, the community in which the new citizens live will welcome them into the community and the family of the nation. [More…]

• By these means, and by all other possible means, it is the Government’s wish to ensure that our migrants from Commonwealth countries are no longer ignored or left in the mistaken belief that they acquire our citizenship automatically and that the rest of the Australian community attaches no importance to their becoming citizens. [More…]

• It could well be that a number of them would continue to serve on after 3 years service, but it could also be that the young fellow would enlist just to take advantage of a concession that is available to no other section of the community. [More…]

• In my opinion this could also help in some measure to remove the thought that such an excellent concession as the $12,000 low interest rate loan is a discriminatory one in favour of a very small section of the community. [More…]

• Therefore, 1 suppose, it is in the economic interests of the Australian community that as many pensioners as possible go overseas. [More…]

• Other people who worked very hard for it and to whom a tribute should be paid include members of the Maltese community led by its High Commissioner, Mr Joe Forace. [More…]

• in Sydney, the Netherlands Society of Sydney, the Association of Australian Slovacs, the Swiss Club of New South Wales, the Ukrainian Society of New South Wales, the Federal Council of Polish Associations, the Estonian Society in Sydney, the Hungarian Council of New South Wales, the Latvian Community in Sydney, the Lithuanian Community in Sydney, the Maltese Community Council of New South Wales and the Australian Romanian Association. [More…]

• La Fiamma’, which ran the campaign for the pensioners among the Italian community, obtained some 73,000 signatures to a petition. [More…]

• It was interesting to discover that almost 90 per cent of the readers of that newspaper, which has by far the largest readership of any foreign language publication in Australia, particularly among the Italian community in Australia, said they would vote for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• We have to think of the interests of the ordinary Australian, and in thinking of that we are also thinking of the interests of the migrant, because if we are over-generous there can be a backlash and that kind of backlash is not in the interests of the migrant community. [More…]

• The migrant community should be treated fairly, but if migrants require over-generous treatment, in the short term they may get advantage and the Australian Labor Party may get votes, but over the long term that is not to the advantage of the groups in the migrant community. [More…]

• Examination of this shows that it reflects the lower proportion of refugees in current immigration - that is, refugees tend to stay more than other migrants - the greater ease of travel in recent years, the strong economic attraction of western Europe, and the growing number of skilled and highly qualified persons who, as part of an increasingly mobile international community, often move from Australia after a few years. [More…]

• It must also be seen that Australia’s ability to retain its migrants depends to a large extent on the opportunities available here and elsewhere and the acceptance of settlers by the Australian community. [More…]

• I restate that the proposal now before the House gives portability of pension right once it is established in this community. [More…]

• But the honourable member expressed some unease that perhaps this Bill was too generous and that if we had too much generosity in the provision of social security benefits there could easily be a backlash in the community. [More…]

• There is always a core of conservative people in the community who resent strongly the provision of what they feel are too generous’ benefits or ‘too generous’ a system of welfare services being established in the community. [More…]

• At the same time, it will protect the migrant community from any possible backlash which might come not from the people who at present are in Australia but from people who might otherwise come to Australia for the purpose of receiving a pension and taking it overseas. [More…]

• The magistrate used such words as: ‘People like you are filth’, ‘You should be put away’ and ‘You are filth in the community’. [More…]

• The people who would suffer are the aged and the infirm - the people who are the most vulnerable and who have the greatest need in the community. [More…]

• To the extent that money is available the Government will maximise the benefits for the community. [More…]

• If money is used excessively and unjustifiably in one area, we deprive other areas of need - education, other areas of health, welfare services, community services, environmental factors and so forth. [More…]

• This position has been caused primarily by a world shortage of beef, as is instanced by the increasing demand for beef by the United States, Canada, Japan and the member countries of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I am aware of the threatened action by some sectors of the Australian community with respect to a possible boycott of butcher shops and also of the statements that there should be a compulsory ban on the export of beef. [More…]

• Could this result in people who are able to work and for whom work is available being placed on the unemployment benefit at a lower rate of income than that provided by a job which would enable them to make a productive contribution to the community? [More…]

• Up to the present there have been more than 100.000 people unemployed in the community and they are the casualties of the disastrous economic policies of the last Government. [More…]

• They are unemployed not through any fault of their own but because of the incompetence with which economic policy was applied in this community. [More…]

• It should be a reasonable proportion of average earnings in order to keep pace to some extent with the growing prosperity of the community. [More…]

• In fact it was this concern which he stressed, and very correctly so, about inflation eroding the living standard of people dependent on fixed incomes in retirement that led the Government,, when in Opposition, to undertake 2 things - to abolish the means test and give a guarantee to people in retirement that they would at least have this flat rate benefit available to them; but secondly and much more importantly we undertook that we would inflation-proof the benefit rate provided and that we would inflation-proof it in a really meaningful way, a way which would allow those in retirement drawing on this benefit to maintain, insofar as the benefit is concerned at least, a spending capacity relative to average standards of spending available to people in the community. [More…]

• I find it very hard to understand why the Government should seek to curtail debate on a subject on which it claims to have the interest of the less fortunate members of the community at heart. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar has shown much more dedication and concern for the less fortunate members of the community and has done much more to alleviate their distress than any other member of the House. [More…]

• Those businesses employing fewer than 100 persons, those employing fewer than 25 and even fewer than 4 are an extraordinarily large number of units and they have remained throughout the growth of big business a fairly constant proportion of the total, and they service the largest economic organisations in the community in a very vital and significant way. [More…]

• I think of revaluation and also the Government’s obvious inability and what seems to be a lack of willingness to try to get at the basic cause of inflation - that is, excessive wage rates - in the community. [More…]

• If the kind of treatment that this Government is handing out to the small business of farming is any indication then the rest of the business community has not really very much to look forward to. [More…]

• The previous Government set up this Committee under the chairmanship of Mr Wiltshire because it recognised the great importance of small business to the Australian community. [More…]

• Apparently the Government gives this activity a greater priority than it gives to other areas of government responsibility that it should be attending to, such as social welfare and helping the needy in the community. [More…]

• It is the task of the national Parliament to create labour relations which meet and match the needs of the community and which will anticipate and overcome obstacles to justice and common sense in industrial relations. [More…]

• It is determined to keep in proper check those gigantic forces of capital, privilege and power that penetrate the lives of the community at every point. [More…]

• The ILO is unique in the international community because it is the only organisation in which representatives of workers and employers participate on an equal footing with those of governments in policy formulation and decision-making. [More…]

• It is essential, I believe, that Australia have a good record of ratifications if we are to be able to speak with authority and standing in the international community on labour and social matters. [More…]

• provided arrangements can be made to safeguard the interests of the Australian community by the provision of suitable controls or supervision either prior to or following movement to Australia. [More…]

• The Australian community devotes about 20 per cent of the resources available to it to the provision of transport services. [More…]

• We have a mobile community and the realisation of the full potential of this great country will depend in large measure on retention of this mobility. [More…]

• We must compile a list of priorities in finding measures that will be the cheapest and the most acceptable in the community. [More…]

• The introduction of seat belts was not costly and was acceptable to the community. [More…]

• the economic cost to the community of road accidents in Australia in terms of - [More…]

• That is not looking at prices in the community in a one-eyed fashion. [More…]

• I am not aware of the precise action of the firm referred to by the honourable member for Blaxland but I am greatly concerned about the rising interest rates in the community because they have very serious repercussions not only on prices but also, in particular, on those who want to purchase their own homes. [More…]

• It is a very restrictive provision and I am setting out to urge that that restriction be repealed in the interests of education and the enlightenment of the Australian community generally. [More…]

• It has created considerable interest throughout the community and is one which should not be allowed to remain on the notice paper for any great length of time without a decision of this House being taken. [More…]

• The whole purport of the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders is to enable not just the Prime Minister, his Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition to be aware of the circumstances relating to the unforgiveable execution of 3 Australian citizens by a communist government, but also to let all members of this Parliament and the Australian community be aware of the nature of the trial, the circumstances of the judgment and the reason for and the manner of the execution of these 3 Australian citizens. [More…]

• There are a good many gaps in the information available to honourable members of this Parliament and members of the Australian community. [More…]

• Australia as a community and Australians as citizens need to be assured that the Government of this country, for the time being, is pursuing with due diligence and some measure of integrity the inquiries which we believe are essential into the whole of this sorry episode. [More…]

• The former Attorney-General, my colleague Senator Greenwood, had occasion to table a number of additional letters and a number of additional documents in order to expand the amount of information available to the Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• This motion is designed to enable all the Australian community to know the whole truth of the matter and if the Government is honest in its claim that it will pursue a facsimile of open government surely the least it can do is produce the full compass of documents and the full compass of interdepartmental minutes not just to the Leader of the Opposition but to us all. [More…]

• However, we believe that the conditions of employment of waterside workers, including excessive payments for idle non-working time, call for urgent examination so that the rate of stevedoring industry charges may be substantially reduced in the interests of exporters, importers and the community at large. [More…]

• I am glad that the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron), who is in charge of this Bill, has had an opportunity to hear that comment because no doubt later in the debate he will indicate the stance which his Government is prepared to take, having regard to the inflationary impact which that particular circumstance and others like it are causing, not simply on the waterfront at the present time but on the general level of wages and salaries throughout the community. [More…]

• This is a philosophy which will disadvantage small unions and small employers, fixed income earners and pensioners - in fact, all those sections in the community which have no access to monopoly power. [More…]

• The overall level of idle time is a major cause of increased costs for shippers and the Australian community in general and it calls for urgent examination. [More…]

• Unwarranted agreements on wages and conditions of employment, increasing levels of inefficiency attributable to idle time and the degree of industrial unrest for political reasons impose unnecessary and unjustifiable costs on exporters, importers and the community in general. [More…]

• I want the Minister in this debate later, when he has an opportunity to speak out, to do just that - to be critical of both of the principal parties - because he knows that those parties have taken the Australian community for a ride; that the agreements into which they both freely have entered, according to the terms of his own industrial philosophy, have created a level of featherbedding on the waterfront which has been a major national scandal affecting not simply the parties concerned. [More…]

• We view with concern the extent to which this Bill clearly foreshadows increased costs for the community. [More…]

• He should let the community know whether he is prepared simply to bless and endorse the agreements which will be made - out of all proportion to any sense of national responsibility - and their impact on the public interest. [More…]

• Certainly he has the respect of the community. [More…]

• But should the community pay this price? [More…]

• Why does the shipper, the Australian community, pay for them to sit around? [More…]

• In Mount Druitt where 47,000 people were housed it was 6 years after completion of the housing project before the Council was able to provide a footpath, a community centre and a baby health centre. [More…]

• The desire of the present Minister to take positive action to assist those persons in the community who have been victims of the past Government’s lack of concern is recognised. [More…]

• I say this with knowledge of my own electorate and of the community generally. [More…]

• But there are people in the community who are on low incomes and who are paying high rentals. [More…]

• Since these safeguards were abolished certain people in the community have fleeced tenants. [More…]

• Usually such an area is being developed at a dramatic rate and lacks some of the very important community developments and community facilities. [More…]

• So far all that the community is to get out of the developing companies is a playing field and an amenities centre. [More…]

• The facts, as evidenced only the other day at a function I went to, are that the men and women of that area are prepared to work far harder for their community organisations than are people from more affluent areas. [More…]

• There is no doubt that it is an area with problems brought about because of sudden, dramatic mass development in one area; brought about in particular by the policies of the previous Government and by the policies of the Government of New South Wales; brought about because the housing commission only subdivides land, builds the streets and puts houses there but does not provide any other community facilities or even access roads. [More…]

• There are no community centres. [More…]

• Provision should also be made in the new agree ment for the States to provide the necessary community facilities such as playing fields, libraries and swimming pools. [More…]

• Necessary community facilities should also be provided. [More…]

• But this decentralisation program will only progress, of course, in conjunction with the basic needs of the community, and one of the basic needs is housing. [More…]

• It was quite observant of the Government to notice the need for housing accommodation within our community. [More…]

• Many people within the community have a desire to own their homes. [More…]

• If the Government is going to spend money on housing, homes for the aged, particularly for the frail aged, are one of the crying needs within our community. [More…]

• Report by the Immigration Advisory Council Committee on Migrant Youth - ‘Migrant Youth in the Australian Community’: Commenced March 1970; completed February 1971. [More…]

• However, it is considered any impact would be within the economic capacity of the community. [More…]

• However, it is considered the introduction of 4 weeks leave is within the economic capacity of the community. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) Requests for financial assistance which my Department receives from organisations or persons acting on behalf of migrants fall generally in 2 areas - those which relate to assistance in acquiring land or premises for the establishment of ethnic clubs and those which relate to funds to support the employment of persons engaged in welfare work in the migrant community. [More…]

• Community agencies engaged in direct welfare service to migrants may apply for a grant to meet the salary costs of a social worker to further expand such work. [More…]

• A requirement of the community agencies grant scheme is that the social worker to be appointed must be qualified and eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers. [More…]

• One is the matter of credit control from the community point of view generally. [More…]

• I am sure that I speak for the great majority of people in this country when I say it is that which has caused a deep sense of offence to those who live in our community. [More…]

• It was our party’s well-publicised judgement that attractive conditions of service would make it easier for young men and women to make their decision to enlist in the service of their country without being penalised relative to the remainder of the community. [More…]

• But even so the moral question would still remain, and I believe that few people would agree that young men and women who have willingly offered to serve their country and pay the supreme sacrifice if needs be, should be disadvantaged in relation to the remainder of the community, but it does appear that since 1949 Austraiian governments have not subscribed to this sentiment. [More…]

• It is a description of long standing within the community and is recognised as something associated with the defence of this country- I think it is an insult to those people who served in the First World War and the Second World War to alter the name of the Act at this stage just because the Government wants to include national servicemen, who do not go away, as a sop to keep them in the armed forces. [More…]

• The increase provided for in the Bill is most welcome also in that field- I trust that the increase will also play an important role in the development of community health services and the like - choose whatever label you wish to describe them - with particular reference to social and preventive aspects of community medical care. [More…]

• It seems to me that much of the present confusion and concern about the state of Australia’s abortion law would not arise if these types of highly trained and qualified people were available locally to the various counselling services, community health services and all sorts of community care services at the local level. [More…]

• There they could be readily accessible to individual members of the community and we would not be faced with nearly the difficulty and sometimes frenzy that we presently face. [More…]

• The universities’ heyday of almost infinite expansion vis-a-vis other sections of the community is well and truly over and the question of priorities is most pressing. [More…]

• 1 think there is a widespread belief in the community itself that this is a most legitimate and useful way of extending assistance to students. [More…]

• The development of community health centres will create a greater demand for them. [More…]

• One might say that they were the better trained and better educated section of that community. [More…]

• Does he regard 31 hours of debate as an efficient means of dealing with a social question of very’ great importance to a very large section of the Australian community or should it rather be seen as a travesty of democratic parliamentary government? [More…]

• May I add that there is significance in their choice of a women’s embassy because there is oppression against women in this community. [More…]

• I say categorically that it is better for the community as a whole if interest rates are lower rather than higher. [More…]

• The Government’s announced plan is to shore up the less efficient industries in the community, having caused this damage to the mining industry. [More…]

• The people involved would be regarded as a forgotten group in our community - a group which I believe could claim a sense of genuine injustice for the way in which it has been treated. [More…]

• It is not a small group within our community. [More…]

• For this reason there are no organised groups as such and they have no voice in the community. [More…]

• On 9th November he announced the appointment of the position of Minister (Commercial) to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In our community there are many facets that affect the cost of goods to consumers and to pick on any one broad category, as this reference tends to do, places undue emphasis on areas within which there have been adverse increases in prices and on the reasons for those increases. [More…]

• Its policies on expenditure, the changing volume of expenditure in the public sector and the minimal steps it has taken, particularly in the industrial and wage sectors, demonstrate that while things are allowed to run we will have inflation to an increasing degree in our community in the next few years, and that is something of very real concern. [More…]

• The Opposition does not oppose the reference but it has some reservations about the degree to which this or any other reference to the Committee is likely to contain inflationary effects within the community. [More…]

• Of the areas of cost movement in the community that have, been given publicity none has received more publicity than has meat prices. [More…]

• Joint Committee on Prices, in addition to the general concern I expressed a moment ago in relation to the first reference, is that the problem which exists in the community is largely a matter of availability of meat. [More…]

• If as a result of this reference there is to be generated in the producing community a feeling of uncertainty, a feeling that meat prices are to be reduced below comparable profit levels in other sectors of agriculture, it could well be that this reference and any subsequent public examination by the Joint Committee might aggravate the circumstances which create the present high prices for meat. [More…]

• I think that the Government and the community need to be aware that if this action disrupts the normal forces of supply and demand it could well aggravate the prevailing circumstances of high prices for lamb, mutton and the. [More…]

• We are cynical about the degree to which a reference of this character is put forward by the Government as being a major effort to contain inflationary forces in the community. [More…]

• In so deterring them, I hope that it does not so depress the confidence of the producer community that meat prices and the availability of meat are aggravated as a result. [More…]

• It is absolute nonsense to put forward a reference of this character as a meaningful attack on the inflationary forces in the community. [More…]

• However, it does not believe that it is in the best interests of consumers or of stabilisation of meat prices in the community. [More…]

• What he really means is that the Government ought to control wages and prices in every section of the community except in the area about which he is concerned; that is the prices that farmers receive. [More…]

• All we get is a complete lack of sympathy for a sector of the community that needs help. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Kingston insists on going on with his antics, which are quite divisive in terms of the Australian economy, that is his business, but I am quite sure that honourable members on this side of the chamber will back me up when I say that we do not stand for trying to divide the community into groups. [More…]

• He suggested that social workers as a ‘prime civilising force, must compel world society to recognise that people die inwardly from being nameless and faceless, from not having roots in the community - from having to react endlessly to a thousand small uncaring ways’. [More…]

• Their role should be more in the area of preventing things going wrong and even, as 1 have mentioned, in assisting with the planning of social services to prevent happenings among the ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt, as the honourable member for Chisholm said last night, that there is a great and growing need throughout the community for increased numbers of social workers. [More…]

• I think this is a significant response to a deeply felt social awareness by a large number of people and I think that the increased number of males being trained for social work will result in increased benefits right throughout the community. [More…]

• Dealing very briefly with the proposal to increase the allocation of funds for libraries at colleges of advanced education, I am one of those who believe very deeply that library facilities, not only in educational institutions but also right throughout the community, should be built up in the most rapid manner possible. [More…]

• This is a loss which the individual and the community can ill afford. [More…]

• But this lack of uniformity is a reflection of the unclear attitude of educational institutions, employers of social workers, the community in general and probably social workers themselves about what sort of people social workers are, what their job is to be and the kinds of qualifications they should- have. [More…]

• Such courses get very little recognition or financial assistance despite their valuable contribution to the community. [More…]

• Increasingly in our community there is recognition of the tremendously important role to be played by social workers. [More…]

• To name but a few, social workers are required for work in hospitals, in the field of geriatrics, in child care, among the migrant community, in local municipalities and in Commonwealth and State Government departments. [More…]

• The honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) spent some time condemning the previous Government for not allocating enough funds generally for education but particularly towards developing a task force to alleviate particular social problems in the community. [More…]

• Earlier today we were considering one of the measures of the Government supposedly to contain inflation in the community. [More…]

• There is provision in the Bill for specific moneys to increase the number of qualified social workers in the community. [More…]

• The need for social workers certainly exists but the area within which they can work and the opportunities they have for undertaking work in relation to the need in the community do not always match the character of their training. [More…]

• We should be conscious of the need in the community as well as of the standard and* character of education. [More…]

• In our universities today we are educating a lot of young men and young women who, regrettably, may not find adequate opportunity for meaningful employment in the community. [More…]

• There is a real need for study to be undertaken - be it by the universities or within the Department of Education - to determine the extent to which present degree courses and diploma courses will give to the student the sort of qualifications the community needs. [More…]

• I have spoken about social workers and the problems of ensuring that a social worker’s education enables him to go out into the community and meet the community’s need. [More…]

• I think that at a time when we are providing funds for universities we should reflect on the necessity for the training of those who are fortunate enough to receive a university qualification to be translated into meaningful employment in the community. [More…]

• I think it is time that the community faced the fact that when people come to the tertiary student stage some kind of regular financial assistance should be available to them based not on the need of their parents or the wealth of their parents. [More…]

• In other words I believe, and I think the community in the long run will have to face this, as it has with say teacher trainees, that students whose parents are wealthy ought not have to depend on their charity and that students whose parents are poor should not have to depend on the charity of a government. [More…]

• At this stage students ought to be treated as people as such with a role in the community as important as that of anybody in the work force. [More…]

• But the expansion of support for students is, I think, a very important contribution to equality of opportunity in a community such as ours. [More…]

• But I think there are very few people in the community in their early twenties for whom the payment of university fees is not a heavy financial burden. [More…]

• This has particular relevance to Australia at a time when the United States and Japan, each with different balance of payments problems, are seeking a special relationship with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It will enable more of our young people to move into meaningful and productive employment in our community. [More…]

• We owe it to society to give every child a chance within the limits of his ability to make the most of what facilities are available to perhaps the greater portion of the community. [More…]

• The community must be persuaded of the national importance of giving vigorous support to the provision of substantially increased facilities for technical education and training. [More…]

• Such organisations appear to have the view that the community has a responsibility to bear the cost of training workers in the skills required in thenown industries. [More…]

• The same companies, of course, strongly assert their right to act without regard to community interests in respect of the prices charged for goods and services produced by them. [More…]

• The skills required in our community are many and varied. [More…]

• The number of unskilled jobs in our community is rapidly declining and such jobs will be non-existent for all practical purposes within the foreseeable future. [More…]

• We should also encourage the community to recognise the status of technical skills. [More…]

• The time has arrived when our community must recognise that those who produce the goods and services are no less important than are the consumers. [More…]

• But the community suffers because of the absence of training. [More…]

• Australia’s future rate of economic development will be determined by the ability to develop properly planned training programs so that we, as a community, will have the collective technical skills to do those things which are necessary and desirable for the common good. [More…]

• Many of these children have for some years been a heartbreak to their parents and a dreadful loss to the community. [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…]

• They are spread in a diverse way throughout the community. [More…]

• I put it to him that it is only because of the moderation of the Labor Party and the middle of the road social reform party that this element within the Australian community has in fact been curbed and absorbed in many ways within that structure. [More…]

• Its pre-election propaganda sought to convey the distorted impression that a Labor Government would herald a new era of industrial peace and co-operative endeavour which would provide substantial real benefits to employees while ensuring national productivity gains in the interests of all sections of the community. [More…]

• It is a system which has evolved , over the years as a result of statutory enactment, reflecting changes in community standards and judicial decisions. [More…]

• However, we believe that the trade union movement must accept that its significantly changed status in the community and the substantial improvements which have been attained, call for an acceptance of duties and responsibilities. [More…]

• Imperfect competition in many industries may enable unions and employers to combine to exploit their market power at the expense of other members of the community. [More…]

• In the same way, the Government has introduced this Bill without any real consultation with the principal parties in the industrial relations community. [More…]

• It ignores the concept of public interest, it ignores the responsibilities of the principal parties in industrial relations, it ignores the disabling and deleterious effect of industrial unrest, it ignores the economic implications of industrial legislation and particularly the inflationary effects of this legislation, it ignores the vital role of the Commonwealth Public Service in relation to movements in wages and salaries in the general community, and it ignores the manner in which the Government has sought to cut across the traditional independence of the Public Service Board. [More…]

• They seek to bring about a situation in which they can apply economic coercion, with impunity, in support of their vested interests to the detriment of their fellow workers and the community at large. [More…]

• But this Bill represents, for the first time, a proposal to commit, not simply the ALP, but the whole industrial relations community in Australia to such a course; and the man who fought so hard against such a course of action is now charged with the responsibility of its direct implementation. [More…]

• The Opposition and indeed, I believe, the general community, share the Minister’s view. [More…]

• The present Minister knows full well that the removal of all restraints on strikes, both political and industrial, is a proposition that no Govern ment and no community can responsibly support. [More…]

• The maintenance of industrial peace and the adjustment of terms and conditions of employment, are matters not merely of local and private concern but also of vital importance to the community as a whole. [More…]

• It would place them in a privileged position which other citizens and sections of the community do not enjoy. [More…]

• But we believe that the general community has reasons for considerable concern about the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]

• The development of the giant international corporation and the emergence, of a professional management class are 2 factors which have led to this impersonalisation of the industrial relationship in our community. [More…]

• The previous Government last year introduced a wide range of very significant changes to existing legislation to ensure that the procedures of conciliation and arbitration were adequate to meet the circumstances of Australia in the 1970s, to ensure the divorce of conciliation from arbitration, to ensure that there should be available to the working men in Australia a procedure which would be adequate to ensure for them a reasonable and equitable part of the changing productivity and available wealth in this community but to ensure also for the consumer, the producer and the citizen on fixed income a protection against excesses. [More…]

• Generally, in terms of industrial relations I see this Bill as effecting a significant and adverse deterioration of procedures which are available for the protection of trade unionists and members of our community. [More…]

• The second area on which I wish to speak is the impact of this Bill on the inflationary pressures that are at work in our community. [More…]

• Those measures at the same time were intended to reduce the impact of the costpush pressures which are certainly the significant factor in aggravating prices and the erosion of the returns to wage earners and others in our community. [More…]

• Yet last week we had supposedly one of the new Government’s major attacks on the causes of inflation in our community. [More…]

• In the last few days 2 public comments have been made about inflationary pressures in our community. [More…]

• All these adjustments in the public service sector are coming through as distinct contributors towards price increases in the community. [More…]

• So in the whole area of major cost increases in our community there has been a high labour content. [More…]

• The Labor Party seeks to assert an increased role for trade union leaders and shop stewards and to achieve a complete destruction of private enterprise in our community. [More…]

• I had the good fortune to be Minister for Labour for some years when we at least were able to establish conditions for industrial peace which meant that for the succeeding three or four years we had constant growth, a degree of inflation that was minimal and acceptable, and an industrial community that was prepared to accept what was done by the Government. [More…]

• A tort under the circumstances I have mentioned can no longer be committed by a trade unionist, but every other member of the community still has to obey the law of the land and adhere to contracts he has made or the obligation the law imposes. [More…]

• So we have an expression of opinion by many members of the community - I must say unrepresentative members of the community - that the unions must be wrong on all occasions. [More…]

• There can be no question about the need for trade unions in the community. [More…]

• We live in an organised community and society and unless every section of the community, including the working class, is organised there will be a breakdown in our whole system. [More…]

• The whole question of trying to fine, to prosecute and to gaol trade union people when such penalties do not apply against other sections of the community does not stand the test of logic. [More…]

• No power or privilege - private, business or union - within a community should be allowed to go unchecked. [More…]

• Not a word was mentioned about strike action because, of course, the Government is unconcerned about the effect of strike action on the general community. [More…]

• While intiation is running, it causes a vicious redistribution of income in the community. [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…]

• These officials will be given an immunity that nobody else in this community will have. [More…]

• In conjunction with the abolition of sanctions, it will grant to the unions and union officers positions of privilege not enjoyed by other sections of the community. [More…]

• This is not really a fair go for the Australian people, who are very greatly affected by what happens in amalgamations of unions, the putting together of very powerful groups in the community. [More…]

• They are necessarily involved in the effective economic management of the country in achieving the major objectives of economic policy - a reasonable distribution of the national income between the different sectors of the community, as well as in coping with the central problems of achieving full employment and minimising inflation - with a reasonable degree of price stability. [More…]

• The impression has gained currency too often in the community that union law is in some way superior to the law of the Australian nation. [More…]

• The second purpose - and some people would think it a greater purpose - should be to preserve industrial peace in the community. [More…]

• I believe that we have to try to protect not only the whole community but also members of trade unions against that kind of abuse of power. [More…]

• If we are seeking a rise in living standards in the community - and surely we all want that and surely we all want to pay the highest possible wages consonant with avoiding inflation - that can come about only through increasing productivity. [More…]

• I suppose the only way to describe it is to say that it has been approved illegally, but it has had great and beneficial results for the community as well as for the parties involved in industrial disputes. [More…]

• [ refer to the employers or that section of the community which alone controls in this country the forces of production. [More…]

• We and, I am certain, the Australian community recall the pre-election days when the now Government went on to the hustings and sought to herald a new era of industrial peace. [More…]

• We are trying to achieve an optimum level in industrial relations which will act in the best interests of the employer, the employee and the community in general. [More…]

• For your information, conversely it means that if the commissioner thinks it is going to cause a major detriment, which is another way of saying a shattering economic effect, upon the community, he would not make an agreement. [More…]

• The Opposition is saying that the Bill proposes a situation in which major public interest would not be taken into account but it would, and anything which had a shattering effect on the economy would, of course, be a matter of major interest to the community and would be covered by the Bill. [More…]

• In some cases in the past they were required to leave even though there had been a great demand for their services in the Australian community. [More…]

• He would not, without breaching his commission and his oath of office, certify an agreement which, as it were, took away the rights of one section of the community or infringed upon the rights of other sections of the community. [More…]

• It is based on a faith in the collective integrity and collective honour of men and women in our community. [More…]

• Because of the tremendous power that trade unions wield in the community, they cannot be allowed to strike with impunity in the conciliation and arbitration area or, indeed, in the civil jurisdiction because the public interest is very much at stake. [More…]

• But why should unions, their officials and their members be placed in any different situation from other members of the community when by their deliberate, calculated conduct intended to harm a person, that person is injured? [More…]

• There can be none, ff all persons in the community are to be equal before the law and to have equal rights before the law, they must also have equal obligations before the law. [More…]

• It can be said that we on this side are the ones who, in this case, are seeking to uphold the rights of individuals, be they members of a union, be they employees, be they any other members of the community. [More…]

• I think that everybody on this side of the House would assert that workers in the community have a right to withdraw their labour. [More…]

• The prices justification procedures should increase awareness of the problem of inflation, both in the business community and the public at large. [More…]

• The limit of $20m has been struck to ensure that the scheme will be administratively manageable, and yet bring under scrutiny prices charged by the major companies which are the ‘price leaders’ in the community and whose activities can have a significant impact on price levels generally. [More…]

• Now we have another motion from the Government which relates to a measure which has probably generated greater concern in the Australian community, and certainly a greater volume of correspondence for honourable members, than any other legislation or matter that I can recall since I came to this Parliament. [More…]

• Further, I believe, that there is a necessity not only for members of this place to talk about the Bill but also for the whole community to have an adequate opportunity to examine it. [More…]

• J believe that by shortening the debate to the extent that is intended in the motion we will deny the opportunity for parliamentarians here and for the Austraiian community at large to have their point of view and the legislation considered adequately. [More…]

• 1 believe that there should be every opportunity for us to be able to consider and discuss a matter of this character which is of such tremendous interest to the community. [More…]

• 1 think thai the community needs to be able to consider and examine this legislation. [More…]

• This is something which I think that members of our electorates and the Australian community need to recognise. [More…]

• It is a Bill which is of tremendous community interest and which cannot be passed in the way that perhaps some other Bills can without full and adequate debate. [More…]

• Finally, it will further weaken the special relationship that Australia has long enjoyed with Britain at a time when closer ties with that country ought to be fostered following its entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Recent decades have seen a loosening of the ties binding Australia to Britain, and Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community does put our relationship is an entirely different perspective. [More…]

• He has divided the migrant community and, by his outrageous statements on possible deportations, he Kas been responsible for spreading throughout the migrant community a very real sense of fear and apprehension. [More…]

• Or is this sense of fear and apprehension in the migrant community to continue while the Minister sits cosily in his office, busy with other matters. [More…]

• They are not certain what the Minister has in mind, but they believe it is high time he made up his mind and announced to the migrant community, and other Australians, exactly what he is about. [More…]

• Opposition members have spoken to migrants who have that apprehension and on behalf of the migrant community we call upon the. [More…]

• This is a matter which touches everyone in the community. [More…]

• At these ceremonies, so well known to honourable members, the community in which the new citizens live will welcome them into the community and the family of the nation. [More…]

• The Minister, as I mentioned earlier, places great emphasis on measures to promote integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• A person who has entered Australia as an immigrant, in the course of time and by force of circumstance will cease to be an immigrant and become a member of the Australian community. [More…]

• More precisely, what are those circumstances which indicate that the erstwhile immigrant is now absorbed into the surrounding community? [More…]

• I submit it is more than expecting an immigrant only to settle into the Australian community for the purposes of the immigration laws. [More…]

• Absorption into the Australian community is a vague conception, for the process of absorption does not consist in the unilateral act of the immigrant. [More…]

• The community is the final arbiter, lt is the body which grapples with the slippery concept of assimilation, lt is one thing to talk about domicile of choice, but a domiciled person is not necessarily a citizen. [More…]

• Since the United Kingdom entered the European Economic Community the people of all the EEC nations have had freedom of entry into the United Kingdom. [More…]

• They want to become part of the community in which they live. [More…]

• I know that this is not a tangible advantage, but surely it is worth something to become part of a community in which one resides. [More…]

• Migrants cannot really become part of a community unless they participate on a level with their fellow Australian citizens. [More…]

• I sincerely hope that the import of this debate is not lost on the Australian community because whether we like it or not vast changes will be made if this Bill becomes law. [More…]

• The Minister then spoke of an on-call telephone interpreter service to provide a 24-hour service for urgent community needs. [More…]

• The new Minister for Immigration was elected to this House in 1969 and set about convincing the Italian Embassy, the Maltese High Commission and anyone in the migrant community whose ear he could blow into that he was a great worker. [More…]

• However certain people in our community are still able to obtain passports by false or fraudulent means. [More…]

• Every honourable member of this House knows that from time to time some of the spivs in the community are able to obtain passports to leave the country when the law enforcement authorities are looking for them. [More…]

• I say to the Minister for Immigration that I should like to see the principle sold to the Australian community and to this Parliament that people obtaining a passport or responsible migration documents should be invited to submit voluntarily their right index finger print or their left or right thumb print. [More…]

• The Government of Britain has taken that country into the European Economic Community bound by the laws and statutes as laid down by the treaty of Rome. [More…]

• I would be talking more frequently on matters which affect the whole Australian community if the local subjects were able to be taken up by more members as is the case with matters involving metropolitan areas. [More…]

• It then becomes a question of how best to allocate the resources available so as to meet the needs of all sectors of the community. [More…]

• It then becomes a question of how best to allocate the resources available so as to meet the needs of all sectors of the community. [More…]

• Members of the Panel comprise representatives from industry, trade unions, consumers and the Department of Secondary Industry bringing together the collective experience, knowledge and ideas of a wide cross section of the community. [More…]

• I second the motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) that honourable members be given reasonable time to present their points of view on the Medical Practice Clarification Bill which has become such an emotional issue and an issue of such great conscience throughout the Australian community at present. [More…]

• This Bill has excited a great deal of comment in the Australian community; it has excited a great deal of comment in thisParliament. [More…]

• The final side of the triangle, as I see it, is the question of social welfare - how the community supports those people who are less fortunate than others and how we tackle it at that level.I think it is appropriate to quote some of the clauses of the Bill. [More…]

• relating to ‘attempt to procure abortion’ are no longer in accord with the community’s views and attitudes on this question and specifically make no provision for the special circumstances under which abortion should be permitted by law. [More…]

• Medical opinion, as is the case with other opinion in the community, is divided. [More…]

• In fact there is much more correlation between education in the use of contraceptive measures in a community than there is between permissive or restrictive laws. [More…]

• The legislation is to try to do just that - to take the power of repressive laws away from women in this community. [More…]

• The community must make a series of choices. [More…]

• They concluded that, in their metropolitan survey, 32 per cent supported abortion on demand, and that, after analysing the results of other questions, more than half of the community clearly approved of abortion on request. [More…]

• When there has been no comparable organised campaign against the atrocities committed in Vietnam, against capital punishment, against nuclear testing in the Pacific or against an infant mortality rate amongst Aborigines that is 17 times higher than for the general community, one can be excused for thinking that among those who now campaign so strongly against abortion law reform there are many who have a great feeling for foetal life but once it stops being a foetus their respect for human life stops well short of that concern. [More…]

• There is less and less community passion involved in changing this situation as convictions about the sanctity of life diminish. [More…]

• We need the development of community services to help the child who is battered or harmed in unsatisfactory homes. [More…]

• The Bill deals with a matter which goes to the basic philosophical and religious beliefs of the community. [More…]

• In my opinion, but perhaps not in the opinion of others, it raises matters of law, of health, of responsibility, of social justice, of ethics, of morals and of personal and community standards and values. [More…]

• We must have in mind the needs and the good of the community at large and we must look at this Bill not only as individual members of the community but as people whose job it is to enact the community’s laws. [More…]

• It seems that the court had no doubt that this child - although only a matter of a few weeks past conception at the time of the accident - certainly had the legal rights of other members of the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that there is a real question to be dealt with here - whether the right to life of the unborn child can be subordinated to the quality of life of the existing family or the community. [More…]

• Is it right to see abortion as the answer to quality of life problems instead of the greater acceptance of responsibility for providing for the needs of a family and the community? [More…]

• Should we not examine our attitudes, both as individuals and as a community, to the unmarried mother, to the illegitimate child and to the deserted wife? [More…]

• What are the consequences of abortion for women who are aborted, practitioners performing abortion procedures, police enforcing the laws on abortion and the community as a whole. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Australian Country Party said, there is an appalling irresponsibility involved on the part not only of the women concerned but also of the community to which they belong. [More…]

• Variations between countries in the incidence of abortion - and they have been clearly documented - demonstrate conclusively that the ratio of abortions to live births depends not upon the flexibility or rigidity of the laws by which abortion is governed, but upon the initiative which governments show in providing proper sex education and family planning services and the support that is given by public opinion to governments in the provision of these services and their use by the community. [More…]

• A royal commission would be the proper and productive way of bringing home to the community the facts. [More…]

• It is one thing to articulate the conscience of a community and another to exploit that conscience. [More…]

• The establishment of a royal commission on abortion and related issues has been supported by the leader of the Catholic community in Victoria, Cardinal Knox, by the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Woods, and by the Leader of the Opposition in the Victorian Parliament, Mr Clyde Holding. [More…]

• T believe that it is the responsibility of a member to make up his own mind, but not to ignore c- ompletely the wishes of the community. [More…]

• But I am glad that I do not have to fly in the face of my constituents and this community as a whole. [More…]

• It may be that a time will come when the mores of the community are such that it would be regarded as an antisocial act for a woman to seek an abortion unless for due and proper reason. [More…]

• It cannot, by a clever vote, simply be swept under the carpet in the House or in the community. [More…]

• What is its effect upon the community as a whole? [More…]

• Does it mean, as the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley ) has suggested that the community becomes so callous that it becomes like the German doctors who operated upon living adult people? [More…]

• Is it going to make the entire community callous? [More…]

• It is a society that should, as it is developing, place a high emphasis on tolerance and accept divergent points of view in the community. [More…]

• The sentiments I am expressing have already been reflected in different ways by the United States Supreme Court which in, I think, a 5 to 2 majority decision - this kind of issue reflects a divided community - brought down a 3 part decision on how this problem should be treated, in much the same way as this Bill seeks to do, firstly, on request up to a certain number of weeks; after that a second period because a degree of viability has been achieved and in that case a different and more difficult test has to be satisfied; and after that a much more difficult test to satisfy. [More…]

• I accept that there are people in the community who do think in that way. [More…]

• Yet the level of the debate that has been waged in the community is such that abortion on request, which should be the simplest, most honest, cleanest and best way to describe the situation, has been made into a dirty expression as though it were a crime. [More…]

• I accept the division of opinion in the community on this issue. [More…]

• We know that there are ever-changing social attitudes - social values even - questioning constantly in our community such issues as, for example, the age of majority, equality of opportunity - which is an extension of the already achieved right of equality of rights - and freedom of individual expression. [More…]

• There is questioning about divorce and about homosexuality, and even questioning about marriage as a social institution in our community. [More…]

• One area of ferment is the role of women in our community and, of course, when considering the role of women in our community the question of sexual relations comes up. [More…]

• The right to prevent conception is the right of men and women in our community and cannot be changed by edict. [More…]

• It can be a cruel and uncompromising world in which young people live and we need to be more compassionate and understanding as a community, but this Bill does not contribute to that compassion or to that understanding. [More…]

• My attitude is consistent when carried through to capital punishment, sex education, access to professional social welfare workers, child care centres, community assistance programs and so on. [More…]

• The Bill before the House has caused a great deal of concern throughout the community. [More…]

• I submit that the energy, the capacity and the (finance of this community should be marshalled and directed to that end. [More…]

• So much for the medical clarification - and that arrangements presently available, within the law, care adequately for the interests of patients and the community as a whole. [More…]

• The Association wishes the community of Canberra to know how abortion is dealt with in Canberra at this time. [More…]

• The Association considers that this system adequately cares for the interests of members’ patients and for the Canberra community as a whole. [More…]

• History consistently has shown that the downfall of countries has resulted from the lowering of the moral character of the community. [More…]

• Let us reject completely the device of abortion on demand to solve the problem of unwanted pregnancies and concentrate on an educational system which alone offers real hope to the community and would make a real contribution to the strengthening of the character of our great Australian nation. [More…]

• The feeling against the Bill is not confined to any one section of the community; it runs high and wide, and is shared by all concerned - men and women, labourers and professional men, doctors and lawyers, rich and poor and young and old. [More…]

• They include the supervision of insurance brokers, for which legislation is being prepared, overseas ownership and control of insurance companies, which is at present under study, and the general question whether more needs to be done to protect policy owners and to safeguard the community’s interest in general insurance. [More…]

• If people are to have their land forcibly taken from them by a government, for the good of the community, for the good of a new development, or for the social good, we believe those people who have their land taken from them should be paid a just price for it and in the event of disagreement the courts should say what that just price is. [More…]

• In doing so a balance must constantly be struck between the overriding duty of the State to ensure that essential developments are undertaken for the benefit of the whole community and the no less compelling need to protect the interests of those whose personal rights or private property may be injured in the process. [More…]

• If these can be modified, an improvement in the group and social behaviour of the community that lives in cities can be achieved. [More…]

• They will, however, have an important effect on the community by providing a different type of environment where people may go and live and work. [More…]

• More particularly related to this Bill is the fact that the area is deprived of a great number of other community facilities such as roads, libraries, child care centres, recreational centres, social welfare services and all the facilities which are provided by local governments. [More…]

• It has become quite clear that the major reason for this deprivation in regard to local community facilities provided by local government can be traced to two or three factors. [More…]

• This is part of the whole awareness of the environment which is occurring increasingly throughout the community. [More…]

• These people are looking forward to the Cities Commission being the body which will enable them to make available much better community service facilties in their part of the world. [More…]

• A community kindergarten must raise in the vicinity of $6,000 per year where it has a building loan commitment, which usually means that fees are somewhere in the vicinity of $1 per full day of 5i hours or, in the case of half-day sessions of 3 hours, the average fees per session would probably be 70c. [More…]

• The Creche and Kindergarten Association believes - and I support that belief - that community kindergartens should be provided with a grant equivalent to the cost of teaching staff salaries. [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…]

• In the past the matter of pre-school education has not received the support from governments and from the community that it deserves. [More…]

• We should aim to make kindergartens available to all sections of the community. [More…]

• I am proud of the residents of the Darling Downs for their tremendous personal involvement in such worthwhile community projects as kindergartens and associated activities over the years. [More…]

• Some of the brighter gentlemen in our community are fairly regularly saying that goods from the countries I have mentioned should be allowed into Australia without the imposition if tariff duties because these countries are more efficient producers of goods. [More…]

• But the wage levels in Australia are those which are paid to workers on the basis that they are entitled to live it standards which we accept for our community. [More…]

• The possible impact of the European Economic Community’s enlargement, and in particular of Britain’s entry, on Australia’s rural exports has been and remains a subject of close and continuing scrutiny by the Department of Primary Industry and its economic research unit, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. [More…]

• Impact on Australia’s Agricultural Trade of the United Kingdom’s Accession to an Enlarged European Economic Community’, Quarterly Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. [More…]

• The assessment of the impact of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community is a complex task involving a comparison between what might have happened in both the original and new member countries of the EEC in the absence of the Common Market’s enlargement and what might happen as a result of this enlargement. [More…]

• Nor is it by any means certain that the European Economic Community will retain its Common Agricultural Policy completely unchanged in its present form, Britain has already made moves for a review of the CAP aimed at reducing food prices below the levels that would exist under the present policy. [More…]

• There is certainly means test free entry to paying public wards in Tasmania, but in other States a very tight means test is applied and this restricts freedom of choice in the community in relation to entry to public wards. [More…]

• Finally, as regards the last point which the honourable member raised, we have said consistently that pensioners will receive the same standards of treatment and the same rights and privileges as do other members of the community and, accordingly, they will have a full entitlement to private specialist medical services and those private specialist medical services will be covered by our health insurance proposals. [More…]

• But in some situations it may be against the community interest to encourage a particluar industry to survive, anyway. [More…]

• Now that it is in Government, it is rapidly losing its standing in the community. [More…]

• The Cities Commission will draw upon the resources of State governments and local government bodies to assist it in proper community planning. [More…]

• Of course, in housing the Government wants bigger and better State housing commissions with the growth of a rental community. [More…]

• I am talking about the number of people employed and what it means to a community because at this stage of development the important considerations are the numbers and the spread of employment rather than individual standards. [More…]

• Insofar as Australia is concerned, the problem of inflation is particularly relevant at this time when our rate of inflation is the subject of deep concern throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• The ILO is unique in the international community because it is the only organisation in which representatives of workers and employers participate on an equal footing with those of governments in policy formulation and decision-making. [More…]

• It involves the availability of employment opportunities and protection against the capricious actions of governments which can take away from a man his right to earn a living in the community. [More…]

• It is commendable that the Minister has brought these matters, which are of interest and concern to the community, to the people through the medium of the Parliament so that they can be publicly discussed and understood and. [More…]

• The only reservation - perhaps I should not even put it as a reservation - is that I do hope that when Professor Henderson, in considering his report relating to social services, repatriation payments and the means of abolishing poverty within this country looks at automatic adjustments he will take notice of the arguments that are set out in the Pollard report and make adjustments based on the consumer price index with, if necessary, some additional adjustment based upon the fact that the community is becoming increasingly wealthy. [More…]

• Let me say that the community, conscious of its obligations to the aged, doubtless wants the very considerable net transfer, which is growing and will progressively grow, from current income earners to retired persons involved in this process. [More…]

• It is generally accepted that there will be a general reduction in hours of work as the needs of the community are able to be met with less effort by the community itself. [More…]

• This community has now reached the stage where it demands for those who retire the right to live in dignity and to spend their evening years with a reasonable standard of comfort. [More…]

• In my opinion, the community takes the view that those who contribute to wealth during their working life and who make possible the wealth to be distributed, are entitled to share in it when they find it convenient to call it a day in terms of their working life. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) confessed to the House earlier the shortcomings of the previous Government in terms of its acting speedily in respect of this issue but, of course, there are many people in the community who could point out to him that there was nothing new or discriminatory in that attitude. [More…]

• It will have widespread support throughout the community as a whole. [More…]

• 1 believe that the Treasurer, in introducing this measure, deserves the highest commendation both of this Parliament and of the community generally. [More…]

• In the short time remaining to me in this debate I would suggest very firmly that the Government look very carefully at the interests of so many people in the community today who see themselves as future superannuitants with a view to helping and possible educating them, other than through the adult education scheme, so that they may define the sort of area and type of retirement that they, and many of us who have spent a lifetime in servie to the nation, would wish properly to have. [More…]

• I hope that eventually that can be done for everybody in the Australian community. [More…]

• The promise of $500m at 3 per cent to the farming community around Australia was given wide publicity in rural newspapers. [More…]

• In his letter to me the Minister just referred to the fact that the Prime Minister at his Press conference on 30th January had pointed out that these committee reports are attached to Cabinet documents which are confidential and therefore, of course, are not available to any other honourable member or to any person in the community unless the Prime Minister chooses, as he is doing quite frequently, to make the report available to a Press conference but not to this Parliament. [More…]

• This is good country; there is a large diversification of crops, a climate suitable for growing both winter and summer crops, soils with water holding ability equal to any in the world, and experienced farmers willing to make and capable of making efficient and profitable use of this Investment for the benefit of the whole community. [More…]

• He is giving voice, I might say, to a considerable concern expressed by many in our community at the present time. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as fellows: (1-3) The components of 25 houses were delivered to the Ngukurr community in 1972; the autonomous Housing Association at Ngukurr has erected 5 of these and has substantially progressed with the erection of a further 5. [More…]

• Virtually every Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory today includes speakers of more than one language or dialect, though in many one language group predominates. [More…]

• A Royal Commission would point out ins social and personal needs for women in the community - marriage counselling, family planning and sex education. [More…]

• This is because of the manner in which the Government is presently under attack from significant sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• This Government recognises that today it is under major attack from significant sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• It may well be that there would be some who would consider that the community having taxed itself and provided a large amount of capital for the construction of a pipeline need not necessarily go to the further trouble of taxing itself in order to provide the interest on the money which it has previously taxed to provide itself with funds to build a pipeline. [More…]

• This Bill in no way facilitates the availability of supplies of energy to the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course, there, are areas where public authorities demonstrably can provide services for the community where profit is not essential. [More…]

• I find it difficult to see that in the construction of this national pipeline grid, the first part of which is already envisaged, the Australian community will be benefited in any way. [More…]

• The whole of the Bill is designed simply as another part of the Labor Party’s drive to take over the opportunities of progress which have traditionally been for the individual citizen in our community. [More…]

• I am referring to the Natural Gas Pipelines Authority of South Australia, set up in 1967 with the complete and splendid support of the business community in my State. [More…]

• Not only will the programs provide the amenities of life and opportunities for Aboriginal and island people of Australia but they also will create a climate in which they can live peacefully with their fellow Australians and play a positive role in furthering an Australian community. [More…]

• Commonwealth advances allotted to a State housing authority may be used by the authority: (a) to meet the costs of acquisition and development of land primarily for residential purposes; (b) to meet the cost of construction of dwellings; (c) to meet the cost of purchase and upgrading and renovation of dwellings, and of substantial improvements to its existing dwellings, but not so as to include the cost of maintenance; and (d) subject to the approval of the Minister, to provide bridging finance for community amenities that are not the responsibility of the housing authority. [More…]

• The Government is also concerned at the frequent absence of essential community amenities in many new estates developed largely by State housing authorities. [More…]

• In developing areas where the local authority is not yet receiving its full potential revenue from general rates, the Government is willing to approve the temporary use of portion of our housing advances in order to accelerate the provision of essential community facilities where a satisfactory arrangement is entered into between the local and housing authorities. [More…]

• The Government should describe in clear and unmistakable terms the community responsibility which it must exercise if this battle is to be won. [More…]

• This call for Government leadership relates not only to a more forthright expression of Government concern but also to positive indications that the Government is willing to set an example to the rest of the community. [More…]

• There must be not only a more or less equally weighted prices and income control system but it must be seen to be there if any progress is to be made towards the community consensus without which the policy will never work. [More…]

• That gives me the thought that the Tribunal may have the benefit, by way of community education, of demonstrating to the supporters of the Government that business is not the bottomless goldmine - the veritable magic puddin - that so many of them so fondly believe it is. [More…]

• However it is not enough and it is not this Government’s intention to penalise the whole community in the name of wage or price justification. [More…]

• Rather, we have taken the approach of adopting the least authoritarian and coercive approach to the problem of prices in the present period of world-wide inflation that is compatible with a proper concern for the interests of the community. [More…]

• It may be that occasionally the public interest, the interest of the community and the nation, might be served by a price increase, whether consumers like it or not. [More…]

• It is the result of a total combination of the actions and the interactions of the people within the community and it is often fanned along by unwise economic actions on the part of the government of the day. [More…]

• This seems to be an extraordinary approach by a government which has a responsibility not only for individuals within the community but also for the people who serve individuals and for companies within the community. [More…]

• It is my hope that the Australian community does not suffer as much as I think it will from its ultimate inflationary dispepsia. [More…]

• In my 13 years in this Parliament I have used the privilege of disclosing the names of certain individuals in society when I have been positive that they have subverted the law and have been virtual parasites on our community. [More…]

• I intend again tonight in this debate to name certain people about whose nefarious practices in the community and illicit incomes I am positive- This is related to the debate last week on the Medical Practices Clarification Bill. [More…]

• This teaching centre, without doubt, is a place where there is an opportunity to coordinate all Commonwealth education grants and ensure a greater utilisation of Commonwealth grants and a more equitable use of equipment and teachers, ft will promote community involvement in education. [More…]

• The centre will promote community involvement in education and, if adequately funded, might later be available for adult retraining programs - for example, refreSher courses for married women interested in returning to teaching and preliminary courses for persons wishing to become teachers. [More…]

• I believe that any religious group, parliament or body in our community will keep its head buried in the sand if it says the only way to stop the proliferation of sex is to stop magazines with a strong emphasis on sex. [More…]

• The Australian community will be the loser in the long run. [More…]

• If, indeed, the Minister for Labour is right, and the oil companies’ profitability is excessive, surely it would be better for prices to be reduced so the whole community - including the workers - benefit, rather than all the benefits being passed on to a very small group of trade unionists. [More…]

• The Government is a sectional party - it describes itself as the political arm of the trade union movement - and it is prepared to submerge the interests of the community as a whole before the sectional interests of its members. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party policy speech also states that it will ‘convince all sections of the community that responsibilities, burdens and opportunities are to be shared equally by all sections of the community’. [More…]

• There is a growing anxiety in the community to combat inflation. [More…]

• The general community concern is important in considering the adoption of any policy which encompasses both prices and incomes. [More…]

• It is important that the community be prepared to accept direct governmental influence in the level of prices, wages and probably other income as well, if there is to be a real attack. [More…]

• The community must be involved. [More…]

• The report emphasised the need in any prices and incomes policy for social cooperation and interdependence by all parties within a community. [More…]

• However, there is great flexibility in the structure of the Tribunal and there are great hopes that, with the good will of the business community which, I believe, also wants this wages-prices-costs nexus broken, a tremendous amount will be achieved. [More…]

• The attitude of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd in putting its case before Mr Justice Moore’s tribunal showed that the good will certainly exists in some quarters and I believe that the business community of this nation will show more of the attitude of being good Australians and joining with the Government in doing something about this pricescostswages nexus than has been displayed today and yesterday by Opposition members. [More…]

• Australia is awash with funds in the banks in the community. [More…]

• We hope that this will have the result of bringing greater competition to the community. [More…]

• It may well be that we will have to consider in days in the future whether we can permit or, if you like, provide in the law for the arbitration system to take that point of view when it, of course, by its determinations affects greatly the cost of wages in the community. [More…]

• As I said, there are enormous practical difficulties with a large bureaucracy and a reallocation of resources in the community which will give a very different result from that which we have today and which will not necessarily improve it. [More…]

• In regard to the international community, at last count there were, I mink, 135 countries of the world, 109 of which have some contiguity with the sea and all of which in one form or another have a continental shelf. [More…]

• They are much more concerned with pre-schools and social welfare, providing sufficient public open spaces and sports ground and community recreation facilities generally. [More…]

• Rapid expansion of the population in areas like Boronia, Croydon, Montrose and Scoresby and the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges has meant that the demand for services such as those provided by local government, community services and drainage, as well as health services has greatly outstripped the supply. [More…]

• It is an example of an attempt to frustrate the co-operative spirit that must exist between the 3 levels of government - tocal, State and Federal - if the problems of education and other community services are to be overcome. [More…]

• I think that many groups in the community have been priced out of the market by high building costs, high land costs and high interest costs, and surely H should be the concern of all of us to try to lower any and all of those elements. [More…]

• This of course conveniently begs the question that only some people in the community are lenders of money and that very large numbers are borrowers, and surely both sides suffer from the effects of inflation. [More…]

• The ratification means that Australia is at last joining with the other responsible members of the international community in affirming opposition to discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]

• In purely economic terms the community as a whole loses its investment in education and training, and individuals lose their own inputs in time and effort if they are prevented from accepting occupations or employment commensurate with their qualifications and experience because of discriminatory practices. [More…]

• Such cases and such issues should not be put aside or swept under a carpet of community apathy. [More…]

• Overseas experience suggests that fundamental changes in community and individual attitudes are necessary before discriminatory practices can be eradicated and, especially, before the more positive goal of achieving a situation where everyone has equal opportunity in employment and occuptation on the basis of their own abilities, their own qualities and their own desires can be achieved. [More…]

• The purpose of this Paper was to give the Parliament and the Australian community an opportunity to examine the relevant facts before the legislation came forward or before the issues were decided. [More…]

• Is it the intention of the Government to allow donations to aid bodies, such as Community Aid Abroad, as tax deductions, as has been promised from time to time. [More…]

• What are the consequences of abortion for women who are aborted, practitioners performing abortion procedures, police enforcing the laws on abortion and the community as a whole. [More…]

• Is this proposed interference with building societies further evidence of the Government’s desire to build up a renting community and to discourage little capitalists? [More…]

• Everybody knows that of all primary industries the one which has the most effect in the community on low income earners because of its relationship to the cost of bread is the wheat industry. [More…]

• In regard to long-term planning let me now deal with the Leader of the Country Party and what he did in the early 1970s when the most important European Economic Community negotiations with respect to developing Commonwealth countries and Australia were taking place. [More…]

• If we want to talk about the European Economic Community and the person who has done so much to damage Australia’s interests and negotiating strength with the EEC, we need only to read a recent speech of the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) which he gave to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. [More…]

• The whole migrant community in Australia was placed in a position where fears were created amongst migrants that they might be deported, and might be deported to a country which perhaps did not have the protection of citizens, particularly in the case of political offences, which would be applicable here. [More…]

• But I think that does illustrate that there were people in the community who panicked and if they were not aware of what our policy was the panic probably was justifiable because of the possibility of being sent back to Yugoslavia or to some other totalitarian country. [More…]

• I should like to ask the Government to try to publicise in the migrant community the effect of this Bill so that the migrants - certainly naturalised migrants - can be quite sure that they will not be deported from Australia and that they will not be sent back to any country which they fear. [More…]

• We believe that this change is in accordance with modern trends and the greater degree of education which young people have in our present modern community. [More…]

• I should perhaps say, because I believe there are some in the community who will regard this Bill perhaps as loosening some family or parental influences which they consider should be maintained, that the Latey Commission gave very careful consideration to these matters. [More…]

• But there is equally a need to protect sections of the community that can perhaps be nurtured in a way detrimental to their interests and to the interests of the whole community in which they live. [More…]

• There has been concern in the local community where this person lives as well as in the local hospital. [More…]

• The point I wish to make is that by looking to legislation to cover special areas of need there is the extreme danger that in endeavouring to remove discrimination, as it is put, against particular groups with special needs we will in fact create a massive discrimination against those who form the normal groupings within the community. [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…]

• This discrimination between the different family groupings within the community is likely to cause severe difficulty for the future generations of the community. [More…]

• While the previous government was in power we tried to clean up one by one the more pressing pockets of hardship in the community. [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…]

• I can understand the Government’s desire not to make supplementary assistance too widespread through the community. [More…]

• This project arose from the longstanding and widespread concern of the then Government, voluntary agencies and the community generally about the increasing number of deserted wives and unmarried mothers seeking assistance. [More…]

• I hope that it will be the objective of this Government, because the under-privileged section of our community needs very serious consideration. [More…]

• No category of people in the community suffers more than do the pensioners from the problems created by inflation. [More…]

• Whilst 1 welcome the Bill, I trust that this consideration will continue to be given to pensions, both in relation to their purchasing power and in relation to increasing the standard of living of pensioners compared with the general standard of living in the community. [More…]

• It is an approach that gives a fair balance between what is reasonable for the community to provide and what is necessary for the pensioners if they are to enjoy that standard of living which I am sure most of us would agree, and which I certainly uphold, should be provided for the pensioners of this country. [More…]

• However, the redistribution can contribute to social and welfare progress in municipal areas in terms of halls, libraries, swimming pools, community welfare centres, the community nurse nursing service, the family planning centre and so on. [More…]

• It is the potential ability of local government to provide for the immediate access of directly elected representatives to a community which gives it this democratic quality once described by Harold Laski as *the genius of place’. [More…]

• This insurance legislation is in accord with those principles, and I believe those principles to be widely accepted by the Australian community. [More…]

• In reviewing this proposed legislation I emphasise the individual or individual firm’s, and company’s, place in the community. [More…]

• The community and the economy work best when there is not undue interference in the market place. [More…]

• Those areas need to be investigated urgently and legislative protection is crucial if policyholders, shareholders, the industry and the community as a whole are to have the protection and the stability that they deserve. [More…]

• I was interested to read in the Treasurer’s second reading speech that other areas of investigation will be undertaken particularly to protect policy owners and to safeguard the community interest in general insurance. [More…]

• It believed that priorities accorded the competing claims for money should be decided from year to year on the basis of the best possible assessment it could make of the needs of each section of the national community. [More…]

• A range of community and welfare services is now expected to be provided by local government. [More…]

• I think it has to be seriously asked, for instance, whether the cost of services and facilities which benefit the whole community should be mainly borne by property owners. [More…]

• In determining the regional groupings I believe the following criteria could well be taken into consideration: The philosophy of common regions for all government administration, community of interest, population distribution, the pattern of communications, topography and climate including river valleys, the distribution of natural resources, the pattern of industrial and commercial development, existing government administrative divisions, capacity to sustain a regional centre and to develop a regional identity, conformity with local government boundaries and accordance with statistical divisions. [More…]

• In later years, especially since the Second World War, councils have been called upon to provide a whole range of cultural, recreational and community services which benefit all the people and have no relation whatever to property. [More…]

• It has now entered the wider role of providing welfare, which is urgently needed in the Australain community. [More…]

• It might be thought and properly argued that local government has now reached an age and a measure of power, independence and influence sufficient to enable it to carry out its wider community responsibilities. [More…]

• This clearly is the area m which local government expenditure in the near future will rise sharply if local government is to meet reasonable community needs and the needs of good administration. [More…]

• Rating thus covers as broad a spectrum of the community as does income tax, and is far less regressive than sales tax, for instance. [More…]

• They lambast us with International Labour Organisation principles and average wages; but where are they when it comes to dispensing justice to a section of the community which is subject to tremendous pressure from economy, science, philosophy and now a Government which is not concerned with its plight? [More…]

• It has provided an example of community service, allied with enrichment of personal skills and development of individual character of enormous significance. [More…]

• These people are entitled to the support of the community. [More…]

• The only way in which adequate community support can be given is through the attention of this Parliament. [More…]

• On 26 January, Australia Day, a Council of 24 was appointed, including the Chairman cf the constituent Boards and others capable cf providing special knowledge of the arts and of the needs of the community in this field. [More…]

• Proposals to extend public enjoyment of and participation in the arts, to raise the status of artists in the community and to explore means of opening doorways to the arts for young people have also received prompt attention. [More…]

• Meanwhile, presumably the trust account would assume swollen proportions, yet would be put to no real use in assisting the home-seeking community. [More…]

• In other words, the holders of these certificates are to be singled out as the only members of the community who are to be fully protected against the effects of price inflation. [More…]

• To provide to any section of the community a benefit which cannot, with any precision whatever, be evaluated, would be quite contrary to the proper principles of public finance. [More…]

• But honourable members will realise that because of many causes - and I do not want to say that these are good or bad, but simply to record what has happened - over recent decades the position of the young married couple with a child has deteriorated in the community. [More…]

• It is true that anything that is done to help a deserving section of the community must put some strain on Commonwealth revenues. [More…]

• As more and more women work and have higher and better standards of education they wish in many instances to continue te be involved in the community outside the home. [More…]

• The difficult choices are placed before them because of our failure and the community’s failure to identify the changed circumstances and to meet the challenge of those circumstances. [More…]

• Many young women want to continue such involvement within the community, working and using the skills for which they have been trained. [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…]

• This legislation recognises that we must reappraise many of our social welfare measures to ensure that inherent in them are no side effects which will put impossible burdens upon the normal families in the community. [More…]

• I served in local government for 12i years, and so there are a number of people in this chamber who speak with a great deal of sincerity about the needs of local government and the way in which it should be helped to serve the community in this very important sphere. [More…]

• This is not to say that the Commonwealth Government should not assist local government through the States to help local government discharge its community responsibilities. [More…]

• There is a great need to relieve taxpayers of the increasing burden of rates and to transfer the cost of local government more equitably across the whole community rather than leave the weight as it now rests upon the shoulders of a minority section of the community in many instances - the ratepayers. [More…]

• If local government has to service the community needs on a broad front, the community as a whole should share more appropriately the cost of those services. [More…]

• It has done nothing about supplying the necessary community facilities such as swimming pools, community centres, playing fields and the like. [More…]

• The whole burden of supplying these community facilities has fallen upon the local councils. [More…]

• In this affluent and successful country Australians are entitled not only to adequate roads, water and drainage and sewerage but also to libraries, recreation facilities, community centres, child care centres and cultural centres. [More…]

• This would mean little difficulty except that certain local government areas may face special difficulties as a result of an influx of migrants or young families who place greater demands on community services than do older people because the extra people outnumber the extra ratepayers in any such increase. [More…]

• Comparatively, the western suburbs are deprived in that they lack a great number of community services such as roads, libraries, child care centres, recreational centres and social welfare services. [More…]

• The benefit principle of taxation is more appropriate for most local government services but is most inequitable for social welfare services which should be provided from community revenue. [More…]

• The Act attempts to avoid the charge that lazy local governments - those which have not fully used local sources of revenue - will be favoured over those which by dint of hard work and responsibility have obtained the revenue necessary to provide essential community services. [More…]

• There was a great fear within the community that under this Bill TAA would be able to avoid paying such things as liquor licences, entertainment taxes - it proposes to run a number of entertainment places - and also road taxes and a number of other State charges and taxes. [More…]

• It should not be overlocked, however, that equally important parts of our foreign policy have required not specific actions but continuing activity directed towards strengthening relations with Japan, India and the Association of South East Asian Nations, with the United States and Canada, with Britain, and the other members of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The most glaring distortion in our pattern of overseas representation was China, which ignorance, prejudice and Cold War hostility had excluded for a generation from her rightful place as a member of the international community of nations. [More…]

• It was therefore only logical that we should from an early stage have examined the possibilities of bringing into existence the kind of regional community which, as I said in my speech to the Summer School of the Australian Institute of Political Science on Australia Day, would be ‘an organisation genuinely representative of the region, without ideological overtones, conceived as an initiative to help free the region of Great Power rivalries that have bedevilled its progress for decades and designed to insulate the region against ideological interference from the Great powers’. [More…]

• Papua New Guinea will occupy a special position on Australia’s network of relationships, but we do not seek an exclusive relationship with Papua New Guinea which will want to find her own place in the international community. [More…]

• We consider that these proposals have essentially the same objectives as our conception of a new regional community, namely, to allow peaceful development and the adjustment of relations among the countries to our west and north, free, so far as is possible, from outside interference. [More…]

• With an interest rate of 4 per cent for housing authority purposes and 4i per cent for home building accounts, which are fixed rates for the duration of the agreement, and repayment by the States over 53 years, the proposition is very attractive and will go a long way towards keeping costs down and creating a more settled community. [More…]

• Another short term factor affecting housing costs is the prosperity currently being enjoyed by the community. [More…]

• It is very pleasing to see that the Minister has recognised that the co-operation of the States with local government is vital and that the States will have the power to advance to local government by way of bridging finance moneys that will be used by local government to provide essential amenities, such as park and recreation areas, community centres, swimming pools and so on. [More…]

• The Government is also concerned at the frequent absence of essential community amenities m many new estates developed largely by State housing authorities. [More…]

• In developing areas where the local authority is not yet receiving its full potential revenue from general rates, the Government is willing to approve the temporary, use of portion of our housing advances in order to accelerate the provision of essential community facilities where a satisfactory arrangement is entered into between the local government and housing authorities. [More…]

• The sooner it comes into operation the sooner we will have a more contented community. [More…]

• He talked about home ownership not being available to certain sections of the community and mentioned that this legislation was designed to help overcome that situation. [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…]

• There are churches and factories of various sorts and shops whose purposes and styles are as varied and seemingly as unconnected as the houses, giving the community a vitality that I regret is being undermined by uncertainty about the future. [More…]

• Many of the residents of this area do not care about this community. [More…]

• They see it as a mess of old run-down houses and they will sell out for flat development, which also will add to the variety of the community. [More…]

• I think that every honourable member with any sense of feeling for members of the Australian community would share the thoughts expressed by the honourable member for Batman (Mr Garrick) and other honourable members. [More…]

• But to be quite realistic, there will always be needy people in the community, as the honourable member for Batman implied. [More…]

• However, the point I want to make is that the Labor Government has no monopoly of concern for and interest in the average person, or perhaps even the below average person, in the Australian community. [More…]

• Its contribution would have been a generous one to a section of our community who are disadvantaged by where they live if it had been accepted by the States in the manner in which it was offered. [More…]

• He has passed on to the Minister not only his own thoughts but also the thoughts of a very concerned and very unhappy community today. [More…]

• The community, through the Commonwealth, should be called upon to give this movement adequate support. [More…]

• The only thing that has motivated them has been a desire to serve their community and their fellow man and a feeling that they are making a contribution to the community of which they are a part. [More…]

• I think that sometimes we tend to give more thought and consideration than we should to the groups of young people who are depicted in the mass media as demonstrating against and trying to upset community affairs. [More…]

• By providing financial encouragement, I believe the Commonwealth Government also would give a great deal of heart to those young people who are giving of their time and effort to provide such an important service to the community. [More…]

• I do not regard it as particularly charitable and I believe that there has to be new thinking and new orientation in the way in which we provide accommodation facilities for the aged in the community. [More…]

• think it would be generally rejected as a concept by the majority of Australians, because after all, we are a developing and a growing community. [More…]

• I wish to make only a few remarks but 1 want to refer to the dedication of the Minister for Housing and to that of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) in attacking this great problem facing the Australian Government, the problem of providing housing, particularly for the low income group of people in our community. [More…]

• One other important aspect of this Bill which has never been provided for in any other Bills of this nature and which makes a significant advance, is that the States through their housing authorities may provide to local government areas bridging finance so that community facilities can be provided. [More…]

• This is a significant advance because in the past when we have built public housing that is what we have done: We have built public housing with no consideration whatsoever for the community in which the people had to live, the environment in which they had to live. [More…]

• This Bill allows the housing authorities - and I hope that each of the States will exercise its prerogative in this regard - to provide to the local government area responsible the bridging finance so that it can immediately provide the community amenities that are so urgently needed if we are to have communities rather than groups of housing for people to live in. [More…]

• It is progressive legislation that will over a period of years overcome the enormous problem that wc have in the Australian community. [More…]

• Buying a house is compulsory saving, and if there is one thing in this community that a family should have it is security in some form. [More…]

• We believe our home ownership policy is an excellent one and that people who have availed themselves of it are very happy people in our community. [More…]

• Our Housing Commission estates both in the metropolitan area and in the country have benefited by this policy of 50/50 roughly of home ownership and tenancy because it has elevated the image of Housing Commission Estates right throughout the community. ‘ [More…]

• Mr Dedman said that they would not, because home ownership only created a community of little capitalists. [More…]

• That Government is selling off houses as quickly as it can without consideration for the needs of the community at all. [More…]

• One hopes that in this pursuit of the employer the Labor Government will not kill the chook that is providing employment for so many people in the Australian community and will not destroy the vitality which has been a significant part of Australian life. [More…]

• It sets out the general principles which we want to adopt for a national recreational program, involving not just a few groups in isolated recreational pursuits but the whole of our community. [More…]

• It can be the most marvellous leveller in a healthy, democratic community. [More…]

• He undertook that the Government would establish a series of community centres to cater for the young and the old; and that the Government would design large multipurpose centres at schools for use by the students and the local community, to satisfy the need for cultural, sporting, recreational and artistic activities. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I can now assure you and the House that the Prime Minister’s promise will be kept; that such community centres will be established, equipped, staffed and used. [More…]

• This is among the recommendations of this report and their implementation will ensure the sowing of seeds for healthy growth in the field of community recreation. [More…]

• He was referring to the Australian Housing Commission he proposed to set up - a rental community. [More…]

• After 23 years of being in the wilderness Labor is in power again and is up to its old tricks to build up a rental community. [More…]

• The young people who seek these grants prefer activities which are informal and unstructured but which for them nevertheless provide the same experience and pleasure as more traditional art forms do for many other people in their community. [More…]

• Is the number of doctors graduating in Australia sufficient to keep pace with community needs? [More…]

• Will he open either an office or an agency of his Department in every community centre throughout Australia so that all people, especially those in rural areas not already served by such facilities, will have easy access to information concerning their social welfare entitlements? [More…]

• The systems of social security benefits and health and welfare services will be vastly improved as the Government explores new horizons for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• I doubt that there has been a time for many years when there has been so great a degree of uncertainty, not to say alarm, among the Australian business community - in manufacturing, mining, agriculture and, indeed, tertiary industries as well. [More…]

• The community will not accept the adverse effects of a spanking rate of inflation - one might speak of super-inflation, but any rate of inflation in excess of, say, 3 per cent - that may sound exaggerated - is unacceptable in the long term, and we need to lose no opportunity to stress the fact. [More…]

• The community will not accept the adverse effects of super-inflation as they become increasingly manifest. [More…]

• Not only must there be an equally weighted prices and incomes control system but also it must be seen to be there if any progress is to be made towards achieving that community consensus without which the policy will never work. [More…]

• Is there not therefore a real basis for the uncertainty, for the alarm, that pervades the Australian business community and indeed the whole community. [More…]

• In speaking to the Supply and Appropriation Bills 1 wish to bring before the House a matter that is of great concern to me and, I believe, to the public of Australia, and that is the alarming duplication of facilities which occurs at present in our community and of course the resultant waste of public moneys. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the facilities within our schools which too often are not accessible to the community. [More…]

• I was encouraged yesterday in a tour of Canberra schools to speak to the principals and ask them this question: To what extent is the community able to use the facilities - the halls, the ovals and so on? [More…]

• The gates can be locked, the libraries closed and no use whatsoever made of facilities which, I submit, belong to the community and not to any small group of people who happen to be in control of them at the time. [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…]

• I believe that these matters are pertinent to this Parliament, particularly at a time when we are considering appropriation and supply, especially since we as a government have committed ourselves to an increased flow of money to the local community. [More…]

• I believe he is entitled to see that his money is well spent and not spent in such a way that there is a duplication of facilities already provided in the community. [More…]

• I put forward for consideration several proposals which I submit would lead to a saving of public moneys and in the long run would enable the provision of better community facilities. [More…]

• The design must take into account the needs of the local community. [More…]

• Schools must be designed in such a way that the facilities that can be utilised by the community are separated so that people will not have to wander all over the schools. [More…]

• Secondly, I submit that in our country towns, particularly the small country towns, there is a need for co-operation between all levels of government in the development of community centres - call them community leisure centres or what you will. [More…]

• I WaS impressed wim the fact that in these plans it was envisaged that facilities for the total community would be built on school property. [More…]

• Gymnasiums, changing rooms, a small theatre, a small library, a canteen, and all saenger pf (bingo which ore not present within the le$al community would be provided. [More…]

• The importance of the library in the community is an accepted fact. [More…]

• He prepared a report on the subject of community leisure centres. [More…]

• I point but that Mr Clarke studied community leisure centres in the United Kingdom and other European countries. [More…]

• Part of the answer would appear to lie in arranging for school facilities to be made available to the community in a complementary relationship to those which are community sponsored. [More…]

• Firstly, this Government has accepted the clear mandate from the electorate to give some of the wealth of the country to the underprivileged members of our community. [More…]

• This is a prerequisite for us being able to allocate our resources more effectively throughout the community. [More…]

• Clearly we need to establish a much more rational and sensible social basis for our community if we are to have a rational, sensible economy. [More…]

• The Government has foreshadowed legislation through such ministerial verbosity that much of the Australian business community is suffering from future shock. [More…]

• Like Alvin Toffer’s victims of future shock the people in the business community are unable in an environment that is unfamiliar, rapidly changing and unpredictable, to make a reasonably correct assessment on which rational behaviour and sound judgment depend. [More…]

• The example it gives will run right through State and local governments and the business community. [More…]

• At least the Government has overcome the problem of unemployment which is the most dreaded spectre in the Australian or any other community. [More…]

• We recognise also, as I think did the right honourable gentleman himself, that no government has been able to control inflation properly unless it has inflicted upon the community controls which the community ultimately would want to reject. [More…]

• A government has a responsibility to legislate for the social, moral and cultural needs of all sections of the community and not just of a privileged few from the large centres of population. [More…]

• My colleague, the honourable member for Canning (Mr Hallett), this morning spoke about the future of building societies in the economic life of the Australian community. [More…]

• On the Darling Downs, as in Western Australia, as the honourable member for Canning pointed out, some building societies have been in existence for almost a century and have fulfilled a service to the community for which there has been a most pressing need. [More…]

• I refer to the service of supplying housing finance and a method of investment by local people who wish to contribute to the solidity of their community. [More…]

• I am opposed to moves which emanated from the Government side of the House which sought to implement policies to deny the meat producers of Australia the same standard of living as the rest of the community. [More…]

• Socially, it has another great problem in that it bears most heavily on people on fixed incomes, those who have saved for the future and have shown the desirable qualities that we have always looked for in our community. [More…]

• Morally, inflation really gives an opportunity for the quick buck merchant to make a lot of money at the expense of other sections of the community. [More…]

• It is that the proportion of gross national product received by the wage earning section of the community remains constant if one examines it over, say, 4-year periods. [More…]

• Indeed, if we look at the experience in the 4 years following 1955-56, the share of the GNP going to the wage earner or the salary earner sections of the community was 63.2 per cent. [More…]

• In other words the proportion of the GNP cake that goes to the wage and salary earning section of the community always remains approximately the same. [More…]

• I have always had the uneasy feeling, which one would expect of a conservative, that socialism dampens the fires of incentive throughout the whole community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that terms and conditions of employment in the Public Service should in all aspects be competitive with conditions generally applicable throughout the community. [More…]

• We believe that the Government must be an enlightened and progressive employer and that there is no reason why it should lag behind the general community in terms of management policy. [More…]

• This is a concept that is well-developed in the private sector of the general community. [More…]

• The Opposition does not assert that the question of costing must be exclusive in terms of decisions but it remains highly relevant when the economy’s inflationary difficulties are causing widespread concern throughout the community. [More…]

• It has been estimated that the cost to the community of this Bill, having in mind its flow-on effects, could exceed $32m. [More…]

• The Government must realise that the iniquity of inflation is that it inflicts the most harmful effects on the very people in the community whom governments have a direct obligation to assist. [More…]

• Through the Bureau we actively sought ways to enable women in the community to play a role in the labour force commensurate with the talents and the many resources which they have to offer. [More…]

• The needs of women in the Australian community are too important to be “treated in isolation. [More…]

• As a community we should ensure that the mother’s role should be made easier rather than harder. [More…]

• Although this provision will apply only to the Commonwealth Public Service in the immediate sense it will allow a useful sociological and economic experiment to be undertaken in this community. [More…]

• I agree with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that once the success of this experiment is illustrated and once its benefits are so obvious to the community as a whole others will follow suit. [More…]

• The provisions of this Bill are consistent with the recommendations of the International Labour Organisation made in 1919 and therefore deserves to be supported by all sections of the Community. [More…]

• This illustrates that in this type of legislation we have not only concern for those who are part of a married family unit but also a growing concern for unmarried mothers in this community. [More…]

• It represents a community benefit both economically and culturally. [More…]

• This Government can be seen to be actively pursuing the goal of achieving happiness in our community. [More…]

• Following the very substantially improved benefits proposed for Commonwealth employees under the Compensation Bill, it is fair, I believe, to ask the question: Does this Government intend to make one section of the work force a very privileged section of the community and disregard the claims of other sections of the work force for similar benefits? [More…]

• Because this factor apparently has not been taken into consideration it draws attention to the ad hoc piecemeal approach to legislation which provides benefits to sections of the community. [More…]

• Surely there is justice in making allowance for the problems that maternity brings to this section of the community. [More…]

• Surely this is a very deserving section of the community. [More…]

• I point out that all these things are at cost to the community and as such they have to be taken into consideration. [More…]

• As I said, we on the Opposition side, which includes the Country Party, are not going to oppose this Bill because of the benefits that it will bring to that section of the community which we serve. [More…]

• But I draw attention to the fact that this Bill does not give benefits even to more deserving people who could have been provided for if the Government had given consideration, which I thought it would give to the rest of the community as well as Commonwealth Government employees. [More…]

• Yet there are few jobs in the Australian community which to such a large degree have a bearing upon the actual state of the nation and the actual wellbeing of every individual in the community. [More…]

• I believe that the amendments to the parliamentary and judicial retiring allowances legislation will be of that character and will in fact encourage persons in the community to forsake whatever their other way of life may be. [More…]

• The Opposition, and certainly the Country Party element of it, supports the changes and believe that they will be in the interests not only of the Parliament and the judiciary but of the whole of the Australian community and those who in the future might stand for positions in either sector. [More…]

• There are objective people in this community. [More…]

• community or diversity of interests; [More…]

• I understand that in committee the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr N. H. Bowen) will move an amendment seeking to alter the wording of Clause 10 (2) (a) to read: community of interests within the Division, including economic, social and regional interests’. [More…]

• The population of the Northern Territory includes the highest percentage of Aborigines when compared with persons of any other group within this community of ours. [More…]

• It is completely unethical and completely restrictive for a Retravision group, with its group buying pressure, to intimidate Thorn Electrical Industries to cease supplying Howard’s Electronic Service Co. What is more important is that the local community, which has been receiving service at a reasonable figure, is being denied the continuation of the service provided. [More…]

• If not, what steps are being taken to ensure that workers are not held prisoners in workshops because of lack of knowledge of the national language and the community outside? [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition believes that interest rates are too high, I suggest that he make some sort of exhortation to those bodies in the community on which there is no restraint at the moment and which are offering 9 per cent and 9i per cent for short term money. [More…]

• If the States are to be able to create these resources and spend this money, the Committee feels that the urgency of the school replacement and upgrading program would, if necessary, justify restraint on large scale commercial building, which it believes should have a lower priority than buildings for these essential community services. [More…]

• Diversity among schools in their structures, curricula and teaching methods; The devolution, as far as practicable, of the making of decisions to those work ing in or with the schools - teachers, pupils, parents and the local community; and [More…]

• The involvement of the community in school affairs. [More…]

• Mr Dedman said that they would not, because home ownership only created a community of little capitalists. [More…]

• After all, Canberra is not a general cross-section of the Australian community and neither is the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Some sections of the community would have liked us to retain the whole of the Snowy organisation intact to undertake major water development measures throughout Australia in much the same way as it has tackled the Snowy scheme. [More…]

• It has been only in the past few weeks that the number of tractors in Australia is catching up and is sufficient for current demands made on this industry by the farming community. [More…]

• This could result in the following: lack of attraction to officers and senior NCOs: inability to expand quickly: reversion to the status of imitators of foreign armies with a consequential depressant effect on Australian production and R&D: inability to properly support the Citizen Military Forces which must continue to go down in strength; the development of a separate military class largely divorced from the community at large; the disappearance of an effective Reserve, now sustained largely by National Service. [More…]

• A government which seeks to reform legislation for the benefit of a section of the community as important as our Service personnel should not have to be reminded of the importance of communication with that section of the community. [More…]

• They have become absorbed as ordinary members of the community. [More…]

• They stand beside the rest of the community in the social, sporting and economic life of the area. [More…]

• I support any benefits scheme that will allow these people on retirement to remain part of the community; which will provide to them allowances which will allow them to continue to live where they are happy, and I support the provisions of the legislation in which the commutation provisions will, if they wish to take this step, allow them and their families to start a new career or business enterprise. [More…]

• The Lock to Kimba scheme will service an area of 259 hectares taking in about 270 properties and including the township of Kimba, with a population of approximately 900, and also other smaller community centres. [More…]

• I rise to speak to this Bill because I had the pleasure of completing my formal education on King Island at the age of 14 and spent 2 years over there to receive some of the best practical experience in a very warm and friendly community. [More…]

• I am giving you these statistics, Mr Deputy Speaker, just to illustrate that there is a viable community with a great deal of interest on King Island. [More…]

• There are in fact 3,000 people in the community on the island today. [More…]

• I am using these illustrations to indicate that the community of King Island is very warm, friendly and productive. [More…]

• It is absolutely essential that this community should not be isolated by having inadequate transport facilities. [More…]

• The amendment will add to the already very considerable confusion felt by the business community concerning the terms of what this Government regards as a significant Bill. [More…]

• Since that time there has been a gradual sense of disillusion coming over the community, partly because the truth was realised that this Government was under the control of outside forces. [More…]

• One is titled Community Health Program for Australia’ which is a report from the National Hospitals and Health Services Commisson Interim Committee. [More…]

• On the question of the community health program for Australia set out by the Committee headed by Dr Saks, I believe this report commends its attention to everybody in Australia and I would particularly commend it to those gentlemen from the Australian Medical Association whose contribution to community health resources will be announced tomorrow when they announce their fee increases. [More…]

• I hope that when they announce those increases that they will give some indication that they are paying regard to what is after all the purpose of a health policy, namely, to provide a system of integrated community care for the whole community. [More…]

• For the first time that I know of an Australian education committee has made recommendations on the subject of the handicapped, setting out with the deliberate object of trying to bring the handicapped to a position of equality with the rest of the community as far as is humanly possible. [More…]

• Whilst I welcome the AttorneyGenera/’s assurance that the Australian Companies Act will be tabled shortly and that steps are in hand to provide adequate regulation of the securities industry, I ask: As a further and equally important step in view of the increasing importance of the corporation in our society and the fact that no basic study of the corporation’s role has ever been conducted by an Australian government, will he take steps to appoint a broadly-based independent committee to inquire into, firstly, the philosophy of company legislation appropriate to our needs; secondly, the activities of corporations, in particular multi-national corporations; and, thirdly, their responsibilities to and impact upon our community? [More…]

• There is an apprehension in the community that there could be overcharging and profiteering from the conversion to the metric system. [More…]

• When the honourable member for Macquarie has the opportunity to read that article he will find that, whilst it is a highly desirable principle and one which I applaud and believe is achievable in this community, nonetheless many basic decisions have to be made initially and there are complex issues to be considered before any final decision is made as to how this should best be done. [More…]

• The School will work closely with educational authorities, the Film and Television Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, the Department of the Media and related agencies, and with the many bodies representing professional and community interests in film and television. [More…]

• Particular encouragement may be given to organisations and institutions wishing to try out pilot training schemes, workshops and activities likely to lead to the development of other specialist facilities and the opportunity for community groups to gain experience in using the media. [More…]

• I believe that too often Australians underestimate the need for and the value of that know-how to the Australian community. [More…]

• Let me say this to that wealthy section of the community which has thumbed its nose at the revenue collecting authorities for over a decade: The honeymoon is over; the day of retribution is at hand. [More…]

• It is well known that there are other tax loopholes to be plugged, and I have no doubt that in the near future the Treasurer will introduce additional legislation which will spell further doom for that wealthy section of the community which has no social conscience. [More…]

• Because it is an intervention which is being passed to a statutory authority, its implications to the community are even more frightening. [More…]

• It is necessary that there be a body of knowledge and expertise available to apply the resources in a manner meaningful to the whole community and to reduce the power involved in the amendments is just a further step towards removing the actual right of decision from the Government and removing the opportunities for exploitation which’ have been paid for significantly by private investment, albeit with the supplement of the subsidies provided by the previous Government. [More…]

• High-handed arrogance and conceit to all groups and individuals in the community makes a mockery of the humanity and equality said to be the base of the Labor Party’s social philosophy. [More…]

• What the Government has done has been to create great uncertainties, fears and strains throughout all sections of the community in this great nation of ours. [More…]

• The community at large is wondering where this Government is taking us. [More…]

• The decision to revalue was most noticeable because of the impact that it has had on the Australian community in reallocating resources from the peoplein export industries and those who depend on export industries to people in the consuming industries. [More…]

• He has not told us about the uncertainty that he has created in the rural sector of the community by not agreeing to any long term proposals for the wheat industry, rural reconstruction and a whole host of other matters. [More…]

• This is leading to a lack of confidence in the private sector of the community. [More…]

• Whilst the Government refuses to recognise the impact of these pressures on the inflationary forces there can be no curbing of the pressures that are developing in the community an J giving concern to everybody. [More…]

• The enlarged European Economic Community offers us the unique opportunity to expand this relationship. [More…]

• We will continue to work, as we did in government, to strengthen the United Nations as a body to alleviate the suffering of all peoples and to maintain the peace and stability of our international community. [More…]

• During the years of Liberal-Country Party Government, Australia became a respected member of the international community, especially in Asia and the Pacific. [More…]

• By catching up with developments in the wider world we have facilitated the development of a more mature and a more realistic relationship with them than in the recent past and have won for Australia a new respect in the community of nations as a constructive, humane, responsible and reliable partner in trade, aid and conflict avoidance and resolution. [More…]

• I feel that it is terribly important that I should bring this subject up tonight because the community, the municipality and particularly our mayor, Mr Harold Smith of Albany, who is a true believer in decentralisation, have been very active in promoting the port. [More…]

• My Department does not extend to the Federation official recognition or support nor does it regard the organisation as representative of the migrant community [More…]

• People found eligible for consideration on these grounds have to show on assessment that they: will be economically viable in Australia; have the personal qualities that will enable them to fit into the Australian community; are medically fit; have a satisfactory character record; and have a sincere intention of making a permanent home in Australia and joining the Australian family through citizenship. [More…]

• I accept, as does the Select Committee on Wildlife Conservation and I would hope most responsible members of the Australian community, that the interests of the kangaroo industry should be subservient to those of conservation. [More…]

• They, too, came from every sector of the community. [More…]

• They were able to make comments about Dugald Munro ‘s contribution to their community, which demonstrates beyond doubt not only that he played an active role in this place but also that he played an active role throughout the diverse electorate of EdenMonaro. [More…]

• Dugald Munro ‘s death removes from among us an outstanding man in the prime of his life, a man who had a warm and dedicated public spirit His death represents a great loss to the community that he loved so much. [More…]

• Have the 4 local government councils of Kogarah, Rockdale, Hurstville and Sutherland Shire, along with many other civic and community organisations representing probably nearly half a million citizens, expressed such determined opposition? [More…]

• They cover people from 17 different origins and between them they will have 24 languages which, again, is a pretty good indication of the talents we have in the community. [More…]

• Just as importantperhaps more important- in persuading people in the community to volunteer for the armed Services is the creation of a feeling that the government of the day will not renege on its obligation to maintain adequate defence forces; that if a person comes into the Services he will have an assured career; that the Services operate on a scale which guarantees him an assured career; that there are opportunities for advancement; and that he will have interesting and gainful training and things of that sort. [More…]

• The feeling in the community and in the armed forces that this is the attitude of the Government to defence will more than compensate for any recruiting advantages that this sort of measure will have. [More…]

• The defence forces must be shown to be as necessary, and their conditions as attractive, as any other pursuit in the community. [More…]

• The increasing usage of motor vehicles, including commercial vehicles, imposes heavy costs on the community. [More…]

• In the same report ‘s section headed Diversity’, it recommends stimulation among teachers and community in a search for more appropriate social and individual forms of learning and relationships. [More…]

• Their governing boards or councils will include representatives of the community, of parents and of teachers, and perhaps also nominees of the Education Authority itself. [More…]

• In other words, the development of a participating community together with an adequately trained and skilled group of educationally professional specialists will become the norm for every school, both within the purview of the Commonwealth Teaching Service and beyond it to the State schools and associated specialist services. [More…]

• Community use of School Buildings (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that schools which represent a high capital investment are often unused out of school hours when community buildings are lacking in the area. [More…]

• If so, will he give consideration to having discussions with the State authorities as to what may be done to make available for community recreational purposes, on an organised basis, school buildings and amenities outside of school hours. [More…]

• I believe that there is considerable potential for the use of school buildings out of school hours for community purposes. [More…]

• The Government’s election policy includes an undertaking to establish large multi-purpose centres at school, which during the day can be used for school purposes and in afterschoolhours for adult education or for useful cultural or artistic activities, art, dancing, sport, photography and so on by all members of the community. [More…]

• I might add that in the territories for which the Australian Government is directly responsible, considerable progress has already been made in the matter of community use of school facilities. [More…]

• 382 (Hansard, 10 May 1973, page 2049) in respect of activities of the Yugoslav Government within Australia, (a) who has the belief that the Yugoslav Government has sources of information within the Yugoslav community within Australia, (b) what is the nature of the belief and (c) on what basis was the belief formed. [More…]

• Australians have at the irrational and irresponsible statements by the Prime Minister echoing those of the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) in regard to the involvement of multi-national corporations in our community. [More…]

• It has been a long haul, but I am pretty confident now that the community in general, this Parliament in particular and certainly the Government accept that the Aboriginal people of Australia are entitled in an inalienable way to an absolute right to a certain proportion of the Australian territory. [More…]

• Some regulations are therefore necessary, as in the community generally. [More…]

• This independence is one of the tangible facets of the quality of life which must be fostered by the community. [More…]

• In between these 2 extremes is the major segment of the aged community whose vitamin deficiency is not sufficiently acute to cause them to display obvious clinical symptoms, but is sufficient to reduce their enjoyment of good health and their resistance to illness, particularly the winter ailments. [More…]

• There can be scope for further Service assistance to community tasks beyond what is already done. [More…]

• Where new acquisitions of equipment and other costly defence expenditures can be reduced or deferred without prejudice to the essential capabilities of our defence forces, we intend to use the resources for higher community priorities. [More…]

• Central to the Government’s policy on all-volunteer forces is the principle that terms and conditions for Service personnel should be no less attractive than those available for the community generally. [More…]

• In 1961, when the United Kingdom sought to join the European Economic Community it was a move which I must confess - I suppose the national Parliament should not be despised as being a confessional box - was the end of what I regarded and held deeply as all prospect of the Commonwealth emerging as a third world force - something to fit in those days between the messianic mood of Moscow and what I might without offence describe as the egregiousness of Washington. [More…]

• The novel features of the European Treaties lie first in the powers conferred on the Community institutions to issue subordinate instruments which themselves may impose obligations on the Member States or may take effect directly as law within them; [More…]

• Our obligation is to ensure that community law is paramount. [More…]

• The surf life saving movement in Australia is constituted by a dedicated band of young men who devote their time and energy to a noble community service. [More…]

• The surf life saving movement is engaged in a task which deserves the gratitude of the whole community and the recognition of this Parliament. [More…]

• Surely there is no parallel to this in our community. [More…]

• as it were, to raise the funds to provide community services and who give all their time free to save lives of other Australians. [More…]

• That might sound like a wild statement but it is the main fear of people in the community from which I come who think about these matters. [More…]

• One hopes that certain fizzy drinks will be less used by the Australian community in general. [More…]

• Any increase in the supply of a commodity in very short supply in Australia is likely to benefit every member of the community who needs that supply. [More…]

• The use of the 800 tons of imported potatoes in the production of potato chips by manufacturers will mean that they will not be drawing on supplies in other areas, and that will make supplies more available to the community. [More…]

• I believe that any increase in the supply of commodities in such short supply as potatoes are is now thoroughly justified in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• How much additional revenue will be raised from the rural community by the abolition of depreciation allowances, the imposition of increased country telephone rentals and higher non-metropolitan petrol prices? [More…]

• One of the main objectives in altering the depreciation allowances was to place depreciation allowances for special equipment on the same basis as those allowances provided for every other person in the community for structural improvements. [More…]

• I believe it is one of the most significant representative institutions in the world because of the very structure of our system which is basically democratic and representative of all the citizens and yet which stands in a community which is generally concerned with Presidents, royalties and everybody else. [More…]

• Nobody in our community can wave a magic wand and do that. [More…]

• What is the place of tourism in Australia in relation to individual demands, community values and our national identity? [More…]

• We want to see a balanced spread of community facilities within our cities. [More…]

• Land buyers and the community generally must not be left to the mercy of land speculators. [More…]

• It is also the provision of adequate educational, cultural, community, sporting and recreational facilities. [More…]

• So far as my electorate of Gwydir is concerned, not one town or one community centre will benefit from this appropriation. [More…]

• I am satisfied that the Minister is showing a desire to reach this accord wilh the various authorities and if this is achieved, I am sure that he will get the sort of community co-operation that is necessary to make the whole program a success. [More…]

• Of course, we are setting out to achieve a better style of life for people, but no section of the community or no individual should be asked to bear more than his share of the price involved. [More…]

• It is time in Australia for the community to lay down rules which set an example in political integrity. [More…]

• A matter that was mentioned both by the honourable member for Morten (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) was the factor of the European Economic Community and the effect that the move by the United Kingdom into that organisation would have on the United Kingdom, the monarchy and United Kingdom sovereignty. [More…]

• While the Government believes it has support among the community for the form of the oath of allegiance to the Australian constitution put forward in the Citizenship Bill I have accepted the intent of the Senate amendment in the spirit of compromise, but let me say clearly that compromise further we will not. [More…]

• The committee, therefore, was totally representative of the community. [More…]

• Against this background it is very difficult to see how the members of the Opposition can now, after all these years of unanimous advice and in view of the demonstrated views of the Australian people today, impose deliberately almost a hardship on the migrant community and those citizens who want to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]

• This Budget decision comes at a time when the market outlets for fruit are being jolted by increasing freight rates and increasing European Economic Community levies. [More…]

• This is indicative of many situations that exist in the community. [More…]

• Insofar as they do not require them and they are being maintained, they are getting them to the disadvantage of other sections of the community. [More…]

• The principle has applied in advanced countries for a long time that when people are out of work they receive something like the income they received before - something like the average income of the community. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Northern Development aware of the many Press reports emanating from overseas that the European Economic Community is opposed to a new international sugar agreement? [More…]

• I am aware of the attitude of the European Economic Community and particularly the attitude of France. [More…]

• It is our hope and the hope of most nations in the world participating at the forthcoming talks that the European Economic Community will join the International Sugar Agree ment. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite who took part in negotiations know full well the difficulties with respect to the agreement brought about through the existence of the great trading blocs such as Comecon - the Soviet bloc - the European Economic Community, and the strength of nations such as Japan and the United StatesEach of these nations participates in talks as a member or an observer. [More…]

• One would hope that in a wellorganised community unemployment would not exist. [More…]

• It is merely an indication of a complete lack of vision and a complete lack of understanding of what the Australian community may require in the future. [More…]

• From the point of view of the Government and of the artistic community, it is a case of ‘Heads I win, tails you lose’, because there cannot be a loss to the Government by going ahead. [More…]

• Now Sir Philip has retired from the position of Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and I wish to place on record my appreciation of the services of a man who devoted a great deal of time to the service of the community and the British Empire in war arid in peace and who was not only a highly competent technical officer but also an extremely able administrator. [More…]

• We as a community must act in the same way. [More…]

• In the absence of policy initiatives or clear guidelines, the Australian business community has been forced to witness yet a further public battle between the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Overseas Trade and Minister for Secondary Industry (Dr J. F. Cairns). [More…]

• The benefits to the economy and to the community from export of manufactures go well beyond those of the immediate gains in export revenue. [More…]

• It is a denial of the concept of responsibility that a Federal Treasurer should bring down in this House a Budget which so ignores the fundamental problem facing not just the business sector but all sectors and sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian business community, against the context of these Bills, is being penalised whilst the Prime Minister and his Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr Cairns) continue to argue their ideological and economic differences. [More…]

• No business community can be expected efficiently to plan its forward commitments in these regrettable and regressive circumstances. [More…]

• While the Opposition supports the Bills to tha extent to which they program the continuation of the export incentives scheme until 1974, we say to the Government, and I say in particular to the Leader of the House who has sat opposite during the course of this debate: ‘Can the Government let us into the secret of what apprehensions the business community may have beyond the period of 1974?’ [More…]

• What I have referred to as the chaos theory of managing the economy is an approach in which the Government combines unpredictable and arbitrary measures with as many ambiguous, qualified and non-committal statements as possible, with a view to creating the maximum of uncertainty - indeed, alarm - amongst the business community, thereby inhibiting investment and other spending plans, restraining total expenditure and the total demand for resources and combating inflation. [More…]

• it unfairly discriminates against the rural community and discourages decentralisation; [More…]

• This clarion call to women in the community hardly fits the absence of any tax deduction for child care centres in this Budget - a preelection promise which has been broken. [More…]

• Out of the national conference should come a commitment by the whole of the community to restrain the rapid growth of incomes and prices. [More…]

• At least we have some public structures acting as watchdogs in the private sector, seeking to ensure that important decisions being made in the private sector are being made in the community interest. [More…]

• If the community, if governments by doing nothing or by deliberate action raise the cost of the other charges he must bear, then he is being taxed as surely and deliberately as he would be if the income tax were increased. [More…]

• His cure for inflation appears to be to refuse wage increases for workers but to allow the profiteers and plunderers in the community to press on touching the pockets of the people of Australia. [More…]

• There is regrettably little discussion in the community about this coming land of giants, but there have been some appropriate references to this fearful development that are worth noting. [More…]

• The Melbourne City Council, like honourable members opposite, operates in the interests of a small but wealthy section of the community in the inner business district centre of Melbourne, those profiteering from the large scale property ownership and speculation on land values. [More…]

• The acceleration in the rate of growth in land prices in the past 2 years has undoubtedly been related to the build-up in capital inflow and the extremely easy monetary conditions, as well as increasing awareness in the community of the gains to be made from property in an inflationary situation. [More…]

• It has resulted in very substantial income shifts from the poorer to the richer sections of the community and placed many of the poor and lower income earners in an impossible situation in regard to housing .. . [More…]

• The escalation in housing costs is having immense sociological ramifications for the community in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. [More…]

• No; I said I was considering proposing that every Government Department take a proportion of Aboriginals on its staff and that I thought it would be fair to set a target of 1 per cent, which is about the proportion of Aboriginals in the community. [More…]

• The Board further announced that it would liaise with Aboriginal community organisations; liaise with the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs and Labour on job opportunities for, and placement of, Aboriginals; consult with relevant departments on work force entry training schemes; examine selection tests and procedures to ensure equal opportunities for Aboriginals; and undertake a study to identify positions in respect of which an Aboriginal background could be a significant factor in the efficient performance of the duties concerned. [More…]

• The Aboriginal appointees were selected from the community most closely associated with the land under application. [More…]

• Members of the Country Party should not be condemnatory of a higher level of inflation now because its section of the community, in its opinion justly, is getting higher incomes now than previously. [More…]

• Clearly, then, any move that is going to enable the handicapped to achieve some measure of economic independence is going to be in the interests, not only of the handicapped people themselves, but of the whole community. [More…]

• Rather, it will seek to plan the development of programs, to be sure that they are integrated and comprehensive, that they are balanced and relative to needs, and that they are constantly evaluated to ensure that they are maximising rehabilitation benefits for the community. [More…]

• I have already mentioned the attitude of people - the inflation psychology which is present in the Australian community’ at the moment and for which the present Government is responsible. [More…]

• For the first time in the past 2 decades a Budget has been introduced that is not designed to woo the voters of particular sections of the community or to provide unfair privileges to other sections of the community but to provide for broad overall national development. [More…]

• This Budget gives great emphasis to the areas of education, health, social security and welfare, housing and community amenities, culture and recreation, Aboriginal advancement, sport, tourism, aid for States, transport and communications. [More…]

• In fact, it can be said rightly that this Budget has had a less unfavourable reaction from all sections of the community, including the Press, than any Budget introduced by the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]

• When one looks back 12 months to the time of the last Budget - to the tremendously depressed conditions and the lack of general confidence in the then Government by all sections of the community - one sees stark contrast indeed to the conditions of general prosperity that exist today. [More…]

• Education is one area which the former Government tried to use to great political advantage by giving particular advantage to some sections of the community. [More…]

• Possibly it is time, after a century of Federal government in Australia, that we should look at the whole of the arrangements of the States system and see whether there are not better ways of arranging the community of interest between areas. [More…]

• The sixth point of the Leader of the Opposition is: it unfairly discriminates against the rural community and discourages decentralisation; [More…]

• Perhaps the supreme piece of hypocrisy in the speech by the Leader of the Opposition was the reference to discrimination against the rural community and his charge that this Government discourages decentralisation. [More…]

• it unfairly discriminates against the rural community and discourages decentralisation; [More…]

• I believe that when the Parramatta by-election is held in a few weeks time the Government will get a sensible reply to its policies, at least from the sophisticated section of the community who can add two and two and get four and know that you will never get fifteen. [More…]

• However, I can tell honourable members that there will be a reaction in the Australian community because there is a great deal of warmth and feeling for medical practitioners. [More…]

• Why do they hit hardest at the little man in the country - the small farmer, the small business man in the country town and the less affluent sections of the community? [More…]

• Why should this tax be imposed on the meat industry and not on other industries and community services which involve inspections and like precautions for both exporting and importing? [More…]

• A wide range of indirect charges will hit the community with severe effects. [More…]

• This section of the taxpaying community also is expected, in fact forced, through taxation to pay for huge city losses on such things as government transport. [More…]

• What has been done by this Government to provide a Treasury subvention for the Australian Post Office to assist it to meet the needs of the community, to meet the higher charges that it is involved in, and the concessions on the industrial side of the operation since it came into office? [More…]

• It means that the community has to suffer and suffer badly. [More…]

• I hope that the Australian community will see by the very existence of this motion, regardless of its outcome, the real meaning of this Budget. [More…]

• important than any other community outlet. [More…]

• The multipurpose community recreation centres will enable tens of thousands to find a creative outlet for their leisure time. [More…]

• As the number of leisure hours increases in society, as it surely will, recreational needs for the community will also rise sharply. [More…]

• In the name of social reform, this Budget will discriminate against the most disadvantaged sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• In spite of the warnings from all sectors and sections of the community and at a time of near full employment, the Government has introduced a Budget which expands public spending by $’1,93 8m, yet imposes additional taxes designed to increase revenues by only $3 39m: An expansionary impact of $ 1,599m equal to 4.2 per cent of non-farm national product. [More…]

• Its provisions in respect of the rural community will be a major disincentive towards the principal aims and objectives of decentralisation schemes. [More…]

• The Prime Minister then reassured the more affluent sections of the Australian community in these terms: [More…]

• The rates for which the wealthier sections of the community including companies are liable are already high enough. [More…]

• It would appear that this section of the community, most defenceless, nothing to sell, unable to strike, are to bear the brunt of todays inflationary conditions. [More…]

• These can only be described as being major disincentives for considerable and important sections of the Australian business community. [More…]

• No government can expect restraint and co-operation from the principal parties in the community unless it is first prepared to put its own house in order: That requires a rigorous examination of its existing and future commitments. [More…]

• The most interesting part of the speech of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) was his professed support and sympathy for the weaker members of the community. [More…]

• We can remember that he was a member of a Government which 2 years ago was prepared to bring in a budget which directly affected the weaker members of the community. [More…]

• This suggests that if that action had not been taken there would have been an enormously greater volume of money floating around in the community than there is at the present time. [More…]

• I believe that there is reason to suggest that right now there would have been about S750m extra floating around in the community. [More…]

• Would a Liberal Government have taken all that out of the community by budgetary means? [More…]

• We have important initiatives in the field of community health. [More…]

• At last we are moving towards establishing community health services according to the priorities laid down by the Sax Committee. [More…]

• With those community health services, with heavy emphasis on preventive medicine and with rehabilitation we will make an important break with traditional medical practice in this country and I believe it will be a great breakthrough for the welfare and health of the people of Australia. [More…]

• The provision in the Budget for the establishment of community mental health centres is, I believe, a tremendously important initiative. [More…]

• From now on we will be providing incentives for health services to be provided in community mental health centres. [More…]

• Fortunately there is one group in the community that is concerned with social priorities and that is the employees in the building industry. [More…]

• Perhaps a few sections of the community and the odd person could say this but, in general, the impact of this Budget has been unfavourable. [More…]

• The remainder are those who have been unable to respond to Government encouragement in years gone by to move out into the community, so naturally have at the best extremely, limited experience in or knowledge of farming operations and probably a complete absence of knowledge of the much more vital problems of farm economics. [More…]

• The appointments have been a failure, despite the best efforts of the manager, whose undoubted professional competence, sincerity and good-will have not equipped him to help the people of Lake Tyers to overcome their formidable social problems, or rise to the challenge of community-building with which they find themselves faced. [More…]

• The Government raised expectations both among Aborigines and in other sections of the community which it knew could not be satisfied. [More…]

• The prevailing despair of the community was expressed earlier this year by one of the few remaining active shareholders, Mr Freddie Johnson, who said: ‘It’s going backwards. [More…]

• These are characteristics not, as has been suggested sometimes, of a community nearing the end of heartbreak, but of a community for which heartbreak has become a way of life. [More…]

• Having lost respect for themselves, the Lake Tyers people are denied respect and exploited by the wider community of which they are a part. [More…]

• It is symbolised by houses deteriorating for lack of maintenance and the wrecked school building which 2 years ago was to have become a community centre. [More…]

• There is a need in particular for new Trust members trained in the techniques of community action and development and able to generate a new enthusiasm among the people of Lake Tyers and to crystallise the ideas for development of their property to which so far they have given only vague expression. [More…]

• There must be better provision for the health care of the community and better incentives for its young people over the school leaving age to persist with their’ education. [More…]

• The Budget gives notice of the establishment of community health centres which supposedly and hopefully will help people, but so many things that are supposedly for all of Australia never seem to get through to the country cities and towns. [More…]

• One adverse effect that the development of community health centres or medical centres could have is that even fewer general practitioners and medical services could be available in many country communities. [More…]

• The conservative reactionaries opposite who were rejected by the people of this country on 2 December last have said that it is a socialist Budget as if that expression would arouse disgust in the community. [More…]

• Any casual student of the 1969 and 1972 elections would know that the community is very disturbed about the way in which the education systems in this country have been allowed to run down. [More…]

• The cost for the average working man to educate his family bears upon him far more heavily than it bears upon anyone else in the community. [More…]

• The Government would be loath to continue with a scheme that leaves a very large section of the community unable to contribute to it and so having no health insurance for their families. [More…]

• That is the situation that exists in our community at the moment. [More…]

• A capital cities hospital commission has been set up to survey the need for more hospitals throughout the community. [More…]

• The aim of the Labor Government is to gear all the resources of the community to a contemporary community. [More…]

• I am sure that the community in general cannot understand that sort of thinking either. [More…]

• It is not proper for individuals who own land to make decisions on the usage of that land when that usage will affect the community. [More…]

• Surely that is a community decision. [More…]

• It is not a decision for somebody who is motivated by profit and personal gain rather than by a desire to see the benefit that may flow to the community or to safeguard against the harm that could be done to it and the environment ‘by his actions. [More…]

• In other words, those in the community who cannot fight back have always been the targets of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• As a pilot scheme the western suburbs of both Melbourne and Sydney are being investigated to find out the problems in the community. [More…]

• The Labor Government realises that the community does not live by bread alone and it has made a significant contribution in the areas of culture and recreation. [More…]

• These are very important if the young in our community are to live a fruitful life and have an understanding of how they can enjoy the way of life that this Government for the next 25 years, I would humbly suggest, will provide for them. [More…]

• But I do wish to talk tonight on the basic philosophy - where it is discernible - of the Government on the one hand and on the other hand to talk about that section of the Opposition’s amendment which refers to discrimination against the rural community. [More…]

• I assure the Treasurer that I am enough of a nationalist to sit tight and hope that the risk does not harden into fact and that the strength of the Australian community in the position in which it was left to this Government after a long and illustrious spell in office by the Liberal-Country Party Government will be sufficient to cope with this degree of rash expenditure. [More…]

• Many doctors in the community suddenly are asking: ‘Why should we work beyond 5.30 p.m.? [More…]

• On the question of immigration, there were those of us who, as we saw a state of full employment developing within the community, hoped that there would be an increase in the immigration quota to keep cost increases reasonable. [More…]

• Perhaps the greatest inadequacy of the speeches not only of the Leader of the Opposition but of nearly all the honourable members that I have heard on the other side of the House has been the lack of recognition of the divided nature of the country the Government of which they so reluctantly handed over on 2 December 1972; the divisions in the community, the divisions among citizens, the education gap which exists - not the generation gap but the education gap. [More…]

• There is indeed less co-operation between the States of Australia in the 1970s than there is between the sovereign nations that comprise the European Economic Community in the 1970s. [More…]

• It has hit hard in every possible way at the rural community. [More…]

• This Government has proved beyond all doubt that in presenting this Budget, this cities Budget, it was carrying out the commands of its city-based trade union bosses and that it has no intention at all of assisting the development of the rural section of the community. [More…]

• If ever there has been a section of the Australian community that has endured discouragement after discouragement it has been the dairy farmers. [More…]

• Expenditure on housing and community amenities, so long neglected by the previous Government, has been increased in this Budget by $41 lm over the provision for 1972-73, a massive rise of 324 per’ cent. [More…]

• The low income, under-privileged, defenceless sections of the community are provided for in this Budget. [More…]

• The second aspect of this Budget is that it assumes that a productive economy is one that is free of restraints, that misallocates resources and enables a country to forgo a well educated mobile labour force which removes competitive pressures in the pricing mechanism and which provides a supply of materials to meet the legitimate demands of the community at large. [More…]

• Without co-operation between all sections of the community and without people involved in production and in the market place taking a long term view, no government would ever have the power to control inflation. [More…]

• Keynes viewed inflation as a weapon available to governments for extracting resources from the community that they would not otherwise willingly surrender. [More…]

• But Keynes, unlike the present Government, recognised the great dangers of inflation, the way it quite arbitrarily and unfairly redistributes income and wealth, and its bad and distorting effects on the psychology and activities of the business community. [More…]

• The Australian community will pay a harsh penalty in the not-so-distant future. [More…]

• If its profits are excessive, surely the best answer is to reduce the price of the products so that the whole community can share, rather than all the benefits going to a small group of trade unionists. [More…]

• There was no community of interest among the members: Japan’s and China’s interests are quite different from those of the ASEAN countries. [More…]

• They have become far too high in the community with every prospect that they will go higher. [More…]

• Sometimes these expenses are referred to as health costs or the cost of health in our community. [More…]

• We have heard nothing of employee frustration and the frustration of citizens, together with the almost frightening increase in the incidence of heart disease in the community. [More…]

• We have achieved increased leisure time and will achieve even more, therefore putting more pressure on the productive capacity of employees and on the community to produce more goods and services. [More…]

• This Government is also concerned to provide recreation for the adult population which is presently working to produce the goods and services required by the whole community. [More…]

• What of the aged in our community who have built this society, who have provided the goods and services in the past? [More…]

• It will provide the means for them to have recreation and to perform selfsatisfying tasks in the community. [More…]

• However, I am sure that he, like me, is concerned that, if a law exists in the community applying to certain sorts of people, it ought to be obeyed. [More…]

• This scheme will expand choice in the community. [More…]

• I rise to speak in this Grievance Day debate to applaud the Government for its massive expenditure on education and to refute the arguments advanced by the vocal few - I stress the point that it is the vocal few in the community - who have criticised the Government on this point. [More…]

• The total thrust of the Karmel report and the Government’s policy is towards devolution of responsibility to the local level;- to the people who are involved in the educational process - principals, staff, parents, senior pupils and the community. [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…]

• I challenge any honourable member on the other side of the House to talk about quality in education, community involvement in education and diversity in education. [More…]

• Community involvement is something that we will have to ensure in Australian education. [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…]

• Every time he has been on his feet in this House since becoming a member he has been espousing the expenditure of funds in the community interest. [More…]

• We listened to him speak yesterday about a matter of community concern but he did not have a solution to proffer. [More…]

• We listened to him today and again he had a lot of words to say about matters to which apparently he is dedicated in the community interest. [More…]

• Now he wants to deny completely the right of community interest. [More…]

• The amendments in the Bill aim at a fair balance between the interests of Islanders and the Australian tax-paying community. [More…]

• I am sure much good for the Australian community can come from the development of AIDC. [More…]

• But it is wrong to imagine that the community’s needs for welfare are simply met by providing better benefit payments to the individual. [More…]

• The community collectively and the people in it individually equally need a comprehensive and adequate system of social welfare services. [More…]

• Conveniently sited health or welfare centres providing a range of integrated services relevant to the community needs in which the centres are set up are as keenly sought by the middle class as the working class. [More…]

• Our aim is the provision of a comprehensive range of welfare services designed according to the carefully established needs of communities, developed in response to priorities largely set by local decision making procedures which involve the community served as well as agencies both official and unofficial and free of any taint of last century poor house welfare. [More…]

• It will assist the Government in these services so that regular evaluation will establish beyond any doubt that the services continue to be relevant and successful to community needs or else to recommend appropriate alternatives. [More…]

• The Australian Government is a democratic socialist government with a commitment to developing an egalitarian society in which all sections of the community can participate in the decision-making process. [More…]

• The Australian Assistance Plan is an attempt to bring together these threads - planning, regionalism, true democratic participation, community development and regular critical evaluation of the performance of programs to ensure their continued relevance and satisfactory operation. [More…]

• The Commission will establish and control the experimental phase of the plan and will at the same time carry out consultations with the community so that the concepts of the plan are understood and can be modified in the light of community opinion and the success or failure of the demonstration projects. [More…]

• During the experimental phase in certain areas of Australia, the regional councils as established will have considerable resources at their disposal to help the local community meet their social needs. [More…]

• The Social Welfare Commission has appointed to its staff an officer widely experienced in community development programs in Canada and Africa. [More…]

• In addition, the Social Welfare Commission will arrange for special training programs for staff to work in the regional councils for social development, as well as training in community development techniques for other personnel. [More…]

• Subsequently, once the Australian Assistance Plan is in legislative form, Commission staff and other personnel will act as consultants to community bodies in the establishment of regional councils for social development throughout Australia. [More…]

• The use of such a prolonged period of social research and experimentation, together with community consultation, for the development of new social policies is without precedent in Australia, and possibly in most other comparable countries. [More…]

• The Social Welfare commission is hoping, with the support of the members of this Parliament and the ordinary citizens of Australia, to find some innovative solutions to meet social needs which will involve the community in the meeting of those needs. [More…]

• 1 on the Australian Assistance Plan prepared by that Commission - represent a major step forward in the development of social welfare services in this community. [More…]

• It is a great example of this Government’s determination to involve the Australian community as well as other members of this Parliament, as soon as possible, in the development of public programs. [More…]

• We look forward to a fruitful response from the Australian community and from our fellow parliamentarians and this response will allow us to improve on the very valuable contribution that has already been made and will continue to be made by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]

• The third point concerns community involvement. [More…]

• It is refreshing for a Labor Government and a Labor Minister to be saying that it is not the intention of the Government to take over all social welfare activities and that they want to encourage voluntary community involvement, which, if I can be excused for having a small tilt of my own. [More…]

• I believe it is vital in the twentieth century for the Government to encourage community involvement. [More…]

• It seems that to local councils and do-gooders in the community recreation for youth is often translated as building better sports stadia and beautiful playing fields so that the strong, decent young men in the community can play cricket and football. [More…]

• At the end of the year, the educators say: ‘We will prescribe for you an examination paper that a normal human being would take 6 hours to complete; but for you, just because we single you out in the community, we will set you 3 hours to do it’. [More…]

• It is clear that the Government intends to be quite ruthless in respect of any section of the Australian community from which it does not need or does not expect support. [More…]

• I believe that there has been a failure by some honourable members on my side to understand the farming community and its problems. [More…]

• We had 10 years warning of the European Economic Community and nothing was done. [More…]

• But what is not so freely acknowledged is that resources are to be redistributed from the most productive sectors of the community to the least productive. [More…]

• What this Government must understand, and what the Australian people must understand, is that if this nation’s free enterprise foundations are weakened too much the whole structure of the community and all the Government’s welfare and other programs will be endangered. [More…]

• On Tuesday night the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) spoke of the need, as he saw it, for a short-term prices and wages freeze as a kind of shock tactic to drive home to the Australian community the seriousness of the situation we face. [More…]

• Now we have an entirely new situation, and if we are to avoid serious harm to the economy, and to the whole Australian community, then something effective has to be done. [More…]

• If that were to happen it would put into a new perspective the budgetary objectives of helping home-seekers and various other people in the community. [More…]

• The announcement that $10m will be made available in 1973-74 to assist the States and eligible organisations to meet the capital and operating costs of providing community health facilities and services is certainly welcome. [More…]

• As these people are concentrated in areas at the out skirts of Brisbane, there are certainly great benefits to come to those people from the introduction of such a scheme as will be implemented in due course in accordance with the program that has been laid down in the report on a community health program for Australia which was tabled in this Parliament recently by the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham). [More…]

• Pensions are increasing at a rate approximately 2 per cent lower than the rate of average earnings of others in the community. [More…]

• 1 hope that a significant section of the Australian community will be listening to these figures. [More…]

• The disorganised approach to the building needs of the community on the part of some of the lending authorities is a matter that needs a great deal of attention. [More…]

• Few people outside the Labor Party will doubt that our future development and progress depends on the continued expansion of the marketable resources of the community. [More…]

• The Tales for which the wealthier sections of the community,, including companies, are liable are already high enough. [More…]

• Let me sum up my reactions and, I think, the considered reactions of large sections of the community. [More…]

• Community health centres were given some prominence in the Budget. [More…]

• Initially, an amount of $10m has been allocated to enable a start to be made on community health centres. [More…]

• We certainly hope that in the future we will see spread throughout Australia community health centres of the standard of those which have been opened at Melba and in one other suburb in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Rarely in the history of national economic planning has so much been taken from one section of the community at one time. [More…]

• In the area of housing and community amenities we have increased the appropriation from $127m last year to $538m this year, a staggering increase of 324 per cent in one year all framed within a Budget that has less money in the economy than the Budget of last year. [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…]

• It ought to be axiomatic that you cannot maintain a system of state aid in a religiously divided community without both religious and political bi-partisanship. [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…]

• As the community becomes more aware of our universal health scheme, that scheme will be applauded by an overwhelming number of Australians. [More…]

• We will allocate $7.5m to assist the States to develop communitybased mental health, drug and alcoholism dependency services. [More…]

• As a community we must ask ourselves why a clinic which carries on its gatepost the brass plates of 6 practitioners cannot arrange for at least one of those practitioners to be available to patients in the event of an emergency. [More…]

• If so, how can he reconcile the Treasurer’s statement to which my colleague the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has already referred this morning, and more particularly his own statement to the Chamber of Manufactures ridiculing the suggestion that there would not be another phase of economic and financial policies with the announcement made on Sunday of the decision to appreciate again the value of the Australian dollar and to increase interest rate structures which already has created great uncertainty throughout the business community? [More…]

• I acknowledge that the Brownies and the Girl Guides are doing a tremendous job in building up morale among young women in this community and I would not like to see the direction of their policy in the hands of the Deputy Prime Minister because he has already lost more soldiers, sailors and airmen as well as equipment in this short time than it would have been possible to imagine 1 months ago. [More…]

• Artificial limbs will be provided free through the repatriation artificial limb and appliance centres to all amputees in the community who need them. [More…]

• We also recognise that, when and where capacity exists, the facilities and expertise of the repatriation treatment services should sensibly be made available to the community generally. [More…]

• On the domestic front it soon became apparent that the Labor Government was committed to advance the policies of the trade union movement at the expense of the community at large. [More…]

• If we are to spend more in one sector because it is absolutely essential in order to meet community needs, obviously we have to spend less in the other sector. [More…]

• The private sector, as everyone will agree and as the business community certainly knows, has been overheated for some time. [More…]

• These suburbs have been experiencing very massive growth and this has brought about grave shortages in community needs. [More…]

• The centres will be for the use of the whole community. [More…]

• The entry of Britain into the European Economic Community, of course, will rapidly change the method of assistance into reliance on minimum import prices and substantial import levies. [More…]

• He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived. [More…]

• The United Kingdom has shown that it believes its future is in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition and his myrmidons have certainly done much to build up this inflationary psychology in the community. [More…]

• With wide publicity and discussion, the community is saturated with a pervading inflationary expectation. [More…]

• It talks about the things which this Government has tried to correct, about the problem of the majority standard in our community. [More…]

• As well as looking after the rest of the community this Budget has done something for those people too. [More…]

• The computer is to be used to keep records of usage throughout the community. [More…]

• My one regret is that at this stage the Government has not been able to go to the extent of offering legal aid to another class in the community, the under-privileged, those who are too poor to have proper legal representation in so many fields. [More…]

• Some should and will be supported, but the Budget’s inflationary impact will create immense problems and much hardship to many sections of the community, particularly to those groups which Labor pretends the Budget is designed to assist. [More…]

• In recreation, the decision to provide community and school centres in co-operation with State governments, the increased vote to the National Fitness Council and the allocation of funds for national park development is equally desirable. [More…]

• This section of our community is unfairly disadvantaged, not just those on old age and other pensions but everyone on superannuation and fixed incomes who are not in a position to take any steps to protect themselves and their families from the ravages of inflation. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting I had given the House some detail of Labor’s duplicity in key policy areas particularly in housing, education and health, and its irresponsibility in increasing Government expenditure this year by 19 per cent and thereby unleashing the forces of inflation, disadvantaging many sections of the community and attacking private enterprise, particularly the primary producer and the mining industry. [More…]

• We support a prices-incomes policy, after consultation and discussion with all the responsible elements in the Australian community. [More…]

• Labor, by its support of excessive wage demands in some cases, by its tolerance and regrettably at times by its encouragement of industrial unrest, by its posturing on prices and with its enormous increases in Government expenditure has set in train inflationary pressures which will create hardships, inequities and injustices in every section of the community. [More…]

• The Labor Party knows that Aus tralians will reject a government which tries to enact legisaltion which gives to trade unionists privileges not enjoyed by the community at large. [More…]

• The Budget does not deserve the support of or acceptance by the Australian community and as this debate continues more and more Australians are becoming aware of this. [More…]

• Those sections of the community which must bear further personal charges and increased indirect taxation and be asked to forgo some of their income to assist the pensioner will appreciate that the standards that are being set today are those that will apply to them tomorrow and that their sacrifice today is not only something for the pioneers of our country but also something to which they can look forward when they too become pensioners. [More…]

• No longer will they have to tolerate the thought that for year after year the situation of counry Aboriginal reserves and shanty towns blighting the social scene of their country centres with a deprived Aboriginal community will continue. [More…]

• They know now that some positive action is being taken in this field, that this matter will be looked after for them in a proper and progressive manner and that they in turn will receive in their community the benefits of the improved standards of the Aboriginal section of their community. [More…]

• Of course, it is to be expected that this Budget or, for that matter, any action of this Government, will not satisfy certain critics within the community because of their political stance or their vested interests. [More…]

• In fact, if their editorials were any other way, possibly Labor politicians would wonder where the devil they were going wrong and why they were serving the vested interests and not the community. [More…]

• This may solve the problem that has been brought glaringly to my notice by young people in the community who said that they were in a position where they could believe only one-third of what was in the Press, whereas before the saying was that one believed only half of what one read. [More…]

• It is alarming to think that this attitude can arise in the community, and no doubt it would be to everyone’s advantage if factual reporting such as our national newspapers have been able to achieve were to be extended to all sections of the Press. [More…]

• One section of the community, particularly within Western Australia, which would not appreciate a Labor Budget is the people who are State-righters. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that some community dissension should occur as a result of a Budget that was aimed towards assisting the underprivileged, educating the young, healing the sick and sustaining them in their old age, and the housing of the aged and the young. [More…]

• These are all desirable and we would like to see them, provided that they are related to productivity and there is some way in which the community will benefit, but the old concept of service has gone altogether. [More…]

• At question time today in reply to a question by me the Prime Minister indicated that the Government does recognise the impact of public sector spending on the inflationary pressures in the community. [More…]

• It attacks all sections of the rural community - city dweller, town dweller, ‘farmer, big landholder and soldier settler alike. [More…]

• The Budget has been based on the premise that the rural community can absorb the costs because it has had a good season. [More…]

• Can people rely on the Government to help the rural community? [More…]

• There are over 280 families in the Barraba community, a small country community, dependent on this industry. [More…]

• In an inflationary economy failure to adjust the rate scale is a method whereby through default a government can increase the community’s tax burden. [More…]

• Government’s proposal to introduce in 1974 a national health scheme to replace the present unfair, inefficient voluntary health scheme of the previous Tory governments, the doctors, together with other people who have a direct commercial interest, have unleashed a tirade of abuse, for the express purpose of creating confusion and doubt within the community as to the benefits and protections which would be enjoyed under a national health scheme. [More…]

• The incentive is taken away from an industry which obviously, for the good of the community, needs to expand its production. [More…]

• Provision is made in the Budget for a community health centre in the Australian Capital Territory, in the new suburb of Melba. [More…]

• In Scullin, an adjoining suburb, a similar community health centre is operating on a different basis, using doctors on a fee for service type system to give an alternative and a freedom of choice to the people of Canberra. [More…]

• The provision of more land should help those people in our community who prefer to help themselves with housing. [More…]

• Record expenditures are contained in this .Budget in the fields of education and health services and substantial increases have been provided for community facilities in the north. [More…]

• Development in its broadest sense can not be achieved unless full recognition is given to the social needs of the community. [More…]

• In health, $7.5m is provided to assist the States to develop community based mental health, alcoholism and drug dependency services, and $7 .9m for the national school dental scheme. [More…]

• The sum of $3.2m is provided for the development of community recreation complexes and $lm so that Australian sportsmen and sportswomen can be assisted to participate in national and international events. [More…]

• Does he accept these things and does he therefore agree that a tremendous burden is falling upon the ordinary man and woman in this community as a result of the Government’s policy announced last Sunday? [More…]

• Is the Government concerned with decentralisation or not, and will the Postmaster-General say whether he will call for Treasury subvention of funds for his Department to reinstate previous concessions for non-metropolitan areas to give some equity to this section of the community, or take action along the lines advocated by the Department of Urban and Regional Development? [More…]

• The first of the 3 main provisions of the Bill relates to the financial assistance provided by the Australian Government for home care service schemes - in other words housekeeper and other domestic assistance which helps to keep aged people in their own community for as long as possible. [More…]

• If an aged person can live independently in the home through the provision of domiciliary services then physically and mentally that person is much better off and so is the community in which that person lives. [More…]

• In this case, all of these aspects give a positive reading in support of the development of domiciliary programs; that is socially, personally and economically individuals in the community gain from an adequate development of domiciliary care services. [More…]

• It is our purpose to observe the progress of this innovation in the home care program, to establish whether it is successful in encouraging an accentuated development of such services in the community. [More…]

• The role that I would like to see these centres playing in the community is that of a base from which a more comprehensive range of services could be provided for the aged people of the districts. [More…]

• Whilst many senior citizens centres do, in fact, provide a number of these services, I have noted over the years I have served in this Parliament that, on the other hand, many serve only as social or recreational clubs and are not integrated with other services for the aged in the community. [More…]

• For example the Departments of Immigration, Repatriation and Social Security each give assistance in restricted, or largely restricted ways, which deprive the great bulk of the community from the benefit of such services. [More…]

• It is certainly a generously improved program compared to what has gone before but is only a stopgap measure pending the development of more comprehensive integrated and adequately planned measures to ensure that the aged and indeed every other section in the community have easy access to a comprehensive range of welfare services. [More…]

• The community had to put up with the inconvenience of the diversion along a dog-leg road at Hexham due to the arrogance and the power of money of the late Baron Brown. [More…]

• it unfairly discriminates against the rural community and discourages decentralisation; [More…]

• I suggest that he should look at the legislation that has been passed by the Government which is beneficial to every section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Members of the present Opposition not only have failed to take any action on prices but they support, and are supported by, those in the community who have been in a position to raise their prices and profits unjustifiably and who have done so with no real concern for the national problems. [More…]

• It is part of a program of innovation and reform which will ultimately benefit the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• There appears to be particular emphasis on discrimination against the rural sector of our community, regardless of what a previous speaker said in favour of the metropolitan areas. [More…]

• It was not strong enough to overcome this desire to bestow favours and introduce measures which would be to the benefit of the whole of the community, especially a community as important to our maintenance and development as the rural community. [More…]

• So I would suggest that it allocates funds through an avenue that would be beneficial, both to the Service community and the staff. [More…]

• For a Party that for 23 years completely ignored the problems of the over-populated cities and talked glibly about decentralisation while the people left the rural areas in droves to come to the cities, it is the ultimate in absurdity to criticise a Labor Government which has put down its first instalment of SI 36m to improve the quality of life for a most neglected segment of the community - the urban Australian. [More…]

• 2m for the development of community recreation complexes. [More…]

• The provisions are there and it is up to the community, with the initiative being taken by Federal members and their colleagues, to see that each community gets the advantages provided in this Budget. [More…]

• I believe we are seeing an obsession to transfer resources from the private sector of our community to the public sector, a transfer of support from the productive sector into the unproductive areas of our economy. [More…]

• Good government and good management is found closest to the people at local government level and Federal assistance is urgently needed to supplement the valuable social and community programs that are at this time being restricted by a lack of funds and the impossibility of ratepayers to absorb further rate increases. [More…]

• In a survey released yesterday a firm of economic research consultants pointed out that while productivity from farm workers had been 20 per cent above that from all other sections of the community, producers’ incomes had grown at an average rate of only 3.4 per cent a year between 1962-63 and 1972-73 compared to a 7.2 per cent rise in average weekly earnings. [More…]

• In fact, they have kept absorbing inflationary pressures generated by other sections of the community. [More…]

• It is a commonsense Budget because it is financed by a reallocation of moneys within the public sector and by a reallocation of moneys from the speculative and profiteering area of the private sector to the community sector. [More…]

• He is concerned with the distribution of demand rather than aggregate demand which is the sum of private and community demand, which is more important in the macro-economic sense. [More…]

• Where would the Opposition like to curb community or public demand? [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition also has overlooked the fact that increases in necessary community spending have been financed largely by an increase in government revenue from a taxation schedule his Government established and by the closing down of uneco nomic subsidies and concessions and from a reallocation of spending priorities. [More…]

• That will be of assistance to economic management when implemented but it means - I do not know how far the business community is awake to this - that a business will be up for about 125 per cent of its normal tax bill in this calendar year and at least that much again next year. [More…]

• It represents the first part of a 3 part program of a reappraisal of Australia’s needs and priorities, a move towards improving the lot of the lesser endowed, the underprivileged, the deprived and the needy at the expense - for want of a better term - of the ‘fat cats’ of the Australian community. [More…]

• Some might argue that the consumer price index is not a true indicator of inflation in the community; but it is one which the people know and which they recognise. [More…]

• All the fanfare, all the glib propaganda by the Prime Minister to the business community throughout 1972 telling them that his Party was and his Government would be a friend of business, that they had nothing to fear from him, can be seen for what it is, a loud sound coming forth from an empty vessel. [More…]

• Could there be anyone in our rural community who is happy about the Labor Party’s Budget which has just been brought down much to the detriment of most country people? [More…]

• There is an example of a contribution from a very small section of the community to the entire community because most people eat bread or flour of some description. [More…]

• words: The wheat industry at present is contributing a huge amount to the community. [More…]

• The community should reap enough benefits from that move alone to offset the measly few cents excise added to cigarettes, alcoholic drinks and petrol. [More…]

• With experts assuring us that leisure time is certain to increase, possibly to 3 clear days a week soon, it would be irresponsible not to start catering for the recreation needs of our community. [More…]

• Rises in the cost of whisky, rises in the cost of beer that will come later and rises in the cost of petrol and cigarettes will affect most greatly those least able to afford them - in fact, those members of the community which the Australian Labor Party professes to represent. [More…]

• It provides for measures the direct effect of which will be to the disadvantage of the private sector - the wealth and productivity sector - of the community. [More…]

• Every sector of the community likes a wage gain and higher incomes, even members of Parliament, but what is the use if the increased income buys less and less, as is the position under the present Government? [More…]

• It affects not only those who take a direct part in the proceedings, but the whole community. [More…]

• Special privileges have been extended to the farming community and the spirit of these privileges has been maintained in the $20m allocated to rural credit. [More…]

• One privilege, which has long been enjoyed by the farming community, concerns income averaging over a 5-year period. [More…]

• There has been a clear and demonstrable attempt on the part of the Opposition to confuse rather than to clarify the position for the farming community. [More…]

• Our postmasters, particularly those in country towns, take an active interest in the affairs of the community they serve and I would not like to see unjustified criticism discourage in any way the personal touch which, in this instance, led to the postmaster’s taking a voluntary step to assist the public. [More…]

• I refer to the letter to the Editor in today’s ‘Advertiser’ from the Acting Director of Posts and Telegraphs and note with interest ‘that you lake an active interest in the affairs of the community’. [More…]

• The funds claim that they are able to service the Australian community’s health costs economically. [More…]

• I do not think one needs to take too seriously the attempts by the honourable member for Eden Monaro (Mr Whan) to patch up what he himself describes as the confusion existing in the rural community. [More…]

• In fact, one can say that even my attempt to unravel the effects of petroleum charges now represent only a very minor increase charge to the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is a fact of course that farmers are in debt as are many other sections of the community and none should get unfair treatment as against the rest. [More…]

• If I may return to the question of the level of interest rates, I am as concerned as anybody about the level of interest rates which prevails in the community. [More…]

• I can only say that in a very short time this Government has responded to a need which has been well known to the conservationists in the community for many years. [More…]

• Sexual ignorance, sexual irresponsibility and sexual exploitation are imposing a heavy burden upon our community in both economic and human terms. [More…]

• Our failure to come to grips as a community with our sexual behaviour and its consequences is reflected in the fact that between 1963 and 1972 the incidence of births occurring out of wedlock rose from 5.71 per 100 to 9.68 per 100. [More…]

• Honourable members made it clear earlier this year that they were appalled by the incidence of abortion in our community. [More…]

• We should be no less appalled by the frequency with which unplanned pregnancies and unwanted births occur, by the disproportionate share of this burden which falls on those sections of the community which are least able to carry it and by its tragic consequences for many an unwelcome child. [More…]

• These figures explain the fact that although unplanned pregnancies are much too prevalent in all sections of our community, they are most prevalent among the poor and the young. [More…]

• I move for an inquiry in the conviction that by reasoning together we can come to agree upon ways of developing responsible patterns of sexual behaviour in our community. [More…]

• We do not have to settle for arrangements under which the responsibility for family planning services falls almost exclusively upon community organisations which until this year have been denied Australian Government support. [More…]

• The only reason we have tolerated our present inadequate family planning services so long is that we have been ignorant as a community of the great advantages conferred by services of a higher standard upon cities such as Aberdeen. [More…]

• Any amendment which seeks to insert into the terms of reference matters such as housing, child minding facilities, pre-school facilities, domestic assistance for families and working mothers, the social status of women in the community and other assistance to women employed in industry will be seen as an attempt to replace an investigation of specific, pressing and practical problems with an inquiry into the whole human condition. [More…]

• Such pressures should be examined having regard to the adequacy of (i) housing, (ii) child-minding facilities, (iii) pre-school facilities, (iv) disabilities of families with handicapped children and the means of assisting them, (v) domestic assistance for families and working mothers, (vi) adoption procedures, (vii) assistance to single parent families, (viii) social status of -women in the community and (bt) other assistance to mothers employed in industry. [More…]

• Very few children are born in the community who remain unwanted for very long. [More…]

• He was accused of wishing to attach his personal principles to others: In this Parliament we accept a responsibility on election to make laws governing community standards. [More…]

• It is a matter of how one sees ethical and moral issues and the need for laws governing individual conduct within the community. [More…]

• Certainly there will be differences in attitudes but because there is a difference in ethical and moral values one does not deserve the jibe that one is attempting to impose his perhaps different views on the rest of the community. [More…]

• Working mothers in this community are not receiving much assistance at the moment. [More…]

• However, it is in the interests of the community to have this sort of inquiry take place. [More…]

• It is not a matter that was suddenly sprung upon the community. [More…]

• Hence, a commission on consumer stand Fids needs to be representative of as broad a cross section of the community as possible. [More…]

• For that reason, I believe that the concept as advanced is good, but there does need to be a recognition that, firstly, there exists a problem in ensuring that standards apply equally to products which are imported as to those which are produced domestically and, secondly, that we need to consider the diverse nature of consumers and the diverse character of persons who are affected by applying consumer standards and ensure that the members of the Commission represent as broad a cross section of the community as is possible to ensure that everyone is taken into account before the standards themselves aTe prescribed and before decisions are taken which may react adversely against those who are, after all, the generators of wealth in our community. [More…]

• I suggested last night that there are a number of concepts of change in our community which we need to take into account if at this stage we are going to destroy the opportunity for future governments to extract the death penalty if it should be felt necessary in- relation to certain crimes. [More…]

• But I believe that, given 3 circumstances of change in our community, it is premature to eliminate the death penalty altogether from all areas of operation in the laws of this country. [More…]

• There are very real difficulties in the penalties that are extracted and I doubt whether as it is now constituted the penal system throughout Australia does give either reasonable protection to society on the one hand or, on the other hand, give to those who are imprisoned a reasonable opportunity for rehabilitation or to return to normal life in the community. [More…]

• In our community crimes are committed which are distinctly different from those which traditionally existed. [More…]

• It is because of the attitudes of our society and a swinging back to apprehension that it is again necessary to have some form of ultimate physical sanction that can be exercised against criminals in our community. [More…]

• It is equally true that in reality there has not been, and I do not believe that there should be, enforcement of the death penalty against a criminal in our community at this time, but I draw a distinction again between the actual determination of the penalty, the execution of the penalty and the prescription of the penalty. [More…]

• We are not here as a law enforcement agency but we have a responsibility to set parameters for the community which enable it to feel reasonably safe and confident that laws are available to the courts to enable them to minimise the threat of criminal acts against individuals or against the state as a whole. [More…]

• I do not believe that at this stage of Australia’s development we can fail to take into account the attitudes of those people in the community who are concerned about the safety of lives and livelihoods and of the general trends in crime itself. [More…]

• I believe that a Government has a right to order killing in defence of the community. [More…]

• Execution, the extinction of human life in the name of the community, can be justified only by the clearest evidence of imperative need. [More…]

• They are generally held to be: The reform of the offender, the safety of the community and deterrence from similar offences. [More…]

• The second aim of punishment is the safety of the community. [More…]

• But is is a well established fact that those who commit crimes which are subject to the death penalty, even if not executed, are very unlikely to repeat such crimes after their release - much less likely in fact than the general run of the community. [More…]

• It is true of course that some insane people are a continuing danger to the community, but no one as far as I know is proposing that they should be executed, so they are not relevant to this debate. [More…]

• So, I am satisfied that the safety of the community would not be affected by the abo lition of the death penalty, and the possibility of reform of the offender is obviously increased. [More…]

• I feel that capital punishment - execution by the state - can be justified only if there is clear evidence that its retention is necessary for the safety and good order of the community. [More…]

• I hope, after all our debate, that both in this House and in the community we will come to realise that the right way to create respect for human life is to refrain from taking life in the name of the law. [More…]

• If a person is disloyal to the community in that he betrays his duties to the community, as people see them, there is something wrong with the values of the community and not with the person. [More…]

• But what right have I or the community as a whole to punish someone because he does not see eye to eye with us on great issues? [More…]

• I have the same deep attachment to our country, the community and its values. [More…]

• This community places great store upon human life. [More…]

• The standards of behaviour in the community, as established by governments and in public life, are the ones which will produce an attitude towards other people’s rights and lives. [More…]

• I hope that on this occasion - I am pretty certain that it will happen - the Australian Parliament will set the seal on the standards of this community and by the passage of this Bill repeal the death penalty and therefore place Australia generally up with most other civilised nations and with several of the Australian States. [More…]

• I have weighed the pros and cons, I have done some soul searching, and I find myself firmly convinced that I still have a responsibility to ensure that our community is protected. [More…]

• Surely in all sincerity it would have been merciful to that person to remove him altogether for his own and the community’s benefit. [More…]

• It is my view that those in authority should never show any weakening of the authority they carry, otherwise we will see violent crimes becoming more and more a part of our community. [More…]

• I will speak very briefly today because I think most of the arguments have been covered fairly fully during the debate in this House, in the Senate and of course in the community. [More…]

• If this Bill goes through - of course it will - and capital punishment is abolished, the community must be protected from certain types of criminals such as the psychopathic criminal who goes out and rapes and kills a child. [More…]

• I direct this to the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) who is at the table and who represents the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) - that some provision can be made in the law of the Australian Capital Territory to ensure that those sorts of people are not released to recommit their crimes on the community, because once they have that type of mental problem they probably will never get better and could repeat a similar crime again. [More…]

• Why should the people in the community be the ones to suffer? [More…]

• I am not seeking to secure any party political points but I must point out that the Labor Government of South Australia is in the forefront of development of the passe idea of penal reform at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• Section 24 of that Act defines treason as it is known in our community. [More…]

• When a person seeks to destroy the security and integrity of the state, I must confess that no consideration of deterrence goes through my mind, I say unhesitatingly that the community is entitled to resort to retribution. [More…]

• Criminal law is the essence of violence - the less violent it becomes, the more healthy and sane the community will be. [More…]

• There are many people in the community, such as young marrieds with families to support, homes to establish and pay off and a future to be made, who have less income than this but are denied such benefits. [More…]

• I believe that in our community there are many people who have a great deal to give after the normal retiring age. [More…]

• Not only will it insure individuals in the community against situations which may arise or will arise but it will also save an enormous amount of money in administration. [More…]

• We will raise the general standard of living of retired people in the community and we will not cease our work in this field until we have given every retired person in our society a guaranteed income of 25 per cent of the minimum male average weekly earnings. [More…]

• I shall show honourable members in a moment what happens to other people in the community. [More…]

• We need now to look at the proposals of the Minister for Social Security as they relate to the members of the community who today are between the ages of 65 and 75, in the case of men, and between 60 and 75 in the case of women. [More…]

• He is now angry and concerned about the needs of pensioners in the community. [More…]

• It alone does not suffice, but it is -necessary to have it, in Australia and in any other developed community. [More…]

• So there is no increased cost to the community there. [More…]

• But the significant factor about our proposed scheme is that for the same total cost as the current scheme, which covers only about 83 per cent to 87 per cent of the public at any time, it will cover 100 per cent of the community. [More…]

• It will cover everyone in the community and it will not fail as the present scheme does in respect of low income earners and the fringe dwelling Aborigines. [More…]

• The proposed scheme will, for the same total cost, cover everyone in the community - not 83 per cent to 87 per cent as the present scheme does. [More…]

• The important thing here would be to extend a direct hand to people overseas from one community to another, from one group to another or from one location to another rather than just to invite people into the whole of the continent and hope to goodness they will find a place. [More…]

• In the face of this, the Treasurer had the temerity last week in this Parliament to accuse any investor who sells bonds of manipulating the market and debasing the money standards of everyone else in the community. [More…]

• If the investing public and the business community have had to rely on the vacillations of the Prime Minister and his Treasurer on the question of this new monetary policy, it is no wonder that confusion and lack of confidence have been the result. [More…]

• I still go on record that in my view it would be better for a community as a whole if interest rates were lower rather than higher. [More…]

• This action will hit hardest the smaller businessmen, the comer storekeepers, the farmers and the little people in our community. [More…]

• There is ample proof to show that high interest rates are imposing severe burdens on export rural industries, just as they are on other sections of the community such as young house owners. [More…]

• In 23 years of administration this country’s economic progress was regularly convulsed by the stop-go policies which were purposely injected into the community. [More…]

• These after all are the people who in 1971, contrary to all the economic advice available in the community - even from Treasury I rather gather- decided to become the architects of the 1971 disaster. [More…]

• Quite clearly we are not going to resort to those orthodox measures which caused so much harm and suffering to the general community. [More…]

• Within a month of the election of the Labor Government, there was an uneasiness in the minds of the community. [More…]

• Tremendously increased housing costs have hit the younger members of the community. [More…]

• I would hope that the Government would realise the tremendous burden that is coming upon the community and would appreciate that there are not only within the State governments but within the community at large many people who are willing to help if they get the leadership that this nation needs. [More…]

• Every section of the Australian community is better off today than 9 months ago. [More…]

• We do however recognise how much we depend upon the cooperation of all sections of the community, and upon the force of public opinion. [More…]

• The growth of criminal offences and the ease of communication between countries have resulted in a growing interdependence of the members of the international community. [More…]

• There is also in the Bill the extension of benefits to members of the regular forces, and there is an indication of the interlocking of repatriation benefits with general health and social welfare services in the community. [More…]

• But there is considerable expertise in the Repatriation Department which has much to add to community health and social welfare services, and I do not .think those with that expertise should be prevented from giving that assistance. [More…]

• It has caused some concern in the community in aspects other than repatriation for some of the former national service members of the forces, who feel aggrieved that because they completed their service before 7 December last they were not able to get some of the other benefits that existed. [More…]

• We have now come to a stage where we as a community can well afford to accept those disabilities, and I commend the Minister for Repatriation for having taken this action. [More…]

• I suppose that if one drew a straight line about 3 miles long starting at the Austin Hospital it would include the Austin Hospital, the Repatriation General Hospital and the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital. [More…]

• Yet, despite there being 2 other institutions, there is still a high demand for hospital beds in the area and the Repatriation General Hospital is very well placed, if it has beds available, for use by ordinary members of the community. [More…]

• They have had the benefit of being able to try new methods, and this can all be used for the benefit of exservicemen and people other than ex-servicemen in the community. [More…]

• I trust that as the demand from ex-servicemen decreases this expertise will be used to benefit other members of the community. [More…]

• They show how the TPI rate, the war widows rate, the services pension rate and the general rate of war pension declined substantially in relation to the average wage in the community and even in relation to the minimum wage in the community. [More…]

• That should help some of those unfortunate victims - there all too many of them in our community - who suffer from this wretched disease. [More…]

• also referred to the very beneficial provision of artificial limbs which are to be made available not only to all ex-servicemen and serving servicemen but also to all civilians in the community. [More…]

• Like the previous speakers on this side of the House I support these Bills as one must commend action that is to the benefit of any particular section of the community. [More…]

• We have seen an alteration to the means test for certain sections of the community, but I will say a little more about that later on. [More…]

• After all, all the other rates have been altered except those for that section of the community which is in receipt of the 75 per cent to 100 per cent pension and the special compensation. [More…]

• If ever a section of the community deserves consideration, in my mind it is the war widow. [More…]

• We are concerned also about the very severe impact of the increased charges as they relate specifically to country people and those who belong to various community groups in all parts of Australia. [More…]

• Anyone who studies these tables will see that, no matter what the Postmaster-General might say about international standards and so on, the change to the metric system has been used by the Government really to sock the community. [More…]

• The Government is not concerned to avoid profiting from the change to the metric system, which it asks everyone else in the community to avoid. [More…]

• The country newspaper is a vital part of the lifeblood of the country community. [More…]

• A newspaper in a way forms part of the heart and soul of a small community. [More…]

• It is a vital element in the maintenance of that community spirit which is one of the great attributes of these communities. [More…]

• It tells them not only of events that fall into the category of news but of important things relating to their daily lives and work, such as market reports and indications of coming events such as agricultural field days and community meetings. [More…]

• However, a savage increase in cost to a section of the community is being proposed in both postage and telephone charges. [More…]

• The Post Office faces the same calamity as every other section of the business community now faces, but in the case of the Post Office the rot is setting in earlier and the collapse will come more quickly. [More…]

• Not game to deal with the real problems, of course, the country principally, but to some extent the entire community, is being socked. [More…]

• I believe that the community is shocked and in fact dismayed by what it finds occurring in the area of charges for bulk postings and the directions in which these drastic changes are being made. [More…]

• But what he is prepared to do is to come into this House and attack a section of this community- the country community - and try to put the blame on it. [More…]

• The role of the Post Office is to serve the community. [More…]

• The proposed rise in newspaper postages established another increase cost for a newspaper whose income is more or less static in a community in which no marked new development is proceeding, but in which this paper is still very welcome. [More…]

• Apart from the fact that this paper has been operating and serving the needs of the community for so long, the staff will have to find other jobs and the district will be left without a medium voice. [More…]

• This newspaper, which the people of Innisfail have been proud of and which the owners and editor have been proud to use as a medium to serve the local community, will be buried on 28 September because of this Government’s ruthless actions. [More…]

• The ruthless manner by which this Government is determined to reduce the rural community of Australia to second class citizenship is demonstrated by the measures taken under these 3 Bills dealing with post and telegraph charges. [More…]

• It is well known throughout the length and breadth of the land that the Liberal Party is interested in and represents all sections of the community. [More…]

• I believe that the position of the rural community has been well canvassed and explained by the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony), the Liberal members for Moreton (Mr Killen), Angas (Mr Giles) and Herbert (Mr Bonnett) and the Country Party member for Cowper (Mr Ian Robinson). [More…]

• Being interested, as I have said, in all sections of the community, I would like to speak for and on behalf of the unions of Australia. [More…]

• The local newspaper can tell the community what is happening in the way of romance and births and deaths. [More…]

• The local newspaper binds a town together, gives it a sense of cohesion, and gives the people a sense of belonging in a community. [More…]

• The sad thing about that is that although the Government has been appealing to the community at large not to increase charges while converting to metrics, the Government has set a very bad example itself by making profits in excess of 100 per cent on metrics alone. [More…]

• This Bill represents a vicious, arbitrary attack on a section of the media and a section of the community. [More…]

• I ask that the Government reconsider its attitude and be a little more reasonable and humane in the interest’s of people who are Australians, just like any other members of the community, and who have the right of access to educational, technical or cultural facilities and newspapers in order that they can be as well informed as other people and will not have to rely entirely upon the mass media of the Australian Broadcasting Commission for their information. [More…]

• Differential rates apply in any community. [More…]

• As they are prepared and made available to the community, so they will be criticised and so we will learn from our mistakes, we will learn about the shortcomings and, we hope, we will evolve a reasonable technique. [More…]

• Developing this technique will not be up to this Government alone; it will depend largely on the community’s perception of environmental needs. [More…]

• When the community is more stirred up and more aware of the conflict between conservation and development - the resolving of that conflict is not solely the responsibility of any government; it is the general ethos in the community that needs to be changed. [More…]

• When the community is aware of this, environmental impact statements will rectify more readily what many of us perceive to be errors in decision making in the country, not limited solely to the Government. [More…]

• It is confusing not only to the investing community, the business community and private citizens who are borrowing or lending, especially for home mortgages, but also to the Government and to the Reserve Bank themselves. [More…]

• I concluded with these words: the stage may be reached where the community would accept the controls entailed in incomesprices policies as a necessary price to pay to restore stability. [More…]

• But if one looks at the other side of the social equation - it can be seen in the White Paper on National Income - one sees that the greatest single source of income in the community is wages and salaries. [More…]

• It redistributes money, usually from the most needy people in the community to those who have much less need. [More…]

• As things stand at the moment, when effective action is taken by the Trade Practices Tribunal there is often a lag between the decision being made and the benefits starting to flow through to the community. [More…]

• Again, in the case of changes in the exchange rate, the benefits flowing through to the community can involve a significant lag. [More…]

• It is undeniable that exchange rate adjustments can bring benefits to the community. [More…]

• It means also that there is an unjustifiably high price being imposed on the community. [More…]

• There is a large economic rent transfer from the rest of the community to a small group who are land owners. [More…]

• Of course, we are thinking largely of key areas of the economy and not the whole economy - not everything from ocean liners down to shoe laces but the key ingredients in the economy which have such multiplier effects on the overall costs which the community finally bears. [More…]

• By and large it will be applied in a selective way which will benefit the community. [More…]

• The first occasion on which they are tested they backslide, and they will backslide all the way out of the door of this Parliament rather than face up and back up their brave words during the winter recess with action to introduce a companion Bill in this House during the currency of this week’s sitting to ensure that our proposals to seek power through a referendum for a prices policy can be supplemented by proposals to have power obtained from the community for an incomes policy. [More…]

• In fact, the Government’s own policies in seeking to exaggerate the extent of salary and wage increases throughout the community have been a major determinant in the present rate of inflation in Australia. [More…]

• The whole basis and objective of incomes-prices policies is to make income claims by different sectors of the community compatible so that they may be reconciled without inflation. [More…]

• Incomes prices policies aim to alter these money income claims through education, the stimulation of community responsibility and more importantly by modifying expectations as to future inflation and movements of other groups’ incomes. [More…]

• This Bill is in fact an attack on the general community. [More…]

• We have heard the honourable member for Flinders (Mr Lynch) describe this Bill as an attack on the Australian community. [More…]

• I find that many people, particularly younger people, in the community are deluded into believing that a policy of price control is in the long term an effective weapon against inflation. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the fact that public opinion in Australia held prices down meant that the company was unable to use its resources to increase production of something of which the community needs increasing quantities. [More…]

• As soon as this is done it creates a pressure for black marketeering, for the spiv, for the crook to get an undue advantage over the rest, the decent section of the community. [More…]

• In the debate on the Budget, the kicking of the rural community at the hands of the Labor Party and by the honourable member for Riverina, the present Minister for Immigration who has completely welshed on those who elected him to this place, was stressed by member after member on this side of the House. [More…]

• The bashing that this Government has given to the rural community is completely vindicative in its nature and the man who introduced this Bil! [More…]

• If we assume a growth factor of 25 per cent annually in inspection charges - a fair figure taking into account the growth of exports, the widening recruitment of inspectors, rising wage rates and the inflationary spiral about which this Government seems to care little in that it is spending money in the public sector and not caring 2 hoots about where it is going; of course it is making the private sector pull its horns in and has no concern for the individual men and women in this community and is concerned only that the public sector should keep on spending - we find that in the remaining 9 months of 1973-74 the cost of inspection services would be $14.3m. [More…]

• It has completely condemned the people who are generating the wealth that enables the whole of this community to survive, to sustain and to grow. [More…]

• It is expected that when the United Kingdom goes into the European Economic Community this market will not be lost but it will be built up. [More…]

• As a matter of fact the European Economic Community will be in the market for some 600,000 tons of beef within the next 4 or S years, and we in this country hope to get our share of that market. [More…]

• Higher prices and better returns are needed so that the farming community can get out of the debt which low prices and drought have forced it into and so that farmers can also pay the iniquitous 9 to 10 per cent interest rates which are being imposed by the present Government. [More…]

• Any initiatives in this regard should come under the Australian Assistance Plan and result from local community involvement. [More…]

• If these are facts, will he publicise on the first page of the first edition of all relevant Government publications the magnificent subsidisation by Australian wheat farmers of the domestic wheat users of Australia in order to counter commonly held, erroneous socialistic beliefs that the community is subsidising the Australian wheat farmers? [More…]

• We have formal submissions on the community health care program from 2 other States, and I am sure we will have one soon from New South Wales. [More…]

• Is the honourable gentleman aware that responsible people in this community are sick and tired of shadow sparring and politicking over inflation from both sides of this chamber? [More…]

• Mollycoddling loafers in the community is disastrous . [More…]

• Not merely the sense of urgency which exists in the community and in the 3 Services supports in a very generous fashion the observations of the honourable member for Kooyong, but also the observations which have been made by people closely connected with the Government. [More…]

• The need for setting up the Social Welfare Commission is based on the new emphasis we have given to the recognition of adequate welfare systems as being a public right which contributes to the well-being of the total Australian community. [More…]

• In future there will be a rational development of welfare programs in the community. [More…]

• I would assert quite firmly that the development of social welfare programs in this country to date has been blighted by the way in which past governments as a matter of centralised decision-making determined priorities^ - and not many priorites at that either - and then by implication indicated to the community that if areas were either unsuitable or had no need for these particular programs that was tough luck; they missed out altogether. [More…]

• I should also mention that when the Australian Assistance Plan - now being developed by the Government - is fully operational, community based voluntary welfare services will be fostered and stimulated with generous sup- port so that the services provided and the organisations providing them are related to, and are identified with, the community in which they operate. [More…]

• The only display of centralism in this exercise is the display of responsible decision-making by the Australian Government which has established the Social Welfare Commission and which in turn directed the Commission to develop the Australian Assistance Plan according to guidelines set down by the Government in order that the administration and operation of social welfare programs and key decisionmaking affecting their direction are very much a local community concern. [More…]

• To ascertain, and report to the Minister on, the social welfare needs of the community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs. [More…]

• Recommendations for the adjustment, from time to time, of social welfare programs in the light of changing community circumstances and attitudes and the state of the economy. [More…]

• Recommendations for avoiding the duplication of social welfare programs and for promoting the maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the community social welfare effort. [More…]

• Without wishing to transgress on the generosity of the Committee or on the speeches that have been made, I say that the whole of this is totally unacceptable to myself, to members of the Opposition and to members of the rural community. [More…]

• I am sure that the people outside in the community will recognise the value of the acceptance of the amendments that the Minister has agreed to. [More…]

• The scheme has been a very significant factor in welding metropolitan and country life into one Australian community. [More…]

• I have referred to the moulding of one Australian community. [More…]

• The purpose of the scheme is the fostering of the one metropolitan-rural national Australian community. [More…]

• Distance, it is said, involves a real cost to the community and such a policy would enlarge that cost. [More…]

• If the Federal Government will not do that, what confidence can the States have that the Federal Government will co-operate with them to the benefit of the community generally? [More…]

• She is in the custody of her natural parents and as far as I can determine we as the Government have a moral duty to see that the ordinary services of the Australian community are available to them but we have no legal right to intervene between the parents and the child. [More…]

• It is surely the wish of this House that meat producers or any other producers should not by artificial means be reduced to a peasant class by making them produce and making them subsidise the rest of the community from that production. [More…]

• I repeat that we would have rooms and rooms full of civil servants all paid by the community busily collecting taxes and sitting around paying them back again, if they could ever think to whom they should be paid, but retaining an unspecified proportion for something that the meat industry has not requested - a promotion campaign. [More…]

• Their philosophy seems to be, that as far as certain producers and manufacturers are concerned, they should be allowed to charge what they like, to get what they can and to ignore the interests of other sections of the community. [More…]

• I am one of those who have always advocated strongly minimum incomes for everyone in our community. [More…]

• Have we seen any mass exodus from the farming community? [More…]

• But the honourable member said: Let the rest of the community look after them; fix it up with social welfare payments or let them go without; do not worry about them. [More…]

• That statement is made against the total context of remarks made by the Minister since his appointment as Minister for Labour which indicate that he will use the inspectorate for discriminatory purposes against a certain sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• I know the importance of these sorts of functions and I know that those who fulfil this very important role ought to be drawn from the very broad spectrum available in the community. [More…]

• These expressions - Clyde’s Own Corps, Dad’s Army and jobs for the boys - have been mentioned as red herrings by the conservatives in our community who now sit on the other side of this chamber. [More…]

• Surely he knows of the other laws and forces at work in the community which apply in cases of unprovoked assault. [More…]

• If we want rising standards, greater opportunity for leisure and a more united community, then breaking down artificial barriers between employees and employers is central to the task. [More…]

• It is quite clear that under the impact of the inflation which is running throughout the community at the present time the arbitration system will come under increasing strain. [More…]

• I think we will see within the short months ahead a much more significant degree of union activity outside the arbitration system in order to ensure that the wages of union members match the inflationary trends operating within the community. [More…]

• Secondly, a government must necessarily be concerned with the wellbeing of people in all sections of the community, of which employers and members of the trade union movement form but a part. [More…]

• In particular, a government has responsibility for protecting the interests of under-privileged people in the community - those on fixed incomes and others who are not in a position to protect their own interests. [More…]

• Thirdly, some industrial relations developments are not the direct concern of one or other of the parties, although they can cause a marked upset in the life of the general community and can have adverse economic repercussions. [More…]

• No self-respecting government can stand idly by in the face of such threats ‘to the community’s wellbeing. [More…]

• In 1949 the economic disruption caused by coal miners forced the then Labor Government to protect the Australian community by the passage of an Act which had the effect of putting the irresponsible union leaders involved in gaol. [More…]

• By the same token, employers who make a practice of automatically rejecting union demands, irrespective of their intrinsic merits, or grant unreasonable claims in the expectation that the costs involved can be passed on to the general community in the form of price rises, cannot be said to be acting responsibly. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you would be aware of the serious degree to which business confidence and the confidence of the community generally have been so greatly eroded during the first 9 months in which you have held this position as Deputy Speaker of this House. [More…]

• Therefore, what we need is a better community of work, a community in which employers and employees work effectively together, with increasing benefit to the worker, the employer, the products they produce and the country at large. [More…]

• But this is a new portfolio and, unfortunately, there are many people in the community who still have to be convinced that there is anything in tourism and travel. [More…]

• This creates goodwill and can do nothing but good for the community generally. [More…]

• Will the Minister now consider reducing the intense inflationary pressure on the house building industry by cutting back the immense outlay on government housing which is provided for in the Budget, instead of imposing savage increases in interest rates on all those in the community who either are acquiring or are planning to build or buy their own homes? [More…]

• These are the most deprived and most needful people in terms of housing requirements in the community. [More…]

• As for increases in interest rates on housing loans, the honourable member would be well aware, from statements in the Press, that the Government is in the process - indeed, consultations will be taking place today with appropriate bodies in the community - of developing a system of housing interest rates which . [More…]

• will be most considerate of the needs of the moderate and middle income earners in the community. [More…]

• If this is the sort of feeling engendered throughout the Australian community, it is little wonder that the people have become concerned about the direction in which the Government is taking them. [More…]

• Despite the great and growing appreciation of the prospects and problems of Papua New Guinea by the 2 major parties in this House there still remains in the community at large too many stereotyped and simplistic views on the country. [More…]

• There is a need to seek public order and harmony within the community. [More…]

• I do not think that police should be used simply to alienate some of the community problems that the people may or may not have. [More…]

• It is a racist assumption and it must not be allowed to be perpetuated throughout the community. [More…]

• This caused me a great deal of concern, as it did everybody in the community. [More…]

• Of course, they come right back to the essential right of the Aboriginal people to have a choice in pursuing their culture or moving out into the wider Australian community. [More…]

• These are surely things that a modern community should be able to take care of through community based services instead of uselessly paying out $2,356 a year which it costs to keep a man in the Darwin gaol. [More…]

• Are these organisers and the enrollers being paid, and if so, by whom, and how much is it costing the community. [More…]

• If not I feel that our coloured community in this country is being badly served, instead of assisted, as it should be. [More…]

• The policy of assimilation seeks that all persons of Aboriginal descent will choose to attain a similar manner and standard of living to that of other Australians, and live as members of a single Australian community, enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities and influenced by the same hopes and loyalties of other Australians. [More…]

• During the period between 1968 and 1973 the Commonwealth Government has recognised that persons of Aboriginal descent experience a number of disabilities in comparison with the rest of the community and that special measures are needed to overcome their disabilities, lt has been said that programs have been evolved which are designed to encourage and strengthen the capacity of persons of Aboriginal descent to manage their own affairs as individuals, groups and local communities to increase their economic independence and to reduce social and other handicaps facing them in health, housing and education. [More…]

• He found that 90 per cent of the Aboriginal community was living in a state of absolute acute social depression. [More…]

• For instance, dealing with building, in New South Wales there are the Housing Commission of New South Wales, the Housing Funds Aboriginal Affairs, the Aboriginal Advancement Association, the Youth and Community Service and Aboriginal Affairs and the local government authorities all building houses in different ways and all making a mess of them. [More…]

• Do not make the Aboriginal community a parasitical community. [More…]

• We are dealing with the most disadvantaged group of people in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs receives representations from small groups of Aboriginal people all over Australia, but there is a need for these people to come together and to get their priorities in order and to speak with one voice when they ask the Minister for the expenditure of funds which this Government will provide in an endeavour to establish the Aboriginal people in their rightful position in the Australian community. [More…]

• Many of them, because they have had to try to assimilate and integrate into the white community, will have to be accommodated in the same types of conditions in which white Australian people live in the cities and towns around Australia. [More…]

• They do not want to be parasites on the community, as the honourable member for the Northern Territory described them. [More…]

• No matter where one goes, it is evident that the health of the Aboriginal population generally is much lower than that of white populations anywhere in our community. [More…]

• It was announced suddenly, and because of misunderstandings which exist in our community there was a reaction which members of the Australian Labor Party themselves have described as understandable. [More…]

• This appeared after some concern was expressed in our community as to what was going to happen. [More…]

• The President of the Black Community Service advised that ‘Aborigines were angry that the Federal Government had reserved the Hill End hostel for girl workers and not students as originally proposed’. [More…]

• But we see the Commonwealth as taking over the administrative and policy functions and the States as playing their role in servicing the Aboriginal people of Australia in State schools and hospitals and the like in the same way as they treat other people in the community. [More…]

• Anyone who suggests that we are in the business of excluding the States is being quite unreal, when so many basic services such as health, education, housing and the like in our community are financed through State Governments. [More…]

• We all know that in certain areas of our community there is a great disincentive to look for work or take work. [More…]

• It is all very well to give Aborigines the same rights as other people to obtain drink, but, in view of the way in which the drink problem is destroying them, the price of being popular in the general community is a very dear one. [More…]

• As a community and as a Parliament we have an extra responsibility at this time to resist the temptation to think that there are any easy, rapid answers. [More…]

• I am attempting to come to agreement with every community and every municipality where Aboriginal people live so that they can get things moving on the ground. [More…]

• The concept of retirement could be altered by encouraging a change of attitude in the community towards the aged. [More…]

• As the life span of more people in our community extends because of the growth in the knowledge of medical science, this aspect will become an increasing problem. [More…]

• The Bureau of Census and Statistics has projected a marginal increase in the proportion of the aged in the community to the year 2001. [More…]

• This is housekeeper and other domestic assistance which helps to keep aged people in their own community for as long as possible. [More…]

• It reduces cost and also has an involvement of people in the community towards community problems which, I know, is part of the philosophy of the Minister. [More…]

• Each give assistance in restricted or largely restricted ways which deprive the bulk of the community from the benefit of such services. [More…]

• I do not want to sound conceited about this but I think it is well known in the community that in my role as the Federal member for Robertson I have called numerous public and private meetings and have appealed in hundreds of letters, yet we have not been able to achieve the completion of one senior citizens centre. [More…]

• The present organisations meet in the community halls that are available to them for hire, but they lack the incentive to develop a more comprehensive entertainment and activity program, as unfortunately they lack the security of tenure that comes with pride of ownership. [More…]

• While it is essential that aged persons should not lose social contact with other sections of the community, it is clear that there is a desperate need for a centre that caters particularly for the needs of the people in this age group 7 days a week. [More…]

• The present organisational social structure is catering partially for the needs of that small section of the aged community that has adapted to retirement and the loss of a partner. [More…]

• An abundance of social research is available from studies done elsewhere to illustrate the improvement in the mental and physical health of the aged community where such centres are created. [More…]

• In New South Wales they may go to the State Department of Youth and Community Services. [More…]

• We believe that a community office should be provided so that the interviews that are conducted by officers of, say, the Department of Social Security, could be conducted at that centre and this fact would become known. [More…]

• At the time the Aged Persons Homes legislation first came before this Parliament there was a grave shortage of suitable accommodation for the aged within the community, and it was essential then that the stock of suitable modern, convenient accommodation for the senior citizens of this country be increased. [More…]

• The method adopted was to involve the community, to involve people willing to establish charitable organisations whose objective would be to provide accommodation for the aged. [More…]

• Why can the scheme not be a little more flexible so that a local organisation which is set up for the purpose of community involvement to raise money can be approved by a local government body for the purpose of subsidy under this Act? [More…]

• If it can be done, perhaps he could indicate whether the regulations or the Act wil be altered to allow this approach, which is more flexible, more sensible and enables greater community involvement, to apply. [More…]

• It enables these people to live their lives as a part of the community with the maximum of independence, freedom and comfort possible in old age. [More…]

• They provide for those people in our community who cannot provide for themselves. [More…]

• If it were not for the Meals on Wheels organisation doing more than it had to do and other voluntary community organisations who helped that particular woman then she would have found it very difficult to manage. [More…]

• I commend the Government again on the increased subsidy for community centres. [More…]

• I do not suggest that 1 know all the answers but looking at the situation on the Gold Coast where, as everybody would know, there is an enormous number of retired people - senior citizens - the more complete the centre is the more chance you have of having everybody use it and of having a community involvement in it. [More…]

• I have had experience in my electorate of finding that because, welfare officers are appointed by many departments, their communications are not as good as they should be and there has not been the support and the service given to the community which could result if we had great co-operation. [More…]

• In referring to these 3 Bills in the cognate debate - the Aged Persons Homes Bill, the States Grants (Home Care) Bill and the Delievered Meals Subsidy Bill - one finds that very many problems experienced by our aged community have been looked at. [More…]

• However, this type of legislation indicates an overall increase in the standard of living of retired people, that they are continuing as active members of the community, and that they highlight through their organisations to those in authority the need to give more attention to their section of the community. [More…]

• Even though the benefits enacted in this legislation are generous, they cannot attempt to solve all the problems with which the aged community are faced. [More…]

• No doubt at some future date we will sec senior citizens centres operating as truly viable community aid centres and not as goodwill clubs, which they must all be at the moment. [More…]

• They realise that organisations with cottages must give preference to their cottage residents for hostel type accommodation, for not only do they have a community and a personal obligation to those residents but they also have waiting lists for vacancies occurring in the cottages. [More…]

• I am very concerned, as all people should be concerned, about the attitude of the Government towards the media generally and particularly towards the media serving the community outside the metropolitan area. [More…]

• But in view of the overall approach of this Government towards the community I still wonder whether this is but a temporary reprieve or whether there has been a change of heart by the Government on this issue. [More…]

• The commercial broadcasting stations in the outlying areas of this country - in many instances they are not so far outlying - play a very important part in the community life of the district. [More…]

• Since these increased costs are more than the profit earned by the stations, inevitably the money invested to provide the service to the community in those areas will be lost unless substantial relief is provided. [More…]

• They have been prepared to carry on and to provide a service to the community. [More…]

• They were a clear profit to the most profitable primary producers in the community, whether they were wool growers or dairy producers in Victoria. [More…]

• This is consistent with the general pattern of behaviour by a number of medical practitioners throughout the community. [More…]

• I would suggest that at this stage the crucial need is to soak up excess liquidity in this community. [More…]

• In the last 6 months of the last calendar year the increase in the money volume in the community exceeded 17 per cent, which surely must be a record in this community. [More…]

• There is a lag between when the increase in the money volume occurs and when the effects on increased liquidity take place with spending propensities in the community. [More…]

• Personally I applaud his approach that where there are areas of agreement and where he believes there is benefit for the community he is prepared to identify these areas and not to develop spurious debates. [More…]

• I believe that the community will achieve superior health and welfare services as a result of this sort of approach. [More…]

• It confirms what I have said continuously since the planning committee report was presented at the beginning of this year - that if there is consultation, if there is negotiation there are areas where there can be mutual benefit and mutually advantageous adjustment to certian proposals in the scheme not only for the profession and the Government but also for the community. [More…]

• I sincerely trust that at Saturday’s meeting with the Federal Council of the Australian Medical Association we will settle down in at least a reasonably cordial atmosphere to a working arrangement to try to extract the most beneficial advantages we can from this proposal for the community, because I believe that when it is finally resolved that is what we are both trying to achieve. [More…]

• Members of the Country Party in this House consistently argue that we should have an incomes policy in the community to restrain excessive incomes, so one assumes, as a corollary, that members of the Country Party are arguing that there must be income restraint on these primary producers. [More…]

• It is important to bear in mind that prices and incomes policies will work only in the short term and while they have consensual support in the community. [More…]

• Evidence from overseas indicates that if there is any effort to impose them too broadly and too repressively the community will not adhere to them. [More…]

• In our society - I applaud these sorts of qualities in our society - the scheme will not work unless it is acceptable to the community. [More…]

• I have mentioned those things in passing in order to show that there has been a direct indication by honourable members on the other side of the Parliament that they appreciate the urgency of this matter and realise that there is a need to protect not just one section of the Australian community but every section of it against rising prices and inflation. [More…]

• He is the man who has been running around this community talking about a prices-income policy and about demand management as though they are the latest trendy slogans, without ever filling out what it is that he has in mind. [More…]

• Does it mean a power to level down in the community to maintain basic standards? [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s method has been to attack the causes with measures which are fair and equitable to all sections of the community. [More…]

• Some wages and some salaries are not controlled, but they are those which are received by the tall poppies in our community. [More…]

• But Mr Hawke went on to put, as a major consideration in any union decision to opt for such restraint- that is, wage restraint - the condition that the Federal Government had to come up with a plan to ‘actively redistribute’ income within the community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman who is interjecting ought to have more concern for the people in our community who are disadvantaged, because he is a party to the shabby manner in which the position of these groups has been further eroded because of his failure to stand up and be counted. [More…]

• As you know, Mr Deputy Speaker, from your knowledge of the Corio electorate, this Government’s policies are hitting at one group or another in the Australian community. [More…]

• He knows that the fat cats in the Australian community are being advantaged by policies of this Government which are producing, providing and fuelling our inflationary problem. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security who, I hope, has a real sense of concern for equity in the Australian community, might tell in this debate, for the first time in the presentation of what the Government has been saying about inflation - what the facts are, we must be prepared to come clean with the facts. [More…]

• One of the most significant results of modern economic theory has been the conclusion that the best way of moving towards an optimum, towards the most efficient allocation of the resources of the community, is not necessarily, quite probably not, just to remove a particular distortion. [More…]

• They could include attempts to drastically reduce the spending power of the community and thus diminish demand pressures. [More…]

• Apart from the social costs in terms of unemployment which any rapidly acting measures of this kind would have - social costs which are totally unacceptable to this Government and to the community- there is the clear danger that draconian monetary and fiscal measures will precipitate the economy into recession and stagnation. [More…]

• The Government has recognised the paucity of interpreter and translator services available in the community and has taken the initiative in assessing the extent of these deficiencies through a comprehensive national survey of interpreter and translator needs. [More…]

• The pro* vision of adequate interpretation must be seen as a normal service to be provided as part of community communication. [More…]

• The Australian Government is seeking to stimulate this community interest and in the spread and status of interpreters. [More…]

• The Immigration Advisory Council has established a subcommittee to study the problem of interpreter services in the community. [More…]

• The Australian Government departments which provide personal services to the community have, in particular, received copies of the survey report and been invited to comment on its findings as they affect their functions. [More…]

• I would pay tribute to those non-governmental organisations and enterprises - in particular Good Neighbour Councils, welfare organisations throughout the community, national groups, and bank migrant information services - which do provide interpreter services. [More…]

• But I emphasise the task should not be left to them or to governments alone, but is a responsibility that should be accepted and shared by all sectors of the community whose economic progress and personal lives have been enriched by the contribution migrants are making. [More…]

• Its prime aim is to be part of a wider scheme to meet all the needs of the aged and enable them to live their lives as integral and distinguished members of the community. [More…]

• It is to be tragically observed by all who concern themselves in community welfare. [More…]

• One municipality in my electorate is under pressure from concerned groups within the community to appoint a social worker. [More…]

• Many of the women who are now in the work force previously made great contributions to charity and assisted with various community efforts. [More…]

• To many elderly citizens in our community the delivery of these meals provides the only regular social contact they have. [More…]

• Meals on Wheels workers and all those wonderful people who have formed themselves into committees, who arrange for meals to be cooked and delivered to aged persons, are giving great service to the community and a great social service to those people who have been pioneers, who have helped this country develop and who have now reached the end of their service and are being looked after in this way. [More…]

• I believe it is necessary when we have in the Parliament a party which is not a major party but which represents quite a large section of the Australian community, that its voice should be heard in major issues that come before this Parliament. [More…]

• I do not think it is properly realised outside the Parliament or, to put it another way, by the community at large. [More…]

• Enterprises may operate in a community for years and give profits to people involved in them, but when they close down, years later the community as a whole faces the collective social price of having to fix up the mess. [More…]

• For example, industries which are comparatively wasteful in their use of resources and which impose a significant cost on the community can be systematically examined through’ public inquiries, and obliged to justify any special assistance they receive from the Government by demonstrating the benefits they bring to the community. [More…]

• Further, by applying to teachers colleges the same arrangements as will apply to universities and colleges of advanced education, the teachers colleges will be brought fully within the community of tertiary institutions. [More…]

• migrants to communicate with other members of the community is fundamental- to their successful integration. [More…]

• The second assumption is that if the community encourages -migrants to learn English, the community and migrants will be the richer in both social and . [More…]

• Our community should feel a sense of passionate outrage that so many of us were blind to the cruel reality that has been unfolding before our eyes for more than 20 years. [More…]

• At the present time, constructive action is inhibited by an inability of the community to free itself of the assumptions of the past. [More…]

• Community attitudes towards migrants have been characterised by false beliefs of wide currency that no government action has been taken to dispel. [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…]

• They say that the child educates himself with the help of the family, the peer group, the community at large. [More…]

• This Bill is a simple one but it will be another step forward in improving in particular the facilities for migrant education and will as a result advance the total role of education available in our community. [More…]

• The opportunities for basic education come only once to us all, but to some areas of our community the need for complementing this basic education is urgent. [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…]

• Generally speaking, once migrants passed through the gates of the migrant hostel and were finally thrown into the community, the Government forgot about them. [More…]

• I think it is common knowledge and accepted by most people that Australia has been one of the most successful countries in integrating large numbers of migrants into its community, preserving that which has been good in the cultures and backgrounds of the people who have come here, whilst at the same time integrating them with the peoples already established here. [More…]

• I do not believe - and history will bear me out - ‘that 2 December was a watershed in the question of attitudes to integration of migrants into the Australian community. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• The Australian Department of Education at present is responsible for receiving applications from organisations in the community for financial assistance towards the cost of establishment and operation of child-care centres. [More…]

• There was a reference also to the often neglected part of the migrant community, which is the womenfolk. [More…]

• They must go into the community. [More…]

• In conclusion I would just say that this is by no means the end of the initiatives; it is simply one of the new initiatives that we need if we are to build a united community. [More…]

• All the other arguments and petty divisions surely fall to the ground when we look at Australia at the present time with a population of 13 million and we say: ‘Let us build a united community, within which we can have our differences in politics, culture and religion, but let us have the basis of national unity laid in this decade’. [More…]

• In doing so I speak on behalf of many people in the community. [More…]

• The Spastic Centre is controlled by a committee of management and an appeals committee is very active in community circles in an endeavour to keep this centre viable. [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 the community, through the Parliament, that must come to the rescue. [More…]

• If the community is to accept its rightful place in the care of the unfortunate, the Government must also accept its responsibility - a responsibility that can best be exercised by ensuring that the community does not get ulcers worrying about where finance is to be obtained next. [More…]

• It is pertinent to point out that the mentally handicapped group is the largest single group of disadvantaged people in the community between the ages of 16 and 30 years. [More…]

• Therefore we are dealing, with a situation which recognises a great .number of human beings in our community who are handicapped either physically or mentally. [More…]

• The Committee agrees with this logic and considers that the planning of future workshops should be on a regional basis and a matter for discussion between the interested voluntary organisation and authorities responsible for planning of community health services. [More…]

• It seems we have to be vitally concerned with the handicapped people to realise the importance of upgrading their lives and integrating them with the community. [More…]

• I am sure that the honourable gentleman did not mean that concern and care for the handicapped in our community is not a matter of national concern, because by any yardstick it is a matter of concern for all of us in this community. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to enable subsidy to be paid on money borrowed for the establishment of what are known in our community as sheltered workshops. [More…]

• But the edict, that those who labour shall receive sustenance, ignores a very large section of our community - those who have been born with a physical, intellectual or mental handicap and those who have been injured or afflicted during their lives. [More…]

• We display a humanitarian attitude by collectively making sustenance available for these people but money, no matter in what quantity, can never provide or restore the human dignity that comes with being wanted and being able to make a worthwhile contribution to the community of which we are a part. [More…]

• This state of affairs is a great tragedy in our community. [More…]

• They have had to cadge from the community to raise the funds that they need. [More…]

• So these workshops perform quite an important function in our community. [More…]

• It will foster and I trust encourage even further the development of sheltered workshops so that that very large group of people in our community - the statistics would probably astound us, but it is a very large group, because there is one handicapped person for about every 40 members of the work force - can be made to feel that they are being welcomed into society, that they are worthwhile, that they have dignity, and that they are making a contribution. [More…]

• To me they are the elements of humanity, and if we can come to this stage quickly it can only be for the benefit of our whole community. [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…]

• No one is really sure whether the members of the Electrical Trades Union, in seeking a 35-hour week, are seeking more leisure, more overtime pay or just to disrupt the community and undermine our industrial production. [More…]

• ‘When it comes to community involvement outside his own short-term and materialistic interests, he is the model of apathy.’ [More…]

• But I assure him and this House that the people of Blackburn are no more materialistic and certainly much less apathetic than other members of the Australian community. [More…]

• All three of these Bills, which were introduced by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) on 23 August, relate to the establishment of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• The college, which was conceived and planned by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government, is unique in Australia inasmuch as it is designed to provide for the Darwin community’s total post secondary educational and leisure requirements. [More…]

• It will almost certainly be the forerunner of similar colleges in other parts of Australia where the population is not sufficient to warrant the diversity of post secondary institutions normally found in a metropolitan area but is large enough to justify the development of a community college along the lines of that which is nearing completion in Darwin. [More…]

• The Darwin Community College was established by an ordinance passed by the Northern Territory Legislative Council and which received assent on 19 July this year. [More…]

• 3) provides for the application of the Superannuation Act to the principal and staff of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• The most fundamental is the manner in which it will cater for the Darwin community’s total needs. [More…]

• When the Darwin Community College begins teaching in March next year it will incorporate the Darwin Adult Education Centre which has, for the past 14 years, provided Darwin’s only post-secondary educational facilities. [More…]

• As I indicated, these courses will be absorbed by the new community college from the beginning of the 1974 academic year. [More…]

• The community college is currently recruiting the staff it requires and anticipates opening with a teaching and administrative staff complement totalling approximately 100. [More…]

• The community college concept is one which is ideally suited to many locations outside Australia’s major population concentrations. [More…]

• I refer not only to the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Other provisions in these Bills will, in other circumstances, benefit various sections of the community. [More…]

• I believe that in America there are about 800 or 1,000 of these community or junior type colleges. [More…]

• Although the courses at these institutions are relatively short when compared with courses at normal tertiary education colleges, the degrees or diplomas achieved at the community colleges are acceptable and enable students to go on to a normal university, if they wish, or to go into a trade, business or whatever they are trained for at the college. [More…]

• The proposed studies, which may not have been mentioned by the previous speaker, cover a very wide range which will help all sections of the community into the tertiary education stage. [More…]

• Before I sit down I would like to place on record the great respect and thanks of the community for the tremendous job that the Darwin Adult Education Centre has done over the 14 years that it has been in existence. [More…]

• I take it that they will lead into the community college so, they will not be forgotten. [More…]

• However, because a lot of colleges and tertiary education centres in the south employ and pay academics as librarians, the Darwin Community College is tending to fall behind in the recruiting of librarians because such people will be recruited and paid as librarians, rather than as academic staff. [More…]

• I do not know whether there is provision for this sort of amenity to be attached to the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• With the limited numbers enrolled at the Darwin adult education centre, 200 children were required to be looked after while their parents were attending classes and, with the greater numbers enrolled at the Community College, it surely will be necessary to take some steps, even if it is not in the original plan, to acquire a house in the near neighbourhood to be used as a child minding centre so that these many students will be able to attend the college and not have to turn their backs on courses that otherwise they would have taken. [More…]

• The involvement of the local community and local government bodies in the provision of welfare services is not entirely a new concept or one exclusive to the proposed assistance plan. [More…]

• In Victoria the State Government has for a number of years, since 1969, provided a subsidy through the Social Welfare Department to pay the salary costs of a full time social worker to promote local government involvement in community services. [More…]

• We on this side of the House regard that as absolutely vital - encouraging the involvement of the community in the areas. [More…]

• I think that, if we send out discussion papers to the people so that they can really come to grips with the problems at the local level in their community and then feed information back to the Commission, when the plan comes into operation it will be a first rate plan. [More…]

• I said that the involvement of the local community in a nationally co-ordinated regional plan is an exciting concept. [More…]

• I feel it is most important in any scheme of this type if it is to measure up to what are the needs of the particular community. [More…]

• Planning and funding obviously must be done at the national level, but at the local level the administration and decision making regarding the actual needs of a particular community can be carried out most effectively. [More…]

• It is hoped that there will be an increasing feeling of community involvement in areas of social welfare which previously has been lacking in many communities. [More…]

• Co-operation must be achieved with regional areas, particularly making sure that there is maximum community involvement. [More…]

• When he was Minister for Social Services I wrote to him repeatedly and asked for information and statistics about the depth and the amount of poverty that existed, the lack of housing and the lack of welfare services to the community. [More…]

• In my State of New South Wales the State departments operating in this field include the Department of Housing, which administers the State Housing Commission, the Department of Youth and Community Services, which was formerly the Department responsible for social welfare, the Police Department and, to name one other State office, chamber magistrates. [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…]

• The sight of voluntary workers being forced to beg in the streets to provide basic health and social welfare amenities I find intolerable as, I am sure, do most sections of the community. [More…]

• There is no co-ordination throughout the whole community to analyse and to dissect the welfare and health problems and what is required in a total community program to bring them to fruition over a period to meet the requirements. [More…]

• All of the organisations that I mentioned earlier and others in our community go off in different directions and do their own things without any form of co-ordination. [More…]

• When one looks at the functions of these voluntary bodies I think one comes to this conclusion: First, the Government, through its system of social services - age pensions, family endowment, widows’ pensions and the other payments that it makes - should be able to make certain that nobody in the Australian community is left below a certain level of poverty. [More…]

• That certain level must rise and should rise continually with the growth of the productivity of the total Australian community. [More…]

• I look on social services as permanently unfinished business because always we can be improving them as the standards in the community as a whole rise. [More…]

• It is necessary that they be properly policed not only in the interests of the taxpayer but also in the interests of maintaining a spirit of incentive and integrity in the community as a whole. [More…]

• But beyond that always, whatever is given by the book, there will be deserving sections of the community. [More…]

• It will be a commission that will make recommendations to the Government after proper inquiries have been made - inquiries which will be more than a matter of seeking information from people in some sort of inquisitorial way, but rather, inquiries which will be as much based on the functions of properly set up pilot studies and support for the projects of voluntary agencies within the regions in the Australian community. [More…]

• In other words, there will be an effort to tie together comprehensively the welfare services which exist and which should and will be developed in the Australian community as a result of the work of this Commission in order to meet the requirements of the people in the community. [More…]

• I refer not just to the requirements of the needy people in the community but also to the requirements of all the people in the community who have cause at some stage, whether it is intermittently in their lives, only very rarely or, through misfortune of some kind or another, regularly, to call on the support of such services. [More…]

• In appointing to the Commission a person with an educational background it seemed to me that we needed someone who had this sociological bent in his approach to educational requirements in the community because the people the Commission is to be concerned about are people who suffer socio-economic deprivation. [More…]

• He said that this Government is spending over Sim in distributing pamphlets in the community on the health insurance program. [More…]

• The pamphlet has been sought quite actively at the post offices where it has been placed for distribution to the community. [More…]

• I concur with his assertions about the valuable role of voluntary agencies in the maintenance of any community based welfare program. [More…]

• It is not a program, as was suggested unkindly by the honourable member for Indi, to centralise welfare programs at Canberra but rather it is a program for the Australian Government to take up responsibility to fund adequately the development of these programs out in the community - out in the regions where people live - but more importantly to have those people, as much as this is possible, identify what are the priorities in those areas. [More…]

• In other words we are aiming at a very flexible approach to the development of this program in the community - an approach which will encourage people rather than push them towards achieving the objectives which will best serve the needs of the community in the provision of social welfare programs. [More…]

• It lists the range of community services which can be provided and which are obviously in the mind of the Commission to provide. [More…]

• to ascertain, and report to the Minister on, the social welfare needs of the community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs; [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading the House deplores the adoption of measures which serve to worsen the already alarming inflationary situation and impose directly an extra burden on the living costs of the Australian community, and greatly increase the cost of transportation at the expense of the community in general and the development of decentralised industry in particular!’ [More…]

• Last year for housing and community ameni ties $127m was provided. [More…]

• There are a number of Bills before the House at the moment but, summed up, their effect is to increase costs to the community throughout Australia. [More…]

• If its profits are excessive, surely the best answer is to reduce the price of the products so that the whole community can share, rather than giving all the benefits to a small group of trade unionists. [More…]

• It can only be hoped that the Ministers of this Government, particularly the Treasurer, are beginning to learn that unthinking remarks on matters of major economic policy do have direct and consequent effects on the business community as a whole. [More…]

• A major part of this erosion of confidence is occurring because of the inability of the Government and the Treasurer to communicate effectively with the many sections of the Australian community which are directly involved by major economic decisions. [More…]

• I believe that it is very much in the interests of this Australian community that these questions be answered not ad hoc, not piecemeal, not fragmented, but in a comprehensive statement. [More…]

• It is in the context of the absence of that statement that we see the erosion of such confidence not simply in the business community but throughout the nation at the present time. [More…]

• It is also an area in which the efficacy of Government policy depends on community acceptance and support. [More…]

• A high level of expenditure coupled with enlightened policies may even be counter-productive without a corresponding level of community commitment. [More…]

• General public education programs designed to create higher levels of community objectivity and understanding towards minority groups have been implemented in many countries, including the United States. [More…]

• I said at the outset, the Minister, in consultation with the State Governments, should give consideration to the desirability of special courses in such institutions as police academies and other public authorities which administer policies touching on the problems experienced by the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• However it provides a stepping stone for those Aboriginal people who want to move into the general community. [More…]

• When Aborigines make a go of life, are able to hold down steady jobs, move into the town itself, become part of it and merge into community life no publicity results. [More…]

• towards the realisation of a representative regional community. [More…]

• If so, does he see the great powers as being excluded from this regional community. [More…]

• Does he regard the Soviet Union as having a legitimate interest in a community involving the Asian region. [More…]

• What countries have so far been consulted about the development of a truly representative regional community, when did these consultations take place and where were they held. [More…]

• I present also the report on the survey of interpreting and translating needs in the community, dated October 1973. [More…]

• I think that there is a lot to be said for building homes for Aborigines through an instrumentality that caters for the housing needs of the whole community. [More…]

• I believe that the first 3 things which should be provided for the Aboriginal community are food, clothing and shelter. [More…]

• Another area which could be explored to assist the coloured people is the establishment of community centres, complete with trained welfare staff, again comprising coloured people, who would run these centres and be available for advice on matters dealing with health, hygiene, social welfare and job opportunities. [More…]

• These community centres could provide relaxation and recreation, meeting places, special classes for the production of native artifacts, and kindergartens. [More…]

• -Firstly, I sincerely thank the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and present Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) for all the courtesy he showed to me and generous assistance he gave to me in relation to the representations I made to him on behalf of the Aboriginal community in my electorate. [More…]

• If these allegations are true, how will we help the people that the Australian community, I believe, is determined to assist? [More…]

• I believe that the whole issue needs to be aired in the open in the interests of the Aboriginal people that the Australian community is setting out to assist. [More…]

• More than most they care about the under-privileged in the community and there is considerable concern in the area for the wellbeing of the Aborigine. [More…]

• This paternalistic thinking is not an error that is confined to members on the other side of this chamber; it is on both sides of the chamber and also it exists right throughout the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wills was the first member of Parliament genuinely to relate to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I knew that we would clash in some areas of deep social policy such as land rights and so on, but, generally speaking, when it comes to treating people the way people ought to be treated, there is not a great deal of difference in the Australian community between left, right and centre about the immediate needs of the person on the ground. [More…]

• In some of the big capitals they are submerged in the rest of the community. [More…]

• They are there, scattered right across the board, a community of its own, separate from but part of the Australian community. [More…]

• We have to resolve the way in which this problem can be sorted out so that the Aboriginal people oan live in the community in harmony with it, compatible with it, a part of it but for their own purposes in so many ways perhaps separate from it. [More…]

• It seems to me that to be able to call upon reserves from within the community generally and the support of actions or the investigation of actions, is a necessary part of the democratic governmental process. [More…]

• Therefore, it is more desirable to be able to call up the resources - intellectual, physical, technical and so on - in the community for the time being. [More…]

• I suppose it is only an extension of our Labor Party philosophy that the community must participate in the decisions that are being made about it. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community has always been on the receiving end. [More…]

• Community amenities require the expansion of the program inside the communities. [More…]

• For community enterprises we will provide $3m and for properties off reserves we will provide $5m. [More…]

• There is no reason why hostels for Aboriginal people should be any different in the community from hostels for Baptists. [More…]

• We will be establishing community centres, cultural centres and so on throughout Australia. [More…]

• As I pointed out in my explanation of the Aboriginal Trust Account the funds are going in various directions in the encouragement of community enterprises, in the development of housing, in the setting up of employment opportunities and in providing backstops to education, health and other services. [More…]

• One can only assume that the Attorney treats this House and questions asked by its members with the same disdain that he apparently treats other members of the community who want to talk to him. [More…]

• When the legal advice centres begin operating they are expected to be staffed by salaried lawyers working in close co-operation with community welfare organisations, established legal aid schemes, referral centres and the private legal profession. [More…]

• No laws are any good at all to the community unless people are able to make use of them and go into court. [More…]

• Indeed, if he refused to sell he would be committing if not a legal offence, at least one which would arouse approbrium in the community because it would be said that he was discriminating against Aboriginal people. [More…]

• We have 2, almost 3, community health centres. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) challenged me about the drinking habits of various sections of the community in the Northern Territory I feel that I must speak. [More…]

• It so happens that this is the first place on which the previous Director of Welfare in the Northern Territory Administration, Mr Harry Giese, established a wet canteen for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• He initiated the first wet canteen for an Aboriginal community at that place. [More…]

• There is a very real problem in a country such as Australia with tremendous distances to traverse and with an increasing dependence upon communications and the availability of communications to ensure that airways and all other forms of transport are kept available to the community. [More…]

• In my opinion, the Minister for Transport has been grossly unfair to the community at large in his failure to call the people concerned together, in considering - with a measure of sympathy, I would suggest - the claim made by the unions concerned and in endeavouring to provide some resolution to this dispute. [More…]

• I believe that it is indicative of the way in which this Government is pursuing its administration of this country that its Ministers do not seem to be able in any way to try to resolve industrial disputes in such a way as to take account of the very genuine needs of the public and of the effect of such disputes on the community. [More…]

• It is essential that funds be provided by this Government to enable a reasonable forward construction program of airports, not at sites such as the one selected at Galston to the ill fare of the Government’s candidate at the Parramatta by-election, but at sites where there is an acceptable community service, a need for airport construction and a need for these funds to be provided. [More…]

• I believe that in considering the recommendations that come before the Parliament it is necessary that one should consider the social implications of roads and the necessity to provide the economic sinews that are so essential in the transport of goods and services around the community. [More…]

• I trust that in the new Commonwealth Aid Roads Agreement there will be a similar recognition of the problems of each of the areas of the community. [More…]

• It is necessary that we provide efficient forms of transport and that costs to users and the service to the community remain paramount in pursuing what are legitimate and laudable national objectives. [More…]

• The shipping services - indeed all our transport services - need to be integrated for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• A post office in a township of 800 or so people - ‘that is a relative large community - employs between 5 and 10 people. [More…]

• I have no doubt that in the final analysis a large profit to the total community is the ultimate result. [More…]

• As Mr Kirley of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union said: ‘It doesn’t matter how small a community is, it has a right to full Post Office facilities.’ [More…]

• The projects are in line with the Government’s policy as far as adults are concerned to encourage community involvement in education, in this case the adult migrants themselves. [More…]

• I do not think it is generally known in the community that those people can be encouraged to take part in voluntary plans such as the one in which the Government will pay the premiums. [More…]

• The figures I have indicate that 83.2 per cent of the Australian community is in voluntary health funds. [More…]

• Those figures indicate that 96.4 per cent of the community is currently receiving the best hospital and medical treatment in the world. [More…]

• There are thousands of 2-children families in the community in which both parents are working. [More…]

• Indeed, Australia and Australia’s farming community have a reputation for cleanliness and hygiene in this regard which places Australia in the forefront of world exporters. [More…]

• These statements are prevalent throughout this Parliament and the community. [More…]

• By resolution of the other House of this Parliament it has excluded certain sections of the Australian community from representation in that House. [More…]

• Funds for health services and community amenities, especially water and sewerage supplies, provided for in this Bill total $10.3m compared with $3.7m in 1972-73. [More…]

• These funds will enable a big expansion of effort in providing community health services in rural and remote areas. [More…]

• This Government established a special study group of Commonwealth and State health authorities which recommended a co-ordinated program covering establishment of local health committees, delivery of health care - including much wider deployment of doctors and community health nurses - administrative re-organisation, education, family planning, research and other special programs. [More…]

• I do not pretend that even this effort will rapidly improve things since in areas where traditional practices are still strong the concepts of nutrition, health care, public health and sanitation which the non-Aboriginal community take for granted have still to find a place in the thinking of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The Government’s aim is increasingly to act as a supportive and resource centre for communities so that they will be able to develop their own community life at the pace and under the conditions which they themselves choose. [More…]

• The electoral system has been designed by the Aboriginal people themselves and I believe that the body they are creating is essential to give them an effective voice in the things that affect them so that they may achieve the respected and more satisfying place in the community which is their right. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wannon and those associated with him have always had a very special affinity with and concern for a very small group of schools in this community whose students are already receiving education of a very high quality. [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…]

• The selection of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission - that is, the committee that was headed by Professor Karmel - was a triumph to bringing into play in this field of educational investigation the best resources that our community has to offer. [More…]

• I think there is great agreement in this House and in the Australian community that the provision of extra funds for education which we have seen this year is a good thing. [More…]

• But we fear that signs are appearing that the Government’s conception of the uplands of education should scare the living daylights out of a very large percentage of the Australian community and should scare the living daylights out of those who have regard for the higher values and for the non-material values in education. [More…]

• It provides no guarantees and no formal structures of freedom in the educational processes of our community. [More…]

• It seems to me to be one of the major ironies of present politics in this country that one of those rare and splendid public men who are most concerned with nonmaterial values in the Australian community - I refer to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) - should be forced to preside over some - not all - education policies which in my judgment and the judgment of my colleagues threaten crucial non-material values in our community. [More…]

• Another irony of present day politics in our community is that a Party which has preached so much about open government - open government these days seems to mean that one tells all the secrets of the previous Government and keeps all one’s own secrets - and which has talked about getting the people involved, in fact rarely stops to listen to the people. [More…]

• It is not surprising that group after group in the Australian community has been alienated and has squealed. [More…]

• We are not going to continue that fight now because it is well known to the community. [More…]

• This, as I have said, should scare the living daylights out of so many people in the Australian community who are discovering that as much injustice can be done in the name of equalising opportunity as can be done in the name of anything else. [More…]

• It is quite extraordinary that in days when people are crying out for participatory democracy that guarantees are not given to the affected community that it shall participate. [More…]

• We do not want to detract from anything, but we do want to see this lovely talk about the uplands of education developed in the finest way possible by this Government, as it would be by any government, so that those non-material values which can make all the difference to an individual’s education are preserved for all time in the Australian community. [More…]

• He ignores the provisions in the Bill that give the Commission, with the sanction of the Minister for Education, power to set up all kinds of consultative bodies in the community. [More…]

• But look around the community, look around the inner suburbs - but do not restrict it to that - and look at the condition of so many of the primary and secondary schools in Australia. [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…]

• There has been little adverse reaction in the community to the proposal to establish a schools commission. [More…]

• I think great credit goes to the Committee for what it did in surveying the needs of education in Australia right through the breadth of education, including the needs of disadvantaged and handicapped people in the community. [More…]

• But unfortunately the subjects that are available to them do not always help them to adjust themselves to the local community in which they wish to live once they leave school. [More…]

• It puts the onus on the community through its various representative organisations and through the Australian Education Council, which consists of State Ministers for Education. [More…]

• The people have shown by community involvement, community interest and community activities that they demand of governments proper action in the educational field. [More…]

• The quality of life depends on the value judgment which is made by the community whose needs the particular school wishes to service. [More…]

• should be drawn from as wide a cross-section of the community as possible and should have regard to both age and sex. [More…]

• This organisation believes that the appointment of both an experienced teacher and an experienced parent as well as other persons broadly representative of the community is clearly appropriate. [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 Commission will be not representing but representative of the interests that go to make up the community and those involved in education. [More…]

• Anyone who sees the Schools Commission as a single identity without relating it to the other magnificent work the Minister for Education has done or without seeing it in relation to the overall program for which this Government was so overwhelmingly elected, fails to see the inter-relationship between education and the community. [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 believe it is essential that all viable educational groups within our community have a place on this Commission. [More…]

• Secondly, the amendment could allow greater participation on the Schools Commission so that it is representative of the total community. [More…]

• The second point - and the Minister has, I think, made it quite adequately - is that there are a number of provisions in this Bill for organs of co-operation and consultation, not only with the Education Ministers who are on the Australian Education Council but also for a wide variety of people in the community who might want to participate and forward advice to the Schools Commission. [More…]

• One of the main themes of this Bill is the chance to get out into the community, to consult with the States, to consult with the independent or non-government schools. [More…]

• We have in recent months had quite an extensive public debate arising out of the recommendations contained in the report of the Karmel Committee insofar as that report has had a significant effect on the educational opportunities and future of a significant group within the Australian community. [More…]

• Committee and other education experts are advocating community involvement in education and community participation in the running of schools and the direction and development of their educational outreach, that this Government, professing that it supports community involvement, should deny to communities who wish to group together, for whatever reason it may be, in supporting independent schools the right of choice by putting the price of that choice so high that the numbers able to exercise it are severely reduced. [More…]

• We seek this amendment because at this time when there is this trend towards involving the community in education we believe that the community and those concerned directly with education should have an opportunity of submitting to the Minister a panel of names from which he can select the appropriate number to comprise the Commission. [More…]

• The distinctive feature about the Catholic sector of education is not that it is Catholic so much from the point of view of a secular government as that it reaches wage earning groups in the community. [More…]

• They are public administration and defence, community and business services, and ownership of dwellings. [More…]

• Much the same goes for the sector of community and business services. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman, and other honourable gentlemen who ask questions on this subject or may be disposed to do so, may not be entirely happy with the response that I shall give, but I wish to emphasise that I am particularly anxious to avoid any dissensions in the Australian community on this subject. [More…]

• In the last Parliament references were made to honourable members which caused distress to them and could have caused dissension in the community. [More…]

• I hope honourable members will appreciate that in answering questions on this issue I shall try to do 3 things - first, to avoid, as far as I can, dissension in this community; secondly, to do all I can to bring an end to the hostilities; and thirdly, to say nothing which will make more difficult the application of the principles of Resolution 242, which was unanimously passed by the Security Council over 6 years ago. [More…]

• In fact, not only will there be legislative effect to guarantee the privacy of people where they draw on the funds but also, we have set up a working party comprising people suitably eminent in a number of fields of the community to advise us on the best ways of protecting their privacy. [More…]

• It is clear that our actions on trade liberalisation and with respect to developing country preferences have demonstrated in a very real way to developed and developing countries alike, and more realistically than endless amounts of rhetoric, our acceptance of our responsibility as a member of the international trading community. [More…]

• This is partly an inevitable consequence of the pattern of economic growth; but it is also a result of the determination of a very active Japanese community to see that government and industry leaders adopt a genuine social or community responsibility arid limit industrial intensification and pollution. [More…]

• The community and the Government are indebted to it for the valuable contribution that the Board has made over the years to the student assistance program. [More…]

• It is crucially important in the national interest that we face up to the problems and opportunities created by these developments and shape our information services on a national scale so that they can meet effectively the developing needs of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• It has in the past received, and has expressed a desire to continue to have available, the advice of the Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographic Services which represents the library community. [More…]

• Honourable members will remember that the Housing Agreement expressed the Government’s concern at the frequent absence of essential community amenities in many new areas developed by the State housing authority and the problems it led to in the large housing settlements. [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…]

• The terms of the grant will allow the temporary use of part of the grants for housing to be used to provide essential community facilities. [More…]

• As a member of local councils for many years in the Mount Druitt, Rooty Hill and Green Valley areas ‘I found tremendous problems with child delinquency, parents who cleared out and broken homes because although the areas had been completed and one could not better the type of home found there, there was not a shopping centre, a park and recreation area or a community centre of any description; there were houses and nothing else and this created tremendous problems. [More…]

• This breaks up the standard design of housing commission homes, brings into the community people of different wage structures and strengthens community life. [More…]

• That is quite a simple policy to implement, provided one is prepared to disregard the neediest families in the community - and that is just what the Liberal government’s record shows they did. [More…]

• And community facilities generally, the honourable gentleman interjects to remind me. [More…]

• One of our problems as a community is the way in which we have come to accept road accident casualties as inevitable. [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…]

• No impediment should be placed in the way of any section of the community to prevent it from doing the sorts of things we would want it to do. [More…]

• There must be a balance between the desire of the community to have criminals convicted and the desire of the community to see that justice is done. [More…]

• He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived. [More…]

• The matter of public importance proposed for discussion by the House is one of great significance because it goes to the central role, of the Government and its responsibility for the security of the community. [More…]

• The first charge is that the Government was guilty of a clear deception of the community in its promise as to what proportion of our resources it would allocate to defence. [More…]

• Admiral V. A. T. Smith said in relation to morale that the answer lies in providing sophisticated techniques and in some broadening of military activity into the community help field. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the proposed extension of the powers and functions of the AIDC is unwarranted and, in its impact on the Australian community, positively harmful. [More…]

• It will, in fact, place a net economic burden on the Australian community. [More…]

• These additional sources of investable funds will eventuate in a minimal net addition to the community’s savings since Australia has already achieved a very high savings rate by international standards. [More…]

• A buy-back scheme financed by diverting Australian savings from other uses will impose a net economic burden on the Australian community. [More…]

• They flow in 3 ways to the Australian community: Firstly, through the considerable taxes that are paid on. [More…]

• the profits of overseas corporations; secondly, through higher real wages to Australian workers, and the higher taxes paid from those, and of course the important recognition of the employment opportunities which such corporations provide; and, thirdly, by providing goods and services to the community as a whole at prices that are lower than would otherwise be the case. [More…]

• However, most of the costs associated with such control are hypothetical, while burdens imposed on the community by diverting Australian savings towards a buy-back program are certain to constitute a large proportion of the average rate of return on investment. [More…]

• Such an approach leaves the private sector free to choose the actual projects that should be initiated, whilst providing a general indication of the overall needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Research work in the field of savings institutions suggests that the creation of this additional facility will make only a very small net addition to the community’s savings. [More…]

• If adopted, this proposal would sacrifice the economic and social development of the entire Australian community to the misguided socialism and vanity of the Ministers concerned. [More…]

• The new Cor poration is limited basically by the support which the Australian community is prepared to give it financially. [More…]

• It appeals to a patriotic feeling within the community. [More…]

• I believe today with the amendments and the extended powers now being given to AIDC it will mean undue bureaucratic involvement in the private sector of the community and is a major tool towards socialisation of many of the productive areas of the Australian economy. [More…]

• So the AIDC has a good reputation overseas and within Australian business areas and the community generally. [More…]

• This should help to generate additional savings in the community and put them to a use which will be in the national interest. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, for us, it is fortunate that we live in a community which cherishes its freedom of action, a country peopled by men and women who want to do their own thing in their own way and in their own time. [More…]

• In other words he said that we want to use the amount of money which is available in the community in the way in which private enterprise uses it. [More…]

• I just want to remind the Australian community that the last Labor Gov.ernment engaged to a limited extent in this sort of thing. [More…]

• What complete hypocrisy it is to criticise the Australian community in this way. [More…]

• Then, a measure of this kind might be more properly assessed, debated and understood by the Australian community. [More…]

• They exist because the Australian community - not the wealthy people - has built up really worthwhile resources in terms of finance. [More…]

• It would be the worst form of double crossing of the Australian community that one could possibly produce. [More…]

• It shows once again the double standards of the Government in matters closely affecting community services. [More…]

• Many policy statements have been issued, all of them wordy and full of grandiose proposals to improve the service provided by the media of this country to the community in many fields. [More…]

• If the Government is genuine and sincere in its approach to encourage the media as a community service, why increase the fees at all? [More…]

• Briefly I make the point that the larger stations, particularly those in the metropolitan area, have a greater field in which to seek a revenue income, and of course their advertising results are very much higher than those of the single station operator serving a country community or, for that matter, a provincial centre, where there is an existing city or large centre of population but only one commercial station for the very reason that that is all that can be viable. [More…]

• If this were done there would be a much more satisfactory result in the interests of the community and of the general public. [More…]

• I emphasise that these stations form a most important part of the life of the community throughout the whole of Australia. [More…]

• These country broadcasting stations were provided by local companies to provide a service to the community. [More…]

• These stations which are scattered around the Commonwealth provide a service and some sort of entertainment for the section of the community that is responsible for a large portion of the export income that is being earned. [More…]

• Surely there are other considerations apart from simply deciding that a service that is provided to the community must stand fairly and squarely on its own feet, irrespective of the part it plays in the national development of this country and in providing a service to people who deserve well of the rest of the community and of the honourable members on the other side of this chamber. [More…]

• Yet tonight the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) has asked this Parliament to believe that one of the commercial broadcasting stations affected by this legislation, by a very minimal amount, went into business for the good of the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maranoa tells us that these companies are in it for the good of the community, that they are there not to make a profit but entirely to spread goodwill and harmony right throughout the length and breadth of the country districts. [More…]

• Country radio stations often are hard-pressed to attract advertising, yet they must maintain an interest in community affairs. [More…]

• Most debates in this chamber on education, most debates in this community, in State parliaments and everywhere revolve around questions on classrooms, equipment, teacher pupil ratio and all those material things. [More…]

• Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It outlines forward looking and visible action, starting with some of the most neglected health areas and most care deprived groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government proposes grants for the capital costs of approved additional community facilities for alcohol and drug dependent persons and the mentally disturbed or disabled. [More…]

• Research shows that community health care is often more effective than institutional care. [More…]

• Persons suffering from psychiatric and similar problems return to coping normally much more quickly when treated in their usual community environment, with their families and friends around them. [More…]

• As the community health program gets further under way and as the Australian Hospitals and Health Services Commission completes its recommendations on hospitals and all other forms of institutional care we can expect to see similar developments accelerated in Australia. [More…]

• Consequently the Government intends that care in the community should henceforth be placed, in effect, at ‘shop-front’ clinics and, indeed, ‘at the door-step’ of families which might otherwise delay going to an institution for help. [More…]

• Decentralised services in local communities will be staffed by specialised, but not starch-fronted, personnel such as mental health visitors, psychologists, social workers and psychiatrists, all of whom will work closely with general medical practitioners and other community health people. [More…]

• Alongside community health programs will be an expansion of hostel and ‘half-way house’ accommodation for persons with chronic mental problems or social handicaps, who need residential care but not the more costly care of mental and general hospitals and nursing homes. [More…]

• The addition of community based services for alcoholism and drug dependency along with our new emphasis on other aspects of community mental health is a vital forward step in combating those serious community problems in a systematic way. [More…]

• In the next few years, further increasing local integration with community health, education and welfare services will remove more of the old stigma attaching to those need-, ing help which is not just physical. [More…]

• The Bill provides for allocations of up to $7.5m for each of the years 1973-74 and 1974-75 after which such services will continue to be supported under, and will be integrated with, the broader Australian community health program. [More…]

• The Bill will bring, in a more effective and ‘flexible way than the former assistance in the field of mental health, bridges to the developing broad community health field being expanded by the Government on the advice of the Interim Committee of the Australian Hospitals and Health Services Commission, whose first report on this subject I was privileged to table on 30 May last. [More…]

• I believe the Government stands indicted not for what it has done but for what it has failed to do to ease the plight of these very disadvantaged groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• It would appear that this section of the community, most defenceless, nothing to sell, unable to strike, are to bear the brunt of today’s inflationary conditions. [More…]

• If the Federal Treasurer and the Ministry collectively are intent on seeking to do something for those groups in the community who are most disadvantaged by the inflationary spiral for which the Government must accept major responsibility, they would for the first time in this Parliament be prepared to bring in a total and comprehensive economic white paper designed to provide an effective anti-inflationary policy. [More…]

• The AIDC has, as I understand it, one of the auditors most respected in the business community. [More…]

• I think also of schools such as Swinburne Community School in Melbourne and other schools such as these in which new paths are being blazed in the educational field. [More…]

• Most schools in Australia, both government schools and independent schools, do in fact receive valuable assistance from parents and citizens associations, but I believe there is still much room for improvement and for greater community involvement in this respect. [More…]

• I think that if they are to operate in an experimental way perhaps they should seek out the excellent from the community and admit them to their educational experimentation. [More…]

• Furthermore, the recession we had in 1970-71 also led to the curtailment of apprenticeships, and as a result it is no wonder the people in the community today are finding it so hard to obtain tradesmen, even in many cases at grossly inflated prices, whether they be television technicians, bricklayers, plasterers or tradesmen in any of the building trades or the engineering trades. [More…]

• In other words only half the number of apprenticeships were taken up as the community estimated was desirable in the State of Victoria alone. [More…]

• I wonder how many members in this House or how many people in the community recognise that there are more students involved in technical education in this country than there are in all other levels of post-secondary education - and that takes in the universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and all the rest of them. [More…]

• One would have thought that a Liberal-Country Party Government so intimately interested in the material development and allegedy so interested in the economic development of the community would have seen to it that technical education got a fair go. [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…]

• Let us, if we can, divorce ourselves from the religious and political bigotry which for so long has dogged this question of government assistance to independent schools and look at the situation as sanely and as logically as one would expect members of the Australian community and the Australian Parliament to look at it. [More…]

• I know that it is part of the policy of the Australian Labor Party to equalise, nationalise and regiment every member of the community. [More…]

• But he makes his children a charge on the community. [More…]

• There is one Englishspeaking community which has only religious schools, and that community is Ulster. [More…]

• This is one of those rare occasions - those all too rare occasions - when the Parliament can act as it was originally theoretically intended to act; that is, to act as a collection of men, representing sections of the community, able to listen to a case and to make up their minds as to what is right without the constraints of party or of faction. [More…]

• Does it surround the sinner with hostility and threaten him with harm; or does it welcome him into the community of those who know themselves to stand in need of forgiveness, who cannot cast the first stone because they, too, fall short of the demands of a righteous God? [More…]

• There is still, of course, widespread basic concern in the community about the so called abnormal’ sexual behaviour of homosexuals. [More…]

• The community’s selective moral indignation is misplaced. [More…]

• It strongly condemned ‘community attitudes and laws which discriminate against homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private’. [More…]

• To me it is rather significant and extraordinary that this motion has been seconded by the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) in the atmosphere which exists in the community today because I do not know of any subject that tends more to mora] pollution than homosexuality. [More…]

• It is unforunate that there are many twists in normality in our community. [More…]

• This letter and the enclosed petition is to protest against the increasing decline in the moral standards of our community. [More…]

• We want a stable community, based on sound Christian ethics in which decency, truth, law and order are exalted and sordid filth relegated to the gutters where it belongs. [More…]

• I do not believe, as the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) has said, that if this law is passed it will accentuate the growth of homosexuality in our community. [More…]

• Finally, by establishing in competition with existing institutions, the Corporation will diminish the worthwhile benefits which the community has received over many years. [More…]

• Those persons in the Australian community seeking to purchase homes are now in effect bearing. [More…]

• In short, we see this proposal as a device to secure an even greater entree to private sector funds without any guarantee of efficient utilisation and without any perceived need to provide a service to the community which does not now exist. [More…]

• What the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) wants is that the normal conventional method of gathering together funds from the community should prevail and that it should not be modified or interfered with in any way. [More…]

• The argument that if there is surplus liquidity or surplus money in the community one way of getting it back is to increase the interest rate. [More…]

• I believe that further consideration of the Bill should be deferred until the members of this House, and the people in industry - and indeed the community generally - are able to acquaint themselves of this Bill’s full implications. [More…]

• To me the whole gist of his argument was: ‘Let us put off debating this Bill because we have not had the howl from the community that we expected from it’. [More…]

• I am sorry that at this stage, because of the lack of well qualified personnel in our community, it is not possible to make it mandatory for all matters relating to subsidies and bounties to tertiary industry to be reported on by the Industries Assistance Commission; but I have no doubt, from the way that good sense is prevailing in the Government of this country and the way that improvements are being made, that in time matters in relation to tertiary industry also will be included. [More…]

• I am the Chairman of the Parliamentary Labor Party’s Economic Committee, and I know that dialogue goes on not only between various areas of the business community and industry and Ministers but also with committees such as ours. [More…]

• To these remarks I would add the hope that the activities of the one protection commission will serve to foster greater mutual understanding of one another’s problems by the various sectors of industry and the community at large. [More…]

• In fact, such groups may be indeed the majority of the community who do not realise that their economic base is being slowly eroded away by disproportionate protection for individual vested interest groups. [More…]

• While ever we have policy which is not based on research, which is not based on facts and which is not given public exposure there can be no question but that it will not be successful and that it will discriminate against important minority groups within our community. [More…]

• What absurdities we lead ourselves into when we do not take an overall view of the web of economic relationships which exists in our community. [More…]

• Each economic decision has its ramifications and builds up into a significant position for the most unlikely sections of the community. [More…]

• It was because we had sectional interests being represented in different ways under the Country Party’s leadership that we had so many problems, that we had so much dissension, that we had the agricultural community complaining about the level of tariff protection given to secondary industry and that we have the public at large misunderstanding the basis on which assistance is to be given to agriculture within the confines of this Commission, where all the economic parameters will be considered, there will be a better understanding of not only our agricultural community but also all those other sections of our economy which from time to time require assistance. [More…]

• It is in this Commission that we will be able to develop that expertise and bring to the community a greater understanding of each of the economic decisions as they are made. [More…]

• No one section of the Australian community can be seriously disadvantaged for any length of time without disadvantaging the economy as a whole. [More…]

• In these circumstances it will become correspondingly more difficult to ensure that this relatively small but extremely important section of our community receives fair and equitable treatment at the hands of government. [More…]

• For too long in this community of ours - for more than 2 decades in fact - the consumer has had to pay more than a reasonable price for too many commodities because there has been too much political jobbery going on in the community. [More…]

• When we give a tax concession that concession is a cost to the community. [More…]

• If we give a tariff which has not been properly justified on the basis ot an objective and rigorous inquiry but has been granted because the particular recipient is a generous supporter of a political party, we impose a cost on the community. [More…]

• When we subsidise an industry, whether it is primary or secondary, when rational economic criteria would advise us otherwise, we are wasting economic resources in the community. [More…]

• We are not getting the return we ought to be getting, a return which can be ploughed back into the community in many ways such as investment, as better welfare provision and as better consumption standards for people in the community. [More…]

• We are denying the rest of the public, and for too long this denial has occurred as a payoff to the various powerful, albeit minority interests, in the community who have been able to prop up a tired lethargic government that had run out of inspiration at least a decade ago. [More…]

• No assessment had ever been made to establish whether these payments should be provided, whether they should be continued or whether the taxpayer should be required to continue paying to surrender some of his living standards so that in some cases a particular powerful supporter could continue to get what can be fairly termed as a welfare payment at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• This program which was not necessary was introduced because of the power of a particular lobby in the community. [More…]

• The free-traders, on the other hand, informed by a fairly elementary and superficial grasp of nineteenth century English economics, felt that it would be to the long-term benefit of the community to specialise in those kinds of economic activity in which we from the point of view of international trade and a comparative advantage, namely land-intensive kinds of productive activity - that is, rural industry. [More…]

• Thus, over the years, we have had the absurd situation created where protection for secondary industry was introduced to compensate other sectors of the community for the monopoly of the nation’s wealth by landowners, and then the landowners have claimed compensation for this compensation. [More…]

• Whenever public funds are to be spent on any sector of the community, whether by way of social security transfers, subsidy to industry or indirectly by way of tariff protection, the community has a right to demand that such a use of public funds should be justified in terms of the contribution to the community’s objectives. [More…]

• If that investment is taking place in the wrong parts - that is, if unwise decisions are being made not according to rational economic criteria but according to the pay-off that can be achieved in the back room deals between the Country Party and the people, who are its backers, or it hopes will be its backers - we will not achieve the sort of growth we should achieve; we will not achieve the sort of progress and prosperity we should achieve; and we will not achieve the living standards that should be provided in the community and the welfare services that should be achieved. [More…]

• The political deals were done, but the community suffered as a result. [More…]

• Political policy in a democratic community does not depend upon purely economic considerations. [More…]

• I welcome it particularly because there is a very serious development in our community that concerns me most deeply, and that is the continuing division which is deepening between the city and the country. [More…]

• By gosh, if they ever do they will find that they are 2 sections of the community which are being exploited with high impartiality. [More…]

• Looking around the Australian community, it is very difficult to find anybody who does not receive protection by one means or another. [More…]

• The attitude of the Australian Labor Party is to give assistance to industries where such assistance can be publicly justified and shown to be in the interests of the recipients and of the community at large. [More…]

• How can a community of some 4,000 people, as is the case in Kerang, meet half the cost of a 16-bed nursing home costing $186,000? [More…]

• That amount is quite beyond the capacity of any small community to meet. [More…]

• The Government takes the view that small business is a particularly important aspect of the business community in Australia and adds up to a very substantial proportion of all business activities. [More…]

• There are clear safeguards against nationalisation of medical services in the community. [More…]

• I am a better advocate than the Leader of the Opposition and that I am more persuasive when talking with people who have great powers to make economic decisions in this community. [More…]

• This is one reason why the Australian Farmers Federation, the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association, the Victorian Farmers Union and all of these grass roots bodies in the community support the legislation which is presently before the Parliament and which incidentally is supported by the overwhelming majority of the members of the Parliament. [More…]

• There would also be a published report so that the community as a whole and the cities in particular can understand the real problems involved. [More…]

• Obviously it is important that a body of this character which has such a profound effect on industry in every section of the community should not only meet regularly but also should have an obligation to do so. [More…]

• improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; [More…]

• Again it is obvious that if this body is to be available to service the community and not the community to service it, the reports it prepares must be capable of not only scrutiny by the public but also comprehension by the public. [More…]

• There is within the provisions of these policy guidline expressions cause for concern for every individual in the Australian community. [More…]

• For those reasons I believe it is essential that there be a specific, firm and direct way by which individuals in the community can see the purposes for which this Commission will undertake its task and read into what it is doing particular motives, but the Australian Government retaining the opportunity to lay down where it believes necessary specific policy objectives. [More…]

• We would far prefer those words and believe that the service of the Australian community and the future development needs of this country can be accommodated only if this amendment is supported. [More…]

• improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used - [More…]

• These include improving the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used - this involves the making of an economic judgment concerning the prospects of success for an industry and surely that should be within the compass of government and not within the compass of an outside commission as should be matters relating to the maintenance of an appropriate standard of living and full employment - facilitating adjustment to changes in the economic environment and recognising the interests of consumers and consuming interests likely to be affected by measures. [More…]

• Politics is concerned with groups within the community. [More…]

• At the same time the rural environment is valued in a less tangible way for the culture and history of its community, for its wildlife, for the beauty of landscapes and, in some areas, for its remoteness. [More…]

• As a South Australian - becoming parochial for a moment - one wonders whether an adequate impact study has been undertaken to ensure that the River Murray system does not become a giant sewerage drain from a large community complex in its upper reaches. [More…]

• But in my view it needs to go a lot higher to truly awaken the Australian community as a whole as to the need to stir governments, both State and Federal, and the need to protect the natural environment for future generations. [More…]

• Old disused mines heave out black damp and other gases into the community and old retired miners cannot forget that once they worked down in the bowels of the earth where they developed silicosis and bronchitis. [More…]

• Government expenditures for whatever purposes are undertaken to satisfy the needs of the community and the resources allocated towards meeting those needs should be in accordance with the priorities which the Government of the day attaches to particular problems, and not simply on the basis of the revenue collected from a particular tax. [More…]

• On 1 October I announced jointly with the Minister for Community Welfare of Western Aus tralia, the honourable Ronald Thompson, a major social welfare co-ordinating project in the south-west and southern agricultural region of Western Australia, as part of the development stage of the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• This project involves close co-operation between the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare, the Social Welfare Commission and my Department. [More…]

• The Government feels that it is wrong in principle that services provided for sections of the community should, in effect, be subsidised by the general taxpayer as has been the case with news relays. [More…]

• It consistently fails to reply to the questions being asked of it by every group in the community. [More…]

• This Government has been rightly referred to recently as uninitiated, inexperienced twits, by a leading member of the business community. [More…]

• Only the other day, the Prime Minister’s economic adviser, Dr Coombs, told .the National Press Club that the members of the community had to pay for the Government’s budgetary measures. [More…]

• No government in such a short time has polarised the community with so much confusion, uncertainty and doubt. [More…]

• There was a division last night in the House which showed that on a matter which has been discussed for years in the Australian community - in the business community and the producing community in particular - the Liberals and the Country Party still cannot agree. [More…]

• One year ago business levels in the general community were sagging. [More…]

• If there had been a Prices Justification Tribunal then or early last year, is it not likely that the increase in the price of steel which flows through the whole community, secondary and primary industry, would have been half as much as it was? [More…]

• They have been kicked and bashed with a savagery and a viciousness never before directed against any section of the Australian community. [More…]

• From our contacts with other sectors of the community with the people trying to buy land and build homes under the devastating policies of this Government; with manufacturing industry which provides the economic backbone of the economy but which is being bashed unmercifully by this antibusiness Government; with the mining industry which has seen the beginning of the process of seizure and confiscation which every socialist government employs; with people in all walks of life who are being hurt every day by uncontrolled inflation fed by Labor’s own reckless spending our impression of the feelings of all these people is that ‘it’s time’, time to call a halt, time to opt for responsibility instead of ratbaggery, time to seek sanity instead of socialist paranoia, time to get Australia back on the rails. [More…]

• What inflation does is to work unevenly on certain sections of the community. [More…]

• Something can be done for some sections of the community who cannot look after themselves with the rage of inflation. [More…]

• He clowns in this Parliament while, outside, significant groups of the Australian community are being hurt very badly indeed. [More…]

• That loss of confidence is demonstrable not simply in the form of national opinion polls, of which the Treasurer spoke, but also in the results of State and Federal by-elections in recent months and in the increasingly hostile comments of organised groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• This Government, in a short period of 10 months, has created a massive erosion of confidence in the Australian economy; has allowed inflation to reach levels unprecedented in the past 20 years; has generated the highest level of interest rates for the past 100 years; has allowed industrial unrest and turmoil in the industrial jurisdiction to reach intolerable proportions; has dishonoured a series of major promises; has deserted disadvantaged groups in the Australian community; has destroyed the future development of the mineral and mining industries; has sought to squeeze the private sector and the State governments and, to compound those felonies, has run this Parliament in a manner contemptuous of all its forms, all its precedents and its effective functioning. [More…]

• This has severe and adverse effects on many sections of the community, particularly on those persons who are already subject to comparative economic disadvantage. [More…]

• In the absence of effective action by the Government we can expect the following direct consequences: First, a decline in the community’s propensity to save and incentive to produce; second, a consequential slowing down in the real growth rate, which means a diminution in the growth of real per capital income for fixed income earners, pensioners and lower wage earners; thirdly, a transfer of resources away from growth industries to those industries serving current consumption; fourth, an intensification of industrial unrest as labour and capital compete for a national income which in total falls far short of total aspirations. [More…]

• These tendencies, which would make the economy vulnerable to downward external shocks, could arise from a falling demand in investment in capital goods industries since a transfer of resources to meet current consumption cannot practicably be made in such a way as to ensure the continued full employment of resources; a falling demand for consumption goods as in the face of declining real income, people exhaust their savings, and a transfer of all their foregone consumption cannot in practice be made to higher income groups; Community uncertainty which could further curtail real investment expenditure already depressed through Government policies. [More…]

• The Government itself has been the prime mover in the wage and salary pressures which are having such direct and severe effects on cost pressures throughout the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Casey might well dwell on the impact which that loss of confidence has had on the total Australian community. [More…]

• Let me remind honourable gentlemen opposite that all production lost is a loss to the Australian community, particularly in this period when there is a shortage of goods and services. [More…]

• There are some important facts to be looked at, and members of the Australian Country Party should be the first to look at them because when they stand in this Parliament and demand that action be taken to reduce the rate of increase they are demanding that their pets in this community should have their incomes reduced. [More…]

• Unemployment was rife a year ago, and the then Prime Minister was almost on his political knees begging the Australian community: ‘Please spend some money - anything, one cent, $1, $10. [More…]

• There is disillusion and uncertainty in the general community. [More…]

• I believe that the principal concern of the community is with the credibility of the Government. [More…]

• Of course, since then the position has arisen where the present Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) has had the Aboriginal community rise in opposition to him. [More…]

• It is a duty of State and local governments to interpret the community’s demand for services in the areas for which they are responsible and to determine the extent to which their taxpayers are willing to meet the cost of continued expansion. [More…]

• I oppose very strongly the centralist attitudes which pose such a fundamental danger to the Australian community. [More…]

• Has the honourable member for Berowra forgotten, for example, that the European Economic Community has erected an incredibly high tariff barrier against the products of our farmlands here? [More…]

• I would refer those so charged within the Department of Foreign Affairs to take note of what is being said in the international community on the question of assisting those in poverty throughout the world. [More…]

• I believe that, in the past, in a number of areas the aid, although certainly provided at the request of the recipient country, has been provided without any valid basis of determining whether the ultimate benefit to the community has matched the amount allocated in the Budget. [More…]

• The degree of difference is, not surprisingly, reflected in the community at large, amply fed by a wide range of Press, radio and television media which is available. [More…]

• The Australian Government, in its foreign policy actions and announcements since December 1972, has placed Australia’s standing in the international community as one of having accorded to reality. [More…]

• If the condition changes quickly there is a long time before the change is perceived by the general community. [More…]

• The accepted version of this is that the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics alone no longer dictate the pattern of events, and that China, the European Economic Community and Japan are now significant in the ordering of world affairs. [More…]

• The European Economic Community could well emerge as an equally powerful unit due to its techno-economic capability, cultural ties, geography and diplomatic skills. [More…]

• Japan has not the advantages of the European Economic Community in terms of historic community ties. [More…]

• It should be obvious from what I have said that Australia has a place in the world community where it can act constructively without assigning itself a role which becomes fixed. [More…]

• I point out that the health insurance program which we are putting forward is a scheme to raise money from the community which will be distributed back to the community to cover the cost of medical and hospital services. [More…]

• For instance, it generously supports the charitable and religious hospitals in the community. [More…]

• I have no doubt that would be to the grave disadvantage of private hospital services and, to a large extent, private medical services in the community. [More…]

• The community grew and in the early years there was considerable harmony between Arabs and Jews because the Arabs were perfectly willing to sell what was useless land - barren land and desert - to those Jews whom the Arabs throught were stupid enough to buy it. [More…]

• It was not until the early 1920s, when the community had grown to some hundreds of thousands, that the Arabs started to look with envy upon the new communal citrus farms which had been made out of the desert, and started to realise that what they had sold at very exorbitant prices was now something that they would like to have back. [More…]

• Some 250,000 Arabs stayed and live today in Israel as first class citizens with equal rights with the Jewish community. [More…]

• It protected the kibbutzim in the northern part of Israel from Syrian rockets and it eliminated the Jordanian part of the Arab community from bellying out into Israel. [More…]

• The real reason why the former Government could not recognise the People’s Republic of China is that it had condemned the People’s Republic of China for so long that it did not want to take a complete political somersault which would have made it appear ridiculous in the eyes of the Australian community and the peoples of the world, particularly of South East Asia. [More…]

• I want briefly to point out one part of the Karmel Report which appears to have been lost sight of by the Minister for Education, and that is the paragraphs dealing with community involvement in 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…]

• They learn a tremendous amount from other people with whom they mix in the community and they learn a tremendous amount from the people they mix with in their own peer group. [More…]

• So it is important, in my submission, that the community ought to be involved in what is taught at school and the way in which it is taught in school. [More…]

• When the Schools Commission Bill was before the chamber and even in the debate on the Estimates there was no discussion at all of the Karmel Committee suggestion for community involvement. [More…]

• Recently the New South Wales Department of Education produced a consultative paper entitled ‘The Community and its Schools’. [More…]

• The Party of the honourable member for Angas which traditionally has absolutely no ties or connections with the Catholic community or the Catholic Church was prepared to subsidise science blocks in Catholic schools so that that money could go to rich Protestant schools. [More…]

• This shows the Government’s total discrimination against a section of the community. [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…]

• In this area of community participation in education, we are seeing as a result of the recommendations of the Karmel committee an expansion of the concept of community as well as parent participation in the school community. [More…]

• State, will look into the question of the extent to which the nation’s education and community resources are, in some areas at least, overcapitalised. [More…]

• I have talked with them about the involvement of parents and the involvement of the community in the activities of the school and the activities of the education centre for the district that that school should provide. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite have their heads in the clouds if they believe that wear and tear will not occur, because in every community - be it a school community or the community at large - there are those who lack a sense of responsibility. [More…]

• The point I wish to make is that it seems to me to be a very expensive solution of this problem to say that the answer is to close the schools when the school bell rings at the end of the day and not to use those facilities either for the school community or for the community at large. [More…]

• Where there are buildings, grounds and facilities, many of which are under-used - that is not to say that there are not some schools where the size of the community within the school is so large in itself that the physical facilities of the school are used to the optimum or in some cases are inadequate - and where the facilities are adequate and can be used for the community at large to provide library facilities, recreational facilities, school grounds and adult education facilities, I suggest that ways and means of using the community facilities in school buildings and their related grounds should be examined. [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…]

• The honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson said that all schools should be open - I assume that he means after school hours - to the general community. [More…]

• For the general community. [More…]

• Insofar as that is so, I would like for the first time in my life to get on the same side as the honourable member for Chifley because at least he says, although I cannot remember him doing so in debate - I can remember suggesting this from my own humble mouth 2 years ago - that schools should be open to the community to utilise the resources of those schools. [More…]

• The kindergartens have been an excellent illustration of community involvement in education. [More…]

• Will it be possible for small community groups to establish kindergardens with Government aid and Government support, or is it the intention of the Government to establish a monopolistic system in the provision of State pre-school education? [More…]

• The problem for the community is that there are many people who would use their initiative, through self-help, hard work and sacrifice, to provide some of the funds which would enable preschool education centres to be established, but because of the uncertainty that is being created by the lack of a pronouncement as to the way in which pre-school education is to be provided there is a great deal of hesitation. [More…]

• The program of expansion by the community, through self-help, of pre-school education facilities is being retarded by the uncertain atmosphere which has been created through the lack of announcements as to the manner in which pre-school education is to be provided in the future. [More…]

• Undoubtedly, when we are aiming to provide preschool education facilities for the community as a whole, it will not be possible to do everything at once. [More…]

• But I do hope that there will be an involvement of the community and an opportunity for the community committee to be established and to raise funds to establish its kindergarten with Government support and that the Government will not adopt the philosophy that the only system of pre-school education that can and should be provided is that which is totally provided by the Government. [More…]

• If that approach is adopted there will be, firstly, a reduction in community involvement in education and, secondly, a very much slower development of the program of pre-school education for every child. [More…]

• Whilst I recognise that in the pre-school sphere undoubtedly it will be necessary for governments to concentrate more effort in some areas than in others, I do urge upon the Government and upon the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), whom I am pleased to see in the chamber at this stage, that due recognition be given to community initiative. [More…]

• The deplorable elimination of concessions available to the rural community, the antirural loading of this Government, the failure of men like the honourable member for Eden-Monaro to recognise the swings of price and swings of seasons and the recommendation of an export tax are all part of the [More…]

• Unless we can do this, I do not see how in the future we are going to be able to provide for the real exigencies which the Labor Government is thrusting on the rural community. [More…]

• Indeed, my criticism of these appropriations lies principally in the lack of concern that the Australian Labor Party has demonstrated for the very real needs of those throughout the whole of the rural community. [More…]

• No matter how justified some of the Government’s measures have been, we have seen massive campaigns by the articulate and powerful in our community being orchestrated by the Opposition. [More…]

• I do not know whether I favour the publication of awards and other information in various languages because it could have the tendency to create a multi-lingual community which, of course, is not what the Minister for Immigration and I wish to see. [More…]

• Today, this Government must introduce the Trade Practices Bill in this House so that we can at least debate it and expose to the people the kinds of corruption and protection of vested interests, which are exploiting our community, being carried out by the Liberal Party and the Country Party, whether in the New South Wales Parliament or in this Parliament. [More…]

• What justice is there in the community when persons seeking justice cannot afford it and when a State government resists providing from the public purse assistance to those who seek justice but cannot afford it. [More…]

• That raises the point, which I may have mentioned before in regard to airlines, that the amount of money that has been spent on television - $4m or $5m - is not very much when one considers the amount of money that is brought into the community by those areas. [More…]

• Enlarged allocations in the 1973-74 Budget for education, community health, public housing, sewerage services, land management, urban transport and growth centres evidence our strong beginning on that task. [More…]

• If this can be done I believe that the investigation of these works will be to the advantage of the community at large. [More…]

• I should like to take up just one small part of the Government’s action in this Budget which I believe will have a devastating effect on large sections of the rural community of Australia. [More…]

• Fortunately, the International Sugar Organisation has been authorised to arrange for studies to be made and discussions to be held between members and with nonmembers - notably the European Economic Community - with a view to determining the basis for such an Agreement. [More…]

• Integration is a process of primary production that probably is here to stay for quite a while and has aspects to recommend to the overall community. [More…]

• I commend the Labor Government on the steps that it has taken to assist the farming community against the cost of tariff protection. [More…]

• I applaud the beneficial effects that they are calculated to have on the rural community. [More…]

• According to ‘Agra Europe’ of 3 October, European Economic Community stocks are less than they were a year ago. [More…]

• Regulations to implement the Government’s Budget proposals on Repatriation matters, including the provision of artificial limbs to all in the community are at an advanced stage in the regulation-making process. [More…]

• It is very easy to say that the Minister for Primary Industry is on side with the rural community on a certain issue but Caucus or Cabinet lets him down, but I will not accept that. [More…]

• The program is of course being openly attacked by those people in the medical profession who believe that health care is a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder rather than a social utility which should be available as a right to everybody in the community. [More…]

• I refer to none other than Alexander Barton, who has skipped away out of the country after clipping members of the Australian community who were shareholders in his crook companies of $22.6m. [More…]

• The marginal social costs of community services used by people moving to ‘congested’ areas may exceed costs of their remaining in depressed’ areas. [More…]

• In fact, it would have been cheaper for the community if the Government had done that because I remind honourable members that the community was paying S25m a year in order to provide a small sum to apple growers. [More…]

• Apart from the fact, as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has already stated, that the Government has foisted a direct increase in the price of soft drinks on the community in general, the Government, by virtue of this measure, has hit at the processing industries in country areas. [More…]

• With fresh fruit there are the problems of traditional markets, the European Economic Community tariffs, freight rates, revaluations which all act against the industry. [More…]

• There must also be considered the season which is rapidly coming up and in which the present problems will be aggravated because the European Economic Community will be increasing external tariffs on friut. [More…]

• These are the remarks of a senior senator of the Liberal Party referring to the difficulties of the rural sector of our community. [More…]

• I suggest that, instead of just reiterating day after day things that are palpably untrue, it would be a far better service to the rural community of Australia if some constructive views were put forward, lt is not just enough to have progaganda all the time. [More…]

• It now numbers among its taxpaying community recipients of social service benefits. [More…]

• We need to be sensitive in a conciliatory way to criticism and advice from all sections of the community if that criticism and advice is given honestly, because nothing can be more damaging to any system or to the updating of any system in which we ardently and passionately believe than minds, closed to criticism. [More…]

• There is a conscious attempt to remove the stigma associated with mental health, but the underlying factor is that the mentally ill are among the most seriously disadvantaged section in the community. [More…]

• It is noted that the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) in his second reading speech stated that after the years 1973, 1974 and 1975 the services referred to in the Bill and continue to be supported under and will be integrated with the broader Australian community health program. [More…]

• It is refreshing and good to have the Minister’s assurance that this is to be the case, but I proffer the question: Will mentally ill people in the community still be disadvantaged? [More…]

• The proposals in this Bill are forward looking in terms of preventing, by the giving of community facilities, the institutional placement of those for whom such treatment is not necessary. [More…]

• The establishment of such community facilities must remain a major priority but we must be careful to ensure that we cater also for the victims of the old system. [More…]

• I submit that perhaps community facilities should be developed in parallel with an updating of the old facilities. [More…]

• The new approach to mental disability requires both funds and a change in community attitudes. [More…]

• The Bill envisages a change in community attitudes. [More…]

• We submit that the solution to the problem of mental health is one that can be accelerated by the injection of money to provide specialised community services through the provision of half-way houses whereby people do not have attached to them the stigma of ever having been an inmate of an institutional home. [More…]

• In the past governments have been at fault in not supplying sufficient money and in not providing sufficient personnel to these essential sections of the community which have been the most disadvantaged of all. [More…]

• The evidence of social pathology in this community is widespread and irrefutable. [More…]

• I would like to concentrate particularly on those sections of the Bill which refer to assistance being given to voluntary agencies in the community for the establishment of new mental health facilities. [More…]

• Last night I was privileged to attend a meeting at which 85 of those people and their supporters in the community came out to establish a committee which will steer the project to fruition. [More…]

• lt is not enough that community mental health services of this kind should restrict themselves to the provision of services for those people who are already mentally ill. [More…]

• There is great work to be done in our community in mental prophylaxis and in preventive mental care and this, too, can well be undertaken at the local level. [More…]

• They want to commence immediately on a program of community education designed to see that not only mental illness itself but also the physical and environmental conditions and the strains and tensions from which mental illness arises are identified at the earliest possible stage and that appropriate action is taken to remedy those conditions. [More…]

• In this field as in so many others prevention not only can be so much more effective than cure - many disorders which ultimately prove to be incurable could have been cured if they had been identified and received treatment at a sufficiently early stage of their development - but it is infinitely cheaper for our community in the long run. [More…]

• If the resources that we currently devote to the rehabilitation of the victims of road accidents and to the restoration of their vehicles were diverted to the mental health program and made available to organisations such as the St Stephens Clinic, the saving to our community in the long run would be very substantial indeed. [More…]

• Secondly, for those people whose disorders have already progressed to the point at which there is no answer other than professional treatment, the clinic proposes to provide the services of a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a social worker, these people being available not only for individual and group therapy within the clinic itself but also in the role of community visitors, taking their services into the homes of the patients themselves. [More…]

• We must recognise that mental health services at the local level in this country are a field of community activity as yet very little explored. [More…]

• The Bill reflects the fact that community health care is often more effective than institutional care. [More…]

• Persons suffering from psychiatric and similar problems return to coping normally much more quickly when treated in their usual community environment, with their families and friends around them. [More…]

• The addition of communitybased services for alcoholism and drug dependence along with our new emphasis on other aspects of community mental health is a vital step forward in combating those serious community problems in a systematic way. [More…]

• Hopefully, we are now moving away from the prehistoric age concept where someone who was mentally ill or suffering from a disease or a sickness such as alcoholism or drug dependency had to be locked up away from the community, where a stigma was cast on the family if a member of that family was an alcoholic or mentally ill, whether that person acquired that mental illness or was bom with it. [More…]

• This Bill reflects that growth in community trends. [More…]

• Drug addiction is a curse which, once it inflicts itself on a community, in my experience is virtually impossible to eradicate. [More…]

• First of all it portends a break from traditional methods of institutional care for mental illness in that money will be provided exclusively for community health services that are of a non-institutional nature. [More…]

• I believe that this very exciting innovation of this Government in setting up that commission will mean that there will be many exciting developments in the field of public health and community health services to follow this measure that we are debating today. [More…]

• By the provision of community health services we will be able to provide not just the conventional treatment that is available at the present time in the community, which is mainly private psychiatric treatment by specialists who are practising on a fee for service basis, but also a co-ordinated system of community health care, and thus we will be able to integrate the activities of trained social workers in their counselling activities with all the other conventional measures such as group therapy, occupational therapy, drug therapy and other types of treatment where they may be indicated. [More…]

• I believe that once again in the community health centres themselves - that is, those outside the formal institutions - we have a potential problem in that even they can possibly become excessively dominated by people who are orientated solely towards traditional forms of psychiatry. [More…]

• I think we must ensure that there is not an excessive domination of traditional psychiatric techniques in our community mental health services to the exclusion of other factors which should be looked at when somebody comes with a problem. [More…]

• I believe it is important to note that by this measure money will be allocated for research and evaluation of community health services. [More…]

• Another aspect at which we should look is the avoidance of excessive formality in our community mental health services. [More…]

• This applies particularly in the treatment of drug dependency problems with younger people in the community. [More…]

• One area in particular in this report to which I think we ought to give special consideration is the provision of evening clinics for community health centres because at present there are no real such facilities. [More…]

• I am pleased to note that after 1974-75 mental health and related services will be integrated with the total community health care program. [More…]

• From the national health insurance income - from the total cake - the Government will enable these community mental health organisations and other community health services to contract with the fund for a certain amount to be paid to provide these types of services. [More…]

• Under the health insurance plan which the Government seeks to introduce, organisations such as community health centres and mental health centres can contract for a grant to operate a total plan of mental health care. [More…]

• This, of course, will mean a reduced cost of community health centres because these types of bodies can place a heavy emphasis on the preventive aspects whereas the present management for the treatment of mental illness pre.dictates too heavily towards the very problems we are trying to treat, namely, the problems of drug ingestion which in their wake bring other problems of habituation and drug induced disease. [More…]

• The most serious drug problems in our community arise from the much more widely used drugs such as barbiturates, aspirin and alcohol. [More…]

• I believe that in this area it is very important that we provide the necessary community services for the treatment and rehabilitation of people who are addicted to these drugs. [More…]

• The Department envisages having a workshop in the community which will readily fill a large gap in the community services. [More…]

• This program also fills a large gap in our community services at the moment. [More…]

• This is to train workers in assisting ex-patients who have been returned to the community and to give them the necessary support. [More…]

• It is designed to accommodate intellectually retarded patients who live in the community and whose parents for some reason or other need a holiday or some form of relief. [More…]

• It will use some accommodation now available to relieve parents for holidays, giving very valuable community services to the parents of intellectually retarded people who are living at home at the moment. [More…]

• It will be similar to the Northcote homes except that it will place people from Strathmont into the community. [More…]

• The people in the hostel will get community living conditions as against institutional living conditions. [More…]

• As I understand it, the Bill will enable this Department for the first time to proceed with much needed community work which it would be impossible to undertake on a State basis at the moment. [More…]

• In conclusion I should like to pay a tribute to the Government and to the Minister for introducing this measure which will provide a tremendous incentive and will do much on a community basis for the thousands of unfortunate people who over the years have to some extent been neglected. [More…]

• Until we are aware of those social causes, until we can begin to roll them back instead of having them roll on as they are, increasing the burden of mental illness in the community, until we can reverse that position and until we know enough about society and the causes of mental illness, I do not think it is worthy of us to be pointing the finger of accusation at the insensitiveness of unions or anyone else engaged in this field. [More…]

• The opportunity for external studies is rather limited in this community. [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…]

• The Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant), who is sitting at the table, not only has had considerable experience as a teacher and a parliamentarian but has had the community interest in the schools in his constituency at heart and has probably seen in the schools in his own electorate some of the factors I have raised. [More…]

• These people have served time in the schools for the two, three or four years that are required of them under the bond before moving out into the community. [More…]

• Although there is a growing degree of local decision-making with respect to the curricula and general management at the local high school level, there is an even greater need for teachers on the local scene, the parents and the local community generally to play a greater part in determining the subjects available to pupils in high schools. [More…]

• The whole community gets disturbed and upset about industrial chaos, strikes and lack of productivity, but what are we doing in the field of education to try to make our young people more aware of the needs of the work force and the problems of management? [More…]

• I believe that a lot of our industrial problems and a lot of the division that exists within our community are derived from the failure of the education system to make our young our community are derived from the failure of industry. [More…]

• I believe this would be in the best interests of the community at large and that it would overcome a lot of the problems of child delinquency and many of the problems we see around the countryside of young people having to leave their home town for employment in other parts of Australia. [More…]

• A large percentage of students is made up by the sons and daughters of top administrators and professional people in the community. [More…]

• I hope that the media will recognise the part that they should play in educating the community as to what is available to it in the form of educational opportunities and that they will educate us in this Parliament as to what the community needs to satisfy the kind of requirement to which the honourable member for Gwydir referred this evening. [More…]

• No, he was doing it the hard way in common with a number of other people in our community. [More…]

• We must recognise that this is a community investment. [More…]

• The fruits of this action will be available to the whole of the community whether people are enabled to attend universities, colleges of advanced education or technical institutions, or whether people further their education at institutions such as the open universities that we will provide. [More…]

• I hope that the media will help the Government get across to the community what is being made available. [More…]

• They have to be good citizens in the community as well as working in the factories and business houses. [More…]

• They have to be enlightened, informed citizens and they have to be able to take their place in the community. [More…]

• Research is very important but it is not much good unless it reticulates into the community. [More…]

• The Opposition does not wish to torpedo the Schools Commission, but it wishes to see greater participation by the community in the Commission. [More…]

• At present, when inflation is pending over the community, this is of particular relevance. [More…]

• There are still unpaid fines in this community because the honourable member and his colleagues knew that it was not the answer and that that concept was dead and could not possibly achieve industrial peace. [More…]

• If it is suggested that a Government which is spending more on legal aid than ever before, and which is beginning to set up community legal aid offices which might employ lawyers who choose to be employed on a salary basis, is seeking to do that I certainly reject the suggestion. [More…]

• The Commission of European Communities proposed only last April that the European Economic Community, which is hostile to the multi-national corporations, designate private companies rather than multi-national corpora tions to represent it in deals with the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• It bears a relationship to the removal of uncertanty in the business community. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that we on this side of the chamber are shouting out not just to the business community but also to the whole nation to beware of what the present Government is doing? [More…]

• There will be no surprise in the Australian community at the knowledge that once again the Opposition is holding up, till the last possible moment and beyond, effective action against the people whose conspiracies have for so long held up the price of goods in this country and have for so long inflicted upon consumers in this country such grave and avoidable disadvantages. [More…]

• It is not in the field of inflation alone that Australians will deplore this further evidence of the determination of the Opposition to press the interests of sectional groups over the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is not hard for the mechanism of naming a used car lot or a radio and television repair man to be evoked effectively at State level, but there is an abundance of evidence to show that the interests of consumers are abused by organisations of a scope whose power, influence and standing in our community enable them to ignore being named by a consumer bureau in its report to a State parliament. [More…]

• I regret that the honourable gentleman spoke with what I believe to be a biased approach to the whole of the business community. [More…]

• The drafting process extended for a period of some 10 months and was notable for the absence of consultation with State Attorneys-General, the business community or in fact any of the individuals or groups within the community who will be affected by the legislation. [More…]

• The Bill is, in fact, a further example of legislation with extensive and important implications for the whole community, which is to be forced through the Parliament without proper scrutiny and without a vestige of public discussion. [More…]

• The general intent of the consumer provisions of the Bill is welcomed by the Opposition parties as, we believe, it will be welcomed by the community as a whole. [More…]

• We reject the Bill and support the concept of further examination and consultation which ought to be taking place with those many community groups at the present time. [More…]

• Mir GRASSBY (Riverina- Minister for Immigration) (4.34) - There must be a sense of dismay in the community at large when it becomes known that the Opposition has decided to stonewall on this measure which is designed to give Australians some protection from monopolies and from exploitation. [More…]

• We face a situation in which, behind what could be well described as a giant tariff and protection wall of the order of $3,000m a year, those protected are not called to account for any of their practices when those practices prove to be inimical to the Australian consumer and to the Australian community. [More…]

• So the community pays and the community provides protection, but the community up until now has not had any effective recourse when those who have received the bounty and protection have exploited it in return. [More…]

• The result was a piece of toothless, useless legislation which has now been recognised by all in the community as a waste of time. [More…]

• Huge processing units which have been taken over and closed down have been re-sited in overcrowded cities, not because they are more efficient there or because the community will benefit from their being there but simply to create a monopoly situation and to extirpate competition. [More…]

• This legislation is part of a program to ensure that we do not lack protection in the future as individuals, as Australian business or as a community. [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that no part of the community has been more heavily exploited by restrictive or monopoly practices than has the Australian primary producer. [More…]

• I hope that generally in the community there will be a recognition of what the legislation is attempting to do, namely, to give Australian interests the protection which has long been sought and long been neglected. [More…]

• Each one of us on this side of the House is concerned at the degree to which there are prevalent in the business community, either through monopolisation or undue restraint of trade, practices which deny free and open competition and add to the cost to the consumers in our country. [More…]

• The 1965 legislation when introduced caused quite a considerable disturbance in the business community. [More…]

• The Country Party is concerned firstly at the implications of this Bill to the business community, not that we do not believe that it is necessary for legislation to cover the areas that are significantly dealt with in this legislation but because the implications of this legislation are not going to be given an adequate opportunity for surveillance. [More…]

• That criminal responsibility is of course one which it is hard to anticipate transgressing until the actual circumstances of transgression occur, and it is in the implications of that area alone that I see quite profound difficulties in our passing this legislation at this time without those in the business community being able to examine it and see its implications in terms of each of the individual areas of business which may be affected. [More…]

• I do not believe that that period of time will be adequate or that in the consideration of the significant changes which are embodied in that area it will be possible for the business community to comprehend the full implications of this legislation adequately without the Bill being left over for a period. [More…]

• So the basis of our concern is that the Bill represents a fundamental change in an area which I think is of real concern to the business community and we see the Labor Party again determined to disrupt the economy without regard to the necessity to maintain employment and the level of activity which has been generated, not through any positive act by the Government but more than anything else by the significant improvement in primary producer returns. [More…]

• I do not believe that legislation which covers all these areas in this way and provides such significant changes can do so without seriously disrupting the normal conduct of business in our community. [More…]

• But I believe that because of the character of changes involved in this legislation, the failure to provide exemptions in significant areas such as monopolisation, in particular, but in prices discrimination too, and the degree to which there is inadequate time provided for us or for members of the business community to scrutinise the legislation, it denies the very competition and stimulus for competition which ostensibly is the purpose for its introduction. [More…]

• The Country Party is concerned on behalf of those it represents that there should be a fair measure of competition in the community. [More…]

• Indeed, when one thinks that the first positive statement on trade practices was made by Sir Garfield Barwick as recently as 30 November 1962, and when one thinks of the degree to which those who have been administering the present Act commend the character of the legislation and the efficacy which is gradually being applied through it to the business community, I believe one appreciates the failure of the Government to demonstrate the need for these radical changes. [More…]

• There have been changes introduced to maintain competition in the community. [More…]

• I believe that rather it should be left to allow for more adequate scrutiny by the business community which I think will be quite adversely affected in view of the general portents of this legislation. [More…]

• The whole community must guarantee the legitimate rights of the most humble citizen. [More…]

• Those who wish to engage in restrictive trade practices should show the community that it is not against the public interest to do so. [More…]

• This community cannot afford to allow exploitation or unfair trading. [More…]

• That is the basic right of every citizen in our community. [More…]

• The Australian community expects action and it will recei that action which is desired quickly to protect the community interest. [More…]

• In the time available to the Opposition it has not been practicable - in fact it has not been possible - to discuss the matters involved with representatives of industry, commerce and trade in order to find out the effect and the impact .the proposed clauses of the Bill will have on the economy of this country, lt has been impossible to assess what impact the proposals, if put into effect, will have upon employment prospects, the sound economic growth of the economy, inflationary pressures, the advantages and disadvantages to the consumer, and the effective allocation of resources within our community and the efficiency with which the production and distribution of goods and services are carried out. [More…]

• It is a totally different concept with totally new ideas and a totally different approach to the means of preventing or minimising the impact of restrictive trade practices on the social and economic life of the community. [More…]

• The Bill before us is one step towards establishing that watchdog and a set of rules within the game in which competition can be used to maximise the productivity of our economic mechanisms for the community at large. [More…]

• The optimisation of productivity for the community as a whole becomes the hallmark of the legislation. [More…]

• I submit that to oppose this Bill at this time and to frustrate the introduction of this Bill is to consolidate further the position of monopolies and cartels within our community at a time when it has long since become apparent that they militate against the general welfare of the community. [More…]

• The current Trade Practices Act is with the exception of its collusive tendering and bidding and resale price maintenance provisions, little more than a pretence to provide real competition in the business community. [More…]

• It is the result of an inglorious capitulation by the previous Government to the pressures and persuasions of the business community whose interests it was basically concerned to represent. [More…]

• However, they never came into operation because when the business community protested vigorously about these proposed infringements of their assumed rights to combine against the interests of the public, the then Government scrapped its original proposals. [More…]

• This was one of the practices most strongly defended by the business community, so it was no surprise that it was not included in the Snedden legislation. [More…]

• Ever since that time the principle has been maintained that any increase in capital value of the land arising from urban potential would accrue to the community as a whole. [More…]

• Not only do the comfort and the convenience of a very great number of my constituents depend upon this work being carried out expeditiously but also a deal of the economic viability of the community in which those constituents live similarly depends on this work being done. [More…]

• The March 1973 report by W. D. Scott and Co. Pty Ltd to the Minister for Youth and Community Services in New South Wales on the ‘Problems and Needs of the Aboriginals of Sydney’, gives an estimated Aboriginal population of about 9,000 in the Sydney metropolitan area. [More…]

• A direct linking of petrol tax to road development may result in expenditure on services which the community has indicated require high priority, being less than they should be. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to a belief in Western Australia that the Western Australian business community is neglected in Tariff Board inquiries; if so, is this belief well founded. [More…]

• What action has the Minister for Immigration taken to remedy the widespread deficiencies in existing provisions in interpreting and translation facilities in the community revealed by the departmental survey of interpreting and translation needs in the community which he tabled, I believe, on 10 October? [More…]

• I think that this would give an opportunity to develop proper national standards for a service which is a basic need in our community at present. [More…]

• Any industry source which made such an allegation should be condemned by everybody, not least by honourable members who have the economic background of the honourable member for Berowra, as being thoroughly unreliable, mischievous and divisive in this community. [More…]

• The report is a revision of the interim report from the Council, which I tabled on 24 May and which was circulated throughout the Australian arts community and to others who were interested. [More…]

• Surely the Leader of the House will agree to have a debate on the White Paper so that the Government will be aware of the detailed response of the Opposition parties and the views of the many groups in the community which wish to make serious and substantial representations to the Government. [More…]

• That a Select Committee of the House of Representatives be appointed to inquire into and report on the effects on the Australian community if the present voluntary health insurance scheme is replaced by a compulsory, tax financed health insurance scheme as recommended by the Health Insurance Planning Committee and, in particular, to determine - [More…]

• By preserving the existing funds and applying a sort of tapered means test from full contribution to part or none at all, we can improve the quality of health care for the less fortunate in our community and still maintain freedom of choice both of doctor and of hospital. [More…]

• The community will also be spared the inflationary effect of another gigantic and unnecessary bureaucracy. [More…]

• The position is really much worse than this because most Australians - 70 per cent in South Australia and Victoria, I understand - go to a private, community or religious hospital when they are sick, and the cheapest bed in such hospitals costs at least $189 a week. [More…]

• The scheme is so bad, so incredibly doctrinaire in its determination to achieve centralised power over the whole community that the true facts are almost unbelievable. [More…]

• The Government should explain more forcibly to members of the community that they, as taxpayers, are always pumping in this extra money. [More…]

• Now that he is the Minister he should explain to the community what it will and will not get under Labor’s nationalised health scheme. [More…]

• Anyone who has taken any interest in the operation of public hospital services in the community would appreciate this. [More…]

• Honourable members should bear in mind that our public hospitals are the most important services in the health delivery system in the community and that our teaching hospitals are most important of all because this is where the full range of facilities is available. [More…]

• It is a range of facilities which no private hospital or, indeed, no small public hospital could supply for the public but which are absolutely essential if we are to have available in the community adequate health protection. [More…]

• There just is not enough money to maintain the standards that they should achieve and constantly maintain in the interests of the community. [More…]

• I and everyone else in this place pay much less for an equivalent cover of health insurance under the present scheme than the great bulk of people in the community. [More…]

• We can slash those costs by at least half and all the money now going into cosy little rackets enabling people running private medical insurance to go overseas, to have plush suites and to buy an aeroplane for movement about the community will go into improved benefits for the community. [More…]

• That money currently being wasted will purchase benefits for the community. [More…]

• Canada spends 7.3 per cent of its gross domestic product on health services and it covers everyone in the community. [More…]

• Large numbers of people are being deprived on an increasing scale of these sorts of services, and that is the situation that is developing in our community. [More…]

• So much for the spurious sorts of comments which are thrown up, often maliciously and with wilful misrepresentation, to try to discredit a scheme which will cover everyone in this community and not just ‘87 per cent. [More…]

• In regard to any erosion of an individual’s freedom of choice of a doctor or hospital, our scheme has always been based on the concept of complete freedom of choice, essentially on the private practice of medicine in the community. [More…]

• In relation to the effect of our scheme on the national economy, I have indicated that the total cost is no greater than the present scheme but because we do not waste money, because we do not stand aside and ignore the crooked little deals that have gone on for too long between private health insurance funds and the governments of the post, and the Australian Medical Association to some extent because it has been in this to a large extent through the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia and also certain other arrangements, we will cover all the community at the same cost and with greater efficiency. [More…]

• The motion urges that this House approve of the appointment of a select committee of the House of Representatives to inquire into and report on the effects on the Australian community if the present voluntary health insurance scheme is replaced by a compulsory, tax financed health insurance scheme as has been recommended by the Health Insurance Planning Committee and, in particular, to determine any likely inflationary effects, any over-utilisation of medical and hospital services, the cost to individuals, particularly in relation to hospitalisation, any discriminatory aspects for certain categories of taxpayers, any erosion of an individual’s freedom of choice of doctor or hospital and its effect on the national economy and the quality of health care for present and future generations of Australians. [More…]

• Let us not talk about increased costs as if our scheme will suddenly cost the Australian community more in total. [More…]

• The cost to the community is where the money goes, who takes it. [More…]

• At present, the community pays via the taxation scheme. [More…]

• The answer surely is to say that health services are a service for the whole community. [More…]

• Why not let us say that the whole community through its taxation contributions will maintain the health service so that if any one of us should be unfortunate enough to become ill we can receive the treatment that we need in a service which is maintained to an adequate standard and not at the same time suffer by being forced to pay for the luxury of receiving that specific treatment? [More…]

• The question is whether you wish to penalise the ill in the community or whether you wish to recognise that there ought to be a service provided by the whole community for the whole community in moments of need. [More…]

• At the same time all it will do is create confusion in the minds of the people about the most essential service that any community can provide, health service. [More…]

• Is it good enough for the Liberal Party to appoint only members from big business who support the Liberal Party while other sections of the community are unrepresented? [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that this is just a fear tactic from the other side of the Parliament designed to protect the great interests that honourable members opposite represent and to stop any restriction being placed on their capacity to exploit by adopting trade practices which hold the community to ransom, economically and in every other way. [More…]

• It is an attempt to spread fear in the community as to which of these sinister people will be appointed. [More…]

• Honourable members may be assured that predominantly they will have the interests of the community at heart and in that way will give effect to the provisions of the legislation in the interests of the people generally and not one particular sector of the community. [More…]

• I would have thought that this Government, which espouses in the name of the rights of the individual, fairness within the community, open government and all of these high flung phrases that honourable members are prone to use which announces that it intends to bring in an administrative review tribunal, would ensure in a piece of legislation which according to the words used by Government supporters is acknowledged to be of far-reaching significance and importance within the commercial community of Australia, that this elementary right of appeal against a decision on a question of law should not be denied to people who are brought within the purview of this Act. [More…]

• They are imprecise, uncertain and confusing in their application and they highlight the regrettable absence of dialogue between the Government and the many community groups throughout Australia which are the subject of this legislation. [More…]

• For example, an approach similar to that adopted in the European Economic Community is feasible. [More…]

• I invite comments from the Minister specifically in relation to clause 46 and the practice in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The wording, as in other areas of the legislation, again is confused and bound to lead to an unacceptable degree of uncertainty throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Without such an assurance, mis clause and so many other clauses in the Bill will cause the type of confusion, uncertainty and imprecision which lead to a tremendous degree of havoc throughout the business community. [More…]

• I therefore regret to a considerable extent the fact that this has not been treated in a way that I believe could be readily understood and readily accommodated by the business community. [More…]

• If we use this Bill in the way in which it is intended to be used - and the motivating force is trying to restrict these activities - I believe it will have an inflationary impact and it will do harm to the Australian community. [More…]

• We have looked at the business community in a realistic way and we have proposed legislation which has been modelled very largely on the British experience. [More…]

• The wasting of time by this Opposition is known to all and sundry throughout the community. [More…]

• There is a great deal of confusion in the minds of certain sections of the business community in relation to this matter. [More…]

• Honourable members will readily appreciate that the Commission, as a statutory authority, will be the most appropriate form of organisation for the provision of an efficient service to the community in the payment of medical and hospital benefits claims. [More…]

• This new agreement will provide for a more even handed approach to the question of meeting the costs attributable to civil aviation, with proper regard for the interests of the community as a whole as well as those of the airlines and the users of their services. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will keep a careful watch on inflation and its causes to help protect the assets of the community at large, and to assist people who so badly need homes. [More…]

• Firstly, the building up of a rental community. [More…]

• This decision was a bitter blow to members of the Illawarra Regional Health Committee, as a wide cross-section of the community had participated in forwarding its submission. [More…]

• The Committee’s submission concentrated on the regionalisation of comprehensive health services and the integration of medical education with the delivery of health care to be achieved by services to be delivered to the community by an integrated health care team. [More…]

• The involvement of the trainee in the community from the commencement of his undergraduate program was to be an essential feature of the training period. [More…]

• In relation to the specific question asked by the honourable member, my information is that Dr Shapiro has been a distinguished member of the Australian community and a citizen for a great many years. [More…]

• real evidence of the Government’s recognition that some sectors of the farm community still need assistance to achieve the stability and wellbeing now being enjoyed by the larger proportion of rural producers. [More…]

• But until the Government does this and until it has increased the availability of labour and the ability to construct new dwellings, it will be deceiving and damaging the community if its policies lead to an increase in demand without an increase in supply. [More…]

• This is more so when the Government in increasing the demand for this housing without at the same time effectively restraining the demand for other types of houses has increased the cost of housing for everyone to the damage of the whole community and in particular of the people whom the Government claims it seeks to help. [More…]

• But I do hope that the people of Australia will not fall for the trap and accept the dead hand of depressing socialism upon the Australian community. [More…]

• Funds for co-operative housing societies were to be cut by 33 per cent and all in all the Minister’s statement of 16 January emphasised that the new socialist Government to which he belonged was moving very quickly to reduce the incidence of home ownership in the community with only one target obviously in view, and that was to have as many people as possible throughout Australia dependent entirely on the State for their housing needs. [More…]

• It is a concern that not only I but also a great many people within the community feel because the homes savings grant scheme is a stepping stone to home ownership by young couples. [More…]

• What this Government proposes to do is to kick away from those young couples that very first stepping stone, and this from a party which espouses so much the cause of the people in the community who are not affluent. [More…]

• The Government is making things more difficult for the less affluent people in the community and restricting the availability of housing finance to those who are more affluent and more fortunate. [More…]

• It was also intended to channel savings during the savings period prescribed to institutional lenders who would make more money available in the community for housing generally. [More…]

• No one can deny that this scheme has been of tremendous benefit to the young people of this country, and I think it is to be much lamented that it is the policy of this Government to destroy a scheme which has been of such value to the whole community. [More…]

• Mr Johnson Well, it just seems to me that Mr Martin is involved in the business of setting the stage for a police confrontation with Trade Unionists, now so far as I’m concerned, I’m not going to allow this to cause the projects, very big projects too, to increase in price or to have them delayed in such a way that the community will suffer. [More…]

• I compliment the Minister for Health on the job he has done for community health services. [More…]

• In my own area, at Mount Druitt quite recently a community health complex worth $528,000 was opened. [More…]

• For the whole of the region there is a community nursing program involving 30 nurses. [More…]

• The Fairfield-Penrith community health back-up services cost $103,000. [More…]

• There is a very strong move in Mount Druitt by the medical profession to try to stop the community health complex in that area having an outpatients’ section, that is to say, a section where people can go to get treatment. [More…]

• Mr BOURCHIER (Bendigo) <8.>10)- In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Health, the Repatriation Department and the Department of Social Security I would like to mention firstly the community welfare centres that were introduced this year. [More…]

• The same thing can apply of course, to community homes for the aged. [More…]

• While the Australian Government plans a great reform in the provision of availability of treatment in, and financial assistance to, State public hospitals, it recognises that private hospitals controlled by religious, charitable and community organisations play an important role within the nation’s health services. [More…]

• Religious, charitable and community hospitals will be able to set and control their own policies without unnecessary Government interference. [More…]

• Special arrangements to cover the costs of most types of treatment and accommodation in religious, charitable and community non-public hospitals, and which at the same time guaranteee the autonomy of these hospitals are also included in the Program. [More…]

• However, the community tends to frown upon such a reversal of roles, and the father himself frequently cannot accept what he considered as a degrading position. [More…]

• As the community is prepared to take the responsibility as breadwinner for a deserted wife should the community also take responsibility for the provision of a substitute mother? [More…]

• Another section of the community, small in number but recognised by no one at this point of time, should be subject to review and to consideration in this repatriation legislation or in similar legislation. [More…]

• Unfortunately, as the period of time from the end of the war becomes greater people are apt to forget that there are some members of the community who remain handicapped and will be constantly suffering, regardless of the time that passes since they received their disability in war service, and that that will remain so until death claims them. [More…]

• Successful rehabilitation of an incapacitated member can mean a lot to that member’s dignity and pride and could be the means of enabling him to become a useful member of the community and of greater assistance and value to his family. [More…]

• 2.2 For the convenience of beneficiaries of the Program, and as part of an efficient administrative system every adult in the community will be given a health insurance card. [More…]

• The point I wish to make is that there are some people in the community who will willingly attempt to destroy a person by using the person’s so-called private records. [More…]

• They had been working for months, indeed years, in order that their organisation would have the funds with which it could build a nursing home and hostel to provide for those of the residents who become sick or frail and for others in the community who could benefit from that accommodation. [More…]

• That $12,000 means one fewer nursing home available to the needy aged in the South Australian community. [More…]

• So if one takes into account the contributions which taxpayers on higher incomes make to the general revenue of Australia, substantial proportions of which come back in the form of medical benefits, one sees that the higher income taxpayers are paying more than their share towards the health services of the lower income groups in the community. [More…]

• There must be some proportion of the community that would be in that category. [More…]

• The real cost is in hospitals and the cost of the equipment, the servicing and the staff involved in running the hospitals is enormous and increases year by year under nationalised health proposals because of the use made of these facilites by the community. [More…]

• Industrial turmoil is tearing at the heart of the nation’s industrial, commercial and community life. [More…]

• After all, one of the great problems facing industry, government and other areas of activity - the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson) referred to some of the industrial problems that are prevalent in the community today - is the lack of communication. [More…]

• With the present climate of industrial relations in Australia, with an inflationary trend and with wages possibly not able to keep pace with the trend, there is discontent in the community. [More…]

• However, the charges for these lines have for years represented a concession on those payable for similar facilities used by other sections of the community and the Government believes that this is wrong in principle. [More…]

• I have asserted before, and the White Paper, which is a commitment for the Government and which will be backed by legislation in a few weeks time, makes it clear that we will establish a situation where public ward or standard ward, or as it is proposed in the White Paper it should be called hospital ward treatment, will be free of charge and free of means test to anyone in the community who wishes to use that form of treatment. [More…]

• It is an $80m bonanza and the community will not have to pay. [More…]

• It is unconscionable the way in which the Opposition as a government for some 20 years during which it had health insurance in operation subsidised most generously the wealthiest in the community and gave least to those least able to bear the cost of health insurance - the low and modest income earners. [More…]

• Is it a fact that these views are widely held in the community and that the majority of Australians are far more impressed by objective discussion on the merits of the program than by appeals to prejudice and fear? [More…]

• He stood for some rational discussion on the issues currently before the community. [More…]

• We have advised the voluntary, charitable and religious groups in the community that are engaged in this sort of commendable enterprise that if they wish to purchase an existing establishment - for instance, a private or a commercial nursing home or a private building that can be converted satisfactorily to nursing home services - they will attract a subsidy from the Australian Government on the basis of $2 for every $1 that they contribute. [More…]

• They were alterations which had been sought over many years by the voluntary, charitable and religious groups in the community and had always been rejected by previous governments. [More…]

• I still go on record that in my view it would be better for a community as a whole if interest rates were lower than higher. [More…]

• One cannot prove observations of that kind, but one can prove - I say this always to the Country Party - that if the consumer price index is taken to be the indicator of rising costs in the Australian community we should look at how that index has increased in the last 2 quarters in particular. [More…]

• If we get into a position where shortages of supplies in the community develop, that is when demand is too high and supplies are too low, then no matter what economy-even in a communist economy - the price of goods and services in real terms will inevitably rise. [More…]

• They are confused at the moment because they do not see unemployment lines forming in the community. [More…]

• The week before last the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) was asserting that rampant inflation was a serious problem in this community, and that it was out of control and not to be controlled by anything the Government did. [More…]

• Do they not have enough intelligence, enough nouse, to realise that the money had to be spent in the community if the pipeline were to be built; that it was to be built by private enterprise, which of course had to spend money, so that amount of money was going into circulation, in the com munity? [More…]

• We would rather bear with a little bit of inflation - we do not like it, it causes suffering in the community - and gradually bring it back under control than to move in with a mailed fist and hammer down the economy, as was done in the past. [More…]

• What is happening with interest rates today is a direct effect of the sort of management that the Government has had to apply in this community, which became necessary because of the defects of the past. [More…]

• I think all honourable members will agree that there is no doubt that the increased tempo is required, but I think it is also one of the things which is causing a good deal of concern in the community. [More…]

• I point out that this is in excess of the growth rate of the private sector of the community, which is only approximately 3 to 3i per cent. [More…]

• People are worried about the increasing expenditure on Government administration and they are concerned about the fact that the Commonwealth Public Service appears to be the pace setter for fixing wages and conditions for the rest of the community. [More…]

• We live in an economic situation of serious inflation, and it ill behoves the Government to say that it is serious about controlling inflation when the Commonwealth Public Service is being used as a pace setter for the rest of the community. [More…]

• Now they will have to compete with everybody else in the community who is wealthier than they and who normally would not be admitted to a public hospital. [More…]

• A rough calculation - that is all one can do in this area because there are so many unknowns - reveals that it could cost as much as $35m or even as much as $50m if we were to provide this benefit for the whole community. [More…]

• I stand by my assertion that about 87 per cent of the community is insured. [More…]

• A comparative assessment shows that we will cover everyone in the community for the same total cost as the present scheme, which we assert covers only 87 per cent of the total population. [More…]

• Even if we were to allow the 90 per cent or 92 per cent that the honourable member for Hotham suggests are covered, there would still be more than one million people in this community who are not covered by the present system. [More…]

• Because of the views we gleaned from the community on the attitudes and some of the problems that the community foresaw, we have finally bought in the White Paper, which diverts in quite a number of significant areas from the recommendations put forward in the planning committee’s report. [More…]

• I want to stress that there was a continuing debate - at times a rather vigorous one - in the community. [More…]

• Our scheme :s a more efficient way of raising the same total volume of money and of covering everyone in the community. [More…]

• All the money saved will go into improved benefits in the community. [More…]

• There is, toy and large, no shortage of hospital beds in the Australian community, and there will be no increase in the bed utilisation. [More…]

• We are making arrangements with the private hospitals and will continue to do so to ensure that there is adequate provision of public ward beds in the community. [More…]

• The increase comes about because of the more generous .bed-day subsidy to the private hospitals, especially the charitable, religious and community ones which we believe have a most important role to fulfil in our society and which we will do a great deal to support. [More…]

• Because the Government is unable to increase the subsidy for as yet it has not been able to find the money, it has effectively stopped plans for the building of new homes and hostels for elderly people in our community. [More…]

• Surely this in itself is warning enough of what happens when government gets too much of a grip on basic community services. [More…]

• This suggests that the more the responsibility for basic services such as this one is shifted away from the people and placed in the hands of governments, the less efficient the services will become and the less the community can provide the resources necessary to run such services successfully. [More…]

• The Minister said that he stands by his assertion that about 87 per cent of the community is covered by the present health scheme. [More…]

• It is a belief on this side of the chamber and, I would expect, on the other side of the chamber and in the community generally that, in a situation where a serviceman is beset with one of the most grievous of illnesses, there is little room for logic; what we want is compassion and humanity. [More…]

• Combining these thoughts of long-term planning, the use of land, planned development, decentralisation, benefits for the community and the State and the national interest, one industry to which I feel more attention should be paid is forestry. [More…]

• I admire the people in the north who have to put up with inconvenience, particularly in the grazing community, the cattle men, the ones who have battled for years, who have pressed their own Party - the Country Party - and who have pressed the Government of the day for money to be allocated. [More…]

• What are their effects on morals and attitudes in the community? [More…]

• I refer to the power of the media in the community today. [More…]

• But if one looks at radio and television in this country one will find that a great deal of the time of the radio stations and television channels is spent in community effort. [More…]

• As I say, radio and television provide community services. [More…]

• I come back to the service to the community which I believe is part and parcel of country radio and country television. [More…]

• In its attitude and thinking, the Government should give consideration to these factors so that radio and television in country areas can continue to play a part in serving the community. [More…]

• The first of those is that this Government does not appear to recognise that the PostmasterGeneral’s Department provides a community service and that community services should be provided to those who need them most. [More…]

• In this sense, country people are the disadvantaged people in the Australian community. [More…]

• I have no doubt that if the contents of the letter could be made known, the response from the community would relieve the plight of the administrators of the Dobell home. [More…]

• As the Post Office offers one of the few opportunities of employment with a future to the young people in country areas, any reduction in that opportunity will have far reaching consequences on the community in general. [More…]

• From time to time one hears comments from honourable members opposite about the activities of those who work in the Australian community, but when one finds this remarkable growth in the operations of the Postmaster-General’s Department and then comes to understand that all this has been achieved with only a slight increase in the official staff, I would submit that one must agree that it is an outstanding feat. [More…]

• It is a thriving community centre. [More…]

• Communication is something in which the whole community shares and from which the whole community benefits. [More…]

• Secondly, we must ensure that in our search for more effective organisation of postal and telephone services we keep clearly in mind that it is a community service of such importance that this Parliament cannot abdicate either its responsibility or its control. [More…]

• In your Press statement you and Senator Lawrie said that this dreadful charge on country lines should be borne by the whole community. [More…]

• There has been no previous plan to fund community health services from federal moneys. [More…]

• Clearly, any extension of these limits arising from further increases in the rates of pensioner benefits would create situations of inequity between such pensioners and the many non-pensioner families in the community who have weekly incomes less than these amounts but who are required to take out health insurance coverage. [More…]

• This plan will not limit pensioners’ entitlements to the restricted range of services available under the present pensioner medical service, and will, therefore, represent a tremendous improvement in the entitlements of pensioners as it will, indeed, in the entitlements of everyone in the community. [More…]

• Pensioners, as will be the case with everyone in the community - that is, there will be no distinction, no second rate citizenry - will be able to obtain the services of a specialist of their choosing, no doubt with the assistance of a general practitioner, and medical services in the private surgery of that specialist and have those services fully covered by the Australian Government’s new health insurance program. [More…]

• Surely to blazes the people in the Australian community of today who think out these things must think that there is really nothing more pathetic than to see- [More…]

• The Committee suggested a community based medical training scheme. [More…]

• In the field of mental health, for Wollongong he proposes the establishment of a main community centre which will provide front line community service for assessing and treating areas of psychiatric morbidity. [More…]

• It is proposed to establish at Warrawong a community-based psychiatric facility to relieve the extreme stresses on the Port Kembla hospital. [More…]

• The course was to have introduced the concept of co-ordinated community health services, such as geriatrics, mental health, rehabilitation, industrial health, community nursing and minimal care, drug dependency and alcoholism centres. [More…]

• The autonomous University of Wollongong was to have been the academic centre for the 3 local hospitals, for industries and for community organisations and it was to provide training facilities. [More…]

• There would have been a unique opportunity for the proper integration of health education with the health service needs of the community. [More…]

• The involvement of the trainee with the community from an early stage and the type of curriculum proposed would have ensured that the great majority of trainees would have entered general practice. [More…]

• The undergraduate course for the training of community nurses and clinical psychologists which also was proposed would have had common aspects with the medical course so that all people in it could have worked as a team. [More…]

• The particular needs of the region were carefully considered, and ways to offer appropriate migrant health centres and other community services were proposed. [More…]

• The probable amalgamation of the University of Wollongong and the teachers college offered an exciting possibility to involve teachers more in the health needs of the community so that effective health education and meaningful human relations leading to better mental health could have been fostered in all of the schools. [More…]

• The Karmel Committee identified a need for more general practitioners, yet I think it ignored the advice of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners which, because of the better community orientation of the Wollongong hospital and the nature of the proposed curriculum, supported the Wollongong submission over that of Newcastle. [More…]

• That Committee said that consistent with evidence given by representatives of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, most modern thinking favours the community type of hospital. [More…]

• The Bureau of Transport Economics has commenced a study of the needs of these broader sections of the community. [More…]

• This program will have a marked effect upon the levels of service, comfort and convenience which will benefit the community as a whole. [More…]

• It will be that and nothing more because only this can give legitimacy to decisions of the Government; only this will be enforced by the courts; only this will have effect in the community. [More…]

• Imagine the embarrassment of Opposition spokesmen as they try to convince local government that opposition to Australian Government assistance to local government is in the interests of the community at large. [More…]

• What possible grounds are there for assuming that this electorate is threatened by people with such a negative, anti-social approach to the problems of the community? [More…]

• We find that the rural community in the electorate is seeing that the basic objective is to give greater security and greater price stability, particularly for those products which largely depend on export markets. [More…]

• In fact now that Great Britain will join the European Economic Community and Her Majesty has accepted the title of ‘Queen of Australia’ a logical step would now be to provide suitable accommodation in Canberra so that she could make her home here for at least part of the time. [More…]

• I would say that this Government has done more than any other government has done in the last quarter of a century to establish more organs of co-operation and consultation not only with State governments but also with the various local interests in the community. [More…]

• This Government has excelled all others, in my view, in this respect in relation not only to local government but also welfare organisations, industrial groups and just about every kind of community organisation one could think of. [More…]

• It will bring the people of this community much closer to government. [More…]

• It was interested in the welfare of the sons and daughters of the Australian community. [More…]

• Innovation can only be encouraged by ‘fostering opportunities, providing stimulation and rewarding initiative on the part of those in and of the schools themselves - teachers, parents, pupils and the local community’ (Interim Committee, para. [More…]

• The focus should be an the child as a total person, living in a family and a community. [More…]

• An extension of grants to two more universities to increase the numbers of qualified social workers in the community, which has been announced as Government policy, is included. [More…]

• If the number of electors in each electorate must be as nearly as practicable the same, there can be no legislative capacity to provide that the size of an electorate will depend upon difficulties of communication, distance, community of interest and so on. [More…]

• If we look at the electorate of Kalgoorlie, which I understand covers approximately three-quarters of the whole land mass of Western Australia, and compare the relative population of that electorate to electors, and if we eliminate any possibility of provision for distance, difficulty of communication, community of interest and so on, the electorate of Karlgoorlie will end up covering about seven-eighths of the land mass of Western Australia. [More…]

• To allow for discrimination against citizens on the basis of their wealth, colour, creed or race would outrage the ethical standards of our community. [More…]

• I say this because I seriously believe that the Liberal Party should take stock of its position, I point out that in the community there are people who belong to a branch of the Liberal Party who appear to subscribe to the view that the Liberals should be looking where they are going. [More…]

• Liberals therefore seek to include in the constitution of all governments the principle of a continuing independent electoral commission determining boundaries on a basis of community of interest whose numbers of voters are equal subject to an allowable variation of not more than 10 per cent in order that the future development of growth areas would not make the distribution obsolescent within a very short period. [More…]

• The second factor is one which should be causing grave concern for every person in the community who believes in the principle of one vote one value. [More…]

• There is no point in providing increased and better local government services to the community if services provided by the States deteriorate as a result. [More…]

• The result of these increased responsibilities is, of course, a growing sense of frustration among councillors and community alike as they find themselves unable to find the necessary finance to bring these things about. [More…]

• I believe it is important that this Bill be viewed against the total Government record on matters related to the local community. [More…]

• In the field of health we have community health centres and community mental health facilities. [More…]

• We would look at the money to be spent on the various projects and we would attempt to prune down the requirements - to things that we knew were absolutely necessary in the community - in a desperate effort to keep the rates down. [More…]

• Surely it is important that there should be a maximum amount of community involvement in these matters. [More…]

• The local councils and the local mayor, who is the leading citizen in the area; the town hall which is a focal point for the social good fellowship of people in the area; the chambers of commerce that gather around in the local area; the progress associations; the sporting clubs; the Red Cross; the Legacy movement; the senior citizens clubs; the hospitals and the organisations surrounding the hospitals; the churches; the local pride that is established in the local community and in the local area; and the State pride that is engendered because the people belong to one State and pride themselves on being in co-operation with the total nation of Australia, all form part of local government. [More…]

• The Minister has rightly stated on a number of occasions the great importance of establishing effective communications with migrant members of our community. [More…]

• Grants to community agencies involved in integration activities total $370,000 in this year’s estimates, compared with $284,015 last year. [More…]

• They have integrated them into our community with advantage to Australia. [More…]

• We should be giving more consideration to the integration of migrants into the Australian community and not allowing them to congregate in settlements as they are prone to do in many part of our country. [More…]

• We intend to pitch our advertising program on the basis of helping to build a better Australia and helping to pioneer a community and a nation still in the making. [More…]

• It is a project that takes account of the needs of the community as a whole rather than of individual industries. [More…]

• This will be of benefit to the whole community and will improve our knowledge of our country. [More…]

• The functions of the Development Corporation, conferred on it by the Federal and State governments, will include urban and regional planning and development, construction in designated areas, growth centre promotion, negotiation with Federal, State and local government agencies, the protection of the environment and the involvement of the local community in the planning process. [More…]

• On this consultative council will be representatives of local government and other community interests. [More…]

• The functions of the council will be to advise the Development Corporation on matters of concern to the local community. [More…]

• I know of one association, the Playground and Recreation Association of Queensland, that is doing wonderful work in the newer suburban areas and in the crowded city areas to make facilities available for the community. [More…]

• Of the total made available in the Budget, $3.2m has been earmarked for the creation or completion of single and multi-purpose community recreation and sporting centres. [More…]

• It is not a fixed plan but the basis of a flexible blueprint to be modified, improved and updated by the involved community as factors affecting leisure time change. [More…]

• The Government will establish a series of community centres to cater for the young and the old and will design large multi-purpose centres at schools for use by the students and the local community to satisfy the need for cultural, sporting, recreational and artistic activities. [More…]

• This approach will avoid unnecessary duplication of expensive facilities and at the same time will help to break down the barrier that artificially yet effectively divides schools from the general community. [More…]

• In Victoria the Minister for Sport and Recreation has indicated his support for the concept of community-shared facilities at schools. [More…]

• The report on tourism examines the place of tourism in Australia in relation to individual demands, community values and our national identity and, most importantly, its relationship to the environment. [More…]

• It requires also that the community be alive to the arrival of new tasks for government and be ready to modify the structures to cope with those new tasks. [More…]

• It evaluates the needs of an urban community and highlights some of its shortcomings. [More…]

• There is little community of interest between Colo and Auburn or between the Blue Mountains and Fairfield. [More…]

• One might be tempted to suggest that the regions proposed for the city of Sydney have as much community of interest within each region as the Minister would have achieved if he has cut the city up as he would cut an orange into quarters. [More…]

• With encouragement by the honourable members of this Parliament of community involvement rather than the imposition of our own views to meet genuine pressures and frustrations that exist within our electorates, this Parliament might be able to get down to the matters of real national importance which demand our attention. [More…]

• I would like someone on the other side of this chamber to get up and say that Somersby and the Central Coast is less attractive to the community and to our society than is Galston and that it should be thrown to the wolves. [More…]

• I am most conscious of the need to keep the community informed of the future role that local people will play, for instance, in the work of this Development Authority. [More…]

• It is simply absurd to suggest that this type of expertise can be gathered from the local community. [More…]

• High rise flats have been constructed everywhere without any consideration of the total concept of the needs of the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart) has announced the provision of recreation centres, including the provision of recreation centres in schools for community use. [More…]

• This is the first time in the State that school facilities have been made available for community use. [More…]

• They make extraordinary profits and yet they do not plough back the finance to provide access roads into the area or to provide the necessary community facilities such as meeting halls, ovals and so on. [More…]

• This Government is looking to greater community involvement in the implementation of its social welfare programs by seeking the participation of councils in the decision making process at the local level. [More…]

• Furthermore it has living around it in that area many of what I might call civilian, non-reserve type Aboriginal families who are highly thought of and respected in the community. [More…]

• 17.7 on the cover for health benefit type programs available in the community. [More…]

• If, in fact, he makes allowances, as I have indicated, for the double cover of people receiving repatriation benefits but who are forced to take out private hospital and medical insurance and for people entitled to pensioner medical services who under the present system for procedural items of specialist care and for non-public ward treatment also have to take out private medical and hospital insurance - on the medical side there is quite a large number - the figure that I have cited would tend to overstate the degree of the cover in the community. [More…]

• Our scheme will cover everyone in the community. [More…]

• That is, there is no greater cost to be borne by the community. [More…]

• Let us be clear on this: Our scheme automatically will cover everyone in the community for the same cost as the present scheme incurs. [More…]

• But the present scheme does not cover everyone and never can, even with massive injections of the community’s money. [More…]

• They have been misinterpreted in a very wide section of the community. [More…]

• But I did want to point out that the disclosure of this information, provided that it is under proper and adequate supervision - I agree with the Minister here, I agree with the actions he has taken - quite often can act to the benefit of the underprivileged groups in the community. [More…]

• There have been real problems in the community in getting people to take up pensions. [More…]

• Firstly, we want to allow areas to be comprehensively planned and developed; secondly, we want to make land available at fair prices; thirdly, we want to retain, for the benefit of the whole community, some of the increase in value which results from the process of urban development. [More…]

• Sixthly, the land is disposed of to individuals, groups, companies and government authorities - for houses, flats, factories, shops, offices, schools, parks, roads and all the things which go to make up an attractive and complete community. [More…]

• Where land is intended for urban use, and this includes not only land for houses, offices and factories, but also land for schools, community facilities, transportation routes and urban parks, Australian Goverment assistance will be in the form of interest bearing loans. [More…]

• The power in a progressive community is never quiescent or stationary. [More…]

• It is a deed of trust containing covenants between the sovereign community - that is, the people themselves - and its individual units. [More…]

• At the same time a constitution which did not contain provision for its amendment with the development, growth and expansion of the community which it is intended to govern would be a most inadequate and imperfect deed of partnership. [More…]

• In a unified community it would be sufficient if a majority of the people sanctioned a revision of the Constitution. [More…]

• In a Federal community, in which the National and State elements co-exist, a modification of the fundamental law, without the approval of both the people and the States, would he unjust and repugnant to the whole scheme of government. [More…]

• and it needs to receive the wholehearted support of all sections of the community if this nation is to progress in a constructive and meaningful way. [More…]

• They had a definite objective in view, and that was the social and political integration of 6 communities into one community, for the common good of all. [More…]

• Of course, there are elements in the Australian community which react with uncertainty andfear to new ideas they do not understand. [More…]

• It has also been taken to exclude locums and the staff of the Australian Department of Health except those employed as Community Medical Practitioners. [More…]

• Does the proposed sale provide the community with the opportunity to preserve and enhance a significant portion of our urban fabric similar to the action that the Australian Government has taken in Glebe, Sydney? [More…]

• Does he understand however, that some Aboriginal people who qualify for and receive special financial assistance are most definitely not in need of this ‘assistance and that this is destroying their self-dependency and is creating understandable tensions in the poorer non-Aboriginal community? [More…]

• However, with respect to Aboriginal people, it is true that throughout the community resentment is expressed when any group receives advantages which perhaps have been denied that group for many years. [More…]

• It is one of the unfortunate areas of public opinion that the public sees the Aboriginal people as receiving something to which they are not entitled when they receive something which places them on a par with the rest of the community. [More…]

• So, in fact, the idea that the Aboriginal people are receiving advantages of this sort which are different from those available to the rest of the community is not true. [More…]

• The community is inclined to look at anything we do for the Aboriginal people and ask why they are getting it, without doing some arithmetic about their own situation. [More…]

• I think what we have to do, and I agree with the honourable member, is produce the arithmetic behind it all to demonstrate that in fact these advantages are not to the disadvantage of the rest of the community. [More…]

• But the whole situation is under constant scrutiny, and we can only take every possible step to see that the people who need assistance get it but that we do not let resentments based upon wrong presumptions in the community slow down our program. [More…]

• Can he confirm that funds are available for further applications from local government organisation and community groups for grants for capital projects to be considered under this Act? [More…]

• As I pointed out, the Church of England has been significantly to the fore in this broad area of concern for people’s rights in the community and it has been noticeably active, for instance, in expressing its concern about the need for an effective campaign against poverty in the community. [More…]

• There are up to 1 million people in our community who are uncovered for health insurance. [More…]

• He has done an excellent job and I believe to the satisfaction of the medical profession and the Australian community. [More…]

• He formerly represented many groups in the community as a barrister before the courts. [More…]

• The simple fact is that if you look, at the evidence available, it is apparent that wage earners as a group have been obtaining in recent years relatively higher increases in their incomes than have the other major groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• The uncertainties of the policy making of this Government are known throughout the business community. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that other people in the community do not realise that there is this 2-way deal as far as the producers of agricultural products are concerned. [More…]

• This obviously was something which the community had in mind. [More…]

• By being denied natural justice the community have been subsidised by the wheatgrowers. [More…]

• It is our opinion that ministerial directions reflecting political decisions alone are anathema to the normal pattern by which we see the best interests of producers and others in the Australian community, including Australian consumers and certainly including Australian taxpayers, being protected. [More…]

• However, we wish to emphasise that the proposed legislation could have deleterious effects on certain sectors of the Norfolk Island community. [More…]

• The tax avoidance was being done for the benefit of that section of the community which could afford to pay its correct tax - the wealthy taxpayer and the medium and large companies. [More…]

• There is only one word to describe that section of the community which practises these tax dodges - unscrupulous. [More…]

• If the wealthy section of the community paid its correct tax this could lead to a lowering of taxation for that section of the community which can ill afford its present heavy tax liability. [More…]

• This tax measure has my full support and I am certain that the whole community, other than those who are caught by it. [More…]

• This massive increase in the effective rates of taxation is likely to cause a decline in the community’s propensity to save and incentive to produce. [More…]

• The proposals which impose taxes on aged persons in the Australian community are, we believe, entirely unwarranted, especially in this period of greatly accelerating inflation. [More…]

• It is the pensioners within our community who are suffering the most severe effects of the Government’s mismanagement of the economy. [More…]

• It would appear that this section of the community, most defenceless nothing to sell, unable to strike, are to bear the brunt of today’s inflationary conditions. [More…]

• One of the most regrettable features of the legislation is the discouragement of incentive and effort through the wide-ranging series of measures which are directed against the Australian business community. [More…]

• This reduction in bonuses will have an impact right across the community as it will affect the owners of some 7.5 million policies - whether the policies be large or small, ordinary or industrial. [More…]

• The bulk of payments to local government, semi-government authorities and State governments in the form of rates and land tax, represents levies on the owners of land for expenditure on community projects. [More…]

• I have outlined the Opposition’s attitude to this legislation, as to its overall economic consequences and its effects on particular sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is, of course, great justification for the rejection of the provisions of this legislation, many of which will substantially disadvantage community groups such as pensioners. [More…]

• Of the remaining 20 per cent, a goodly number will pay no more tax than they already pay and, of the small number still left after that - I am referring to single pensioners - those earning up to $75 a week will pay less than younger members of the community earning a similar amount and those earning over $75 a week will certainly pay no more. [More…]

• This, by the way, is without even making reference to the nature of the war memorial projects themselves, all of them necessarily non-profit, and almost all of them providing reasonable and useful facilities as well for a broad cross-section of the community. [More…]

• With due .respect, it appears to me that even the listing of these possibilities indicates a surprising insensitivity by the Task Force to the role which charitable organisations still play in the community as well as to the fact that the value of tax deductibility to their efforts is out of all proportion to the cost to Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• 5) deals with many of the most important budget measures that increased taxation on the Australian community. [More…]

• The only thing that stops this principle being visited on other sections of the community today is the fact that this Government made a promise to the Australian people - I will deal later on in my speech with other promises - that it would not raise personal income tax. [More…]

• We should not have a situation where one section of the community is carrying another and that situation, I am afraid, has been in existence for many years. [More…]

• One of the purposes of this legislation is to end that type of inequitable assistance which until now has been granted to certain sections of the community. [More…]

• When that happens I am certain that the tax paying public of Australia will get the benefit rather than, as I pointed out earlier in my remarks, certain privileged sections of the community. [More…]

• One of the great features of a democratic system of government is that there is in the Parliament an Opposition, and the duty of that Opposition is to present an alternative to the proposals put forward by the Government, to criticise those proposals and to present the point of view of the sections of the community and the electors that Opposition members have the privilege to represent. [More…]

• The generally poor knowledge of nutrition in the community, the persistent commercial pressures to buy food products of relatively poor nutritional value, the common absence of both parents at work, and the increasing tendency to let the child choose foi itself, all point to the fact that even in our affluent society such a positive and pertinent step as the provision of school milk is essential if good nutrition of the young is to be assured. [More…]

• Many Australians today will not remember the far-reaching reconstruction of Australian industry and the exigencies borne by the community in general during the war and post war periods. [More…]

• The fact that John Dedman was responsible for administering many of the policies which called for community sacrifices in no way diminished his popularity. [More…]

• I pay it on behalf of a number of those human beings who now play a very important part in today’s community. [More…]

• I think one can see how this particular project led later on to Commonwealth university scholarships and today to free tertiary education in the community. [More…]

• The only sense of realism in this matter has been injected by the Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union who pointed out that unionists are likely to withdraw their labour because they take the view that an industry which is potentially dangerous to the health of people, or could have a deleterious effect on the environment should not be established until an environmental impact statement has been prepared and published so that the community can see it and comment on it. [More…]

• Because of the potentially hazardous nature of the proposed plant, the environmental impact study ought to be freely published and the community should be able to comment upon it. [More…]

• I feel that it displays an ignorance of the important role that the private business sector has played in the community and must continue to play in the economic structure of this country. [More…]

• It has been a disastrous Budget from the rural sector’s point of view, and this view is shared by the rural community as a whole. [More…]

• So I say to the worthy men of the Labor Party who are representing rural seats: Get to work in caucus and make sure that these Cabinet gentlemen do not steamroll and walk across the face of rural Australia with policies that will cause harm not only to the farming community but also to the nation as a whole. [More…]

• It came as no surprise when it was learned that the Labor Party in its normal sympathetic thoughtful.ness for the future livelihood of the community decided that it could well be in the best interests of the mining community - and indeed of the rest of the community - if certain clauses contained in the Bill were withdrawn. [More…]

• They could see no good reason for retaining the tax concession to permit a thorough inquiry into the effect its termination might have on workers and their families and on the community generally on the mining fields. [More…]

• In other words, it is virtually a body blow to many sections of the community. [More…]

• The community at large will be hurt. [More…]

• They are not like people in many other sections of the community who can keep in step with the rate of inflation. [More…]

• Nearly every section of the Australian community has been alienated from the Government. [More…]

• At that meeting I foreshadowed that the Australian Labor Party would use the emotional reaction to the Pitt Street farmers in an attempt to divide the rural community and to justify the elimination of concessions. [More…]

• It can hardly be claimed that the rural sector represents an area of relatively great prosperity or that it has been the recipient in the past of huge government handouts to such an extent that other sections of the community were being penalised. [More…]

• This allowance was originally introduced to take account of the fact that some in the community received tax-free age pensions, whilst others deprived because of the means test of eligibility for a pension received taxable income and under the ordinary rates scale were liable for taxation at rates which reduced their income below the income of someone in a similar position, except that they were on a pension in contrast to the person who was in receipt of an independent income. [More…]

• The age tax allowance, therefore, was brought in to introduce equity as between one group of aged persons in the community and another group of aged persons in the community. [More…]

• The rise in pensions may have offset the loss in money terms, but it has deprived that section of the community of income in real terms because it, too, is experiencing the difficulties of inflation. [More…]

• This Government will prevent that young family improving its situation in its new country by preventing it from buying a house in a community closer to the place of work. [More…]

• If we look at the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund, we see that, of every $7 that is paid, $5 comes from the Government and only $2 from the contributor and, if we look at the private funds and take into account the taxation concessions that are involved, we see at least that they have been a privileged section in comparison to the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is also my hope that the students who are able to go to universities will come from a broader cross-section of the community than at present is the case. [More…]

• So I hope that colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology will use their facilities to give this variety of courses in the community for other than formal occupations. [More…]

• I am pleased that this Institute will be able to set up its course in social work because there will be a much increased demand for social workers in the community, not only because federal authorities are increasing the instrumentalities that are using social workers to carry out their work but also because of the problems that exist and the much wider appreciation by people and institutions of the fact that social workers can serve a very useful purpose in the community. [More…]

• Since the expansion of tertiary, education that is being demanded by the community will involve greatly rising expenditures, the need to ensure an efficient allocation of resources becomes greater and greater. [More…]

• I believe that we need to start thinking of education not only as a service- for the young but as a service’ to the whole community, to be used as and when necessary - like health services. [More…]

• If I had been specially trained and if the facilities had been available to give that child a better education by providing the specialist service that was available, he and, I believe, the community would have been much better off. [More…]

• When the provisions of these Bills are put into operation and the money is provided not only schoolchildren but also the whole community in Australia can look forward to a better education system. [More…]

• A direct linking of petrol tax to road development may result in expenditure on services which the community hay indicated require high priority, being less than it would be. [More…]

• Considerably more cost is involved in providing acute hospital beds, and if the case involved is a geriatric case not requiring such treatment there is considerably more cost to be borne by the rest of the community including private hospital funds. [More…]

• The fact is that the problems that are now confronting the community and upon which the health insurance funds are reporting in such a way as to try to gain advantage are inherent in this system of private health insurance. [More…]

• I have not asked them for their reasons for arriving at such a decision, but I have no doubt that the doctors engaged in the research have been warned from time to time that the approval is only from year to year and that they will have to establish the viability of their project and whether it appears to offer a chance of benefit to the community. [More…]

• The attitude of the Australian community and of women themselves to their role in society are changing. [More…]

• The existing legislation prohibits public servants holding directorships in companies and incorporated societies, such as building societies formed for the purpose of providing home finance for public servants or those formed to facilitate ownership of home units or community organisations or sporting, cultural and educational institutions, unless they are co-operative societies. [More…]

• It also allows public servants to play a full role in community activities. [More…]

• I think there is a general recognition in Australia today that more community use needs to be made of the facilities provided at schools. [More…]

• If the governing bodies of schools were somewhat smaller than they are now and if there were more localised regional governing bodies, I believe it would be possible for the community to be much more directly involved in the schools, and the facilities provided at the schools could be made available for wider use. [More…]

• But if we were to go even further than what has been done now and involve the local community directly in the schools, several advantages would flow from it. [More…]

• In view of what I have said about community participation in schools, I would regard any tightening of control in Canberra as a retrograde step on the educational scene. [More…]

• I would paraphrase these as the pursuit of equality, the attainment of minimum standards of competence for life, the concept of schooling as a part of life as well as a preparation for life, the notion of education as a lifelong experience, diversity among schools, the devolution of the making of decisions of those working in or with the schools - that is, the teachers, pupils, parents and members of the local community - and the involvement of the community in school affairs. [More…]

• This does not mean that the Commission should be insensitive to widely held views in the community nor that the membership should not display a range of experience and attitudes, but it does mean that individual members- [More…]

• All our talk of millions of extra dollars should not be allowed to hide the fact that what we are really aiming at is a cultural, social and economic revolution in our society with a new respect for the rights of every individual, not just an elite, to have the opportunity of living a personally satisfying life as a member of a genuinely democratic community. [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…]

• Having said that, one has also to recognise how very much the advancement of society in all its aspects is dependent on the comparatively few very bright people in the community. [More…]

• The Minister, the committee that has helped him and all the other bodies in the community which made submissions to that committee, deserve their proper recognition at this time. [More…]

• Australian community. [More…]

• It is so much better to do some research with a trial group in a small and restricted area to see how some new concept evolves than, in the name of experimentation, to force change on a community where that change might have only dire results. [More…]

• The formula takes no account of academic programs, though a school may offer specialised courses to meet a particular need in the community such as a technical course at an independent school in the city or a Chinese language course at another school. [More…]

• One could go on but I should like to finish on this note: There is in the report an admirable emphasis on the need to encourage community involvement and diversity in education. [More…]

• There is no doubt that last year the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) when he was Leader of the Opposition went among the Australian community and convinced people that nothing would be taken away from the independent schools, their pupils or parents, but that things would simply be added onto in accordance with a needs basis. [More…]

• The Karmel Committee concluded that at many schools teaching resources were below standard for an adequate education; lack of facilities demonstrated an indifference towards and conditions, attitudes and organisation had equality of opportunity to access to education; undermined and constricted the potential relationships between pupils and teachers, parents and the staff, and between school and the community. [More…]

• The Karmel report aims to overcome inadequacies in both government and private systems by providing enough money and by developing an educational philosophy befitting our enlightened community. [More…]

• It recognises and discusses in depth the role in education of the teacher, the parent and the community. [More…]

• There are individuals in the community who do have a flair for teaching. [More…]

• What the amendments serve to do is to enlarge the membership of the Commission from a maximum of 12 to 15 and to provide wider representation of the community which is affected by the Bill. [More…]

• But unless these requirements are mandatory on future Ministers of Education, indeed on future governments, can we be sure that a schools commission will have the crosssectional community representation that is described in the Opposition’s amendments? [More…]

• Such a commission would be independent, flexible and responsive to the community requirements. [More…]

• The amendments were moved in good faith to ensure that there is community representation on that Commission. [More…]

• It is true that many of the commissions which have been implemented prior to this one have not included such a broadly based involvement of community groups, but that is no reason why we should not, if you like, learn from the mistakes of the past or try it a new way when the cry is for increased community participation and a sense of participatory democracy. [More…]

• I confess that it is a novel approach, but I would have thought that a new government might have been interested in novel approaches, particularly when there is such a widespread demand in the community for an involvement in the decision making process. [More…]

• We seek merely the adherence to this new principle of community involvement or participatory democracy, whatever one likes to call it. [More…]

• We of the Opposition think it is very odd to hear members of the new Labor Government talking and harping about the role of experts when the community in this country, as are comparable communities all around the world, is crying out for a say in the decisions affecting the very lives of the people. [More…]

• We do think that in this particular area, where the cry is for community participation, only a government which has some set of strange ulterior type motives would desire to see our amendments defeated. [More…]

• The real purpose of the amendments is to rob the Commission of its independent, expert and impartial character - those very qualities that gave the Karmel Committee the standing it has enjoyed in the community - and to reproduce within the structure of the Commission all the rivalries and hostilities which bedevil education as we know it. [More…]

• A Schools Commission, constituted on the lines of the original Karmel Committee, is the only body which can command the support and consensus in the community for an assessment of further needs in 1976 and subsequent years. [More…]

• How did the Aboriginal community benefit from this expansion. [More…]

• Mirama Council, Kununurra - purchase of 2 vehicles for use by community, $13,000; purchase of garden equipment, fencing and vehicle, $6,500. [More…]

• I refer to the planned establishment of community centres - something that I did not notice in the tabled report of the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I know that in the building of these community centres there would be no lack of support from the coloured people who on many occasions have stressed to me the desire for such a set up. [More…]

• In fact, if my Party had continued in government after the last election I know that a community centre would have been established in Townsville by now. [More…]

• The establishment of these community centres where people, especially the Aboriginal women, could meet regularly would be a tremendous help to them. [More…]

• In this area of housing problems for the coloured people in a white community I suggest that a suburb of neat, tidy dwellings with all the amenities and services be established solely for the coloured people, who would enjoy living together, would still be part of a community and would still play their part in the development of a city, town or area. [More…]

• I am sure that it would not be long before we would find that they would take pride in the appearance of their suburb, which would have its own community centre and community services. [More…]

• They could indulge in the specific way of living that they want, without hindrance to anybody else, and yet they would still be part and parcel of a community. [More…]

• I commend the other ideas I have suggested for some time because I feel that policies directed toward something definite to assist the coloured people would mean a lot more to them than just the handing out of money in a fashion without system, rhyme or reason and which is starting to antagonise the white community. [More…]

• He mentioned areas of need such as community centres and housing. [More…]

• An amount of $2,064,000 is being allocated for community amenities. [More…]

• An amount of $4,600,000 is allocated for education, $708,000 for employment and $2,179,500 for community and regional projects. [More…]

• I strongly believe that, to the maximum extent possible, housing for Aborigines should be built by authorities that build houses for the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course, when I talk about building through organisations such as housing commissions which cater for the needs of the whole community, I am not unmindful of the fact that Aborigines everywhere do not wish to live in housing commission type houses. [More…]

• There is a need to design special types of houses - I know that the word ‘transitional’ is a dirty word in relation to housing, but it need not be - to cater for the particular needs of Aborigines and to suit the degree of transition that they have made from their own traditional environment to living in the broader Australian community. [More…]

• Under the second heading of community amenities, I am happy to see that Queensland is to receive $1,601,000, which represents 77 per cent of the program. [More…]

• Also community and regional projects are important. [More…]

• Of course dishonest people will be found in all sections of the community and they will take advantage of an opportunity if it is available to them. [More…]

• I know there are people in our community who go around saying how terrible we all are and how we all should be ashamed. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) had a point when he spoke of community housing. [More…]

• Some do not and for those it is perhaps best to let them follow their bent and integrate either in single families or in small groups of families into the normal Australian community. [More…]

• For that reason, I think that the offering of jobs to Aboriginals in the construction of Aboriginal houses in their own locality might be one of the most important things that we could do for them, particularly, if this activity could be developed in conjunction with farming and community enterprises in their own districts. [More…]

• The Minister for Youth and Community Services in the New South Wales Government - I will not mention any names - went up there and decided that the Aborigines had to be shifted because they were in a flood area. [More…]

• Of this year’s amount, $ 1.926m has been allocated for housing, compared with $690,000 last year; on community amenities $51,000 this year, compared with $86,000 last year - a small drop in that case; on health, an increase to $920,000 from $274,000 last year; and on education $1.3 15m this year, compared with $421,000 last year. [More…]

• One other matter that received a considerable increase was community and regional projects - an amount of $384,000 compared with $22,000 last year. [More…]

• I should like to mention a few of the community and regional projects. [More…]

• I suggest that, if it had, it would be right and proper that not only the Parliament but the whole community should know that it had their backing. [More…]

• These developments include the effects of British entry into the European Economic Community, the increasing competition in this region from European fruit, and the increasing competition from other exporting countries supplying the British and European markets. [More…]

• It is our belief that health is a family affair and a community affair and that communities must look beyond the person who is sick in bed or who is in need of medical attention. [More…]

• As an initial step it is the aim of this Government to correct this imbalance by encouraging the rapid expansion and co-ordination of community health services. [More…]

• The Government has committed itself to a policy of promoting the regionalisation and modernisation of hospitals, linked with the development of community based health services and preventive health programs. [More…]

• The Interim Committee’s first report, A Community Health Program for Australia”, was tabled in the House on 30 May last. [More…]

• That program has been endorsed by the Government and a sum of SI Om was allocated in this year’s Budget to meet capital and net operating costs of approved community health projects in 1973-74. [More…]

• The program should provide the required impetus for the establishment of much needed, but often overlooked, community based health services and should encourage communities and regions to examine their own needs and priorities and to express them to the relevant health authorities. [More…]

• To date assistance totalling $9m has already been approved under the community health program. [More…]

• It recognised quickly that its own efforts were not enough but that it was necessary to encourage all administrations within the health services community to plan, research and evaluate their activities. [More…]

• to ascertain the health care needs of the Australian community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs; [More…]

• I would hope that when these houses are built the Aborigines become part of the neighbourhood and part of the community life. [More…]

• I do not think any honourable member would dispute the fact that if we are to have good health amongst all sections of the community - which leads to contentment and satisfaction - essential services ought to be given some priority. [More…]

• It is important that it be spent wisely and has total community support in Australia. [More…]

• Unless we achieve what the total community accepts as desirable there will be a backlash. [More…]

• I believe that we can make tremendous progress with this important national problem if we involve the State governments and the local authorities and if we can develop community interest. [More…]

• But it is true that the community on the whole is likely to look at the situation and say, ‘What are you spending all that money on them for? [More…]

• ’, without paying much regard to the resources that are behind the average citizen in the Australian community, whether he is the citizen who has students at secondary school, the citizen who travels in an airline or the citizen who drives on the roads. [More…]

• Every one of us has very substantial community resources backing him. [More…]

• It is true that the community resources backing the Aboriginal people as individuals or communities throughout most of Australia are minimal indeed. [More…]

• He raised the necessity for community centres. [More…]

• The Western Australian Government handed over that property to the Aboriginal community, which was formerly a part of Mr McLeod’s group, and when I was their earlier in the year they had collected something like $24,000 or $30,000 in income from the cattle project. [More…]

• It is a fact that there is quite a community of Aboriginals in Tasmania and, like all Aboriginal people in Australia, they are likely to be victims of the law, even in places where the police are sympathetic. [More…]

• But we must commend the Minister for the steps which are being taken to ensure that the actual users .of air travel - that comparatively small percentage of the community - actually pays for the convenience it receives at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• So it is not a major expenditure in relation to the value to the Australian community of the areas served. [More…]

• community. [More…]

• However, the community in turn receives the benefit from the production that comes from these areas. [More…]

• General aviation provides a service for the community as a whole. [More…]

• Given the general affluence of the rural community, perhaps this piece of legislation could have been framed in a more positive and constructive way to provide a genuine hope for the future. [More…]

• We must have as a deliberate instrument of national policy the retention of our rural community. [More…]

• There does seem to be a tendency by this Government to treat the farmers as apart from the rest of the community. [More…]

• This is a civilised community but the rural worker and farmer in the circumstances outlined above, is not treated fairly. [More…]

• Rather I believe it is a matter of the Government listening to the numbers game and seeing the balance of community attitude on legislation of this sort. [More…]

• From our side we believe quite strongly that there was no reason for the Government to have introduced it in the first place and that it is as well that the Government belatedly has recognised the strength of community resistence to the passage of legislation which denied the States the right to maintain their administrative responsibility in this field. [More…]

• It is regrettable that the Government has not been prepared, not only to acknowledge the lack of reason behind the support for that part of the legislation but also has failed to realise that there is an equally strong body of opinion in the community opposed to the other parts of this Bill. [More…]

• I believe there is in our community at the moment a very real concern at the degree to which the Commonwealth and the States might be able to operate and co-ordinate their future policies together. [More…]

• It seems to me to be unfortunate that people in the community are not able to see, in respect of other areas of legislation, the way by which the Senate quite validly has been able to place some constraints on a government whose general excesses are a basis for concern and uncertainty in so many areas of our community. [More…]

• The Government, by its acceptance of the Senate’s amendment, has demonstrated that it is only too willing ot accept the strong body of community concern that the Australian States should be able to continue to exercise a measure of administrative and policy responsibility. [More…]

• What an outrageous concept it is that the honourable member for Evans, evidently backed by the Prime Minister, should seriously consider putting what I gather from the description in the Press are top civil servants into a political arena where they are to be set up like Aunt Sallys and fired at by vicious members of the community who evidently do not understand what the Government is trying to do. [More…]

• I intend to do it as soon as possible next week, so that discussion on the contents of the report can take place in the community. [More…]

• In the interests of the whole agricultural community of Australia, I think we should be devoting many more resources, both in the CSIRO and in other places, to this potential, not actual, menace which could be one of the worst disasters that Australian agriculture has yet experienced. [More…]

• I hope that what I have submitted to the House today will bring to the attention of all members of Parliament and to the community in genera] the urgent necessity for uniform company laws to be implemented by this Parliament to minimise the racketeering that is going on and the shady dealings in connection with companies. [More…]

• I would rather see the statutory authority, the Development Corporation, as the vehicle for control, having full power of acquisition over a designated area which can be seen by all the community as a denned plan, that is, a strategic action plan of achievement and not merely the taking of a great deal of land and putting it, so to speak, in a bank for future calling upon. [More…]

• These regional centres must not be State monuments to somebody’s good idea, but an integrated reality into the fabric of a dynamic Australian community. [More…]

• Papua New Guinea will want to find its own place in the international community. [More…]

• I want to deal very briefly with the community which I represent, the community on the Central Coast of New South Wales. [More…]

• The community has grown like Topsy. [More…]

• All those amenities have to be provided by the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is simply a matter of economics: If you have to provide all those sorts of facilities in a community to 60, 70 or 80 villages - and if honourable members are familiar with my area, they will know that it is broken up into a whole lot of little communities - it is a very expensive proposition. [More…]

• The final thing I want to say in the last few minutes of my speech is that as Chairman of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Road Safety I have viewed with grave concern the enormous number of pedestrian deaths that occur in our community. [More…]

• In a planned community, such as Canberra, the pedestrian death rate is about one-sixth of that in any other community in Australia. [More…]

• Similarly it gives an alternative to the person living at present in a rural community and obliged by economic pressures operating on that rural community to seek a different style of life in one of the established State capitals. [More…]

• The honourable member used the occasion of this debate on legislation proposing to establish urban growth centres and land commissions and to provide funds for the State governments to establish their land commissions, to attack the Australian Government for its withdrawal of certain tax concessions and subsidies to the rural community. [More…]

• He said that the withdrawal of certain subsidies and tax concessions would be damaging to the rural community. [More…]

• The fact is that the loss of income which the rural community may have suffered as a result of the withdrawal of these concessions and subsidies has very much more than been offset by the boom in commodity prices in the rural sector. [More…]

• These problems cannot be overcome by a blanket measure such as tax concessions or subsidies because such action benefits selectively the better off people in the rural community who do not face the problem of rural poverty. [More…]

• The Committee decided to press the urgent need for an integrated approach to the planning of health and welfare services in Albury-Wodonga; to bring to the notice of the Ministerial Council the acute shortage of social welfare workers in the area, particularly those experienced in youth work; to ask the Cities Commission for a study of the effect of the growth centre on the ecology; to press for the regular release of planning information so that Albury-Wodonga businessmen can plan for the future; and to ask that the Development Corporation consider the need for infant and child care facilities in commercial development and community facilities, as well as providing for the disabled. [More…]

• Many of them have given long and distinguished service to the district through many community organisations. [More…]

• The tragedy has been that the expenditure of public moneys in improving essential community services to land has been a contributing factor to the rapid increase in land values, thus forcing up the cost to the community of land required for public purposes. [More…]

• What has been lacking always has been a co-ordination of planning objectives and implementation for the community benefit. [More…]

• The operation of the Land Commissions will enable the achievement of 3 main aims: Firstly, land will be made available at reasonable prices; secondly, land will be able to be planned comprehensively and developed; and, thirdly, some of the increase in value which derives from the process of urban development and community expenditure will be retained for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• It shows that there can be harmony and productive liaison between the Federal Government and the States for the benefit of the community, contrary to the phoney divisive catchcries of members of the Opposition parties who seek to fool the people into believing that Labor is out destroy the States. [More…]

• It is unfortunate if too much credit is sought by any particular political Party because the improved development in urban areas and urban thinking is a result of changes in community attitudes. [More…]

• As the community has become aware so have all those involved in the political process in this country become deeply conscious of the concern of the average Australian for the improvement of the urban environment. [More…]

• It is equally important that there should be a maximum amount of community involvement. [More…]

• I hope, as a result of the expressions contained in the various speeches made by the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) about the Government’s desire to involve the community in some of the decision making that affects them, that the comments express a real concern and do not merely pay lip service to an aspirations of the people. [More…]

• When we look at urban areas we tend to apply a small town psychology to community involvement. [More…]

• I direct the attention of the House to the importance of recognising that we are dealing with large cities and that what we formerly described as a community based rigidly on geographical boundaries may not necessarily apply today. [More…]

• There has been a manifestation of the community’s desire to be involved in urban development, by the expansion of resident action groups and council action groups. [More…]

• I believe that it is important that this community desire to participate should receive the response of government so that people can play a real part in the decision making process on the type of environment in which they live. [More…]

• The latter seeks only to preserve for the community, rather than for speculators and individuals, any increase in land values which arises from a Government’s decision for the benefit of the community on growth centres or areas. [More…]

• I express concern that a great amount of detail has not been put forward as to how the real value of a person’s assets will be preserved to ensure that he is not disadvantaged, while not advantaged, at the expense of the community as a consequence of government announcement. [More…]

• It seems to me quite obvious that if a government, or for that matter any other community organisation, produces works in an area which increases the value of the land which has no relationship whatsoever to the effort which the original owner of the land has put in, the original owner of the land is entitled to compensation only on the value of that land and the money that it would have brought if the land had been sold under normal circumstances. [More…]

• Perhaps there is one point of detail which I might mention - community participation. [More…]

• The Consultative Council of Public Participation has a membership of representatives of community interests such as local government advisers, cultural groups, trade unions, women’s groups and new interests. [More…]

• This in turn had involved high cost of transport to the community as a whole, as well as to the individual who pays this cost not only in money but in time and fatigue . [More…]

• The Bill before the House provides for payments for medical benefits, hospital services and certain other specific services, and is the culmination of a great deal of investigation, planning and community debate concerning the most equitable and efficient means of providing health insurance coverage for all Australians. [More…]

• They are principles which have had firm community support for several years and which have withstood, in recent months, a deliberate campaign of deceit and misrepresentation such as has seldom been seen in this country. [More…]

• The legislation the Government is now proposing represents a sincere endeavour to build a new health benefits system in a way which will meet the expectations of the public for high quality health services to be readily accessible to all, which will expand rather than inhibit the opportunities for freedom of choice, which will promote efficiency in the delivery of health services and which will assist in the upgrading of hospital and community based health facilities. [More…]

• After 6 months of debate throughout the community we published a White Paper setting out our intentions for this legislation. [More…]

• This arrangement is designed so that, on the one hand, eligible pensioners enjoy the same entitlement to medical services as everybody else in the community and, on the other, that they are not charged anything for services they at present receive free. [More…]

• It should be noted, however, that there are some privately owned religious, charitable and community hospitals which regard themselves as public hospitals. [More…]

• The comments about, and safeguards for, what we referred to in the White Paper as private, religious, charitable or community hospitals are meant to apply also to the type of hospitals I have just referred to. [More…]

• In addition, the Bill provides for supplementary daily bed payments to certain religious, charitable and community hospitals where these hospitals provide free treatment to patients whom they accept as ‘hospital patients’. [More…]

• The program we are proposing will, with no addition to the costs of the present system, cover everybody in the community. [More…]

• At present high and rapidly inflating land prices produce a redistribution of wealth in the community away from tenants of houses and buyers - the have-nots - to existing land owners - very much the haves. [More…]

• Rezoning of land to cater for varied community uses, from low density land use to higher land use patterns, causes the price to rise. [More…]

• Private developers geared for maximising profit and not community benefit cannot ensure proper distribution of urban amenities. [More…]

• The availability of money at low interest rates to developers, private and public, adequate finance for servicing authorities and the sharing of service costs by the community through progressive taxation are all desirable, but they need to be part of a co-ordinated program instituted by a Federal government. [More…]

• Public equity in land is necessary if land use is to be regulated by advanced and community oriented town planning and not allowed to degenerate through ad hoc decisions resulting from indiscriminate purchasing of land and profit motivated pressures to rezone different areas. [More…]

• I mention this because there are many provincial or rural towns with populations between 5,000 to 20,000 people which are looking not for something spectacular, such as is happening in the Albury-Wodonga area or the other anticipated growth centres, but are looking for a small, gradual growth within their community. [More…]

• Clearly this service would provide an excellent basis upon which to build medical student training in community medicine and family practice. [More…]

• The Royal Newcastle Hospital has pursued a policy of community involvement and total patient care, insofar as this is possible, for many years. [More…]

• The fact is that under my colleague the PostmasterGeneral the technical proficiency of postal services in Australia has been increased and that honourable gentleman very early in his term set up a royal commission to make it possible for all people in the community to suggest how most promptly and fairly postal and telecommunications services could be improved in this country. [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…]

• But basically the Aboriginal people of Australia have a fair way to go yet before they receive the same services as do the rest of the community, particularly where they live in isolated places. [More…]

• The Else-Mitchell report provides a formula for all governments to follow in overcoming the problems facing Australia today in rising land prices, inadequate supplies of land, destruction of our national estate, inequitable and inefficient distribution and management of land, and the enrichment of the few at the expense of the community. [More…]

• I hope that not only individuals and organisations with a vested interest will comment on the report, but also a broad section of the Australian community, particularly the young. [More…]

• This would most certainly be contrary to the community’s interest, lt would be against fairer prices for urban land. [More…]

• Except in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, the Australian community can reap the enormous benefits that will flow to them only upon the achievement of the objectives outlined by the [More…]

• We all want to see that sufficient land is provided to meet the requirements of the community. [More…]

• I refer, for example to the requirement that industrial leases should be given only subject to conditions that anti-pollution devices were installed and the community was in that way protected. [More…]

• The recommendation of most significance is that for the future what are called land development rights should not rest as they have done in the past, as it were, in the possession of the owner of the land but should be regarded as property of the community. [More…]

• If the Minister, having had time to read the report, makes a recommendation and so on the proposition will be that from that time on, as from today, all land development rights will be the property of the community. [More…]

• The community will somehow or other be paid for it. [More…]

• At least it will be paid in some form or another to the community. [More…]

• It is essential when we reach any decision on this not only that we see that the community is not held to ransom, because I agree that the community should not be held to ransom- [More…]

• In some cases I think it has been, and I am agreeing that it is a bad thing for it to be held to ransom; but I also say that just as the community has rights and a right not to be held to ransom so the individual has rights. [More…]

• He has just rights and proper rights which should not be overridden by making him by force subsidise the community. [More…]

• There needs to be some protection for both the individual and the community. [More…]

• The assessment of the value of the development right and all other matters I have mentioned are matters in relation to which we have to take great care to protect the community and the individual - not just protect one and leave the other. [More…]

• This was too high a price for the community to pay. [More…]

• We challenge the Government, in this debate, to demonstrate its overall program to deal with inflation; how powers over prices and incomes would be incorporated into that program; that prices and incomes powers would have only a temporary role within that program; that discrimination against particular groups in the community and action against individual freedom of choice are not its intention; and to state that it will take a responsible lead by reducing the extravagant growth in public sector spending. [More…]

• We are talking about the degree to which, in controlling inflation in the Australian community, there will be a beneficial effect from a Yes, Yes vote advocated by the Government in Saturday’s referendum. [More…]

• In other words, if there is to be a positive vote for price control and a negative vote for incomes control, the sorts of policies that would be introduced are said not only by Professor Parkin but also by many in the community to lead to a complete distortion of the normal market forces in our community, to the development of black marketeering and to the development of pressures to supply goods which are not influenced by market demand. [More…]

• So, we have a suggestion of a distortion of the economy, a suggestion that inflation will not be controlled and the statement of a very real need to consider the direct and indirect costs to the community of the application of price control. [More…]

• We see as a result that, if this referendum were to ‘be carried on Saturday next, very real doubts would be cast in the community >as to the degree to which inflation would be brought under control. [More…]

• Rut whatever procedure is adopted, because of this forward planning which is in the interests of the community, it sometimes means that a landowner, a large landowner or a small landowner, can find his investment in that land locked in to a price set at an early historic date with the acquisition money attracting compensation at a mean level of interest. [More…]

• I ask the Government to consider also that there is a greater need for the legislature to have better communication between the multiple-funding sources for research and the researchers themselves, whether they be social scientists, physicists, applied scientists, chemists or management scientists, so that we can in the future legislate for the science needs of the nation, bearing in mind the total aspirations of the community. [More…]

• The Bill extends that and places limitations .on the size of grants, for specific purposes, that can be made to the larger companies in the community. [More…]

• There are many creative people in our community. [More…]

• We believe this policy resulted from a misunderstanding of the national interest, ignorance of the effects of internationalisation, neglect of the real needs of the Australian community, under-confidence in the capacity of their fellow Australians, and fear of the consequence of failure. [More…]

• The Government believes, furthermore, that it is a move which will be welcomed by the more responsible and enlightened members of the Australian business community. [More…]

• Most groups in the community traditionally have access to arbitration machinery which enables an independent assessment of salary rates and there is much to be said for extending the proposed Tribunal’s jurisdiction in this way. [More…]

• A large section of the migrant community will not like that provision. [More…]

• The Defence Forces of course already carry out a wide range of activities that assist the civil community during civil emergencies and at other times. [More…]

• Mr and Mrs King have made representations to me and, as a result of investigations made by my Department, I wrote to the then Minister for Youth and Community Welfare in New South Wales, the Honourable J. L. Waddy, seeking his assistance in this matter. [More…]

• They want to promote the elite schools, the schools which they say train the leaders of this community. [More…]

• As the Geneva Convention provides no sanctions against non-observance other than the possibility of condemnation by the world community, will the Prime Minister consider taking action to have the matter raised at the United Nations on the basis that this is a humanitarian question which can and should be settled independently and irrespective of the continuing dispute in the area? [More…]

• I believe it is overwhelmingly accepted by the community now. [More…]

• Throughout Australia, educational institutions are wondering how to provide the expert leadership which, in the 1980s, will guide the community to a greater appreciation of and creative involvement in leisure. [More…]

• But I do say that the Government must carry a considerable amount of the responsibility for the development of a situation that has fostered and generated the shortages that are of concern to the whole community. [More…]

• There is no reason why years of accumulated experience should be completely lost to the community. [More…]

• This debate started out with a reference to a shortage of goods in the community and the inconveniences and disruptions caused by those shortages. [More…]

• Most Australians will always appreciate it if some worthwhile reduction in tariffs can be made so that the cost impost on the community at large is kept to a minimum level. [More…]

• I find it somewhat contradictory and confusing and certainly, administeratively, nearly impossible to justify special unemployment relief for those who can claim to have been affected by the competition from imports as compared with other people in the community who receive normal social services unemployment relief. [More…]

• Indeed, tariff protection involves a cost to the community and should be minimised, but I firmly believe that adjustment of our tariff arrangements should be selective and should discriminate. [More…]

• If we are to have a schools commission which is not so established as to be able to look after the interests of such schools but which has powers which enable it to ride roughshod over those who are primarily responsible for such schools, I submit that we will have a situation in which injustice is perpetuated within the Australian community. [More…]

• All members of this House would know that the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community was one of those factors. [More…]

• The United Kingdom, with Western Europe, has been the traditional market for the apple and pear industry but British entry into the European Economic Community has altered this quite dramatically. [More…]

• It is not only the orchardist who loses his money and leaves a community who is affected. [More…]

• We have to increase our markets into Asia because, with Britain having entered the European Economic Community, our exports to Great Britain are declining. [More…]

• There is an Aboriginal community of some 160 people of Walbiri language group resident on Willowra Station. [More…]

• $325,000 was advanced to an Alice Springs firm of solicitors acting for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal community in the purchase of Willowra. [More…]

• I want to say simply this: In the misappropriation of the stationery of the House, in the forging of an honourable member’s signature, in the misrepresentation of the views of an honourable member to be put about in the community on the eve of an important referendum, in the misrepresentation of the legal position in respect of the prices question - we all know well that the legal opinion is in fact opposite to that expressed in the forgery, that when the questions of prices and incomes are raised together, in the event of the incomes question being lost, the prices power could certainly not be interpreted to cover incomes - in) those 4 important respects this is a matter that demands the attention of the House and of the Privileges Committee. [More…]

• Given the way in which certain interests in this community, including some of the spokesmen for private health insurance funds, have performed on the issue of confidentiality, I would have thought that in the last 20 years during which private health insurance has operated those funds would have taken adequate steps to write in guarantees of the preservation of confidentiality and a clear statement of the limited use which would be made of this very personal information. [More…]

• One of the recommendations in that report was that when land is rezoned from rural to urban any capital gain that may be made should accrue to the Crown or to the community but not the person, the land speculator or the land developer who has the land. [More…]

• But I can assure the House that if any community - whether in Wakefield or any other electorate - can show that an existing post office is a viable undertaking and that the community oan support it, the retention of that post office will be given serious reconsideration. [More…]

• Can he also assure the House that following the completion of the survey, the results will be made public forthwith to enable their use by other organisations in the community concerned with the situation of low income earners? [More…]

• It will cover low income earners and people in the community who have special need for welfare services and income supplements. [More…]

• It also has particular interest to all members of the House because I rather expect that we will get a reliable return of the degree to which there is coverage in the community from the current system of private health insurance. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Health know that he was reported by Mr Peter Samuel in the ‘Bulletin’ on 24 November last as saying that he- the Minister - saw- community health centres eventually catering for between 80 and 90 per cent of general practitioner services in Australia, leaving private practice fee-for-service doctors only 10 per cent to 20 per cent of the business? [More…]

• The report in the Bulletin’ was based on my statement to this effect: Everywhere in the world there is a move towards increasing community responsibility to meet the costs of health care. [More…]

• Communication, education, community interest and awareness are such today that arbitrarily imposed decisions particularly of a symbolic non-materialist kind are less and less acceptable. [More…]

• Community attitudes and expectations are such that people believe on issues such as this that not only should they have the opportunity to cast their vote, but that indeed they have the right so to do. [More…]

• In fact, it was interesting to see that the only significant section of the Australian community covered in the poll who favoured the status quo were people in their fifties. [More…]

• The large number of attempts to find a distinctively Australian anthem to replace it indicates that the Australian community has not strongly supported the existing anthem for almost 2 centuries, although some of its supporters would claim it has. [More…]

• Therefore we reject the motion because there is no substance in it, there is no general support for it in the community and, above all, it is merely another device to deny Australia a badge of independence. [More…]

• In fact, it means everybody in the community. [More…]

• Thirdly, we wish to see the pensioner medical scheme and the subsidised health benefits scheme integrated into the present national insurance arrangements to ensure that all benefits of that scheme accrue to pensioners and other low income sections of the community. [More…]

• However, we would encourage the establishment of non-profit-making homes run by religious organisations, philanthropic and community organisations. [More…]

• The Mercy Hospital in Melbourne - a great private hospital with fine traditions and a magnificent record of service to the community - has 200 beds. [More…]

• But in many situations these days less well-off members of the community have to think twice; whilst they may feel that they need treatment they have to weigh that against the cost to themselves, and they take the view that with a bit of time perhaps they will get over the problem, anyway. [More…]

• We anticipate that when anybody, irrespective of his means, is allowed to be admitted for standard care treatment in a large public hospital, the justification for admission will become medical indication only and nothing else, and that will ensure that the facilities are used to the best advantage for the community. [More…]

• Next, we had the claim that specialists now treat patients in public hospitals in an honorary capacity - a very generous donation to the community. [More…]

• A couple of years ago figures were examined by a Dr Jim Lawson, who was seeking to ascertain some guidelines for forecasting what hospital bed needs might be for surgical treatment in the community. [More…]

• It comprises State governments, a wide range of medical organisations and highly qualified members of the medical profession, the hospital and medical voluntary insurance funds, the National Working Party of Catholic Hospitals, the private and community hospitals, the private nursing homes, nurses, organisations representing country medical staffs, the boards of management of many public hospitals and many other organisations, including the Freemasons Hospital, Labor’s scheme will destroy the existing scheme which is recognised generally as one of the best and most efficient in the world. [More…]

• This minority has been able to mobilise vast amounts of money to run a propaganda campaign to try to win the support of the otherwise uncommitted people in the community. [More…]

• But this does not stop arrangements being made with non-public hospitals such as the community hospitals and religious hospitals to provide the necessary hospital accommodation, and arrangements are being made to do precisely that. [More…]

• I would go so far as to say that many of the traditions in medical practice run quite counter to community health. [More…]

• Not only will this legislation destroy the existing health scheme, but, paradoxically, it also will disadvantage those groups in the community which it aims to assist - the elderly, the poor and the migrant. [More…]

• The migrant community also relies heavily on these public hospitals where interpreter services are provided. [More…]

• There will be no beds to give the choice promised to public or private patients in public hospitals and, as mentioned, the very problems the scheme is designed to solve will be accentuated, in fact, to the marked disadvantage of needy persons in the Australian community. [More…]

• As with the provision of any essential service to the community, the quantity and quality of health services are determined by social, political and economic factors. [More…]

• The proposed revenue system therefore introduces the following important implications where a higher standard of health care is being sought by the community: First, the resulting need to increase the rate of levy could meet community resistance and this will tend to control unnecessary increases in demand, but it may go beyond cost control and depress the quantity and quality of the health care that the community expects at a level lower than the community should be receiving; and, secondly, if the community does not understand that necessary improvements in health care will result in the rate of levy being increased, doctors, hospitals and others engaged in health care may face unfair criticism of profiteering. [More…]

• This is not consistent with the purpose of the health insurance fund which is to assure the community of the Commonwealth’s ‘commitment to meeting its share of the rising costs of health services’. [More…]

• The fifth is the integration of the pensioner medical scheme and the subsidised health benefits scheme into the present national health service to ensure that all the benefits of that scheme accrue to pensioners and other low income sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The eighth is the continued existence of private profit-making nursing homes run by religious organisations, philanthropic and community organisations. [More…]

• He will control doctors’ fees, but he is not willing to say that he will control the wages and salaries of the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• One thing I have deplored about the way in which the Labor Government and some of its friends have conducted the debate is the way in which they have involved themselves in hate-mongering against so many people in our community. [More…]

• I said: ‘No, we would not, but tragically the Labor Government is trying to force this scheme on to the Australian community’. [More…]

• Why they would socialise when the community cries out for individualisation is almost beyond belief. [More…]

• Why when people in our community today - a modern bureaucratic society - feel increasingly powerless to make decisions that affect their own lives and when people feel distant from the decision making in society, they would take away decision making in this area is almost beyond belief. [More…]

• In a prosperous community like Australia, where we have pockets of poverty but where the overwhelming majority of people are becoming more affluent, we must empower consumers to make their own decisions. [More…]

• As I have said, the whole theme of the Government’s alternative proposal is to forget what has been done over so many years in the reform of the health care system in Australia, is to foist on Australia a philosophy which, as I have described, is part of the fag end of an old socialist era, is to be immediately more costly for the average family in Australia and is in the long term to lead to a rundown in total community resources devoted to health. [More…]

• I am pleased to say that very many doctors reject the specious arguments of their professional association and recognise that the scheme proposed by the Government will benefit patients, doctors and the Australian community. [More…]

• As I mentioned before, the Opposition spokesmen pretend that their scheme is voluntary and find abhorrent the idea of everybody in the community contributing towards an equitable and efficient health insurance program. [More…]

• By claiming that a person should be free to contribute or not to contribute to the health care costs of the community, the Opposition is once again revealing its real feelings about health. [More…]

• But, like the British national health service and the Canadian insurance scheme, the Australian universal health insurance program will ensure that everybody in the community will receive health care as a basic right rather than as a purchased privilege. [More…]

• I think it would be fair to say that about 92 per cent of the community are now insured. [More…]

• It is worth noting that something like 3 million people who could be in the work force do not render tax returns, and that the Deeble report admits that only 80 per cent of the community would be covered initially under the Labor scheme. [More…]

• Even in Britain, which has had a tax financed health scheme for a quarter of a century, nearly 5 per cent of the community still are not covered. [More…]

• There inevitably will be a shortage of standard ward beds for many years, and poorer people, who in some States - for example, Victoria - have had special rights to beds in public hospitals, will now have to compete for these beds with richer elements in the community. [More…]

• The result has been to sweep away forever the credibility, the trust and the respect that the community once reposed in the medical profession. [More…]

• Never again will the community trust them. [More…]

• Some of these are run by religious, charitable and community organisations, and some are run by private enterprise for profit. [More…]

• After allowing for the effect of tax deductions, this cost would be greater for most people than the combined cost of community rated contributions for the additional private hospital charge above the bedday subsidy and the 1.3S per cent levy under the new program. [More…]

• The Australian Government has recognised the important role played by religious, charitable and community run hospitals. [More…]

• I will explain what I mean, Sir, in this way: Despite the soothing words in the White Paper, there is no guarantee either in it or in the legislation that there will be sufficient standard ward beds for the people who want them when they want them; there is absolutely no guarantee that their doctor will be able to follow them into hospital even if they happen to be attached to the visiting staff; there is absolutely no guarantee that private hospitals will remain in existence still less the subsidised community hospitals in my own State; there is absolutely no guarantee that large numbers of able specialists will not be forced out of private practice into salaried public service by economic deprivation; and there is absolutely no assurance that in the absence of Government support for the special account in particular and other forms of Commonwealth assistance in general, insurance cover for private hospital treatment will not be prohibitively expensive as to be out of the range of all but a very wealthy few. [More…]

• With SI Om a year over a 10-year program we could bring into existence some hundreds of community health centres, which would be a much more efficient way to use money than keeping primitive accounting systems going in voluntary insurance funds, and paying commissions for collecting contributions. [More…]

• This Commission has already made an interim report in which it has plumped for the development of regional and community-based programs of a comprehensive character. [More…]

• When the money that people pay for health insurance is collected through a levy on the whole community into a common pot, it can be allocated in accordance with observed needs. [More…]

• The list of people and organisations completely opposed to the whole concept of Labor’s scheme is long and impressive, comprising State governments, a wide range of medical organisations and highly qualified doctors, the hospital and medical voluntary insurances funds, the national working party of the Catholic hospitals, the private and community hospitals, the private nursing homes, nurses, organisations representing country medical staffs, and the boards of management of many public hospitals. [More…]

• Those of us who have been associated with hospitals and insurance funds know only too well that administrative costs are best controlled and kept to a minimum by the participation of the community as members of boards of management or directors of contributory funds. [More…]

• They are the medium through which the rest of the community is encouraged to take an interest in the institution in its locality. [More…]

• This creates a very human service which in turn creates a sense of shared ownership in the rest of the community. [More…]

• I have already explained to the House the benefits of having a local community board of management, with the interests of the local people, who contribute to make the hospital something of purpose in their area. [More…]

• That would be one example only of the situation facing many private hospitals in the community. [More…]

• I believe that the Prime Minister today reached a low level in his condemnation of companies which have had to battle against great difficulties to maintain viability to serve the community that they serve, and I condemn completely his attack on the Toowoomba Foundry. [More…]

• It provides me with advice on disbursement of grants for Aboriginal community purposes from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account. [More…]

• When the principle of using salaried doctors for community health centres was raised with the States following the setting up of the Interim Committee on Hospitals and Health Services, the initial reaction of the Minister for Health in Queensland was of course that the Queensland Government had a different ideology and philosophy in these matters from the Federal Parliament and would not be interested in the use of salaried doctors in these centres. [More…]

• As far as the advisers of governments go, in Victoria for example the advisers from the Hospitals and Charities Commission have agreed quite amicably with the Sax Commission that it is necessary to have salaried doctors in some areas where the community requests this, where it is difficult for private doctors to maintain a practice and where the local doctors themselves have asked for the appointments to be made on a salaried basis. [More…]

• I feel sure that this type of practical experience will teach members of the Opposition that there is a place for salaried service in community centres. [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…]

• In view of the sorts of deprivation that are evident in the more deprived families in the community, we believe that the $12m spent on the scheme last year, which would increase every year, is far better spent on the sorts of benefits that have been brought forward under our social security policy to help low income families and to enable them to choose their priorities for nutrition. [More…]

• If a person is a member of a powerful union which by its actions can pull out trains, pull out trams, pull out a means of supplying power, pull out bread baking or, specifically, the Transport Workers’ Union pulling out those who supply fuel, or if one is a member of any of the other powerful trade union organisations in our community, that person can protect himself against inflation. [More…]

• He can do so by creating more inflation, by demanding bigger wage increases and spreading the cost of those increases across the community. [More…]

• If one squeezes the private sector one is taking away the wealth producing capacity of the community. [More…]

• He arrived at this conclusion by some hypothetical comparison between metropolitan voting and votes cast by the rest of the community. [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 Bill gives the Federal Government power to establish health community centres virtually anywhere in Australia without reference to a State. [More…]

• I am not necessarily opposing the concept of health community centres. [More…]

• We are sorry about all of those things and the attitudes they reveal because they have prevented the Opposition from offering any constructive criticism of our proposals for a health insurance program which will provide equal access to high standard health care to everybody in the community, which will share the cost of health care on the equitable basis of contributions being based on ability to pay and which will provide efficiency and value for money in the delivery of health care. [More…]

• In his allegations on numbers of beds and the arrangements for accommodating hospital patients in private hospitals, the honourable member for Hotham is acting as the mouth piece for the most bigoted and reactionary private hospital interests - the same interests as were behind the publication of a dishonestly presented propaganda document and whose contribution to the hospital needs of the community is to threaten to close their hospitals down on the introduction of the Government’s program. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hotham alleged that, in particular, the Bill would have an undesirable impact on the religious, charitable and community private hospitals. [More…]

• The 2 main groups of hospitals affected by the special arrangements provided under clause 34 of this Bill are what are known as community hospitals, and hospitals administered by religious bodies. [More…]

• What clause 34 does in respect of community hospitals is to recognise that these hospitals exist to cater for the particular local communities, usually in a country area. [More…]

• Although such hospitals may receive financial assistance from the State governments which recognise their high standards and special role in the community, they do retain local autonomy over admission and management policies. [More…]

• It provides that these hospitals will be able to receive additional Australian Government financial assistance to enable them to continue their community functions while at the same time preserving the local flavour of their administration, in which local people participate and accept a high degree of management responsibility through local hospital boards. [More…]

• They stated that they felt the additional cost of private health insurance under the proposed universal program might deter all but the relatively wealthy from entering these hospitals, so that they would be reduced to catering for what could be termed an elite group in the community. [More…]

• But, more seriously, what consumer in our community has ever complained about lack of choice in the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, for which everyone is covered, in which the costs are met from public funds, and all the chemists direct bill a ‘monolithic’ Government agency? [More…]

• Indeed, on the experience of the private health insurance funds a large amount of that $226m would have been absorbed in exorbitant operating costs and, accordingly, the quantity of pharmaceutical drugs supplied to the community greatly diminished. [More…]

• In fact, all members of the community will share its benefits and it will be tas widely and as universally appreciated as similar programs in other countries. [More…]

• I also support the up-grading of hospital and community-based health facilities. [More…]

• We have a mandate to protect the community at large from the excesses of the Government. [More…]

• The Hospitals and Health Services Commission Bril, which will come before the House shortly, will be the instrument for setting up free community health centres. [More…]

• He wants to bring Australian health care down to the lowest common denominator - all this because the present scheme does not cover a small percentage of the community. [More…]

• In the second place, even if it were, the impact would be minimal, since the subsidised health benefits plan and the pensioner medical service cater for 2 entirely different groups in the community. [More…]

• It is especially important to make provision for community health services where there are now few, such as in some of the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne, some of the western suburbs of Sydney and certainly rural areas. [More…]

• If we are to have a scheme which is not accepted by the general practitioner, the specialist and the private community philanthropic and country hospitals, we are going to be in a terrible mess trying to provide health services to the people. [More…]

• I repeat that it is my belief that if we are to hold down the fees to a level which is capable of being handled by the Australian community, there will have to be patient contribution. [More…]

• As soon as the Government moves into the private sector, to the religious, the charitable and the community hospitals, there will be a destruction of the private hospital system .and we will not permit that to happen. [More…]

• The scheme can and will be amended to maximise coverage of all the Australian community and to deliver the best health service. [More…]

• The present Government was elected on the basis of policies which were developed carefully, steadily and intelligently to meet the important demands of our community. [More…]

• The form and importance of our policies on these great issues were already starting to permeate the community in 1969. [More…]

• The Nimmo Committee and the Senate Committee agreed that standard ward care in public hospitals should be made available by the States to every member of the community regardless of means. [More…]

• When we talk about some service being available to everybody and the whole community being involved, why should we drag everybody down, or attempt to drag everybody down, to that standard level? [More…]

• The community will no longer support as it has in the past country hospitals, city hospitals and particularly religious hospitals through agencies and auxiliaries which have worked to provide better facilities and extra care through those hospitals. [More…]

• What will happen is this: The very rich will still go their own way, far more than they do now, and the connection that they have with the community through these hospitals will be lost. [More…]

• The rich will still have their special hospital arrangements; the rest of the community will be forced down to the lower standard. [More…]

• So, instead of having a hospital system in which all members of the community can share and for which all members of the community will work, we will have this polarisation of the rich and the poor. [More…]

• Provision is included in the report for on-going modification of the proposals in the light of community response. [More…]

• Community interest and involvement in this area have increased our awareness of the need for a complex and imaginative program which, along with day care centres and pre-schools, might also include family day care programs, play-groups and neighbourhood ‘drop-in’ centres. [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 original terms of reference of the Commission were confined to areas of research and recommendations regarding planning and development of health services, recommending priorities regarding areas of need and recommending the allocation of project grants for the development of comprehensive community health services. [More…]

• As an Opposition we agree with the philosophy of the Bill because what it does is establish community health centres - sometimes with salaried doctors or salaried paramedical personnel - in those areas where people are poor, where people cannot understand if they or members of their family become ill, where they can go for medical advice and medical service. [More…]

• We agree that it should be the function of the Commission to ascertain the health care needs of the Australian community and to make recommendations to the Minister in relation to the needs and in relation to health care delivery systems, etc. [More…]

• When the original proposal to establish the Commission was announced by the Minister in April, it was welcomed, as I have mentioned before, by all sections of the community. [More…]

• I would hope that the Minister for Health, who is at the table, would agree that this is a short summary of the philosophical thrust of what he is wanting to do in these health community services. [More…]

• The Federal Government has offered a grant of more than S2.5m for the community health programs in these areas but so far the Victorian Government has not acted on this offer. [More…]

• The delivery of health services in our community has been artificially divided in the past. [More…]

• In the past preventive medicine has been looked on as dealing with infectious disease or matters of public health, but we are becoming more and more aware of the stresses and strains of the environment, of the psychiatric factors that occur in the community, of the problems of inactivity of the housewife or other members of the community and perhaps the need for their retraining. [More…]

• He wrote a book entitled ‘From Asylum to Community’. [More…]

• In fact when we talk of community health centres we should note some of the experiences in country areas. [More…]

• That concept was changed more to the community health centre concept that was mentioned in the report of the interim committee. [More…]

• Much to the regret intially of the local people, it was suggested that the hospital should become one of these community health centres. [More…]

• I applaud the community health centre concept. [More…]

• But the Minister has indicated that we are looking for areas of need - areas of deprivation - in which to put these community health centres. [More…]

• He could go and look at the United States of America and Canada and see what has happened to general practice in America, where cost for the patient is forcing the general practitioner out of the community into these sorts of things. [More…]

• What the Minister for Health is proposing might preserve the personal type of physician in the community, even if the personal physician is in this horrible thing - this government community health centre. [More…]

• It is better to have it out there in the community with the doctor of first contact than to allow the situation to deteriorate so that there are no more doctors of first contact out in the community but they are all at some sort of centralised clinic or hospital. [More…]

• He will find that the Minister for Health has been very honest indeed in what he has expressed, because what he is doing is trying to preserve the doctor of first contact out in the community where people live. [More…]

• His initial effort is to supply this service for deprived and needy people such as those who live in the eastern part of my electorate where I hope he will put up one of his community health centres because there are no private practitioners there. [More…]

• The private practitioners in the rest of the area are over worked because the distribution of medical practitioners in the community is one of the problems. [More…]

• The other change that is taking place is that the community health services are disappearing out of the communities and going into centralised hospital areas under the most free-ranging private enterprise systems. [More…]

• For instance, $9m has already been approved under the community health program. [More…]

• Although I believe the intentions of the Minister are good with regard to community health centres, for instance, it is possible that at some stage he may have an undesirable bias. [More…]

• Inevitably, some patients are discharged in conditions that make their return to hospital, at great cost to the community, almost inevitable. [More…]

• – The concepts of community health services and a health commission is one which is developing in a number of fields. [More…]

• I think that the most important feature of these bodies is that they are motivated by the needs of the community for service and their recommendations are recommendations by people who have something other than a political motive for developing programs of health care. [More…]

• I refer now to the concept of community health centres. [More…]

• The facts of the matter are, of course, that for some people access to a doctor in private practice is just non-existent because of the work load of those doctors who choose to continue to practise in what must be considered to be unfashionable areas, and community health centres would seem to be the best means by which health care facilities can be made readily available to these people in the best possible manner. [More…]

• I support the concept of community health centres. [More…]

• I hope that in the very near future it will be possible for members of the community in the Norlane area, which is in my electorate in the northern areas of Geelong, to get together and draw up a proposal for such a scheme. [More…]

• I hope that all of the community bodies will co-operate in a proposal for a community health centre in the NorlaneCorio area because at the moment that area is under-serviced by doctors and will continue in that situation because it is not what is known as a fashionable area. [More…]

• Unfortunately, because of the activities of a very small section of them, there is not a great deal of sympathy for them in the community, even though they represent the area of medical practice which most likely is in the greatest need of review at the present time. [More…]

• I conclude on this note: The proposals before the House are to set up a Hospitals and Health Services Commission to investigate and make recommendations on health needs, hospital needs and community health centre needs. [More…]

• Does that mean, as it appears to mean, that the Government of Australia will have its own representative on all of these boards down to a local area community centre or hospital - the State does not have representatives on them at the moment - and that it will also have representatives on all of the State organisations? [More…]

• The Government has committed itself to a policy of promoting the regionalisation and modernisation of hospitals, linked with the development of community based health services and preventive health programs. [More…]

• Every country community deserves and needs, if it is to have a future, not only its own hospital but also its own medical, dental and other health care services. [More…]

• I believe that it has meant that the small country communities provide on a self-help basis to a far greater extent than does any other section of this community, whether it is helping to support a doctor to stay in the area by the provision of a house or whether it is making some guarantee of income or salary. [More…]

• If we are going to have these regional centres, these community centres - and the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) mentioned that he would like to have some of them in his electorate - they will have to be staffed. [More…]

• In all the other services for which governments seek responsibility, such as in the fields of education or protection against fire, we have organised resources for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• Obviously very few of them have read the first report giving a general outline of a community health services program to be provided in Australia. [More…]

• So the Committee is very busy already and I think it foreshadows a range of activity which will be very wide and very useful to the community. [More…]

• It is going to assume increasingly greater importance because of what 1 think is called the age profile of the community. [More…]

• The community is becoming older. [More…]

• I think the community will have to face up squarely to the fact that there is going to be a much larger outlay on and a much greater amount of the community’s resources are going to have to be diverted to the treatment of the elderly in the community. [More…]

• I think that considerable doubt has been raised in recent times as to whether the community really gets good value for its investment in this. [More…]

• In spite of the large amount of public money that is being diverted to these types of ventures, it appears as though there is not really very much return from them by way of the increased welfare or health of the community. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Health will be able to ensure that the very real needs of this area will be met and that , we will be able to provide a community health centre in association with the Flinders Medical Faculty at the very earliest opportunity. [More…]

• What is the status of the various reports listed in part (1) with respect to making the contents available to the Parliament and the community. [More…]

• I only hope that increasing community pressure will eventually force them to consider the sensible approach and not permit the subdivision and allow this matter to rest until the Queensland State Government is able to see its way clear to purchase the land, if need be with help from the Australian Government. [More…]

• Let us look at another aspect of their record in the treatment of pensioners, the long term erosion of the comparable living standards available to pensioners as against the rest of the community. [More…]

• We have always strongly believed that all minerals in Australia should be owned by the community and virtually all of them in fact are owned by the community. [More…]

• It is a lot of ideological jargon, with members of the Government Party imagining that their pie in the sky’ philosophy means that the Government can do everything so much better and that private enterprise really does not play a worthwhile role in the community. [More…]

• It has all been a tremendous loss to the Australian community. [More…]

• One of them is to see that the very valuable field of minerals and energy is left, to the greatest extent possible, in the hands of the Australian community and not just in the hands of those who are motivated by private profit - in some cases, people abroad who are motivated only by private profit, not even people in Australia. [More…]

• ‘Socialism’ for me means a state of affairs where decisions are made for the social ‘ good - the -community good - instead of being promoted, stimulated and encouraged only by private profit motives. [More…]

• I am not against a rate of profit being earned by those in the private sector of the community who have a legitimate right to earn it, but of course there is a real need in Australia for more decision making to be made on criteria other than interest rates. [More…]

• We want to set up structures in Australia which will result in the decisions relating to this great field of minerals and energy resources being to the largest extent possible motivated by the community good, not the good of some private shareholder or some multi-national corporation although, as I have said before and I will say again, there is a large place for the private sector of the community in the whole of this field. [More…]

• The present Government relies on this percentage of self sufficiency, which has resulted from incentives and concessions given by the former Government over 23 years of office and which has enabled the Australian community to be in the happy position that it is in today in the face of the world energy crisis. [More…]

• If we take the European Economic Community, the consumption for the same period will rise by 93 per cent, and the consumption in Japan will rise by 156 per cent. [More…]

• This industry demands, I suppose more than any other industry, an expertise and a balance between Government co-operation, private ownership and community control. [More…]

• Like the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford), I do not hide the fact that this Bill gives the Australian community part ownership in the production and distribution of off-shore petroleum products of Australia. [More…]

• The terms of the loan incorporated in this agreement provide a most pertinent illustration of the interest burden which has been imposed upon the Australian community generally. [More…]

• This is a Government which appears to be impervious to the impact of higher taxation on the Australian community. [More…]

• If services are provided at less than cost then pricing represents subsidies for particular sections of the community at the cost of taxpayers generally. [More…]

• In some cases, of course, the consumers of a particular public utility service can in a general sense be identified with the community as a whole, e.g., postal services, telecommunications, electricity. [More…]

• However, it should be remembered that, although all sections of the community may use these services, the degree to which they do so differs. [More…]

• If there is a case for giving special assistance to particular needy groups in the community, or particular areas, there are more direct, more economical and more equitable means for this than by granting concessional finance for particular categories of service. [More…]

• The community will benefit because of the earlier installation of this most essential health service. [More…]

• these 2 points: This Schools Commission Bill is a Bill that is designed to serve this community for a very long time into the future and if people assume that this Parliament, or this Government, is going to turn out to be the sole repository of wisdom on schools and education then they are making a very serious error. [More…]

• But in the Karmel Committee report a phasing out of assistance for a certain number of children in this community was recommended. [More…]

• One must have religious bigotry to be prepared to abandon the principle of a per capita grant for every child in this community. [More…]

• If they wish to go on and so allocate funds in a fashion which, in our view, is not in the best interests of the whole community, that is their business. [More…]

• Of course, it is worth while for them, but that does not necessarily mean it is worth while for the rest of the community which, in the main, must foot the bill. [More…]

• The Ukrainian community in Australia, and indeed throughout the world, is greatly alarmed at the continuous flagrant breaches of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the regime of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]

• Not only honourable members but also employees and employers in Australia, including the Government of the day which is the largest employer in this country, must be aware - and I think that everybody would agree that this is necessary - that in making decisions of this nature an eye must be kept on considerations of productivity which must be involved because variations in Public Service conditions flow through to the whole work force in our community, once a decision to change those conditions is taken. [More…]

• We know that we are dealing with a Government which is denying to this House the power to debate Bills of major significance and which has used the guillotine to truncate debate, in a way which is absolutely without precedent, on major matters which go right to the root of the Australian community. [More…]

• Having explored each side of the question I found that the introduction of a night curfew at Perth would result in serious disadvantages to those people in the community who, either directly or indirectly, obtain benefits from the many domestic and international air services that operate at the present time. [More…]

• I cannot put a precise figure on the proportion of the community that would be disadvantaged. [More…]

• The end result would be increased costs to the airlines which would have to be passed on to the air travellers, freight forwarders, and so on throughout the community. [More…]

• a survey of hostel accommodation for young Aboriginals in Perth conducted by the Western Australian Director of Community Welfare has shown that there is sufficient Aboriginal hostel accommodation either currently available or already planned in Perth for the present need and [More…]

• This also means that when an aerodrome is under the control of the local government it is in effect under the control of the local community and the local community may therefore develop its aviation facilities as and when it thinks fit; it has the major say in the priority which is given to these developments. [More…]

• In considering whether or not an aerodrome is acceptable to the local council, within the local aerodrome scheme, the best possible check is made on whether or not that aerodrome is justified today; no aerodrome is abandoned for which the local community feels there is a real need. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to press reports of a drink problem amongst the Yirrkala community on the Arnhem Land Reserve in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The situation is under constant review by the regional staff of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, but any effective solution to such community problems as may be associated with alcohol must originate within the community. [More…]

• I am informed that the Yirrkala community has appointed people from within the community who have the responsibility of implementing community rules in relation to alcohol. [More…]

• The hotel at Nhulunbuy is properly licensed and serves the community at Nhulunbuy of approximately 5,000 people as well as the Aboriginal community at Yirrkala some 14 miles away. [More…]

• The Yirrkala community is being given advice and assistance in working out plans for its future. [More…]

• The Glenairy and Sunnyside project was supported by way of grant from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account to a community enterprise, Cummeragunga Pty Ltd which then purchased the property. [More…]

• who is the project manager assisting the Aboriginal community and who are the agricultural consultants involved, [More…]

• and (e) The Nangganwili Community Incorporated, representing the Wiluna Aboriginal community, will hold the shares in the operating company which will conduct the melon (cantelope) and citrus orchard venture. [More…]

• Would such installations lessen the demand for subsidised community type homes. [More…]

• If widespread advantage was taken of such a scheme the demand for subsidised community type homes might be lessened. [More…]

• What groups in the community as defined in the Australian Health Insurance Program, are not covered by the present health scheme, and how many people are in each group. [More…]

• Although it is not possible to provide precise estimates of the numbers involved in each category, surveys by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics do provide an indication of those community, groups where the proportion of people not covered is greater than the Australian average. [More…]

• and (3) It is assumed that the honourable member is referring to community and religious hos pitals that are approved under the National Health Act as private hospitals. [More…]

• Before goods are committed to auction or put out to tender, the requirements of any Australian or State Government department or instrumentality are first met and in appropriate cases, consideration is also given to requests from charitable and other community type organisations. [More…]

• Does the Government have a system for disposing of other public goods for which he has responsibility by way of gift or token tender to charitable organisations or responsible community bodies. [More…]

• actions to be taken on behalf of an Aboriginal community or a substantial Aboriginal group will be considered on an individual basis by the Australian Government following an approach by a Service. [More…]

• and (2) The Australian Assistance Plan will be developing in response to community reaction to the concepts and procedures outlined by the Social Welfare Commission in Discussion Paper No. [More…]

• In accordance with the guidelines laid down in the discussion paper it is required that the composition of the Council be as pluralistic as possible thus widening the cross-section of the community which takes decisions on local social welfare problems. [More…]

• Predictions of the impact of aircraft noise on the community living around airports are made in the form of a noise exposure forecast. [More…]

• into the proportion of municipal and State-type costs which should be borne by the local community, and consideration of possible forms of representative government in the A.C.T. [More…]

• 1047 in which he indicated that the Bureau of Transport Economics had commenced a study of the transport needs of disadvantaged sections of the community, what is the exact nature of the study that is being undertaken, and what are the exact sections of the community included in the study. [More…]

• The burden was particularly felt by, the poorer sections of the community in the widely scattered islands of the region. [More…]

• He was a good companion and a loyal colleague; he was a patriotic Australian who served the nation and the community with great distinction; he was a member of the Cabinet; he was a diplomat; he was a medical practitioner; and in all those ways he served the Australian nation and the Australian community. [More…]

• In his return to community service he became President of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Medical Association, which position he held in 1969 and 1970. [More…]

• They were noted in the community for the interest that they took in young people. [More…]

• Being a medical doctor, he served his community well. [More…]

• Is it also true that the Minister landed at Mount Isa during the floods, ostensibly to talk with local people about flood problems but in reality to refuel his VIP aircraft at a time when aviation fuel was in critically short supply in that community and at a time when it was needed urgently for humanitarian purposes? [More…]

• In other words, if the Defence Service Homes Section of his Department can organise the construction of such high quality buildings and achieve very worthwhile economies of scale, what is to stop the Government attempting to extend these benefits to a greater number of people in the community? [More…]

• The failure of the Government to maintain adequate postal and post office services to the Australian community. [More…]

• Over the last two or three weeks we have seen a farce in relationships between the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) and various postal unions, and the only persons who are going to pay the penalty for that are the general Australian community and the Australian public. [More…]

• By participating in that march on 2 October 1973, the Postmaster-General clearly condoned, acquiesced in and supported the abolition of Saturday services to the Australian community and to the Australian public. [More…]

• He is responsible for his own dilemma and he put himself and the Government in an impossible situation leading to the degradation of services to the general Australian community. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to maintain adequate postal and post office services to the Australian community. [More…]

• If others took the same approach there would be no power, no water, no public transport, no police, no shops, no flying, no entertainment, no petrol, no milk, no television, radio or newspapers - in fact, the community would come to a standstill. [More…]

• The basis of this giant gerrymander is to take away any capacity of the electoral distribution commissioners to make adjustments for distance, size or community of interest. [More…]

• The Government wants to go to the people with a referendum proposal to provide a vote for persons over 18 years, to distribute boundaries on the basis of people instead of on the basis of electors and to take away any possibility of distributing electorates on the basis of community of interest, distance and the whole geography of the country. [More…]

• It creates political units not as a response to community pressure, but on the assumption that future demand could be stimulated and anticipated. [More…]

• This is not an abrogation of national responsibility but an acceptance of the need for freedom, initiative and diversity within the Australian community. [More…]

• Anyone who has had experience of unsewered suburbs, poor health services, poor planning procedures, inadequate local transport, neglected environmental standards, and the shortage of playing fields, community centres and opportunities for culture and recreation can understand why, because for too long local government has been a vassal of the States. [More…]

• I intrude for a brief moment or two to ask my friend, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), when he next visits Western Australia to take a very early opportunity to convey to his colleague, the Premier of Western Australia, the precise terms and implications to be found in this Bill and to assure his distinguished colleague - again on the assumption that the Bill is carried - that at the earliest opportunity this Parliament will legislate to ensure that seats in the Kimberleys in the far north-west of Western Australia are brought into community of interest with such places as Albany and that he will hasten, with all possible celerity, to bring about that state of affairs. [More…]

• But we have found in the case of the floods, we are finding in the case of the road grants which must be legislated for this year, we found in regard to pensioner rates, health centres and day care centres, to mention some specific instances, that it is a very clumsy way of promoting the activities which the community now expects from local government instead of from the Commonwealth or State governments. [More…]

• There is a considerable amount of sympathy throughout the Australian community for the basic proposal of this Bill. [More…]

• The position will call for a person with demonstrated capability in the establishment and administration of a new organisation, including the promotional activity necessary to present the Australian Archives as an organisation of interest and benefit to all sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government has a clear commitment to do this, based upon its belief that a student’s merit rather than a parent’s wealth should decide who should benefit from the community’s vast financial commitment to tertiary education. [More…]

• These are the Canberra Technical College, the Canberra School of Music and the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Legislation in this Parliament must be judged by its efficacy in meeting clearly defined objectives and by its impact on the Australian community. [More…]

• It is regrettable that the Leader of the House, even in this day and age, has forgotten his early rewarding years in that delightful little country community, Currabubula. [More…]

• I am sorry that the Leader of the House has forgotten his antecedents and the fact that he comes from the beautiful little community of Currabubula because I feel that had he not forgotten he would have been only too happy to accede to the amendment that my colleague has moved. [More…]

• There could, of course, be a number of sales tax changes that might be quite different in their context and in their impact on the Australian community. [More…]

• This involves a move to decentralise power and to decentralise assistance and to get community involvement in what is a true community responsibility. [More…]

• Australia has a Government which has alienated almost every significant group in the community and which has adopted a deliberate policy of hostility towards the business sector and our primary industries. [More…]

• It entails the arbitrary enrichment of some groups in the community and equally the arbitrary impoverishment of others. [More…]

• The Government has sought to obscure the simple and unassailable fact that economic growth and price stability are basic to the attainment of social reform and the development in our community of a just society. [More…]

• In addition, the Government has made no attempt to dampen the very serious buildup of community expectations. [More…]

• The level of community expectations is not only a significant direct contributor to inflation; it is also a basic component of the excessive degree of industrial unrest. [More…]

• The Government is prepared to support quarterly cost of living adjustments for wage earners but it is unprepared to apply that principle to those in the community who are disadvantaged. [More…]

• Mir LYNCH - The honourable member for Robertson who is alleged to represent one of the largest pensioner groups in the Australian community might be better advised to stand in this House and tell the community that he advocates some form of indexation which will ensure that his people and those who may well have voted for him at the last election are better protected than they are under the policies of his Government at the present time. [More…]

• It is a matter of record today that in the passage of that single year this centralised socialist administration which has loosely alleged a sense of monopoly of concern for those in need in the Australian community has not produced that egalitarian society because the sentiments so loosely mouthed at that time have become progressively more remote, more unattainable and more tenuous. [More…]

• Not only members of this House but also members of our community in all States of Australia who are on at least nodding terms with recreation, fitness and sport, must admit that amazing, almost revolutionary changes have taken place in these fields in the last year of so. [More…]

• Our grants for a large number and variety of recreational facilities have benefited all sectors of the community - sprawling suburbia, farming regions, mining towns, schools and many existing organisations. [More…]

• While many issues divide our community, the love of sport brings people together. [More…]

• We want to stay a doing and giving portfolio from which the entire community can benefit and none can suffer. [More…]

• If we do have any worries and problems at all with young people in our community, if these youngsters genuinely feel that their voice has not been heard, we have provided for them the forum to speak and tell us just how they would prefer to spend their leisure hours, what sort of activities would hold their interest and satisfy their need for community recreation. [More…]

• Even in places where tourism is an important economic factor for a community, where the livelihood of hundreds or thousands depends on the tourist dollar, the visitor himself is often only tolerated, if not openly resented. [More…]

• Finally, it is our intention to acquire Government equity in suitable tourist projects where we feel the community’s needs warrant this step. [More…]

• It will have a deep effect on many sections of the community. [More…]

• He was after some kudos within certain sections of the community, but it has rebounded. [More…]

• No doubt this development is causing worry to these unfortunate people and worry to everybody in the community, particularly those on fixed incomes, on reasonably stable wages or on a salary. [More…]

• The unfortunate part about the fate of these people - that is, most of the community - is that no prospect of relief is in sight. [More…]

• But, at the same time, that is merely adding to the number of money payments, adding to the money supply, adding to the balance of purchasing power in the community. [More…]

• Another matter which affects the whole community is what the future policy of the Labor Party in this area will be. [More…]

• People in the community who are progressive and who look ahead knew on past performance that insurance companies had very little if any intention of meeting the commitments that should have been theirs. [More…]

• I feel that action of the insurance companies in Queensland generally in backing away from their responsibilities in refusing to compensate people who through no fault of their own lost their homes and their belongings will certainly cause a great reaction in the community. [More…]

• But one thing can be certain: It will be some kind of socialist centralised scheme with enlarged costs and an increased tax burden on the Australian community. [More…]

• There is uneasiness in the commercial and industrial community of this country. [More…]

• It does not have a mandate to maintain social inequalities throughout the community. [More…]

• These people add nothing for the community or towards the development of this country. [More…]

• I instance the provision of community health centres, drug withdrawal facilities and necessary psychiatric facilities. [More…]

• But some 7 months ago that Post Office was created as a community mail sorting Post Office as part of a network that was established throughout the Sydney metropolitan region and I am informed that is was thought that the regional areas or the community mail post offices in the western area and other areas would fail in their mail sorting activities during the Christmas period when the load would be exceedingly heavy and that we would revert to the system which existed prior to that. [More…]

• When the Henderson report on unemployment is released it will show, for instance, that the highest proportion of poverty in the relative sense in this community exists in rural areas. [More…]

• When one takes these 2 things together - .the consistently high readings for unemployment figures and the low job opportunity rates in rural areas and the reverse situation in metropolitan areas - one appreciates the wisdom of the proposals put forward by the Minister for Labour for meaningful practicable retraining programs which can be applied in this community. [More…]

• It has been the Minister for Labour who has taken the first positive steps to do something that can help these people to be retrained and to be re-established in other parts of the community. [More…]

• The intolerable aspects of inflation are the injustices that it does between sections of the community. [More…]

• I am not persuaded, nor is any member of my committee, that people who are being discharged from hospitals or other places of rehabilitation are fit to take their place in the community again. [More…]

• That person goes into a hospital, undertakes a very short period of so-called rehabilitation and is then thrust back into the community with a view to finding a useful place in society again. [More…]

• ‘You have never had it so good’, says the Prime Minister, when industrial trouble has reached record proportions throughout the community, so much so that farmers cannot buy nails, fencing wire or machinery, even if they had the money to do so. [More…]

• I have a little more confidence in the farming community in Australia than to believe that it will cease to use superphosphate if the bounty is removed. [More…]

• I believe is required in the Australian community. [More…]

• In the face of difficulties being experienced by no other section of the community that is a phenomenal performance. [More…]

• I should think that practically every member of the Australian Country Party would come into the low income group of the community and not into the high income group that he is defending when he defends a bounty of this sort. [More…]

• It seems to be accepted now, as I have said, that there must be a limit to what any industry, what any farmer and what any worker can expect the rest of the community to pay to it or him through a tariff or subsidy or through some other form of assistance. [More…]

• Why have one standard for one section of the community and another standard for another section? [More…]

• If one continued to compare other countries with Australia one would see that in every advanced agricultural country such as those in the European Economic Community, Canada, the United States of America, New Zealand and South Africa, support measures and incentive programs for agriculture are greater than those in Australia. [More…]

• The decision to reorganise the administration of our economic aid programs is based on the view that improvements in aid must be affected in almost all aspects of our aid endeavours - in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various schemes, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the program. [More…]

• In aid matters, as in many other fields, my Government is keen to have the benefit of advice of interested members of the community. [More…]

• The Advisory Board to be set up will include members of the public, the trade unions, the business community and voluntary organisations interested in aid matters, so as to enable the Agency and the Minister to obtain advice and objective criticism on aid operations. [More…]

• We look to an aid program in which the community will feel involved, and of which the community will be proud. [More…]

• the economic cost to the community of road accidents in Australia in terms of - [More…]

• The headings of discussion in the Conference were: The Enlarged European Community and the Commonwealth’, ‘World Security’, ‘The Future of Territories in the Commonwealth’, ‘Commonwealth Immigration Policies’, ‘Parliamentary Government (in its various aspects)’, and ‘Economic Problems and Social Problems’, the last two being taken in committee session. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the delegation did take part in debate on the European Economic Community, World Security, the Protection of the Environment, Commonwealth Immigration Policies and the Status and Role of the Parliamentarian in contemporary society. [More…]

• These informal exchanges are of the greatest importance in contributing to the resolution of differences within the Commonwealth and beyond it, and in strengthening the sense of community that exists in the [More…]

• The Nineteenth Conference was the first Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference to be held since Britain formally entered the European Economic Community, and the first to be held in Britain since she opened negotiations to enter the Common Market. [More…]

• We in the Liberal and Country parties do care and it will be our policy to use all the means we can to reduce inflationary pressures, assist the less well off sections of the community and provide incentives to growth and development. [More…]

• I want to highlight to members the specific new benefits that have come to the Central Coast area of Gosford-Wyong, as distinct from the benefits that are available to every community. [More…]

• These centres which are directly attributable to the Schools Commission finance will be used by the school during school hours and will be available to the rest of the community in the late afternoons, evenings and weekends. [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…]

• The two at Woy Woy and Wyong are to be main community centres and will be staffed by psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers and experts in drug dependency care. [More…]

• The services to the community will be provided free to all patients. [More…]

• However, the most exciting news is that the Government has agreed to finance the establishment of a series of community health centres commencing at The Entrance. [More…]

• These will include an occupational therapist, social workers, community nurses and possibly a pathology department. [More…]

• Private practice doctors operating on a fee for service basis will be offered rooms in the centre so that patients will have available more complete community health care facilities. [More…]

• Two further community health centres are planned for Woy Woy and Wyong. [More…]

• This centre will double as a community theatre and school assembly hall. [More…]

• This project has been on the drawing boards for some years now and I believe I am not exaggerating when I say that the decision by the Minister to make this grant, together with the initiative of the Schools Commission, will be just the incentive required to inspire the Council and the rest of the community to make this dream a reality within a very short time. [More…]

• I believe that I have shown clearly today a new and widespread community involvement by the Australian Government that illustrates just how hopeless, how inadequate and how unresponsive was the previous Government to the very real needs of our communities. [More…]

• All it has been able to achieve is the encouragement of greed and selfishness which has been evidenced by increased industrial action in record proportions and at enormous cost and great hardship to the community. [More…]

• This has been brought about by the implementation of policies which have been ill-conceived and ill-administered and has resulted in an appalling waste of huge sums of money, to the detriment of the Aboriginal people, who are supposed to benefit, and the white community, which will not tolerate the waste of money no matter on whom it is wasted. [More…]

• This problem will continue to grow as long as the Aborigines are unable to feel that they are part of the Australian community. [More…]

• The justification for the treatment of the rural community in such a fashion is - to quote the Prime Minister - ‘You have never had it so good’. [More…]

• In this the first season of improved prices and seasonal conditions the rural community is being denied the opportunity to restructure its massive debt situation, which currently stands in excess of $4,000m. [More…]

• Man-hours and wages lost are climbing to unprecedented levels and the community is suffering. [More…]

• Government must encourage, and support the things of real value in a community. [More…]

• I urge it to follow a course of conciliation and moderation, as it is only through policies of this nature that this country will avoid the tragic economic and social effects of a divided community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Gippsland talked earlier about a lack of confidence in the community. [More…]

• Some of these relate to community health facilities. [More…]

• There has been a growth of inequality and disunity in the community. [More…]

• As a result we have now an intake of about 8,000 or 9,000 people who have been integrated into our community. [More…]

• If we had been returned to government we would have introduced concessions with respect to the interest paid on the purchase of homes which would have benefited the poorer sections qf the community to a much greater extent than Labor’s scheme. [More…]

• I “believe that the Aboriginal community ought to be consulted much more than is being done on matters affecting the welfare of that community. [More…]

• Increasingly in all the countries of the European Economic Community, in Scandinavia and throughout the Englishspeaking democracies, there is a mood of disillusionment and cynicism about members of parliament, the institution of parliament and the democratic process itself. [More…]

• Let me illustrate the sort of parliamentary conduct which arouses the indignation of decent, honest members of the community by referring briefly to the speech which was made in this debate last Thursday by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch). [More…]

• At the very time when a great increase in the supply of money in the community was being engineered by the then government in order to win political kudos for itself in a difficult election year, the banks were being encouraged to lend money to all comers and for all purposes. [More…]

• The Australian people, I find, are simply- no longer willing to leave to Canberra, or in the case of my own State to leave to Spring Street, decisions which they know should be taken in their own community. [More…]

• We have heard also today a great deal of discussion about the condition of the agricultural sector of the community. [More…]

• Yet we heard the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) speak to us in such dismal terms about the performance of this Government in respect of the farm community. [More…]

• Naturally shortages will be created as all of the resources of the country are brought to bear in the interests of the community at large. [More…]

• Members of the high protection Party who sit to our right and resolutely refused to reduce tariffs all the time that they were part of the coalition Government are now shown up for what they are - people who are prepared to protect the vested and narrow interest groups which feed on the community at large, particularly the agricultural sector. [More…]

• The Kilcoy community was very frightened and concerned because if that dam wall could not have held the water or if more water had come over that wall, Kilcoy, many of the surrounding areas and very much of Brisbane could have been wiped out. [More…]

• This, it is estimated, caused the transfer of about $ 1,000m from one section of the community to another, obviously from those who are not rich to those who are. [More…]

• Therefore it is very often necessary to try to go through a drill which will, in the first instance, safeguard the Australian community from susceptibility to the disease and, secondly, safeguard the members of the family themselves. [More…]

• COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES Mr BENNETT- My question is directed to the Minister for Health. [More…]

• Is it a fact that more than Sim has been allocated to Western Australia by the Australian Government for community and mental health services? [More…]

• It depends on the funding arrangements entered into by the State and the local community health committee. [More…]

• The first question was whether further funds can be made available through the community health program. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the economic arguments surrounding the application of the present credit squeeze policy, there are, of course, a number of groups within the community for whom the Government’s policy represents a substantial burden. [More…]

• Increases in interest rates, as with increases in indirect taxation, have differential effects on various groups within the community. [More…]

• Therefore the small depositor is, in effect, subsidising the remainder of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is clearly no equity in this situation, and the Labor Government’s sponsoring of this general approach unquestionably has contributed to the widening of income levels and social differences within our community. [More…]

• We believe that the Government stands condemned for imposing on the Australian community the highest and most onerous interest rates since Federation. [More…]

• There are 2 prime groups in Australia - those who employ labour and those who work to produce the goods and services, public and private, that this community needs. [More…]

• He referred to the fundamental division of the Australian community into 2 prime groups. [More…]

• We on this side of the House do not look at that division as being the prime grouping of the Australian community. [More…]

• We do not see those who are employed as being in any different relationship to the community from those who are employers. [More…]

• But I think it is important that we recognise that out of this assessment of the 2 prime groupings of the community, the Treasurer and those who frame the economic policy of this Government are pursuing a course which is directly contributing to inflation; a course which very much relates to the matter now a subject of debate in this chamber - the imposition by the Government of the highest and most onerous interest rates since federation. [More…]

• The second respect is the impact that high interest rates have had on the ordinary men and women in the Australian community in pushing up the costs of everything they want to do and in denying them the opportunity to build homes and to do many of those things which as Australians we have come to expect as a result of years of sound and wise economic management by governments from this side of the House. [More…]

• The Treasurer himself failed to demonstrate this afternoon that high interest rates benefit the community. [More…]

• In fact, it affects everyone in the community. [More…]

• Some people can live with it successfully but inflation certainly creates for the whole community instability and uncertainty and certainly that is not desirable. [More…]

• In extreme conditions the cohesion of the community breaks down. [More…]

• The depreciating value of money encourages a flight into real goods and property in the community, giving rise to increased prices which were unnecessary. [More…]

• Shortages of goods in the community become widespread as the result of inflation at the level which exists today and eventually - I believe that we see the beginnings of this - artificial shortages arise. [More…]

• He thinks so little of the problem or the result of instability and hardship to many people in the community who cannot defend themselves that he said: ‘We will survive if there is 14 per cent, 12 per cent, 10 per cent or less*. [More…]

• Of course there are people in the community who will say that there has been too much speed in these changes. [More…]

• I think it is very important to note that teachers, parents and the community at large had their opportunity to study these reports and make their recommendations. [More…]

• To substantiate this assertion we need only to look at the community health program. [More…]

• I know that at present many people in the community which I represent are at risk because they cannot afford to join a voluntary health insurance organisation. [More…]

• The present community health scheme certainly is not just a health scheme operating at the national level, nor does it operate even at the State level. [More…]

• It gets right down to the areas in which people live - the suburb - and it helps the community in that suburb. [More…]

• The then Interim Committee of the Australian Hospitals and Health Services Commission in June last year tabled a community health program for Australia. [More…]

• I believe that the 2 words ‘community’ and ‘health’ are the key words. [More…]

• Again I emphasise the word ‘community’ because it is at the community level where people at grass roots under our system of government are able to make known their health needs. [More…]

• Some weeks ago I called a meeting in the Doveton public hall to which members of the community came and gave expression to what they believe should happen in the community. [More…]

• The people, aware of the example of community health centres established and functioning well in the Australian Capital Territory and of the money set aside in Victoria, made it abundantly clear that they also wanted a community health centre in the DovetonHallam area. [More…]

• The submission of the community’s elected group will shortly be on its way to the Australian Hospital and Health Services Commission and the Minister in Canberra and also to the Victorian Hospitals and Charities Commission and the Victorian Minister. [More…]

• In conclusion, 1 believe that what must be emphasised in relation to the whole of this community health program is that it is not something imposed from above. [More…]

• As I have tried to demonstrate in the example from my own electorate of Holt, action has arisen out of the will and the wish of the community. [More…]

• In that respect I agree with him, as I am certain would every responsible member of this Parliament, because inflation is a real problem that causes a great deal of dislocation in the community. [More…]

• It is a very important issue in this community today. [More…]

• In other words, the Opposition is saying that those people who are thrifty enough to save - I am talking not about the big investors but about the small savers who get the lowest interest rates in the community and who are usually the ones who subsidise government actions because it is government banks which are used - should subsidise borrowers; or does the Opposition intend to take that money out of tax revenue and subsidise interest rates in some way whilst at the same time cutting government expenditure? [More…]

• The moderate, sensible Aboriginal who wants to make a contribution and who wants to be part of the community life has a fear in his heart because of the extremist and the ratbag who one could say is being almost encouraged by members of this Government. [More…]

• Whilst there was an enormous amount of goodwill in the community by those who wanted to assist, the co-ordination at the top was not what it could have been. [More…]

• We now have a number of portfolios which hitherto did not exist, and these portfolios already have made their impact on the Australian community. [More…]

• Never at any time did the former Government admit that there was poverty in the Australian community. [More…]

• We have embarked upon community health programs with the State governments in order to provide much needed psychiatric centres for alcoholics and drug control which hitherto were not available. [More…]

• The Associa tion pointed out that the speeches by my Leader on this subject give a different perspective to a lot of the problems that are talked about in the community today. [More…]

• The deportation of the group was essential to protect the 12 dupes from years of exploitation and to protect the standards of living and employment of the Australian community. [More…]

• He said that the deportation of the group was essential to protect the 12 dupes from 20 years of exploitation and to protect the standards of living and employment of the Australian community. [More…]

• However, I am concerned and have been concerned that in Papua New Guinea, as in many other lesser developed countries, there has been a tendency to encourage education at a university level and a failure to build up the understanding that people with technical skills, with the semiskilled and skilled role that they can play in the infrastructure of the community will probably be more significant than those who have graduate or postgraduate degrees. [More…]

• The extent of the Government’s involvement in the financing of the research program has been carefully examined, and it is considered that whilst rural producers benefit directly from many of the results of rural research, the Australian community, in general, also benefits in many ways from this research activity. [More…]

• The benefits from promotion activity accrue more directly to producers than to other members of the community, and accordingly it is considered that wool growers themselves should make the major financial commitment to promotion expenditure. [More…]

• The Australian Government is bent on presenting foreign affairs in terms of realistic criteria in trying to make evaluations of our dealings with other nations in the international community. [More…]

• The net result is that the people of Australia have had to endure for the last decade a wide range of restrictive, commercial and business practices which have been operating to the detriment of the community. [More…]

• Continued delay in the passing of effective legislation is only adding to the injustice and the injury being experienced by the community. [More…]

• But if we have increased productivity we will be able to afford to have more of the goods and services the community needs. [More…]

• It is also the job of this Government to ensure that the goods which are produced and the services which are provided are properly distributed within the community, and that is a very important hallmark of this Government as compared with its predecessors. [More…]

• The honourable member relies on importing somebody else’s brains because he did not give an opportunity to the people in our own community. [More…]

• I think that largely this is because we have not given technical colleges their rightful status in our community. [More…]

• Although there is a growing degree of local decision-making with respect to curricula and general management at the local high school level, there is an even greater need for the teachers on the local scene, the parents and the local community generally to play a greater part in determining the subjects available to pupils in high schools. [More…]

• Let us face the fact that not everybody in the community has equal ability in any particular sphere. [More…]

• This problem goes further than bringing to the community an awareness of the importance of technical education; it goes to the financial remuneration received by the people who are products of the system. [More…]

• People need to be paid a wage and a return commensurate with the contribution they make to the welfare and the wellbeing of the community of which they are a part. [More…]

• For example, retraining, which must become a more important feature in our technically orientated community, will affect every age group in the community: It should not be necessary for us to regard a technical college as the place to which one goes when one leaves school and which one does not see again when one’s course has been finished. [More…]

• In this sense technical colleges should become a lively and exciting area for innovation in community living and community involvement. [More…]

• There are other areas of technical education which do not bear, in the traditional way, on the economic functions of the community. [More…]

• I am very pleased to identify myself today with this Bill, which is an acknowledgment of the fundamental and important role that technical education plays in our community. [More…]

• The high level of inflation, which is telling on the community, together with the losses incurred by the floods, rain damage and so on are going to make it almost impossible for the people in the northern areas of Australia, whether it be in north Queensland or the Northern Territory, to get back on their feet. [More…]

• There has been a lot of talk about more community use of school facilities. [More…]

• The Macquarie Fields High School, which forms a central part of a shop development, a business development, a commercial development, a public service development and things such as fire stations and police stations, will be fully involved with community matters. [More…]

• He has slurred over all the difficulties, the growing shortages, inflation and a lot of things which are bringing disturbance to the Australian community and which perhaps will be visited on the head of this Government as soon as the people get a chance to show the Government what they think of ft. [More…]

• Let me turn from those vital matters to a matter which I believe to be important - perhaps not so important as those matters but still very important indeed - that is, the degree of inflation which exists in the Australian community. [More…]

• We know that this is being exacerbated because of the shortages which are occuring throughout the community. [More…]

• If the price of Australian oil is raised to the price of imported oil the increased cost to the Australian community will be in the region of $480m. [More…]

• He made it quite clear that he would oppose any attempt to increase the profits earned in the community. [More…]

• There is no person or authority in this country that gets more out of the Australian community than does the Federal Treasurer. [More…]

• With all the savoir-faire and charm of a highway robber he waits for those who manage to succeed in making profits in this community. [More…]

• Even wealthy industries can be brought into question and made to answer for their efficiency and usefulness to the community. [More…]

• Tragically the result will penalise the whole Australian community. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security a few moments ago suggested that we in the Australian Country Party, together with our Liberal colleagues, would disadvantage the wage earners of this community in order to benefit the rural sector. [More…]

• We have introduced certain price controls in the Australian Capital Territory as an example to the States and to protect the community. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) in this debate delivered the throwaway line ‘Australia has a Government which has alienated almost every significant group in the community’. [More…]

• The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prices has allowed groups and individuals in the community to have their say in what goes on in this country. [More…]

• Another example is the grants by the Department of the Environment and Conservation to local community groups to allow these groups to become their own environmental advocate. [More…]

• Community involvement in what goes on in this country has been long delayed but is now occurring. [More…]

• Again it involves community involvement in determining and planning welfare policies at the local level, with everybody, including the recipients of welfare services, being involved. [More…]

• Three community health centres and 3 mental health clinics are to be set up. [More…]

• Bendigo would be the base for a multicampus country university with community campuses at Morwell and Ballarat. [More…]

• I lived in’ a great community which saw incredible hardships. [More…]

• I had a good measure of what had happened in a generation of business because my late father-in-law started the first business in a community which now has 40,000 people. [More…]

• In addition we find that local services are very severely affected on this occasion and there will be a need for some special steps to be taken to assist the local authorities to clear the roads, to restore communications and to get the community back to some semblance of order. [More…]

• But he did not tell us that the proposed oil increases that he is now supporting would mean to the farming community alone a total cost effect of $295m a year plus an enormous amount to the people who do not belong to the farming community. [More…]

• In fact, the whole ability of government to provide the services sought by the community depends, in the end, on the profitability of Australian industry. [More…]

• The direct cost to the farming community of his proposal would be $28m a year, compared with the cost of taking away the superphosphate bounty of S50m, less the tax deduction, which I have been led to understand by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) would produce a net cost of about S30m. [More…]

• BHP is but one of the interests that it represents in this Parliament in greater priority than it does the farming community, but it is a very significant interest. [More…]

• We have seen the introduction of a community health scheme. [More…]

• In this regard I wish to refer to grants made to community health centres. [More…]

• There has been a grant of $125,000 for the extension of the existing community medical centre at Port Lincoln. [More…]

• Another area which has benefited from the community health centres grant is Coober Pedy, which is an isolated opal mining centre approximately 400 miles by road from Port Augusta. [More…]

• Altogether the amount that has been granted for community health services in the electorate of Grey is in excess of $400,000. [More…]

• If inflation becomes accepted by the community it is almost impossible to eradicate it. [More…]

• It should be our prime purpose to mobilise the community to face the problem of inflation and to bring it within bounds. [More…]

• If such a powerful section of the community is insulated against the immediate effects of inflation, the prospects of a united attack on the problem are seriously reduced. [More…]

• By its attitude to inflation, the attitude of benign or perhaps not so benign neglect, the Government is harming the weaker section of the community, the very people it claims to protect. [More…]

• If the Minister for Labour is right and the oil companies profits are excessive, surely the right answer is to reduce the price of petrol so that the whole community can share in the benefits rather than to give all the benefits to a small group of militant trade unionists. [More…]

• They now do not have to bear the burden of fees to better their education and thus serve the community with their greater skills. [More…]

• But in certain areas it has had tragic consequences because this Government has alienated person after person and group after group in the Australian community. [More…]

• It has alienated doctors deliberately and has sought to destroy the name of doctors in our community. [More…]

• It is odd to go into a Minister’s office in this place and find the cheap party political slogans about those people in the community whom that Minister happens to dislike or even hate. [More…]

• It is in the interests of the whole community that that should not become the general pattern. [More…]

• Very large funds are being made available by the Australian Government for such varied projects as health centres, through the Department of Health, and community recreation centres, through the Department of Tourism and Recreation. [More…]

• I wish to speak a little about inflation, and about what I suggest that the Government might consider because certainly there has been a lot of talk about it and certainly it is a condition with which many people can live, and certainly it creates in the whole community a situation of instability and of wondering whether savings will be eroded to an impossible extent. [More…]

• The weighing up of the problem that is necessary is, in part, a technical study, but further large increases in the inflation rate and in prices, which will affect every member of this community, will be quite inevitable if we go along as before. [More…]

• They must include all sections of the community. [More…]

• What is has done is to sectionalise the reduction in expenditure entirely in the rural community. [More…]

• The measures must be taken across the board because all sections of the community will benefit from a lower rate of inflation. [More…]

• I have already said that I have no brief for any particular section of the community. [More…]

• We want reasonable profits, but at the same time we do not want and we cannot afford to have undue demands made on the economy by any section of the community, and this is what is taking place. [More…]

• On the question of wasteful and discriminatory support, we should not forget that, while the tariff has fostered the growth of important sections of Australian industry, it has not been without cost to business and the community generally; cost that is inevitably borne by the consumers, that is, by all of us. [More…]

• I am putting the facts forward to indicate the extremely high and largely unknown - because it is unseen - cost of protection that is carried by the community. [More…]

• The most denigrated person in our community is the public servant. [More…]

• The firm said that it would not have mattered what we did; members of the business community are so strongly engrained in their prejudice against a democratic socialist party that even if they were quadrupling their profits they would not have liked us. [More…]

• I am confident that simple economic interest in the farming community will see that the application of superphosphate is maintained in these times of unprecedented rural prosperity. [More…]

• Although the honourable member for Paterson claimed that more man $300m had been withdrawn from the rural community in subsidies, he did not set this figure, tendentious as it is, in its proper economic context of rising rural incomes. [More…]

• This is one of the practices of reactionary people in the community who resent any efforts to liberalise social welfare benefits and services. [More…]

• For so long - until we became the government, in fact - unemployment and sickness benefits in Australia were at a quite insufferably low level compared with average living standards in the community. [More…]

• I also find it rather curious that the reactionaries in the community who like to masquerade under the proud traditions of small T liberalism are always concerned about the problems of the idle poor in the community but are never concerned about the problems presented by the idle rich in the community. [More…]

• One can be tough, inflexible and discriminatory because one is worried that someone may fiddle a dollar or two somewhere and, in the course of that, one will be extremely repressive, discriminatory and depriving against worthy cases in the community; or one can display some sort of tolerance and some sort of liberalism, according to the proud philosophical values of Mill and of the school of liberal thought, and help the people who are really needy. [More…]

• But if anyone searches through those statements for matters of real substance and matters that have come to cause concern to a large number of people in the Australian trade union movement and in the general Australian community, he will not find much enlightenment or much help from this Minister for Immigration. [More…]

• There is nothing in that document which answers the questions with which I am concerned, with which the Opposition is concerned, with which the Australian trade union movement is concerned, with which the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) ought to be concerned and with which the Australian community is most certainly concerned. [More…]

• Of course we have taken advice; of course we have proceeded carefully and in accordance with the platform of the Party to which I have the honour to belong which said that there should be an avoidance of clashes; there should be an avoidance of difficulties; there should be, above all, protection for the people who come to Australia and for the standards of the Australian community. [More…]

• If a man with high qualifications comes into Australia and we suggest to him that his only place in the community is digging trenches for the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board, he hates us and he is unhappy and he goes home. [More…]

• Yet, I would have to say that the Minister’s inspired incoherent and equivocal statements are having that very effect within our own community. [More…]

• But the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) have come into this chamber today, deliberately setting out to stir up racial hatred and racial intolerance because they believe that latent in the Australian community is an antipathy towards people with coloured skins or people of different races and origins. [More…]

• They are deliberately setting out to whip up and capitalise upon this latent element within the community - which they believe is still there and which they hope is still there, because if it is not their exercise today will have been wasted - so that they can score some petty political point from the Government in regard to the very humane, sen sible and rational attitude it has taken towards the question of racial discrimination. [More…]

• We have rejected them for no other reason than the good enough reason that we were satisfied from past experience that Albanian people of this type who are in these circumstances could not possibly be absorbed into the Australian community. [More…]

• However, it will provide only 25 per cent of the total funds for wool promotion on the ground that, as the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) said in his second reading speech, ‘the benefits from promotion activity accrue more directly to producers than to other members of the community’. [More…]

• The Government is attempting to make a small saving on expenditure at the expense of a small section of the community. [More…]

• There does not appear to me to be any likelihood of a reduction in the future of the present crippling rate of inflation, which is going to fall very heavily on the rural community because it cannot pass on its increased costs. [More…]

• We know, however, that pension increases - even record pension increases such as we now propose - are only part of the answer to the problem of how to improve the quality of life of the less privileged in our community. [More…]

• The first thing that the community must bear in mind and that pensioners must be especially aware of is that the consumer price index increases at a much slower rate than for instance, average weekly earnings. [More…]

• All of these points have been detailed in that sample survey which has been submitted to the poverty inquiry and I repeat that I hope that very soon I can release that report so that we can kill some of this most obnoxious, unfair and in too many cases thoroughly dishonest misrepresentation which has been broadcast in the community in an effort to discredit the development of a comprehensive system of social security benefits and social welfare services which are based on a truly liberal philosophy in which the dignity of the individual is respected and his right to self-realisation and achievement in society is fostered in every reasonable sort of way. [More…]

• Socially, of course, inflation causes a redistribution through individual gains and losses, and that tends to create bitterness, social divisiveness in the community and antagonisms. [More…]

• Therefore, inflation, as it is now being practised, with the Treasurer (Mr Crean) talking about rates of 200 per cent being not acceptable but not saying what he regards as an acceptable rate, is self-fulfilling, selfpropelling and self-destructive for those in the community who are thrifty and who make an effort to do something about their old age. [More…]

• There is the Willoughby Community Aid and Information Centre, which provides counselling service on social welfare. [More…]

• In the Australian Capital Territory a wide range of community groups and associations makes use of school classrooms, gymnasia, assembly halls, general purpose rooms, equipment and outdoor playing areas in order to conduct their various activities. [More…]

• These groups include Parents and Citizens Associations, sports clubs, church and religious groups, Public Service trainees, drama and art groups, foreign language classes and community councils. [More…]

• Local sports clubs use school ovals, courts and open spaces and fetes organised by local community groups and school holiday camps have been held for a number of years on school grounds. [More…]

• The right honourable gentleman will be interested to know that in the third term of 1973 a survey was made of the community use of school buildings in the A.C.T. [More…]

• The survey showed considerable variation in the degree of use of individual schools by the community. [More…]

• In cases of little or no community use the survey suggested unsuitable facilities and prevailing attitudes as the main reasons for low usage. [More…]

• My Department is currently examining the results of the survey and, where inadequate facilities are identified, steps will be taken to rectify impediments to community use. [More…]

• As far as attitudes deterring community use are concerned, the Interim A.C.T. [More…]

• Schools Authority has initiated steps to encourage school principals and staff to facilitate community involvement in educational activities, including the use of school buildings for community purposes. [More…]

• The planned Melba College, due for completion by 1978, is intended to maximise use by community groups through its provision of specially-designed library, gymnasium, arts/crafts and multi-purpose facilities. [More…]

• Of the high schools, five reported little community use apart from activities intimately associated with the school. [More…]

• Of the thirty-nine primary schools, fourteen were substantially used by the community, seventeen were used regularly but not to capacity and eight had minimal community use. [More…]

• The extent of community use of schools in the Northen Territory varies from school to school but most schools are involved. [More…]

• However, it could be assumed that almost all of the twenty-seven such schools contribute school facilities for community activities on some occasions. [More…]

• Designs for the first 4 houses have been prepared by the Association’s consultant architect in consultation with the community. [More…]

• If so, is this likely to mean that adequate planning will be impossible, with consequent hardship to the new arrivals and problems for the Australian community. [More…]

• In it he begged the business community to have confidence in the Government because the Government wanted to help business. [More…]

• But how could business have an affinity with this Government at the moment, this Government which is creating uncertainty and confusion within the business community? [More…]

• Do you wonder that they should hold such an attitude when they see the burgeoning Commonwealth Public Service and the wages and conditions which it is being given which, when they flow on to the public sector of the community, will make it nearly impossible for businessmen to show any degree of profit? [More…]

• No doubt there was a need for a quick examination of the levels of protection for industries that had been examined for a considerable period of time to try to offset some of the inflationary pressures in the community. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the secondary industry sector of the community, which relies on protection, is so concerned when we get these sorts of crazy decisions being made by the Government which are completely unfair and unjust? [More…]

• The relatively high rate of inflation in Australia compared to overseas countries is going to make our competitive position more unfavourable and the long term effects of revaluation and the tariff cuts will be felt by the manufacturing sector of the community. [More…]

• Mindful of the problems which have beset similar committees in other countries and conscious of the need to take fully into account the views of interested groups within the community, the Government has moved with care in formulating its plans for the creation of a science council. [More…]

• Some of the issues on which no clear-cut guidelines have yet emerged are of sufficient importance to warrant seeking further expressions of view from the community, even though this would entail some delay in establishing the council. [More…]

• I personally would like to see a greater concentration on those sections of the community which are receiving the very base standard rate of pension. [More…]

• It will bring great benefits, particularly to those people in the community who are now receiving a modest income. [More…]

• I believe that in future years the Labor Government, having achieved those 2 desirable social objectives, should then start to concentrate on that section of the community which is receiving just the base rate. [More…]

• I refer to health services and the provision of a range of health centres throughout the community. [More…]

• Pensioners comprise the section of the community that is the hardest hit by inflation. [More…]

• If the Government is to claim credit for the announcement of a $3 a week increase in the basic pension - and it is claiming credit - it must also accept the condemnation of pensioners and the community generally for allowing such an inflation rate to occur. [More…]

• It seems to me that this matter calls for maximum rather than minimum discussion, not only here but in the community as well. [More…]

• I also mention the great impact of these unemployment benefits upon the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I have never thought that Aborigines should in any way have less than anybody else in the community, but what I have advocated and will continue to advocate is that unemployment benefits should he kept out of the areas where Aboriginals live by the simple expedient of making jobs available at the point where the Aborigines are. [More…]

• I have said in the past that unemployment benefits for Aboriginals are like measles; it is not something which kills many European people, but when loosed on an Aboriginal community it can have a large amount of fatality associated with it. [More…]

• Our community, with some exceptions - hippies and so on about whom the Minister has spoken - can stand up to unemployment benefits. [More…]

• They need support from health and welfare services at the community level. [More…]

• But I feel that the deep embedding of this sort of problem is a social problem rather than one of distributing strictures in the community and moralising. [More…]

• Accordingly, we in the Department of Social Security are carrying out quite an extensive survey to find out what the pattern of distribution is between sexes, age groups, occupation groups and geographic parts of the community of these people who are on unemployment benefits. [More…]

• In the meantime, I would try to encourage the community to take a more enlightened approach to what seems to be a worrying change which is taking place within the work force - worrying in the sense that there do seem to be social defects which are becoming increasingly embedded within the system. [More…]

• The repatriation hospitals and other institutions provide a very high standard of care which is at least equivalent to and often exceeds that which is available elsewhere in the community. [More…]

• This would also have the effect of helping to relieve the general shortage of such facilities in the community. [More…]

• The Government has also recognised that, whenever there is spare capacity in repatriation hospitals, it is sensible to make these facilities and the expertise of repatriation treatment services available to the community generally. [More…]

• The role of the repatriation artificial limb and appliance centres has been expanded to serve the whole community by providing artificial limbs free of cost for those who need them - both to ex-servicemen and women and to civilians. [More…]

• There is no more deserving section of the community than war widows. [More…]

• The members of the war widows community should enjoy the respect and admiration of this community until no more are left. [More…]

• I believe that the formation of an independent Australia Council will inaugurate a new era of vitality and progress in the arts, that creative artists of all kinds will enjoy a new measure of security and status in the community, and that the Australian people as a whole will have new and wider opportunities to participate in the arts and enjoy the emotional, spiritual and intellectual rewards which the arts alone can provide. [More…]

• We want to promote the general application of the arts in the community and foster the expression of a national identity by means of the arts. [More…]

• The Council will be a body corporate consisting of not fewer than 18 and not more than 24 members drawn from a broad range of artistic, community and related Government interests. [More…]

• It is our intention that Government support for the arts should not become the province of entrenched interests and that it should serve, in the widest possible way, the artistic needs and aspirations of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government believes they should be able to work in their own country secure in the knowledge that the community and the Government place a high value on their contribution to our way of life. [More…]

• We want to ensure that our greatest artists remain in Australia and prosper in Australia, and that the whole Australian community is the richer for their presence. [More…]

• We cannot advertise that the buildings will be constructed, because if we did advertise, anybody interested - that is, those with a community interest, local government interest or individuals - would write to the Secretary and ask for the documentation from the client department and also the documentation by the Department of Housing and Construction so that they could examine’ them. [More…]

• I know that more than 30 witnesses, many of them from community groups, participated in the inquiry in respect of Cockburn Sound. [More…]

• My concern relates to the closing of telephone exchanges and its effect on the community. [More…]

• An additional burden will be placed on the farmers and eventually it will be passed on to the community. [More…]

• Under the policies proposed by the Australian Government we would no longer need to build new suburbs without jobs, transport, shops, schools, parks and social and community centres. [More…]

• I am glad to have the opportunity to say that the whole essence of this Bill throws up the interdependence of the primary industry sector, the rural sector, on the one hand, and the rest of the community on the other. [More…]

• Where the community interest is involved, the clauses of this Bill are written in such a way that the community pays three-quarters of the cost. [More…]

• Where there is less of the community interest involved and the industry itself is totally involved, in regard to the promotion side, the industry is involved in three-quarters of the cost. [More…]

• We have to look at the total community. [More…]

• We have to look at the welfare of the total community. [More…]

• That is not what aid is all about, The gross national product is there only to measure the extent of goods and services in a given community at any moment of time. [More…]

• Will it continue large scale economic development to enhance productivity alone or will it adopt a proper balance in relation to the extent of the aid program so that there will be a continuing development posture through large-scale development and also through village and rural development schemes that strike at the role of people in a community? [More…]

• I believe that members of the Parliament and also the public should know exactly what is being spent and in which direction because there are so many hidden subsidies in the tax concessions system that the Parliament at no stage knows exactly by how much it is subsidising a family unit, the farmers or any other group in the community. [More…]

• I trust that he will be participating in the Walk Against Want being organised by Community Aid Abroad in Melbourne this Sunday. [More…]

• It is not simply a matter of administrative reform; it is the creation of an instrument to give expression to Australia’s obligations to the poorer members of the international community. [More…]

• This latter trend has rightly caused much soul searching in the international development community. [More…]

• Under McNamara’s guidance the Bank has assumed the leadership of the international development community in stressing both the need for greater efforts by the developed countries and the need to tackle the problem of unequal income distribution within the developing countries. [More…]

• No country can maintain an effective aid program unless it has the support of the community. [More…]

• The legislation provides for a Development Assistance Advisory Board which will be widely representative of the community and will be a valuable means of keeping the Agency aware of community attitudes on development questions. [More…]

• In co-ordinating this aid the new agency will be keen to have the benefit of the advice of interested members of the community. [More…]

• The advisory board to be set up will include members of the public, the trade unions, the business community and voluntary organisations interested in aid matters. [More…]

• We must adopt a community view - a world view - if we are to avoid a deterioration in the relationship between rich and poor, lt is important to realise that we need a flexible policy towards aid in each individual recipient country. [More…]

• What is needed for medical students in Asian countries is greater emphasis on matters of public health and community medicine where sophisticated surgery techniques and other drugs are not available and where some improvision in the basic practice of medicine is required. [More…]

• I think it is good that the Government is thinking of bringing in other groups in the community which are interested in aid. [More…]

• Church groups, trade unions and others in the community who have involved themselves in voluntary aid programs ought to be consulted in devising a program for the Australian Government. [More…]

• Political rights are legal rights to play a part in determining who governs or what the laws of the community are. [More…]

• The fact that a group of institutions is non-profit making, or that they are operating in an area of social importance, does not reduce the capacity of those institutions, in certain circumstances, to undertake activities that could be inimical to effective economic management and thereby involve both economic and social costs to the community. [More…]

• Chief among these would be medicine at the community medicine level, nursing, agricultural and veterinary science, engineering and economics. [More…]

• Their problems are problems in the area of community health and hygiene. [More…]

• They need education aid in this technical area for the teaching and training of agricultural extension workers and of community nurses and doctors to go out into the villages. [More…]

• The decision to reorganise the administration of our economic aid programs is based on the view that improvements in aid must be effected in almost all aspects of our aid endeavours - in the machinery for formulating policy,, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various schemes, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the program. [More…]

• It allows those elements in the community who like to say that we should not give so much, more of a debating point and it helps to hold back the flow of worthwhile investment and other aid. [More…]

• In fact the speech gave some very important guide lines as to the objectives of the new Agency, such as ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in improved evaluation of our aid programs, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the programs. [More…]

• Not all multilateral institutions, however, are in this category and there are many reasons why Australia, like other members of the international community, should support them. [More…]

• They gave no response to show whether or not they were concerned and in fact I think that would be true in respect of the Australian community generally. [More…]

• If our national trading account were conducted on this basis we would very quickly have a gigantic deficit and uproar would prevail in the business community. [More…]

• This legislation was commissioned in 1967 and it was not until that very great day, 2 December 1972, that a very great change took place in this country and for the first time in 23 years the country found itself with a government that was willing to govern, prepared to goyern and determined to govern and some sort of leadership was shown to the community. [More…]

• I would hope that in the future when the building pressures ease in our community we will devote more money towards providing the sort of stock that would become tourist attraction facilities in the future. [More…]

• As one who represents a small section of the people of Australia I think that deep disgust must be felt in the community about this situation. [More…]

• The consultants found that as a result of Government policies there is now a disincentive to invest in agriculture and a growing lack of confidence in the rural community. [More…]

• From my experience in local (government I am convinced that local government authorities can utilise funds made available to them to the advantage of the community even more effectively than either State or Federal governments, because they are closer to the people. [More…]

• That was pursuant to a precedent that has been followed by governments of all political colours ever since 1910 for the development of Canberra that any increase in the value of land arising out of a decision by the community to develop the land should accrue to the community as a whole and not to the individual landholder. [More…]

• I should have thought that most people in the community would have accepted the proposition that in any land acquisition for public purposes a fair price should be paid for the land. [More…]

• The burden was particularly felt by the poorer sections of the community in the widely scattered islands of the Region. [More…]

• When, now, we extend to the French people our sympathy on the death of their President we might perhaps, on behalf of the Australian people, offer concurrently some measure of apology for the way in which we have singled them out and the way in which our Government has co-operated with left wing elements in the community that have been singling them out for this treatment. [More…]

• It extends to cover the many fundamental matters of real concern to the Australian community which have been successively shelved by a Government which apparently knows no better. [More…]

• I know that some people in the community have suggested that the $70,015,000 could and should be better used on social services. [More…]

• The point is that these are all charges upon the community of Australia and they will eventually flow on to the private sector which is the only productive sector. [More…]

• The fact that a fund that covers only public servants can accumulate a surplus to the extent that this Fund has brings to mind the thoughts that the funds of the community could be marshalled for the good of the community if there were a scheme to which everybody contributed instead of one to which only those who are employed by the Australian Government and who are thereby covered by the Public Service superannuation scheme contributed. [More…]

• The mind starts to boggle when one thinks of the huge sums of money that would be available for lending to the community for community projects and community works. [More…]

• There could be a constant well to which each constituent part of the community could go with its bucket and draw its particular part of these funds. [More…]

• I am not sure who the honourable member thinks public servants are, but I would like to remind him that public servants are recruited in Australia and are Australian people and that they comprise a very large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• In fact they comprise a very leading section of the Australian community because the things which accrue to public servants generally flow on to the community. [More…]

• Having contributed that money, a pool of money is then created which is available to approved borrowers in the community who can use the money to perform other important works. [More…]

• It is in fact put to work for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• But still the Australian community should not be confused and it will not be misled by carping criticism that is in no way constructive. [More…]

• The final point I would like to make in relation to this matter - again I turn to the point that I made originally - is that a surplus to this extent in the Superannuation Fund must lead any reasonable person to believe that were every working person in the Australian community able to take advantage of a superannuation scheme - as do in fact the Australian public servants - the size of the fund, the pool of money that would be created by all those contributions would, to use a colloquial expression, make the mind boggle. [More…]

• If every Australian contributed to a superannuation fund no more would we have to worry about where we would find funds to lend to the statutory bodies which need to do the very important capital works in our community. [More…]

• The Government he supported, that old tired worn out Government that got the sack by the Australian community in December 1972, had a marvellous scheme which used to adjust pensions on what it called a notional basis. [More…]

• He cannot recognise that the era about which he is speaking was an era when very few people in this community had the benefit of superannuation. [More…]

• What is not so readily recognised, and I must make clear, is that inflation has the capacity to redistribute the assets and the income in the community. [More…]

• Assets are redistributed without any regard to equity or fairness to the people in that community. [More…]

• There is not a person in this community who has a mortgage, not a person who is buying anything on hire purchase, not a person who has borrowed money for any personal purpose or to put goods in his household, who is not finding the increased interest rates a burden. [More…]

• The private sector must be allowed to grow because the private sector creates the wealth in this country so that it can be distributed throughout the community. [More…]

• There will be areas of poverty and the ultimate level of unemployment which must follow the boom brought about by the forced inflation of Government policies will cause great hardship to many sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Let the listeners hear what the Opposition says and then weigh those words against the facts as they now know them - full prosperity in the Australian community, something that did not exist 18 months ago; full employment, something that did not exist 18 months ago; education being put right, something that was not being done 18 months ago; housing being put right, something that was not being done 18 months ago; social services being put right, something that was not being done 18 months ago. [More…]

• The Government has failed to fulfil the community’s expectations in almost every area of public policy. [More…]

• As a nation we are now confronted with massive inflation and severe economic instability, the highest interest rates since federation, excessive increases in direct and indirect taxation, a crisis in the housing industry unparalleled since the immediate postwar period, record levels of industrial unrest, a severely reduced defence capability, a massive erosion of the purchasing power of fixed income earners and pensioners, uncertainty and stagnation in the mineral and oil exploration industries, an immigration policy which has heaped confusion upon confusion and a breakdown in communication between the Government and the major constituent groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• It leads, in fact, to the arbitrary enrichment of some groups in the Australian community and equally to the arbitrary impoverishment of others. [More…]

• The Government itself has been the originator of the wage and salary pressures which are having such direct and severe effects on cost pressures throughout the community. [More…]

• The Government itself has been the originator of the wage and salary pressures that are having such direct and severe effects on cost pressures through ut the general community. [More…]

• Where, in fact, is the justification for a government that, as a result of union pressures, is prepared to adopt a form of - economic indexation that favours those with strong bargaining power, but refuses to apply the same form of indexation to those of very real need in the Australian community. [More…]

• Again it is the comparatively disadvantaged groups in the community who are the most affected. [More…]

• He knows full well that this is a sell-out to the Australian community and particularly to those who are in the greatest need. [More…]

• We involved the community in a wide and extensive public debate on the issues which were put forward initially in the early part of last year. [More…]

• The Senate, dominated by the Opposition and its acolytes in the Democratic Labor Party, sold out not to the public interest but to minority privileged interests in the community - to the Australian Medical Association, the Society of General Practitioners of Australia, and to the health insurance funds which are over stuffed with reserves which belong to the contributors [More…]

• The best interests of this community have not been served by those people. [More…]

• Every person in the community will be covered. [More…]

• But honourable members opposite and their partners in the Senate are not interested in community health. [More…]

• There are many other important proposals which attracted public support for this Government at the last election and which still hold powerful appeal to the community. [More…]

• In the community we have a situation where we have funny money. [More…]

• One of our first concerns is to see that everyone in the community is brought into the system. [More…]

• Under the proposals in these Bills - and I point out that the Health Insurance Commission Bill flows from the Health Insurance Bill - everyone in the community will be automatically covered. [More…]

• The plain fact of the matter is that they are people concerned with social equity and progress who, after honestly and dispassionately examining our proposals, have decided that the health insurance program will be for the general good of the community. [More…]

• All of the deceit and distortion which has been injected into the community debate on our health insurance proposals cannot alter the fact that this Government came into office with a clear mandate for its program. [More…]

• The equity of cover in the present scheme should be intolerable to any community that claims to have a social conscience in that those people who can least afford it pay most for their health cover, and those people who are most able to afford it pay least. [More…]

• Perhaps most importantly of all - we lose sight of this - is the way in which the pooling of funds allows the whole community to be covered and allows an expansion of the range of services available to the community to be provided at no additional cost to that currently outlaid under the present system of private health insurance, repatriation and medical services and pen sioner medical and hospital services. [More…]

• When it is all boiled down, the real crux of the issues centres around the point that we are offering universal coverage to the community - something that belongs in most countries today; something that is being introduced in the United States of America; something that has been established in Canada for many years. [More…]

• There will inevitably be a great shortage of standard ward beds for many years, and poorer people who in some States, for example Victoria, have had special rights to beds in public hospitals will now have to compete with the richer elements in the community for these beds. [More…]

• lt is ignoring the real problem, which is how to deliver better health care to the community in Australia as a whole. [More…]

• Have they not yet discovered that a report has already been tabled in this Parliament on community health services; that we have already committed ourselves to expenditure of more than SI Om; that we are now meeting 90 per cent of recurrent costs and 75 per cent of capital costs in community health centres where doctors backed by ancillary medical professionals can work to provide a comprehensive range of medical services to the community in a confined location? [More…]

• Do they not know that in the field of psychiatric health services, drug abuse and alcoholism about S7.5m has been allocated for the development of community services and that the States have taken this up with a great deal of enthusiasm because the States realise that public hospital services - ‘broadly, public health services, but more specifically public hospital services - cannot be maintained at a high standard of service with the limited finances available to the States? [More…]

• This is critical because the central public hospitals, the teaching hospitals, should have the best standards and should maintain standards of excellence at all times in the broad spectrum of even the most expensive services the community may need, because without these high standards the community will suffer. [More…]

• No private hospital can provide the full range of services that the community needs. [More…]

• I would still want to discuss the proposals in finer details with the Australian Medical Association, with the private and public hospital authorities throughout the community, and with the health insurance funds because I will try my best to accommodate those people within the context of a universal health insurance scheme. [More…]

• I am well aware, from private discussions I have had in various quarters, how determined he was and how much better the scheme of health insurance that we have today - the private enterprise scheme of health insurance that is so defective - would have been if he had been able to win out in his battle with the powerful vested interests in the community. [More…]

• We introduced a Green Paper in the early part of last year and we allowed several months of debate to take place in the community before we introduced a White Paper in October or November last year. [More…]

• He has apparently alleged that farmers sponge, or words to that effect, on the community. [More…]

• He disregards the major effects which his Government’s revaluation has had on the farming community. [More…]

• Of course, if he is going to be Prime Minister and if he is going to return us to the dark days of the past, I think that would be a disaster not only for those of us here in the chamber but also for everybody in the Australian community. [More…]

• I point out, finally, however, in view of the frenzy of the Country Party on this issue and a little earlier on the matter of the superphosphate bounty, that, for instance, the amount of $65m which will not be going to wealthy farmers after the superphosphate bounty ceases at the end of this year will be very handy to fund an adequate child care program in the community. [More…]

• To a lesser degree, this criticism could also be applied to the Commissioners’ decision to reject suggestions relating to the possibility of splitting one or two inner metropolitan subdivisions, such as Mt Hawthorn and Joondanna, in order to satisfy more completely the ‘community of interest’ principle. [More…]

• In fact, an elector of Moore, as he then was and as he still is, put in a submission to the Distribution Commissioners - I notified the Commissioners that I agreed wholeheartedly with his submission - suggesting that some of those new and developing areas such as Warwick, Greenwood Forest, Hamersley, Kallaroo and other similar areas which have a community of interest with the adjacent developing urban areas of my electorate, should become part of this electorate of Stirling. [More…]

• community of interest within the Division, including economic, social and regional interests; [More…]

• The factors to be considered are community of interests within the Division, including economic, social and regional interests; means of communication and travel within the Division, with special reference to disabilities arising out of remoteness or distance; the trend of population changes within the State; the density or sparsity of population of the Division; the area of the Division; the physical features of the Division; and existing boundaries of Divisions and subdivisions. [More…]

• Yet, the substance of the motion before the House is that Standing Orders should be suspended so that proper examination and debate of the implications to the Australian community, to the State governments, to the Australian public and to the financial community can be hastily debated in a minimal way in this chamber and then referred to the Senate, for a proper examination and debate. [More…]

• Then, as now, the Government was not prepared to allow any debate, let alone adequate debate, on matters that are of very real substance to the community. [More…]

• More will fall to overseas based corporations unless the community recognises, with the Government, that our economic system requires a new element of organisation and direction to equal the challenge for abroad. [More…]

• The aim is to distribute wealth and power more widely among the Australian community. [More…]

• 1 said further that the proposals were typical of a socialist government’s liking for grandiose state symbols, for inefficient steam hammers rather than efficient nutcrackers and that if adopted, the proposals would sacrifice the economic and social development of the entire Australian community to the misguided socialism and vanity of the 2 Ministers concerned. [More…]

• The Opposition’s reservations about this legislation are widely shared by the Australian business community. [More…]

• This reflects the wide diversity in the savings and investment attitudes of the Australian community and the demand for specialised financing arrangements resulting from Australia’s growth and development. [More…]

• The iniquities arising from the special privileges to be accorded to the Corporation, the scope for nationalisation by stealth through both the national interest provisions and the normal operations of the National Investment Fund, and the structural and institutional changes in the economy likely to result from the Corporation’s expanded role are matters of public concern which demand full discussion and consideration both in Parliament and in the community at large. [More…]

• By seeking to force the legislation through in this disgraceful manner the Minister is treating the business community, the Parliament and the nation with contempt. [More…]

• I do so because my Party believes in the importance of a continuing dialogue with the business community and because this is an appropriate occasion to outline my views on overseas investment. [More…]

• The costs can range from a diminution of Australian control over our economic development to a source of anxiety within a community where both individual and national aspirations are rapidly growing. [More…]

• In this regard it is clearly the responsibility of the Federal Government to create a legislative and fiscal framework within which overseas investment may operate to the mutual advantage of the Australian community and the overseas investor. [More…]

• Many different groups in the community have expressed their views to our Party committees which have listened to all the arguments against this measure. [More…]

• This Bill is one of the great measures designed to harness those savings in our community. [More…]

• It just happens that every time anything new or anything of a reform or radical nature is proposed there is automatic opposition from the conservative forces in Australia - ‘automatic opposition from so many in the business community - when there is no need for it. [More…]

• Indeed, it means that the community itself is involved in these projects. [More…]

• It is a situation which demands correction - those who oppose it do so at their peril because the Australian people, the highest judge in the community, will judge harshly. [More…]

• This legislation is designed to bring to the Australian community a share, a say and an interest in the enterprises of this community. [More…]

• One of the great problems that we have as a national Government, and one that was inherited, is that there is no concern in our community about productivity. [More…]

• This form of investment has not been popular and has not been accepted by the Australian community. [More…]

• What this legislation seeks to do is to get community involvement in the great national enterprises of this country. [More…]

• Many of these matters are vital to the wellbeing of the community and critical to the economic independence of the nation. [More…]

• They know that throughout the Australian community they have created fear, uncertainty and concern about a number of matters which touch the daily lives of ordinary people in this country. [More…]

• But the fact is, and it cannot be refuted, that Dr Deeble went and spoke to these people largely on his own initiative expecting that some progress would be made, because he too has small ‘1’ liberal views and is tolerant and receptive to other people’s points of view in this community. [More…]

• Private supplementary hospital insurance, formerly presumed to be based on actuarial principles which could have priced many people out of the market, was to be based on a community rating system. [More…]

• The plan provides for a shift of resources from consumption and maintenance spending to spending on investment and durable capital items, namely new equipment and infrastructure of bases, training and educational facilities, more efficient storeholding, and living and working accommodation that accords with community standards. [More…]

• We now have concepts and principles for the fixation of Service pay that are comparable with those applying for the community at large, and which ensure that servicemen will not be disadvantaged with their pay. [More…]

• It has authorised progressive upgrading of Service housing, to ensure that the standards of domestic living are compatible with the quality of life in the Australian community at large. [More…]

• Recruiting into the Services overall has been satisfactory, particularly in view of the abundance of jobs in the civilian community. [More…]

• What the market decides is not always in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• These acts may not go down in any official records, but they prove the fine spirit of good fellowship and the feeling of genuine compassion that exist in the Australian community when a real need arises. [More…]

• I refer to the plight of the small farmers who lost their immediate income and who, because they are farmers, do not qualify for unemployment benefits that flow to other people in the community under the existing provisions of the requirements and regulations of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• I believe that this imposes a hardship on this section of the community that should be overcome with a mere administrative decision by a Minister or the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• Under their charter and the arrangements under which they operate they have properly served the Australian community, but obviously some new scheme would be required to cover national disasters. [More…]

• I think it is fair enough to comment on the community effort. [More…]

• Not that just going there would have achieved very much, but it would have been helpful and I think that the Queensland community would have been pleased to see the political leader of the country take a personal interest in it. [More…]

• I believe that some derogatory and unfair remarks have been made by people in the community about the role of insurance companies in this exercise. [More…]

• However, I hope that all of us will explore to see whether insurance companies and assurance companies can play a more important part in providing the community with this sort of cover in the longer term. [More…]

• If the Government wants to be judged as doing something worth while and something which could be valuable to the community into the future I ask it to look very deeply at giving some long term assistance and planning to flood mitigation works. [More…]

• We would adopt a rational industrial policy, applying sanctions as need be, to ensure meaningful reduction of the incidence of strikes - strikes which in New South Wales at the moment are bringing the whole of the community to a halt. [More…]

• That is a typical illustration of the way in which, as the momentum of an election draws upon the Government, there is a concentration of its thinking to recognise the contribution that primary industry can and does play in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is necessary that we have a policy which enables our farming community and our export industries to play proper and balanced roles to ensure that the Australian community continues to prosper. [More…]

• It has involved local resident groups in area improvement programs, in social welfare activities and in the establishment of community health centres. [More…]

• None of this can be done without some transfer of power in the Australian community. [More…]

• This would mean some increases in the power of government but if Australians want to see a solution of the problems in industry, in their community, in/their health services, in con- trolling their own country and in their own destiny, the national Government must have a little more power. [More…]

• There was stagnation in the community. [More…]

• Yet in 18 months this Government has restored over-full employment, the economy is booming and, no matter what the country people might say, farmers and other sections of the community are doing exceptionally well. [More…]

• Recently, because of the emphasis that has been given in the community to the energy crisis and to the premium on the traditional sources of fuel, we have had an inquiry into the possibility of the factories - particularly the factory in the honourable member’s electorate - making perhaps solar energy units that might be incorporated in government houses in, say, the Northern Territory or even the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• These needs include opportunities to attain the highest skills, the most modern technology and the services of a type of education offered, especially in country areas, by community colleges, which I might define as multi-level institutions combining technical and advanced education courses. [More…]

• These recurrent sums, whether or not the States draw the whole$1 9.62m are 55 per cent to be spent at the States’ discretion and 45 per cent to go for curriculum research and development; the training of professional staff; the development of a central resource centre; publicity to raise the level of community awareness of the opportunities available; counselling services and social work; staff to direct and oversee safety measures - here I might interpolate that the low standards of safety in many technical colleges would not be permitted for one minute in factories - health and welfare of students; in-service training; for the formation of a unit to develop educational specifications for buildings; site plans; and master plans for capital works development and re-development; and for staff for statistical collections concerning student and teacher population and related matters. [More…]

• The Committee was asked to take into account overall manpower policy and national and local occupational requirements; the optimum use of resources; the emerging needs of industry, commerce and governments as they adjust to technological economic and social change; and community attitudes and the needs and aspirations of individuals seeking to undertake courses in technical and further education. [More…]

• all forms of education provided in post-school or other educational institutions by means of which individuals equip themselves for the exercise of occupations in such fields as industry, agriculture, commerce, and community services, and [More…]

• and community interest; greater flexibility in entry requirements and in attendance requirements; particular attention should be paid to adapting technical and further education to the needs of women, handicapped, country students and migrants; the development of further education - the concept ranging from adult literacy and primary education to advanced studies and technology as an integral part of the education structure open to all; the provision of better means of pre-service teacher education, in consultation with the Commission on Advanced Education; the report seeks to foster community colleges in country areas - multi-level institutions combining technical and advanced education courses and avoiding unnecessary duplication, the funding to be in the hands of the Commission primarily responsible for the particular courses, in consultation with the other; technical colleges should contribute to developing new approaches to apprenticeship training; initial programs are designed to upgrade existing technical colleges, improve educational quality, and lay foundations for substantial improvements in the next triennium. [More…]

• Handicapped people can and do play a very important part in the community. [More…]

• If we are to make available to the farming community all the modern discoveries and the increased technology that comes from research it is vitally important that the farmers of tomorrow have access to education which will allow them to apply the findings and discoveries of science more readily to their own calling. [More…]

• That aspect is applicable particularly to the displaced members of the rural community who, in years gone by, probably left school in 5th or 6th grade and who have now found, due to the problems of inflation and the loss of fertility of what was originally virgin land, that they are no longer able to earn a living on their own properties and are faced in middle age with no skills, no finance and a life of hard work as the only way in which to earn a living. [More…]

• This document, the result of this project, is the Kinsey Report on Australian youth, a detailed recording of their hearts and souls, an accurate, almost unedited and honest answer to the question we put to them: What are your needs and wishes in the way of community recreation and leisure opportunities? [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…]

• We must provide for youth to be involved in discussions and activities affecting community life. [More…]

• The young people of Australia are saying very emphatically that they feel most of all the need and the preference for social experiences, a sense of community and some personal responsibility for that community. [More…]

• They feel little sense of adventure or challenge about their community life. [More…]

• Under existing patterns of community life, they see themselves as the objects of other people’s policies and decision-making. [More…]

• They want to belong to ‘a community’ and feel some responsibility for shaping the life of that community. [More…]

• The implications in the report spread to all levels of government, voluntary organisations and to the community and home life. [More…]

• There may develop, for instance, a new concept of community as applied to young people. [More…]

• Many smaller operating professional groups are working energetically for the arts in our community. [More…]

• In my electorate the dedicated work of small groups must be given the greatest praise not only for bringing art to our region but also for promoting local participation and an application of the arts in the community. [More…]

• Is concern being expressed by representatives of Aboriginal legal aid services at the decision of the Government to establish legal aid bureaux for the Australian community in each State, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory with a number of regional offices. [More…]

• Following the visit by 4 doctors to Palm Island to assess the needs of the community, has a report been subsequently prepared by the team of doctors, and has the Government considered this report; if so, what action does it intend to take as a result? [More…]

• He referred to the Government’s intention to introduce legislation to enable Aboriginal groups and communities to incorporate for the conduct of their affairs and stated that the Government envisaged ‘these incorporated societies, set up for purposes chosen by their Aboriginal members, determining their own decision-making processes, choosing their own leaders and executives in ways they will themselves decide as the primary instruments of Aboriginal authority at the local and community level’. [More…]

• Letter from former Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare (Question No. [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…]

• He is one who has attempted to keep order in this House, particularly amongst some who do not appreciate or understand normal courtesies which are often practised in places of lesser importance in the community. [More…]

• If this is to be achieved, however, it will call for restraint and responsibility on the part of all sections of the community. [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 Government recognises the fundamental importance of the farm sector to Australia’s trade and to the prosperity of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• The report of the working group on rural policy will greatly assist the Government, the Parliament, the Australian Department of Agriculture and the community in establishing the principles which should be adopted towards a sound rural policy for Australia. [More…]

• An Australian Science Council will be established to assist the Government, the Parliament and the community to develop a coherent national role for science and technology in our modern society. [More…]

• Parliament will be asked to approve legislation and administrative decisions reflecting the Government’s view of the significance of the Australian Capital Territory as an area for initiatives in urban affairs and public participation in community affairs. [More…]

• The Community Health Program will be further expanded. [More…]

• The Government recognises the link between the basic health and well-being of the Australian community and the opportunities for Australians to make better use of their increasing leisure. [More…]

• The Government will expand its program of grants to sporting and youth organisations and increase its assistance for the creation of community centres and for building of sport, recreation and tourist facilities. [More…]

• In his case it was a desire to help people in need, a desire to alleviate the misery of poverty, a desire to protect the weaker citizens of our community - those who were most vulnerable. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Overseas Trade aware of the forebodings by some sections of the business community in Australia about the Australian balance of trade position? [More…]

• Yesterday the Governor-General informed the Parliament that the Government, in continuing its fight against inflation, would be guided by certain principles including protection for the weaker sections of the community, and a firm commitment to the principle of full employment. [More…]

• I do not think that immodesty is very well received by the Australian community. [More…]

• It may be that those people who want to build houses have to pay a higher price for the land, a higher price to build and a higher rate of interest than they might like to, but I still believe that the banking system - the savings banks and the trading banks - is the most reputable lending source still in the community. [More…]

• It is an excess of buying power in a community over available goods and services in that community. [More…]

• Included inthe legislation for which the Leader of the House seeks a declaration of urgency are Bills which are quite fundamental to the future form of government in Australia and to fair and adequate representation in this Parliament of all sections of the community. [More…]

• On its election in December 1972, the Government established a Health Insurance Planning Committee to develop in detail the proposals which had received such solid community support prior to and during that election campaign. [More…]

• Serious misrepresentation of the proposals was attempted by some organisations and groups with vested interests in preserving a system which perpetrated basic social injustices upon the community. [More…]

• The Health Insurance Bill also makes provision for special arrangements to be entered into with private religious, charitable and community hospitals, to enable such hospitals to choose, if they wish, to accommodate and treat patients free of charge. [More…]

• The money spent by the community on health care will be efficiently pooled and distributed, eliminating the wasteful practices inherent in the existing system. [More…]

• It should also allow for an improvement in the capital subsidy and the introduction of deficit financing and also allow such organisations to provide for the community other types of facilities, such as day care activity centres, on a day basis. [More…]

• This should mean that a major breakthrough can be made in the way in which services can be provided for the aged in the community. [More…]

• With other proposals that I have in mind and which I am testing with representatives of religious - charitable organisations, I expect that within a reasonable time Australia will have an excellent system of geriatric services based on a regional concept of community service involving local representation. [More…]

• This is a great private hospital with fine traditions and a magnificent record of service to the community. [More…]

• As far as the treatment of doctors is concerned, if we have a virtual end of the private hospital, if the growth of ‘free’ - I use the term with inverted commas - community health centres employing salaried doctors continues, if specialists are forced to work for the [More…]

• Let nothing I say on this point, Mr Acting Speaker, reflect in any way on the hundreds of doctors in this country who choose to work for a salary, be it in a government department, at a hospital, a community health centre or whatever. [More…]

• There is absolutely no guarantee that private hospitals will remain in existence, and still less guarantee in relation to subsidised community hospitals in my own State. [More…]

• The community hospitals and certain other hospitals will willingly provide sufficient beds to cope with any increase in demand for public hospital accommodation. [More…]

• I believe the same thing applies in the case of health care where the community must accept a major responsibility. [More…]

• Now that it is clear, in view of the likely result of the joint sitting, that the measure will go through, surely it is the duty of every body concerned to co-operate and to consult with each other to ensure that the transition to the new scheme is as smooth as possible and operates to the benefit of the community. [More…]

• We will have to look at some very radical changes particularly in the care of the sick aged in our community. [More…]

• In the field of general hospitals are public hospitals, community hospitals and religious hospitals. [More…]

• We should compare the situation of the general hospitals with other areas where the Government accepts that it ‘has a major community responsibility and I should like to see the situation where government of one sort takes a greater degree of responsibility for nursing home care. [More…]

• It is a responsibility which should be accepted by the community at large. [More…]

• It is polarising the community in the United Kingdom and it will polarise the community here. [More…]

• It is polarising the community in New Zealand. [More…]

• I think that when we talk about adequate parliamentary debate we are talking about discussion sufficient to air the issues, discussion sufficient to clarify any issues which require clarification for the public, and discussion adequate to allow the topic before the House to go into the community as well so that some feedback can come to elected members in this place. [More…]

• Yet I do not think that I am misrepresenting members of the Opposition when I say that they themselves concede that important elements of the existing scheme simply have to be changed if the scheme is to continue to operate efficiently and within the capacity of the community to support it. [More…]

• The health of the community is an important responsibility of government. [More…]

• It should be a scheme which gives us the greatest freedom of choice of doctor, hospital and fund with adequate hospitals throughout the community. [More…]

• The Labor Party came into government with a health scheme which covered 92 per cent of the community. [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…]

• We will have instead a universal health insurance scheme which covers everyone in the community, a scheme which gives some meaning to the loose talk of freedoms, we hear from honourable members on the other side of the House. [More…]

• Under this scheme there will be freedom for all, including those among that minority of 13 per cent of the community who do not have health insurance cover. [More…]

• We will meet 50 per cent of the net operating costs of public hospitals in this community. [More…]

• No person can be ignorant of the confusion and worry in the community directly resulting from the Government’s failure to spell out a comprehensive policy. [More…]

• It is totally impossible for any person in the community, no matter whether he is an ordinary citizen, a commentator, a member of this Parliament, a member of the Government or a member of the Government parties, to go to any document or any group of documents and say: ‘This document or this group of documents represents an analysis by the Government of the present economic crisis and the policy proposals which the Government will put into operation in order to cure the ills which we are now living through*. [More…]

• The honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon), who was the last speaker in this debate, was party to doubling the price of crude oil, which would have increased inflation tremendously and placed an impost on every person throughout the length and breadth of the community. [More…]

• The main objectives of the purchase of the estate are to avoid the sudden displacing of the existing population and to avoid any disruption to existing community networks, and to retain the opportunity for low income earners and families and aged people to live close to the city as part of the wider community. [More…]

• The buildings on the estate have substantial economic value and their retention represents an overall conservation of the community’s resources. [More…]

• Low income earners have often been displaced to outlying areas far removed from their places of employment and from their traditional community ties. [More…]

• It is also an exercise in community rehabilitation. [More…]

• It requires knowledge of the Glebe community. [More…]

• Our people must involve themselves at the local level in order to understand the problems of the Glebe community. [More…]

• These professional skills should blend with the environment of the Glebe both in its landscape and its community. [More…]

• The Government intends to establish an information centre on the estates; later it is expected that this will become useful as a community planning centre. [More…]

• Not only that but also the Glebe exercise will attempt to develop mechanisms of participation so that the people of Glebe and the wider community can have their say in how the project develops. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, I believe that the lessons that will be learnt from the Glebe project, the detailed understanding of the problems of low income earners living in the inner city, and the solutions which emerge towards providing an effective way for the community to participate in shaping their environment will be of immense benefit to Governments, professional people and to all those concerned with improving the quality of life in our cities. [More…]

• However, in their inevitable fashion the men of the past finally realised in preparing ‘policies’ for the recent election that the community demanded that the Australian government, regardless of whichever party it was, take action in this field. [More…]

• As it is generally accepted that urban public transport is not financially viable the level of fares should not reflect total costs but should also take into account such benefits to the community as reductions in road congestion and pollution from motor vehicles and the system’s ready availability. [More…]

• We realise that the European Economic Community has specific problems. [More…]

• On account of the tight Community outlook so many tons of local meat have to be bought by the consumers to balance imports. [More…]

• I had handed to me by the Federal President of the Australian Medical Association this afternoon what I would describe as an ultimatum on behalf of most of the private practice doctors in the Australian Capital Territory, not acting as a union on behalf of people who are negotiating conditions of employment but as a body delivering an ultimatum saying that they refuse the right of the elected Government of this country or indeed any authority in the Australian Capital Territory to increase the public sector of health care in this community. [More…]

• The fact that we cannot backdate the subsidies, the fact that private nursing homes are being deprived and have been deprived of this money and that they may find themselves in financial distress is solely th; responsibility of members of the Liberal and Country parties who as a matter of abject political opportunism rushed this country needlessly into an election at great cost to the community only to confirm this Government in office and only to confirm the policies we carried out but to the distress, I repeat, of private nursing homes and th: unfortunate patients in those homes. [More…]

• However it will also permanently debar a large section of the community from ever owning a home or even securing a reasonable standard of accommodation, which we believe is every Australian’s legitimate aspiration. [More…]

• We condemn the Government for its inaction, its incompetence and its callous indifference to the housing deficiencies now patently obvious to the whole Australian community. [More…]

• Terminating building societies should be encouraged because they allow community co-operation and flexibility in choice of design of home by the purchaser. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to implement policies which will encourage home ownership and ensure that the Australian community is adequately housed and the home building industry preserved. [More…]

• It is nice if people have something to fly with and somewhere sensible to fly but many people in the community do not have money in those sorts of quantities. [More…]

• The fact that a group of institutions is non-profit making, or that they are operating in an area of social importance, does not reduce the capacity of those institutions in certain circumstances to undertake activities that could be inimical to effective economic management and thereby involve both economic and social costs to the community. [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…]

• It is a complete abdication of responsibility for a community to save a person’s life, to spend thousands of dollars getting him fit enough to leave hospital and then to abandon him. [More…]

• A further look needs to be taken at the hundreds of people in the community who have accepted the full time care of their loved ones who have been injured. [More…]

• If this Government can increase the numbers of flats and houses available at reasonable rents it will do the community a real service. [More…]

• Of course the Government has adorned the Governor-General’s Speech with the old familiar phrases - ‘protection for the weaker section of the community’, welfare housing will be provided ‘as soon as circumstances permit’, the next Budget will make further increases in social security, and it will also provide for increased assistance for the handicapped and disabled. [More…]

• Unless the people are to be taxed to an inordinate extent the community just cannot afford the social welfare program, however attractive it may seem to some, which the Government urges upon us and at the same time adopt an effective program against poverty. [More…]

• I would suggest that as part of a program the community’s commitment to its eradication be symbolised by an independent statutory body whose function it is to keep the problem constantly under review and report. [More…]

• We consider this action economic madness and not in the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• But, if I did, I would be offering prayers and saying: ‘Thank God there was a change of government in 1972 and those who were in power up until that time were not allowed to continue with the people in the community who were out to get rich quickly by escalating their prices’. [More…]

• Public Works was instituted to listen to evidence from people in various areas and from experts on various programs whether they be for water projects, freeways, schools, community colleges, ports or sewerage systems. [More…]

• But I think the people of Darwin should have a chance to speak as they did in the case of the community college, the freeway and the sewerage scheme. [More…]

• We need to place some sort of discipline into this area - not discipline in the sense that will stifle the ideas but discipline that will channel those ideas into productive outlets; discipline that will ensure that we direct our research effort into science and technology into those areas that are of relevance to the community at large. [More…]

• The Wool Corporation ought to be giving market intelligence to the whole community so that we may understand exactly the rationale on which it is working. [More…]

• We have this incredible carry over from the Bill Gunn days when a piece of information that was not known to the rest of the community was regarded as a gem. [More…]

• There is no question that there will be opportunities for the sort of fear raising tactics that we have heard from the honourable member for Gwydir tonight while ever the Wool Corporation keeps the community at large in the dark. [More…]

• I think that this is clear evidence of just where we would find the needy sections of the community if in fact the overall health plan were to come into effect. [More…]

• I have been approached not only by the patients, staff and proprietors of the privately operated nursing homes but also by community leaders who are absolutely staggered at what they find occurring in their local communities because of this incredible situation - one which, I suppose, could properly be described as the cruellest action ever to be taken. [More…]

• So we have the spectacle of a situation where the Government has been prepared to sacrifice one of the most needy sections of the community for purely political ends. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister noted the interesting divisions in the business community concerning the Prices Justification Tribunal? [More…]

• Special measures can be taken to assist married women to re-enter the work force if they want to, and to make sure that people with disabilities are enabled to make a contribution to the working life of the community. [More…]

• Through comprehensive vocational guidance, training, and employment placement services, the disadvantaged groups in our community can be assisted to improve their occupational skills and, therefore, their standards of living. [More…]

• The likely employment prospects for migrants and their families are surely an important consideration in ensuring that the migrant is satisfactorily integrated into the Australian community. [More…]

• I suspect that this has been the narrow and shortsighted view of some interests in the community in the past. [More…]

• I know that there is enormous enthusiasm in the community for the development of these policies. [More…]

• I think that the Australian community and the Australian workers at Leyland and in a number of other industries - one-third of the workers in the meat industry are unemployed - are waiting eagerly to know what the details are. [More…]

• Equality here will involve the cooperation of employer and employee organisations and the community. [More…]

• Encouraging, or where possible, establishing, equal opportunity for recruitment, training and advancement for all groups in the community which means the removal of artificial restrictions on entry into associations, professions or trade unions on grounds other than competence. [More…]

• That refers to migrant groups in the community, Aboriginal groups in the community and women. [More…]

• Conditions conducive to the mobility and advancement of employees are essential in a progressive and dynamic community. [More…]

• Special provision for training would also be made for identifiable disadvantaged groups in the community. [More…]

• The Minister is running the risk of having the allegation made - I would hope it is not true - that the Government is concerned about the migrant community only insofar as it can provide people for jobs and to man Australian factories. [More…]

• I would have thought and hoped that there was a much wider Australian concern for the migrant community than that. [More…]

• But what kind of information; what kind of forecasts; what are people to be trained in; what industries does the Minister believe Government policies will send to the wall; what industries therefore will need to be restructured; what trades will become redundant; where will be the gaps or the continued shortages of labour within the Australian community if the Government’s economic policies cause widespread and general unemployment in every trade? [More…]

• There is the question of equity between different people in the community. [More…]

• It is a pity the Leader of the House shows his impatience 60 plainly on matters that are of interest and concern right across the Australian community and does everything he can to deny debate in this Parliament. [More…]

• I think that members, as a class, are able to judge the usefulness or otherwise of committees as well as or better than anyone in the community. [More…]

• It was also asked to consider the rates of salary in other areas of Commonwealth employment and in the community generally. [More…]

• Criticism of tax avoidance legislation does not come from the overwhelming bulk of the taxpaying community. [More…]

• Sir Edward Cain said further: … tax avoidance legislation attracts no criticism from the great bulk of the community and any criticism by the accounting profession, whilst understandable, should divorce itself from emotion and should encompass an acknowledgment of the fact that one has to meet fire with fire. [More…]

• I refer to the new part of this legislation, which was not included in legislation previously introduced, bringing companies into line, with other sections of the community with respect to payment of taxation. [More…]

• We know that a man named Barton has defeated the efforts of the Commonwealth to have him extradited back to New South Wales to stand trial after fleecing shareholders in the Australian community of approximately $22m. [More…]

• We are debating the Statute Law Revision Bill and, as my honourable friend said, the community, the society as a whole, Australia, has a great need of law reform of this sort. [More…]

• So much for the high sounding promises of open government and commitments to keep the community fully informed on government policies which affect it. [More…]

• Hopefully, the work will go on apace and will be accomplished in time to avoid deleterious effects or deprivations to the people of Canberra and will fulfil the needs of the fast-growing community here. [More…]

• This is that its services must be improved to meet the needs of a modern community and its charges should be levied on a basis of equality. [More…]

• If this is not done, the Minister may well find that the Government will need to provide our essential community services free in an endeavour to encourage people to remain in country areas. [More…]

• It seemed to me that it was a golden opportunity for the Deputy Prime Minister to take up this matter and perhaps solve the problem for an important small section of the Australian community. [More…]

• My present concern is whether the Minister and Government supporters with their vast union backgrounds can do anything to try to protect minority sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• This has been just a chapter of the misfortunes and tragedies visited on small sections of the Australian public because of the power of people to stand up the rest of the community. [More…]

• Shortages, frustrations and delays have been the order of the day for small business, primary producers and everyone else in the community. [More…]

• He gave no direct answer to that very great problem which confronts a large number of the elderly sick in our community, and the families who have a concern for their welfare. [More…]

• How can the poor and the needy within our community, those who are dependent on incomes of 25 per cent, or less, of average weekly earnings continue to look to the future with any degree of certainty unless they are assured of the amount by which their incomes will be increased and the date from which those increases will take effect? [More…]

• The Australian Assistance Plan, which is a program for community based regional social welfare programs administered at the local level, retains a high priority with the Government. [More…]

• Quite clearly the Opposition has now changed its attitude towards this very worthwhile community based program of social welfare services, and if the Opposition were to be the government it would cut back that program. [More…]

• This affects not just those working but every part of the Australian community. [More…]

• So there are people in the union movement who understand their responsibility not only to their own members but also to the wider Australian community. [More…]

• I think that any person who understands the motivations, the beliefs, the hopes and the desires of the average Australian, would know that he wants a stable community in which inflation is reasonably under control, where there can be a reasonable and responsible increase in real wages - this certainly has not been despite the numerous increases in money wages - where prices can be stable, where there can be reasonable industrial peace, where housing can be available to the average person instead of its being harder to get than ever before and where the future can be predictable. [More…]

• It is time the Government not only practised restraint on its own account through the measures I have mentioned through the course of these remarks and established restraint in other sections of the community but also used its links with the Australian Council of Trade Unions to see that the Builders Labourers Federation cannot get away with its claimed guerilla tactics, to see that the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union will not be successful- [More…]

• We argued, therefore, that we ought to follow the lead of the countries of the European Economic Community and introduce a form of automatic cost of living adjustments. [More…]

• Secondly, the consequences of the conflict over wage determinations and working conditions are often unacceptable to the community. [More…]

• In short, the process of industrial conflict that is so passively sanctioned by the Minister is at times unacceptable in its cost to the community. [More…]

• Until this is done, until the taxation system is reformed and its impact lessened, and until inflation is brought right back, we will have a climate conducive to wage unrest and the community will reap the full social and economic consequences that flow from it. [More…]

• They simply stood before this Parliament, without speaking to the matter of public importance at all, and attempted to exacerbate the difficult industrial situation which exists in this community and in other similar communities throughout the world. [More…]

• He put forward this week the outline of a manpower policy and, above all, he has put forward a scheme which is designed to train trade union officials at all levels so that they may exercise their power with responsibility and skill, and with the motive of ensuring that the rights of employees shall be protected and the rights of the community will not be harmed. [More…]

• As I listened to them criticising the percentage increase given to some humble workers in this community I realised that farm incomes have increased at almost twice the rate of increase granted to some employees to whom they referred. [More…]

• This is the first time that an Australian Government has sought and obtained the views of a widespread sector of the community interested in roads. [More…]

• Almost every submission that was put to the Committee by councillors and witnesses from various sections of the community stressed - they went to great lengths to say it - what sort of responsibility should be taken by an incoming Legislative Assembly which would have to have some executive authority. [More…]

• All honourable members are, or should be, aware that the Northern Territory Legislative Council, as it is now constituted, has 11 members elected by the community and 6 nominated members. [More…]

• Yet, what kind of selfgovernment is it that does not have control of the health of the community? [More…]

• the economic cost to the community of road accidents in Australia in terms of - [More…]

• Road safety is a nonpolitical issue of great and continuing importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• However good the Public Service may be, we do not want that kind of class to be built up within the community, which is what would happen if the rule that the WWF is trying to apply - not necessarily very strongly - were in fact to be applied in other areas as well. [More…]

• These are the sorts of things the Opposition wants to see improved for the benefit of the people working on the waterfront and for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• In retrospect it seems to have been naive on the part of the Government to assume that a price stimulation could readily be translated into an increased volume available to the community without taking into account the lags in the shipping process. [More…]

• As I say, that is all passed back to the Australian community. [More…]

• This area is very important, as policy measures in relation to imports and exports must be associated with policy decisions regarding the facilities to handle them and with giving conditions to the waterside workers to enable them to provide the service to the community that I believe they themselves desire to give. [More…]

• I trust that the review of the stevedoring operations will provide a sound basis for future stability in this industry to the advantage of those engaged in it, the importers and exporters and, through them, the community as a whole. [More…]

• The first objective is to avoid the sudden displacing of the exisitng population and to avoid any disruption to existing community networks; second, to retain the opportunity for low income earners and families and aged people to live close to the city as part of the wider community; third, to improve environmental conditions and social conditions of residents of the estate and surrounding area; fourth, to preserve the townscape and sympathetically rehabilitate it. [More…]

• If it is to be a pilot project, we need to know what we are putting ourselves in for, whether we are doing it the right way, whether it will serve the interests of the community in the broad and of the people in particular, or whether it will be contrary to their interests even though on the surface it may appear to be in their interests. [More…]

• When one considers what could be done with 47 acres of open space, green leaf space or community open space and one appreciates the whole range of community services that could be provided it does seem that not enough consideration has been given to that prospect. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties recognise there is increasing community awareness of the need to improve the living environment of major urban centres. [More…]

• Equally there is growing community concern to protect land or buildings which contribute to ,he quality of the living environment . [More…]

• This approach ensures that urban renewal projects are developed with due regard to community aspirations. [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…]

• With the greater community awareness of social issues and rising expectations of social welfare, local government has been required to provide many of the facilities and services I have mentioned. [More…]

• It also wishes to use the scheme as a testing ground for new methods of community planning and participation. [More…]

• I would say that always in evidence is the Opposition’s concern for the fact that the Government is also trying to provide some houses for and to care for the lower income earners in the community. [More…]

• Altogether the areas provide a traditional community precinct unique to Sydney, which still possess a vital community life today. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Urban and Regional Development referred to this project as being not simply an exercise in the renovation and construction of housing but also as an exercise in community rehabilitation. [More…]

• These concerns vary significantly between community groups, such as the aged, single parents, Aborigines and students among others. [More…]

• It will be necessary to examine, for each group in the community, how they live now, to find out what they feel is adequate, what new facilities are needed and what facilities need upgrading. [More…]

• We have contrived an innovation in terms of community experimentation which will provide for the whole of Australia very valuable lessons in the administration of communities that need rehabilitation. [More…]

• The first part of the Governor-General’s Speech to which I draw attention is where he referred to protection for the weaker sections of the community. [More…]

• This is a very real and important problem facing us all, but let us look at the Government’s attitude to protection for the weak in the community. [More…]

• Honourable members on the Government side talk about the protection provided to the weaker section of the community by this Government. [More…]

• Is that an example of giving protection to the weaker section of the community? [More…]

• Such Acts are a disgrace to the community and I look forward to the passing of legislation by the Australian Government to supersede such racist laws. [More…]

• Too many persons, chiefly of academic background and blinded by their own erudition, display small sympathy for those engaged in the more modest pursuit of making homes, establishing careers and maintaining a life style based on secure employment and stability within their community. [More…]

• This leads me to the subject on which I would like to offer some comments this evening, that is, the question of self-government for the most under-represented community in Australia, the citizens of the ACT. [More…]

• The other is an qually welcome statement of intention that the ACT is to be used as a focus for initiatives in urban affairs and public participation in community affairs. [More…]

• I believe that the quality of the form of self-government which is eventually decided upon or which may develop will depend to a very large extent upon the degree of public participation in community affairs and the extent to which decision making is delegated to locally elected representatives. [More…]

• as a social community with an identity of interests as distinct from those elements concerned with the functioning of the A.C.T. [More…]

• To deny to an elected body control over such elements would he in direct contradiction to the Government’s stated intention of achieving a high degree of public participation in community affairs in the A.C.T. [More…]

• Just as the Canberra community is beginning to develop a sense of local identity and a cultural and social awareness as a community, 1 believe that the other growth centres undoubtedly will develop their own awareness and aspirations for a greater say in the administration of their communities. [More…]

• So it is quite apparent that new administrative relationships will need to be developed between the Australian Government and the new regional growth centres - relationships that will allow for a high degree of community participation and decentralised administration under the broad policy direction of a strong central government. [More…]

• With a wise measure of community involvement and delegated authority, we could encourage the development of indigenous art forms and other avenues of creative cultural expression which reflect the particular nature of the inland cities - cities built on a human scale and in harmony with the surrounding rural environment. [More…]

• It is a unique opportunity for the Government to put into practice its desire, expressed in the Governor-General’s address, for public participation in community affairs, and 1 am confident that the Government will not be conservative or over cautious in resolving this longstanding grievance. [More…]

• I staled earlier that we were the most under represented community in Australia. [More…]

• We as a government should not forgo the opportunity of demonstrating in Canberra what can ‘be done in developing new relationships which combine the benefits of strong central government with effective decentralisation of administration and decision making by the delegation of authority to local community representatives. [More…]

• It is, to use the words of the Minister, ‘to retain the opportunity for low income earners and families and aged people to live close to the city as part of a wider community.’ [More…]

• According to Housing Commission practice, the Glebe lands could be developed to accommodate three times the number now living on the estates and still provide community halls and other recreational facilities. [More…]

• Any event which occurs in the community after that design estimate has been prepared, such as the escalation of costs, shall be disregarded. [More…]

• The reason that matter needed to be brought to this House was that by the time the projects had been designed, costs in the community generally had risen. [More…]

• The consultants will be particularly asked to take into account the views of the State Planning Authority, the Housing Commission, the Leichhardt Municipal Council and the Glebe Administration Board, and to consult with other State departments and agencies and with the community organisations with an interest in the matter. [More…]

• I trust that I have your support in my proposed course of action, which is directed towards the conservation of a unique part of old Sydney and towards the protection of a community structure which has grown up over a long period of time. [More…]

• The State Liberal Government decided that it would levy a development tax of $1,000 or thereabouts on each block of land that was sold in the new town centres, and this money was to provide a very low interest financing fund to enable the local areas to provide community amenities. [More…]

• He has listed a number of individuals whom he has condemned by innuendo and implication in such a way that these men must be seen to have their status and standing in the community maligned. [More…]

• I believe, and I had thought before that this was a bipartisan view, that responsible men in the community can be asked - indeed, called on - to act in the way that the members of the Australian Wool Corporation have been acting in serving the industry and the country, in accordance with the charge laid upon them. [More…]

• I believe that the formation of an independent Australia Council will inaugurate a new era of vitality and progress in the arts, that creative artists of all kinds will enjoy a new measure of security and status in the community and that the Australian people as a whole will have new and wider opportunities to participate in the arts and enjoy the emotional, spiritual and intellectual rewards which the arts alone can provide. [More…]

• We want to promote the general application of the arts in the community and foster the expression of a national identity by means of the arts. [More…]

• The Council will be a body corporate consisting of not fewer than 1 8 and not more than 24 members drawn from a broad range of artistic, community and related government interests. [More…]

• It is our intention that government support for the arts should not become the province of entrenched interests and that it should serve, in the widest possible way, the artistic needs and aspirations of the Australian community. [More…]

• In making this selection particular weight was given to the object of encouraging community involvement in the arts, and the composition of the Council and boards now strongly reflects their role in this crucial process as well as in direct support for those practising the arts concerned. [More…]

• The Government believes they should be able to work in their own country secure in the knowledge that the community and the Government place a high value on their contribution to our way of life. [More…]

• We want to ensure that our greatest artists remain in Australia and prosper in Australia, and that the whole Australian community is the richer for their presence. [More…]

• Use of direct controls usually hinders this process of having the community’s financing done by the most efficient means. [More…]

• There is no way - I repeat, no way - in which inflation can be beaten which will not involve discomfort for a while for the community as a whole. [More…]

• Last year the Government made important changes in the Post Office tariff structure by tackling concessional and uneconomic areas of Post Office activity which provided hidden subsidies to selected areas of the community. [More…]

• In these proposals attention is given to public telephone and telegraph facilities, both of which it is appreciated provide important community services. [More…]

• The plethora of rural subsidies and the granting of loans at subsidised interest rates to rural producers at the expense of everybody else in the community, of course, are completely orthodox to a Country Party man. [More…]

• The use of direct controls usually hinders the process of having the community’s financing done by the most efficient means. [More…]

• Under Labor’s policies ‘them that gets rubbed out’ are the consumers and the least well off section of the community. [More…]

• There is very little factual information in the community as to the problems which precipitate housing crises of the proportion about which I have been talking. [More…]

• He may have sympathy for the Australian Country Party but that is because that Party has given service to the Australian wool industry and to the farming community. [More…]

• This Party stands on its record - a proud record of serving the rural community of Australia. [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…]

• Some of the factors requiring immediate consideration include the use of the funds which the Government has said it will use in order to give people 6 months’ pay for the purpose of employing those people who are willing, able and suitable to work on civic community programs for the time being in non-metropolitan areas, particularly in Wangaratta. [More…]

• I think it is well that the community as a whole should realise this. [More…]

• This committee will be composed of people from the community whose particular experiences and expertise can best assist in this function. [More…]

• The committee itself will provide a link between the activities of the Australian Government and the activities of non-governmental organisations and the community generally. [More…]

• In the final analysis, the only thing that can be anti-inflationary is for people -workers like you and me in the community - who would have to make up their minds to take only a fair increase in wages, salaries and pay. [More…]

• In the final analysis, the only thing that can be anti-inflationary is for people - workers like you and me in the community - who would have to make up our minds to take only a fair increase in our wages, salaries and pay. [More…]

• In relation to the latter part of the statement, will the honourable gentleman agree that the only way to achieve wage restraint by ‘workers like you and me in the community’^- to use his words - is to have a national conference asking wage setters, price setters and government, which is the collector of great chunks out of a man’s pay packet, to exercise restraint? [More…]

• That puts $600m more into the hands of the community to spend on a limited quantity of goods and services. [More…]

• Expectations without limit put unreal pressure on resources of governments and of the community at large. [More…]

• It is time that the Government took the matter seriously and protected the interests of the great bulk of the trade union movement, who do not approve of these measures, and the general Australian community. [More…]

• Yet surely one would have to go a long way to find a strike situation which upset the ordinary people in the community more than the twin strikes that took place in South Australia simultaneously. [More…]

• I would like to see these sorts of people do something for the good of the community. [More…]

• I should like to see them try to exercise their seniority and their judgment to ensure that stupid and irres ponsible strikes do not continue to the disadvantage of the community. [More…]

• It is not good enough for these members of Parliament to come into this place unless they alter their thinking and understand that their role and responsibility now is to look after the community and not just the unions from which they came. [More…]

• Discussions are taking place between all sections of the community to ascertain how we can overcome industrial problems without disputation. [More…]

• It depends in the main on strong Government leadership producing co-operation between all sections and replacing self-interest with a sense of community responsibility. [More…]

• This in itself is not sufficient to give an indication to the community and to businessmen of the intent as to how this particular provision shall effect his business interests or when it is that the public interest is affected. [More…]

• I think we all know that consumers are the largest but regrettably the least organised economic group in the community. [More…]

• I know that there are people in the community who want to be protected in this way but I know equally that it is inconsistent with that overall objective. [More…]

• That, I might add, is entirely consistent with Liberal principles which recognise that in order to create or to preserve freedoms in the community it is often necessary to inhibit the activities of some within it. [More…]

• However, we recognise that big businesses and small businesses all have a place in the community but that, if there are undue monopolisation and business practices which are injurious to the individual citizen, they need to be regulated. [More…]

• It is clearly stated by the Tribunal that there is no justification for its determinations and recommendations being used as an argument for an increase in salaries for the Second and lower divisions of the Public Service, the Public Services of the States or any other persons in the community. [More…]

• The business community of Australia will not now tolerate the lack of uniformity in company legislation which existed fifteen years ago. [More…]

• Yet it is a fact that many of the unacceptable features have been deleted or amended and that this legislation now attracts a fair degree of support in the community which, if not unqualified, is at least there. [More…]

• This provision constitutes a substantial amendment and will considerably allay fears in the business community of a marauding enterprise operating in the marketplace without discrimination or co-operation. [More…]

• The very nature of the projects which could be involved is such as would have to involve huge sums of money or involve investment proposals where the social returns to the community were thought by the Government or the Parliament to exceed the return to the individual investor. [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…]

• The Government has shown its lack of depth of feeling and of compassion for the aged - particularly the infirm aged - in our community. [More…]

• I believe it was because of the obstinate, doctrinaire policy of a group of front bench socialists on the other side of this Parliament who sit in Government, who are ideologically opposed to religious, private and community involvement in aged persons housing and in nursing homes. [More…]

• The intelligent members of the community realise this. [More…]

• It is a much more impressive record over all than that of any previous government in regard to providing assistance to and financially supporting the provision of services for the aged people in our community - the people who have contributed so much in the past. [More…]

• I wish people in the community would just understand some fundamental economic principles. [More…]

• Surely by now they would have understood that there was a commodity boom which greatly favoured the Country Party areas of the community due to the high prices of wool, meat, wheat and other primary products. [More…]

• This Minister for insecurity is taking away from the aged people of the community the security they formerly had under a Liberal Party-Country Party Government. [More…]

• Such is the rate at which inflation is roaring in this community. [More…]

• The Australian Health Department through geriatric care services, including follow-up services and the like, is funding the community health program. [More…]

• In various places around Australia today there are springing up community health centres which enable aged people to stay in their own homes. [More…]

• They have the assurance that if they take sick temporarily and need hospitalisation they can go to the local community health centre. [More…]

• If they need hospitalisation for only a day or part of a day they can go to the community health centre. [More…]

• This denies all of us the opportunity of mixing with the Canberra community, dining as civilised human beings with the diplomatic corps and senior public servants and learning something about Canberra in a civilised way. [More…]

• I believe that there has been an exchange of opinions not only between Government members and Opposition members in this place but also in the community at large. [More…]

• The idea that people are altogether impartial and objective, that there are such people in the community that you can get hold of and appoint to the IAC is very deceptive. [More…]

• I would not like him to create the impression that the previous Government acted in a way which prevented a complete representation of different sections of the community on many of those boards and commissions which were in operation. [More…]

• His appointment gave a much greater objectivity to the thinking of the Board and I believe he looked after a section of the community. [More…]

• If a person with a particular political reference and a strong association with a political body is appointed, it would be in the interests of the community for a person with an opposing point of view to be on the board so that there could be a cross-exchange of points of view and so that the body would not be accused of having a strong bias but would be regarded as being objective and impartial. [More…]

• Whilst it might appear that imposing limits on the raising of funds could be rather restrictive, we know that amendments to other pieces of legislation could facilitate the marshalling of large amounts of money for the National Investment Fund and this could generate a certain amount of fear and apprehension within certain sections of the community which have some doubts and reservations as to the eventual outcome of the Corporation and its involvement in the business sector of the community. [More…]

• There are such things as concern and support for that kind of proposal in the community. [More…]

• I am very pleased to have the opportunity of being recorded in history as helping in the community. [More…]

• No one knows more than I do that inflation is a problem within the community. [More…]

• Since the measures were announced I have noticed that the newspapers have carried clearly to the Government the message as to what the various interested parties throughout the community think of the Government’s actions. [More…]

• There is an impartial judgment made by a person outside in the community. [More…]

• No matter where one turns in the community there is not one vestige of support for the Government’s action in savagely increasing the charges as it has done. [More…]

• There is no certainty that a pensioner sends fewer letters or makes fewer telephone calls than anyone else in the community. [More…]

• It suggests that the Australian Post Office should ensure that the community contributes to the revenues of the Post Office in proportion to the use each member makes of those services. [More…]

• The Vernon report discussed what the role of the Post Office should be in the community. [More…]

• It talks of the Government’s intention to ‘tackle concessional and uneconomic areas of Post Office activity which provide hidden subsidies to selected areas of the community’. [More…]

• For a Post Office service, the cost of meeting that demand makes inequitable inroads into the national resources available to meet total community needs. [More…]

• The Government for its part seems to intend that the Post Office operate as a profitable business enterprise, not as a community service. [More…]

• Because about 70 per cent of its operating costs are expended on labour and as community wage levels are rising, increasing costs are inevitable. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition maintains that, as part of our proposals to deal with inflation, we should reduce these important impositions that the Government is making upon the community. [More…]

• Now the community is to be loaded with savage increases in postal and telephone rates while at the same time receiving less services. [More…]

• The biggest single business in Australia, the Post Office, run by the Federal Government sets no example to the States, to the private sector or to the community at large. [More…]

• Now it is to be carried further regardless of any consideration of service to the community, which has been the traditional principle of the management, operation and structure of the Post Office as a public instrumentality over so many years. [More…]

• The tax payable on those things is inequitably spread amongst the community because the working man or the pensioner pays just as much indirect tax on a packet of cigarettes as the millionaire. [More…]

• There are many people in the community who, when they were young, decided that they did not want to have to rely on a government to determine the standard of living they would have in their old age and so saved their money, made sacrifices and invested in insurance. [More…]

• when a man and his wife are thrown out of employment for any reason whatsoever, this community can then abandon the family, their house payments and their whole way of living and give them a sustenance on which to live. [More…]

• Pensions should be the right of those citizens because of their services to the community. [More…]

• The rates of pensions should bear some relationship to their real needs in the community. [More…]

• I want to combat that sort of conditioning that members of the Opposition are trying to carry out in the community. [More…]

• There will always be a percentage in the community who are unemployed because they are unemployable due to defects in character or mental makeup. [More…]

• I think the community owes that to them. [More…]

• I support the legislation in that it is giving to the pensioners in the community an increase in their income. [More…]

• Then all of a sudden, as a result of concern expressed in the community and by the Liberal and Country Parties, the Labor Government members awoke to the fact that many persons would be hurt by the imposition of taxation upon them when for years they had not been liable for tax or even to put in a tax return. [More…]

• I point out by way of aside that the nest egg is rapidly losing value, and this fact in itself is causing the senior citizens in our community very grave concern. [More…]

• This Minister and this Labor Government are calling upon every age pensioner in the community to fill out a tax return, unless action is taken in the Budget to lift the level at which pensioners as well as other people in the community first become liable to tax. [More…]

• In doing so they will relieve the aged people of this community of the obligation the Treasurer has announced he will impose upon them - an obligation to lodge a tax return and pay tax out of a pension income that comes from the Government in the first place. [More…]

• If tax relief were given at this end of the scale much would be done to relieve the pressure on the low income family and others in the community to demand higher wages, which only continues the inflation spiral. [More…]

• First of all, I assert the principle that in this society we all have an obligation to pay according to our ability to pay towards meeting those responsibilities which belong with government by providing services and benefits in the community in order to improve our life style, however it is done. [More…]

• Firstly, the rates at which the income of retired people is taxed are easier and at a concessional level compared to that applying to the rest of the community, due to the rebate which is allowable. [More…]

• They are a selfless body of men, and I believe they deserve the highest commendation from the community as a whole, and I believe they deserve the utmost support from the various Parliaments in Australia. [More…]

• Tonight I submit to the Special Minister of State and to the House that should the Government free the surf life saving clubs from the financial burden of meeting telephone bills it would probably be singularly the most welcome expression of gratitude the community as a whole could make, and it would cost each Australian family only about lc a year. [More…]

• Certain forms of community services were involved, including libraries, fire brigades, building standards, bus services and cemeteries. [More…]

• I thought he made it abundantly clear that if there was to be a conflict of interest between the mining companies and the Aboriginal community, in his view the interests of the Aboriginal communities would have to come second. [More…]

• We again place on record our very serious criticism of a government which has failed to place the operations of this Tribunal against the much needed concept and application of an overall effective and positive incomes and price restraints policy for the Australian community. [More…]

• But, in attacking inflation, we are not prepared to accept the traditional recipe of the Liberal and Country Parties of a cool pool of unemployment; nor do we accept as the Liberal and Country Parties did that those who are not able to protect themselves should carry the community burden. [More…]

• If one examines the percentage relationship over the years of the pension to average weekly earnings it will be noted that in periods of rising inflation the Liberal and Country Parties required the pensioners of the community to carry the sacrifice of inflation programs. [More…]

• No doubt, substantial sections of the Australian business community, particularly importers and retailers, were able to reap tidy, additional and unearned profits by failing to pass on to consumers the savings flowing from the actions taken by this Government. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Tribunal has himself cried out, as reported in the ‘Australian Financial Review’ of 10 July this year, at the frightening prospect of the reopening of the metal trades award and generally at the rate at which wages and salaries are rising in the community. [More…]

• There is no other way in which to proceed, given the complexity of our system of wage determination - the combination of arbitral authorities and collective bargaining - and the wide diversity of circumstances and interests even within, let alone between, the major social groups in the community. [More…]

• There were substantial increases in a number of fields last year and they affected great segments of the Australian community. [More…]

• Living standards today, as well as living standards tomorrow, depend not only on what is produced today, tomorrow or next year; they also depend upon the rates of productivity increases which occur within a community. [More…]

• With all the modern community’s wish to overcome the pollution and environmental hazards in life, it amazes me that there has not been a greater outcry in large cities about traffic noise. [More…]

• I believe that the community is becoming increasingly aware of the problems attendant on the ever increasing number of cars congesting our cities. [More…]

• It is worse than it was then, and certainly nothing in this legislation suggests that there is a move to assist generally the farming community in this important regard. [More…]

• But it is being assisted by this Government hand over fist as though it were the one cherished section of the community that deserves some special consideration. [More…]

• The Opposition parties want to know how the local government authorities are going to prepare their budgets because at this time they are completely unaware of how much money will be flowing through to them in the form of such things as roads and subsidies grants and because at this stage, notwithstanding many promises to the contrary, much verbiage and many statements by responsible Ministers who stand forever condemned as people who utter mere platitudes, not one dollar has gone through to the community in Grants Commission money. [More…]

• This untrue accusation swept like wildfire through the business and financial community. [More…]

• It is quite true that putting on their other hat of being the moral directors of the Australian community, the proprietors have produced a couple of very interesting leading articles. [More…]

• In particular, we have developed in the Australian community a health care delivery system which is both public and private, which involves a mixture of private and public contribution, and private effort, relationship and involvement and public effort, relationship and involvement. [More…]

• Private relationships remain important in this area of community life. [More…]

• The community simply will not pay through the nose, through the taxation system. [More…]

• There is something fraudulent about suggesting that this is to be the contribution for health care delivery for patients in this community. [More…]

• The honourable member should have a little closer look at the community health centre program that is being expanded very rapidly throughout Australia and also at the increasing number of salaried doctor services provided in those community health centres. [More…]

• I believe that these Bills have to be considered in the context of the accelerating inflation in this country at the present time, particularly because a health care system that is labour intensive by nature has an accelerated inflation rate of twice to three times the ordinary inflation rate in the community generally. [More…]

• One has to add to the already out of date and incomplete figures in the White Paper a new dimension, and that is the widespread introduction of community health centres staffed by doctors on a salary and free of patient fees. [More…]

• If I have not made a mistake it would seem that there is a rather curious anomaly in existence, although the Government has claimed that one of the major attractions of its scheme is that it will assist the poorer section of the community. [More…]

• One could expect that any government - notwithstanding the fact that its percentage of the national vote decreased by 0.3 per cent a few short months ago and that a recent gallup poll showed that it is rapidly losing its standing in the community by a loss of 0.7 per cent over the recent period - would still think, when it has the responsibility of occupying the Treasury -bench, that it would be at least honest in government. [More…]

• I think it is fair to submit that any program should be costed on a long-term basis and the community should be made aware that increases in the rate of levy are to be expected and some indication should be given of the order of these increases. [More…]

• Only a small percentage of the community required perhaps the genius which the Minister has brought to the Parliament. [More…]

• It is merely a scheme to raise money more efficiently and to distribute it in the community to cover everyone and to distribute the cost on an equitable basis between the people who contribute. [More…]

• There are community health centres, community psychiatric centres, school dental health services, treatment for alcoholism and for drug abuse and, of course, real money to the States for the development and improvement of existing and new public hospital services. [More…]

• It collects from everyone in the community, with some exceptions such as low income earners - of course there is a ceiling level - according to one’s ability to pay. [More…]

• In a dinosaurian way the present system of private health insurance is bogging down in a swamp of public dissatisfaction, inefficiency and unsatisfaction in the community. [More…]

• There are elements in this community - their representatives sit on the other side of this chamber - who are out to destroy the trade union movement. [More…]

• The Opposition always says that the amalgamation of these other concerns are certainly in the interests of the community as a whole and therefore should not be interfered with. [More…]

• In other industrialised countries of the world concentrations of power in a few unions have led to the most dire consequences for the community itself. [More…]

• It is significant that the Minister has said that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which has demonstrated itself to be probably the most powerful union in Australia - certainly one of the most militant; certainly one of those that has visited more harm on its own members because of the money lost through strikes - has gained no more and much less than the waterfront unions have for their members but has used much more militant tactics and done more harm to its own members and enormous harm to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is honoured completely and utterly in the breach, confirming the present hierarchy in charge with the damage that it does to its own members and to the Australian community. [More…]

• My own personal view is that in fact the televising of important occasions in this Parliament would serve the community well. [More…]

• I think that those who argue against the televising of parliamentary proceedings are turning their backs on the most effective means of communication in the community. [More…]

• For better or for worse, the overwhelming majority of people in the community use television to a substantial extent during their leisure times. [More…]

• That is not merely a recognition of television as an authoritative and popularly accepted medium in the community. [More…]

• Parliament must be recognised as a party principle to authority in the community. [More…]

• We ought therefore to provide for Parliament to alleviate the concern and the misgivings in the community today by televising aspects of its proceedings. [More…]

• and (2) Members of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs visited Hooker Creek in March at my request as an initial step in examining ways of increasing effective Aboriginal involvement in the affairs of the community, especially the provision and management of community services, economic enterprises and social control. [More…]

• It is estimated that the cost of this program in the first year - a program of vision and imagination based on a compassionate understanding of the needs of the child, the parent and the community - will be $130m. [More…]

• That diversity adds to the number of people in the community with whom we must negotiate. [More…]

• We have had the Fry report, the Social Welfare Commission report and now, of course, the Priorities Review Staff has recommended that the commencement of the program be postponed so that the Government and the community would have time to prepare for its implementation. [More…]

• $130m the Labor Party has promised for an adequate child care program which would benefit every child in the community, whether that child is at or in somebody else’s care. [More…]

• It is because of this Government’s appreciation of the importance of restraining inflationary pressures within the general community that the Government has embarked on a deliberate policy of curtailing Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• The organisation with which I am associated applied for money to be spent on fulltime child care for those in need in the community. [More…]

• Of course, it takes time to arouse interest in the community and some local government organisations are very tentative at the present time in relation to the support that should be given to embarking upon any further projects in the social welfare field. [More…]

• It is likely that it will be increased, but it is doubtful, given the resources and the doubts in the community at the moment, whether we will be able to spend more than that. [More…]

• This would mean that 2 parties to a dispute could come to an agreement that resulted in flow on effects for the whole community and only in the most exceptional circumstances would there be anything to prevent that agreement being certified by the Commission. [More…]

• The Opposition has no responsibility for industrial relations in this community. [More…]

• The Government seeks industrial peace in this community, but industrial peace based on justice and equity for all parties. [More…]

• Disputes in this community have to’ be minimised. [More…]

• It is an important step, an important part of a total program for which the Minister for Labor and Immigration is entitled to receive absolute credit and the praise of the community. [More…]

• We hope that the Labor Government will adopt the policies of the previous Liberal-Country Party Government and encourage dairy farmers to maintain their great status in the Australian community. [More…]

• It has been occurring in the community already that young families, knowing that the wife is expecting a baby, book into a hospital and insure up to the total limit sufficient to cover the hospital bill. [More…]

• In other words, it would leave the community uninsured; it would leave those who wish to insure for private hospital care, intermediate ward care or private ward care unable to pool their resources and draw from the insurance pool when the occasion arises for them to require hospital treatment. [More…]

• The people in the community want to be able to go to the great charity-run private hospitals. [More…]

• How true it makes the charge directed at the Minister that he is out to kill everything that is private, charitable, or religious or community based in our whole health system whether they are hospitals, doctors, nursing homes or health funds. [More…]

• There is no possibility that the Government - any government, regardless of its political complexion - will stand in the way of increased benefits to the community. [More…]

• The chronic instability which is found in developed countries is to a large degree due to the persistent growth in community expectations for government services which in turn add to an increased aggregate demand throughout the community. [More…]

• This has resulted in the spreading over a relatively stable productive base of an enormously expanding spectrum of community wants and needs. [More…]

• Is this any way to give confidence to the Australian community which wants to know what is the Government policy? [More…]

• An editorial in the ‘Canberra Times’ of 31 July claimed that community patterns of life and feeling in the national capital are breaking down. [More…]

• Mr Manuel said that his comments might be considered improper but he felt that it would be negligent of him to sit idly by and witness what was happening to the community. [More…]

• It is easy for those of us in the Opposition to draw attention, I know, to the deception of the Labor Government at the last election, but I believe that the Australian community should now recognise who was telling the truth during the last election campaign, who tried to point out the true realities of the inflationary situation. [More…]

• We see in the rural sector of the community that the meat industry is running into a crisis; export sales are down 50 per cent on those of last year. [More…]

• Last year we heard a great deal about the rural sector of the community never having had it so good. [More…]

• This increase in demand is partly due no doubt to a feeling of rising affluence in the community and also to the fact that the relevant age group is an inordinately large proportion of the community. [More…]

• This process was spurred on by speculative builders and advertising agencies which brainwashed the community into believing that owning one’s own home was not only cheaper but indeed was the only Australian thing to do. [More…]

• In this very progressive paper the point is made that all involved in development must aim to achieve a better balance between providing for the community as a whole and reducing harmful effects on individuals. [More…]

• A better deal is now required for those who suffer from desirable community developments. [More…]

• Far too many times in Australia we have gone ahead with community developments that have caused disruption and disturbance to the lives of tens of thousands of people. [More…]

• We do not want to stop community development whose net effect is to make life more comfortable, convenient and pleasant. [More…]

• The root cause of this questioning is the neglect of social and environmental needs and failure to provide for the participation of the community in vital decisions. [More…]

• Secondly, what sort of transport system will accord with the sort of community in which people want to live? [More…]

• A vast new load will fall on the shoulders of an already over-burdened section of the community. [More…]

• It is difficult to accurately measure benefits to the community, both direct and indirect, but it is believed that these will be substantial. [More…]

• I would rather see it set in terms of the priorities that the people closest to the community are able to assess and not the priorities set by those who happen to be representative of larger areas, as we all are, and who are not able to relate as readily as can State members of Parliament or members of local councils in assessing the needs of a community. [More…]

• The way some of the State governments’ spokesmen have screamed, one would think that building a national highway was a disadvantage to the rural sector of our community - not because country people would not benefit but because city people would benefit too. [More…]

• These include State National Fitness Councils, youth and community services organisations, sporting groups, local authorities, welfare agencies, schools and churches. [More…]

• Land required for the establishment of Aboriginal economic enterprise or community projects outside Aboriginal reserves is purchased by the Aboriginal group concerned, with funds made available by the Australian Government. [More…]

• How does his Department ensure, as he himself has said is* necessary, that it is providing the most urgently required community recreation facilities in their right priorities. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware that differing views on the problems of the Austraiian economy by many of his Ministers and disagreement within Caucus have increased the confusion and added to the lack of confidence apparent in the Australian community? [More…]

• The Minister would be aware of the confusion that existed in the community during the recent election campaign following upon the alleged statements by the Leader of the Country Party in regard to world parity prices for oil. [More…]

• It is not desirable from the community point of view to have employment in industries that are not efficient. [More…]

• We should not allow their control to be wholly vested in people at the local government and State government level who have failed to protect the interests of the community. [More…]

• I recognise that it is important for every country to take care of its citizens who are among the less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• Having been associated with community and charitable work for many years, I am aware of the need for attention by governments in this area so that these people can live the respectable life that they deserve. [More…]

• Pharmacy is a very noble profession and very important to the well-being of our community. [More…]

• As an alderman of a Queensland city with a population of approximately 40,000 and a percentage population growth rate ranking third among the cities in the State, I have experienced at first hand the problems that face a rapidly expanding urban community. [More…]

• I was shocked to hear important aspects of town planning being debated so piously when the Glebe Lands (Appropriation) Bill came before this House, when local authorities are so vitally concerned with town planning, building by-laws and by-laws generally for the orderly and proper conduct of a community. [More…]

• No government can allow an entire sector of the community and the economy go to the wall as a result of that government’s actions. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Brotherhood of St Laurence, the Italian Community Service Fund and the Council on the Ageing have criticised the Government’s decisions to alter the subsidy on aged persons’ homes to allow$4 for every$1 spent on aged housing but to leave the maximum limit of the subsidy at 59,000. [More…]

• Although there are many people in the community who are wishing that the necessary pre-condition- that is a double dissolution- would occur much more quickly and that it might occur very shortly, I do not contribute to any speculation about it. [More…]

• -Mr Chairman, these issues are of major importance to the entire community and no leadership has been given by this Government. [More…]

• The other criteria in the present Act relating to instructions to the electoral Commissioners are that they should take into account community of interest, means of communication and travel, the trend up or down of population figures, physical features and the existing boundaries. [More…]

• Because of its peculiarity in respect of community of interest, remoteness, distance to travel, etc., the Division of Darling has been accepted by all parties since Federation as one which will be small by comparison with other electorates. [More…]

• He stood here and lectured us about the frailty of democracy when he and his Party and his supporters outside are doing more to pull it down than anybody else in the community. [More…]

• It did very little credit to Senator Withers in another place under the privilege of Parliament to attack the integrity of men who, everyone knows, have a high standing in the community. [More…]

• This is because there is a focus of community activity in smaller areas. [More…]

• In an electorate like Diamond Valley, which has a large number of people dispersed evenly over the whole suburban landscape, that focus of community interest is not as easy to organise as it is in a country town. [More…]

• A member visiting a country town at once has a whole structure of community organisations before him with which he can keep contact. [More…]

• Labor recognises the electoral climate brought about by raging inflation, rampant industrial unrest, a divided Cabinet, a mutinous Caucus, confusion and a lack of confidence throughout the community, fragmentation in both policy and the Party, and sees the need to do something pretty badly. [More…]

• It is all right to keep community of interest- economic, social and regional; it is all right to keep means of communication, travel, physical features and trends in population changes. [More…]

• To criticise the Minister and to accuse him of” failing to show consideration for and interest in the rural sector of the community because of this fact is unfair in the extreme. [More…]

• Let us have some proposals for economic management and community development. [More…]

• He then says that because one of the most under-privileged groups in the community- the Aboriginals of the Northern Territory- are being helped by this Labor Government, they too are being got at in some way. [More…]

• Let us think of the ordinances that have been disallowed in the Senate- ones relating to legal practitioners, the Canberra Community Hospital and the trespass on Commonwealth lands. [More…]

• Are they not really saying that what they are after is domination of a chamber which, for the time being, they see as frustrating them in their attempts to distort completely the democratic processes in our community. [More…]

• The real reason is that Opposition members believe that they were born to rule and that nobody else in the community is capable of doing so or even should be allowed to do so. [More…]

• The mere introduction of a Representation Bill to amend the Representation Act cannot be allowed to be accepted as something to tranquilise the community into a state of agreement and to say: ‘Our fears are unfounded’. [More…]

• I know that there are some members of the Opposition who have a fair knowledge of Canberra as a community, but there are many members who have no knowledge of Canberra apart from the precincts of Parliament House. [More…]

• It is 2,000 miles away; there is no community of interest. [More…]

• Those people who drew up the Constitution were, primarily, men of property, merchants, farmers and men of influence in our community. [More…]

• Parliament would be added cost to the community and a further delay in the process of legislation of the Parliament. [More…]

• It is based on equity; it is based on a sense of justice; it will ensure that every person in this community is covered for health insurance purposes; and, most certainly, it is based on a freedom of choice- a freedom to choose the private medical practitioner that one cares to use and a freedom to choose the type of hospital treatment that one cares to draw upon. [More…]

• These are the benefits that the community stands to gain: For individual citizens our health insurance program will mean an automatic health insurance cover that is based on a more equitable system of payment and a freedom of choice of the doctor and the type of hospital care. [More…]

• No previous Australian Government has committed itself financially to supporting the development of health services in the community on a national scale. [More…]

• Today community health centres are being developed so that people will have a range of health services- not just medical practitioners, as important as they are, and there is no disputing that fact, but also the people who should be backing them up and who have never had adequate encouragement to provide those services or an opportunity to fulfil that task, namely, the paramedics and the associated medical professionals, such as health social workers, home visit nurses, physiotherapists and technologists of various types. [More…]

• They are the people who are now staffing those community health centres. [More…]

• Similarly, psychiatric community health centres are being set up. [More…]

• No one could be happy with the situation that exists today whereby accident victims have to be canvassed about the casualty wards of the public hospitals in the large cities of the community. [More…]

• The essential thing about a health insurance program is that it should cover everyone in the community, there should be equity in the distribution of the cost of the scheme and people should be able to obtain the health services they need without concern as to whether the cost is going to be prohibitive in some way or other. [More…]

• This scheme will cover all pensioners in the community and not just for medical consultations at general practitioners surgeries, as now, but will cover them for procedural items as well. [More…]

• Pensioners will be treated in exactly the same way as other members of the community are. [More…]

• The additional cost of that extra insurance is an allowable deduction for taxation purposes and that cost, with the basic levy of 1.35 per cent of taxable income, for most people in the community and for most families will still be less than the cost of hospital and medical insurance under the present scheme. [More…]

• Under this scheme we will meet 50 per cent of the net costs of operating public hospitals in the community. [More…]

• We do not argue that because a man earns more income and therefore pays more in tax he should pay less for the use of a social utility such as public transport or that he should pay less for a loaf of bread or for anything that he uses in the community. [More…]

• Yet this seems to be the argument which has been put forward by spokesmen for vested interests in the community trying to give some sort of cloak of respectability to this absolutely dreadful inequity and discrimination against lower income earners. [More…]

• Worst of all, its inequity and the way that it neglects so many people in the community indicate that it is inappropriate to a wealthy country which makes some claim to a commitment to respect for human dignity and the rights of people. [More…]

• They approach all problems in this community with that philosophy. [More…]

• Again, the White Paper ensures that private supplementary insurance will be available and will be community rated to ensure reasonable contribution levels. [More…]

• It means a diversion from all other spending in the community. [More…]

• The doctors will not accept the scheme in Australia and the private hospitals, the charitable, religious, community and rural hospitals, will not have a bar of it. [More…]

• Instead of having a reasonable community approach to health in Australia there will be a polarisation between those who, on the one hand, are forced to use the public system and the wealthy who, on the other and, can well afford to pay for special private hospitals and private facilities. [More…]

• The fourth point is that the community support which has been apparent for health and hospitals generally will be lost. [More…]

• If the Government wishes to criticise some of those who have put forward cost figures disagreeing by $400m with the Government estimate, I do not think it can say very much in criticism of the Taxpayers Association which looks after and speaks up for the ordinary taxpayer in the community. [More…]

• They have been debated out in the community for literally hours. [More…]

• Which will expand freedom of choice; which will promote efficiency in health services and which will upgrade hospital and community health centres. [More…]

• The legislation will make possible the establishment of community health centres. [More…]

• There are some groups within the community who obtain health services free, including pensioners. [More…]

• It may be a happy position for the Opposition to have approximately 1 5 per cent of the Australian community uninsured and threatened with poverty when illness strikes, but it is completely unacceptable to the Government. [More…]

• It may be typically Australian to see one million Australians weighing up the cost before they seek medical advice, but it is completely unacceptable to this Government and it is unacceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• If the Opposition will concede that we won the election, then new members, old members, and the Australian community should concede that this Government has a mandate to proceed with the Bills. [More…]

• The new program is based on ability to pay and will provide insurance for everyone in the community. [More…]

• We do not want a Government takeover but a sharing of responsibility between Government and community. [More…]

• In 1972 the Minister for Social Security, Mr Hayden, said: ‘We would, in fact, build good quality nursing homes at various points in the community according to various types of plans’. [More…]

• These proposals provide for a change in the method of funding health care in this country and, together with the other proposals for hospital and community care, represent a social reform- a reform to overcome the inefficiencies of the present system and to correct its malapportionment of the taxpayers’ money between the private and public sectors and its maldistribution of doctors and health services. [More…]

• There is absolutely no guarantee that private hospitals will remain in existence- still less the subsidised community hospitals in my own State. [More…]

• These are legitimate social security functions in relation to which the community has a responsibility. [More…]

• They did not even dream of community health systems and they had no approach to rehabilitation, with one honourable exception. [More…]

• I refer to a community health program, a medical rehabilitation scheme for Australia and a hospitals program for Australia. [More…]

• But what other government has done as much to help to decentralise these very functions and to insist that the local community committees and authorities and the voluntary organisations have a place in the regional organisation of health care? [More…]

• The difference between the party to which I have the honour to belong and the Opposition Parties is that we represent those people and the Opposition represents the privileged in the community, people such as the doctors who are represented by the Australian Medical Association and the General Practitioners’ Society, the private hospitals and the private health insurance funds. [More…]

• The very proliferation of funds- 81 medical funds and 93 hospital funds -is illogical and must be costly to the community as costs rise and as they compete. [More…]

• These are people who, in the main, are the sorts of people for whom the community must take responsibility- age pensioners, single mothers, people on low incomes with large families and people who just do not think about the necessity for cover and who are irresponsible but who, with this Government’s scheme, will be forced to discipline themselves. [More…]

• If they were more concerned with the people who cannot afford doctor’s fees, hospital insurance charges or charges for proper medical cover, they would have more credibility in their crusade to save the community from itself. [More…]

• It is utter presumption for Opposition members to pontificate, as they have today, on community health services of which they have never had personal experience. [More…]

• All sections of the community, all parties, except the Opposition parties in this Parliament, reject the sell-out of Australia, and still the Leader of the Australian Country Party appears here as the representative of the international corporations. [More…]

• They are on the wave length of only one group in this community- the Australian Mining Industry Council which is 85 per cent foreign controlled because 69 of the 93 companies in it are foreign companies. [More…]

• We are interested in the wealth and well being of the Australian community, not the sectional interests of an agrarian rump- the Country Party- which will sell out to any interest to meet its own shabby political purposes. [More…]

• We have seen built towns, roads, railways, ports, schools and community centres which belong to the State but which were paid for by those companies. [More…]

• At the outset I want to say to Representative Katter that when he talks about Australianism many new members in this Parliament- people like Representatives Mathews and Lamb- are here because the conservationists in this community are sick of being trampled by the mining lobbyists. [More…]

• I suppose that those who buy shares are the gamblers in the community, and they have been caught and had their fingers burnt. [More…]

• It is extraordinary to imagine that sums in the vicinity of $200m a year could be envisaged for this sort of unnecessary involvement in government ownership at a time when this very Government has arbitrarily, by the stroke of a pen, taken away $ 1 30m from the area of child care, and has taken away, by another stroke of a pen, $28m which has been directed to keep some sort of balance in the price of petrol throughout this vast community, throughout this vast economy. [More…]

• As I said earlier, ownership is not necessarily in order to control an industry, industries or the people of the community properly. [More…]

• We believe in the community interest-an interest arrived at in a democratic way. [More…]

• Until the election of the Australian Labor Government to the treasury bench in this Parliament there was precious little, if any, application of the community interest to policy making in this enormously important mining sphere. [More…]

• The matters that are concerning the people today are unemployment, industrial disputes and strikes and the lack of confidence in the community, and those were the very things which were contained in my letter to the Speaker raising a matter of public importance. [More…]

• When the Parliament comes together it should be allowed to expose the lack of confidence in the community resulting from the conflicting statements which Ministers make. [More…]

• There was a reasonable expectation therefore, having regard to the Standing Orders, that today we would have a 2-hour debate on the matter of public importance which I raised and which asked the Parliament to discuss the vacuum in leadership, unemployment and the lack of confidence in the community. [More…]

• It has been denied the opportunity to debate the lack of confidence in the community and unemployment which ranges in estimates by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the Deputy Prime Minister from 150,000 to 200,000 people. [More…]

• He now comes forward with this second rate proposition seeking to air, he says, all the things that are wrong in the community. [More…]

• I suppose nothing has a more far-reaching effect on the community than the issues we are bringing forward today. [More…]

• These advantages include very significant reductions in road accidents, decreases in the operating costs of commercial and private vehicles, savings in travel time and reductions in air pollution, noise, community disruption and very substantial improvements in route times for public transport. [More…]

• However, whilst this may be a superb engineering achievement, it does not provide the sort of transport system which serves the needs of all members of the community. [More…]

• The fact is that the people who serve in State governments know exactly the feeling of the local community. [More…]

• They know also the need for transport in the local community. [More…]

• Aboriginal arts, music, theatre, visual arts, crafts, literature, film and television, community arts, or international programs. [More…]

• The basic points taken into consideration every time a grant is made are: The standard of professionalism; the artistic potential of the person, group or organisation; the degree of artistic or community involvement; the extent to which the activity would benefit the community; the extent to which it would encourage participation in the arts or educate the young in the arts; and the extent to which it would promote Australia’s cultural image abroad. [More…]

• Does he also recall his reply to me on 19 December 1973 by letter indicating that the Council for the Arts was examining the general question of recognising the services to the community provided by the people in the arts generally. [More…]

• The Australian Council for the Arts has approved in principle a double series of awards (a) to persons who have made a significant contribution to the arts in Australia and (b) a series of regular awards to individuals or bodies who have made a conspicuous or meritorious contribution to the growth of the arts in the Australian community. [More…]

• The present Government’s concern for the provision of residential facilities for the mentally ill and intellectually handicapped is reflected in the more flexible and more generous levels of assistance available under its Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program and its Community Health Program. [More…]

• The Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program is based on the Mental Health and Related Services Assistance Act 1973. [More…]

• It provides for 100 per cent Australian Government funding of community based mental health, alcoholism and drug dependency projects in 1973-74 and 1974-75, and allocates $7.5m for that purpose in each of those two years. [More…]

• After 1974-75, the Community Mental Health Program will be encompassed by the more broadly based Community Health Program. [More…]

• Australian Government funding of capital costs under the Community Health Program in 1974-75 and 1 975-76 will be on a 75 per cent basis. [More…]

• Both Programs enable Australian Government financial assistance to be provided for the capital costs of community (rather than institutionally) oriented residential facilities for the mentally ill and intellectually handicapped, and for alcoholics and drug dependent persons. [More…]

• As announced in my press statement of 9 May 1974, $964,000 of the original 1973-74 allocation of $2m to Victoria under the Community Mental Program was not utilised by that State and was re-allocated to other States. [More…]

• On 1 1 June 1974, 1 approved the allocation of $1,270,000 for that purpose, under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• That Act authorises Federal grants of up to $7.5m each year in 1973-74 and 1 974-75 for approved projects under the Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program. [More…]

• After June 1975, such assistance will continue to be provided, but under the more broadly based Community Health Program. [More…]

• Not only intake and assessment centres, but also community oriented facilities and services for the treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics have been funded under the Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program. [More…]

• 1 ) Although Federal grants may be made direct to local government authorities under the Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program, no grants have yet been made to such authorities. [More…]

• The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (3) and (4) While no specific mention of the Social Welfare Committee was made in 1972, its principles are implicit in the Government’s pre- 1972 election statements on the need for a total community approach to welfare. [More…]

• to ascertain, and report to the Minister on, the social welfare needs of the community and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs; [More…]

• recommendations for the adjustment, from time to time, of social welfare programs in the light of changing community circumstances and attitudes and the state of the economy; and [More…]

• recommendations for avoiding the duplication of social welfare programs and for promoting the maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the community social welfare effort; [More…]

• What is his experience in community affairs. [More…]

• She worked for much of her life in community causes. [More…]

• In that historic church at the head of Phillip Street, next to Greenway’s Supreme Court building, where 36 years before she was married and where in the years between she had been a communicant member, we were bidden to give thanks for her life of affection and generosity, of personal concern and community service, for her high ideals and steadfast courage. [More…]

• Lady Ken’s death was all the more tragic because Australia has lost a woman who had a fine personal quality and who gave dedicated community service over a long period. [More…]

• It is a loss that will be felt widely among many community organisations with which she worked, such as the Marriage Guidance Council of New South Wales. [More…]

• Lady Kerr continued to give this service to the community despite personal hardships that afflicted her. [More…]

• Her courage in overcoming those hardships was the finest example any person could have given of an individual’s self determination to make a positive contribution, despite personal needs, to the service of the community and the nation. [More…]

• It made him the natural and respected spokesman of the emerging community of Pacific potions- a community whose needs and aspirations, he understood better than any other leader in the world. [More…]

• All of us who attended the funeral service for him in Wellington were impressed by the manifest grief of the Maori community whom he served and loved. [More…]

• Naturally he felt very deeply about them particularly as he had in his hand at the time documents which indicated some corruption in the community. [More…]

• There is some hope that the Acting President of Cyprus, Mr Clerides, and the leader of the Turkish community, Mr Denktash, have developed sufficiently good relations, one with the other, to preclude a recurrence of hostilities, and to facilitate an exchange of those who have been displaced from their homes. [More…]

• One is entitled ‘Committee on Community Relations: “Interim Report-August 1974” ‘. [More…]

• The serious disruption of the community, of industry and of Australia’s defence capacity by continuing fuel shortages. [More…]

• It is an indictment of the Government, which claims to have such close links with the unions, that the Australian community has been brought to such a state of disruption by the actions of militant unions. [More…]

• The objective of this policy is to ensure that when there is industrial action in the oil industry- as happens with great frequency- there is an immediate impact, an immediate bite, so that the pressure on the community is felt quickly. [More…]

• The ordinary activities and commercial life of the community have been disrupted. [More…]

• But this goes much further than disruption of agriculture and other industry and the disruption of the normal daily life of the community. [More…]

• But I wonder just how long we must accept this continuing disruption of the life of the community. [More…]

• I want to remove some of the power which Mr Mundey and others like him have to bash the Australian community. [More…]

• If the kind of disruption we are now suffering is to be the normal order of things- and there seems little prospect that it will not be- we have to find ways to protect the community. [More…]

• I think everyone will agree, and I am sure the Government will accept, that we just cannot have this continuing interference with the flow of fuel to the community and to our defence forces. [More…]

• It might even be necessary, because of this industry’s importance, for it to be recognised in special legislation that will protect the community in times of emergency such as exists at the moment. [More…]

• This is a serious problem affecting every section of the community. [More…]

• Special grants are to be available to specified universities to increase teaching and research in special education of the handicapped, to establish courses or chairs of community practice associated with community health centres, and to increase the number of social workers in training. [More…]

• We believe these programs will produce sound professional staff and add to the community’s capacity to meet needs in these fields. [More…]

• This was the first real drive of an Australian government to work together with the States and local authorities to overtake the backlog of sewerage, to protect the environment and to give every person living in an urban community the right to sewerage and better environmental conditions. [More…]

• Consistent with this policy Australia has encouraged Papua New Guinea to take its place in the international community and one example of Papua New Guinea’s increasing involvement in this community was its participation in the recent Law of the Sea Conference in Caracas. [More…]

• The possibility of restraint from all sections of the community will be enhanced by the decisions I will announce designed to reduce the burdens on and increase the benefits for wage earners and particularly low and single income families. [More…]

• Capital expenditure on the development of a mine or well, on the provision of community faculties adjacent to a mine or well, or on the purchase of rnining rights or information will be deductible henceforth over the estimated life of the mine or well. [More…]

• Gains of this kind accrue from community decisions and the benefits of such decisions should accrue to the community. [More…]

• It does not in any way affect the bulk of liquefied gas which is used in the community for domestic and industrial heating, cooking and various other purposes. [More…]

• The people of Australia and the business community in particular should remember that. [More…]

• The national service provides an information, educational, cultural and entertainment service to the community. [More…]

• The Government believes that all people should have equal access to such services and it is, therefore, proper for the costs of these services to be a charge on the community as a whole through taxation. [More…]

• Not only have the licence fees been substantial, but they have represented a poll tax applied uniformly throughout the community. [More…]

• The inspector agreed with the validity of Father Gahan ‘s point of view and went even further to agree with his statement that as a Christian leader in the community if he did not take a stand on such matters as this, how could he expect other citizens to take a stand. [More…]

• The alarming decline of confidence in the community arising out of the Government’s inability to handle the deteriorating economic situation which has been created by its own policies, and contributed to by the conflicting statements of Ministers, the Prime Minister’s abdication of leadership and the rapidly worsening employment situation. [More…]

• That supplementary budget will require the Government to increase Government spending even more and will require the Government to relax the credit squeeze, put more money into the community and reduce interest rates. ‘ [More…]

• Secondly, we will protect the weaker sections of the community . [More…]

• -What we are trying to do in the Budget, what we believe we have successfully done, is this: We wish to lay the framework for restraint and co-operation by all sections of the community, and particularly by employers, employees and State governments. [More…]

• Above all for employees we have ensured a rise in their real standard of living as members of the Australian community, as members of families, as parents, as city dwellers, as public transport users and as road users. [More…]

• Quality and equality of services are now provided or denied by the community. [More…]

• Let me elaborate in these 3 great areasemployee confidence, business confidence and community confidence. [More…]

• I take it that the State governments still belong to the Australian community. [More…]

• It undermines the quality and availability of community services which are the very foundation of a better, more equal society. [More…]

• Inflation causes uncertainty and even fear from which few members of the community can be exempt, least of all employees and their families. [More…]

• This is the principle for the allocation of funds for schools under the Schools Commission program, for child care, for local government under the Grants Commission, for community health centres and hospitals, for welfare housing, for area improvement programs, for the Australian assistance plan and for Aboriginal advancement. [More…]

• What possible basis for national co-operation would there be had we not been prepared to call for some sacrifices- they are certainly not punitive onesfrom the very strongest and wealthiest in the community? [More…]

• What possible basis for national cooperation would there be if we were to punish the vast majority of Australians who will benefit under our community and welfare program? [More…]

• He then endeavoured to raise a question that has been raised frequently about the increasing cost of building due to escalating costs in the community generally. [More…]

• The honourable member for the Northern Territory tries to confuse the community and the House by quoting only one side of the equation. [More…]

• We have pioneered this in the Northern Territory especially; we have certainly adopted this policy for the community college and a number of other projects in the Territory. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the move to abolish the licences will be welcomed by the community. [More…]

• But it is a strange contrast indeed, in what we now are told is open government, when we still do net have a situation where the full details are made known to Parliament and made known to the public in the community at large. [More…]

• I am bound to point out that there is as a consequence of this action an even greater disparity in what is paid for by taxpayers or through the revenue coming to the Government for public service provisions- in other words, services to the community and what is regarded as a business undertaking and which therefore necessitates revenue to cover its expenditure. [More…]

• I believe that if there is to be real equality- that is undoubtedly the objective of this measure to remove the licence fee- that equality must be quickly extended to provide equal viewing opportunities to all sections of the community- not just to capital cities, metropolitan areas or the suburbia of Sydney and Melbourne, but to the rest of Australia. [More…]

• That action was to make a very vicious attack on one section of the community in relation to advertising. [More…]

• Last night the Treasurer said that the national broadcasting and television service is a service provided to the community as a whole and the Government believes that the cost of the service should therefore be met from general taxation revenues rather than through a licence fee. [More…]

• If it is good enough to have a reduction in one section of the Postmaster-General’s Department on the ground of service to the community then it is good enough to have it in another section. [More…]

• It is in the context of what I have been talking about concerning community reactions that I want to mention India which, as a member nation, has a representative on the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank. [More…]

• I have made these specific criticisms because I am concerned about the growing criticism in the community of that country which exploded a nuclear weapon without having due regard either to the consequences of further proliferation in other countries or to the pressures on the developed countries, such as our own, which wish to give further funds by way of aid programs but which receive criticism for doing so. [More…]

• It is delicate in the sense that no matter what country in the world is moving from an area where it is an administered power to becoming an entity internationally in its own right, there will be divergences within its community as to the timing. [More…]

• Consistent with this policy Australia has encouraged Papua New Guinea to take its place in the international community and one example of Papua New Guinea’s increasing involvement in this community was its participation in the recent Law of the Sea Conference in Caracas. [More…]

• In local government, where at times there have been members who have not quite shown that desire to serve their community, the tendency has been to shift assets and to have them appear under other names and only investigations of the direct or indirect family have shown them up. [More…]

• Just because a person chooses to serve his community by becoming a member of this Parliament, it should not deny him as an individual the right to personal privacy. [More…]

• Why not every person in the community? [More…]

• I see it as an infringement upon the privacy of the individual, although that individual may happen to serve his community as a member of this Parliament. [More…]

• This would be totally unfair to many members of this Parliament who have had the capacity to achieve something in the community. [More…]

• But I would consider it my duty to my electorate to point to the 2 aspects- I think they have been properly taken- of whether the community and the nation at large would be properly served by denying to members of parliament the privacy that the community today wishes to retain in so many areas. [More…]

• I think it is of additional importance in this time of turbulence in the Australian community, particularly as it pertains to the standing of politicians, whether they be at a federal, State or local government level. [More…]

• We find people from all walks of life, people from the middle class, from the wealthy sector of the community, when they cannot stop a building being destroyed, saying that they will have to connect with Jack Mundey and the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the tragic situation in Western Australia with respect to the proposed provisions of the Fuel and Energy Bill now before the Western Australian State Liberal Government’s Parliament which, it is alleged by the Law Society of Western Australia, State politicians and community leaders in that State, will remove civil liberties of Australian citizens? [More…]

• It considered more than 650 submissions from Government, community and professional bodies, and from individuals. [More…]

• It has opted for a very wide ranging definition of the National Estate which can be summed up in this way: Elements of such outstanding world value that they need to be conserved, managed and presented as part of the heritage of the world; elements of such outstanding national value that they must be conserved, managed and presented as part of the nation as a whole; and elements of such artistic, social, historical, cultural or other special value to the nation or any part of it that it should be conserved, managed and presented for the benefit of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It shatters once and for all the illusion that the national estate is the preserve of the better-off members of the community. [More…]

• Deprived community groups have not the same access as the wealthy to other sources of personal enjoyment and fulfilment. [More…]

• If that is to happen and it is to increase control of this government by people like Mr Elliott industrial anarchy will become rampant throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• -There is an aged care crisis in the community. [More…]

• Many of the people in the community who are operating organisations concerned with care for the aged expected that in the Budget, there would be some recognition of their needs, but they were disappointed. [More…]

• Many of these organisations which hope to expand the facilities that they can offer to the community and to offer accommodation and care to the people now in the second grade boarding houses are not willing to go ahead with their building programs. [More…]

• The Law Society of Western Australia, trade union leaders, State Opposition members and community leaders are expressing their abhorrence of the proposals which take from citizens the right to trial by jury, which gives the Government the power of summary arrest, and which enable searches of homes without warrant to be carried out at a Minister’s direction. [More…]

• If this proposed law has done one thing it has united large sections of the community behind the State Labor Opposition in the need to root out this evil. [More…]

• Members will be aware, through the legislation which has been before this House, of the successive initiatives which the Government has taken in relation to universities- the abolition of fees and the assumption of full financial responsibility by the Australian Government, provision for needy students, new and expanded medical schools, and support for new programs in social work, special education and community practice. [More…]

• The Post Office, as an effective monopoly, provides services to the community which affect the quality of life of the Australian people. [More…]

• The situation is even more puzzling when we are told by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) that the national broadcasting and television service is a service to the community as a whole and the Government believes that the cost of the service should therefore be met out of general taxation receipts rather than through a licence fee. [More…]

• To explain that a little further- it is able to charge the community for personnel, installations and services which are selected not by the public through competition but by bureaucratic decision. [More…]

• The whole community will have to suffer for a while to beat inflation ‘. [More…]

• Although I think it is true to say that the cost to the Post Office of providing telephone services at most private residences, because of their low usage, would be much more expensive to the community than would be the provision of business telephones because of their higher usage, these proposals recognise the fact that private subscribers meet the total cost of their telephone and postage commitments. [More…]

• The general taxpayer without business interests obtains less benefit from the operations of the Post Office- even though he obtains considerable conveniencethan does the business community. [More…]

• Yet the business community, because it is able to have its costs written off against taxation, pays less for the convenience than does the general taxpayer. [More…]

• It is money raised from the community whether it is raised in the form of the cost of postage stamps- that costs the average taxpayer less than it would if we put it on his taxation bill- or is raised in the form of general taxation or deficit budgeting. [More…]

• It is equally true to say that the cost of postal services varies throughout the community. [More…]

• Whilst it may be true that honourable members opposite would change the rentals of telephones of country people to advantage certain people they would still have to raise the revenue one way or another and someone would pay because there is not one cent- I repeat, not one cent- expended by this or any other government that someone in the community does not pay and the only decision which is really made is how much shall be spent and who shall pay the greatest amounts. [More…]

• But I presume that the need for red telephones has arisen because the community does not think that the facilities are being supplied by the Post Office. [More…]

• All we seek is that the Goverment in the future look at the fairness of all people in Australia, that it ensures that there is fair treatment for all of them instead of what seems to us to be a building up against one section of the community at present. [More…]

• Because about 70 per cent of its operating costs are expended on labour and as community wage levels are rising, increasing costs are inevitable. [More…]

• It has been completely and conveniently overlooked by members of the Opposition in this debate that the abolition of radio and television receiver licence fees represents a saving to almost every member of the community of $26.50 a year. [More…]

• This is an intolerable situation not only for people in their personal lives but also for businesses and for people who are trying to give some sort of service to the community. [More…]

• However, I want to make a few comments in support of what was said by my friend the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) about the significance of postal services for people in our community. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that the process of formulation of policy by this Government tends more and more to ignore the wishes of the individual and of the States but pursues a philosophical bent which in the consequence I am afraid will lead to a marked disadvantage to the whole of our Australian community. [More…]

• From the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services it received a separate grant of $5,500. [More…]

• The Department of Manufacturing Industry is in continuous liaison with NASA on the phase-down, with a view to minimising its effect on the Carnarvon community. [More…]

• Officers of the Department of the Capital Territory are in regular communication with the relevant authorities in the field of child care and with the various local community organisations. [More…]

• Community Recreation Facilities (QuestionNo. [More…]

• A wide range of proposals is being developed at local authority level and my Department is concerned to ensure an increased awareness of the importance of local communities being involved in recreation planning and the necessity for local governments to set priorities on their requirements for recreation facilities in accordance with identified community needs. [More…]

• and (4) The honourable member will be aware that some sections of the Norfolk Island community reacted angrily to the closure of tax haven loopholes predicted by the previous Government and implemented by this Government. [More…]

• A Comparative Study of the Merits and Effectiveness of Suspended Sentences, Community Work Schemes and Weekend Imprisonment. [More…]

• The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) Although some Australian Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other academic institutions provide courses in the social sciences which have a direct relevance to community development and social planning, no course has been introduced in these institutions to train personnel specifically for the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• and (3) I asked a large number of professional, academic, industrial, trade union and community organisations to nominate individuals who would be suitable to serve on the Committee in their individual capacities and not as representatives of particular groups. [More…]

• Also, the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) is absent for approximately one week for discussions in London on the implications to Australia of the European Economic Community Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• The Government does not believe that it is fair to primary producers or to the community as a whole to encourage people to engage their efforts and their capital in industries for which there is not a good future. [More…]

• Is it a fact that this extra tax will fall very heavily on those in the community who have saved and are saving for their retirement, as well as many young people who are saving for a home? [More…]

• Will the Government, even at this late stage, revise the incidence of this tax in the interests of fairness and equity to those in the community who, notwithstanding current economic difficulties, are still prepared to save? [More…]

• He seeks to include in this the rural producers in his own electorate in such a way as to suggest that they are .something less than full and equal members of this community of ours. [More…]

• When that figure is divided by the number of persons involved in agriculture, when we take into account all of those many rural communities which are completely dependent on servicing agriculture, when we acknowledge the degree to which every housewife and every consumer in Australia depends on the foodstuffs and the fibre produced by Australia’s farms in order to maintain the standard of living to which we have become accustomed to expect, and when we take into account the degree to which the farm community and primary industries are major demand elements within our community, the consequences of these statistics are alarming. [More…]

• But as a result of the Coombs recommendations something like $360m in actual net loss to the rural community was deducted by measures introduced in the 1973-74 Budget. [More…]

• Here was a document analysing rural policy- a document which would enable all those in the community to consider how the farming community and rural industry could best be assisted. [More…]

• They will be here in the year 2000, if perhaps there are any farmers left in the Australian community by the year 2000. [More…]

• Not only is this Government quite intent on ignoring by positive neglect the rural producers and the rural community and all of those communities which depend on them but also it is also hellbent on destroying the residual profitability which exists for those on the land and in the primary sector. [More…]

• If this situation continues the circumstance of migration of the rural community to the city will be very markedly increased, and as it increases we are going to have large tracts of internal Australia which will be just desert. [More…]

• How those words echo around the rural community today. [More…]

• We in Australia are a fairly peaceful lot, and for farmers of all people- they are perhaps the most conservative element within the Australian community- to talk of resorting to violence surely must demonstrate to the people who sit on the government front bench in this place that there is something wrong in the bush. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, there is no basis upon which any Australian can have any confidence in the measures of this Government to assist the people in the rural community. [More…]

• I will concede that perhaps the Government does not understand some of the feelings of this socioeconomic group of people in our community. [More…]

• It could be said that some people in the rural community are only willing to uphold the concept of democratic government when it produces the results they desire. [More…]

• I believe that the resources of the leaders of farm organisations and the Country Party would be more usefully employed in promoting a higher level of economic literacy among the farming community than in blowing against the winds of political and economic reality or in propagandising for the return of a certain and golden age which never did exist. [More…]

• They can change the long standing goals that governments of their own political persuasion upheld; they can accept the goals but attempt to attach some special virtue to one particular form of production; or they can accept the goals and the economic reality and take what comes in the light of the position in the market place but ensure at all times that the farming community gets economic justice. [More…]

• They have restraints without asking for them and restraints to an extent which no other section of the community has had to suffer. [More…]

• Which increases Government spending by 32 per cent when every sensible person in the community knows that restraint in Government spending is a must if we are to get ourselves out of the mess we are now in? [More…]

• Practical experience must be blended with a sensible and rational approach to the problems of the rural community. [More…]

• We have had the fearmongers in the Australian Country Party tramping around the countryside generating great opposition to a government which has given more to the rural community in terms of money than any previous government. [More…]

• In this Budget, technical education, which is of such profound importance for the rural sector of the community, will be getting the biggest injection of funds it has ever had. [More…]

• The excise does not affect in any way the bulk of liquefied petroleum gas used by the community for domestic and industrial heating, cooking and various other purposesalthough I believe that the use of this product for that purpose is something which belongs in history as it is totally unprocurable at this time. [More…]

• I have pointed out that this is the standard practice throughout the community in relation to sales tax. [More…]

• We are taking further money off the ratepayers of the community who in many instances cannot afford to pay this level of rates. [More…]

• I am not one who would advocate or support any section of the Australian community missing out on the advantages which that section of the community requires from the national government and which only the national government can provide. [More…]

• I beg to say that there would not be anybody within the precincts of this Parliament who would not be concerned about sewerage and the needs for homes to be sewered, the health of the community and all the other matters that have been raised by each of the members from the Government side who have spoken before me. [More…]

• In my community, I am familiar with the areas that are not sewered, the pollution of the Parramatta River and so on. [More…]

• If there is a shortfall in loan moneys because of the high cost of obtaining money on our community today, have we an undertaking from the Minister to underwrite the loans that are normally raised by such organisations as the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works themselves? [More…]

• They are thankful for the increased funds that flow for area improvement programs, for regionalisation and community programs and for the host of increased funds that come through the Minister’s Department, but they are even more impressed by the increased relationships and conference that they are now able to obtain with their Federal members. [More…]

• We believe it is a most acceptable concept provided justice is done to all sections of the community. [More…]

• I submit that the following five approaches might be made to the problem of setting standards: These approaches could be based, firstly, on health aspects, which would involve doctors and scientists; secondly, mental health aspects, which would involve psychologists and social scientists; thirdly, the number of complaints from the community; fourthly, cost benefits, which would involve economists; and, fifthly, absolutism, which would involve some environmentalists. [More…]

• I submit that it is very essential that the present proposal should be extended to include smaller country towns, particularly when we realise that as a means of decentralisation elderly people are being encouraged to retire to these smaller country towns where they are close to their friends, close to the environment into which they have been born and in which they have grown up and to which as members of the community they have contributed. [More…]

• Massive sums are being spent on education, on training the work force and on preparing the work force to meet the needs of this community. [More…]

• Secondly there was the failure of previous governments to provide a manpower and training POliCY to allow sufficient skilled manpower to be available to produce the goods and services required by the community. [More…]

• The admirable community traits of civic pride and involvement seem to go unrecognised. [More…]

• When a city expands, great pressures are placed on all services that must be supplied to the outer fringe, be it water, sewerage- we have spoken of that matter today- roadways, schools or community centres. [More…]

• The cost to a community, and a continuing cost in terms of State communications to the west of the State, makes the priorities set by people and their local representatives top priorities. [More…]

• Categorisation will continue to divide the community and produce frictions that are almost unknown in this country. [More…]

• The community uses what is affectionately known as the ‘cow shed’ because that is what it was until the Winston Hills Progress Association, with voluntary labour, refurnished the old dairy to be used as a meeting room for district organisations. [More…]

• That third factor was the pent up savings of the community just about to be unleashed in a wave of spending with the new aura of confidence which came with the new Labor Government. [More…]

• But it was necessary in order to mop up the excess liquidity in the community. [More…]

• It was necessary, I repeat, to make government bonds more attractive- to siphon off excess liquidity from the community. [More…]

• No one in his right mind would inflict this upon the community unless it was vitally necessary, particularly someone who has not a majority in both Houses of the Parliament and cannot govern with security for even the short period of 3 years. [More…]

• In fact there are many people in the community who deserve to catch up after such a period of demand inflation caused by the follies of our predecessors. [More…]

• Of course, the effects of any policy on future land use, on marketing and transport requirements or on the wider community and on the environment must be considered. [More…]

• It is difficult, however, to reconcile the thinking of the Governmnent on this issue when it says that the cost of a public service which is provided for the community as a whole should be met out of general taxation and then proceeds to make substantial increases in postal and telephone charges. [More…]

• You represent the large grazing interests in this community and you talk to the small farmers about their problems. [More…]

• and Mr Hancock or Mr Laws saying: ‘It is quite reasonable’, only to find some Australian Labor Party trained trades hall stooge saying certain things and making suggestions which cloud the issue in an attempt to distract the minds of the Australian people from the real destruction which is going on within our community today? [More…]

• Community Settlement Societies operate to acquire land or settle or retain persons thereon and to provide any common service or benefit. [More…]

• Community Advancement Societies provide any community service (e.g. [More…]

• If that were to be so, it would be of very great concern, not only to the members of this Parliament but, I believe, also to the whole Australian community and in particular the wool growing section of it. [More…]

• The second part of the amendment expresses our belief that if the funds are advanced-the expectancy, of course, is that they will be- as soon as the liquidity of the community permits the Wool Corporation should repay to the Government those funds advanced under this particular legislation and then operate from normal commercial sources. [More…]

• In other words, we would accept as being a necessary continuing part of the funds of the Corporation the $13m worth of capital which it has, but we would expect that borrowings made in accordance with this legislation would be repaid to the Government as soon as the liquidity circumstances in the community permit and that borrowings then be made in the normal commercial sense. [More…]

• So, it is good business from the points of view of the Government and the community for the Government representing the community to contribute to this fund. [More…]

• One of the problems for the farming community, and one of the problems for every industry throughout Australia, is that of liquidity. [More…]

• But the situation will be so much worse in the farming community because of the fall in gross income and because of additions to runnning costs which have in fact nothing to do with inflation. [More…]

• If we try to measure the increase in costs to the farming community the figure will be much nearer 100 per cent than something like 30 per cent or 40 per cent. [More…]

• The farming community is one part of that group. [More…]

• When we talk about distributing money to wool growers or to anybody else we must always bear in mind, if we are to be responsible about this, that if we are to give a benefit to some group, such as wool growers, we must deny funds and deny buying power to some other section of the community. [More…]

• When the Government makes a decision to give a benefit to a certain section of the community, it is not giving away its own money; it is really making a collective decision on behalf of the community as to who will pay for what. [More…]

• But certainly the people who have worked and do work in these industries are as entitled to expect jobs as are any other section of the community. [More…]

• The Government’s essential rationale underlying the Budget is that it purports to form the basis for community restraint and co-operation. [More…]

• This is, of course, vital if wage restraint is to represent in the Australian community a feasible proposition. [More…]

• The Budget papers themselves forecast a decline in fixed investment by the business community. [More…]

• However it cannot cover the costs of all nursing homes in the community nor can it guarantee to pay increased subsidies on every occasion when there is a cost increase. [More…]

• All these areas have been preserved for the Australian community by the activities- and that is the term used in the motion- of the builders ‘ labourers. [More…]

• The tragedy of his finding a higher priority is that those areas where the essential wealth of the community is generated are gradually being ground to a halt. [More…]

• Having said that, it is no credit to the Government that the only rural industry that it assistssignificantly the greater consumption of nitrogenous fertiliser is in the sugar industry- is the industry which is the most buoyant in the Australian community. [More…]

• In other words, it is having it in one way and providing a subsidy, but also it must take the consequence of the political decision taking process that went into its decision to continue the nitrogenous fertiliser sudsidy but not the superphosphate bounty and its decision taking process of providing the nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy but neglecting the whole of the wellbeing of the rural sector by the implementation of the recommendations of the Coombs report; providing a nitrogenous fertiliser subsidy but ignoring the impact on the rural community of all those additional burdens that 2 Labor Budgets have imposed. [More…]

• In actual fact, it is a legitimate fiscal device to support an industry to the ultimate benefit of the community at large. [More…]

• There is another provision relating to the establishment of research faculties in universities and teaching institutions, and that deals with the research in community practice associated with community health centres. [More…]

• Community practice: Is it that the establishment of community health centres is going to create new problems associated with medicine? [More…]

• I just do not know, but I would be grateful if the Minister or someone on his behalf would give the House the benefit of what they understand as being involved in community practice. [More…]

• Precisely what is meant by community practice? [More…]

• I am indebted to the honourable gentleman for having made that clear because, with very great respect, that view is not shared in the Australian community. [More…]

• I said that the AUS leaders, who claim to be radicals, must be among the most selfish people in the community. [More…]

• I compare them with members of the Australian Medical Association and graziers as having a similarly strong conviction that the community owed them an extremely good living. [More…]

• Perhaps I should query the allocation of money for the establishment of courses or chairs of community practice. [More…]

• He wished to know exactly the definition of courses or chairs of community practice. [More…]

• After all, are we looking at management or medical training of social workers in community health centres. [More…]

• I understand that the community health centres that have been established are finding more difficulty in obtaining medical assistance than they are in obtaining managerial assistance that is needed to run them. [More…]

• I am rather pleased that the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) and the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) raised the question of the courses or chairs of community practice. [More…]

• Within the medical profession there has been a searching for many years as to the proper means of how to practise community medicine. [More…]

• I think that honourable members realise that at the moment there tends to be a vast separation between the general practitioner practising in the community and the associated services that go to make up a health team. [More…]

• During my medical course an effort was made to inculcate some principles of community practice by sending students out to work with general practitioners for a few weeks to see what general practice was all about. [More…]

• The Victorian Branch of the Australian Medical Association set up a working party several years ago to discuss the way in which community practice should be carried out. [More…]

• That working party, which was composed, I think, of the then president of the Victorian Branch of the AMA, several members of the AMA, the Dean of one of the clinical schools and as one of its co-opted members my colleague, the Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass), presented a report which showed that community practice preferably should involve integrated services in the sense of community health centres. [More…]

• In other words, within the profession itself there is a feeling towards medical services and the practice of medicine in the community which is preventive and which gives continuing care and makes use of all the ancillary services such as social workers, infant and welfare workers, marriage guidance counsellors and the various therapists to whom I could refer. [More…]

• We do face in Australia, which is a developed country, a malproportion of distribution of doctors in the community as well as not quite enough doctors to reach what is considered the desirable level for medical services. [More…]

• So, I hope that the honourable member for Moreton and the honourable member for Bendigo are not being overly suspicious in the thought of these courses or chairs of community practice. [More…]

• So, the courses in chairs of community practice are intended to interest students and to train them in this comprehensive community health care aspect and in the use of the health team. [More…]

• The development of these community health centres has made this objective a much more viable proposition because they are there and they are able to be used. [More…]

• May I illustrate the point in this way: In my own electorate there is a proposition for a couple of community health centres in the West Heidelberg area and in the east Preston area. [More…]

• The Austin Hospital which is a major teaching hospital of the Melbourne University and the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital which is attached to the Medical School of the Melbourne University have both shown a great interest in what is going on at these community health centres. [More…]

• So, I welcome this encouragement of courses and chairs of community practice particularly as this need has been felt for so many years. [More…]

• By this study we will be able to use our health personnel to the benefit of the community in the community itself. [More…]

• The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) asked me for a definition of community practice. [More…]

• This expression does not necessarily come from the existence of community health centres, about which there is controversy. [More…]

• I would say that community practice- the definition on which we operate- is eld to be concerned with the principles and practices of promoting health and the delivery of primary health care in situations outside of hospitals, that is, to the community. [More…]

• It includes general medical practice and aspects of geriatric and rehabilitation services, counselling programs concerned with drugs, alcohol and family welfare, community mental health and maternal and child health services, again outside of hospitals. [More…]

• Community practice is concerned with the integration of services provided to individuals and families in the community, and its approach is therefore necessarily multi-disciplinary. [More…]

• To emphasise that it does not support the creation of departments of general practice or community medicine located entirely in an academic setting and divorced from actual practice in the community. [More…]

• For this reason we do not propose that support should be provided for a program in community practice in a medical school which has no access to an appropriate community health centre. [More…]

• the Australian Universities Commission should seek special funds to support the academic component of departments of or courses in community practice in those universities which seek such funds, provided that the Interim Committee of the National Hospitals and Health Services Commission has already decided to support new community health centres or to approve existing ones which could appropriately be associated with the medical school concerned. [More…]

• If there is a State component in only one of 2 successive financial years- even if there is only a State component for only half a financial year as there was in the last financial year- one cannot say that Commonwealth expenditure when it increases represents increased effort put by the community into university education. [More…]

• It was a sweeping program and one that had been widely debated with all sections of the community. [More…]

• The Australian Housing Corporation which the Government proposes to set up will monitor the sensitive areas of building and provide employment and housing for sectors of the community which are not covered under other plans. [More…]

• I hope that it will be a year in which community attitudes change and community prejudices are uprooted. [More…]

• It is a community responsibility. [More…]

• We need a new spirit of initiative and self-sacrifice in the community, inspired and stimulated by decisive, sensible national leadership. [More…]

• Among them are general purpose recurrent funds for expenditure on technical and further education at the discretion of the States, purchase of land for future developments, the provision of buildings and purchase of equipment, in-service staff development, the improvement of library buildings, the training of library technicians, the planning of community colleges, and, for the first time for technical education, provision of residential accommodation, and research. [More…]

• The Kangan report states that the main purpose of education is the betterment and development of individual people and their contribution to the good of the community, and that technical and further education should have this emphasis in common with other areas of education. [More…]

• The continuing squeeze of money and, looking at the manufacturing sector, in particular, the tariff cuts, the halving of export incentives, the withdrawal of investment allowances last year, the new taxes on property income and a capital gains tax which, so far as I can judge, makes no allowamce for the effects of inflation, further imposts on the insurance companies and the effect of this on the supply of funds, the import ‘overhang’- the stuff that is already on the wharves and on the seas- all contribute to and go along with the generally grim psychology and lack of confidence of the business community. [More…]

• In regard to the social welfare and the social justice aspects of this Budget I refer to the great strides that are being made to overcome very important deficiencies in the educational and social welfare needs of our community. [More…]

• From expenditure on health, home nursing services, community health complexes, drug referral centres and other necessary requirements, outlying and vastly developing areas such as my own will benefit. [More…]

• It is an area which has a concern for community involvement. [More…]

• Above all, I think it is necessary, when framing policies for the cities or the metropolitan areas, to take account of the fact that it is necessary at all times to preserve a sense of local identity, a sense of community and a sense of belonging to one’s own particular part of the world. [More…]

• The individual ‘s success is the community’s success. [More…]

• The individual’s success is the community’s success. [More…]

• Inherent in that proposition that the individual’s success is the community’s success is that it is only through the creation of community wealth by the efforts of individuals in the community that it is possible for governments to undertake social welfare and to fund their operations. [More…]

• Surely the sorry economic plight of the United Kingdom at this present time ought to be lesson enough to those who sit opposite and to the Australian community of the folly of believing that a lasting social structure can be built on a system which denies individual incentive and individual opportunity. [More…]

• I do not think any members of the Government should imagine that it is a very limited number of people in the community who are going to be hurt and damaged by a reduction in the taxation concession for education expenses from $400 to $150. [More…]

• This will go right across the community. [More…]

• It will make a lot of people feel that real freedom of choice is under very, very direct attack, because there are many hundreds of thousands of people in this community who are prepared to make additional sacrifices to exercise a freedom of choice. [More…]

• Australia can only be taken out of the possibility of social dislocation if, firstly, we receive leadership and, secondly, there is preserved in the community a united attack on the problems of inflation. [More…]

• If the Liberal and Country Parties ever get back into power they will go back into their same old style of no ideas, of no concepts, of no understanding of the community and of giving money to the States and saying: ‘We hope that it will be spent in the right way but do not blame us if it is not’. [More…]

• I anticipate that during my political life expectancy in this Parliament, the Parliament’s greatest problem may well be to raise its own standing in the eyes of the community and to review its role in the decision making process. [More…]

• I believe that it would be useful to examine the roles of the various Public Service and non-Public Service advisers, lobbyists and community action groups and compare them with the real role of Parliament. [More…]

• Conflict might be natural and healthy, but in the interests of the entire community it must be resolved in a way and for a duration which produces stability without stagnation. [More…]

• Very few people are wealthy enough to say that they can stand aside from the community; that they will not need the assistance of their fellows at some time during their lives. [More…]

• In the 12 months preceding my Party’s corning to government there had been a tremendous explosion of credit in the Australian community. [More…]

• He urged the community to reject the view that Australia’s inflation problems were wholly imported from other countries. [More…]

• Inflation itself is too much money chasing too few goods and the moment that we try to draw the money supply from the community we are accused of taking stupid action. [More…]

• If one reads the Press of today one will find all sections of the community, especially the rural industry leaders, saying that it is an excellent decision, which it is. [More…]

• It was a tax which was deliberately designed to hurt certain sections of the community- those sections being the wealthier so-called property owning sections of the community. [More…]

• The tragedy is that the tax does not on any proper analysis hit the rich or the property owning sectors nearly as hard as it hits the poor in the community, the low income group. [More…]

• What they planned to do was to put Robin Hood in reverse by hitting the great majority of taxpayers far harder in terms of income affected than the very few very rich who happen to inhabit this community. [More…]

• We are expected to accept the proposition that there should be tax relief for people whose incomes are up to $10,500, but no tax relief for people whose incomes are made up from savings, investments or deposits in banks, which for so many of the poor and cautious in our community earn pitifully low interest. [More…]

• We are told that restraint was the background of the thinking of the Government when it formed this Budget, and that to get restraint the Government had to show that its heart was in the right place by kicking the rich, by hitting the middle class, by taking over the community with the long arm, the tentacles of Government, and by socking the rich. [More…]

• It is leading the opposition to the rural community. [More…]

• In this Budget, the Government has refused to deny the community its right to amenities, health services, urban services such as sewerage and transport, and education. [More…]

• Primary producers and rural industries are the only section of the community that suffer from the lack of adjustment to their incomes because of any downturn in prices or, as is the case at this time, by a huge increase in costs brought about by inflation. [More…]

• At a public meeting of 240 members of the rural community last Friday night certain policies were put forward as being essential to alleviate the discrimination currently being exercised against country people. [More…]

• This was a public meeting and these people came from their farms and businesses, interrupting their working days, to put up these points of view because they live in a rural community that is feeling the effects of very poor and unsound policies. [More…]

• In political terms Eric Harrison was very much in the mood of our political philosophy of today, namely, where the individual is entitled to be considered predominantly above the interests of the State, that the State exists to serve the interests of the individual and to create the environment for the individual to prosper and be able to fulfil himself as an individual on the basis that successful individuals will make a successful community, and that the community, from the success of individuals, will be able to do those things which it wants for the poor, the sick, people overseas and so forth. [More…]

• The importance of insurance requires that the Government should be concerned both with the supervision of the industry in the interests of the community and also in being fully informed of the possible effects on the insurance industry of any proposed Government initiatives. [More…]

• It discriminates against those persons in the community who are unable to market their own labour. [More…]

• This tax is principally a tax that is directed against thrift, incentive and initiative in the Australian community. [More…]

• A significant number of people in the community rely to some extent on investment income. [More…]

• To impose a super tax on those groups in the community, who generally are at a comparative disadvantage is totally without justification. [More…]

• Perhaps, worst of all, older and aged people as a group, growing in numbers within the community and as a proportion of total population, may well be discouraged from maintaining an active and constructive role in the community. [More…]

• To the extent older people of ability, experience, and means, become cynically convinced that any effort expended in maintaining a level of income to match their desired level of community service input, will be subject to special and discriminatory Government penalty, they will become less disposed to share the burdens of their group and more inclined to leave the carriage thereof to others. [More…]

• The President of that Council which represents more than 900 individual organisations throughout the Australian community goes on, towards the end of the letter, as honourable members will see from its text in Hansard, to call not for an amelioration of the proposal but for its complete rejection by the present Labor administration, there is no justification for the tax on economic grounds. [More…]

• The tax will be a further element in the price pushing process in the Australian community. [More…]

• The surcharge will undermine the community’s propensity to save and, equally, to invest. [More…]

• This new surcharge has been condemned by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Press has been very quick to highlight the community reaction. [More…]

• I welcome the conversion of the honourable member for Flinders (Mr Lynch), late as it be, to concern for the more needy in the community. [More…]

• His definition of ‘needy’, in the light of developments which are taking place within the Government concerning the refined details as to how this tax should be administered, indicates that it is a very selective concern and that it is a peculiar description of need in the community. [More…]

• Let us draw on the historical record to see how much genuineness there is in his assertions of concern about the needy in the community. [More…]

• Indeed, if one looks at the long term position of pensions in this country over that period- I could take an even longer period, but let us keep it to that shorter, more recent period- one finds a disastrous and disconcerting erosion of the pension level in terms of the standard of living it can offer as against comparatively the standard of living being enjoyed in the community, down to about 1 9 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• That was at enormous cost to the community. [More…]

• That is why we carried out a redistribution of income in the community. [More…]

• Given that nearly 70 per cent of adult full time male wage earners in the Australian work force earn much less than average weekly earnings and that an actual income of $6,000 a year is above average weekly earnings, we are excluding the great bulk of people in the community. [More…]

• Why did not members of the Opposition ever take action in this House when they were in government for so many years really to display their moral commitment to the needy in the community by acting to reduce the existence of poverty? [More…]

• What we have also done as a matter of equitythis, no doubt, will cause members of the Opposition to scream because they regard it as further evidence of injustice- is to wipe out the fringe benefits that have been available to the executives of industry in the community. [More…]

• But they never protest against the exposed and denied position of so many people in this community. [More…]

• Part of the cost inflation is the rate of average increase in wages and salaries, but we cannot ask the trade unions- and 1 would defend their position- to oppose any policy that does not equitably distribute the burden of restraint and self-sacrifice in this community and ask those most able to pay to pay most and accordingly distribute this liability fairly. [More…]

• That is why we have introduced these other measures about which we have spoken, why we have introduced equity in restructuring the tax schedule and at the same time given increased real disposable income to wage and salary earners in the community. [More…]

• We are quite confident and we feel quite justified in our position on this surcharge on unearned income from property because it relates only to a small proportion of the community which by and large, is often made up of high income earners. [More…]

• It can be argued that a compact should be entered into to restrain increases in income derived from personal exertion because it is vital to get the co-operation of all sections of the community in the fight against inflation. [More…]

• What has been widely believed in the Australian community and in the Press to have been the recommendations is that taxable incomes of up to $5,000 per year would be exempted from this surcharge on unearned income, but in fact if you read on and find what the Treasurer authorised him to say, this is what the honourable member said: [More…]

• It divides the Australian community down the middle but, tragically, it does it in a most cruel, a most ineffective, a most uneconomic, a most disgraceful way. [More…]

• We must get a sense of vocation back into our universities, so that people come out with a commitment certainly to advance themselves and also to advance the community in its corporate state in battling with the problems that beset the community and the world at large. [More…]

• I am quite sure that when he spoke then in support of that legislation he would have been pleased to know the quality of ideas that have come out of the Commission over the years and have been applied through the universities and of course in turn to our community. [More…]

• But I believe that there must still be a place in the Australian community for private institutions. [More…]

• The interests of the individual serve the broader purposes of the community. [More…]

• Therefore this House must consider in some detail exactly what we are trying to achieve with our university system and to decide whether or not the system as it is presently constituted is meeting the needs of the Australian community; in particular, whether or not the present system is able to build for Australia’s future and whether or not we are producing the type of people who will be able to lead this country into the next century. [More…]

• We are aware that the Government has proposed various retraining schemes which primarily cover the blue collar sector of the community. [More…]

• Is that a cost which the community should be prepared to bear indefinitely? [More…]

• The community is really looking to them for first-class thinking about all sons of problems in the community. [More…]

• Let me turn to Brighton, and I immediately wish to take this opportunity of congratulating that community on achieving its 150th anniversary of foundation. [More…]

• Those 2 members from Tasmania participated in the decision to cut tariffs and to bring Launceston’s community to the debilitated state that it is in. [More…]

• Whether this be true or not, there is no need to succumb to the constant fear mongering being promoted in certain sections of our community. [More…]

• This is one of the major causes adversely affecting the business community. [More…]

• I personally believe, and have been encouraged in this view by public expressions of opinion, that the tax must become a pay-as-you-earn deduction to give the maximum possible relief, for no matter what the implementation difficulty this could mean the difference in relieving heavy personal hardship in the community. [More…]

• I refer particularly to those people in the migrant community who have been brought to Australia with nothing but perhaps the proceeds from the sale of their life achievement- their homes. [More…]

• I appreciate that these people are voluntary workers who devote much time to assisting a community effort. [More…]

• These homes belong not to the community but to the organisations which hold the title deeds. [More…]

• It would be impracticable to suggest further cuts when one notes the increased work load on public servants because of the Australian Government’s continuing program of involvement in community affairs and its determination to give the Australian public a better way of community life. [More…]

• It is a stable community- or was, before this Government came to power. [More…]

• But it needs to be noted, I think, that through the years to 1965 people came to believe and to understand that governments could provide a great many things, that there was a government responsibility to redress imbalances within a community and a government responsibility to look after those who needed some special help. [More…]

• In these circumstances, there is a greater obligation on governments to try to see that there is sanity and common sense in the community and in the management of national affairs. [More…]

• But this Government has said: ‘Well, ask, and we will give you what you want, whether it is for local government or some local community, whether there is a need, whether it is for roads or no matter what, so long as it meets a requirement of this Government.’ [More…]

• Therefore the Postmaster-General’s Department should approach the provision of these facilities in country areas in that light It should not merely look at the financial factor but at the service to the community. [More…]

• The Department of Health has begun community health programs for the area. [More…]

• Energy is the life blood of any community and energy will be the life blood of Australia in years to come. [More…]

• But I understand that that is only the beginning of the Commission’s involvement in this field of domestic promotion which in the past was left to State governments, travel associations and the private sector of the community. [More…]

• A certain size is needed to develop and support the infrastructures for what are to many suburbanites and those who live in large towns normal community facilities- libraries, sporting facilities and so on. [More…]

• It is not a Budget because it does not meet the fundamental requirements of any Budget in an English speaking community which believes in democracy and the Cabinet system of government. [More…]

• I refer to progress where more of our growing wealth- remembering there will not be any growing of wealth this year- will be distributed over the community. [More…]

• More will be diverted to the less wealthy sections of the community, to those who are suffering hardship and to those who are bordering on the poverty line in this country. [More…]

• If there was a figure of $1,000m two or three years ago there would have been outcries from every section of the community that this was too big. [More…]

• First of all tax concessions of about $ 1,000m would have been provided over the whole scale of the tax range giving at the margins an inducement to work harder and to do better for every section of the community. [More…]

• There are 3 different ways in which it can be interpreted, but there are only two that are strictly relevant- that is, the actual money or cash in the community together with current accounts, or cash in the community, current accounts, plus deposits in the savings banks. [More…]

• Nor is there any doubt that Labor is trying to get some kind of socialism in its time, not by direct methods but by bankrupting this community and making us an item of ridicule in the free part of the world. [More…]

• The continuing difficulty being experienced by all sections of the Tasmanian community can nearly always be traced back to the acute and seemingly never-ending problems of freight rates so delicately touched on by the Leader of the Opposition yesterday. [More…]

• There is a grant for community health facilities and services- a new program commenced by this Government. [More…]

• There are places in Queensland where community health centres are being built with Commonwealth money. [More…]

• If one takes many of the capital costs in the community -refrigerators, television sets and motor carsthat is the case. [More…]

• But where it is simply gloom chasing it is a piece of social, political and economic vandalism which tries to stimulate insecurity in the community. [More…]

• Therefore I have no fear of stepping anywhere in any public arena not only to support the Budget but also to promulgate the advantages that will flow from it to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian community is in no different position to this. [More…]

• On previous occasions in this House I have deplored what I saw as the development of certain ‘under classes’ in the community. [More…]

• I welcome the community health program because it operates on a basis of need. [More…]

• The community health centre program there will provide hope for them, not only in individual general practitioner care but also in providing an integrated health service for a community that has need of the services and also an economic need. [More…]

• While the Government may have good reasons to cut down the tall poppies- the people who are exploiting the community and taking excessive profits out of the system- its method of accomplishing this happens to act against the small man, the little man, the man for whom the Government is supposedly the champion. [More…]

• In its endeavour to bring to heel the small percentage of wealthy people throughout the community the Government is doing great damage to the little man, whether he be a farmer, a small businessman or a private company. [More…]

• One can quickly see this developing into either a peasant community with the farms being of no value or one of corporate farming which, I would have thought, would be against the wishes of this Labor Government. [More…]

• Those honourable members have explained time and time again to the Government not only just what effect this Government’s policies are having on the rural community but also the effect of the world wide gluts and uncertain monetary conditions on some sections of the rural industries. [More…]

• This Government must shortly become aware that there is a crisis developing in large sections of our rural community. [More…]

• It is no consolation to the rural community to realise that the rest of the private sector is so deeply in trouble. [More…]

• It has created community wealth. [More…]

• We intend to meet the urgent needs of the community which have been lagging so long under anti-Labor administrations. [More…]

• There are, of course, enormous benefits besides injury and fatality reduction to the community in the building of an inter-city highway system. [More…]

• The environmental cost of community disruption of these new expressways was considered by the Committee to be vastly in excess of their value of saving lives compared with new alternatives that were put before the Committee. [More…]

• , (4) and (6) The Board was charged with stimulating each sector of the community to develop its own conversion program and with co-ordinating those programs. [More…]

• All sectors of the community have co-operated well in the change. [More…]

• to provide a forum whereby a wide cross-section of the community may become involved in influencing people against drug abuse; [More…]

• to examine submissions and proposals from various community organisations and agencies on various aspects associated with the fight against drug abuse; [More…]

• I undertake to the honourable member that we will look at this matter as one of urgency to ensure that members of Parliament are no longer deprived the rights which are applicable to other members of the community. [More…]

• -I hope that now that the Trade Practices Act is law the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) will take energetic action to stamp out the fringe operators in the field of radio and television repairs who have been allowed to batten on this community for so very many years. [More…]

• Many of those people might have perished but for the activities of those dedicated young men who risk life and limb for no other purpose than to give protection to the Australian community. [More…]

• But it is popular only because of its safety- a safety guaranteed by young men who serve the community. [More…]

• I suppose that the surf life saving movement is the only organisation that is performing an essential and highly desirable community service that has to pay for the right to do so. [More…]

• The community should pay them, not the other way round. [More…]

• I put this very sincerely and very strongly: The Australian community needs the surf club movement of Australia. [More…]

• These costs have risen at a rate faster than living costs generally in the community. [More…]

• These costs have risen at a rate faster than living costs generally in the community. [More…]

• But in the Minister’s own words, the cost of administering these homes has risen at a rate faster than living costs generally in the community. [More…]

• I am referring to the very tragic situation in Cyprus, which is causing a lot of worry and grievance not only to Greek people, particularly Greek Cypriots, but also to people in the Turkish community in this country. [More…]

• The present Federal Government appears to have no concern for the feelings of the Australian Greek Community over the plight of war victims in Cyprus. [More…]

• The Greek Community in Australia is striving to raise more than Sim for the relief of the people of Cyprus but the Government can do no better than send a miserable $50,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross. [More…]

• There is no substance whatsoever in the accusation that Australia’s contribution to the relief of Cyprus victims was miserable and ignored the sentiments of the Greek community. [More…]

• Onward movement of supplies to Cyprus will be responsibility of community leaders in Australia. [More…]

• Anything that the Government can do to assist the big effort of the Greek community- I am not knowledgeable about the Turkish community in Australia- will obviously be welcomed by all members of Parliament on both sides. [More…]

• In fact they comprise the least likely section of the community to protest at any level. [More…]

• The Government sees this measure as being of such importance to the Australian community that we shall welcome any views which any person or organisation including representatives of the insurance industry, women’s organisations, trade unions and, of course, the Opposition Parties in this Parliament wishes to place before us, and I foreshadow now that the Government will propose amendments to the Bill during its passage through the Parliament. [More…]

• Workers ‘ Compensation insurance poses special problems for the insurance industry due to the natural desire of governments to increase compensation rates in response to increasing community wage levels. [More…]

• The report and this Bill propose that this gross injustice should be remedied, and the community should accept the same responsibility for these citizens as it does for employees receiving a wage or salary. [More…]

• In the same way this Bill proposes that compensation should be paid in the appropriate circumstances to another important group, also excluded from the present workers compensation laws, namely self-employed persons, of whom the farming community, for example, forms a substantial part. [More…]

• At the same time, it is the Government’s wish that the exchange of ideas should in no way be stifled or that representatives of those persons in the Australian community who have an interest in this proposal should be precluded from offering suggestions to the Government, either by way of amendment or in matters relating to the administration of the national compensation scheme. [More…]

• No doubt this will bring forth a cry of horror from the business community. [More…]

• What gives me a pain in the neck when I listen to people like the honourable member for Kooyong is not that this occurs in a capitalist society, but the incessant whining of the business community that the Government should not interfere in free enterprise. [More…]

• What the Government has to do is constantly to balance the needs of each sector of the community to bring about the greatest benefit. [More…]

• I want to conclude, in answering the stupidity of the Valders of the community and the Liberal and Country Parties, by quoting from a cover story in the ‘Time’ magazine of 9 September 1974. [More…]

• You can only get it at some other poor wretch’s expense, and this I warn you is in every social sense the very worst type of concept to have going abroad in the Australian community. [More…]

• In the field of community health services we have never had any assistance at all before, and in this Budget a sum of $2m is provided. [More…]

• It will bring the people, the community, into the planning stages for welfare programs. [More…]

• It is the first annual Federal Budget I have ever heard of where, within a week of its introduction, the Government back bench members have sought to have some of its provisions adjusted or deleted because of the disastrous and unjust results they would have on some sections of the community. [More…]

• This is a sad state of affairs which is certainly being reflected throughout the entire country among all sections of the community. [More…]

• Some examples of their decisions are as follows, and they intrigue me: In Bega for the extension of the Cooma Creek plan they expect to employ 20 persons; in Maitland for the extension to the community centre they expect to employ 4 persons; in Lismore for tree planting and construction of public facilities they expect to employ 14 persons; in Benalla for footpath, kerb and channel construction and showground improvements they expect to employ 26 men; in Devonport for clearing of bushland and development of parks and the elimination of potential fire dangers they expect to employ 25 men; in my own city of Townsville they expect to employ 19 persons on a drainage project. [More…]

• They could be usefully employed two or three days a week in making a worthwhile contribution to the community. [More…]

• Undoubtedly local governments could produce many more which would be of value to the community. [More…]

• Another item in the Budget which is causing much dissatisfaction throughout the community in the north is the reduction in the education allowance from $400 to $150. [More…]

• Telephones are vital for survival by families isolated from normal community services and for the purpose of communicating with doctors, tradesmen, business and friends. [More…]

• It is this sort of community activity and spirit which is so desperately needed in the country today if we are to solve the national problem, one even more dangerous than the flood just described. [More…]

• I would suggest that in many cases understanding and compassionate white leaders would achieve more at the local community level than Aborigines, however well intentioned, who are perhaps unskilled and untrained in the work that must be done. [More…]

• Finally, may I say that we will need substantial co-operation from the whole of the community if we are to solve the difficult situation we are in at the moment, a situation which has not been the creation of this Government but a creation of the whole system. [More…]

• But in terms of common sense and in terms of the production of basic wealth in the community through which living standards rise, is it a proud thing to say that the most constantly advancing production in the ecomomy is in chocolate lollies, beer and cigarettes? [More…]

• The prophets of doom in the Opposition are acting in a completely irresponsible manner, and this is a time when objective reasoning and co-operation from aU sections of the community are absolutely necessary in order to get us out of our present difficulties. [More…]

• We on this side of the House believe that we should encourage the community to save. [More…]

• This Government has done nothing but destroy the opportunity of home ownership in our community. [More…]

• It is a tax by which the Government says to the retired people of our community: ‘If you have put money aside in order to help you to maintain your standard of living when you retire we will tax you on that. [More…]

• You are really hurting our community. [More…]

• We are not going to overcome that threat or obtain the necessary consensus without a measure of commitment on the part of all the interest groups which make up our community. [More…]

• There are at least 4 matters over which we must do better as a community than we have ever done before. [More…]

• Bringing down inflation involves a better appreciation on the part of the community as a whole that if restraint is required it can be achieved only on the basis of equality of sacrifice. [More…]

• Bringing down inflation involves striking a better balance in the allocation of our resources between immediate personal consumption, investment in the plant and machinery through which our future wealth will be generated and spending on the community facilities and services which determine so overwhelmingly the quality of our lives. [More…]

• In these circumstances we have a Budget which is designed to enlist the co-operation of the trade union movement through a reassurance to trade union members that they will not lose out by seeking real rather than illusory increases in wages and salaries and will not be asked to contribute more to the fight against inflation than is expected of other sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government should, at the earliest opportunity, seek to achieve a lowering in rates of interest throughout the community. [More…]

• Conference believes that the fundamental prerequisite of the co-operation envisaged in this Resolution is full and continuing consultation between the Government and the trade union movement on all matters affecting the level and direction of economic activity and the social welfare of the community. [More…]

• The trade union movement stands ready to participate in such consultations with Government and, indeed, with other important sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• If the various sections of the media cannot bring themselves to praise the many good things contained in the Budget, they should at least give the community information about them with a minimum of destructive and dismaying commentary. [More…]

• The media could remain sceptical about the overtures that the Government has made and the response those overtures have drawn from the unions without doing everything in their power to deny to the community the hope on which, after all, confidence depends. [More…]

• It should be a considerable relief to our community that for the first time the attention of management consultants, academics specialising in industrial relations and government departments is being turned towards this approach to the increase of productivity. [More…]

• That is the goal towards which we should be working, not as separate interest groups but as interest groups with some idea of the things that bind us together as a nation and a community. [More…]

• The Parliament and the media through which the community learns about the thinking of its government must shoulder heavy responsibilities. [More…]

• He called for such things as good will and productivity in the community as a solution to inflation. [More…]

• It took an election on 1 8 May this year to persuade the Prime Minister that inflation was a real issue within the community. [More…]

• The economic affairs of this nation are of much greater importance today than is speech making at the United Nations, however important the United Nations may be in bringing about some order in the international community. [More…]

• Having identified it for what it is the American nation has set itself upon a path of public debate and public involvement by all sectors of the community to see how this enemy can be defeated. [More…]

• In Australia there is no identification of inflation as an enemy of the community. [More…]

• For the benefit of honourable members on the Government side, I draw upon the Labour Chancellor of the Exchequor of the United Kingdom, who recently referred to the twin evils of unemployment and inflation, for that is what they are; unemployment so degrading of human dignity, a waste of human resources and debilitating to the economy; inflation so destructive of the standard of living, rendering savings if not worthless then seriously depleted and setting despair amongst the community. [More…]

• They have set about on a course of undermining public confidence, to create division and unrest in the community. [More…]

• However, in the years since World War II councils have been called upon to provide an increasing range of cultural, recreational and community services which benefit all people while revenue capacity has been limited to the collection of rates levied on property. [More…]

• Also, being rapidly growing residential areas, they are concerned with policies on housing, sewerage, provision of community and sporting facilities and of education. [More…]

• Such demonstrations and retaliatory action can give internal solidarity to an organisation, but the net result is that they widen and give permanence to the existing gulf between farmers and the rest of the community. [More…]

• We heard the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) condemning the Government for not taking heed of the Green Paper, which he himself labelled as a document which would create political vandalism in the agricultural community. [More…]

• First, we introduced the wheat stabilisation plan, the first price plan that had a provision in it that cushions the agricultural community from the sudden shocks of changes in overseas prices. [More…]

• One could go right through the Budget and time after time find examples of the response from this Government to the needs of the community. [More…]

• More importantly we find that up to 1971 5.5 per cent of the gross national product was paid out by Australian governments in cash benefits to pensioners, including invalid pensioners, and to the physically weaker people in the community. [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…]

• There is no need to address yourself to the real needs of the community if you can constantly create fear by an inane repetition of the words ‘socialism’ and ‘communism’ and any other words which can generate this atmosphere of fright. [More…]

• It is little wonder that a community deeply dedicated to true Labor principles sought revenge on this so-called Labor Party. [More…]

• The community of fine, outback people in Broken Hill threw out every Labor member on their local council. [More…]

• They are figures of tremendous importance to the Australian community at present. [More…]

• They are figures which the whole of the community in Australia would be very interested in seeing. [More…]

• I think it should also be said that there is a considerable amount of disquiet in the community over this unsolicited offer of credit by the banks, done in the way in which it was done. [More…]

• Is there any justification for the view that the introduction of the Bankcard credit system will have an adverse affect on financial liquidity in the community? [More…]

• My question refers to Australian beef exports to European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• He wanted to talk with you about uranium and start negotiations for member countries of the European Economic Community, but he could not do so because you do not have a policy. [More…]

• Why does the Government detract from private enterprise that generates the real wealth of this community and make it impossible for productivity to enable any government to finance sensibly and without inflation desirable reforms? [More…]

• Restore some sort of confidence in government by the community. [More…]

• I wonder whether the honourable member for McPherson and his colleagues also class it as socialism when they plead for the retention of subsidies for affluent groups in the community. [More…]

• Do members of the Opposition want the community to forget what happened in 1971? [More…]

• Do they want the community to forget what happened in 1961, 1966 and 1971 when we had the cycles of deliberately created downturns in employment, downturns in productivity and instances of industries languishing for orders. [More…]

• Such dislocations also occurred and did great damage in the primary producer sector of this community. [More…]

• Further grants have even been made as late as last week when the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) offered, I think, $75m extra for housing on top of the greatly increased housing grant that was made to the States early in the year, particularly stipulating that the funds should go to the lower and middle income earning groups in the community. [More…]

• Whether it be minerals, motor cars and accessories, pastoral products, textile goods, manufactured articles or whatever it all requires hard work, confidence in the ability of industry, enterprise and business to carry on and cooperation between all levels of the community- the working people, the unions, the bosses, the owners of businesses and so on. [More…]

• It ignores the dependence of individual welfare on the welfare of the whole community. [More…]

• At the same time the whole community will benefit from increased community spending, including amounts for education, sewerage, hospitals, roads, protection of the environment and health. [More…]

• Few individuals can purchase relief from a poor standard of community living. [More…]

• Few can promote themselves above community squalor or provide these benefits for themselves alone. [More…]

• They can be provided only through community spending. [More…]

• Labour and materials that would have gone into erecting city office blocks later to be only half tenanted can be diverted into public programs such as schools, hospitals, welfare housing, local government and regional development, community building and sewerage works. [More…]

• There are still honourable members in this House who remain so taken with the virtues of the so-called free market, and who voice paranoid statements about the evils of community spending by governments, that they are blind to the way the free market has been reduced to the rigged market controlled by cartels and other monopolistic forces. [More…]

• It is true that the present level of unemployment has worsened slightly, mainly through seasonal downturns and recession in the private sector, but the slack will be taken up as the Government’s community programs begin to bite. [More…]

• Where is the confidence of the community in Australia’s future? [More…]

• The Government was elected on a grand design for income redistribution combined with social welfare policies to help the low income earners within our community, but it has ignored the fact that inflation is reducing the real purchasing power of income, that there is a rapidly falling value of money, that prices for goods and services are rising and that there is a lower net income as taxes increase. [More…]

• The so-called unearned income tax surcharge, which my Party totally rejects, was directed initially at every Australian, young and old alike, rich and poor, regardless of community status, who has committed the social crime of wanting to save for the future. [More…]

• The growth of our welfare services and community advancement programs are desirable- but they must ultimately depend upon our economic prosperity and upon our willingness and ability to pay for additional services through higher taxation. [More…]

• They cannot now be expected to co-operate unless those who are elected to govern are brave enough to make it clear without equivocation that as a nation we can only solve our problems through co-operation and restraint- restraint at all levels of the economy and co-operation among all sections of the community. [More…]

• It is impossible for any government to continue to spend record amounts on welfare and community services and at the same time seriously attempt to restrain rises in costs and prices. [More…]

• It also brought into focus the way that the Government through the Budget is coping with the problems in the community. [More…]

• In the morning I attended the opening of the Bradury Community Centre at Campbelltown. [More…]

• It was the first such community centre in the western region of Sydney. [More…]

• The 3 levels of Government involved a local community group that had been working for three or four years to try to get together and work out some home nursing services, to give it a centre and to give it some focus in the western region of Sydney. [More…]

• Yet here we have enormous impact on the community around Campbelltown. [More…]

• If we divide the $51,000 into the $35m we have allocated and if we take into account the involvement of the State and local community groups in this matter we will see the impact of just one policy of the Government. [More…]

• There has been agreement between the 3 levels of government in all these things- the community health centres, the drop-in centres and the various forms of centres that have been created in a flexible manner. [More…]

• Quite frankly, when I hear people in the community say that they are confused about some of the things we are doing I think it is about time they woke up to the fact that they should be prepared to do a little homework and work out what they believe. [More…]

• But where is the consensus for this realisation in the community today? [More…]

• With this uncertainty which arises from the possibility of an election, a change of power and a change of government in any one year, it is no wonder the business community of Australia does not really know what it is in for. [More…]

• Although in a way the business community of Australia has inflicted a bit of pain upon itself, I do not believe that it is totally to blame for its feeling of insecurity. [More…]

• Long term investment decisions will be made only when the business community knows the facts. [More…]

• The expenditure by the Government must mean work opportunities in and more money for the section of the community in which it is most needed. [More…]

• The building of schools, community centres, transport facilities and so on is a great source of money for that section of private industry which is mainly engaged in such activities. [More…]

• That is a basic thought running through the community today. [More…]

• The first principle is stated as being that they should be helped by modern techniques to become viable, and the second principle is to the effect that it is to the community’s interest that those who wish to innovate, those who wish to use their own expertise and their own energies should be supported. [More…]

• At a time of inflation and of economic downturns in the community and of significant unrest in the community, it is up to those of us in this House who should surely be supporting parliamentary democracy to make it quite clear that we dissociate ourselves from those sorts of people. [More…]

• What steps have been taken or are being taken to ensure that there is community participation in the choosing of appropriate sites and the landscaping design of the playground well in advance of the building construction. [More…]

• As has been the practice in the past interested community groups will be involved in the siting and planning of new Occasional Care Centres. [More…]

• Would the Minister do what he can to assist the CSL to increase its activities to provide community oriented competition in an area where prices are worrying? [More…]

• I ask the Acting Prime Minister In view of the significant concern expressed by all sections of the community about the Government’s decision to introduce a surcharge on property income, will he inform the House whether this decision stands as originally announced by the Treasurer? [More…]

• If a valid case is to be made out with respect to the entire community why not respond to it? [More…]

• But in any government at any time in any community a choice must be made between the directions in which to go and the resources available to carry out the aims. [More…]

• I think that it is far better that a community properly provides an adequate health service, properly provides adequate retirement services or properly provides an adequate education system than allow some of the expenditure via taxation concessions which, however they are worked, can have only the inevitable result of meaning more to the person on the higher income than to the person on the lower income. [More…]

• It was meant to placate those Government supporters who believe that the only independent schools in this community are the so-called wealthy schools, that even those schools are the complete bastion of the privileged and the wealthy in this community. [More…]

• If the Government really believes that the only people who would be hurt by this measure are those in the community who are more affluent it has made a very grave mistake. [More…]

• I also make special reference to the position of boarding schools in this community. [More…]

• It is a faculty that makes a valuable contribution not just to the privileged in our community but also to a large number of people from all income brackets. [More…]

• The uproar and fuss that has been generated by it has been nothing more than a smokescreen to hide the benefits of the Budget in regard to education and other community areas. [More…]

• In future no pensioner, or indeed any other member of the community, will be required to pay for the privilege of using his or her own radio or television sets. [More…]

• Under this legislation we hope to overcome these problems, although personally I do not doubt that there will always be groups of people within the community who will in pursuance of their political beliefs or for self-advancement continue to challenge such legislation in order to create disruption from which they personally may gain. [More…]

• If one reads into some of his background one will find that he has given outstanding service to the law and the community. [More…]

• -I direct my question to the Prime Minister and refer to the critical fuel shortage on the north coast of New South Wales where service stations at Coffs Harbour, Grafton and many other centres are dry, causing chaos for all sections fo the community in that area. [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…]

• We want to make sure that not only these people but also all people in the community who suffer adversity, whether it is a crisis need or something more deepseated than that, can feel secure in the knowledge that a system of support is available. [More…]

• Its absence was a blot on the social conscience of this community. [More…]

• We regard that as being a quite creditable achievement and as an incentive for us to try to do even better in this community so that we can provide the sorts of standards that are normal in other advanced, concerned countries of the world. [More…]

• My colleagues and I are trying to help a section of the community which is deserving of help immediately. [More…]

• Today he wanted to stand up in this chamber as the saviour of those unfortunate people, but when he was in a position to do something about that section of the community he did nothing. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I expect the Australian airlines to provide the community with the most suitable modern aircraft types. [More…]

• The Australian community will no longer have to bear the cost of inefficient allocation of resources. [More…]

• The Government will achieve a balanced, coordinated transport system with a proper allocation of resources based on demonstrated community needs. [More…]

• Only last weekend we saw Press articles purporting to suggest that members of Parliament had different rights in relation to taxation from other persons when, in fact, every person in the community who receives an overnight allowance does not have that questioned provided he does not claim more for expenses than the amount allowed. [More…]

• The people who wrote them knew they were untrue and also clearly knew that many other people in the community- in fact all people who receive expense allowances for various reasons; tax free allowances- do not have to vouch for such expenses provided they do not claim in excess of the allowance. [More…]

• The problem of the public image of Parliament in the eyes of the community is a factor that this House must not forget, as it must not forget the Parliament’s authority in the eyes of those who listen to and view its proceedings. [More…]

• In this, the people’s House, we must more than ever mirror the best attitudes of the community and not the worst. [More…]

• It is primarily for this reason that I believe the interests of Parliament, as an essential part of the democratic process, will be best served by opening up the process to the scrutiny of the community by such action as televising parliamentary sessions with careful consideration being given to those sessions selected for viewing. [More…]

• It should be remembered- to our credit, I suppose- that we are one of the few groups in the community not to accept an award of a properly constituted tribunal. [More…]

• There has been some discussion in this debate about the role of the Press in transmitting the proceedings of Parliament and of politics to the community. [More…]

• In so many ways the Press has taken over the role of opposition to the government in our community, in the modern Western political community. [More…]

• What I find to be tragic is the way that those of us who sit in Parliaments have allowed the Press to take over from us the predominant role in safeguarding the rights of people in the modern community. [More…]

• It puts us out of touch with reality- out of touch with the reality of the community which we should be serving. [More…]

• I can well understand the weariness that so many people in the community have with us as politicians because we seem so often to be too party political. [More…]

• People in the community might well say that it is a matter of perks and privileges for members of Parliament, but it is so far from that that it is not funny. [More…]

• Just think of legislation such as the Trade Practices Bill, with its wide ranging consequences on the community in respect of commerce, business and consumers themselves, the Australian Industry Development Corporation legislation, its associated Bill the National Investment Fund Bill and the number of Conciliation and Arbitration Bills that have been brought into this House. [More…]

• The National Compensation Bill is a massive piece of legislation which has far reaching consequences within the community. [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…]

• While we recognise on the one hand that there is an enormous number of mothers in this community who are obliged to go out to work by economic circumstances and who have a pressing need for child care centres, equally there is an enormous number of women in the community who would simply welcome an occasional break away from their families. [More…]

• This is an admirable arrangement under which the needs of both groups of mothers in the community are met and one to which I would hope to see energetic support given under the program which the Government is now sponsoring. [More…]

• I cannot too strongly emphasise that in allocating $7 5 m for the first year of this program the Government is taking very seriously a community deficiency which has given us such problems - [More…]

• Local government bodies, as all honourable members will know, are being called upon to play an ever-increasing role in our community, and rightly so, because this is the level of government closest to the people. [More…]

• It is regrettable that over recent years, due to pressure of finance, loans and repayments, councils and councillors have been forced into being more business oriented rather than community oriented. [More…]

• The involvement of the community in determining their own destiny and planning their own future in their cities is or has been declining at a time when it should be on the increase. [More…]

• At this point in the development of public patronage of the arts in Australia, it is of the utmost importance that Parliament clearly defines the objectives it feels the community wishes to see pursued. [More…]

• There should be involvement of creators, the teachers, the critics and the community. [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 involve the community, widen access and widen opportunities for free expression. [More…]

• I cite this only to show the fact that this expression of creativity is able to come to light, and it shows the importance of community theatre. [More…]

• I do not want to see them buckle down to the ockers and the bazzas in this community, whether they be outside this House or in the Press Gallery. [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…]

• But this chamber ought to look at the conduct of the Council for the Arts or the body that may be set up by legislation to be put forward in this House in the future, to see whether it serves the community in the manner in which this Parliament wants it to serve the community. [More…]

• That is an insult to a number of people in this community. [More…]

• We need the help of the community. [More…]

• I tried to tell you that we will encourage a program in which we will use the people in the community. [More…]

• -It is a source of considerable satisfaction to members on the Government side that so great a sum should have been provided in this Budget for the use of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, but I hope that nobody in this chamber, and indeed nobody in the wider community outside, will suppose that the problems with which our country is confronted in this field of Aboriginal affairs can be solved by the expenditure of money, no matter how great a sum. [More…]

• I am satisfied that when, as we now know will be the case, the Gurindji people receive the land rights for which they have been waiting at Wattie Creek for the past 6 years they will go ahead and build a viable community, and that they will go ahead and develop a viable cattle enterprise on the land which they take over. [More…]

• It operated under a policy which encouraged the most independent and self-sufficient Aboriginal people on the reserve to get off it, to go out and make their own way in the community outside as normal working people and as normal family groups. [More…]

• Then the Victorian Government had a change of heart and decided to vest in those people who remained- the least independent people, the least enterprising people, a group of people very heavily in the grip of the disease of alcoholismthe responsibility for turning that beautiful and productive area of land in east Gippsland into a viable farming community. [More…]

• Forced before their time and beyond their capacities to stand on their own feet and to create this viable farming community in east Gippsland, the Lake Tyers community has steadily gone downhill till tonight as I speak, having visited Lake Tyers less than a week ago, it is on the verge of total collapse. [More…]

• A single experienced community development worker with a group such as that could bring about wonders there. [More…]

• The provision of these funds will permit more assistance to be given to the States to provide housing, health, education, employment, welfare and community services for Aborigines. [More…]

• I would like to take him up to Moree and introduce him to a community where people respect each other and work with each other, a community that is becoming well integrated. [More…]

• That this House believes the Government should set up a Royal Commission to examine the administration of Aboriginal Affairs believing that the Government have misled the Aboriginal community by denying them the right to achieve their aspirations. [More…]

• I do not believe that the Government should exploit or profiteer at the expense of the citizen; nor do I believe that the citizen ought to be able to exploit or profiteer at the expense of the community- in this sense the Government. [More…]

• The city is a demonstration that successive governments have been able to achieve a quality of life, a standard of community development and an environment that is not available in many other parts of this continent. [More…]

• Thousands of them live in a community of which they are the total membership. [More…]

• Fancy anybody in the Australian community, anybody in the nonAboriginal Australian community, anybody in the previously, led Liberal Australian community. [More…]

• But alcoholism exists throughout our own community. [More…]

• We have not found a solution to this problem in the rest of the community. [More…]

• We are not going to find it any easier in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• But for the honourable member to make that the principal burden of his speech on Aboriginal people is to make it just all the more difficult for the rest of the community to accept the fact that 1 per cent of the Australian community belonging to the original Aboriginal race are still with us. [More…]

• We know that others are causing tension throughout the community. [More…]

• Invitations were sent to members of Parliament, to local government leaders, to churchmen and other officials in the local community, and to representatives of community and welfare organisations. [More…]

• NEAT will have capacity to utilise training facilities in private firms as part of the overall effort to provide training opportunities to the community. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) Grants under the Australian Assistance Plan are not made available to local government bodies to the exclusion of all other community bodies nor to a series of separate community bodies including local government Such an arrangement would aggravate the fragmentation of social welfare services, weaken the capacity for co-operation in the social welfare field, and defeat the objective of community involvement in regional decision making on such matters. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for equipment for the Mandurah Meals on Wheels submitted by the Mandurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for conversion of a hall for the Mandurah Pensioners League submitted by the Mandurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]

• Considerable amounts of money have been made available to States, under the community health program, largely- in fact almost entirely- in accordance with the States’ own priorities, for many community health services, including health hostels. [More…]

• In the interest of reducing uncertainty and as a contribution to restoring much shaken confidence in the business community, when can we look forward to a definitive statement of the Government’s view on this quite crucial matter? [More…]

• There is now a growing sense of dissatisfaction within all sections of the community. [More…]

• No government can claim that it has laid the basis for community restraint when it, in fact, proposes to increase taxation by 45 per cent in one year. [More…]

• In the longer run it must lead to a decline in individual initiative, to a reduction in the community’s propensity to save and to a barrier to the very basis of private capital formation. [More…]

• It ought to be evident that there are some wage earners in the community whose incomes have increased faster than have prices. [More…]

• I am afraid we on this side of the House find it necessary to do so because the statistics that some of the Minister’s colleagues are presenting are so distorted that they hide much of the unfortunate erosion of profitability and confidence that should and did exist in this community. [More…]

• I think that the first thing we would hope in presenting this, the first on a general matter of public importance on the economy- following it as we must with a number of specifics in areas where we see things needing to be done- is that even at this belated hour we might be able to persuade the Government that there are alternate policies, philosophies and economic programs that can correct the rather grievous plight the community is now facing. [More…]

• It is only too easy at the moment to find editorials that comment on the circumstances of concern to the community. [More…]

• It was of interest to hear the Treasurer say that we ought perhaps to impose some self-denying ordinance to ensure that there could be a reduction in demand in the community. [More…]

• Even in quoting simple figures just a moment ago the Deputy Leader of the Country Party said that Australia had a higher rate of inflation than the European Economic Community countries. [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…]

• If the Opposition were the government there would have been a concerted attempt to impose a wage freeze throughout the community. [More…]

• It considers other matters more important than the employment and welfare of the community of Australia. [More…]

• It fails to measure many areas of the Australian community. [More…]

• To many areas of the Australian community- the non-metropolitan areas of Australia- costs have been deliberately loaded. [More…]

• The reason why this survey had not been undertaken earlier was a lack of people with the necessary training in the community in this area. [More…]

• I think that he ought to adopt up to date attitudes in this matter and point out to the community, as I am now pointing out, that there is a need for people of different experiences- not just officers of the Treasury whose whole life is here in Canberra- to apply themselves to these problems. [More…]

• I am mentioning this subject in order to advocate that there should be some more formal organisation giving economic advice in this community. [More…]

• This will be a body in which people from the community, whether they be economists from private enterprise, from a firm of management consultants such as the W. D. Scott organisation or economists from the academic field, would meet more formally with those senior officers in the Treasury who are involved in the general financial and economic policy division, planning the economic policies of our country. [More…]

• One of the aspects that I admired very much was the mixing up of people in the community. [More…]

• Perhaps it is the fault of those politicians- more the fault of the previous Government- who in the past have not made the necessary arrangements to provide for more formal, and a greater number of, meetings between those who are qualified in the community to formulate policy on these subjects with those here in Canberra doing just that. [More…]

• Prior to the presentation of the Budget I predicted that because of the past actions of the Labor Government towards the rural community no sympathy would be meted out on this occasion. [More…]

• In all these debates I can assure the Committee that the Opposition will bring solidly home to the Government the policies of neglect and default that Labor is practising in relation to the rural community. [More…]

• The Treasury policies have alienated many Australians and created divisions within the community which should not exist and which should not be tolerated. [More…]

• But what of the future when private enterprise and initative have been killed and when local councils have been driven up the wall crawling to this Government for assistance to keep up maintenance and services to a standard to which the community is entitled while we wait on the Grants Commission’s decision? [More…]

• But when the worker’s foe- the victim of his offensivebecomes not simply his employer but the whole community this weapon and this right must be re-examined. [More…]

• We are left to rely on Press reports which refer to log jams and the administrative confusion which of course surrounds this total area and in part has added to the real problem of lack of confidence in the business community. [More…]

• -One would have thought from the remarks being made by honourable members on the other side that they were the economic masters of this country, but if one looks at the manner in which they conducted the affairs of this country between 1949 and 1972 and at the social scars that have been left on the community one can see that not only are they not the masters but they are certainly not students of proper economics. [More…]

• Before I get onto the remarks I wish to make in this discussion there is one feature on which I would like to comment and for which the Opposition Parties can be held wholly responsible and that is the complete political instability of the community since 2 December 1972. [More…]

• They have either to tell the community that they want an election or they are going to allow the people to elect a government for 3 years. [More…]

• If they do not do that then the instability which exists in the community is their responsibility. [More…]

• But I believe that at the base what it has done in the course of the last 5 years, including the period it was in Opposition, has been to raise the expectations of every group in our community to believe in an impossible situationto believe that the Labor Party could fulfil all aims quickly, and that to do that would be practical. [More…]

• On behalf of the many aged people in the community who, through selfsacrifice and unrelenting application to toil, have been able to amass moderate savings, I deplore the policy of the Government to impose such a form of taxation. [More…]

• The last thing that members of the Opposition will accept is that a substantial and significant part of the inflation in Australia is caused by the greed of their rich and powerful friends in Australia who are the price makers- those who establish the prices of goods and services in the community. [More…]

• I say to members of the Opposition and, in particular, to those who write the columns of the daily Press and those who control the editorial policies of newspapers and other forms of the media in this community that they have a very heavy responsibility indeed. [More…]

• Those who seek to gain political mileage and personal advantage out of spreading such gloom and doom amongst the Australian community will find they have written a very sorry page indeed in history. [More…]

• I suggest that these are areas of human rights which are of tremendous importance to people in our community. [More…]

• If the unfortunate thing should happen that we become the Opposition again, I hope that that misfortune is tempered for the Australian people by the honourable member for Wentworth becoming the Attorney-General rather than Senator Greenwood who was a completely unfortunate choice for anybody who believes in civil liberties in this community. [More…]

• The Australian Legal Aid Office will provide a community legal aid service that will work in conjunction with the private legal profession and with other legal aid and community welfare organisations. [More…]

• The community of Australia through this Parliament is entitled to an explanation for this apparent contradiction of the AttorneyGeneral’s own stated aims and the huge items of expenditure which we see in this Budget for the Legal Aid Office which is not even established by legislation and upon which there has been no debate in this Parliament. [More…]

• In fact, we would have been much better off if before we had a growth centre we had had common sense economic management of the community. [More…]

• From where does the opposition come when suggestions are made to put that industry right so that it serves the community and does not exploit it? [More…]

• To my mind, notwithstanding the urgent need that we all see to meet the transport needs of our community, this Parliament is not the place where minor transport matters ought to be discussed, nor should it be the place where decisions about transport are in fact made. [More…]

• As honourable members know there is considerable debate in our society at the moment about the disruption to community life and the tearing down of buildings and houses associated with expressways. [More…]

• -I rise to speak on the estimates of the Department of Transport and to talk primarily about road safety and the need for improved road safety in our community. [More…]

• If we are to make rail transport more attractive for the general community we will have to do more and more of these works. [More…]

• If we want public transport to compete with the motor car, and the motor car has many advantages, as a community we are going to have to provide better facilities. [More…]

• How often have we seen one community divided because of a very large wide multi-lane freeway through the middle. [More…]

• Although I say so myself, this suggestion will hurt no group in the community more than members of the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• In relation to my own area, instead of my speaking for 10 minutes we could have 10 minutes silence because Port Adelaide is a totally disadvantaged area which has no public library facilities at all, apart from the Port Adelaide Institute, which has a long and very interesting history of community involvement going aU the way back to 1851. [More…]

• We even went to the extent of inviting people from our area to the South Australian Institute of Technology Levels Library to have a look at what a library is and what it means to the community. [More…]

• The 2 people in charge of implementing this idea, from the local Community Welfare Consultative Council- Gerry Govier and Arthur Mortimer- were able to entertain these 300 people from Port Adelaide, who came from an area which, as I said, has no library, to have a look at the most up-to-date facilities that can be provided for the public. [More…]

• We need qualified community minded librarians who will form the hub of a whole range of services to be provided to migrant groups, community study groups, the house-bound, the institutionalised, the aged, orphans and the hospitalised, both young and old backward readers from socially and economically disadvantaged homes, service clubs, business and the rest of the community. [More…]

• I refer most specifically to the way in which we seem to be denying to refugees from the Soviet bloc the asylum to which they are properly entitled here in the Australian community. [More…]

• Will the Minister have the above suggestions incorporated in such work of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics so that those sections of the Australian workforce who put in considerably more than 40 hours a week have a chance of equal living conditions compared to other sections of the Community. [More…]

• If this practice continues, does it make impossible any initiatives by the Australian Government to give assistance to disadvantaged sections of the community? [More…]

• Unemployment is an evil from the effects of which no class in the community and no State in the Commonwealth can hope to escape unless concerted action is taken. [More…]

• There is nothing that so debases human spirit and so breaks human spirit as the inability for wage earners, for those with responsibility and for those who want to work in the community, to find that work and that employment. [More…]

• We are now taking all sorts of actions to increase the amount of money available in the community. [More…]

• The proposal is to provide an area school at the Aboriginal community to the standard of territorial education facilities for the education of secondary, primary, and pre-school pupils, and for adult education and community activities. [More…]

• After all, the payment of this benefit to all prisoners of war will not place a tremendous burden on the community. [More…]

• Surely everyone in the Australian community who is incapacitated for some reason or other, whether it was caused at birth, by accident or by any other cause, is entitled to live in dignity. [More…]

• It is fair enough to make the comment that there were those in the community who were spokesmen for some of the ex-service leagues who were suggesting prior to the election in 1 972 that the Labor Party as a government would not have as much thought for ex-servicemen as perhaps the opposing political parties would. [More…]

• Again this is a direct steal from the Liberal-Country Party policy contained in ‘The Way Ahead’ announced in April-May where the whole emphasis of our policies was to give incentive to these people to become meaningful citizens in the community. [More…]

• They should not only be encouraged to work in sheltered workshops but at a certain stage they should be able to go out into the community like everyone else and take their place side by side with other members of the work force who are not so handicapped. [More…]

• His Government has been in office for 2 disastrous years, has rent this nation, created chaos and has disadvantaged old people, young people and every section of the community. [More…]

• If I may say, I am rather shocked, in view of the honourable member’s background, that he should consider that it is a waste of Government money and an unsupportable priority that money should be made available to provide recreation facilities for young people in the community so that they can be occupied in healthy sport and recreation rather than wandering the streets or being captured in the corridors of high rise flats, as they were under the honourable member’s government and under the Liberal Party Government of Victoria. [More…]

• In any situation it is desirable to increase the amounts paid to the unfortunate in our community. [More…]

• That will not satisfy the needs of many sections of the community. [More…]

• As the standard of living of the community rises and as its productive facilities increase, so concurrently can we raise from time to time the whole structure of our social services. [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…]

• Parents who care for a handicapped child at home will be encouraged to take full advantage of the facilities already available in the community and being made available. [More…]

• This raised considerable problems in regard to his job opportunities and any assets that he may have had in that community. [More…]

• I am constantly investigating all aspects of pensioner services in the community and whilst this may be little consolation to you, I would like you to know that you are not forgotten. [More…]

• We have a record of achievement based on compassion and concern for those in the community who need that help. [More…]

• I believe that it is important that when looking at the income figures we realise that there has been a conjunction of increasing costs in the farm community. [More…]

• I need refer only briefly to a mass meeting convened on 19 October 1974 at a place called Fiery Creek, near Beaufort in Victoria, which some 2,000 people from all over Victoria attended, to illustrate the widespread concern that is now manifest throughout the rural community, demonstrating the degree to which this Government has not only completely lost the confidence of rural producers but in fact also has destroyed all prospect for hope and survival for those who live in the country unless there is a marked change of attitude. [More…]

• During the last election campaign I was approached by one multinational drug company which told me of an approach made to it by members of the staff of the Minister for Agriculture asserting that unless the company contributed a significant sum of money to the Labor Party campaign to enable the presentation of the Labor Party’s rural policy perhaps some ill might befall that company’s continued participation in the agricultural community. [More…]

• I wish to say a good deal on the Estimates that are before us, but I believe it is essential that, rather than concentrating in the few minutes available to me oh some of the variations that appear in these Estimates, I comment on my concern that the Minister who is supposed to care for the agricultural sector in this community, who is supposed to be worried about the fate of our primary industries, has done nothing to help them. [More…]

• This Government’s tightening of credit and failure to provide additional sources of rural credit have affected the whole rural community- farmers and businessmen as well as wage earners in country areas. [More…]

• This indicated a selfish ati.tude which does not do the farming community much good when it is expressed so clearly as that. [More…]

• Or is it the job of the Government to try to equalise opportunity and take out the ups and downs in income and provide basic levels of social welfare for farmers along with every other person in the community? [More…]

• States of America, Japan and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Special factors are the European Economic Community ban on beef imports from 16 July 1974 to 30 November 1974 and the postponement of a significant quantity of imports by Japan. [More…]

• I am told that not only has Mr Powell expressed himself in support of the amending legislation but also support has come from representatives of a wide cross-section of the Australian community including the Australian Journalists Association, all organisations of employees in the media, members of the Catholic Church organisations and the Christian Television Association. [More…]

• If his criticism were to be correct- I do not accept it is- it would be a severe indictment of the deficiencies of the present system of health insurance because the implications are that the present system is reaching nowhere nearly enough people and that there is extensive unmet medical care need in the community. [More…]

• Yet, it is these very people- the most vulnerable and deprived in the community- who have become the target for these profiteering, mendacious and despicable exploiters. [More…]

• Everyone in the community has been willing to bear the burdens of deprivation and hardship equally. [More…]

• It is with considerable sadness I have to say that as we face the international evils of inflation and unemployment there are those within our community who are turning people’s hardships to their own mean advantage. [More…]

• These racketeers have battened on to the most vulnerable sections of our community to promote their immensely profitable quest for a fast buck- or in this case, for a fast hundred thousand bucks or more. [More…]

• I have risen to draw these letters and the situation that they represent to the attention of the House because I believe that, owing to the way in which the surcharge has been reported and owing to the way in which many people, and in particular honourable members opposite, have gone out of their way to misrepresent it, there will be a great number of tenants in the community who, receiving these letters, suppose their contents to be soundly based. [More…]

• I wish to inform the House about this union and the part it plays in our community, and the reason we should be careful of our privileges and not bring industrial relations into the House trying to solve problems which can better be solved around the conference table by representatives of employers and employees. [More…]

• The influence of the union in the parliaments and the community is there for everybody to see. [More…]

• They are a very influential section of the Australian community and ought to be treated as such. [More…]

• Let us look at the union’s negotiations which took place in 1974- a troubled period for the Australian community by virtue of the inflation rate. [More…]

• This is a very responsible organisation in the Australian community. [More…]

• It should be looked upon for the role it plays in the community. [More…]

• Inflation has involved not only those in industry but also and just as important that section of the community, mainly young people, who are trying desperately to own their own homes. [More…]

• For 23 years successive Liberal-Country Party governments did their utmost to make home ownership a reality to all sections of the community regardless of income. [More…]

• The Government must realise that today we are still in what can best be called a large demographic bulge in the community where a significant section of people will be getting married or have recently married and will be requiring housing from the public and private sectors. [More…]

• The fact still remains that the vast majority of housing completions in Australia are carried out either by private contracts or by larger companies in the community who are developing housing. [More…]

• The answers received have been more concerned with legalistic matters and an alleged reluctance to legislate for a small distinct section of the community than with any essential approach to the considerations of human welfare. [More…]

• In this respect the legislation of Australia, including New South Wales, has lagged behind that of Europe where the right of miners to a pension has been recognised in schemes distinct from those which apply now to the community in general as does the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act. [More…]

• There are many problems being faced by the rural community throughout Australia, particularly in the electorate of Eden-Monaro, but no concrete suggestions have been made by him or by the Government as to how these problems could be overcome. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the wheat industry is in dire need of assistance, despite the fact that its market prospects are among the most favourable in the rural community at the present time. [More…]

• We could introduce some of the tax concessions which this Government has ripped off the rural community and which have had such a savage effect on liquidity. [More…]

• If the farming community is again exposed to economic hardships we will be prepared to play our part in helping individuals to make the best and most rational choices and, if necessary, cushion them against economic adversity. [More…]

• Now, because of political decisions made in countries such as Japan, the United States of America and the European Economic Community countries, we have a glut situation in the countries which are and have been our traditional markets. [More…]

• Measures such as not paying shire rates, not paying taxes, boycotting sales, picketing sales and generally disrupting the community are high on their list. [More…]

• It tries to cover one of the most significant areas of social need in the community. [More…]

• I suggest that it is a proper deduction from the Woodhouse report to say that much larger numbers in the Australian community are affected by sickness, but I believe that no accurate figures for that class can be obtained from the report. [More…]

• trade unions, employers, welfare organisations and interested community group have not had an opportunity of presenting their views ‘. [More…]

• Why not as a first step help those who are already not looked after by the community and who need help because they have been injured? [More…]

• Again, it is interesting to observe, on the evidence of the Woodhouse inquiry, that the benefits will be greater, taken on the whole, and the cost to the community on the whole will be less. [More…]

• The important things in terms of concern for people and their need in terms of compensation and rehabilitation are ignored, but not so matters which produce an enormous proportion of settlements being taken up with legal fees, with a few plaintiffs getting large amounts but very large sections of the community being left uncared for. [More…]

• If personal responsibility is not provided for, then the quality of care in a community must suffer. [More…]

• This is why the Labor Government has been brought to its knees in the Australian community. [More…]

• This is a government that can only destroy virtually everything that makes community life in this nation worth while. [More…]

• From its inception, the Government has been struggling to bring about a more equitable sharing of the riches of this country, and in attempting to achieve the goal the Government has endeavoured to lift some of the burden from the less fortunate members of the community who for some reason beyond their control have been unable to benefit fully from the advantages which should be their right. [More…]

• Perhaps one of the most disadvantaged sections of the community comprises those suffering incapacity through illness or injury. [More…]

• It is likely that there will be significant developments in the area of insurance legislation directed at, amongst other things, such matters as protection of policy holders and safeguarding the community interest in insurance matters, and such committees could prove to have a powerful use in consultation for such developments. [More…]

• The cost to the community generally is another factor to be considered. [More…]

• Indeed much of the time of our High Court is taken up by the consideration of cases involving the assessment of damages in accident cases at considerable economic expense to the community in the form of court buildings, judges’ salaries, court costs, insurance premiums and, last but not least, of all counsels’ and solicitors’ fees. [More…]

• Over recent years a fresh community attitude has developed towards compensation- that is, that since injury and sickness are to a large degree the result of living in society, those who suffer should be compensated irrespective of fault. [More…]

• I believe the community is ready for and needs an alternative system to that now prevailing. [More…]

• The community has not had an opportunity to consider the full ramifications of this Bill. [More…]

• I say to the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen), whose presence has now brought fragrance back into the chamber, that when members of the community wake up to the full implications of this Bill I do not think they would be able to treat even him with the generosity that he suspects he deserves. [More…]

• By itself, that does not mean that this particular kind of legislation is the correct kind, but let us not kid ourselves that there are not pressure groups, strong pressure groups, in the community which will oppose this legislation and will think of all kinds of reasons why it should be opposed. [More…]

• I think that the central issue to which this House should address itself during this debate is not so much the deficiencies of the existing compensation and accident cover for persons in the community but rather the devising of a scheme which will effectively compensate and cover people who, by common consent, are unlucky enough not to be covered at present. [More…]

• I believe that the concepts on which my Party is founded compel a concern for those in the community who are less fortunate than the great majority of the community and compel its supporters to look at the devising of a scheme which will compensate and care for those people, not in any paternal sense but in a sense that there are many in our community who, through pure misadventure, are left physically and, unfortunately in relation to a great number of them at the present time, financially devastated. [More…]

• Time is needed to get an even wider community response. [More…]

• I have made up my mind on one thing, that is, that there are groups of people in this community who are not covered adequately and who ought to be covered. [More…]

• Does the Government not recognise that, firstly, the community does not want any more huge inefficient Government departments, and secondly, that there will be widespread retrenchments in the insurance industry if the workers compensation and common law rights of action disappear from the field of the insurance industry? [More…]

• Only in this way can the community feel confident that the scheme to give compensation to all is not being introduced at the expense of the seriously injured. [More…]

• Other speakers for the Government have pointed out the length of time since the tabling of the report and the wide opportunities that the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation, Senator Wheeldon, has offered to everyone in the community to comment, apart from their initial freedom to make submissions to the inquiry. [More…]

• What we have to have is a universal scheme covering everyone in the community and covering them for 24 hours of the day. [More…]

• So we have a partly community shared compensation scheme at the present time anyway, but it leaves out a large proportion of the population. [More…]

• So the protection is there for the whole community. [More…]

• I think it is an overall community responsibility. [More…]

• There is the initial principle of community responsibility. [More…]

• For three main reasons the community must accept the obligations that are clearly owed to every person who has been struck down by sickness or by injury. [More…]

• The Government as a progressive Party believes that it should not have to wait to be pushed by the community to do something for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• In comparison I think the Opposition believes that a government should wait to be pushed by the community and that delay does not matter. [More…]

• The fact that there are people disadvantaged at the present time not properly compensated and without the community properly sharing equitably in their coverage is all right according to the Opposition, but the Government disagrees with that. [More…]

• The principle of community responsibility embodied in this legislation and the fact that the rights of people are universally covered and that there is 24-hour cover for everyone in the community are aspects of the scheme which must receive the support of this House, and Parliament as a whole and also the support of the community which when they see the benefits that they will receive under this scheme will welcome it with open arms. [More…]

• But justice surely in large measure is what the injured or sick person will receive at the hands of the community. [More…]

• If a man or a woman of 25 years of age is injured in a way which directly affects his or her earning capacity in the future, why should not the community compensate them for that loss? [More…]

• Those people- men, women and elderly people- in the community who are injured on the roads or at work are denied by this scheme compensation to which they are presently entitled. [More…]

• All that Opposition members are saying in respect of this legislation is that they are not convinced that the cost of the scheme that we have in mind will be less than the sum that is now collected from the community by way of insurance premiums. [More…]

• From the point of view of the community we could alleviate the burden of some of the costs and taxes that are imposed. [More…]

• There has not been sufficient time for this House or the community of Australia to contemplate and discuss the ramifications of this legislation. [More…]

• Is it useful or gainful to the community, or useful or gainful to the person in spiritual and satisfying terms? [More…]

• One has to ask again whether people are being seen as people or simply as economic units in the community. [More…]

• I may mention also in respect of clause 18 that presumably, seeing that the magical retirement age in the Commonwealth Public Service seems to be 60 now and as there is certainly a trend in the community’ towards a retiring age of 60, the age of 65 contained in that clause presumably will undergo some change. [More…]

• The Minister and the Government are using the sick and injured in this community as a stalking horse for their plans in the Senate. [More…]

• For the Government to chide members of the Opposition and to say that members of the Opposition are being obstructionist towards a matter of social significance, and yet in the next breath to allow a totally farcical period of time for a Committee debate on such an important piece of legislation, I think lends weight to the argument that was put forward by my colleague, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), that indeed the Government is using natural sympathy in the community for the sick and injured as a stalking horse for its Senate plans. [More…]

• We recognise that there are large numbers of people in the community who wrongly and unjustly at the moment are without benefit. [More…]

• We have reached this stage as a result of a great deal of work done over a period of years in this Parliament in awakening the Australian community to the great importance of these principles. [More…]

• In addition there is the regional employment development scheme- RED- which is administered by my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration and which is also designed to fund moneys to towns like Launceston in Tasmania so that they can better improve facilities in those towns-the infrastructure, the building of recreational community halls and houses and that sort of thing- so that the people in them have a better standard of life. [More…]

• At present the only part of the meat industry where reasonable prices prevail is in the pig meat industry, but for all parts of the Australian meat industry there is emerging a crisis which needs to be recognised by all members of the Australian community. [More…]

• Australia has 3 principal markets to which 90 per cent of our beef goes- to the United States of America, Japan and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The representatives of the Australian Government abroad, both in the United States and in the European Economic Community, I know have done an outstanding job. [More…]

• The policies of the European Economic Community, which includes Britain, are such that under its common agriculture policy it has a policy of self-sufficiency. [More…]

• Cattle are being slaughtered in the European Economic Community at a far greater rate than they are being replaced by breeding. [More…]

• In retrospect, it would have been very satisfactory for the representatives of the meat industry to have sat down with officials of the member countries of the European Economic Community, Japan and other countries and negotiated there and then long term agreements with discounts on existing prices at that stage. [More…]

• Before analysing that position I want to place on record the debt position of the Australian rural community, excluding debts for hire purchase, to trade creditors and to private lenders, and these are Reserve Bank figures as at June 1974. [More…]

• -There are very few people in the community who do not believe that the home building industry in Australia is at the verge of total collapse. [More…]

• Flat accommodation was freely available at competitive and relatively low rentals and housing commissions were able to make a positive contribution in the so-called welfare housing section of the community. [More…]

• This is obvious to everybody in the community but the Government. [More…]

• It is a fact that we recognise what previous governments have not recognised, that many people in this community cannot own their own homes and are forced into renting. [More…]

• We heard from him an attempt to perpetuate class warfare in this community by implying that it was honourable members on this side of the chamber and the interests we represent who had caused the problem with which we are faced today. [More…]

• It was the dreadful LiberalCountry Party Government which provided homes in this community for 23 years which failed you. [More…]

• It is clear from the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Crean) that the building problems we have in our community today were initiated by the Government. [More…]

• Its intention is to take away from the young people in our community the right and the opportunity to be able to buy their own homes and to substitute the Government. [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…]

• Also, we have provided support for those activities of a community nature such as contributions to the YWCA, the YMCA and other youth centres in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The health of the community should at all times be considered and a standard of environment should be maintained. [More…]

• It is symptomatic of the state of debate in this chamber and the community at large that there has been little intelligent analysis of the Fitzgerald report on the contribution of the minerals industry to the welfare of Australians. [More…]

• I think one of the flow-on effects of not having any policies in relation to minerals and energy is the lack of confidence for investment in this area and the general slow-down in the development that we have been used to in this area which has tended to prop up particularly the industrial sector of the community. [More…]

• The major inflationary actions they have initiated include reckless spending by the Federal Government itself, unrealistic increases in wages and conditions for many public sectors of the community, weakness towards irresponsible and political strikes, erratic Government economic policies and lack of support for the Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister has a duty in the present serious economic situation to explain to this chamber, to industry, to the community and to the employees of industry what progress has been made and why the progress has been so obviously slow. [More…]

• The funds for innovative projects at school level are decided on the initiative of the teachers or the community and, at the system level, on the initiative of the school authorities or even at the national level. [More…]

• One could not say that the migrants are amongst the higher income bracket in the community. [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…]

• I want to advance the point of view that people with a community spirit in the isolated areas of Australia who get together and run kindergartens for one or two days a week are entitled to a pro-rata distribution of money from the various governments for the tremendous contribution that they are making in this sphere. [More…]

• We have a new look at the control of local schools because the very involvement of these groups I have mentioned has brought State governments to realise that there should be continued community involvement. [More…]

• The interaction of that community and the satisfying of the need for the students to understand their development and their relationships to one another will be a worthwhile achievement. [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…]

• I use that example because it does illustrate the diversity of education systems available in the community. [More…]

• I wish to support very strongly the concept of community involvement in schools. [More…]

• In this regard I pay tribute to the New South Wales Minister for Education, the honourable Eric Willis, who last year launched for public discussion a position paper on possible forms of community involvement in schools. [More…]

• A greater degree of local participation in school affairs can only lead to a greater community awareness of the heeds of education and a greater sense of satisfaction and vocation amongst the teachers in our community. [More…]

• I believe that if we can get stability and common sense into the buying habits of some of the importing countries, such as the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States of America, rather than a situation in which large quantities of meat- major buying- are purchased at one time and practically nothing is bought at other times, we will get some sanity in the world market. [More…]

• Some of the most dependent and some of the most needy people in the community would be the people to suffer most seriously from such across the board cuts in all departments which, I understand, is now the policy of the Opposition. [More…]

• All one can say is that there seems to be extreme conflict and absence of consultation within the ranks of the Opposition and overall a conspiracy to make those people in the community most dependent - [More…]

• Of course, we of the Australian Country Party fully subscribe to the proposition that people who are genuinely unemployed are entitled to receive help from the rest of the community. [More…]

• It ill behoves any government to isolate this section of the community from the rest of the community and to say: ‘You are not entitled to benefits’. [More…]

• The development of regional councils needs some stimulation if these regional assistance councils are to develop a community outlook. [More…]

• It is a very important one and a very humanitarian one, namely, the care of the handicapped people in our community. [More…]

• Prior to the previous Federal election the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) outlined the policy in respect of social welfare in the community. [More…]

• In that program he highlighted the Government’s concern about the laggardness that occurred in our community as far as provisions for the mentally and physically handicapped are concerned. [More…]

• This provision will cover about 20,000 young handicapped people in our community. [More…]

• This will bring the grant to that worthy organisation that is helping disabled people in the community to $97,500. [More…]

• -In speaking to the estimates for the Departments of Health, Repatriation and Compensation, and Social Security I want to direct my remarks to one aspect of our approach and the approach of many countries which have similar societies to the provision of social services, particularly towards the care of the aged in our community. [More…]

• Some people are able to have what are colloquially called granny flats, where it is possible for grandparents in the community to have some kind of privacy and separate life but still be under the same roof as their families and able to mix with the rest of the family in a way that is beneficial to both them and the other members of the family. [More…]

• The whole philosophy behind the provision was to give a bit of assistance and incentive to those in the community who were prepared to undertake care of the elderly in their family, their close relatives, within their own home environment. [More…]

• I think this is an issue that we as a total community must face, particularly in the metropolitan areas. [More…]

• As people have a greater expectation of life, as the opportunities available in life to the young in the community are becoming more and more apparent, I think it is a social issue which we have to face. [More…]

• I am very happy to see today that several of the speakers from the other side of the Parliament have praised some of the movements that we have taken that were so desperately needed within the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) has begun a thorough review of the whole system of financing and constructing homes for the aged because he believes there is a strong possibility that these homes are not operating in the best interests of the community, the taxpayers or the people with limited means who need accommodation. [More…]

• These controls could be established in consultation with the community voluntary agencies concerned. [More…]

• Domiciliary day care, emergency care and holiday care could be of tremendous benefit to the community, but I should see it being run on a regional basis. [More…]

• So this Government, and in fact the Australian community, is heavily indebted to all those women who take part in voluntarily delivering meals on wheels. [More…]

• What must happen if the community or the society is unable to maintain full employment? [More…]

• With this Government feeling as it does about assisting these unfortunate people in the community and taking some action to assist them, honourable members opposite say: ‘Let us cut it out. [More…]

• They identify the difference between a Government which cares for people in the community who are underprivileged, who may need assistance from the Australian Government, and a Party which was in power from 1 949 to 1 972, which had the opportunity to do something, but ignored it, and made the plight of these people worse. [More…]

• The basic objective of the plan is to involve people in regional social welfare activities and to assist them in the development of integrated patterns of welfare services within their community. [More…]

• They would also be handling and allocating Australian Government funds to meet these welfare needs in their community and this was probably an even bigger break with the past. [More…]

• A government which was not genuinely interested in community involvement or in overcoming the welfare deficiencies most acutely concerning the people would not have taken the chances that this plan clearly involves. [More…]

• It has been used to extend and initiate Meals on Wheels services, to provide a full-time co-ordinator of social planning for the regional committee on the ageing, to establish community centres, to conduct social research and to assist a variety of migrant, youth and welfare groups to maintain and extend their services. [More…]

• In summary, it has provided a tremendous fillip to welfare services in the region and, importantly, has raised enormously the level of community interest and activity in social welfare. [More…]

• I should mention also that under the Australian Assistance Plan there is provision for community development officers who will have the principal task of stimulating involvement of people in social welfare activities and assisting welfare groups in the region. [More…]

• Three municipalities in the region have already appointed a community development officer and five others are in the process of doing so. [More…]

• Nobody will quarrel with improvements and increased expenditure for any disadvantaged section of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that this encourages many sections of the community to assist. [More…]

• It is particularly important in the context of the community because it involves the community. [More…]

• I simply say to the Government- I do not want to get into the detail of a lot of the estimates- that if it wants to see the Department of Social Security make the sort of contribution that it ought to be able to make to the Australian community the Government should get the economy of this country soundly based. [More…]

• The proposition has now been accepted by the general community that the Government has committed itself to increasing bed day subsidies automatically every time costs in nursing homes are increased in any State. [More…]

• The community as a whole has to look at the proposition which is being pushed. [More…]

• There is general acceptance apparently in the communityit is certainly pushed by honourable members opposite- that the Government has this responsibility and duty to make up the payment, not only in cases where the rest of the family of the pensioner is poor but in all cases in the community. [More…]

• Provision for community health program services increased from nothing under the previous Government to $9.9m last year and $34.6m this year. [More…]

• The community will hardly accept as an excuse for delay that Canberra and New South Wales are engaged in another demarcation dispute. [More…]

• But probably even more important is the psychological effect on the migrant community brought about by the break-up of the former Department. [More…]

• They feel very strongly- I can understand their feelings- that the Labor Government has abandoned them as a group within the community. [More…]

• No matter to which ethnic group in the community they belong, as a section of the community the migrants feel that they are being downgraded because the former Department, which had so much influence in their lives and had such a very real appreciation of the problems that they, as individual migrants, face, has been broken up. [More…]

• They have simply dissolved into the community and are now occupying full-time employment. [More…]

• But the point that needs to be made in this debate is what this scheme does to combat inflation and what benefits are left to the community after the scheme is completed. [More…]

• After the unemployment benefits had been soaked up under that scheme we were left virtually with nice lawns, nice foreshores and a nice lakeside, but the community gained no benefit. [More…]

• Various other bodies in the community will seek funds, some through Government agencies and some through private and public fund raising, to allow all those projects to proceed. [More…]

• It is just as productive- in fact more productive- to provide funds for essential activities than to provide funds for a lot of the nonsense that is provided in the community today. [More…]

• I am quite sure that unionists, non-unionists and other sections of the Australian community would agree with my attitude when I say that we do not want to feel that any government, in particular the present Government, is guilty of being biased politically in the selection of immigrants who come into this nation. [More…]

• I suggest- I do so in a personal way- that those functions should include the environment and the national estate, urban and rural land use strategies and policies, anti-pollution, wildlife and nature conservation, responsibility for the education of the community in conservation, water and soil resources and conservation policies, and the administration of those areas. [More…]

• I know that it has been the desire of the Minister to tread carefully and to try to get other departments, the Government as a whole and the community going with him in a common objective, but it should be the responsibility of the department whose permanent concern and responsibility lies within the area of the quality of life- a phrase which has been used so often. [More…]

• We have a golden opportunity to ensure that recycling in fact becomes a possibility and to show that it is good for the community. [More…]

• This concession should be maintained to encourage community involvement in developing our national park facilities. [More…]

• The only way in which wage and salary increases in the community can be sustained in the long term is through increases in labour productivity. [More…]

• For our part we believe that one of the major objectives of the department of science should be to give close attention to the setting of national priorities in science and technology in the light of community needs in the widest sense. [More…]

• It will require the fostering of a close working relationship, particularly between Government research institutions and private industry in the community, because the potential contribution which science and technology can make to society will only be realised if technical advances are put to practical use. [More…]

• The potential damage that science and technology can cause will only be recognised if technical advances are closely examined and widely examined for their impact on all sectors of the community. [More…]

• Such an arrangement would facilitate the Department of Science becoming the national focal point in promoting a wide awareness of science and technology and in operating as a scientific resource centre for the community. [More…]

• I refer honourable members to the publication ‘The Australian Government Digest’ and the excellent value that this is to any person in the community who wishes to find out more about how the country is governed. [More…]

• It has deliberately stimulated discussion and dialogue with the community to try to establish the best ways of achieving reasonable public access to the airways. [More…]

• The Department of the Media is now proving that it has a major role to play in government- a role of encouraging the flow of information throughout the community, not one of suppressing information or colouring it with bias. [More…]

• This difficulty arises because of the size of our continent, the complexity of our problems and the sheer distance between large sectors of the community. [More…]

• Planner, a Secretary/ Receptionist and a Community Development Officer. [More…]

• Delegates on the Regional Board are not representative of any particular section of the community having been appointed to each SubRegional Community Committee as individuals. [More…]

• As individuals the delegates are associated with Service Clubs, Educational Bodies, Sporting Clubs, Church Groups, Local Government and various community welfare bodies. [More…]

• Three Community Development Officers employed in the region will continue at a total cost of $30,000 per annum. [More…]

• During the pilot period of the Australian Assistance Plan the Regional Council was approved to receive in 1973-74-$20,000 for administration grant, $22,350 capitation grant, $5,392 ($30,000 per annum) for Community Development Officers’ salaries. [More…]

• Budget proposals 1974-75 are up to $40,000 ($30,000 for staff salaries plus $10,000 for other administrative costs) and $36,000 per annum for the employment of three Community Development Officers instead of the present amount available of $30,000. [More…]

• Manjimup Community Committee- social needs of community 1,000. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a number of the 750 community pre-school centres in New South Wales is facing financial difficulties at the moment? [More…]

• We are seeking the co-operation not only of State and local government but also of community groups. [More…]

• The International Committee of the Red Cross, with help from the International Community, has been working to bring relief and to help resettle these people back in their homes. [More…]

• Emergency relief supplies collected by the Cypriot community in Australia are being flown to Athens free of charge by Qantas. [More…]

• When people like the Victorian Attorney-General- a Liberal Minister in the Victorian Parliamentspeak as though they want it to go back, they speak of advocates for the existence of this power relationship in a community that existed then and which was based essentially on privilege and elitism; something which this Government rejects out of hand. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the House what measures have been taken to stimulate the expansion of the Australian assistance plan so that more people have the chance to be involved in developing welfare facilities in their own community? [More…]

• The $10,000 allowance for each community development officer was increased in the Budget to $12,000. [More…]

• Frankly, I sincerely regret that the policy of the Opposition as articulated by the Opposition spokesman on welfare matters, seems to be one of destruction where community development is concerned in welfare services, [More…]

• Will the Minister take steps to ensure that the operation and activities of the IAC are better known and understood by manufacturers and the community generally. [More…]

• Be that as it may, the Australian Government is determined to continue its efforts to achieve meaningful, constructive, dialogue with the rural community, not only those who live on farms but the far larger section of country dwellers who live in country towns. [More…]

• Such demands to try to increase the availability of grain and other essential food Will fall heavily upon the shoulders of the United States, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, indeed upon the European Economic Community countries and upon the Australian people. [More…]

• The European Economic Community again is causing considerable trouble. [More…]

• No sector of the community can afford to pay fully for whatever food aid we might provide to overseas countries needing food. [More…]

• It is a community responsibility. [More…]

• We cannot have the falsity of the position the Opposition sketches out when it makes these sort of claims and then say it will lower taxes because the charge the Government makes on the community is too high. [More…]

• The policies of the European Economic Community are opposed to us. [More…]

• to examine the awareness of specific learning difficulties among the community generally and among the medical, health, teaching and social welfare professions in particular; [More…]

• to recommend measures that can be taken to heighten community awareness of specific learning difficulties, and [More…]

• It is a problem which impacts very seriously on individuals and reduces their capacity to be happy, to be successful and to contribute to the community. [More…]

• It can have a very serious impact upon an individual in his dealings with others in the community. [More…]

• There are many people in the community who have very high intelligence, who attain high academic qualifications and who are accepted in the community on any other ground as being totally normal, but when they are assessed on communication and their ability to use language it is said of them that they lack judgment. [More…]

• The motion addresses itself to what many of us regard as totally normal people in the community. [More…]

• The result of this tragic situation is that we have thousands of individuals in the community who, despite their most desperate attempts and despite above average intelligence, do not achieve the progress that their potential would indicate they should. [More…]

• Despite their widespread nature, the community awareness of them in Australia is minimal. [More…]

• The overriding purpose of this motion and the consequent establishment of a select committee is to heighten community awareness of dyslexia and specific learning difficulties among the community generally [More…]

• The community understands blindness and deafness. [More…]

• How many in the community know the term ‘dyslexia’? [More…]

• Opportunities for them are curtailed in the same way as a physical or mental handicap curtails the achievements of others in the community. [More…]

• But in most of the cases involving the people that I am speaking about there is no sympathy from the community or those who are associated with them and very frequently there is hostility towards them. [More…]

• The result of this disorder, which is relatively widespread in the community, is a failure by a significant number of people to achieve the standard of education that their intelligence, self-determination and efforts should make possible. [More…]

• Unfortunately, despite the fact that it is so widespread, community awareness of it is minimal. [More…]

• 1 have no doubt that unless attention is focussed on the problem in human terms, then it will remain ignored by the community- to its own disadvantage and the continuing social handicap of those afflicted. [More…]

• We agreed that the most suitable immediate approach would be the appointment of a committee of members of the House to examine the problem, assess its nature and extent, its impact on the community and the individual and report on the most appropriate ways of overcoming it. [More…]

• I guess he was dating that period back to the establishment of the Specific Learning Difficulties Association, known as the SPELD organisation, to which I pay tribute as a magnificently successful body of spokespeople for a significantly disadvantaged group in our community. [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…]

• The formation of this branch has been a good example of what can be done by a dedicated group of citizens who identify a problem in their community and then set about correcting it. [More…]

• Many Post Office workers are as anxious as ever to give the sort of service for which the Post Office has been known over the years but many seem to be in the hands of radicals who want to use their power to cause industrial trouble and general difficulty for the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not challenge that television is a service to the people but I suggest that a far more necessary service to all sections of the community- the old, the young, the sick and business interests- is the provision of Post Office and telecommunication services. [More…]

• I doubt whether there is one section of the community that does not send out Christmas cards. [More…]

• I do not think it is altogether true to claim that the community will be upset about having to pay extra to send Christmas cards. [More…]

• It is inevitable that in an area which is as labour intensive as the Post Office is- I am speaking about mail deliveriescharges will rise as charges in the community generally are rising. [More…]

• I thought the honourable member for Gippsland was trying to get round to this and to say that it was necessary for the community to chip in in order to provide this service and that the cost of it should not necessarily be charged to the users of the service and those who get a benefit from it. [More…]

• The point that the honourable member missed altogether is that if there is any excess of income over expenditure by the Post Office it does not go into the pocket of some greedy little capitalist, but in fact goes back into the coffers of the Australian community; it becomes part of the Australian public purse. [More…]

• On the surface this looked most attractive to many people, but it appears somewhat ludicrous when one considers that the Treasurer (Mr Crean) said in the Budget Speech that the fees were abolished because the provision of radio and television is a service to the community. [More…]

• They are both services to the community. [More…]

• All members on this side of the chamber declare that the Postmaster-General’s Department is a service department and it has to give a service to the community. [More…]

• The cost of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department producing a balanced budget, or even making a profit, if you like, is of concern to the community. [More…]

• He said how essential it was that the communications business should be a businesslike operation; that you face up to reality and you look at the needs of the community, you look at the services which can be provided and you look at the expertise that exists in the Post Office and you see that there is a division of functions. [More…]

• That is the reason why the Government said that it was fair enough to remove the tax, because the community can pay for it. [More…]

• There is a big difference between providing that sort of service to one person and providing a service across the board to the community. [More…]

• Committee and say, as he has said so often, that these are programs that are demanded by the public to meet real community needs. [More…]

• I want to deal with a proposal, which has been advanced within the local community in my district, for the establishment of a Parramatta community centre. [More…]

• There is a need for a community centre, one which in my view would cost a good deal. [More…]

• Parramatta needs such things as a theatre, an auditorium, a community arts venue and so on. [More…]

• It is a new initiative undertaken by this Government to involve itself in the needs of people in the community in the places where they live. [More…]

• In providing road systems very great care must be taken to ensure that they fit into the community pattern and do not disrupt established communities especially where older people live and where movement of people from one area to another may occur. [More…]

• No matter how much better the other area may appear to other persons it is not the community in which they grew up. [More…]

• Community facilities, recreational facilities, opportunities to expand and participate in cultural activities and opportunities for people not of Australian birth to mix and undertake their ethnic cultural activities are the sort of things that are necessary in a city if the city is to be a live and living thing, not merely an area in which a group of people are living. [More…]

• But the area does not have the type of cultural facilities that I believe, and I am sure that most people in the area believe, are essential for the needs of a growing community. [More…]

• If these requirements are not considered together with growth factors when the planning takes place, disillusionment could quickly take place and destroy the best laid plans and the best intentions of any community. [More…]

• But one of the most significant developments that has followed the operations of the Department of Urban and Regional Development has been the recognition of community participation in the decision-making process. [More…]

• This program is to be used to finance projects, including land acquisition, drainage, planning and development procedures, conservation and provision of community amenities. [More…]

• We must also have community involvement in that planning. [More…]

• Finally, there is the Else-Mitchell recommendation that the community is entitled to receive any profit which is received as a result of zoning changes and changes in land use. [More…]

• If we are to preserve the ecology and if we are to preserve resources which are of great value not only to the Australian community but to the world as a whole, we will have to do something about this matter. [More…]

• But while the objectives are couched in compelling terms, the Government has failed to scratch the surface of the enormous problems associated with urban and community affairs. [More…]

• In case anybody has any doubts about this I point out that if we are to solve the problems of urban and regional development, bearing in mind that 85 per cent of the Australian population live in these areas, we must have a spirit of co-operation not only between the Australian Government, the State governments and local governments but also with the private sector and the people within our community. [More…]

• It is gratifying to note that the Bill received support on both sides of the House, and indeed more generally in the community. [More…]

• The Government decided that improvements must be effected in all aspects of our aid endeavours- in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various programs, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the Government’s aid efforts. [More…]

• The Board will normally include members of the public, the trade unions, the business community and voluntary organisations, in addition to public servants. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, an important consideration which has influenced the form of this Bill has been the Government’s recognition of the growing awareness in our community of Australia’s place in the world and in particular its role in our region. [More…]

• The Government, in setting up the Development Assistance Advisory Board and by its assistance to non-government agencies, has indicated that it welcomes community participation in Australia ‘s aid efforts. [More…]

• The Government expects that the Agency established by this BUI will further the new directions in our aid policies ensure greater benefits to those who receive our aid and devise effective programs which will gain the support and sympathetic involvement of the Australian Community. [More…]

• When a Government makes strenuous efforts to provide unemployment relief in a form which gives jobs which are of some meaning to the people who are doing them and also of some meaning to the community, and which provide some valuable contribution to the development of those communities, it is indeed appalling that a State Liberal Minister should continue to make these baseless allegations and try to undermine the scheme. [More…]

• I would suggest that the Boddington Community Committee make representations to the Western Australian Government to have the proposed improvements to the Boddington Women’s Hospital included in that State’s Hospital Program. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Nursing Mothers’ Association of Australia applied for a community health program grant to assist with administration costs. [More…]

• and (2) The Nursing Mothers’ Association of Australia has advised me of their intention to make a submission to the Hospitals and Health Services Commission for financial assistance under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Many statements have been made in recent days in the United Kingdom as well as on the Continent regarding the possibility of a long term sugar agreement between either the European Economic Community and Australia or between the United Kingdom as a member of the EEC and Australia. [More…]

• Until the Opposition says what total savings will be made by those cuts every one in the community is entitled to assume that what it is proposing is an amount that will be either infinitesimal or else disastrously large to a point where people who have now become accustomed to receiving social security benefits and the kind of government support which I think they are now coming to expect, will no longer be able to get this support. [More…]

• Somehow or other confidence has to be instilled into the community again. [More…]

• But confidence is not instilled in the community when the Prime Minister, in a most undignified manner, goes down and confers with the head of the trade union movement in Australia, Mr Hawke, to find out what he ought to do. [More…]

• Why should only a few people in the community be privileged when hundreds of thousands are now unemployed and all they receive is the unemployment benefit? [More…]

• The decent thing for him to do, for the benefit of the community as a whole, would be to stand up and withdraw that statement and apologise for ever having made it. [More…]

• There are 40,000 vacant jobs in the community waiting for somebody to fill them. [More…]

• The Government needs policies that will re-establish confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• It obviously is a direct attack, as is usual by a socialist government, on the private enterprise section of the community. [More…]

• The resolution went on to say that while accepting the desirability of broad national program standards, which already exist, the Australian commercial broadcasters consider that legislative moves to provide dictatorship by the Government through the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in respect of what shall be presented to the public could assuredly result in repression of the opportunity of the public to hear free expression of program material of community interest. [More…]

• I believe that the action of the Opposition in drawing attention to the dangers that exist in the Bill is serving not only the Australian Federation of Broadcasters but also the Australian community. [More…]

• What right does any statutory body gain to have a judgment in relation to community standards which is superior to that of the community itself? [More…]

• I say further for the Opposition Parties that we are as concerned as any other section of the community about community standards. [More…]

• The popular view to which the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has lent his weight and which one or two honourable gentlemen opposite have sought to encourage in the community is that this BUI is concerned only with standards. [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…]

• There is also a great deal of public community support for these propositions. [More…]

• But there is one group in this community that is peculiarly defenceless and exploited. [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…]

• 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…]

• What this Government would hope to see from the Australian television industry is something of a renaissance, a new flowing of creativity in that industry which would match in its flavour the new aspirations flowing in our community as a whole. [More…]

• The Australian community will no longer have to bear the cost of inefficient allocation of resources. [More…]

• The Australian community will no longer have to bear the cost of inefficient allocation of resources. [More…]

• As such I think it is to be commended at the present juncture, because there is no doubt that the Government by its refusal up to now to allow such money to come in has been responsible for the credit squeeze and responsible therefore for the tragic unemployment we are experiencing in the community. [More…]

• The Government is determined, however, to avoid a return to the boom conditions which were beneficial neither to the community nor to the industry. [More…]

• Further, and it cannot be stressed too often, the quality of life in Australia- the real standard of living of all Australians- cannot be maintained, let alone raised, unless governments accept responsibility for community services which individuals can no longer provide adequately for themselves. [More…]

• Equally we believe these measures, building upon the continuing program expressed in the Budget, provide a sound basis for co-operation with all sections of the community and between all sections of the community in the undoubtedly difficult days which lie immediately ahead. [More…]

• Eighty thousand small business in this country are at risk at the present time and the proud heritage of the self-reliant and individualistic Australian, which is preserved more in these self-employed business people than in any other sector of the Australian community, is being destroyed by the Government and some of its hasty and now considered even by itself ill-judged pace setter legislation. [More…]

• These have provided to the local community a good variety of job opportunities. [More…]

• At the Moe meeting, the 8 manufacturers estimated that the monetary loss to the community by way of wages total $2.25m per annum. [More…]

• It is no exaggeration to say that local government organisations in rural areas are suffering one of the most severe squeezes they have ever experienced in their long history of serving the people and providing amenities and basic services to the community. [More…]

• How can any local government body be expected to carry out its major programs of public works within the community that it serves when we are going through a period of cost increases of as much as 35 per cent? [More…]

• The general community in any country makes these decisions. [More…]

• Western Australia: Grants from the Community Arts Fund and Festivals Fund (Question No. [More…]

• What grants from the Community Arts Fund and the Festivals Fund have been made to Western Australia since 30 June 1972. [More…]

• and (2) The Community Ans Fund and the Festivals Fund were established early in 1973 when the Government announced new arrangements for SUPport for the Arts. [More…]

• The total of the grants made to Western Australia through the Special Projects Committee, the Community Ans Fund and the Festivals Fund since 30 June 1972 is $86,382. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of toilets at Katanning Arts and Crafts Society submitted by the Katanning Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for improvements to be made to the Murray Music and Drama Club submitted by the Murray Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Australia Council for the Arts. [More…]

• This approach was aimed at enabling appropriate projects to be commenced without delay in the interests of the unemployed and the local community. [More…]

• Scared of the paranoid attitude of certain groups in the community, he not only shrinks from debating foreign policy in this House but also shrinks from discussing his difference face to face with the Government of France. [More…]

• Will he ask for an amelioration of attitudes over the treatment of minorities within that community? [More…]

• We demand a statement by the Government in order that we can, on behalf of different groups in the community, whether they be the Baits or others, indicate different attitudes to the Government. [More…]

• But it had become clear that there was need for further improvement, not only in the basic services that were being provided, but also in the peripheral activities that help the handicapped people to participate more fully in the general life of the community. [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 renting of an existing large home for use as a half-way house for handicapped people being re-established in the community is but one example. [More…]

• All of the measures contained in this Bill deeply involve the community. [More…]

• But they are measures that the community wants and, indeed, in many cases has taken the initiative in supplying. [More…]

• We accept as a challenge the role of joining with community organisations to broaden the horizons of handicapped people, to promote their abilities in both occupational and recreational activities and, overall, to improve the range of their social opportunities. [More…]

• I believe that some Australians whose legitimate claims on the social conscience of our community have been the highest have, in fact, been short changed. [More…]

• I believe the real measure of a civilised community to be the size of the gap between the meaningful aspirations and the opportunities to fulfil those aspirations available to all of its members. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that earlier in the session an amending Bill to the States Grants (Universities) Act 1972-1973 was enacted which included provision for grants for teaching and research in community practice, social work and in special education at a number of universities. [More…]

• Earmarked funds for teaching and research in community practice and the other special activities which I have already mentioned are provided in addition to this amount to the extent of $940,000. [More…]

• Resources will be properly allocated on the demonstrated needs of the community and a system will be developed in which each transport mode performs the role best suited to it. [More…]

• It is now becoming obvious to anyone with half a brain that with a rising long-term bond rate the pegged concessional rate of interest is producing serious inequities and the benefits of those obtaining welfare housing compared to the rest of the community, especially including those without any house at all, are staggering. [More…]

• 1 thank the Minister for the letter because it clears up a point which has been of some concern to people in the community. [More…]

• I believe that this Agreement has also created serious social problems because of its discriminatory effect upon those persons in the community unfortunate enough to have to pay the market rate of interest, which may be perhaps 11% per cent or 12 per cent It seems to me to be totally unfair that the action of this Government has forced the majority of home buyers and home builders to pay 4 per cent or 5 per cent more in interest than the select few who will be able to purchase a home as a result of this so-called welfare housing agreement. [More…]

• I think it is fanenough to say, after last night’s performance, that those policies are now totally discredited and rejected by a helpless Australian community. [More…]

• The Government makes a great deal of political capital out of the fact that it is supplying finance to low income earners, but I suggest that not very many of the people in the community who are earning $110 a week in the case of South Australia or $120 in the case of the national figure will be able to take advantage of this low interest money because they still have to overcome the deposit gap. [More…]

• They relate to the emphasis which the 1973 Housing Agreement gave to the building up of a stock of rental accommodation for those sections of the community unable to afford their own homes. [More…]

• To relate the needs test to 95 per cent of average weekly earnings of the main income earner of a family forgets that the criterion for determining need used by the Henderson Commission and by every other inquiry into poverty or relative affluence in a community is a family income. [More…]

• We can see that it is a substantial amount of money but at the same time there will be a large gap left in providing housing for the community generally throughout Australia, despite the fact that these provisions are being made. [More…]

• We have to look at the entire economic situation, because housing is a vital factor in the economic wellbeing of this community and is a vital factor in the social wellbeing of all Australians, regardless of their economic or social position. [More…]

• With regard to the section of the community which I have said I estimate to be not more than 6 per cent, which we are discussing in terms of this legislation, there has been a tendency, I fear, for the Government to draw a red herring across this area by its concentration on public housing which, as I have said, represents at the present time approximately 6 per cent of the housing demand. [More…]

• My Party is sympathetic to that section of the community which needs our assistance. [More…]

• In other words, there is a very close correlation between people’s economic and social wellbeing in terms of their capacity to play a full and purposeful role in the community and their ability to have the pride of ownership. [More…]

• At the same time there is quite obviously a section of the community which is often movingeither coming into Australia or going out, as many people are doing at the moment- or transferring occupations which would suggest that there is a need for some rented accommodation. [More…]

• He was speaking of the situation in northern Queensland- have become most noticeable during 1973 and are still most marked, but now development and further expansion are at a low ebb and must shortly trouble all sections of the community. [More…]

• He has done well in displaying his many abilities and in helping the needs of his community. [More…]

• A depressed state is also evident within the farming community. [More…]

• But despite the specific purpose grants that have been made, a revenue situation has been forced on South Australia- and undoubtedly this applies also to Queensland, about which I know a lot less- that is contributing very heavily to the inflationary spiral that is hitting all sections of the community at present. [More…]

• I beseech the Federal Government to make quite sure, if it has the problems caused by inflation at heart, that the State governments are not squeezed to the extent that every section of the community will suffer from increased land and petrol taxes or from State revenue raising procedures that will have a very great effect on the people of the State, whichever State it may be. [More…]

• The Government was forced to increase the grants to the States for these purposes by 10 per cent from $92Sm to $ 1 ,0 1 7m just in an effort to do something about the inflationary effect that its irresponsible policies, its community crippling policies, have had upon the States in these areas. [More…]

• There is nothing that the States can do, because of the squeeze position in which they find themselves, but try to supplement the miserable amount of revenue they receive by imposing increased charges which must add to the cost of living, the cost of running businesses and the entire cost structure of the community. [More…]

• This is apparent in subsidies and grants, which generally are not known to the public, to hospitals, nursing homes, aged persons hostels, pre-schools, child care centres and, through the Australian assistance plan, to a whole range of community projects. [More…]

• In certain circumstances the operation of a differential rate of payroll tax could be considered, for example, to provide stimulation to the business community in a particular area. [More…]

• The Council is meeting regularly and advising my Department of community views and needs in relation to the movement of people in and around the area, the location of town facilities and acceptance of design. “ [More…]

• These are orientated toward improving community conditions. [More…]

• It is proposed to issue a stamp next year to draw attention to Australia’s role in the international postal community and to coincide with the Illrd Congress of the Asian Oceanic Postal Union which is to be held in Melbourne. [More…]

• It is quite obviously important for employment in the community that companies should be able to carry out their investment programs. [More…]

• I have no doubt whatever that the community in general will respond to these timely actions which have been taken in the Parliament and which of course we can put into effect as early as legislative and administrative procedures allow. [More…]

• Clearly Queenslanders should be made aware of the sections of the community from which the major political parties draw their financial and even in recent times their physical support- a matter to which I want to refer this morning. [More…]

• My question pointed out that no private developer could afford to hold a valuable piece of land suitable for office accommodation in a centre such as Parramatta for the time that this Government has held this piece of land without attempting in some way to utilise the site and make it available for the use of the community. [More…]

• -The fact that Australia is overwhelmingly a nation of owner-occupiers should not blind this Parliament or this community as a whole to the increasing incidence of rackets involving landlords who let accommodation and tenants who occupy it. [More…]

• There has been very clear evidence in recent weeks and recent months of people who are obliged to rent accommodation m our community becoming victims of exploitation to a quite extraordinary extent and of the trading associations to which agents belong in this country falling down very badly indeed in the pretence they make of policing the practices carried on by a minority of their members. [More…]

• There is an increasing number of people in our community- some from necessity and some from choice- who are seeking rental accommodation, and the cost is being pushed up accordingly. [More…]

• Capital expenditure on the development of a mine or oil field, on the provision of community facilities adjacent to a mine or field, or on the purchase of mining rights or information will be deductible henceforth over the estimated life of the mine or field. [More…]

• We agreed that we were united in our support of the following basic objections: to contribute to the orderly and pleasant development of urban areas and in their broad planning and the assembly of land for urban purposes; to assist decentralisation through the development of attractive growth centres; to ensure that the rise in values from governmental announcements of growth centres and similar projects accrues to the community rather than to individuals; and to ensure the lowest possible prices for urban land: And to achieve all this for the benefit of people with the assistance of Australian Government funds. [More…]

• A Consultative Council representing community interests and local government has been set up to bring public participation into the development. [More…]

• They aim at linking all 3 levels of government and community groups together in a co-operative venture. [More…]

• These were regions with particular deficiencies in community services and a living environment which compared unfavourably with other parts of Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• Area improvement program funds will also help to rectify defects in parklands and open space, in drainage and waterways, in efficient garbage disposal systems, in community faculties such as halls and libraries. [More…]

• I attended meetings of the Committee and heard the answers which were given by, among other people, Mr Stevens, who is the Director of the Australian Radiation Laboratory, and I am satisfied in my own mind that the levels of radiation from the proposed establishment are such that there is no measurable danger to people from radioactivity In fact, the resiting of the laboratory from the present buildings is to the advantage of the community insofar as the new building will be of such a design and character that, if there was any concern about the existing facilities, there would be no concern about the new buildings. [More…]

• I think it is very important to say that the whole function of the laboratory is to protect the community from radiation effects, not to create such effects, and the laboratory spends most of its time measuring the effects of radiation. [More…]

• For example, it takes, daily, samples of milk from around Australia and samples of radioactive fallout in the community from around Australia and it measures the radioactivity of both of those products in the laboratory. [More…]

• So the laboratory is not there to extend radiation in the community, but is there to shield the community against background radiation and to measure accurately the amount of radiation present in the things that it measures. [More…]

• It is inconceivable that a person of the standing of Mr Stevens could be challenged on his qualifications in this area of protecting the community from the effects of radiation. [More…]

• This person gave the Committee unequivocal evidence on oath that there was absolutely no danger to the surrounding community from the activities of the laboratory. [More…]

• So those people in the community who wish to peddle or hawk information that is not actually correct are in danger of doing the community a great disservice because none of the evidence that we received- there are pages and pages of it- gave an indication to anybody that there is any danger. [More…]

• It sees itself in the role of being a watchdog of the rights of the community. [More…]

• This reference came to the attention of the community because the project will exceed in cost $2m. [More…]

• There is no doubt that an effective system of local government can play an important part in increasing our standard of living and in achieving substantive changes in the quality of the community environment. [More…]

• Local government has a capacity to achieve local consensus and to provide community based solutions to local problems. [More…]

• Payments made under section 96 for home care, regional organisations, area improvement, sewerage, community facilities, and through the Grants Commission amount to $85. [More…]

• If local government is to provide an increasing measure of our community’s physical amenities and welfare services, as opposed to the more traditional forms of basic economic assistance clearly it requires greater recourse to the nation’s general revenue resources. [More…]

• Land purchase for recreation, erection of community buildings and several much needed welfare and youth programmes that would involve the appointment of staff. [More…]

• What community of interest can there be between a small rural shire so far from the city and radically different shires and municipalities in the metropolitan area? [More…]

• I refer to an article in the publication ‘Community ‘ issued by the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]

• Many people in our community today are unable to meet the increased rates which are being levied. [More…]

• These areas include grants for community and recreation programs through the Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart) and cultural grants for a cultural centre. [More…]

• It is a credit squeeze which has affected not only private industry but also the great employers within the community like the local authorities. [More…]

• If the Government wants a storm around its head from every decent, public minded citizen in the community it should meddle with that because as soon as it starts meddling with the involvement of the citizen in caring for his fellow human being, so much less is the society in which those people five. [More…]

• I believe that that would be a retrograde step to take in our community. [More…]

• In speaking of the importance of an aged persons homes scheme, I would like to pay a tribute to one organisation involved in this field, namely, the Italian Community Service Fund. [More…]

• The problem that the Italian Community Service Fund is having is one which is common to the whole community, that is, of inflation leading to massive increases in building costs. [More…]

• The Italian Community Service Fund estimated in relation to the first stage, which was to be a self-contained units stage, that the cost as at June 1974 would be $13,500 per unit. [More…]

• I commend the Italian Community for its selflessness in doing that in the face of the fearful odds which are besetting the community. [More…]

• When the scheme known as the Aged Persons Homes Scheme was first introduced the crying need in the community was to provide self-contained units for aged people. [More…]

• It is becoming increasingly important- and much of what the honourable member for Perth had to say underlined this point- that detailed statistics and information as to the needs of the aged in the community be sought. [More…]

• However, I submit that the service provided in the community as a result of this legislation is significant. [More…]

• It is important also in that it is another example of co-operation between the various levels of government and linked with them the voluntary assistance at the community level. [More…]

• I also urge that more people in the community who have the time available take the opportunity to perform this worthwhile community service. [More…]

• These clubs do an excellent job in the community. [More…]

• They are at the mercy of the whims of the more unscrupulous sections of the community and are being forced to pay far too much of their pensions in rents for often substandard accommodation. [More…]

• However, this is not so in our community today. [More…]

• There is a danger that all people at the age of 60 or 65 will be expected to become institutionalised, and I do not think that the Minister or this Government or anyone in the community would want to see this happen. [More…]

• -The purpose of my visit is to visit the Economic Community, the Soviet Union and the principal countries from which migrants have come and are coming to Australia. [More…]

• The emphasis of the Government on priority needs, as well as on a response to demands from community groups, complicate matters even further. [More…]

• It is conducting research into community recreation, a quarter of a million dollars’ worth, handing out $2 Vim for developing tourist attractions, and has undertaken a preliminary survey of national recreation needs which will cost $140,000. [More…]

• In Sydney’s pilot south-west region, where few community projects have as yet been funded, it is already easier to approve an expenditure of $600 on curtains, $8,000 on renting large new offices, salary for a PR man and money for hiring electric typewriters, than to do what the AAP was dreamily planning to do. [More…]

• This Government has achieved a record in inflation, unemployment and a lack of confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• That section of the Australian community which generates the real wealth must be doing well in order to pay taxes. [More…]

• Having now grasped the significance of private enterprise those opposite should try to learn something about management and about stopping extravagance and looseness in the Australian economic community. [More…]

• The Australian Government will ensure that additional programs in Queensland will be carried out through local Aboriginal community organisations, the Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs and other instrumentalities. [More…]

• I would suggest that this Bill is further evidence of the priority that is being given by the Government to equality of education for every child in the Australian community. [More…]

• Liberal and Country parties had been returned to government in May a Bill such as the one we are considering now, which is taking account of the spiralling costs in the community so that we can be sure that schools will get what it was intended they should get following the Karmel report, would not have been introduced. [More…]

• In the past- over the last 15 years or soindependent schools have relied greatly on raising from old boys in the community very substantial amounts for building works. [More…]

• We should seek imaginative and novel approaches to the funding of education, perhaps through tax credits, perhaps through voucher schemes and perhaps through other techniques to see that the freedom of choice is extended right throughout the community instead of shrunk to a smaller and smaller segment of the community. [More…]

• It is not beyond the wit of man to discover ways of extending this sort of genuine freedom of choice right across the community. [More…]

• The vast majority of these scholarships went to the children of the richest parents in the community. [More…]

• I do not say this in bitterness but it does get me when I find people so preoccupied with a small segment of the community that has been disaffected. [More…]

• It is not confined to the abodes of the so-called privileged but extends throughout the entire community. [More…]

• This is a most underhand attack on children from certain sections of the community. [More…]

• Virtually it means a drawing off of $ 1,000m from circulation in our community. [More…]

• Whilst the Government tries to bolster the community by Treasury bonds and by creating more liquidity by Government spending, this situation will be offset all the time while our reserves continue to go down. [More…]

• In the beginning it was an overwhelmingly difficult and lonely job, but gradually the economic lessons have been learned by the community as a whole and also by this House. [More…]

• Now there is general acceptance in the community that high protection is bought at a price and that there is no such thing as a free feed in the economic world, particularly in tariff protection. [More…]

• That is one thing that the House and the community have learned. [More…]

• But the chief change that has come about in the last few years is the change in my thinkin is well as in the community’s thinking in genera-. [More…]

• Thus if the community’s resources are to be used more efficiently, in the interests of promoting economic growth and thereby improving the well being of the people of Australia, - [More…]

• The community will then obtain directly, from local production, those goods and services for which the Australian environment and resource endowment are best suited; it will exchange its surplus production of those goods and services for that of other countries producing more efficiently the other goods and services it needs; and it will concentrate industry development in the types of production most suited to local conditions. [More…]

• The change that has taken place is the change in the thinking of the community in general and of this House in particular. [More…]

• Local Government responsibilities and functions, and the following forms of community services [More…]

• The Government’s economic policies are formulated within the frame work of Australia living as a member of the western world’s economic and political community. [More…]

• Special Consultant on Community Relations: Terms of Appointment (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) What annual salary and expenses are payable to the Government’s special consultant on community relations, Mr Grassby [More…]

• 1 ) The Special Consultant on Community Relations, Mr Grassby, is being paid salary at the rate of $25,000 per annum plus an allowance of $1,200 per annum. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that the Government’s economic policies require the co-operation of all sections of the community to break the wage-price spiral and reverse the trend in unemployment? [More…]

• If we have an opportunity we will instil a bit of confidence back into the Australian community. [More…]

• To have kept them waiting for 4 months or more to receive it seems to me to show a definite lack of concern for this section of our community. [More…]

• They do have distinctive work which is entirely different from that of any other section of the community. [More…]

• I do not think the civilian community at large would accept this sort of thing with respect to age pensions. [More…]

• Now the Government is to play on the visual scene and thrust its views on persons in the community, through the film industry, I would imagine at great expense to the community and the taxpayer. [More…]

• I think it is only fair to the industry, which he realised was of such great importance to the future of Australia, that we should give it legislation which can make everybody appreciate the position of the industry and its relevance within the Australian community. [More…]

• We have almost the whole spectrum of the community represented on this body’. [More…]

• I have always been one of those who believed that the hope of our society, our universe, was dependent upon a community of nations getting together and wanting, striving for peace for humanity. [More…]

• As I said earlier, in the brief amount of time left to me I want to express my disgust at the action which has been taken by the pilots which has caused this inconvenience not only to those young people but also to many others in the community. [More…]

• I am not sure how adequately the medical profession or the community have been informed of this so I shall certainly instruct my Department to make sure that the medical profession does know about it and the fact that it is freely available because all human blood products are free. [More…]

• It will, in addition, be followed in the same week by another deputation from the European Economic Community which is interested in solving its problems which are of a major nature. [More…]

• The Economic Community’s coal resources are being depleted rapidly. [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…]

• I believe that our community attitudes in the past have been too narrow. [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…]

• But quite clearly the reason there have been no such longitudinal studies in Australia is that no funds have been provided for the purpose and largely because the community, knowing its attitude, has felt that it would be a gross intrusion on the rights of the person to inquire into what has happened to the ex-nuptial child as it has grown older. [More…]

• 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…]

• It will monitor community trends and conduct multidisciplinary research. [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…]

• It will monitor community trends, assist in evaluating the effectiveness of on-going programs, conduct multi-disciplinary research, disseminate information to and from the community and provide advisory services to parents and community groups. [More…]

• The Bureau’s personnel will combine public servants with individuals in the community. [More…]

• Unlike a Commission, which would have set personnel appointed for a specific period, the composition of the Bureau- panels will be flexible so that when particular problems arise, extra community or public service personnel may be added to provide temporary additional advice and contribution to that of the Bureau ‘s staff. [More…]

• The Department of Community Development will have a number of Bureaus with advisory panels operating in a similar fashion. [More…]

• The basic purpose of each Bureau will be to provide direct contact between the bureaucracy, the Government, State and local government, and the community. [More…]

• The bureau will have a role in changing community attitudes where they must be changed. [More…]

• I do not want to canvass in the short time at my disposal this morning whether this one custom in the community is a good or a bad thing sociologically. [More…]

• I would like to have some material incorporated in Hansard but I will not even bring myself down to the Minister’s level to ask for leave to do so having in mind the way in which he refused leave for my Leader to incorporate the responsible document of the Liberal Party ‘s policies in the area of sex education, women’s community health centres and the like. [More…]

• One can be in complete agreement with the final proposition put by the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) that it is indeed time that the community and this Parliament, containing as it does the various political parties, should turn its attention to the child. [More…]

• It has done its best by the provision of enhanced legal aid schemes to take account of the fact that poor people in the community cannot afford the services of lawyers. [More…]

• I think it was the honourable member for Hotham who said that there is a lot of hypocrisy, there is a lot of cant in the community on these social subjects. [More…]

• But if one takes account of the fact that our young people in the community today are growing up with a far greater degree of honesty than perhaps people of my generation and of older generations had, one sees the reason for the lack of understanding by them of why these forms of discrimination are allowed to persist. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hotham mentioned the conservatism, if you like, of community attitudes, reflecting itself occasionally through politicians, on the contraceptive issue. [More…]

• The Government proudly took upon itself the right and the obligation, if necessary, to advertise the availability of contraceptive advice and contraceptive services in the Australian Capital Territory community. [More…]

• The difficulty is that although legislators like ourselves, can remove the form of the discrimination as it exists in the legislation and can even outlaw the discrimination in some cases or try to outlaw it, the community attitudes themselves are very difficult to erase. [More…]

• I think that the changing community attitudes, which are changing slowly, are an honest recognition of that fact. [More…]

• My whole purpose in moving this motion was to give leadership to the community on social attitudes, and to give leadership to the community on social attitudes requires priority to be given to legislative prescription, hopefully on a bipartisan basis. [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…]

• No solution is acceptable if its burdens are not shared fairly by the whole community. [More…]

• The definition of technical and further education in the Bill covers the broad range of post-school education, including courses which have a vocational bias in order to meet occupational requirements and also courses which are not necessarily vocational but are designed to meet community needs. [More…]

• In approving major capital projects under this program, I would see it appropriate for discussions to be held with the States on the multi-purpose use of buildings in the interests of ensuring the integration of community and educational needs. [More…]

• The purposes to which the grants may be put, referred to in clauses 17, 19 and 21 of the Bill, are: $2.4m for in-service teaching staff development; $805,000 in total for the provision of library furnishings, the training of library technicians and the investigation of the feasibility of a bibliographic centre; $lm for furthering the concept of unrestricted access to recurrent education; $56,000 for the development of proposals for community colleges; and $200,000 for the design of model library resource centres. [More…]

• The $56,000 is to be available for distribution among those States which wish to develop proposals for community colleges. [More…]

• I have no firm definition of what a community college should be because I would expect them to vary in nature and scope to meet particular community needs. [More…]

• Broadly, their purpose is to provide a wide range of courses, which could include courses enabling adults to make good deficiencies in their primary and secondary schooling and courses at diploma level which are demanded by the community. [More…]

• The Darwin Community College is an example of what can be achieved in this area. [More…]

• States wishing to share in the funds for the development of community colleges and library resource centres will need to submit firm proposals. [More…]

• The design also allows for the use of the following facilities by the community outside school hours: Art/craft department, library/resources centre. [More…]

• I refer to the speech made by the Minister on Friday, 10 May, at the Baulkham Hills Community Centre. [More…]

• It was realised then, as it is now, that there needed to be changes in the taxation administration and in the controls over funds going overseas and that all governments have a responsibility to the community to see that these things are in fact implemented. [More…]

• The amount of money which is involved is probably not significant enough to have a serious effect on budgeting but it is Australia’s resources and the assets of Australian people, as opposed to the community and to the society, that are at stake when we are dealing with these unscrupulous company promoters and people of that nature. [More…]

• I am not going to say that we will agree with it, but at least the Australian community, the Australian people and the Australian taxpayers will know where they stand. [More…]

• We cannot dispute- we do not have the numbers to disputewhat the Government might seek to impose on the community. [More…]

• The fact that we do not have the numbers has enabled the Government to introduce many pieces of legislation and regulations which have created so much chaos in this fine community of Australia. [More…]

• The program is not only in the interests of the community of the Proserpine River valley but it is also in the interests of the total community. [More…]

• The Australian Government will ensure that additional programs in Queensland will be carried out through local Aboriginal community organisations, the Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs and other instrumentalities. [More…]

• The Minister admits that the housing associations, which are community associations, had not developed as fast as they could have and that they were slow to get off the ground and get under way, and this does not surprise me one iota. [More…]

• As a matter of fact the graziers or the farmers provide probably the only source of employment for a lot of Aboriginal people in the Walgett-Collarenebri area, and the farmers and the community in the Walgett and Moree districts are not anti-Aboriginal. [More…]

• In fact, we do have a great degree of community participation, as the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross) well knows. [More…]

• It will take some time to set up housing associations, community organisations, and we are not always sure that we are going to get value for money. [More…]

• The problems not only differ from State to State but also from community to community within a State. [More…]

• I mention Moree because it contains the biggest Aboriginal community outside the city of Sydney. [More…]

• of the Australian community. [More…]

• Ninethly when referring matters to the Industries Assistance Commission it should do so in as much detail as possible to ensure that the Commission’s report takes account of as many economic, social and political considerations as are relevant so as to be of maximum value to the Government, industry and the community generally. [More…]

• Some months ago a group of doctors in the East Bentleigh area in Victoria put a very detailed submission to the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) for a community health centre. [More…]

• From memory, the nearest community centre with similar services would be at the Southern Memorial Hospital in Caulfield, also heavily subsidised by this Government. [More…]

• A full debate on the proposal took place and a vote was taken on whether the community supported a health centre. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hotham says that community health centres have a place but that priority must be given to putting them in areas where there are few doctors. [More…]

• For how long do we have to put up with the fact that the AMA is telling this community who will have a community health centre and who will not? [More…]

• But what I object to is that they are attempting to take away from the community, which voted for the centre, its right to have it. [More…]

• To what lengths are people prepared to go to prevent the community from enjoying the very obvious benefits of . [More…]

• Community health centres are a new concept. [More…]

• It is an unfortunate fact that they are spread around the community. [More…]

• This health centre will go ahead because there are enough people in the community at East Bentleigh who are determined that this service will be offered. [More…]

• In the inner suburban areas and the inner city there is a lot of excellent servicing through hospitals and quite a bit of community servicing, The area to which I have been referring is virtually in a desert. [More…]

• I feel that it would be a grave deficiency in our community if we were to revert to the vicious debate that we had last year when the national health scheme was being debated. [More…]

• It did not do any section of the community any good to be torn about by the arguments that went on then. [More…]

• I would not like to see the health centre I am speaking about divide the community. [More…]

• The recognition of the State of Israel and its admission to the United Nations was solemnly endorsed by this organisation, and Israel took its place as a member of the international community albeit without boundaries agreed under a proper peace settlement. [More…]

• A settlement that will give an assurance of the kind of peace that will enable all these talented people of the Middle East to live and work together in harmony among themselves and with the rest of the international community. [More…]

• If there is a public acceptance of the proposition that Australia’s economic problems are externally induced or that they derive from the system itself, the Government’s capacity to apply corrective policies and the community’s willingness to accept those policies will be dangerously eroded. [More…]

• The OECD average for Europe is 14.7 per cent and the average of the European Economic Community is 14.5 per cent- all comparable with Australia. [More…]

• If one looks at every one of the European Economic Community countries in the statistics of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development one will find that the number is about the same, with a dozen commodities showing falls. [More…]

• Firstly, let us look at some of the problems which they share with the European community. [More…]

• The purpose and whole concept of the Bill, which incidentally was a concept of the past Liberal-Country Party Government, is to increase the number of these exceptions so that happily we can one day see a situation where the 2 communities, if they do not become one community, will become equals in all the senses that make one community respect the other. [More…]

• I think that surely we should adopt a common approach where there are common problems affecting Aborigines within the European community. [More…]

• That is the essence of this Bill and it is what 1 believe must be the essence of our approach to these people and in fact to all disadvantaged people anywhere in the community. [More…]

• It will be a long hard road for these people, and I think that the European community will have to be very understanding. [More…]

• I think that the European community has an obligation to be very understanding and to recognise that because these Aboriginal people are different things will be difficult for them. [More…]

• Most of the welfare activities of that Department were taken over by the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• Some of them went to the Community Health Section of the Department of Health. [More…]

• The aim of the total offensive as far as Aboriginal affairs are concerned is to try to facilitate the ability of Aborigines to be a selfdetermining, self-sufficient and self-sustaining people along with other people in the community. [More…]

• It will need a restructuring and restrengthening of the whole fabric of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It might be as well for him to remind the whites in our community today of the disgraceful record of their forebears and to remind them that the only reason that tilings are as they are is the ignorance and neglect of earlier Australians. [More…]

• One of the organisations in Western Australia which has benefited from this policy has been the Aboriginal medical service which in a very short life has grown into something of great significance not only in the Aboriginal community but in Western Australia generally. [More…]

• It is obviously filling a great need as far as the community is concerned. [More…]

• Regrettably, if we take the view that amendments to the Electoral Act should reflect only one Party’s point of view, to that extent, we encourage cynicism and suspicion throughout the entire community. [More…]

• But unless there is an impartial approach to the reform and amendment of the Act I believe it is quite impossible to encourage in the Australian community or in any community the belief that we are dealing fairly and impartially with people. [More…]

• One could hardly describe that as being a substantial time for the members of this Parlia.ment or for the members of the community to reflect upon the consequences of the Bill. [More…]

• I suspect that the community at large has not had the slightest opportunity to consider all of the ramifications in clause 21 of the Bill dealing with the registration of political parties. [More…]

• The essential purpose of this Bill is to ensure that the community view is expressed by the members elected to this Parliament. [More…]

• There are many aged people in our community who found grave and serious difficulty in voting in order for 73 Senate candidates at the last election, and I ask honourable members on both sides of this House who come from electorates in New South Wales to think back just a few months and remember the old people in polling booths who could not cope with the list of 73 persons on a ballot paper, a ballot paper which was longer than the writing surface provided in a voting booth. [More…]

• There is not a great deal of support in the community or in other circles for limited preferential voting. [More…]

• Given enough time- who knows- I might have been able to convince my own Party that my simplified method might have met the measure of the day and more accurately measured the wishes of the community. [More…]

• If a party, person or government seeks, by legal means, to deny a disadvantaged section of the community its voting rights this can be achieved by placing complications or difficulties in the way of voting which will prevent a substantial proportion of the population from casting formal votes. [More…]

• What I am saying is that there are underprivileged people in this community who did not have the opportunity to go to a private college as the honourable member did, persons who have not had all the benefits of a big farm to live on and the advantage of plenty of time available to them, who are not quite capable of casting a vote and who went into the polling booths in the last election scared to death of casting an informal vote. [More…]

• I think numerous people in the community would like voting to finish at 6 p.m. [More…]

• As the submissions from the West Arthur, Murray, Ravensthorpe, Lake Grace and Kent Community Committees to the Southern Region Social Development Board for assistance under the Australian Assistance Plan concerns a health service, they were referred to my Department by the Department of Social Security to ascertain if financial assistance could be granted under any existing health program. [More…]

• Uncertainty in the Australian community through ministerial confusion of roles as exemplified in the replacement of Mr Crean [More…]

• Mass unemployment and social hardship; social division and inequality through the highest inflation for a generation; a fall in the living standards of all Australians; the greatest industrial unrest for a generation; destruction of the housing construction industry causing a massive shortage of homes; decline in investment in the manufacturing industry with a consequent fall in productivity; destruction in the rural sector, both socially and economically; the alienation of foreign investment: uncertainty in the Australian community through ministerial confusion of roles as exemplified in the replacement of Mr Crean; disruption of the transport industry especially air and sea, with particularly harsh socio-economic consequences to Tasmania; unnecessary confrontation with State governments thereby making a mockery of our system of federalism: and the declining investment and widespread uncertainty of the resource-based industries. [More…]

• We have plans to get back into government and restore Australia to that great national achievement which is open for us to fulfil, and the only way in which we can do it is by having a sensible, responsible government; by giving incentives where incentives are needed to encourage the individual, because the individual has to succeed before the community can succeed. [More…]

• The community can succeed only on the basis of individuals making their own choice, making their own judgment, doing their own thing. [More…]

• In other words, the incentive to work harder and to earn more is being destroyed by this socialist Government which wants to kill the incentive of people to save and to invest and also to kill encouragement of the private sector of the community which is so vital to the dynmamic nation that we have known in the past. [More…]

• In every section of the economy, wherever one looks at it, the Government has taken steps to regulate the inflationary situation without causing a recession, has taken steps to pick up the unemployment situation so that the level of unemployed does not become too great, and has taken steps everywhere to see that, whatever the consequences of that are, they are fairly and evenly distributed throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Its approach to this sector of the community completely ignores the fact that they require and ought to demand special attention. [More…]

• It discriminates against those persons in the Australian community who are unable to effectively market their own labour. [More…]

• This tax is principally a tax that is directed against thrift, incentive and initiative in the Australian community. [More…]

• A significant number of people in the community rely to some extent on investment income. [More…]

• The President of that Council, which represents more than 900 individual organisations throughout the Australian community, goes on, towards the end of the letter, to call not for an amelioration of the proposal but for its complete rejection by the present Labor Administration. [More…]

• The tax will be a further element in the price pushing process in the Australian community. [More…]

• The surcharge will undermine the community’s propensity to save and, equally, to invest. [More…]

• This new surcharge has been condemned by all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Press has been very quick to highlight the community reaction. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to sub- ‘ stituting 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 impose a surcharge on unearned income are inequitable, anti-social, damaging to community incentive and economically incorrect in a period of costinflation and that the Bill specifically: [More…]

• There is a maximum rate of take-off which a government should be allowed to confiscate from those who work and who earn in the community. [More…]

• The discouragement to work caused by high rates of marginal tax cannot be ignored by any government, and in a community in which actual production is decreasing- it is not merely remaining level, it is decreasing- in a community in which rates of growth of productivity are negative- they are actually negativeand in a community in which the work force itself- not just the unemployed but the actual work force- is decreasing in size, then to propose confiscatory marginal rates of tax, to prevent productivity, to prevent people from working and to prevent people from getting the reward for their work is, I believe, almost a form of economic insanity. [More…]

• If the Government sincerely intends to develop a full employment community in which productivity rates induce and encourage real higher rates of income, this type of tax scale is not the way to do it. [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 BUI which impose a surcharge on unearned income are inequitable, anti-social, damaging to community incentive and economically incorrect in a period of costinflation and that the Bill specifically: [More…]

• It will also, of course, have a direct impact in terms of disincentive to persons in the business community. [More…]

• It is a fact that the rates of interest payable at present on housing loans present a real burden to a large section of the community. [More…]

• I do not think any tears will be shed by the great majority of people over the disallowance of these tax lurks, which have only applied to the benefit of that section of the community which can afford to pay its rightful share of the cost of running the country. [More…]

• The present Government will be remembered for the manner in which it has attempted to level out the taxation liability of all sections of the community. [More…]

• This presupposes that some sections of the community are getting benefits to which they should not be entitled. [More…]

• I believe that if a benefit is to be given to the very low income earner it is proper so to do, but not to do it in a manner, as this legislation proposes, which gives the major benefit to certain sections tapering off to no benefit at all to others in the community whose responsibilities are just as great. [More…]

• Let us make it clear to the public outside, to the community, that really what we are getting today is an overdose of politics and too little consistency in terms of acknowledgement of the economy and what is required to handle the economy. [More…]

• But I deprecate the attitude of the Government in respect of another section of the community, that is, those who participate in life assurance. [More…]

• Many of the aged people in the community who have paid into life assurance over the years, depending on bonus payments to carry them through at a level relative to what has applied for many years, now find those bonuses falling. [More…]

• I really believe that there will be a day of reckoning concerning this attitude which again involves one law for one section of the community and another law for another section of the community. [More…]

• They cut at the grass roots of the kind of community and life style that we want to preserve in this country. [More…]

• When we think of it in terms of what the administrative costs will be to get this scheme going and then to get the benefit to the average person in the community, it is a joke. [More…]

• Apparently the Government wants to kill off community based charities and replace them with a bureaucratic maze of government departments. [More…]

• This has immeasurably enriched the community. [More…]

• They have met community needs in a direct response to community concern and they have been sustained by community concern in a way in which no government department could be sustained. [More…]

• The right of people to express their concern as to the way in which charities could be assisted is an important right and to take away that right is to substitute a less sensitive system to meet the needs of the community. [More…]

• We will give particular consideration to people who pay rent because there will be more and more people in the community paying rent if they are lucky enough to be able to secure accommodation. [More…]

• The Government is determined to avoid a return to the earlier boom conditions in the home building industry which were beneficial neither to the community nor to the industry, and it is important that these funds be put to use at a time when activity in the industry is slackening. [More…]

• The cost of implementation of recommended systems must not exceed the financial resources that the community is prepared to devote to transportation in the Sydney Region. [More…]

• A viable public transport system is an essential ingredient of a modern, dynamic urban community. [More…]

• In the main they are like the rest of the community and seek the most comfortable form of transport available to them, which in this instance is a small, comfortable vehicle designed specifically for commuting, namely the motor car. [More…]

• Most of the terrain is gently sloping, has a relatively low rainfall and the geographic and climatic factors, while contributing to a wide ranging agricultural activity, contain in them nevertheless inherent dangers, such as: First, the effects of low rainfall; secondly, the effects of flooding; thirdly, water pollution which takes some time to pass through the system; fourthly, salinity levels in the rivers and salinity problems affecting agricultural production; fifthly, water supplies to urban communities; and sixthly, water supply problems so far as quality and quantity are concerned and their effect upon South Australia, which is becoming an industrialised community. [More…]

• It is the community at large which will either accept or reject such concepts. [More…]

• It is the community at large which will have to pay the costs of such a policy. [More…]

• But I believe that that expenditure should be met by the community at large. [More…]

• However, in such national programs to preserve our soil and to improve the quality of our surface and underground water no one section of the community should pay. [More…]

• I have not had an opportunity to visit this area in recent years, but I hope to go down there in the not too distant future to try really to come to grips with and to see for myself the great problem that farmers and the community are suffering as a result of this most serious difficulty. [More…]

• He has endeavoured, in a most unworthy manner, to find scapegoats in the rest of the administration of the community. [More…]

• The hams are highly regarded and they have from time to time rendered sterling service to the community. [More…]

• 1 ) The quarterly labour force survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which is based on a sample of households, is one source of regular information on the incidence of unemployment in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think it is important that in coming to a judgment in this matter the Parliament should have available to it the actual cost to the community and to the general taxpayer. [More…]

• I believe the Commission’s approach will leave the Government free to deal with questions of long term assistance in a way which promotes the long term welfare of the community. [More…]

• Three factors influence the extent of structural change that is possible at any time: the general level of activity in the economy; the general mobility of the community’s resources; the availability of assistance to enable industries and individuals to adjust to change. [More…]

• This will leave the Government free to deal with questions of long term assistance in a way which promotes the long term welfare of the community as a whole and in accordance with the industry assistance policy expressed in the Commission’s statutory guidelines. [More…]

• This will provide the Government with advice on the availability of general measures to support the complementary policies being developed to facilitate structural changes, to ease their private adjustment costs, and to develop those low cost industries which contribute most to efficient use of the community’s resources and, thus, its general welfare. [More…]

• Having in mind the balance which the Government must hold between the national welfare and the effect of changes on individual welfare, I should like more attention to be directed to this general approach which appears to provide a sound base upon which to encourage at a. manageable rate the greater efficiency, and with this the greater prosperity, of Australian industry in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• The Commission therefore should not make recommendations for change-on the assumption that other measures available to the Government will necessarily allow their implementation without difficulty to the community. [More…]

• The advertisement was for the appointment of a community development officer. [More…]

• The financial measures contained in this Bill will do much to assist councils to carry out special projects of regional need and community value- projects that are long overdue and projects which local government authorities have been unable to finance in the past because of their limited capacity to raise revenue. [More…]

• But the fact is that centralism that has operated to the detriment of community standards and values in the past has been that of State centralism- the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane based State bureaucracies. [More…]

• These include differences in job opportunities, housing conditions, wealth, income, educational opportunities, community and recreational facilities, transport services and communications. [More…]

• Finally, discussions take place with State governments about integrating their programs regionally and the joint use of the regional organisations of councils as the core of a comprehensive, multifunctional regional planning body receiving support from the Australian and State governments and incorporating into its planning activities existing programs such as the Australian Assistance Plan, community health centres, legal aid officers and child care programs. [More…]

• For example, I mention regional councils under the Australian Assistance Plan, the area improvement programs, the community health program, employment and manpower planning and assistance to local government through the Grants Commission recommendations. [More…]

• It is regrettable that, in the past, the State governments have not been able for one reason or another to keep up with the provision of sewerage services to the community, particularly in the larger cities, and that previous Australian governments have not seen the assistance of the States in this work as part of their function. [More…]

• It is a crying shame and a sad reflection on our society that that area of water which could be such an asset to the community is so polluted because of the lack of sewerage systems particularly in the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. [More…]

• In the past land has been subdivided without any thought for the community development which would ultimately surround it. [More…]

• As a community we will have to look very carefully at the way in which we develop areas of land for housing and for development generally. [More…]

• For instance, in my own city of Melbourne it is not possible to buy all the land that the community would like to see acquired along the Yarra River valley. [More…]

• There is nothing wrong with making money out of land development but I think that, as a community, we have to make sure that it is done in the right way. [More…]

• As a community we are coming to realise much more that we can design cities which are pleasant. [More…]

• Nobody can live in a community and not be concerned about the people who live around him and the needs and aspirations of that community. [More…]

• I point out to honourable members the cost to this community of the duplication that is occurring with the Department of Urban and Regional Development on the one hand and, on the other hand, with other departments which work in this area. [More…]

• The cost of administration- that is in terms of salaries and expenses and in terms of the Cities Commission which also operates in this area- to the Australian community is some $8,058,000. [More…]

• As I pointed out in the Estimates debate, there are the costs now being imposed on the community of so-called education- $450,000 to tell the Australian people that another department, superimposed upon all the State instrumentalities, is in fact spending their money in a proper way, and what a great and wonderful job it is doing. [More…]

• When we start robbing Peter to pay Paul, which is what the Government is doing, this ought to be pointed out to the Australian community. [More…]

• Although I could find mention of community centres and so on, I could not see any mention of grants related to the Council for the Arts. [More…]

• The provisions contained in the Bill further indicate this Government’s concern for those in the community, particularly the aged, who are in need of specialised care and treatment. [More…]

• Not only will this encouragement be directed to religious and charitable organisations as such but it is hoped that local government authorities will be encouraged to provide nursing home accommodation on a local community level. [More…]

• These arrangements will enable the aged to be kept in the community as long as possible with the knowledge that the nursing and associated services they need will be available. [More…]

• This is yet further evidence of the Government’s determination to provide a high quality health care service and of its acceptance of its special responsibility to assist those members of the community who are sick or disabled. [More…]

• The Government is at present considering extending the range of aids, appliances and equipment to be made available and the Bill, as drafted, will permit the extension of the scheme from time to time as the needs of disabled groups in the community are assessed. [More…]

• At their first meeting I reminded members of the working party that the problems of homelessness permeated many age groups and areas of the Australian community. [More…]

• To help progress towards the community’s social and economic goals, the Government sees it as desirable in appropriate cases to promote and make easier the process of structural change in industry. [More…]

• At the same time, there are very great gains to be made from shifting industrial activity at a manageable pace from areas and forms which involve high costs to the community to others where industry needs less support or can stand on its own feet. [More…]

• Greater net value accrues to the community in this way. [More…]

• The industrial structure that we have is partly a product of past policies- perhaps not always policies that have been in the best interests of the community, but nevertheless policies to which business and in turn employment have simply responded as being the policies of the government of the day. [More…]

• In the circumstances I have described the Government recognises that it is for the community generally, through the Australian Government, to bear the burden that these changes involve, and not for those particular businesses and employees which may be more seriously affected. [More…]

• There is, however, an understandable reluctance on the part of many firms- and also of employees- to leave areas of activity with which they are familiar, even if those activities may be costly to the community or may not be contributing fully to national welfare. [More…]

• If this can be done the community generally will benefit. [More…]

• Cases might arise where the Government’s intention is to encourage a particular structural change which would not, without assistance, be likely to occur at a reasonable speed and at a reasonable economic cost to the community.. [More…]

• This subject first attracted significant Federal attention in February 1971 when the Australian Agricultural Council received a report from its Standing Committee on Soil Conservation, entitled ‘The Study of Community Benefits of and Finance for Soil Conservation’. [More…]

• As we know, State education departments receive direct financial assistance for education including special education for handicapped through Schools Commission funds and also receive funds for community health and mental health projects through the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]

• Fifthly, this Bill does not recognise that many areas and groups of people within our community do not have the capacity, for one reason or another, to raise the initial funds required to commence services or facilities for handicapped people. [More…]

• All too often we hear about States rights and Federal rights in this area and community needs. [More…]

• What was considered necessary for the care of handicapped people 7 years ago is happily not acceptable by the community or by them now. [More…]

• Without their doing so, I just wonder what would have happened to handicapped people because, as a community, we were very happy to brush them aside. [More…]

• What they are asking for is that not only employers overcome their prejudices against the disabled people, but that the rest of us who make up the community overcome our prejudice towards them. [More…]

• With assistance and encouragement it is just wonderful how these people can fit into the community and make a useful contribution even to trade and commerce. [More…]

• It has lovely conditions and has the full support of the whole community. [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…]

• In fact, the defence services homes mortgagor on the maximum loan is being subsidised by as much as 8V4 per cent on most of the advance and by 4% per cent on the balance, which I believe is a saving of about $1,000 a year when compared to most others in the community- perhaps to people buying a home through a bank of through a co-operative permanent building society. [More…]

• He was concerned that all sorts of varying interest rates exist in the community at the moment. [More…]

• The Corporation has functioned for approximately four (4) years and, I am informed, at a total cost to the Australian community of $261,528. [More…]

• The Government will be prepared to consider contractual, sessional salaried or similar arrangements for the provision of physiotherapy services and under the Health Insurance Program will offer health services agreements to allow such services to be developed on a community basis. [More…]

• A small number has been proposed by community organisations such as Rotary and various sporting clubs and by State Government departments and instrumentalities. [More…]

• In the case of community organisations they are encouraged to arrange for the local government authority in their area to exercise oversight of their projects. [More…]

• In giving effect to its policy, the Australian Government is, of course, willing to hold discussions with interested parties, including the European Economic Community, on specific issues as the need arises. [More…]

• Negotiations are proceeding in relation to the granting of a pastoral lease for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The Island Lagoon Tracking Station was dismantled in late 1 973 as the interest shown by the scientific community did not warrant its retention. [More…]

• 1 ) The Bureau of Meteorology provides a complex and costly range of services for the community, public authorities and commercial organisations. [More…]

• I have therefore arranged for a comprehensive review of the Bureau’s operations and services to be carried out, starting with an assessment of community needs. [More…]

• 1 ) Which community broadcasting groups did the Priorities Review Staff consult in the preparation of its report on the expansion of radio services in Australia. [More…]

• There is no justification for the Prime Minister leaving Australia on such an extravagant trip as this time in the nation’s history when there is so much uncertainty in the community. [More…]

• A group of people such as these surely indicates to the Government the damage that has been done to the whole community, not only to the farmers, since the 1973 Budget eliminated these tax incentives. [More…]

• So these tax incentives do not affect only the farmers and production in rural areas; they effect the whole community. [More…]

• The townspeople rely on them- not on the farming community. [More…]

• They operate by the old spirit that ran throughout the community and nation. [More…]

• I should like again to comment on the East Bentleigh community health centre to which I referred last week. [More…]

• Almost a year has elapsed since the announcement by Dr Everingham that a sum of $270,000 had been approved for the establishment of a community health centre in East Bentleigh. [More…]

• There has been continuing support for the project from the Commonwealth and State governments, leading health planners and administrators at all levels, the Victorian faculty of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, many doctors, both general and specialist, throughout Australia, academics, economists, health evaluators, allied health professionals and almost every member of the local community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hotham has gone on record as saying that community health centres do have a place but they should be given a priority and put in areas where there are few doctors and few other health services. [More…]

• It was agreed also that health centres filled a community need. [More…]

• I think it might be to the benefit of the public if some of the protesting doctors and some of the Liberal members who were invited to the doctors’ meeting considered why the community needs a community health centre. [More…]

• Many people in the local community are desperately in need of the services to be provided by the health centre. [More…]

• Specific documented cases can be produced by local general practitioners, church organisations, community welfare groups, the Royal District Nursing Service and the East Bentleigh police concerning emotional difficulties, suicide, chronic illness, psychiatric disorders, mental retardation, alcoholism, drug abuse, marital disruption, one-parent families, physical handicap, school drop-outs, juvenile delinquency, preventable criminal behaviour and multiple psycho-social economic and family problems associated with many common physical ailments, whose needs are not being met by the existing general practitioner service or by the public or voluntary community agencies. [More…]

• The community health centre idea is not really a change. [More…]

• Perhaps if they examined the reasons why we want a community health centre they would change their attitude somewhat. [More…]

• We will get the doctors because there are enough doctors in East Bentleigh who have a concern for and an acceptance of the community health centre. [More…]

• Preventive activity can be carried on in a community health centre. [More…]

• There is a lot of community involvement with a health centre and the centre needs the feedback from the local community about all the aspects of care that it provides. [More…]

• It is also necessary from the point of view of community visibility. [More…]

• At present the community clearly defines the doctor’s surgery as a place where it can seek help or advice if necessary when people are physically sick. [More…]

• Patients who require certain services such as psychiatric services and family planning are stigmatised when they are forced to attend a separate facility from that which serves other members of the local community with other forms of health care. [More…]

• By placing as many forms of health care as is possible in a given community in the one building this stigma is removed. [More…]

• Also, others in the community attending the centre for different reasons come to understand better the problems of those who have mental disorders, the problems of those less fortunate than themselves. [More…]

• They understand by direct contact, by community involvement. [More…]

• I believe that the people of East Bentleigh are entitled to have a community health centre if they have the need, and I do not agree that only the northern and western suburbs of the city have the need. [More…]

• If the communities can get the finance they are entitled to have a health centre, and this community has got the finance. [More…]

• This, I think, is something which should cause concern not only to the industry and perhaps to those who are interested in primary production but to all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• As we have pointed out on so many occasions, prosperity within the dairying industry and the rest of primary industry is of vital interest and importance not only to those industries but also to the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is particularly sensitive to the trading stance of the European Economic Community countries and the United States of America. [More…]

• A good many of the dairy farmers throughout the country are in receipt of low incomes compared with the incomes received by other people in the community. [More…]

• There are not many people in the community today who are prepared to work the sorts of hours and under the conditions that dairy farmers work. [More…]

• This business of talking about size for its own sake misses, I believe, the real justification for a Bill of this type, which is that we are establishing a community in country areas which is properly balanced. [More…]

• I am sure that it, first of all, will present this Bill to the dairy farming community in a compassionate and understanding way and, secondly, I am absolutely certain that I will not need to appeal to it for the administration of this Bill to be handled with all possible compassion and understanding. [More…]

• I trust that that will become well known throughouut the community because all levels of private enterprise are thoroughly sick and tired of Government interference through the agency of the various Government tribunals and commissions - [More…]

• We believe that the Government should cut back Government spending, significantly reduce direct and indirect taxes and positively encourage thrift and private investment instead of positively discouraging them in the community. [More…]

• I suppose some people here would contend that the provision of this $150m to the deserving section of the community whose income is less than $150 a week might have come with greater benefit a few months ago. [More…]

• These are, to say the least, onerous terms for any section of the community and to suggest that people at the bottom- young people who are trying to establish for themselves a reasonable home base in this community- can meet such repayments is to deny the realities of the situation. [More…]

• On the other hand, there is no reason why we should discriminate against it especially as, as has been pointed out by many of my colleagues, we are dealing with a social welfare question- the right of every Australian citizen, regardless of his income, or whether married or single, to have a decent house and to make decisions which are to their advantage and therefore to the advantage of the community. [More…]

• The people concerned represent a substantial segment of the wage earning community of Australia. [More…]

• The first of the things that 1 want to say to the House is that a lot of concern is expressed wherever one goes in Australia about the divisiveness that has been pushed upon the Australian community over the last 2 years. [More…]

• The divisiveness has arisen as the result of a feeling by some people in the present Government that there is a fundamental difference in entitlement for a share of community goods as a result of the distribution of the general taxpayer’s wealth which is, of course, the product of Government policy implementations. [More…]

• I think that it is important that there should be a common recognition that wherever Australians live they have a common interest in the advancement of this community. [More…]

• It is important that in the recognition by the taxpayer of the needs in the wool industry there is a continued acceptance of the interdependence of people in the cities and in the country, each upon the other and together as a community, as a whole. [More…]

• We accept this principle as being desirable, but any change in the membership of those representing the wool grower community prior to the expiration of their present terms we do not believe to be necessary, desirable or acceptable. [More…]

• The auction floor still sets fundamentally the price which is seen by the community at large as the current market price of greasy wool. [More…]

• We on our side of the House believe that it is absolutely essential that those contributions be recognised by those whom this Government seeks to divide, that is, by those who come from the cities who are some of the taxpayers who contribute to these funds which are to be lent to the wool growing community. [More…]

• So we find the Country Party today in this House supporting not really the wool buyers, but a very small, insignificant fraction of the wool buyers in this community. [More…]

• It is not just an island in the whole sea of the economy but is closely interrelated with the whole community and therefore it is important that it be successful. [More…]

• There is already some revival of the wool industry and I am confident that this Bill will not only benefit all the various elements within the industry but in the long run will benefit the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• Now this Government has been forced to come out in order to maintain some sort of face and to say to the wool growing community that it is prepared to pay another $200m into this support scheme. [More…]

• It would be a disservice to the community because the suggestion of the Opposition would be too cumbersome. [More…]

• It is a truism that, when wool is doing well, the Australian rural community is doing well. [More…]

• I think it can be said that in combination they have introduced a degree of stability into the rural community- not a very high level of income, but a degree of stability- because the stability which it has introduced into the wool industry, albeit at a reasonably low level, has great influence for the reasons I have just described, in the rural community as a whole. [More…]

• Before proceeding to the Bill itself, I should like to make the point very strongly that this Bill is the response of the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) to an overwhelming demand for reform in this area, and not, as has been suggested by some, to impose an unwanted measure on an unwilling community. [More…]

• Immediately after its introduction into the Senate, the Bill was widely circulated amongst interested persons and bodies in the community for consideration and comment. [More…]

• I should like to emphasise the point that divorce is an area of the law in which the opinion of the community at large is more than usually relevant. [More…]

• A deferral until then will give honourable members an opportunity not only to inform their minds but also to be informed by responsible people in the community at large and by the leaders of the community. [More…]

• However, what we have done- we ought to take the 2 things in conjunctionis to spend much more on pensions than has been spent before in order to give the pensioner a higher living standard than he has ever had before, relative to the average living standard in the community. [More…]

• Honourable gentlemen opposite believe that trade unionists and the rest of the community live in a cocoon, to themselves, in Australia. [More…]

• I begin answering the question by saying that the Government’s program of tariff reform and of structural adjustment in industry is ultimately designed to have very beneficial effects on the Australian community. [More…]

• The honourable member draws attention to the Government’s policy and our scheme of providing a selective form of subsidy that does not impose the same degree of cost on the community as a whole. [More…]

• Donations to Community Aid Abroad are not tax deductible. [More…]

• Under the interpretation that is coming forward, if companies give money to Community Aid Abroad and do so for the purpose of taking a significant or large scale advertisement to make known that they have made these donations, they would suddenly have a tax deductible item. [More…]

• How can the Treasurer sit there supinely and say that in the case of John Curtin House it is advertising but could not possibly be advertising in the case of Community Aid Abroad? [More…]

• Why should not Community Aid Abroad give as much publicity to any donor as the John Curtin appeal? [More…]

• This is the basis upon which I drew the analogy with contributions made to Community Aid Abroad for which many members of this House have fought and said should be tax deductible. [More…]

• The Committee, therefore, recommends the establishment of a Blackbutt Reserve management committee, comprised of representatives from the Newcastle City Council, community groups and an ecologist to draw up and implement the plan. [More…]

• To ensure that the final decision is in the best interests of the community as a whole, it is important that the decision making process provide a means that will clearly establish whether the suggested proposal is the most satisfactory of the alternatives available. [More…]

• Reciprocating relationships between each Service and the civilian community, the Public Service, other services, the Government, the Parliament, the trade unions, etc., as perceived and evaluated by members. [More…]

• We have to give back to the serviceman the dignity and pride that makes him feel that he is doing a worthwhile job for the country and not, as he feels now, that he is doing something that has to be hidden from the rest of the community at large. [More…]

• The report, in common with reports I have received, will be tabled in this Parliament and will be available for discussion by members of this House, by members of the Senate, and by members of the community. [More…]

• They should be made to feel that they can hold their heads high in a community that will inevitably remain dominated by the European population. [More…]

• There has been a backlash firstly, from the white community and, secondly, from the Aboriginal people themselves. [More…]

• In order to settle applications from differing groups in the Northern Territory for leases where there was perhaps a conflict between one Aboriginal community and another the former Government set up what is called the Northern Territory Land Board. [More…]

• I will be very interested to see whether there is relationship because we could well see a situation where funds are being provided by the Australian Government to an Aboriginal loans commission fund and purchases or acquisitions are being made on the advice of a valuation tendered by a consultant who we might find is the same consultant responsible for advising the Government or the Aboriginal community as to how that farm, property, land or undertaking shall be run. [More…]

• So until we have resolved the question of the relationship of the Aboriginal people to the land itself it is pretty much a fruitless exercise to try to resolve the question of the Aboriginal people in relationship to this community. [More…]

• The properties of Sunnyside and Glenairy, I think they are, are adjacent to the Cummeragunga community. [More…]

• It was essential for that community that the properties be purchased. [More…]

• It has been some time since I visited that area, but the last time I did I certainly obtained a great deal of encouragement from the sight of the pastures and the cattle and what had been done for the community. [More…]

• The importance of these 2 Bills should be looked at in relationship to the Government’s total welfare program- schemes such as the Australian Assistance Plan, community health centres, child care, recreation and the like. [More…]

• There are also grants for teaching and research into community practices, social work and special education. [More…]

• I believe that in this way we will ensure the integration of community and educational needs. [More…]

• Then there is the proposal in the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill to set aside $56,000- not a large amount- for distribution among those States which wish to develop proposals for community colleges. [More…]

• I am aware of excellent work which is being done at present by the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Almost by definition these colleges will vary in nature and scope in order to meet particular community needs. [More…]

• They could also provide courses at diploma level which are in demand by the community. [More…]

• These specific grants for which the States will be expected to submit specific projects for approval include grants for the development of proposals for community colleges, as I have just mentioned. [More…]

• I think this is justified because these colleges were established as an intermediate type of educational body, although at a tertiary level, that would provide the community with technologists and specialists, not at the level of a university but at an intermediate level. [More…]

• The average age of the community there is about 24 years of age. [More…]

• The Hawkesbury Agricultural College is a very important and vital centre with a gifted and guided staff who have proposals- in fact the community requires that these proposals be implemented- for the expansion of the activities of the college. [More…]

• The definition of technical and further education in the Bill covers the broad range of post-school education, including courses which have a vocational bias in order to meet occupational requirements and also courses which are not necessarily vocational but are designed to meet community needs. [More…]

• Notwithstanding those comments, it is mainly to the needs of trades training and the needs of the skilled workforce that I want to direct my remarks, even though I am aware that the Bill takes great account of the needs of adult education, retraining in conjunction with the national employment and training scheme and also a wide variety of other community needs in terms of further education. [More…]

• There is, I believe, a shortage of technical facilities, particularly in the rural areas, and this shortage creates major difficulties in mounting new courses to meet changing community needs. [More…]

• There is also an obvious need to improve the status of technical aducauon in the eyes of the community, which in the past has tended to regard it as second-class. [More…]

• Whilst self-fulfilment for individuals remains the primary aim, a constant regard to national and community needs is vital especially for trained manpower. [More…]

• The answer indicates that at 25 September there were 1,708 apprentices who were unable to gain access to courses in schools conducted by the Education Department in that community. [More…]

• It appears the Government has Med to impress such countries as Japan and the European Economic Community areas, in its efforts to dispose of Australia’s meat, and whilst there is some talk going on with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics we could well have lost this market to countries such as the Argentine which, it is reported, has made an agreement to dispose of some 30,000 tonnes per year for a start, building up to 100,000 tonnes annually. [More…]

• In saying that I am assuming that the term ‘multi-purpose’ refers to a centre which provides capital facilities for a range of purposes involving more than one kind of community service; institutions such as schools, universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges are primarily concerned with the provision of a single community service, namely education. [More…]

• I would want to stress, nevertheless, that the Australian Government, since taking office in December 1972, has been concerned in its education policy to encourage the development of opportunities for closer links between educational institutions and the community at large. [More…]

• These centres will be open to all were circulated: teachers and to the community and will provide a wide variety of activities and facilities to promote teacher development and community involvement. [More…]

• Aside from special grants funding, the Australian Government provides substantial, direct opportunities within its own education systems in the Australian Territories for community involvement in the educational process. [More…]

• Provision for community use of school facilities has been made in the planning and building of schools as pan of the capital works program in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and in the Australian Capital Territory significant emphasis has been given to community involvement through the guidelines being developed by the Interim Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority for the future operation of school boards for government primary and secondary schools. [More…]

• Of course, in the case of Japan there would be an even greater consumption of imported meat if it were not for the fact that the Japanese meat producers, although they represent a small proportion of the community, have a very strong political influence. [More…]

• If T may cite as an example, I happen to have in my own electorate a charitable organisation, conducted by the South Melbourne Council, called the South Melbourne Community Chest. [More…]

• I shall not mention the headquarters of the honourable member’s party, and I shall not name any firms, but if firm A made a donation- I have cited the South Melbourne Community Chest as an example of the variety of things - [More…]

• It is clear that many people in our community are interested in the form of legislation. [More…]

• I think there would be nothing more desirable than for the Treasurer today to table at least the guidelines which have been given to the parliamentary draftsmen so that the community will know the manner in which the Government intends to legislate in this area. [More…]

• What I am complaining of is that for a member and for the community to find out what direction our legislation might take they have to go to a series of Press leaks and statements to find out what it is all about. [More…]

• If I were a member of this Government I would be ashamed of the fact that in this important area, one that has been made an issue in 2 elections by the Government, merely one sheet of paper has been given to explain the purpose of the Bill that we have before us when so much needs to be covered if the Australian community is to know what is to be done. [More…]

• Each one of us in the Parliament meets criticism in the community and is asked: ‘Why are you people always bickering? [More…]

• Establish clearer guidelines Tor overseas investors, for the benefit both of these investors and of the Australian community. [More…]

• It was a good example of open government when the Treasurer made Mr Sharah’s time available lor him to speak to such groups throughout the community. [More…]

• Furthermore, I have evidence of this open government in the fact that the Committee has also indicated to the community that the requirements spelt out by Mr Sharah were that details must be given about production, quality and range of products and services, cost and distribution efficiency, managerial, technological and viability of the proposal. [More…]

• That is open government, explaining to the community just what the Committee is looking at in this matter of foreign takeovers. [More…]

• I do not think I would have got any thanks from those who say there is a liquidity shortage in the community at the moment, although I am not too sure myself that a loan might not have been quite successful. [More…]

• If I can put the problem into perspective, I shall quote from an article written by a man who knows a lot about homeless men in the community. [More…]

• Being in personal contact with each other, homeless men tend to become acculturated to the distinctive values, customs and myths of the Skid Row community, which therefore has some characteristics of a sub-culture. [More…]

• Homeless men may be defined approximately as persons who exhibit extreme social isolation, and who are chronically dependent on the community for material support, either continuously or recurrently. [More…]

• Many homeless men do become integrated in to the Skid Row community, but they never identify themselves completely with the group, and their friendships and loyalties are usually weak and unstable. [More…]

• Most homeless men support themselves most of the time, but all are subject to recurrent crises, during which they often become dependent on the community. [More…]

• It is tragic to observe how little compassion and regard the community has for such people. [More…]

• I saw that a scruffy newspaper vendor, probably regarded by society as one of the lower class in the community, was trying to prop this man up against one of the buildings to give him some comfort. [More…]

• We are an odd community in that we spend millions of dollars in enforcing the laws but we do not bother to spend money- or we spend very little- on rehabilitation. [More…]

• It should be regarded by the community as an involved experiment. [More…]

• I see it as running in co-operation with the much needed community health centres which are now being set up. [More…]

• Such half way houses for the victims of rape, members of Parents Anonymous, homeless men or beaten women, will run very well pivoting around the community health centres because there they will have all the paramedical servicesphysiotherapy, counselling, social work and nursing treatment- that will be needed by the homeless, the disturbed and the battered. [More…]

• I hope that the honourable member for Hotham will take this into account when he is opposing the building of community health centres because such centres can be complementary to voluntary organisations and to the work that needs to be done among the homeless, the helpless and the hopeless. [More…]

• In my electorate there is a community of about 10,000 people which has a definite need for a night shelter. [More…]

• It appears fairly inevitable that an average cost will be established for organisations at a State level or community level and that those above that average cost will be forced to reduce. [More…]

• Before doing so, I should like to comment upon the way in which part of this debate has been a debate of the Parliament, there concerned members of Parliament have been able to express a point of view about legislation which is to make real social progress to help the needy people within our community. [More…]

• The hope that I express is that when we go out into the community it will be recognised and acknowledged that the sorts of changes we are dealing with today are changes brought about by the Parliament and not necessarily by any particular Party. [More…]

• It is not my purpose to undermine the role of the commercial nursing homes in our community. [More…]

• Where they have played it well, they have made a valuable contribution to the community. [More…]

• In these circumstances it was not unreasonable for us to seek other ways of financing nursing homes- the voluntary nursing homes as they are called- the ones that are motivated by a sense of vocation and dedication, and selflessly give so much in the community. [More…]

• I wonder what comfort that is to most of us in the community who do not buy high cost homes? [More…]

• The honourable member is also taking part in assisting the doctors to oppose the building of a local community health centre in my electorate. [More…]

• A public meeting was held to set up the community health centre. [More…]

• They endorse the concept of community health centres. [More…]

• Hence, with the end of the special account, will come the end of many specialist private hospitals which have been serving this community for many years. [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister agrees with the view that the environment does not belong to any one group or party or section of the community. [More…]

• We need co-operation amongst the members of this Parliament, amongst Federal, State and local government bodies, and amongst parties at all levels and the community at large. [More…]

• There is not only the matter of enjoyment of life and enjoyment of these factors by the community but there is on analysis, a very complex economic structure involved in these matters, and not just involved with preservation of the areas but involved with people who visit them and all the things that flow from them. [More…]

• But what I object to is this carping, cheap criticism of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in travelling overseas, acting on behalf of the Australian community and the Australian people. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of a report that Australia’s $25,000 a year community relations officer, Mr Grassby, claims that he is handling more than 300 problems a week from troubled migrants? [More…]

• It is designed to ensure that migrants in the community are not exploited. [More…]

• The Whitlam Government wants something done that will be of some social benefit to the community in the area or region concerned. [More…]

• I refer to the fact that the Hospitals and Health Services Commission has appointed a committee to examine health careers, personnel and training so that statistics and recommendations in this area, which have been sadly lacking in the past, can be obtained to help the Government in its planning of health services and thereby enable it to meet the real needs of the community. [More…]

• state how the plan of management is to be reviewed and vetted, if you like, not just by the Minister but by the whole community. [More…]

• For this reason no matter how we might try to describe it, it will be seen by the community- certainly some sections of the communityas a betrayal of our trust in alienating a park. [More…]

• King Island is an isolated community in a very real sense. [More…]

• There are so many people in the community, whether in the Public Service or private industry, who want to achieve their objectivesI do not say that they are petty objectivesregardless of the consequences. [More…]

• Once having done that, I am sure that we will be able to develop a degree of respect and confidence amongst the community at large for the importance of taking environmental factors into account before taking decisions on a whole range of projects. [More…]

• But, speaking for the Australian Labor Government, I do promise that such a mistake will only be made again if the community at large defaults on its responsibilities and ignores its rights. [More…]

• From now on the community is welded to the decisionmaking process as it affects the environment. [More…]

• I believe that these problems will not occur if people accept their community responsibility and awareness. [More…]

• In other words, major issues will not blow up and in most instances all that will happen will be that there will be very little public comment once people get used to the procedures and to developing their own community responsibility. [More…]

• Of course, one wonders whether in the future the community will hold to those same values or perhaps even whether members of the community as a whole will hold those values which today I regard as important. [More…]

• I mention this because the honourable member for Macarthur mentioned that business men did not mind the community making these judgments at the moment. [More…]

• Certainly, where State governments and perhaps local government authorities are required to vet proposals because of their impact on a community, business certainly accepts that this is necessary because the community has an interest. [More…]

• I submit that the community is not prepared at the moment to accept lengthy studies and perhaps examinations by commissioners in addition to seeking approval from State planning authorities, or planning and environment commissioners in the case of New South Wales, and local government authorities, and then have to meet substantial holding charges, which business has to do as distinct from governments which do not have to do that. [More…]

• While one might accept that the discretionary provisions that the Minister has referred to give the Commonwealth and the Minister power to exercise a discretion, to say that he will not require an impact study in this particular case, that clause of the Bill which deals with this matter by itself also has inherent in it other dangers which 1 do not believe people in the community would be aware of to date. [More…]

• In political terms it is time for this sort of legislation because members of the community are concerned about the environment. [More…]

• They have reason to be concerned because there may be some 300 Acts, when one includes State Acts as well as our own, that could impose varying conditions upon people undertaking certain activities in our community. [More…]

• There is an important principle here that the community ought to have locus standi to be able to undertake themselves where environmental factors are involved and are influencing the decision makers and they ought to be able to do it particularly by bringing pressure to bear through legal action. [More…]

• But when he refers to leaders in commerce and to business judgments I think he fails to recognise that most leaders in commerce recognise their responsibility to the community and readily accept those responsibilities. [More…]

• The provisions in the Bill for participation by the people in public inquiries are of major importance and represent a victory for the supporters of community expression of concern for planning and care of environment. [More…]

• The first is that trust accounts set up under section 62a of the Audit Act are common vehicles by which funds paid in through any organisation in the community can be held in complete trust for those who deposit them. [More…]

• That report was titled: ‘The Study of Community Benefits of and Finance for Soil Conservation’. [More…]

• I believe that our major responsibility in soil conservation is to ensure that both public and private landholders do not adopt systems of land use which would secure benefits for themselves but which, at the same time, would cause other users and the community greater expense. [More…]

• For that reason under subclause 6 we have suggested that an interim report be presented to the Parliament so that everyone in the Parliament and in the community might know where the wool has been acquired and for what purpose. [More…]

• The amendments which we have moved and which I now endorse are, I believe, very much in the interests of the Australian wool growing community and the future survival of wool as a viable source of Australian export income. [More…]

• The Interim Committee for the North-West Regional Council for Social Development has requested five Community Development Officer grants. [More…]

• At the same time, wherever unemployment does show up, where productive resources can be used to turn out goods and services onto the market, the Government and the community must be determined to see those resources are used, and that there is no unemployment as a result. [More…]

• Of course, from this the Prime Minister must acknowledge also that there is genuine community apprehension about the competence and integrity of Ministers, that is, of course, even apart from the obvious failure of the policies that they espouse. [More…]

• I expect to be discussing it next week in Brussels, the headquarters of the European Economic Community, and probably in Moscow in January. [More…]

• Of course, if the bounty is to be extended consumption of superphosphate will be maintained at an adequate level, and the maintenance of the consumption of superphosphate is without doubt to the benefit not only of members of the farming community but also of the producers of superphosphate and, of course, ultimately the Australian consumer. [More…]

• It affects so many of the farming community that a narrow reference of the type that the Government has sent to the Industries Assistance Commission denies the opportunity of considering the point of view of those others who are affected. [More…]

• This is an area where demonstrably there is a community and national interest in the maintenance of an incentive to consumption. [More…]

• Then the Government’s stupidity will be apparent not only to the farming community; it will be apparent to all citizens. [More…]

• The events of the past few days have only served to confirm the inability of this Government to understand the needs of the community in general and of young people in particular. [More…]

• The danger is that the complacency of this Minister will lead him to lose sight of the sociological aspects of urban planning and community development. [More…]

• If these criticisms are to be overcome it is necessary that every step be taken to allow the community to be more involved in the decisions that affect them. [More…]

• He simply said that there were 36 social workers and welfare officers employed by the Department whose services were available to all members of the community. [More…]

• Lack of community life or neighbourhood organisation, absence of diversity of activity and remoteness from other places, a restricted ‘social class mix’, have contributed to psychological problems, manifesting themselves sometimes in high rates of juvenile delinquency, depressions and malaise. [More…]

• We have a large number of advisory panels in this community. [More…]

• I believe that the appointment of Mr Grassby as $25,000 a year community development officer, or whatever his title is, is in itself a sickening example of jobs for the boys. [More…]

• It constructed five or six swimming pools which could be used only for about 6 weeks of each year and which were very costly to the community. [More…]

• This inquiry has revealed to the Committee the need for a comprehensive education program at all age levels to make the public aware of the costs in money terms to the community and the environmental problems associated with waste disposal and particularly with litter. [More…]

• Noteworthy was the harmony among all delegates from the Australasian region and to me this emphasised a growing community of interest which flowed over from the formal sessions to informal discussions on other occasions. [More…]

• The ultimate development will make provision for civic, community and staff amenity facilities and for retail purposes. [More…]

• The estimated cost of the proposed work at December 1 974 prices is as follows: Stage 1, to provide accommodation for 2,500 officers, plus car park, plus 40 per cent of the community /retail facilities- $21 m. The total cost of the development is as follows: Alternative 1, for 4,500 officers, $36m; alternative 2, for 5,000 officers, $38m; alternative 3, for 6,000 officers, $43m. [More…]

• The ills within the National Health Service are serious and, by threatening standards, threaten the health and wellbeing of the community. [More…]

• We will see the finish of friendly societies as they operate now and the finish of private health funds which are great community co-operative societies. [More…]

• As far as I know, the only people in the community who have not had a rise in the last 3 years are the poor, miserable unfortunate creatures who happen to be members of Parliament. [More…]

• To help progress towards the community’s social and economic goals, the Government sees it as desirable in appropriate cases to promote and make easier the process of structural change in industry. [More…]

• We have established our legal aid service and the first Australian Government community health centrethe first of many such legal aid offices and community health centres. [More…]

• It is crucial to all our efforts to protect the Australian community from the buffets of economic change and circumstance. [More…]

• It is crucial to all our efforts to protect the Australian community from the buffets of economic chance and circumstance. [More…]

• To help progress towards the community’s social and economic goals, the Government sees it as desirable in appropriate cases to promote and make easier the process of structural change in industry. [More…]

• It is only augmenting the very important private sector of the community, but it all helps. [More…]

• Anyone who has had to put up with the situation which the Australian economy has had to suffer for the last 2 years must appreciate that the AIDC must also suffer like the rest of the community. [More…]

• The tree pull scheme as it has become known was founded in difficulties two and a half years ago with the collapse of the traditional markets, such as the United Kingdom market and the European Economic Community market, which were then in a state of complete surplus in which the price had collapsed. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the Tasmanian industry has been very hard hit by a great number of factors, not the least of course being the British decision to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Has a decision been made on assistance for park improvements at Kojonup submitted by the Kojonup Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of a mobile van for use by service groups catering for shows and sporting, civil defence and other functions submitted by the Dumbleyung Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department [More…]

• 1 ) What is the function of the community development officer who has been appointed for the new city of Tuggeranong. [More…]

• How many community development officers have been appointed in the A.C.T. [More…]

• Does the Government intend to appoint additional community development officers. [More…]

• 1 ) The function of the community development officer is to facilitate the development of cultural, recreational, welfare and social groups in Tuggeranong. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• 14) Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• 1 ) Neither my Department nor the Australian Electoral Office administers any programs which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• Tutors and prospective pupils are listed following personal enquiry, through contacts notified by members of the Good Neighbour Movement and the voluntary organizations and through departmental resources (such as welfare officers working in the community). [More…]

• Equally important however is the extent to which the scheme will encourage the integration of migrant women through the development of personal relationships between tutors and pupils and the assistance given generally to migrant women m adapting to life in a new community. [More…]

• They would comprise all migrant women who would prefer to have tutoring in the informal situation of their home as a first step to receiving instruction in the formal situation of classes established in the community. [More…]

• The ultimate aim is to secure a 35-hour working week in circumstances which will ensure fair treatment of all sections of the community. [More…]

• What community health centres are operating in each State and Territory. [More…]

• The following information relates not only to projects specifically described as “community health centres” but also to other forms of community health projects involving the provision of preventive, diagnostic thereapeutic or rehabilitation services at or from premises or, in some cases, mobile units, on a non-residential basis. [More…]

• Details of New South Wales projects which were established prior to the introduction of the Australian Government Community Health Program and Community Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency Program and which are not currently funded under either of those Programs, are not yet finalised but will be forwarded to the honourable member as soon as they become available. [More…]

• The total evacuation of Australia House, Brisbane, is normally carried out during fire prevention week in conjunction with the Fire Brigade with the intent that it would set an example to the community generally. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• -A Darwin trust fund has been set up consisting of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, His Honour J. N. Nelson; Harold Brennan, the Mayor of Darwin; Paul Everingham, the Deputy Majority Leader in the Legislative Assembly; Mr McDonell, who is an executive member of that body; Dr Stack, representing the women of Darwin; Bishop O ‘Loughlin of the Roman Catholic Church; Mr Trower of the Red Cross; Reverend Bence of the United Churches of Darwin; Mr Robertson of the welfare organisation; Mr Alec Fong Lim representing the business sector; and Bernard Valadian representing the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• On the other hand one has to concede that the police forces and the people who comprise them have a strong sense of personal identity with their own police force in the community they serve. [More…]

• Those who were unable to take part formally made an equally important contribution to the community of interests in our neighbourhood in informal discussions with the visiting delegates. [More…]

• It has been caused by a new government obsessed with the political purpose of foisting socialism upon the Australian community. [More…]

• Irrespective of the consequences to different sections of the community it is going to push ahead with that purpose. [More…]

• It created liquidity pressures in the community and inflation started to move. [More…]

• The Minister for Labor and Immigration was the man who led the Public Service in demanding increased wages and all types of conditions which put intolerable pressures on the rest of the community thus reducing its capacity to employ people. [More…]

• It has to start to encourage the productive sector of the community to want to get out and work, save and invest. [More…]

• In the first place the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) came into this chamber on the basis that the unemployment situation is a matter of great importance to the Australian community and spent the first 20 per cent of his speech in complaining about there being insufficient supporters of the Government present to hear what he had to say. [More…]

• It is frustrated because of the Opposition’s activities in the Senate and elsewhere where it deliberately sets out to undermine business confidence in the community, where it tries to talk the Australian community into a depression. [More…]

• We are building community health centres. [More…]

• Disasters Organisation received from the Northern Territory Emergency Services Organisation in Darwin and which included representatives of private and Government interests, the Northern Territory police, the Australian Defence Services and community organisations. [More…]

• Despite the emotional overtones of the evacuation, the community of Darwin went about its task with a sense of purpose which should serve as an example to the nation. [More…]

• I have been requested by very many members of the community including politicians and private citizens- and not only all the members of the majority party in the Legislative Assembly, incidentally - [More…]

• The elimination of racial discrimination has been one of the major preoccupations of the international community since the Second World War. [More…]

• This Committee consisted of representatives from 125 community organisations. [More…]

• Clause 8 provides that an Aboriginal or Islander on a reserve is not to be required to comply with any direction to perform work unless the direction is given in relation to the performance of reasonable community obligations or unless the work is in relation to an obligation that the Aboriginal would be obliged to perform if the direction were given outside the reserve. [More…]

• The point has been properly taken by some of the major national inquiries into health insurance funds in this country that consumers do not have representation on open funds, and accordingly there is a bounden duty incumbent upon a government to ensure the protection of the community’s rights in the operation of those funds. [More…]

• In any case, looking at the principle of the matters which were before the Senate, which the Senate rejected and which are now before the House again- we accept them as deletions from the Bill to allow at least some advantages to be achieved for the community- these proposals were consistent not only with the findings of the Nimmo Committee and not only with the recommendations of the Senate Committee of Inquiry, but also indeed with statements made by the honourable member for Barker when he was the Minister for Health in a previous government. [More…]

• In all these confrontations the best interests of the contributors, members of the community, cannot be guaranteed because of the weaknesses of the National Health Act. [More…]

• Accordingly, while if reflects very generously the sorts of interests that they had in mind, it does not reflect effectively the interests ofthe contributors in the community. [More…]

• The community will lose control over the services it is receiving and individuals will cease to have sufficient responsibility for their own care and welfare. [More…]

• The whole notion that medical services can be received free of cost leads the community to use those services to the point where finally everything is incredibly costly. [More…]

• Yet the nations of the European Economic Community constitute Australia’s second largest trading partner after Japan. [More…]

• In each European Community capital I took up forcefully the Community’s current import restrictions on beef. [More…]

• I left heads of Government in no doubt about our attitude to the Community’s action in imposing restrictions without warning or consultation. [More…]

• I believe that my visit has made it more likely that the Community market will be re-opened to Australian beef, if not later this year, then by mid- 1976. [More…]

• Why can the Prime Minister not say to those countries: You must understand that a whole way of life for a whole section of the Australian community depends upon the sale of beef to your country. [More…]

• Also the Prime Minister failed to obtain any significant relaxation on the ban of beef imports to European Economic Community countries, and this continued throughout his visit. [More…]

• As I said earlier, more space was devoted to denigrating the media for their criticism of his visit than to such matters as the European Economic Community, uranium and energy and the Middle East, as was developed by my leader. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the concern felt by leaders of the trade union movement which the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) mentioned, was echoed widely by the Australian community early in December in the days when the Prime Minister was preparing to depart on his trip. [More…]

• It might be said that in the pursuit of resources diplomacy- so effectively demonstrated, so he alleges, in this statement- there is surely a benefit for some elements of our community. [More…]

• There is a serious world shortage of sugar and in no countries has this shortage been greater than in the European Economic Community and Britain. [More…]

• It will facilitate the introduction of the program and ensure adequate protection of all groups in the community during the transitional period. [More…]

• The first and main objective of Medibank is to give every Australian on identical terms automatic security against the cost of medical and hospital treatment, at reasonable cost to the community. [More…]

• For the rest of the community treatment will also be free where doctors bill Medibank direct. [More…]

• The failure to pass this Bill would disadvantage some sections ofthe community and cause personal loss to individuals- for example, patients in nursing homes and contributors of funds which cannot meet their claims. [More…]

• Their fear was too unreasonable to permit any consideration of the enormous benefits to unions, the enormous benefits to employers and the enormous benefits to the community that could flow from amalgamations of unions. [More…]

• On the other hand, that same fear blinded its holders to the fact that comparatively small unions with members employed in carrying out functions whose continued operation is vital for the economic or social wellbeing of the community can exercise industrial strength out of proportion to their numbers. [More…]

• Unions are recognised to play essential roles in shaping the economic and social life of the community. [More…]

• It was also maintained that the Bill’s provisions- which do no more than recognise the existence of that trend and facilitate its development according to principles which will benefit not only the parties but the community- are part of a scheme to bypass and weaken the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• They have acquired a status in the community. [More…]

• But at the mention of the word ‘beef and the crisis that faces such a significant part of the Australian community- both the consuming public indirectly and the producing sector very directly and all those who are dependent on it- the Prime Minister stomps out of the House in a huff. [More…]

• So much for his concern for beef and for the present plight of the whole of this significant part of our Australian community. [More…]

• I commend to those honourable members who are interested and those people in the community who have the opportunity and the wish to follow the matter further the analysis that was set out in a paper by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics designated ‘Meat- situation outlook’, and in particular the summary of the present international market prospects set out at page D46. [More…]

• On that page reference is made to the slow down in economic growth, the impact that this has had generally on the rate of meat consumption, the problems that flowed through from the increase in oil prices and the effect that this has had on such countries as Japan and some countries within the European Economic Community, the necessary response that followed the lowering of beef prices and sharp rises in the cost of production as a result of increased feed prices, the impact that this has had on eroded producers’ incomes, the political decisions taken by the EEC and Japan and the impact that this has had overall on supply and demand and on the returns to growers in Australia and elsewhere around the world. [More…]

• He did say that that quantity was less than the amount the Community bought last year, but we should at least be grateful for small mercies. [More…]

• It is well known by everybody that the European Economic Community, the United States of America and Japan, together with Canada, are the major markets where Australia’s beef industry has been selling its products over the years. [More…]

• The only action that it has taken in the last few weeks, fortunately, is to reverse gradually some of its economic policies so that it might give perhaps some incentive to the producing groups of this community who have been so adversely affected. [More…]

• I refer, first of all, to the positive main markets- Japan, the European Economic Community, the United States and Canada. [More…]

• It has sent delegations to the European Economic Community, to Japan and to the Middle East. [More…]

• We all know that the present situation is due largely to the 3 major markets- the United States of America, the European Economic Community and Japan- all cutting down or eliminating imports of beef simultaneously. [More…]

• They cannot survive unless they create fear among the people in the community. [More…]

• The proposition that the prices negotiated in this contract were too low is yet another example of the use by the Opposition of fear tactics in the primary sector of the community. [More…]

• In its analysis of the market the BAE pointed out that, although beef is produced in a very large number of countries, less than 10 per cent of world output is traded internationally and usually about 80 per cent of world imports are accounted for by the United States of America and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It was, until Cyclone Tracy, our fastest growing community. [More…]

• If that is the case, I believe that clause 6 (a) could be reworded and the following phrase added: bearing in mind the wishes of the Darwin community’. [More…]

• I strongly believe that the membership of the Commission should include more representatives of the community of Darwin- at least a member of the Darwin Citizens Council. [More…]

• I believe the Commission should have the right to appoint its own committees as necessary, either from within its membership or from the ranks of the Darwin community. [More…]

• In conclusion, I would ask the Minister in the operation of this legislation to give the fullest consideration and approval wherever possible to involve members of the Darwin community in every aspect of the reconstruction, to consider their suggestions for reconstruction and to bear in mind suggestions of specific interest groups, such as women, so that the city we do build will be a permanent tribute to every Australian and the spirit that has swept Australia since Christmas Day. [More…]

• But much more important is the task of restoring and reuniting the community in Darwin. [More…]

• While it is true that the urgency and magnitude of the task requires a strong executive body, we should not be distracted from the basic principles of community involvement and people’s participation in the process of reconstruction and restoration. [More…]

• When I speak of the people I mean the present Darwin community, Darwin evacuees and organisations and individuals who may be interested in Darwin. [More…]

• The report has been put forward to seek community comment and involvement in the planning process. [More…]

• I add to that the important consideration, from the standpoint of community participation, that one of the most significant documents produced contains the basic proposals- that is what they are- concerning the re-development of Darwin. [More…]

• It recommends that the Australian Model Uniform Building Code be adopted, with the inclusion of special engineering provisions, so that housing and major community facilities can be made safer. [More…]

• My colleague the honourable member for the Northern Territory, and no doubt the Minister for the Northern Territory himself, have received a great sheaf of telegrams stressing that there is not one section of the community that has not been involved in this matter. [More…]

• Occasionally we will get a nincompoop in the community who will say that he will sue a commission. [More…]

• As a member of the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory itwas my pleasure to go to Darwin on a number of occasions and to enjoy the hospitality and community spirit that was evident in that city. [More…]

• Many cars were in bad condition with badly worn tyres and so forth when they arrived in Port Augusta and the evacuees were able to receive a great deal of assistance from the Port Augusta civil defence organisation backed up by the local community. [More…]

• Many leaders in the community from the professions, among social workers and in the churches have pointed to the changes which will be introduced into the nature of marriage and threaten the stability of the family if this Bill is passed without amendment. [More…]

• What are the likely social and economic consequences for the community of this Bill? [More…]

• The first consequence will be an increase in the number of divorces in the community. [More…]

• Secondly, the provision of support services and court structures will impose a financial burden on the community. [More…]

• Socially, the community suffers directly as more of its individual components as recognised by the United Nations- the family- manifest partial or total collapse. [More…]

• Indirectly, the community suffers as a family collapse contributes to an erosion of those values which buttress marriage and family. [More…]

• Financially, the community is obliged to bear a substantial portion of the direct costs of family breakdown. [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…]

• Concerning the tradition of minimal interference in the lives of the family, the Parliament has a public interest responsibility which takes 2 forms- that regarding the institution of marriage itself, an institution which is still most respected in our community, and that concerning the individual lives of the parties to the marriage. [More…]

• He said it was a response by the then Attorney-General, Senator Murphy, to ‘an overwhelming demand for reform in this area and was not intended to impose an unwanted measure upon an unwilling community: I believe that this legislation is an attempt to impose a law upon an unwilling majority of the community, a law which the people neither want, need nor desire. [More…]

• This is a valuable service to a community, but should this legislation pass it will, I am sure, be struggling to cope with the ever swelling numbers of couples opting for the easy way out. [More…]

• Before I deal with that point I want to refer to the position of those people in our community who have deeply held religious beliefs, because I do think that a distinction has to be made. [More…]

• If it is determined that the ex-wife is unable to support herself, I am inclined to the view that the responsibility should fall upon the other party to the marriage rather than that the rest of the community should be called upon to support her. [More…]

• I put the proposition that this pre-occupation with sin which in the past has riddled the divorce laws is no solution to the problems of a modern community. [More…]

• These birth control techniques have introduced a completely new dimension into the role that women play in the community at large. [More…]

• Until we face up to the fact, a tangible technical fact in our community, then I believe we will be missing the point of the future structure of society. [More…]

• These feelings are felt most acutely by the younger members of our community. [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…]

• It may have been all right for this type of law to have been imposed on such a relationship when the Church and its doctrines held sway, when close to 100 per cent of the community would swear strong allegience to and strong faith in the Church. [More…]

• The fact is that we now live in a community in which only one-third of the population has that sort of faith, in which only one-third of the population has a faith which allows them to overcome the frictions of such a personal relationship. [More…]

• The facts are that the community we live in today in 1975 is not the community that existed in Britain in 1857 which was the genesis of the existing law of divorce. [More…]

• The community- I am being interrupted by members of the Australian Country Party who cannot keep quiet even in a serious debate such as this- in 1985 will be even more in need of the types of reforms this Bill embodies, and even more in need of a sensitive examination of the relationships between people and in particular between individuals in a family bearing in mind the technical changes that will have taken place. [More…]

• All laws on marriage and divorce ultimately affect the welfare and happiness of everyone in the community and, indeed, the welfare of the whole society. [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…]

• These changes do not, I believe, reflect present community values and attitudes, for this very significant Bill would affect the nature of all marriages, not merely those that will end in dissolution. [More…]

• This stipulation has the added disadvantage of imposing on the community an arbitrary, and in many cases I believe an entirely unreasonable guideline, for establishing whether a marriage has irretrievably broken down. [More…]

• It has been widely commended in certain sections throughout the community because it purports to do just this. [More…]

• We, as men and women, are brought together to consider the needs of the community. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• Neither the Department of Minerals and Energy nor the Statutory Authorities under my control administer any programs which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• What programs does the Postmaster-General’s Department or statutory authorities under the PostmasterGeneral ‘s control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a gram. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is the Postmaster-General confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• A discussion paper on Community Development and Training. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory pupils have, during 1974, participated in student exchange schemes under which students have moved into an Aboriginal community for a period of a week or a fortnight to work with and learn from the people of that community. [More…]

• a Community Relations cell, headed by the Community Relations Advisor, to undertake research into relations between government and the community in general, and to promote a wider understanding of and participation by the community in the Commission’s activities. [More…]

• Subsequent events have confirmed that the decision was welcomed by the community in general. [More…]

• 1 ) What programs does the Department of the Media or statutory authorities under the Minister’s control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• 14) Is the Minister confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• I challenge it to state unequivocally whether abolition of the means test is or is not one of the casualties of the rather massive public expenditure cuts which it is proposing as part of its economic administration of this country in which major welfare fields, such as education, welfare housing, urban and regional development, welfare services, hospitals and community health services will all be cut back substantially according to a secret document circulating among a small number of senior members of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Is it competent for parent bodies or community organisations to participate by submitting proposals in that respect and, if so, to whom and in what manner should the submissions be made? [More…]

• They seem to give this greater measure of love and sympathy to those in distress than almost any other section of the community. [More…]

• It is not so long ago that a majority of the members of the Australian Labor Party had to convince important sections of the Austraiian community, including tens of thousands who took part in Vietnam moratorium demonstrations, including hundreds of thousands who supported what were called ‘political strikes’, that despite 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule they had not been disfranchised; that it was still possible for Labor Party governments to be elected; that when Labor Party governments were elected they would be given the same opportunities as the Liberal Party governments which preceded them; that they would have the same opportunities to put their policies into effect; that they would have the same protection from the conventions as the governments that preceded them. [More…]

• There are also problems because of the Japanese Government’s deferred quota scheme and the European Economic Community’s intervention scheme. [More…]

• Politics is also the art of welding communities together as much as it is of political parties trying to maximise their own gains within the community. [More…]

• Despite the growth of financial institutions catering largely for the middle income earners, there has never been a Government policy directed at the housing needs of that energetic and deserving section of the Australian people- those above the level of direct need, but who yet require a marshalling of the resources of the community if they are to attain the high quality home which should be the heritage of every family. [More…]

• In addition, the introduction of legislation will furnish legal background on which to rest changes reflecting basic community attitudes. [More…]

• The Bill also for this reason recognises that an emphasis on mediation and conciliation is a more satisfactory way of tackling individual instances of racial discrimination and the tensions that are associated with individual disputes A Commissioner for Community Relations will be established as an independent statutory authority to undertake these tasks. [More…]

• The changing of community attitudes is a matter of vital significance in the field of race relations. [More…]

• Both governmental and community-based programs to combat racial discrimination are necessary. [More…]

• Under the Bill, the Commissioner will have the function of conducting and fostering programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination, and a Community Relations Council will be established with an advisory role. [More…]

• The rich and powerful corporations will have only the same power as the less affluent groups in the community to influence events. [More…]

• There are rumours currently circulating that the Palestine Liberation Organisation and its offshoots are making funds available to some in the community. [More…]

• I must say that the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan) has followed the usual pattern in a debate of this type by trying to scare the nation about the presence of multinationals and their activities in the Australian community. [More…]

• So it is a pretty hypocritical situation when we hear these charges levelled against the Liberal and Country Parties for opposing a measure such as this simply on the contention that we are trying to deny the Government and the community generally information about what multinationals do or do not support particular parties in this country. [More…]

• There are people in the community who are not satisfied with the existing political parties. [More…]

• It will militate against those groups in the community that in future may want to form a new party. [More…]

• I am not aware of any concern within the community or within the parliamentary system throughout Australia of the need for sweeping changes. [More…]

• This could lend itself to creating tremendous distress for righteous and very honourable members of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is no concern in the Australian community that there are malpractices within the parliamentary system. [More…]

• I am not aware that any concern has been expressed by the Australian community that political parties are dishonest. [More…]

• -The purpose of this BUI is to provide for the disclosure of financial support received by Australian political parties, not from their own members, not from the little people in our society, to use a term that the late Mr Chifley used to use, but from powerful business interests or others in this community who might from time to time, given one election or another or given the issues that come before the people at those elections, place substantial amounts of money behind a political party in order to give it an unfair advantage, in order to wield real economic power. [More…]

• They have admitted that they are the spokesmen for private enterprise, for free enterprise in the Australian community. [More…]

• -This Bill belongs to a long category of Bills introduced since December 1972 which illustrate that this Government believes that if there is a malady or a potential malady in the community there is only one way in which to excise it or stop it and that is by regulation. [More…]

• I draw attention to a simple little card about community relations which states: ‘Nice people come in all coloursAustralian Government’. [More…]

• In effect, it will make known to those people in the community who are contributing to campaign funds what candidates are receiving. [More…]

• Every poor man is entitled to have as much opportunity to get into Parliament as the richest man in the community has. [More…]

• It is a response to an acceptance by the Government of concern in the community about the existing state of the divorce laws of Australia. [More…]

• It is an indication of changing community attitudes that only 15 years later there is almost universal agreement that it is no longer appropriate. [More…]

• Even the supporters of the amendment seem to concede that the existing law is completely out of date and that community attitudes have changed fundamentally in 15 years. [More…]

• Imagine a marriage which may be very unhappy and in which one of the partners to it is guilty of behaviour that would not be acceptable in the Australian community. [More…]

• The existing Barwick divorce law is attracted by the action of parties to take steps to divorce, but this law is attracted by the fact that people marry because it is changing the nature of marriage in the Australan community. [More…]

• If this arises after a desertion it seems pretty unfair that this cost may be the cast upon the whole community. [More…]

• Last night the Minister for Tourism and Recreation in attacking the Bill summarised what he considered to be the likely evil social and economic consequences for the community in this Bill. [More…]

• The first consequence will be an increase in the number of divorces in the community. [More…]

• Secondly, the provision of support services will impose a financial burden on the community. [More…]

• I am surprised that the Minister who is a distinguished member of the Australian Labor Party Government is concerned that the provision of support services for people who have been adversely affected by broken marriages will impose a financial burden on the community. [More…]

• The Australian Government and the Australian community have spent many hundreds of millions of dollars in guaranteeing the jobs of these employees, and although the company might use some sort of peculiar logic in justifying its action in seeking to transfer these employees I believe it is engaging in sophistry and that it is certainly not honouring the spirit of the undertaking. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• To ensure that environmental/conservation groups receive the professional assistance necessary to enable them to prepare sound cases on specific issues and thus help the community to become its own environmental advocate. [More…]

• The grant should be sought to help resolve specific environmental controversities of significant community concern. [More…]

• The community is informed of the existence of the program, and applications for assistance are invited, through advertisements in the Press. [More…]

• The scheme of Medibank- the universal health insurance program- will come into operation on 1 July and will cover the whole Australian community. [More…]

• It is essential for us in this House and elsewhere to make clear to the community that unemployment is a result of excessive costs and that if wage increases continue at 25 per cent or 30 per cent then that declining profitability and that unemployment will recur. [More…]

• Industry and the community generally will take a lot of convincing that Labor really understands the workings of industry, the role of investment, which is what this debate is all about, and the role of profits. [More…]

• There is nothing that will do more for businessmen’s confidence and their investment decisions than making sure that there is demand in the community needed for the purchase of the goods which that private sector is making. [More…]

• Does anybody suggest that this was not a measure to remedy a lack of demand in the community? [More…]

• Is anybody going to suggest that the decline in the demand for our beef, the imposts that have been put on beef imports into Japan, the Europen Economic Community and the United States of America, have not affected the beef industry. [More…]

• Is anybody going to suggest that, with the beef producers having less in their pockets from selling their products, this does not affect the level of demand in this community? [More…]

• One could accept these as being sincere if one noted a corresponding incentive, if one heard corresponding words of support uttered by him opposing the payment of handouts to slackers in our community or if one heard one word of opposition to the wasteful expenditure in industry caused by irresponsible trade unionists and their leaders who are holding and will no doubt on account of the feather-bedding of the Labor Government hold Australia to ransom. [More…]

• The ballot for the Senate always will be evenly balanced between those in the community who are progressive and belong to the Labor Party and those who are retrogressive and oppose it. [More…]

• One may readily concede that it is a Bill that has barely encouraged a murmur either of comment, criticism or indeed praise in the Australian community but nevertheless it is a most historic Bill. [More…]

• It seems to me quite paradoxial indeed that the Prime Minister and members of the Governmentwho have asserted their independence of the United Kingdom, who have suggested that in some way we on this side of the House were acting against the best interests of the Australian community in maintaining defence ties and close and meaningful ties in so many other forms with the United Kingdom and with other countries of the Western world, and who have denied the right and the meaningfulness of those associationsshould introduce into this Parliament and seek our approval of a piece of legislation which is so reminiscent of the days of the complete colonial subservience of this country to the Government of Westminster. [More…]

• I suggest that such an argument is absurd and anachronistic and works to the great disadvantage of Australians generally in their march to future adulthood in the international community. [More…]

• We aU know- at least the honourable member for Moreton and the other lawyers present know- that as England moves closer and closer to Europe and the European Economic Community it becomes more and more subject to European styles of law and European ways of legal thinking. [More…]

• Implicit in that compact that was made between the Australian Colonies, as they then were when they federated to form Australia, was the surrender for all time by the 6 colonies of Australia of any claim that they might have to sovereign rights in the world community. [More…]

• In a weak moment, Australia could find itself, in the euphoria of a conference, involved in some international agreement that could well limit the freedom and the rights of an individual within a community or society, for the sole purpose of trying to preserve the environment as such. [More…]

• 1 ) What programs does the Department of Agriculture or statutory authorities under the Minister’s control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• 14) Is the Minister confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• This Government is determined, unlike its predecessors, that pensioners will not carry the brunt of economic policies, whatever their nature might be, and it will not force mean larders on to the most dependent people in this community. [More…]

• Not only on beef properties and on rural holdings, but also in every country community, in the cities and towns throughout the Austraiian countryside, there are deteriorating economic situations which are affecting the lives and livelihoods of individuals who live in those areas and which indirectly will prejudice the very future, in terms of supplies and the adequacy and quality of those supplies, of the many consumers in our big metropolises. [More…]

• This matter of public importance today is concerned, firstly, with the direct effects of this Government’s policies on people in country areas and, secondly, with the by-products of those effects on all people in the Australian community. [More…]

• I have put to this Parliament on a number of occasions- I put it to the Parliament again- that it is important that the farming community should be given the opportunity of using superphosphate in the first 6 months of this year if any advantage is to be taken from the high grain prices which presently prevail. [More…]

• That is typical of their concern about the rural community. [More…]

• In conclusion, the report on poverty in Australia shows that the Government inherited a position where 14.4 per cent of the rural community were classified as very poor and 10.8 per cent were classified as rather poor. [More…]

• We have concentrated our efforts on social areas such as those involving isolated children, education and improved community facilities. [More…]

• It is depressing for the community and for the Parliament itself that one side of the Parliament has to rely on that sort of source for its information. [More…]

• I find it difficult to believe that even a fairly insensitive government such as the Lewis Government would continue to stand up to the sort of pressure which would normally be developed from the community at large. [More…]

• It has a vested interest in providing and continuing to provide good health care for the Australian community, and the Australian community is fortunate in having a medical profession which has been prepared to make itself unpopular by constantly drawing attention to the inherent dangers in Labor’s ultimately socialist scheme. [More…]

• In fact responsible people reckon that there is no way in which it could responsibly operate before very much later in the year because the Government has found that its ideas about health insurance dreamed up by a couple of academic economists- I am not against academics- in an economic vacuum and placed as policy in the Labor Party books has now become the policy of the Government which has simply and frankly found that all major groups in the Australian community involved in health care will not have a bar of its approach. [More…]

• I appeal to the Government even at this late stage, in the light of its difficulty in getting the scheme into operation, to take some time off to consider whether it can achieve some of its admirable goals in the field of health care by working with the health care community in Australia to provide Australians with a scheme which will work instead of battling on with a scheme which will not work. [More…]

• I ask the Government to consider the role of the private sector in the area of health, I suggest that with a moment’s thought the Government will understand surely how crucial the role of the private sector is in the area of health care because it seems odd that it would understand the role of the private sector in the normal business community but would reject it in the area of health which is to all people a most intimate area of important human relationships when private relationships, private trust and confidence between doctor and patient, nurse and patient, nurse and doctor, doctor and doctor, administrator and doctor, administrator and nurse and so on, are at the heart of a proper system. [More…]

• I give the Government credit for having understood that there is a need for extending health insurance coverage throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I say to the Government that it is not too late for it to go back to these people and to work out an ingenious way to cover the Australian community through the non-government health schemes. [More…]

• The spread of doctors throughout the community at the moment is not as good as it should be, but under a central bureaucratic approach fostered by the Government, which will find the ease of administrative relationships becoming a No. [More…]

• It cannot but know them when, day by day, it meets intransigent opposition from groups in the Australian community which otherwise are not entirely unreasonable- unless one is to regard doctors, nurses, private hospitals and State governments as entirely unreasonable groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• So I implore the Government again to consider calling off the troops and trying another approach- an approach through reason, through conciliation, through working together with those groups in the Australian community which, warts and all, have provided a basically first class health system in this country. [More…]

• But in a system which relies upon the goodwill of private people and private groups in the Australian community- disparaged as sectional interests- the Government has to go to them and work things out with them. [More…]

• If the community was not confused about what Medibank means before the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) stood up to speak, it certainly will be confused now. [More…]

• In fact, I am not quite sure whether he set out deliberately to get the community confused about what Medibank represents or whether he himself is confused about it. [More…]

• However, it is proposed that the scheme will come into operation on 1 July and will cover the whole Australian community. [More…]

• The socialists are not trampling over the community; we are setting up a program to protect the health care of every Austraiian within the community. [More…]

• Finally, and most importantly- I hope the Opposition will not vote against this Bill and try to deprive the community of this provision- the Bill provides for the Australian Government to assume liability for nursing home benefits at present paid by registered hospital benefit funds to insured non-pensioner patients. [More…]

• The failure to pass this Bill would cause some disadvantage, perhaps, to other sections of the community, but to the patients in nursing homes who are not pensioners or the pensioners who cannot get into nursing homes it is going to mean a capsizing of their hope of health for the future. [More…]

• All of the measures which we would introduce would be part of the continuing reform of the health insurance system, which will ensure comprehensive coverage of the entire community while maintaining freedom of choice and a private system, not a socialised, nationalised scheme which financially is airy-fairy and could cost this country millions of dollars more than the present Government has estimated. [More…]

• It will create a great deal of unease, if not alarm, amongst pensioners in the community who have a reasonable expectation of a substantial increase in pension rates in this session of Parliament. [More…]

• Legislation in relation to companies, and also other significant power groups in the community- organisations of employers or employees- ought to be there to advance the general public interest and to ensure that the standards of all Australians can in fact be raised. [More…]

• They want to pursue their industrial purposes and advance the cause of their members as well as they know how- vigorously and firmly, but with an understanding of Australia’s overall national interest and with the interests and well being of the community very much in mind. [More…]

• I have a great deal more confidence in the people responsible for activities in this area of our community than the honourable member for Wannon obviously has. [More…]

• I am not one who believes that those who are interested in the affairs of their union do not bother to read daily newspapers; nor do I think that the people in the community generally do not bother to read them. [More…]

• However, there is no existing legislation dealing with trade union ballots as there is dealing with elections conducted in the community generally. [More…]

• There are cases where union leaders have encouraged strikes to the great disadvantage of their own members and to the great disadvantage of the community, resulting in a loss of wages, a loss of production and increased costs which force up the ever-spiralling rate of inflation. [More…]

• In the same way as monopoly corporate power can have anti-social consequences for a community through, for example, restrictive trade practices, price fixing, cartels operating, commercial boycotting of competitors and so on, then the same kind of antisocial practices can derive from monopoly union power. [More…]

• There will come the time very shortly when the Australian community will want from this national Parliament effective laws which will control monopoly union power in the same way as it desires effective laws to control monopoly corporate power. [More…]

• I think it is high time that debate within Australia on this subject is lifted to a much higher level so that the attention of the community is directed to it, and when proposals are put forward by either party for spreading the umbrella of the law over unions as well as corporations the true social purpose of those proposals can be seen and it will be appreciated that those proposals will be for the benefit of the community as a whole and will not be simply an instrument or a weapon, nor could they be labelled as such, for union bashing. [More…]

• They are concerned if inflation runs unduly rampantly throughout the community. [More…]

• Although it is regarded in certain sections of the community as being highly contentious legislation, when it first came before the Parliament we in the Opposition were prepared to look at it in a conciliatory manner in an endeavour to improve it and not to show any undue or dogmatic opposition to it. [More…]

• Corporation and National Investment Fund were awesome and put a great deal of fear into the community. [More…]

• It establishes a special merchant bank or financial institution, call it what you like, which will enable the Government to draw very large sums of money out of the community in competition with the private sector. [More…]

• Is it to be used as part of the Government’s program for more public involvement in the private sector of the community? [More…]

• I could go on to talk of the community health program, which is doing a great deal for the western suburbs, and the allocations from the Department of Tourism and Recreation and from the Department of Transport, which will meet two-thirds of the cost of the quadruplication of the Une from Auburn to Penrith as well as the cost of new rolling stock and signalling equipment. [More…]

• These barriers provide special obstacles for those groups in the community who are educationally disadvantaged because of their cultural, social, geographical or economic position. [More…]

• The establishment during 1975 of a National Institute of Open Tertiary Education as a statutory body with the general objective of expanding opportunities in tertiary education for all sections of the community. [More…]

• I would like to put on record the appreciation of this Parliament of the service Commonwealth Railways staff have given the Australian community, I am sure that this tradition of service will be carried forward to the new Australian National Railways Commission. [More…]

• In addition increased quantities of freight were forced onto interstate highways resulting in their rapid deterioration and increased social costs to the community in the form of accidents. [More…]

• In the Australian community we already have savings banks and even a Commonwealth savings bank. [More…]

• I turn to another aspect which I believe to be totally wrong and one that should be rejected by every thinking and decent member of the Australian community; that is, the threat that has been made, not necessarily by the present Treasurer, but by the former one, that the 30/20 rule could be changed and compulsory methods could be used in order to divert savings from the areas chosen by the life offices- the custodians and the trustees on behalf of the savers themselvesto a government agency. [More…]

• I believe that they are doing so in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• Many people, especially those wedded to the concept of private enterprise, believe that the national interest can best be achieved by ensuring that the majority of the Australian people, whether they be workers, manufacturers, employers, capitalists or anything else one wants to call them, are given every opportunity to develop in the best interests of individuals and therefore of the community of which they must form a part. [More…]

• As Australia has one of the highest savings rates in the world, and banking legislation which already gives the Government considerable control over liquidity as well as Government loan raising, the Opposition believes that the establishment of the NIF will merely divert existing savings from the well established banking institutions, building societies, unit trusts, credit unions and superannuation funds, and will do nothing to create or develop additional savings from the community. [More…]

• Failure to specify community groups from which membership is to be drawn, as is done in the Australia Council BUI currently before the House, could lead the Government, for safety’s sake, to make all appointments from the business of Public Service sectors. [More…]

• But those who are in any way involved in the banking system will know of the astronomical increase in interest charges that this Government has imposed upon people throughout the Australian community, to the degree that money which is now available from the Development Bank, which formerly to the borrower cost about 6lA per cent per annum, now costs that same borrower about 1 1 lA per cent per annum. [More…]

• There has been no statement made or no indication given to the rural community that one of those significant parts of the Labor Government’s policy on which it was elected will ever be implemented. [More…]

• The Bureau of Agricultural Economics at the January Agricultural Outlook Conference, of which I have spoken already, illustrated the cost increase for the farming community as being 27 per cent for the last 6 months or at a rate of 54 per cent per year. [More…]

• That contributes towards creating a further situation of deteriorating poverty in a community which was once viable and only 2 years ago was the principal contributor to Australia’s export earnings. [More…]

• The other day the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) told us that the European Economic Community might buy between 400 000 tonnes and 500 000 tonnes of beef in 1976. [More…]

• If one breaks the Australian arts community into its component parts- the practitioners, the teachers, the critics, whether these be professional or just the community at large who appreciate the various art forms, whether it be ballet or craft or theatreit emerges as a very heterogeneous body. [More…]

• The keynote in all cultural aspirations is community participation. [More…]

• Even the Labor Party, at its recent Terrigal conference, recognised the importance of community cultural activities when it inserted a new clause which stated that Labor would ensure that not less than 25 per cent of moneys expended by the statutory body be spent on these activities. [More…]

• This community requires that we take into account the artist and the consumer in any of the functions of the Australia Council. [More…]

• This is reflected in taste and also in the level of community participation which should be pursued. [More…]

• We of the Opposition would encourage all who wished to participate in the arts to pursue it to the highest standard to which they are capable- that is, to develop the maximum potential of all who engage in the arts for the maximum benefit of the community. [More…]

• We would encourage participation and not cultivate a small group to the exclusion of the community. [More…]

• That is to say that when talking about promoting excellence in the arts, it is not to promote an elite within the artistic community but to ensure that all who wish to can have the opportunity to attain their highest standard. [More…]

• Loose terms like ‘associated with the arts’ which recur in the Bill when referring to the membership of the Council and the Boards, do little to allay the suspicion repeatedly voiced by members of the artistic community and others that dilettantes may govern the distribution of subsidy. [More…]

• It is just too stereotyped to believe that the artistic community cannot run its own affairs and to enshrine that proposition in the legislation is completely wrong and underestimates the artistic community. [More…]

• One has only to see the various performing groups in the community to see that they may often work in hardship on very tight budgets and yet provide their artistic product at low cost. [More…]

• The community must not have pressed upon it decisions made by people deprived of vital information. [More…]

• Our Prime Minister, if he has time to bother himself with the artistic community, will know by now that his, if they are his, selections of Board chairmen have not in all cases indicated any particular perspicacity on his or his advisers’ part. [More…]

• We want efficiency, we want co-operation with the States and we want strong rapport with the artistic community. [More…]

• It has previously been noted that the Labor Party at its Terrigal Conference resolved that 25 per cent of monies allocated to the Council be earmarked for community arts activities. [More…]

• Senator Rae, the Opposition shadow Minister for Community Development, drew attention to our interest in fostering such activity in his statement on 16 September last. [More…]

• I have later pointed out that less than 5 per cent of ACA funds have been directed to community arts by the Whitlam Government- a so-called populist crew which rows its fiscal boat to the already well-endowed shores of those few cultural monoliths who have for years fed well on the subsidy cake. [More…]

• To spread available funds widely through the community seems now to be a shared aim of both the Government and the Opposition. [More…]

• The Australian Council Bill 1974 is obviously the culmination of many years of study and application by a great number of people who have a very genuine interest in the arts and a determination to elevate the arts to their proper and rightful role in the contemporary Australian community. [More…]

• That interim report simply meant that there was a time for all sectors of both the artistic community and the public to make certain recommendations and suggestions, and they were forthcoming. [More…]

• The Council will be a body corporate consisting of not fewer than 18 and not more than 24 members drawn from a broad range of artistic, community - [More…]

• I emphasise the word ‘community’- and related government interests. [More…]

• There ought to be a community involvement and I think this is the very basis of this legislation. [More…]

• This is a promotion and a participation in the arts by all of the community. [More…]

• The Opposition is in agreement with the proposals to have a broadly based authority so that the aspirations of our community can be on the widest base possible. [More…]

• The demand to participate in the cultural life of our community is increasing and will continue to increase as more leisure time becomes available and as this becomes a major social issue. [More…]

• Therefore, it will be desirable to promote community involvement in the arts and to combine this with visits from opera, ballet, concerts and the like. [More…]

• I believe that the prime purpose of establishing a council such as this is to assist and interest community participation in the arts. [More…]

• I can think of many small professional bodies in my electorate which are working energetically to promote the arts in the community. [More…]

• They must be given the greatest praise not only for bringing art to regions that would otherwise not receive it but also for promoting local participation in and application of the arts in the community. [More…]

• That festival has been a vital and growing part of that community and for many years has played a very important part in the year’s activities. [More…]

• It is our intention that Government support for the arts should not become the province of entrenched interests and that it should serve, in the widest possible way, the artistic needs and aspirations of the Australian community. [More…]

• I wish perhaps to put a more parochial emphasis on it in part because I want to discuss particularly the aspects of community arts. [More…]

• The area that I wanted to deal with particularly in my short address tonight concerns the role of the community arts. [More…]

• Community arts, as set out in the annual report of the Australian Council for the Arts, function under a separate committee made up of members of the various boards. [More…]

• The establishment of the Community Aits Fund served two purposes, to service multi arts applications and to make special provisions for the development of broader community participation. [More…]

• The Community Arts Fund would tend to provide money to non arts community groups and organisations, and in this way it could assist in diffusing government funds more widely into the community. [More…]

• I would like to believe that the Prime Minister in making these appointments would give consideration to appointing people to those boards who would have an interest in the community arts because unless members of those boards that are established have that interest there will not be the personnel who will have this understanding of the needs of the community arts in general. [More…]

• We all acknowledge- other honourable mem-, bers have spoken on this tonight- the importance of the community arts. [More…]

• Reference has been made to a decision made at a recent meeting of an outside organisation which has indicated to the Government that it expects a greater sum of money to be spent on the community arts, and the suggestion was that that would be 25 per cent of the moneys allocated. [More…]

• When one considers that there are 7 boards and there is a Community Arts Fund and 25 per cent of the money allocated is to be spent by a committee made up of representatives of those 7 boards, one might well be concerned at the manner in which the priorities will be established. [More…]

• But the possibilities are there, in the very format that we are establishing for these matters to be considered, that the community arts in particular might not be advantaged in the best possible way. [More…]

• Some of the doubts that people have in relation to the community arts I believe were summed up in a report produced by the Australian Department of Tourism and Recreation. [More…]

• The Australian Council for the Arts, through its community Arts Fund, has provided subsidies to local government and similar bodies for the employment of Community Arts Officers. [More…]

• My visit to the Australian Council for the Arts convinced me of one thing: In the city of Sydney there is a clear disorientation in the area of community arts and expenditure on the community arts is primarily in the northern and eastern suburbs of Sydney. [More…]

• It indicates that to date the western suburbs of Sydney have received little in the way of benefits even from the community arts program. [More…]

• We can see from the grants mentioned by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his Press statement of 23 August 1974 that the community arts fund and international program had available in all States $52,730, Aboriginal arts had $120,606, the crafts had $5,620, the theatre had $19,910 and the visual arts had $214,151.I have here the annual report of the Australian [More…]

• These funds are certainly large by comparison with the amount of money made available in 1974 for the community arts fund-$52,730-the sum I mentioned earlier in my speech. [More…]

• These are important and the fact that only 5 per cent of the money was made available for community arts expenditure shows that there ought to be changed priorities. [More…]

• One of the problems of the single community arts officer serving the western suburbs of Sydney is in finding suitable locations for people to enjoy the programs that might be arranged. [More…]

• Admittedly the Government, if the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) has his way, might develop community theatre facilities in the proposed Commonwealth office block to be built in the city of Parramatta. [More…]

• Yet, the community in that area lacks these sorts of facilities. [More…]

• There is an urgent need for us all to recognise that if community arts are to be brought into areas like the western suburbs those facilities have/ to be provided. [More…]

• I want to acknowledge the help and assistance that I have had from the community arts officer in my own district. [More…]

• It is clear that, notwithstanding the excellent efforts that the community arts officer has made in identifying the people who are prepared to form and maintain the Parramatta Symphony Orchestra, the local organisers who have run Foundation Week as a festival without grants to date except for the $800 that I mentioned earlier, the people concerned with the Parramatta Ans Society and the Parramatta Musical Society and his efforts in bringing the ‘Q’ theatre to the district, those efforts have not yet been rewarded with grants. [More…]

• I want to emphasise that the Australian Council, as it will shortly be called, ought not to forget these areas, It ought to see that personnel are available to expand the role of the community arts and to ensure that funds are available. [More…]

• I want to emphasise once more my own concern that those persons who are appointed by the Minister to the various boards ought to have some interest and some knowledge of community arts and that those persons who are then co-opted into the financial area and who will be responsible for arranging the expenditure of community art funds ought to have a specialised knowledge and interest that will enable them to ensure that areas like the western suburbs of Sydney are not neglected. [More…]

• to promote the general application of the arts in the community; [More…]

• I am sure that it will lift the appreciation of arts in Australia and provide a very firm basis for the growth of active participation in the arts by people who are interested in the arts, and also an active appreciation by the people of Australia of the very fine talent in the community. [More…]

• I regret to say that at various times in the last few months various sections of the community have taken serious exception to the fact that the budget of the Australian Council for the Arts, as it then was, increased from $ 1 4m in 1 973-74 to $20m in 1974-75. [More…]

• A very limited section of the Australian community can afford to spend $18, $20 or even $25 for a man and his wife to go to the theatre. [More…]

• I am sure he knows, as I do, that there are many artists and actors in our community who would take great offence at such a view. [More…]

• I think that it is unfortunate that in accepting that we are entering into a new era we may forget that much has been done in the field of arts in Australia in the past and may forget those excellent practitioners who have laid the foundations so that we now have an established community, irrespective of whether the members of it have had to go overseas to get further experience. [More…]

• That community is proud to say that it is representative of various fields of Australian art. [More…]

• The Council is also required to promote the general application of the arts in the community. [More…]

• So it was announced that an award would be made for a piece of sculpture to be placed outside the library in our community centre. [More…]

• If we are to promote this application of the arts we must handle it with some care because in that case a modern piece of sculpture was introduced into a community in which the majority of the people are not accustomed to modern sculpture and it was done without proper preparation. [More…]

• The honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) spoke of promotion of community arts. [More…]

• I hope that much of the accent of its work will be in educating the community to enjoy the arts and to recognise talent in these fields. [More…]

• On one hand the emphasis is upon excellence and on the other hand the need for community participation and development in the arts. [More…]

• I believe that they are the people who will ensure that community attitudes and the attitudes of the artists will constantly bear upon decision making in this field. [More…]

• Not only should the public have the right to view these paintings, but such an acquisition policy should also be available for the community to debate. [More…]

• Another matter which ought to be mentioned and which every speaker in this debate applauded is the fact that we have the chance to obtain excellence in art in Australia, the chance to achieve a better understanding by the community of the ability of Australian artists and, most importantly, particularly when looking at Australia internationally the chance to achieve a national identity for Australia. [More…]

• First of all it has funded universities to set up schools of community medicine and general practice so that undergraduates, before they graduate will get a taste of what general practice really is. [More…]

• Because of the position that Australia has now reached in international affairs throughout the world, because we de undertake a policy that is essentially Australian, a policy which owes its influence to no other country but Australia, because we have been accepted in the international community as people who can stand on their own feet and are recognised and appreciated for doing exactly that, we have a degree of influence to which the Opposition when it was in govern- * ment could never aspire and we have been exerting that influence, not from yesterday when the honourable member for Kooyong happened to read a Press report or receive a telegram from somewhere in Timor which he is not prepared to table. [More…]

• Accordingly, there is a bounden duty incumbent upon the Australian Government to ensure the protection of the community’s rights in the operation of those funds. [More…]

• To take this power of direction from me and to place the responsibility not on a member of Parliament, not on a Minister, not on this Parliament or the Government but on an outside body I believe could not be in the best interests of the community and certainly would not be in the ‘ best interests of the taxpayers of Australia. [More…]

• It represents a most disgraceful indulgence by any government in the handling of a Bill which has such far reaching implications for the Australian community. [More…]

• As I understand it, the financial backing of a large slice of our industries stems not from the small coterie of wealthy members of our community but from the vast number of small investors. [More…]

• I would like to address my comments to those people who perhaps are listening in and those people who will read the speeches because I share what is probably common community prejudices about the Stock Exchange. [More…]

• I do not believe that the ‘Australian Financial Review’ is unsympathetic with the business community or the stock exchanges. [More…]

• What I object to is the irresponsibility of a group of businessmen who aim to put fear into the community with such outrageous statements as ‘Dandenong destroyed’. [More…]

• I trust that the dismal failure of last Friday’s meeting will cause the leaders of this group to reexamine their methods and to look for constructive ways in which they can assist the whole community, and not be concerned just with themselves. [More…]

• The true figure obtained from the Commonwealth Employment Service office- if he had bothered to ring the office or had contacted the Minister, or if he had bothered to speak to people in the local community, or even if he had read my regular monthly column in the local newspaper where it is there for everybody to read and is never hiddenhe would have learned that it is just above the national average. [More…]

• I refer to a campaign of fear surrounding the question of pensions and the means test which is being deliberately engendered by certain anti-Labor elements within the community. [More…]

• There have been deliberate attempts by anti-Labor elements within the community to imply that the means test will not be abolished. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• 12) Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted, if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• He has committed no criminal offence against this community. [More…]

• The cards then become a menace to the business community and to the persons who are put to considerable trouble and expense in establishing that they are not liable for goods or services obtained on the faith of cards issued to them. [More…]

• Attorney-General, by many people in the community and I invite him, as the nation’s leading law officer, to settle those fears. [More…]

• There is a lot of fear in the Opposition and a lot of fear out in the community. [More…]

• There exists a multiplicity of organisations which claim to represent business, to know the attitudes and needs of business or particular sectors of the business community. [More…]

• Both have categorically stated that the business community is strongly opposed to the idea of federal companies legislation. [More…]

• Do they realise that if that were to occur it might be decades before real financial confidence was restored in this community? [More…]

• I suppose it comes back once again to the fact that this area of activity, the securities industry, has for a long while been immune from most of the normal legal standards that apply to the rest of the community. [More…]

• If a man is not prepared to be frank and fair with his fellows and with the community I do not think that any gathering of legislation will oblige him to respond in that manner. [More…]

• It is quite inconsistent to impute to them a considerably lower degree of honour than is to be imputed to other members of the commercial community and to members of the Commission who, I think everybody in this Committee would concede, will have enormous powers under this legislation. [More…]

• It is absurd to suggest that such people, with considerable qualifications as he has, should be denied the opportunity to make a very real contribution to the corporate life of the community. [More…]

• Let me interpose here the comment that I believe as a chartered accountant that those firms of chartered accountants in the western world which have laid down that their partners should not be directors of companies have done a service to the integrity of the professional community of this country. [More…]

• The AttorneyGeneral may think that it is clear and may be able to explain what it means, but there are many people in the community who cannot understand it. [More…]

• Accordingly, there is a strong view in some sections of the community that subclause (7) should be deleted. [More…]

• Of course, honourable members opposite would immediately dismiss Sweden as having a Labor type government, but Sweden has gone a long way in this regard and these measures are accepted generally in the community as very desirable. [More…]

• The Council considers that this situation is extremely bad as it represents discrimination against one section of the community, namely the person who owns or is purchasing a property in which he lives. [More…]

• Why should they be forced out of their houses by the policies of the Government which alleges that it protects the interests of the smaller people in the community? [More…]

• Her worth to the pensioners, the business community and to service organisations has been immeasurable. [More…]

• For example, freedom of choice of doctor and hospital and tight supervision of the expenditure of funds so that the alleged ‘free’ scheme does not send the community bankrupt. [More…]

• There is no need for me to argue the virtues of statistical information in providing a generally informed society; in providing a firm base for decision making in Govenment, business and the rest of the community; in providing a basis for the development of programs and a means of measuring their progress over time. [More…]

• Particularly in government, but also in most other sectors of the community, there has been a great awakening to the value of all kinds of statistics and statistical services. [More…]

• It will lessen the burden on the reporting public and will provide a common data base for use by government and the community as a whole. [More…]

• For this reason, an Australian Statistics Advisory Council with a membership widely representative of government and community interests will be established to advise the Minister and the Statistician on all matters pertaining to the statistical service including its annual and longer term priorities and work programs. [More…]

• The composition of the Council of up to 24 members provides adequate scope for it to be widely representative of community interests. [More…]

• Apparently the Government envisages the lower income group as- to quote from the Billthat large section of the community who are at present not catered for by the existing public housing authorities. [More…]

• The Bill does not explain just who comprise this section of the community, but under clause 6 of the Bill it would appear reasonable to regard that large section of the community as very nearly one-quarter of the Australian people. [More…]

• I ask the House: What can be more divisive, more damaging to the Australian people, than a centralist socialist bureaucracy dictating its own terms by the device of regulationdividing the community into various groups who may receive a housing loan at subsidised interest rates and other groups who may not? [More…]

• All that this Bill will do is to assist one section of the community at the expense of the other. [More…]

• Not only are more people from a wider cross-section of the community undertaking educational courses, inevitably involving people who are not able to afford the fees of colleges and halls of residence but there has also been an increasing specialisation in education which has required that people wanting to undertake courses have had to move to institutions away from their normal place of residence. [More…]

• It may be argued on this basis that students are less needy or have a lower priority than many other people in the community such as the aged and the low income earners. [More…]

• A great service could result from the provision of units for these groups of migrants and other disadvantaged groups within the Australian community. [More…]

• Certainly the Australian Government has always been active in providing financial assistance for housing to certain groups in the community, including the poor, the aged, migrants, Aborigines and suitably qualified past and present members of the armed Services. [More…]

• Time moves and opinions, climates and society and community attitudes change. [More…]

• I am sure that it will be greeted by the community with quite a lot of joy [More…]

• That has been the situation not just in the last 2 years since the Labor Government came to power; it has been the situation in the community for many years. [More…]

• I would hope that the Minister, with the committee that he has set up under an eminent academic, will make proposals in these areas having as first priority- not the second- the position of the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that one of the most important things that this Parliament can do is to provide housing which is one of the basic needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• We have heard from numerous speakers on the Government side this afternoon about how we the members of the Opposition must have compassion for those in the community who are unable to fund the purchase of their own homes. [More…]

• Here we are debating a piece of legislation which is not going to put one more cent into the pockets of people who need housing but is going to employ hundreds of public servants to ascertain whether State authorities are doing their bidding and whether the Commonwealth can interfere even more in the operations of the private sector of the community which has always worked on the assumption that where there is a demand for housing it shall be met provided interest rates are kept within the capacity of all our citizens to pay. [More…]

• The fundamental principle which the Liberal Party has enunciated in the field of housing is that it is the responsibility of the Australian Government to ensure that the housing industry, both private and public sectors, should have the necessary resources of land, labour, materials and finance available at all times to meet the social needs of the community. [More…]

• Accordingly, we do support initiatives which provide greater opportunities for the housing industry to produce more houses and to increase the quality and quantity of dwelling units, which is consistent with the particular local needs of the community. [More…]

• While we are all very concerned about housing, while we all want to see housing provided for people, while we all want to see an economy in which housing can be created instead of an economy which has destroyed the ability of our community to create housing, we as parliamentarians are spending our time dealing with this and with a multitude of other matters which remove from us our ability to participate in decision-making in areas for which we have paramount responsibility. [More…]

• The Bill we are discussing is another example of the Government’s bringing to itself power to deal with certain people in the community- and that is what has happened- while we abrogate our responsibility to deal with foreign affairs, immigration, defence- all the matters for which we have specific responsibility, about which I feel very concerned and on which I rarely have an opportunity to speak. [More…]

• It is something which is enshrined in the philosophy of the Liberal Party because we believe that for the great bulk of the community a home will be the most substantial single asset they will hold during their lifetime. [More…]

• It would appear from well founded studies that the dominant factor creating such egalitarian distribution of wealth arises from the degree of home ownership in Australia rather than that created by other mechanisms operating within the community, particularly savings. [More…]

• He is a gentleman coming from my own State of Western Australia and I am sure his views, if put forward to the people on public platforms as well as in this House, would soon be shown to be totally unacceptable to the community. [More…]

• We have seen this repeated, for example, by the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) in the formation of the National Pipeline Authority and in the Petroleum and Minerals Authority, both Crown corporations intended to concentrate ownership in the state which, coupled with the financial power of the Commonwealth, intrude into the activities of the community in a large measure. [More…]

• I believe it is wrong for any community to allow the concentration of such power in the hands of public corporations of this kind. [More…]

• I firmly believe, in accordance with the Liberal philosophy, that much the better way in which to organise society is to allow the greatest economic freedom to individuals by seeing that the total income and the total wealth of the community are distributed on as wide a base as is possible down to the individuals. [More…]

• That would release a lot more credit for the use of individuals throughout the community for this noble purpose of acquiring their own homes. [More…]

• What we have instead is something which draws off from the community, through taxation, money which would otherwise be available to individuals, and distributes it back to the community according to the whims and wishes of the Government. [More…]

• It is even more important that the members of the Australian community recognise that, because there was a conflicting parliamentary occasion in New South Wales, apparently the Prime Minister decided that today would be the appropriate time for this public political execution. [More…]

• I commend his appointment to the members of the Government Party- for the time being in government- and I commend the circumstances of the destruction of Mr Speaker Cope to the consideration of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• So often in the discussion of problems that confront the community of this country we find that whenever there is a move to bring about reform the pendulum swings too far, that the enthusiasm and desire to bring about reform sometimes go to extreme limits. [More…]

• Surely it is in the community’s best interests that parties to a marriage which has been dissolved conduct themselves honourably and that one is. [More…]

• Women on the whole are more protected than they have ever been, and the emotive mouthings to the contrary are deliberate falsehoods to arouse uninformed public opinion to further the ends of those who seek to impose their views on the community by the use of all possible means, legitimate and illegitimate. [More…]

• I see no value in a divorce law whereby the community seeks to assign blame and enter judgement of culpability when a marriage has failed. [More…]

• Rather it is buttressed by proper preparation for and understanding of marriage, the values and standards of the community, and the capacity for commitment and selflessness in the individuals in that community. [More…]

• These figures would suggest a greater degree of adulterous relationships within the general community, or on the other hand they could be seen to reflect a need to perjure oneself or engage in collusion in order to gain a ground for quick divorce. [More…]

• The misconception seems to be that the divorce rate in the community is a direct measure of happiness in marriage or a measure of morality or immorality within the community. [More…]

• It is said that the Bill will weaken marriage and that the community will suffer from what might be described as permissiveness in our society as a result. [More…]

• Taking all these matters into consideration and speaking as one who has changed his mind over the years that I have been in this Parliament since the first Matrimonial Causes Bill was introduced and as one who has seen something of the misery and suffering that this world regrettably asks many of its inhabitants to bear, the legislature must bend to these people in our community. [More…]

• I believe that our community today, being of the character that it is, must acknowledge that there is a reasonableness to be observed in all manner of things, not least of all in this human field- a field with all its imperfections. [More…]

• I think that young people in our community should be encouraged to accept that principle, when entering into a contract with each other, that all is not going to be well all the time but that the benefits of trying to be tolerant, understanding, and to make it work will bring to them and to the community greater benefits than entering this holy estate, as I regard it, with their eyes shut expecting it to be all sunshine and laughter. [More…]

• It is drafted to satisfy the wants of an unfortunate minority in our community and not the need for a stable, orderly and secure society. [More…]

• I am sure that all of us in this House and in the Senate have discerned within the community changes in social attitudes which require changes in the existing legislation. [More…]

• I invited all church groups and other significant social groups in the community to give me their views on this legislation. [More…]

• There is common ground in the community on a number of things. [More…]

• It has been a salutary lesson for the Parliament, in the light of events of recent days, that we as individual members of Parliament can approach a matter of such importance to Australia in that spirit of goodwill and with a sense of seriousness and obligation to the community. [More…]

• The attitude of ‘we know best’ in matters which concern legislation for the whole community as distinct from those of us who hold interpretive religious positions is one which is gravely misunderstood and dallies with the sin of selfrighteousness. [More…]

• Indeed, I regard it as a duty to seek to represent a concerned and informed strength of support within the Christian community for the humane proposals of the Bill, undergirded by the setting up of family courts, a family law council and an institute of family studies- aspects which have been conveniently ignored or brushed aside by the emotive claims of the ‘no fault’ argument. [More…]

• If, on the other hand, certain groups within the community believe that their religious convictions prohibit their taking advantage of courses of law open to them and that they must therefore oppose reforming legislation for others who may not share the same binding religious principle, then, although at all times such groups should be accepted, they must be strenuously opposed when the imposition of that principle is sought within the inclusion of the law. [More…]

• I think it would be fair to say that there are some people in the community who would like to see the Bill totally defeated, that there are some who would like to see the Bill carried without amendment and that there is a great number of others who would like to see the Bill carried with amendments. [More…]

• For anybody to suggest that the passage of this legislation will not have some long term impact on the general community attitude towards marriage and on the general community attitude towards relationships between men and women within marriage is, I think, to fail to understand the real impact of social legislation in our society. [More…]

• The second criterion is that it must give proper expression to community attitudes towards divorce. [More…]

• Those of us who support the amendment that has been moved, and those in the community who oppose some aspects of the Family Law Bill, have been accused of sacrificing everything, so far as divorce law is concerned, on the alter of what the former Attorney-General of this Commonwealth described as ‘ecclesiastical garbage’. [More…]

• I believe that in a great number of casesprobably the majority of cases- it is possible and overwhelmingly desirable to eliminate allegations of misconduct and allegations of fault But I believe with equal force that in some cases you cannot eliminate allegations of misconduct and allegations of fault without doing to some people in the community a greater injustice than the result that you are trying to achieve and more unpleasantness than you are trying to eliminate by doing away with allegations of fault. [More…]

• I think all honourable members will be aware of the very unhappy incidence of wife bashing that occurs in our community. [More…]

• It is the duty of this Parliament to make good laws- laws which will protect the weak and provide justice for the whole community. [More…]

• The mother, concerned about her family, concerned about her position with the other-people in the community, knowing perhaps that her husband has not done the right thing by her, has continued to try to make a home. [More…]

• What we do by law is an indicator to the people in the community of what is good conduct. [More…]

• We live in a highly developed, sophisticated, technological community. [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…]

• We should be looking to see how we can build up the family; how we can build up homes; how we can strengthen the community. [More…]

• Not only do we need to act in terms of the beliefs and prejudices of the community from which we come but also we have to uphold the values of democracy and to hold the state in check. [More…]

• I accept that it is now the community judgment that that is too long a period. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the Bill’s principles have majority support throughout the community. [More…]

• I acknowledge the sincerity of those in this House and in the community who are opposed to the principles contained in the Bill, but I must in conscience vote for it. [More…]

• I believe that the net result of the vote in this House will probably reflect the total community view. [More…]

• There is a fear throughout the community that the Bill will do something to reduce the stability of marriage and to increase the degree of impermanence .of marriage. [More…]

• That is depreciating the contract of marriage below any commercial contract- below almost any other contract that one could envisage in the Australian community. [More…]

• All that this legislation seeks is to divide the Australian community into those who will be allowed to buy or rent a house and those who will not. [More…]

• I was anxious that the Bill should be introduced as early as possible to enable the Parliament and the community to evaluate its provisions and to react and respond in such a way as would enable useful suggestions to be made which could be taken into account. [More…]

• This scheme will widen immensely the Australian Government’s ability to work helpfully and co-operatively with institutional lenders and with the private sector so as to fulfil the housing aspirations of a significant sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• In effect, therefore, the Corporation will be providing housing assistance to new groups in the community on lines similar in many respects to those under the Defence Service Homes Act for servicemen and ex-servicemen. [More…]

• Finance and assist innovative programs suggested by developers, builders, building societies, banks or community groups. [More…]

• We are committed to open government and community participation. [More…]

• An effective anti-inflation policy must rest on restraint by all groups in the community insofar as their claims on economic resources are concerned. [More…]

• Restraint by the Government is essential to encourage restraint by the community at large. [More…]

• As was mentioned in the Parliament today, he is a very tame cat when he has to go into court to substantiate the wild allegations he makes constantly against Labor Party members and others in the community. [More…]

• -The Cabinet decision was made in respect of a particular application and it was made in the light of the dissension which would have been caused in the community if the visit of the Palestine Liberation Organisation had taken place at that time. [More…]

• It is true that many of the States are pursuing a policy which will centralise in their bureaucracies a very great number of programs which, in accordance with thought in most countries today, including Australia, should be carried out more on a local, regional or community basis. [More…]

• The thrust of my Government’s policies has been very largely to use community and local organisations to involve people in localities in deciding and in recommending what assistance and what programs Governments should provide. [More…]

• The whole modernisation of Australian welfare services and community activities will be brought down if the State governments succeed in their attempts to preserve such activities on a centralised State basis. [More…]

• I have noted comments, some with malicious misrepresentation as the main motive, coming from the Opposition that only 3 per cent to 4 per cent of the community would be uncovered as a result of private health insurance, the pensioner medical service and repatriation medical arrangements. [More…]

• If there have not been changes in any of these respects will the Prime Minister ensure that consideration of future applications by a PLO delegation will consider these basic principles rather than the pragmatic questions of temporary tensions within the Australian community? [More…]

• It is true that the Arab community in Australia is more affluent and articulate than once was the case. [More…]

• It ought to be possible in Australia, as it is possible in Canada, which is another federal system, and as it is becoming possible in the United States, which is yet another federal system, for the government to make it possible for everybody to receive medical treatment, whatever his means and whatever his place of residence; that is, the community’s health is the responsibility basically of the community. [More…]

• It pays the community to get people back to work, to be vigorous and healthy. [More…]

• Those people could be used in the community if they had skills, but they have none. [More…]

• I was speaking to my very good friend, the honourable member for Swan (Mr Bennett), and he told me that in his area work has been found for 300 people, all of whom are engaged in what would be considered to be community work and an asset to the community. [More…]

• That is not an isolated instance; there are many instances that one could give of the RED scheme providing the funds for essential community projects and, in turn, providing employment for people. [More…]

• In an endeavour to score some political capital out of the situation, it seems that the Opposition is feeding the Australian community this constant line of untruths, but the community will not swallow it. [More…]

• I trust that this will go some way towards relieving the concern that was expressed by research workers in the field who make considerable material sacrifice in order to carry out an essential community procedure for the benefit of mankind. [More…]

• They will take no notice of the requests of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) or the Prime Minister to show caution and restraint and not to put in exaggerated wage claims in excess of the capacity of the community to pay. [More…]

• You cannot get confidence in a community- confidence is one of the basic ingredients of successwhen there is a government that does not know where it is going and is not capable of developing a consistent, comprehensive and predictable economic policy. [More…]

• The fact that the business community lacks confidence is clearly shown in the statistics which were issued today. [More…]

• The eastern shore of Hobart has been affected much more than the western shore- the eastern shore is represented by the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Sherry)- but the loss of the bridge has had a total effect on the whole community of Hobart. [More…]

• I am amused that the Government should continue to claim that wages have increased at a greater rate than community prices because if this is the case someone has to make up the difference somewhere along the line. [More…]

• But there are many other sections of the community that completely miss out. [More…]

• Prices in the European Economic Community countries and the United Kingdom have remained fairly steady. [More…]

• The Advisory Council, which until September of last year was a small body consisting of persons elected by the community and nominees of departments, was replaced by a chamber of 18 members all elected on an adult franchise in September 1 974, and the new institution designated the Legislative Assembly, although it had no legislative functions, has been meeting and conducting business. [More…]

• During this dme, therefore, the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital’ Territory has been considering the related questions of, firstly, the most appropriate form of self-government for the Australian Capital Territory and, secondly, the proportion of the costs of government of the Australian Capital Territory that should be met by the Australian Capital Territory community and the Australian government respectively. [More…]

• In view of the range and breadth of functions which we see as ultimately becoming the responsibility of the local community and the legislative role that this will entail, the Committee considers that a parliamentary form of government is the most appropriate form of government for trie Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Medibank can come into operation without this legislation, but the operation of private health insurance would be not only much more messy but also less responsible to the needs and the rights of members of the community. [More…]

• I think it is a rather ignominious achievement by the Country Party that it presided over the development of the greatest level of poverty in this country within the rural sectors of the community and did nothing about it. [More…]

• As I said earlier, how can the Australian people and the Australian business community believe in the intentions of the Government? [More…]

• Mr Speaker, the purpose of the Bill is to establish an Australian National Gallery in the national capital to develop, maintain and exhibit a national collection of works of art and to provide an art focus for the whole Australian community. [More…]

• The tragedy and suffering from this maiming and death touch nearly everyone in the community in one way or another. [More…]

• Even in economic terms the cost of road accidents to the community is staggering. [More…]

• The other 2 fields of endeavour proposed for the Authority are of considerable importance to the community. [More…]

• I wish to convey to the House the impression that this is for the very express purpose of discussing the Family Law Bill in relation to which I suppose it could be said that there is unprecedented interest in the community as every honorable member has been inundated with various points of view. [More…]

• This is especially important in this time of accelerating community involvement and participation. [More…]

• It could be a tribute to International Women’s Year that we took the year to help in changing entrenched attitudes of some people within our community, that we took the year to broaden the minds of those who have closed their minds to change, of those who cling to old prejudices, old accepted attitudes, old accepted roles. [More…]

• But these are still peripheral changes and it is the community acceptance of roles of men and women that has to be changed. [More…]

• Community acceptance or tolerance of inequalities is in revolt. [More…]

• But until such time as the Government can explain away the inconsistency in its attitude towards sporting contests with South Africa, I believe that not only members of this House but also members of the Australian community are entitled to say that it is no business of the Government to deny those sporting contests. [More…]

• Pensioners will be received as anyone else in the community and no special arrangements will be necessary for them. [More…]

• The cost to the community is never considered. [More…]

• Obviously there are important problems surrounding the financing of Medibank to which the community of Australia needs to be alerted. [More…]

• I still believe in the principle that we are a civilised country, and we in the male section of the community certainly respect the female section. [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…]

• But we in this place have been given an enormous responsibility, and that responsibility is to make laws which meet the needs of the whole community, and all of its members, to the greatest extent possible. [More…]

• But what we ought to be devoting much more attention to as a Parliament and certainly as a community is the prevention of divorce- not by legislation but by the strengthening of marriage. [More…]

• One of the things that has disturbed me about this debate is the way in which some people in the .community- not necessarily people in this House- have turned the argument on its head. [More…]

• Although if we are quite convinced as individual members that certain action is necessary in the interests of the community we should not hesitate to give expression to that opinion by our vote. [More…]

• For that reason I believe it will be generally of advantage to the community. [More…]

• I least of all would support any idea of all training activities for unionists being carried out in isolation from the rest of the community. [More…]

• I believe the whole community will benefit from what this Bill proposes. [More…]

• The Bill accords them this status because it is considered by the Government to be essential to the successful operation of the Tribunal that it should enjoy a high standing in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is time, therefore, that the members of the community can turn to travel agents confident in the knowledge that they are dealing with professional people bound by codes and practices which uphold their interests. [More…]

• Governments, if they refuse to accept railways as part of our way of life and treat them purely in economic terms, certainly will add to the community’s financial burdens through increased road traffic and the necessity to spend vast sums on road construction and maintenance. [More…]

• The under-privileged sections of our community, including pensioners, will continue to suffer from the variety and lack of concessions for travel offered from State to State and some of them will not be able to utilise those concessions offering on Australian national railways because of inadequate State concessions on the systems connecting. [More…]

• When I am dealing with municipal law I am not dealing with local government law; I am dealing with the community, the municipal law of this country, and it stands in prospect of affecting the rights, the attitudes, of people under the municipal law and as a consequence of that the international convention must be ratified. [More…]

• It is proposed, under Part III of the Bill, to have what is described, I would have thought with an uncommon indulgence in exuberance, as a Commissioner for Community relations. [More…]

• The complaint is made to the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations receives the complaint, he makes inquiries- as he is entitled to do and is obliged to do under the Bill- and he is then at liberty to call Jones before him and to say to him, in effect: ‘What is this all about? [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations is not under the slightest obli-gatton to reveal the name of the complainant. [More…]

• The relative situation and standing of the indigenous community also demonstrates that Australians of European origin are prepared to employ a different standard of social, political, economic and legal behaviour when applied to individuals of different genetic origin from that which they would apply to people ‘of their own kind ‘. [More…]

• Because of their deep seated philosophical commitment, members of the Liberal and Country Parties have brought about a ‘free health insurance scheme which covers all Australians’- Medibank- and the community has no one else but them to thank for that. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the sport of lawn bowls has more active participants than any other sport in Australia and that it is one of the few active sports that cater for the older members of the community? [More…]

• Is he further aware of the community health aspects associated with lawn bowls? [More…]

• Under our Government’s policy State governments and local governments are encouraged to establish community facilities. [More…]

• It can, as the honourable member suggested, have the advantage of bringing elderly people back into the community, giving them an interest and even helping them to recover from some of their illnesses. [More…]

• In Australia forces are at work again to distort facts, divide the community and create bitterness. [More…]

• Yet, for some extraordinary reason one group in this community- the present Government; I refuse to associate it with the culture, character and conscience of the majority of the Australian people- seems to be prepared to take the view that what is to happen must be allowed to happen. [More…]

• More important than that, the people who happen to form the community of the Asian nations have been consulted by Liberal governments in the past but more recently they have been told by our great Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who travels the world to express his opinion, how everything must be seen in accordance with the dictates of his will and conscience. [More…]

• Relations Board in Britain, which carries out similar functions to those to be performed by our proposed Commissioner for Community Relations, has recommended amendments to its legislation in the light of its experience. [More…]

• But it will enable positive action to be taken against such discriminatory activities and it will help mould community attitudes, not only because of the existence of the legislation but also because the Commissioner will have the power to promote education and research. [More…]

• I thought the second reading speech by the Attorney-General was totally inadequate and revealed not only an insensitiveness to the feelings which I believe could be easily aroused in the community as a whole by this Bill but also treated members of the Parliament on this side and on his own side with thinly veiled contempt. [More…]

• This is important because if discrimination comes about through inadvertence there are no underlying community attitudes which have to be changed. [More…]

• The Bill, in its philosophy, should be concerned with protecting individuals who are in some way in an oppressed or prejudiced minority; not with creating conflicts between cultural or ethnic societies or urging ideological or social confrontation, but with affording those individuals in the community who have for so long been denied any sort of recourse the opportunity to preserve the idea of equality of opportunity that has for so long been lauded but only sometimes practised. [More…]

• An essential precondition for the solution of such problems within a community such as Australia’s is adequate control of immigration. [More…]

• I welcome the establishment of a Commission for Community Relations as I believe that personal communication and understanding should be the basis of any social interaction. [More…]

• The second point I wish to make is as follows: While I consider this type of legislation to be a breakthrough it is with sadness that I recognise that there is a need for it in this community. [More…]

• It is in this respect that I again wish to comment on the powers that this Bill gives to launch an educational program within the community. [More…]

• Instead of ending hostility and racial prejudice between different racial and ethnic groups in our community, the enforcement of the provisions of this Bill will foment and exacerbate hostility. [More…]

• If a Bill were introduced into this Parliament to remove religious bigotry from our community by similar penal provisions as are contained in this legislation I believe it would resurrect religious prejudice and bitterness to a degree which we do not want to suffer today. [More…]

• Such practices have been a feature of our legal system and have been accepted- by our community as the legal system which we require. [More…]

• I give the Government credit for setting up a commission to negotiate with people and to try to get a different approach among the different ethnic peoples in our community. [More…]

• However, I am completely opposed to the oppressive powers conferred on the so-called commissioner of the Community Relations Council and to the powers of the Council. [More…]

• Anyone who strayed from the accepted norms of the community was ostracised and often persecuted for his difference. [More…]

• If we do not, we will soon find how disapproving the community will become. [More…]

• The other is the educative section that seeks to change community attitudes both now and in the future. [More…]

• I am one of those who firmly believe that there is little one can do to legislate hatred and prejudice out of the hearts and minds of individuals, but a legislative framework that makes it illegal to commit acts of racism creates a community atmosphere that will have both a short term and a long term benefit. [More…]

• Racism is not confined to one side of the House or one side of the community. [More…]

• He was referring to Jews- exerts political, social and, especially, economic pressure in a way which is far in excess of their numerical position in the Australian community. [More…]

• I will quote again the relevant racist portion of the statement: - and, especially, economic pressure in a way which is far in excess of their numerical position in the Australian community. [More…]

• In other words, every person in the community of a racial ethnic national group should be very careful when he or she makes any statement or exerts any pressure in the community that he does not say anything which will have an effect out of proportion to the group’s numbers in the community. [More…]

• For instance, if there were 5 Asians in Australia they must exert .00005 per cent pressure, or whatever it may be, in the community. [More…]

• The next thing that Mr Hartley will be recommending is that we revert to the days when in Poland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there was a quota placed on Jews entering universities which was in proportion to their numbers in the community. [More…]

• I hope to God the day comes that when this sort of statement is made by a socalled social democrat it is hammered at by everybody in the community and that the person who makes the statement is shown up for what he is. [More…]

• But this is part of community attitudes that have grown up. [More…]

• In preparing my remarks for tonight’s debate I read a document which was prepared, I think about the middle of last year, and which was sent out under cover of a letter from the Commissioner for Community Relations, the former Federal member for Riverina. [More…]

• I am informed that at that conference discussion will be held by meat exporting countries to see whether there could not be some avenue through which the European Economic Community could increase beef imports from Australia. [More…]

• -I wish tonight to address myself mainly to the question of the introduction of Medibank and the associated attempt to arouse fear and apprehension in a section of the community which is most susceptible to those feelings with respect to Medibank. [More…]

• I hope that now that Medibank will obviously come into operation, people who ought to be fairly responsible people in the community- this includes the medical profession- do not try to scare the community when it is pointless even politically. [More…]

• Under the present taxation rates, both corporate and personal, this initiative, this encouragement, simply will not come about and the whole community will suffer. [More…]

• The study will determine how these costs bear on the occupier, and how they bear on the community as a whole through the provision of services. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• The Department of Customs and Excise does not administer any programs which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants for a specific purpose. [More…]

• 14) All reasonable efforts have been made to bring the existence of the scheme, the eligibility conditions and the application procedures to the notice of the community. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• The following programs administered by my Department and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants for a specific purpose. [More…]

• Grants under these programs are not publicised in detail but by reference to CSIRO Annual Reports and from general knowledge within the scientific community, interested parties would be aware of the existence of these programs. [More…]

• -Confirming the question, I take it that the honourable member is asking whether New South Wales has met its responsibility in contributing towards the cost of community health centres in that State. [More…]

• By and large the States have co-operated well in the community health program and are meeting 25 per cent of the capital cost and 10 per cent of the running costs of the centres that have been constructed. [More…]

• Unfortunately, while some of these centres are performing a valuable service and have come into existence as the result of community initiative and activity which the State has approved in principle, the State has said that they must raise 10 per cent of the running costs which is not provided for under our legislation and they must meet 25 per cent of the capital costs, not from the State contribution but from other sources. [More…]

• It ought to know that the fostering of community health care is one of the major ways it can save itself the enormous escalation of costs, particularly of capital costs, of hospital care. [More…]

• I point out now that of the existing deficit of $3,000m more than $ 1,000m is a reduction in taxation which means that the community has more money to spend on goods and services, to remove the stocks that have been a drag on industry for some time, and to stimulate demand in general. [More…]

• This provides that the director has to prepare a proposal which has to be made available to the community for general discussion or criticism before it finally comes forward for processing through my Department and through this House. [More…]

• It may sound long winded to many people in the community who want me just to declare areas national parks, but many interests are involved and we intend to pursue the procedures which, I might say, were modified, on the basis of proposals made by the Opposition, to take into account various community interests. [More…]

• However, I hope I can allay the community’s anxieties by pointing out that the train of events has been set in motion, that the parks will be declared in the foreseeable future and that everyone will have a chance to discuss each program for the control and management of national parks. [More…]

• If it is desirable that the knowledge and experience of a Full Bench- that is at least 3 members, 2 of whom must be Presidential Membersshould be available to deal with matters of important public interest and to protect parties to awards and the community against the consequences of possible error or misjudgment by Presidential Members of the Commission, it is equally desirable that that knowledge and experience should be available in relation to a Presidential Member of the Commission who constitutes the Flight Crew Officers Industrial Tribunal. [More…]

• The reference provisions are a means whereby general principles can be formulated for application in relation to matters of importance to the community in general and whereby disputes of major significance can be brought before a Full Bench in the public interest. [More…]

• Before dealing with aspects of this Family Law Bill 1 974 in closer detail I must comment on approaches that have been taken by some speakers in this debate as well as representations from the Australian community at large. [More…]

• It is also not correct to quote religious denominations or community organisations as strictly adhering to one view or another. [More…]

• But most women in the community are not professional women. [More…]

• In my view these organisations represent only professional women; they do not represent the majority of women in the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I am sufficiently a realist to acknowledge that marriage breakdowns are a fact of life in our community and that, therefore, one must legislate in a compassionate manner to represent all sections of the community. [More…]

• Eventually, because of the reaction within the community which was political as well as social, not very much was done. [More…]

• On the one hand our obvious need is to listen to community views, take note of letters and views that are addressed to us and then make up our minds where we stand. [More…]

• I think that governments should recognise that it is not desirable in the community of the family interests to make divorce in that case as easy as this Bill does. [More…]

• It is utterly scandalous that at that place there has been a grog shop for some years which is in the process of destroying the Oenpelli community. [More…]

• The representatives of the Oenpelli community have come down to Canberra to say this and to ask us to do something about it. [More…]

• We are going to sit by and see the Aboriginal community at Oenpelli destroyed. [More…]

• I do not think the Australian community is addicted to lawbreaking but there is no doubt in my mind that a great deal of the force of legislation comes from the prospect of penalties. [More…]

• May I also put this reason to honourable members: It seems to the Government unjust, it seems wrong, it seems oppressive to expect a person in the community who is probably a very inarticulate person, often a very vulnerable person, to pick up the cudgels against a more articulate and more powerful person even though the more powerful person may have broken some rule of law and even though the weaker person is assisted with legal aid. [More…]

• One aspect is to outline procedures under which people live and the other is to develop a community attitude towards desirable activities within society. [More…]

• Even if it were not so, I would argue that a clause such as clause 28 is very desirable because the criminal law does not only provide a penalty; it expresses a sense of community outrage at certain types of behaviour. [More…]

• Certain groups within the community are concerned about that proviso. [More…]

• I am simply saying that I believe that, by trying to pretend that certain things do not exist and by trying to pretend that the community is different from what it is the Government will cause more tension than it will alleviate. [More…]

• This Bill is directed towards the community in all sorts of ways- by law, by education and by influence. [More…]

• -The Opposition will oppose the amendments to this Bill, which of course has come back from the Senate, in the belief that the people who are directly involved, namely the members of the Aboriginal community living on the reserves in Queensland, do not want the legislation imposed upon them. [More…]

• In an Aboriginal society the environs of an Aboriginal community are an Aboriginal’s castle because clearly Aborigines enjoy living in communities and acting as communities. [More…]

• The Aboriginal people are more community minded in a communal sense than most European people are. [More…]

• The telegram was addressed to Les Stewart, a highly respected gentleman of the Aboriginal community of Cherbourg, a man who has done remarkably well for himself and for his family. [More…]

• A national transport approach is abolutely necessary if we are to meet the needs of the Australian community and permit the proper development of this country. [More…]

• I would think that given the fact that we probably face a generation of legislation which positively discriminates in favour of Aborigines and Islanders, in the long term the needs of the Aboriginal and Island people of this country will be met by those Commonwealth and State government Acts and departments that service the needs and requirements of all of the other people in the Australian community. [More…]

• This provision is designed to ensure that people who live on Aboriginal reserves in Queensland have the same right to privacy as any other person in the Australian community. [More…]

• I must say in fairness that I have seen decisions where a person has committed an offence against the regulations which in the outside community would have incurred a much greater penalty. [More…]

• I think that the cross-section of the Aboriginal community is much the same as other people in Australia. [More…]

• We have before us a very sensible piece of legislation based on conventions which this country has supported in the United Nations, based on principles which are applied in the broader Australian community. [More…]

• I know that our Aboriginal community is not necessarily helped by going too fast, but neither is it helped by going too slowly, and in this case I believe that the moves by the Queensland Government, although in the right direction, have been too slow and that this BUI is a good and necessary BUI. [More…]

• In a matter like this, I believe that the proper law would be one which commends itself to the bulk of the Aboriginal community which would be affected by it. [More…]

• I know that there has been no formal counting of heads in this matter, but I do have some experience and I am fairly clear in my mind that the amendment which the Minister proposes to move would not be in accordance with the wishes of the Aboriginal community in Queensland which would be affected by it. [More…]

• We have a great aversion to the suggestion of people working in a well knit group within a community for their own common purpose. [More…]

• We have to decide whether we want to maintain the culture of the Aboriginal, whether we want to grant land rights to him, whether we want to relegate him to the distant places of this continent or whether we want to absorb or merge- describe it as we please- him into the main Australian community, realising that that represents about 99 per cent of our community. [More…]

• We are members of the Australian community and we will pay our way’. [More…]

• Certainly a lot of people would not understand how important it is to give that degree of responsibility to the Aboriginal people at this time when the Australian community itself and certainly this Government have in a sense given the lead to try to engender a spirit of selfdetermination. [More…]

• So there is a different sort of community there. [More…]

• The philosophy of the Queensland Government over a long period of time has been that the Aboriginal reserves are a temporary phenomenon and that the lot of the Aboriginal people is to be assimilated into the outside Australian community. [More…]

• If assimilation is to be a fact of life and if the Aborigines are to have a free choice as to whether they assimilate into the broader Australian community or stay in their own communities, it must be a 2-way traffic. [More…]

• I think there is general approval in the community of those people receiving such recognition. [More…]

• This event is outstanding in the sense that it is very easy now to talk to Cretans as it is to talk to the Greek community, who are suffering a lot of trials and tribulations in other areas, particularly Cyprus. [More…]

• It is very easy to talk to the responsible people in the Greek community. [More…]

• The Council has recently made a total review of research priorities which is aimed to take account of the most pressing needs for the Australian community, some of which have undoubtedly arisen because of its life style and environment. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• I would like to see a similar principle introduced in relation to the files compiled on individuals in the community and held by the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• We do not require any alternative sources of agency servicing in the community. [More…]

• I believe there is a widespread concern throughout the Australian community on this very point. [More…]

• But that consent can be reinforced and maintained, even when laws are often opposed by particular individuals, only when there is general respect throughout the community for the institution of Parliament, for the institution of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• Of course we all know that in every community there are some who will engage in fraud and deception. [More…]

• It must increase finance to the meat canning industry and use every effort to reenter the American market, the Japanese market and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I invite that honourable member or any other honourable member, or any person in the community to find a single comment - [More…]

• Superficially there may be attraction to this proposition by many people who will say: ‘We know exactly which candidate is standing for which party’, but once we start on this registration system, once we start trying to define when a name is sufficiently different from another, and once we start dealing with peoplethere are some, but very few- in the community who are ever ready to take advantage of such legalities we start to get into a very difficult and undesirable position. [More…]

• One of the things that has disturbed me about the electoral distributions that have been carried out is that very frequently insufficient consideration is given to matters such as community of interest. [More…]

• Indeed to single out the spouse in this way surely must be offensive to those who are taking an interest in such matters as International Women’s Year and in the rights of women and their position in the Australian community. [More…]

• I am glad the honourable member raised that, because the question of who makes that decision and the question of coalition parties and other parties within the community is one which immediately comes to mind. [More…]

• There is a fundamental right- an inalienable right, I believe -for individuals in a community to be able to offer themselves for election to a Parliament. [More…]

• They seem to be unaware of what is happening in the community generally. [More…]

• They do not seem to know as much about their pet subject as the community who voted for them. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hume talks about the retention of democracy in our community. [More…]

• The retention of democracy in our community means that the most information that can possibly be conveyed to people on election day should be conveyed to them. [More…]

• The community knows that. [More…]

• We are a pan of the community and we have organised ourselves into parties because we know that. [More…]

• Every person who gets a postal vote ought to be called upon to do what every other person in the community does and that is to vote before the close of the poll. [More…]

• I consider that what we are putting up in terms of having a new form and in terms of closing the poll on the night of the election is something reasonable and quite acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• I am sure that every honourable member on this side of the chamber would oppose vigorously the imposition of any register of any specific section of the community, of the electoral public, under the electoral laws of Australia. [More…]

• Clause 43 is concerned with the use of the term ‘given names’ rather than ‘Christian names’ and this simply and solely recognises the variety of views and religions which we encourage in our community. [More…]

• In conclusion, I simply say that there is agreement on this matter in the community. [More…]

• I do not think that members of the community look for any political advantage for any political party but look for a convenient way of filling in ballot papers so that their wish can be expressed. [More…]

• Certainly, there is a feeling in the community that the laws that govern the voting for candidates for this place or for the Senate need review. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall the widespread exasperation and disgust in the community over the complexity of the ballot papers and the protracted nature of the count. [More…]

• Those people who are crying about the system never seem to try to dissect the differentials between those who may be entitled to postal votes and those who are not; nor do they try to dissect those sections of the community which in total are entitled to postal votes. [More…]

• But the major political Parties in the meantime spent fortunes trying to educate the community how to vote from 1 to 73. [More…]

• But people are sitting in this Parliament because of preferences well down the list, If people, especially the migrant community, want to vote for just the person they know or the person they want to represent them, under this legislation they can do so, and where people want to vote down the complete list they can do so. [More…]

• We would also enable minority groups in the community to be represented without their being able to use political blackmail by using a balance of power. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted: if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• 1 have received a number of recommendations from various community organisations requesting that a ban be placed on all forms of drug, cigarette and alcohol advertising. [More…]

• 1) How many copies of the publication Community have been printed. [More…]

• The first issue of Community contained an open invitation to any contributor. [More…]

• a Special Provision of Capital and Recurrent Financial Assist?ance for Community Welfare Agencies experiencing serious financial difficulties. [More…]

• My Department has notified each of its State Head” quarters and requested them to advise details of community welfare agencies in their State which come within the category of agency to be assisted under this program. [More…]

• that the assistance be provided with the general aim of achieving a balance of necessary services in the community in the light of overall community needs and the encouragement of voluntary initiatives; [More…]

• Financial assistance under the provisions of this fund is an interim measure only and in the longer term, it is envisaged that the Australian Assistance Plan will provide a source of financial assistance for community welfare agencies. [More…]

• The major purpose of the fund is to provide financial assistance to worthwhile existing welfare community agencies in serious financial need. [More…]

• The program announced, of course, is community orientated and community based. [More…]

• It seems that in New South Wales we would be better advantaged giving the money to the community because we would get a much better result than we would by making it available through the State Government. [More…]

• I give the Government credit for knowing just how desperate and in how serious a position some sections of the rural community are. [More…]

• It will be some time before the model, desirable as it is, secures application to the community as a whole. [More…]

• I also take this opportunity of challenging the Treasurer to table the correspondence that he has received from the Governor of the Reserve Bank, because there is a sense of mounting disquiet throughout the Australian community that this Government should be prepared to pursue a course of action that is obviously in such sharp conflict with that of its principal monetary advisers. [More…]

• Governor of the Reserve Bank and all the economists who have looked at this question throughout the Australian community that a basic change in Government policy is essential and long overdue. [More…]

• But much of this increase, like that on pensions and social welfare and education- much more than half of the total- was essential if the poorer members of the community were to be kept up with inflationinflation, I remind honourable members, with which the present Government had nothing to do- and if real standards in education were to be maintained, let alone advanced. [More…]

• The Australian community must tell us what it thinks. [More…]

• Yet we have a Government which is hell bent on just pouring more and more money into the community and using the most unsatisfactory- the worst- device for doing it, namely, the printing press. [More…]

• People of great stature and importance in the community are expressing grave concern. [More…]

• If the Treasurer is serious about this then the view which is commonly held in the community, that the Treasurer is quite dangerous for the well-being of the economy of this country, seems to be a very justified view. [More…]

• There must be a cut in public expenditure, and the cut must be faced up to by the Government, in order to generate resources in the Australian community. [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…]

• The program aims to provide services where the community sees a need for them, and to support nonprofit services already operating. [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…]

• This will enable State and local government and community representatives to put forward their points of view in relation to services to be provided in the particular State or Territory. [More…]

• I believe the community will benefit from what this Bill proposes. [More…]

• At the same time as we hear talk of community involvement in education and greater autonomy for the school community, we find some apprehension that as the teacher has fewer and fewer responsibilities in the curriculum process he has less and less control over the classroom program. [More…]

• But the danger for the school child and for the community at large is that those responsible for curriculum development might adopt an attitude that there is only one way of proceeding. [More…]

• This is something we expect in a civilised community in a developed world. [More…]

• Many community services are under-utilised in the fields of law, consumer protection, public service and social welfare simply because of ignorance by individuals who have to use this machinery to enable them to get the best out of the society of which they must form a part. [More…]

• There would also be diversity in school community relationships and in the timing of educational experiences. [More…]

• Most of the teachers were prepared to say that no more than 10 per cent of their students at the junior secondary level were fully literate in terms of the standards one would expect of somebody capable of participating fully in the community. [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…]

• However, as a result of extremely able letters received from the migrant community, I wrote to the Schools Commission pointing out the complaints that they felt that a lot of the teaching in Australian schools was totally insensitive to their backgrounds and asking the Schools Commission to look at that. [More…]

• Such a method of promotion is a means of pooling the wide resources available in the community as it allows nomination by others who have a deep concern in the development of curriculum programs for use in the Australian education system. [More…]

• If technical education is confined to training in narrowly direct skills, those who take such courses may suffer loss of opportunity of employment of a vocational skill as a result of changing circumstances in the community. [More…]

• It will help individuals and the community to welcome technological and social change rather than fear its consequences because they will be better equipped to cope with it. [More…]

• One has only to look at the functions proposed for the Commission which are set out in clause 6 of the Bill to realise just what possibilities there are in the functioning of this Commission to provide opportunities for the community. [More…]

• The educational first phase should be to prepare a well adjusted individual with a developed community sense and an attainable job aspiration. [More…]

• If it does so the community will be that much the poorer by the lack of diversity and opportunity for its individual members. [More…]

• We can set arbitrary standards and we should set arbitrary standards, but when we speak of them as needs we run the risk of denying ourselves the opportunity of looking at a project against the calls of other sections of the community. [More…]

• By using that word we sanctify the proposal so that the community will demand that it be serviced over and above all other wishes and desires of the community. [More…]

• I have the fear that if we impose a centralistic control upon these people they will lose some of this enthusiasm and that pupils and the community will be the poorer for it. [More…]

• Secondly, there is my awareness that this has been a relatively neglected field where there are enormous needs and where it is so clear that the expenditure of public funds will result in easily identified dividends- indeed, will result in benefits which are very clear and will be recognised by the community. [More…]

• As an aside I should like to take this opportunity of saying that I have a strong conviction that as a community we may perhaps allocate too many resources in an expensive way to full time education if indeed some of those resources could be allocated to part time education. [More…]

• It will be concerned with the quality of education that is to be received by approximately half a million students in our community. [More…]

• I hope that it will have a speedy passage and will soon be leading to great benefits for the Australian community. [More…]

• I look forward to the extent to which this Bill develops the concept of community colleges in country centres and introduces student residences. [More…]

• But there are all too many technical education institutions that still have dingy, noisy, illventilated premises and obsolete machinery when in fact they should be giving the lead to industrial development in the community. [More…]

• I hope also that the community will adopt a different and more favourable attitude to technical education. [More…]

• The people who attend technical colleges have to play their part as much as any other citizen in the social work of the community. [More…]

• The need for technicians and technologists as well as tradesmen in our community is increasing all the time and, quite frankly, there are very remunerative opportunities for people who persist and who complete those courses. [More…]

• I hope again our community attitudes are going to change. [More…]

• It would be not only in the interests of the individual; it would also be in the interests of the community itself. [More…]

• The community is not paying for the value of a vehicle but for a false set of values arrived at by taxes, subsidies and tariffs applied by governments of various countries. [More…]

• So I imagine that my complaint has in fact struck a chord with the community. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• I refer to the poor, the inarticulate and the uneducated in our community- the people who, amongst others, this Labor Government proudly claims to speak for and for whom it works. [More…]

• It is those people who increasingly in recent years have been identified as members of the community who, although desperately in need of legal services, are denied legal services. [More…]

• Has the National Employment and Training scheme been successful in assisting people who are socially and economically disadvantaged in the community? [More…]

• I have also indicated in this House on other occasions that the Government cannot keep pouring money out endlessly to subsidise nursing homes in the Australian community. [More…]

• Certainly I will review the matter, but I would not hold out any great encouragement to the honourable member or to the community that the Australian Government can continue extending itself in this field where it has proven beyond any doubt that it has been extremely generous indeed. [More…]

• If it has made it impossible for the normal family farmer, how much worse it is for soldier settlers for they are constricted in ways that do not pertain to the rest of the community. [More…]

• This is something that the soldier settlers and the rural community constantly need to have put before them: The complete failure of this Government to concern itself with the maintenance of a viable operation by the people whom supposedly it represents. [More…]

• These 2 factors are continuing elements in the lot of the rural community. [More…]

• They have had their ups and downs, as has everybody in the farming community. [More…]

• Present deficiencies in official data systems and statistical arrangements detract from the capacity of governments to pursue co-ordinated approaches in related areas of policy, reduce the community’s scope for scrutinising these policies and for using official statistics with confidence in its own decision making. [More…]

• There is no need for me to argue the virtues of statistical information in providing a generally informed society; in providing a firm base for decision making in government, business and the rest of the community; in providing a basis for the development of programs and a means of measuring their progress over time. [More…]

• Another reason for delaying the legislation is that the people who will be appointed to the advisory body which will be created under this framework Bill, will have had a wide range of experience in our community and will have had additional experience in the field of statistics. [More…]

• I found in my work as a chartered accountant before becoming a member of this chamber that in many cases very few people in our community were being asked for much information. [More…]

• The Australian Country Party has a strong view about the collection of statistics in the agricultural community and in the different industries that make up that community. [More…]

• I believe this is a burden which is unfairly placed upon that sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• It brings back to the Parliament the responsibility for imposing new demands on people for the provision of information which is required by government and by the Australian community. [More…]

• It is not good enough, in my view, that we should be able to pass off the whole question to a statutory body and to an advisory council which will be able to make recommendations of which this Parliament may not be aware, and it is not good enough that statistical information can be sought in such different ways that costs and burdens can be imposed on sections of the community which do not rightly belong there. [More…]

• He spoke of confusion caused to the business community and he implied confusion and problems for the consumer. [More…]

• I do not think evidence has been produced to justify the claims made in the Attorney-General’s second reading speech that the cards did, in fact, cause the confusion and the mischief which was alluded to in his remarks, nor did they create quite the menace to the business community that the Attorney-General claimed in his speech, [More…]

• One of the charges made against many manufacturers, advertisers and the like in the community is that advice given and material circulated in respect of products that are sold throughout the community confuse the consumer, attempt to mislead him and attempt to deceive him. [More…]

• I think those in the community who are interested in consumer protectionthe consumer movement- and also this House are entitled to have resolved the confusion which apparently exists regarding which Minister in the Government is to be responsible for consumer protection. [More…]

• These higher prices would have been passed on to the community and to the users for the goods they were buying, such as tin cans. [More…]

• The Corporation said that its product had been approved by a body of high repute in the community when it had not been approved by that body at all. [More…]

• I think that we all do take such pride, although we might have different priorities, we might place different degrees of importance on the particular forms of art that will be displayed in the Gallery and we might also lay different emphasis on the role of the Gallery in terms of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government has taken giant strides in its drive to involve the community. [More…]

• Involving the community is not a oneway traffic. [More…]

• The Gallery should sponsor not only travelling exhibitions to all Australian cities and regional centres, but also should sponsor the artists to go out into the community as much as possible. [More…]

• But when we refer to this excellent term ‘quality of life’, surely what we must be trying to achieve is an upgrading of the standards of excellence within our community and an appreciation by as many Australians as possible of the beauty and the conception of excellence as seen through the visual and the plastic arts. [More…]

• Perhaps, indeed, the standard of excellence will be found in only one per cent of the community. [More…]

• Anyone who has had the experience of unsewered suburbs, poor health services, inadequate local transport, neglected environmental standards, shortage of playing fields, shortage of community centres and opportunities for culture and recreation knows that higher rates are not the answer. [More…]

• In addition health centre workers undertake a wide range of community health and welfare activities, other than consultations, which are not usually found in general practice and for which no deduction has been made in the above cost estimates. [More…]

• Evaluation studies of the impact of these activities on the general health and well being of the community and on the total cost of health services will be undertaken when the centre has been operating for a sufficient period. [More…]

• I think this has to be understood in the community- by workers and the leaders of unions. [More…]

• The community and the Government between them must be able to retain reasonable rates of wage increase. [More…]

• The Commission is employing community liaison officers whose job it is to advise the public on any aspect of Medibank about which they have a query. [More…]

• It was to be at this meeting that the Commission was to recommend to me the people of Darwin to be appointed to the Darwin Community Committee, and decisions were to be taken. [More…]

• It will record the feeling in the community that marihuana is not to be legalised at this stage, but- I emphasise this aspect- there will also be a requirement on the Government flowing from its international obligations to let it be that way. [More…]

• In other words there will be no legal capacity or power to remove altogether, the penalty applying to marihuana although there are significant numbers of people in the community who believe that that should be done as well. [More…]

• One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]

• Until such time as the employment slack can be taken up I would suggest that the overall position can best be served by a restricted activity in the areas where minimal damage will be done on Fraser Island and by giving the sand mining companies clear notice that the moment the need to serve the Maryborough community to relieve unemployment has passed measures will be taken to stop the sand mining activity. [More…]

• The community which I am proud to represent has been left in a very sad state because the Minister, in the opinion of the people of my electorate, has betrayed their faith. [More…]

• Government spending has placed an intolerable taxation burden on the community and has contributed to the current excess rate of monetary expansion. [More…]

• The present rate of tax increases must lead to further declines in individual initiative and to further reductions in the community’s propensity to save, which, of course, is the very basis of private capital formation. [More…]

• An effective antiinflationary policy must rest on restraint by all groups in the community insofar as their claims on economic resources are concerned. [More…]

• Restraint by the Federal Government is essentially to encourage restraint by the community at large. [More…]

• Economists ought to tell honourable members opposite that inflation does not affect only company profits, the return on capital or capital expansion, it affects everyone in the community. [More…]

• No community can have more than that community can itself build and pay for. [More…]

• The time has come for the Government to take the appropriate actions and not be buffetted by ideology or lack of will to resist pressure groups which are interested only in the expenditure of money to satisfy their particular wants without regard to the capacity of the community to pay and of the economy to deliver up that money without lasting and permanent damage. [More…]

• There can be no doubt in anyone’s mind that the growth in the money supply under the Australian Labor Party Government is one of the three major smothering influences on the sources or causes of our national economic growth and development, inflation and unemployment, business bankruptcies, the loss of confidence by the business community and the general disenchantment with Labor’s policies and actions. [More…]

• It must hurt all of us except the quick of mind, the money brokers and the other odds and ends in the nonproductive section of the community. [More…]

• A great deal of it is for the growing bureaucracy and the non-productive section of the community. [More…]

• Before we look at what assistance they need and what the Opposition is now saying about them, let us look at some of the hopes to which honourable members opposite have referred that the Government has raised and consider whether it is a legitimate exercise to raise the hopes of people in Australia and to attract a greater community participation in government enterprises, in government initiatives and in being able to see that government moneys are spent in welfare areas. [More…]

• I repeat: Which proposition would the electorate choose: Selling $4 billion of Australian assets or printing $ 1,700m in order to make sure that the economy is maintained at a reasonably productive level in order to ensure that the facilities so long denied education, child welfare- one can go on- are supplied to the community? [More…]

• There are many aspects of the inflationary problem to which many people can contribute just as long as there is some consensus in the community. [More…]

• I was referring, of course, to the very open and very flexible way in which the officers of that Department have gone about working in a very complex area- an area involving 3 levels of government, an area involving many concepts about planning, an area involving many community attitudes. [More…]

• The New South Wales Government already has agreed to our financing of the Bradbury community health centre, the one at Leumeah and the major one being built now in the centre of Campelltown [More…]

• At Minto, Ingleburn, and soon at Leumeah, we Will have integrated community centres involving the schools program. [More…]

• The only other thing I would like to mention is the community radio station which will allow all the people in this area to have a direct voice in the planning proposals that are affecting them. [More…]

• Recurring balance of payments crises and the moderation of trade unions maintained adequate restraint by government and in our community at large. [More…]

• All these programs benefit the relatively inarticulate or underprivileged in our community. [More…]

• The whole object of the personal income tax cuts, of our support for wage indexation and the substantial improvements we have achieved in the provision of health, education, public transport and community services has been to sustain and raise the real standard of living of families beyond that provided by the pay packet alone. [More…]

• We shall continue that approach, the approach of a responsive and responsible governmentresponsive to the needs of the economy, responsive to the needs of all sections of the community and responsible in making the decisions to meet those needs. [More…]

• We need to put forward policies to gain the confidence of the business community and hold the confidence of the people of this country. [More…]

• The effect of the revaluation of the Australian dollar, which was much criticised by honourable members opposite, had the same effect in that again goods that Australian manufacturers could not supply to meet the demands of Australian consumers could come in from overseas at competitive prices and in that at the same time it prevented the continuation of the bargain basement sale of Australian products that were needed by the Australian community. [More…]

• We are now being criticised by honourable members opposite as if those measures had been implemented at a time of cost inflation, at a time when demand pressures in the community, far from being excessive, were in fact deficient. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition was right this afternoon when he said that our community was a victim of excessive expectations but he was wrong when he blamed those expectations on the Government. [More…]

• It is true that Australians have been led to expect more than the resources of the community can possibly be stretched to provide for them but, overwhelmingly, that process of creating excessive expectations has been carried on within the private sector of the economy by the greatest of all demand producing pressures in our society- the advertising industry. [More…]

• But I do want to comment on several areas which are causing concern in various sectors of the community. [More…]

• I find it revolting that for so long national governments refused any commitment at all towards improving public health services in public hospitals or in community health services. [More…]

• The neglect of education in this community stands as a singular failure of the previous Liberal-Country Party governments and the complete indifference towards the need of urban development and improvement is a clear indication of the way in which previous LiberalCountry Party governments were prepared to ignore the needs of the great numbers of people in this community. [More…]

• But what is clearly emerging from the LiberalCountry Parties in Opposition is that it is not a matter of catching up but rather a matter of resistance- of being ideologically opposed to a reasonable level of public expenditure in the Australian community. [More…]

• In total we could have saved $5 15m at the expense of pensioners in the community. [More…]

• What I have just illustrated to honourable members in this House and to the listeners indicates the complete irresponsibility of the loose, unrelated propositions which the Opposition keeps throwing around in the community today. [More…]

• But the fact is that the Opposition is on trial as much as everybody else in the community. [More…]

• Surely they understand that what is required in any advanced society not in the grips of the rich and powerful few is to ensure that all the resources, both human and technical, are utilised for the production of goods and services for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• They mean: ‘Make less funds available for community development. [More…]

• I have a great concern for some sections of our rural community, a concern that I know is shared by many members on both sides of the House. [More…]

• There is in the community a vast reservoir of talent which is not being utilised at the moment. [More…]

• There is no sign yet that the nation and the community can diminish any efforts that can be made to reduce inflation. [More…]

• Great emphasis has been placed on the problems of the rural community in Queensland, but let us get down to the facts. [More…]

• I do not suggest that the honourable member apologise for being associated with the debate, because it is one that has been active in the community for many years and he has played a prominent part in it. [More…]

• He inflames the passions which are aroused when the emotional subject such as drugs and what should be done about drugs in a modern community is debated. [More…]

• By fanning the passions in that way, the honourable member also contributes to the hypocrisy and the double standards which exist in our community in relation to drugs. [More…]

• Indeed, one could go on and one must say that the whole approach of the community to drug taking should not be confined to seeing the problem through the eyes of the criminal law. [More…]

• Although there is a considerable body of opinion which says that marihuana users should not be subject to the criminal law- I may have stated that previously because I do believe there is a considerable body of opinion to that effect- the majority opinion in the community is that marihuana users should not be subjected to the same severity of the criminal law as the trafficker in heroin. [More…]

• The onus lies on the Government to establish to the satisfaction of the people why it is so frantically necessary to have this legislation passed in such great haste and without adequate opportunity for consideration by those affected and by those interested, which, in this instance, means a very substantial section of the Australian community. [More…]

• They are happy to give to the fourth arm of government power to introduce through legislative and arbitrative processes decisions which affect the rights of every individual in the community. [More…]

• We have heard from the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony)- and honourable members should bear in mind all the money that was put into his Party’s campaign funds for the last elections by the multinationals, the oil companies and the like- about how there should be a 40 per cent increase in fuel charges, despite the effect that that would have on prices for the community as a whole. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, as you will probably recall, I was dealing with the lower echelon of the farming community. [More…]

• I mentioned earlier forced sales and what is occurring within certain sections of the rural community. [More…]

• I would also like to see some consideration given to keeping a certain section of the rural community on their farms. [More…]

• No other Federal Government has embarked upon so many community projects that involve the people at the grass roots level. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties have no confidence in people to manage their own money in community affairs. [More…]

• The moneys given to State governments for community projects is disseminated but we do not know where. [More…]

• The rejection of the amending National Health Bills has meant that not only are some aspects of the Government’s policy in this matter, as set out in paragraphs 5.1 to 5.14 of the White Paper ‘The Australian Health Insurance Program’, not achievable immediately, but that other measures providing for the protection of the community have also been lost. [More…]

• He is a man of whom the community should be proud because of the efforts he made to keep a competitive airline system in existence when the British interests and the Holyman interests decided to go out of Australia. [More…]

• Since that date all residentially qualified members of the community aged 75 years or more have been able to receive age pensions free of the means test. [More…]

• I have been concerned for some time that persons newly discharged from gaol are often not given an adequate opportunity to re-establish themselves within the community. [More…]

• Nobody is more capable of knowing the needs of people and of their local community than local government, because it is the government which is close to the people. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there is a necessity to recognise that if we are to appoint people of the calibre of Mr Justice Else-Mitchell to positions like this to carry out impartial and appropriate inquiries into the needs of local government we have to acknowledge their position in the community and establish them so that they hold the position they previously enjoyed. [More…]

• -There seems to be some confusion within the community concerning the Grants Commission. [More…]

• The fact that this Government is seeking to amend the Act to increase the number of commissioners to carry out the work in the local government division of the Commission is evidence of the Labor Party’s continuing commitment to the upgrading of local government in Australia so that local government can carry out its functions in a meaningful way and provide genuine services to the community. [More…]

• These are all activities which cannot be regulated closely from the national and State capitals and are best planned and implemented by local government working with local community groups. [More…]

• In other words, this scheme is designed to enable councils to provide, by reasonable effort, community services of a standard comparable with those enjoyed by communities elsewhere. [More…]

• But disputes involving flight crew officers invariably get tremendous publicity, firstly, because flight crew officers are, by community standards, highly paid and, secondly, because any disruption to airline services creates great problems and often personal hardships for the travelling public. [More…]

• Arbitral decisions which are not accepted are not of much use to the community or to the parties to a particular industrial dispute. [More…]

• The resolution also said that, while accepting the desirability of broad national program standards, which already exist, the Australian commercial broadcasters consider that the legislative moves to provide dictatorshipand I emphasise that word- by the Government through the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in respect of what shall be presented to the public could assuredly result in repression of the opportunity of the public to hear free expression of program material of community interest. [More…]

• The deep concern of the broadcasters in respect of these matters as related to the proposals contained in the amendments to the Broadcasting and Television Act, which in essence gives the Government appointed Board control over programming news services and advertising functions of commercial broadcasters, is for the serious implications in continuing to provide to the community an acceptable free enterprise service which they have enjoyed in the past. [More…]

• Basically, under Medibank pensioners will be treated on the same basis as the rest of the community so far as medical and hospital arrangements are concerned. [More…]

• Whenever one considers the question of police and the relations of police with the community it naturally and understandably gives rise for concern. [More…]

• Melbourne has benefited similarly by our support of the community’s need for decentralised, major teaching hospital facilities. [More…]

• It should never be the subject of uninformed comment, or misrepresentation which can damage the confidence of the community and the confidence of those charged with its implementation. [More…]

• Of course, it is because of these unpleasant facts and the unpleasant scenario in South-East Asia, with its doubts, its ever-changing political events and its real dangers, that thinking people from practically every section of the Australian community question the wisdom of the present defence policy of this Government. [More…]

• It seems to me that in assessing this legislation, the question which must be asked is: Does this Bill deal in the best way possible with the training of trade union leadership, bearing in mind the needs of the Australian community? [More…]

• The facts are that the trade unions and trade union confederations now wield tremendous power in the community. [More…]

• Many trade unions have greater resources and facilities than employer associations, and in almost aU cases of confrontation between a trade union and an enterprise, it is the community, the public interest, which suffers from any imbalance of power. [More…]

• To put it in another way, trade union training and industrial relations educational training generally at institutional level are something from which the whole community should benefit and in the conduct of which the whole community should participate. [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…]

• I think we are beginning to see the fallacy of that argument and to realise that so many doctors who are turned out into the community are quite unable to cope with socio-economic problems of the kind which confront so many people in our community, so many lawyers enter into the field of legal practice without having any real understanding of the sorts of problems that can confront lower income people when they are challenged by the law, which so many of them do not understand. [More…]

• The Government is responding with this measure to the needs of the community. [More…]

• I think that is wrong, because the only assumption that is being made in this Bill is that there is a useful role and a very important role for trade unions and trade unionists to play in the community. [More…]

• I think that the progress that has been made in that State through the introduction of that scheme will lead everybody to believe that the expansion of that program to a national level and in a bigger way will only be of benefit to the whole community. [More…]

• It is a fact which we must all deplore that, with the exception of ones like the Administrative Staff College which enable management and trade union representatives to get training in some of these very fundamental areas, most management programs have concentrated on commercial factors and the improvement of the wellbeing of a company from a purely commercial point of view and have neglected, to the cost of the community and the company, the industrial relations program. [More…]

• I think that we on this side of the House will fully support it because we feel that it does fill a very great need in the Australian community for proper trade union development. [More…]

• I took the trouble to find out what some of its courses are about and I mention a few: The history of the trade union movement, organisational structure and how the union is run, decision making process from the shop floor upwards, duties and responsibilities of the officials and members, negotiating techniques and the development of arguments and the presentation of cases, public speaking, relationship between the unions and the community -I think that is a very important matter- workmen ‘s compensation, with emphasis, of course, on the procedures to be adopted in relation to that. [More…]

• There is another one which I consider to be very important, and that is the problems of groups such as migrants, women, apprentices and other such groups in the community. [More…]

• Because every action by organised groups such as government, industry, trade and commerce affects the community, an unorganised group, the trade unions, has filled the gap by providing the organisation so sorely needed. [More…]

• We all know that the actions of trade unions affect the community as much as the organisations already mentioned. [More…]

• However, as I have pointed out, those in the former group- government, industry, trade and commerce- are educated to their task at community expense. [More…]

• Therefore I see no immorality in those people being educated to their task also at community expense. [More…]

• It is going to fill a long-felt want in our Australian community, but I would regard it as being only the first step. [More…]

• The sort of attitude which is being exhibited by the Government will make itself more manifest in the community as time goes on. [More…]

• We are looking at one of the largest social forces in the community. [More…]

• The Australian community spends large sums of money in training people in industrial relations by means of various courses conducted at the universities in various Australian cities. [More…]

• Very few of those who have had the benefit of community expenditure on training in the field of industrial relations go into the trade union movement. [More…]

• I put it that that course at that institution has no greater value to the community than the trade union college proposed in this legislation would have. [More…]

• Our policy always has been that specific and appropriate courses need to be conducted in the existing educational and training institutions to enable trade union education and training to be of the highest level possible and carried out on a parallel basis with all other aspects of education within our community. [More…]

• Be that as it may, one of the major problems we must face with this question is the danger that the trade unions will become too centralised in the sense that if all courses are to be run through this Authority, there is a very real danger, of which no doubt the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) is aware, that if certain ideological sections of the community set out to gain control of this Authority, and in particular control of its syllabus, the implications for the settlement of industrial disputes in Australia is very serious indeed. [More…]

• At least this will be one way in which we can supervise what will be a vital area of industrial relations in Australia to ensure that the courses given, the personnel employed as lecturers and so forth will have as their primary interest the subjects which they are teaching, not merely an attempt to build for themselves an ideological base for later control of certain sections of the industrial community. [More…]

• The task for any potential recipient country is to adapt continually and to change its machinery to take account of the changing devices in overseas countries which, for one reason or anotherbalance of payments reasons, this and that- are more and more in need of finding an outlet for their goods in competition with the other exporting members of the international community. [More…]

• That principle is adhering, accepting and honouring our obligations as a member of the international community and that is why we subscribe to this General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. [More…]

• However, the rural community is dismayed by policies that have been carried out by the Government, and the changes that have been effected in the structure and operations of agricultural production and marketing without prior reference to parties affected in their past decisions. [More…]

• I emphasise the word ‘most’- of the teachers were prepared to say that no more than 10 per cent of their students at the junior secondary level were fully literate in terms of the standards one would expect of somebody capable of participating fully in the community. [More…]

• It is designed so that CES may strengthen its capability to: alleviate unemployment wherever it may occur and contribute to overcoming skills in short supply; assist in the short-term, medium-term and long-term restructuring of the workforce, promote regional development, and bring about overall increases in the general levels of skills; and serve the social as well as the economic needs of the community and of individuals by means of special assistance, guidance, remedial training and other measures designed to aid the removal of inequalities and enhance employment opportunities. [More…]

• This Bill authorises the payment of such benefits to the whole community under Medibank. [More…]

• If it had not been for this massive increase of $5 a week to pensioners, they would be the ones in the community who would suffer because of the unbelievable mismanagement of the economy by the Labor Government. [More…]

• This applies particularly to pensions, so that the most vulnerable people in the community do not suffer needlessly in an inflationary period. [More…]

• Since that date all residentially qualified members of the community aged 75 years or more have been able to receive age pensions free of the means test. [More…]

• A clearly definable reason for this is that in many cases they are not given an adequate opportunity to re-establish themselves within the community. [More…]

• This Government is keenly aware of this problem and the need to salvage these people for useful and fruitful lives in the community. [More…]

• All these measures are progressive and forwardlooking within themselves, but when they are taken as a whole one sees them as elements in a program of social concern and as essential items in the great objective we are seeking- to establish the rational use of the community’s resources towards a life style which allows the fulfilment of the best aspirations of all Australians. [More…]

• We agree that we must bring extra benefits to that section of the community that is most in need. [More…]

• It came to my notice a few weeks ago following the reports in some sections of the press about what they described as a multi-million dollar racket and suggesting that practically everybody in the community was on unemployed benefits. [More…]

• Of course there are people in the community who are taking advantage of unemployment benefits. [More…]

• This will mean a great deal to a number of ex-service members in the community. [More…]

• Lots of other people in the community would like to think that their superannuation, for instance, could be so disregarded for means test purposes. [More…]

• Persons who have received pensionswhether they are Australian born or exservicemen and women from British Commonwealth countries- like other kinds of pensioners in the community will be able to take thenbenefits with them to some other country and retire there if they wish to do so. [More…]

• Unemployment is an evil from the effects of which no class in the community and no State in the Commonwealth can hope to escape unless concerted action is taken. [More…]

• We are in favour of the concept of financial support by the Government for people who are in need in the community. [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 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…]

• In my view the establishment of a commission with the purposes set out in this Bill will not enable the Commission to do what many like the New South Wales Federation of Infant School Clubs think it should do, namely ‘establish a philosophy in relation to ultimate goals incorporating standards, innovations, needs and priorities in relation to families’- and I emphasise ‘families’- ‘and the community’. [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…]

• Governments, and the community itself, must take positive action to counteract some of the economic and social pressures affecting families. [More…]

• We must concentrate our national energies and resources not only on creating new day care facilities but also in a wide-ranging community approach to child care. [More…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• It would monitor community trends, assist in evaluating the effectiveness of on-going programs, control multi-disciplinary research, disseminate information to and from the community and provide advisory services to parents and community groups. [More…]

• Social isolation can be overcome by measures designed to create or return community living to suburbs where it has never existed or where it has been depleted. [More…]

• The provision of child care centres available for occasional use, the suitability and availability of playgrounds together with the provision of community amenities such as libraries and toy-lending services, can also provide valuable support to a mother engaged in the full-time care of a child. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that in expanding the number of available places in child care centres through local government and other community groups adequate recognition will be given to the role of the private child care centres which to date have provided more than 70 per cent of care facilities. [More…]

• Where funds are made available in this way to State and local government bodies and community based charities and non-profit organisations it is to be hoped that the minimum number of strings will be attached. [More…]

• The Government and the Commission must make it clear to concerned community groups whether community effort will be rewarded or whether they should sit back and wait until their turn comes for an allocation out of the public purse. [More…]

• It is important that an attempt be made to predict their outcome in order that the purposes of the community can be fulfilled and not denied. [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…]

• It is only by public participation and by community groups that the maximum benefits will be felt. [More…]

• However, I doubt whether they are what the community wants. [More…]

• It is hoped that the socioeconomic surveys will show where needs exist and that the appointment of catalysts or, in common terms, research and community child care guidance people, will produce suitable recommendations. [More…]

• An aspect of child care which alarms me is the tendency to embark on grandiose building projects without examining facilities available in the community which could be put to dual use. [More…]

• This situation, for that matter, applies to any area of community welfare spending. [More…]

• Use could be made of a police and citizens welfare club which stands idle all day or of a disused community building such as a shire office, a fire station or like buildings of a semi-industrial or office nature. [More…]

• Let us face it, in the past the State housing commissions, particularly in Western Australia, have been prone to erect homes over large areas without providing for community welfare in the area. [More…]

• Today they feel that they have a right to work in order to contribute their skills and abilities to the community. [More…]

• So it becomes a community responsibility. [More…]

• It was funded initially by a grant of $4,000 from the State community allocation. [More…]

• This is an area where community groups should be looking for funds. [More…]

• The proposals need to come from the community to ensure that this is what the community wants. [More…]

• There is room for a community voluntary service based on outgoing home child care problems. [More…]

• I reiterate that for the legislation to be wholly successful community participation must become a significant factor. [More…]

• -Despite its imperfections, this Bill which seeks to establish a Children’s Commission is a genuine attempt to overcome one of the major social problems arising from a technologically advanced consumer society which claims a high standard of living, therefore requiring a large percentage of its work force, both male and female, to participate fully in the production of the goods and services required by the community. [More…]

• In view of the current situation facing the Australian economy and the obvious need to reduce Government expenditure it is necessary to make sure that we carry out our responsibilities to the Australian electorate and make certain that these funds, will be adequately used throughout the community especially where the requirement is most urgent. [More…]

• The emphasis behind the Bill seems to suggest that most women in the community wish to be in the work force. [More…]

• In 2 years living in Israel I had the opportunity of seeing at first hand the effective operation of a well integrated system of community welfare organisations under the control of local government. [More…]

• It will monitor community trends, assist in evaluating the effectiveness of on-going programs, conduct multidiscipline research, disseminate information to and from the community and provide advisory services to parents and community groups. [More…]

• The involvement of the Government in the community has led to a genuine change in how one goes about governing. [More…]

• More money has been turned towards education, social security and the promotion of healthy, whole individuals and better communities and community relations. [More…]

• The spending of money must be done in relation to a number of issues- the number and sort of resources already available in the community, the effect upon the child and the effect upon the parents and particularly the mother. [More…]

• 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…]

• We are increasingly accepting a multiple income family as the pacesetter in our community. [More…]

• Therefore, it is in that sense that it is the whole balance of the program that ultimately will determine its validity, its respect and its support in the Australian community. [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…]

• It so ill becomes the honourable member for Mackellar to come out with this old communist bogy that has plagued the world for so long, bringing hatreds between one section of the community and another, causing countries to spend billions of dollars on arms when half the world ‘s population is going to bed of a night hungry. [More…]

• It is also concerned to ensure that Australia has an effective system of supervision of insurance companies and that the community’s interest in insurance is protected. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the above I envisage that one of the future matters which the recently established Insurance Consultative Committees might consider is the question of whether additional controls over the investment policies of insurance companies are desirable in the community interest. [More…]

• 236 concerning the Government’s examination of land under the control of the Australian Army on Rottnest Island in Western Australia, what is the position regarding the possibility of releasing this land for general community use. [More…]

• I went on to say that the Army occupied land continued to be required for Defence purposes but that the Prime Minister had asked the Premier of Western Australia for details of how his Government intended to use the areas on Rottnest Island, including the area occupied by the Army, and had proposed an in-depth study which would have regard to all interests involved, the object being to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution to the question of general community and Army use. [More…]

• It is apparent that if there is an increased community demand for free treatment in standard wards as a result of Medibank, then additional beds in public hospitals from their overall bed capacities will have to be allocated for the treatment of such patients. [More…]

• If there were an increase in demand for hospitalisation, it would indicate that many in our community are not being properly treated at the moment, probably because they are not adequately insured and cannot afford to go to hospital. [More…]

• It merely recognises that many hospitals operated by religious and charitable organizations wish to accommodate some patients without charge, in accordance with their basic philosophies of caring for the less fortunate in the community without regard to financial status. [More…]

• I want to see that any Arabs or any Jews who are born in Australia or who come to Australia are able to go about their affairs in harmony, one with each other, and with the rest of the community. [More…]

• There are very difficult problems to be resolved and Australians have to face up to them, but they should not in the process try to disrupt our community relations in Australia. [More…]

• The reason why the Australian insurance industry does not give the kind of service to the policy holder that it should is that the industry is not just a service industry providing insurance service to the community; the industry is a great investment operation and its purpose, very largely, is to accumulate funds for investment. [More…]

• This will, in turn, lead to much greater hardship within the community. [More…]

• One of the great tragedies of the situation which the Government has created is that the first people hurt are those who can afford it least- the lower paid members of the community, who are usually the first to lose their jobs in an economic downturn, and those on fixed incomes, who are hardest hit by rising prices. [More…]

• If employers wish to make wage deals outside of the guidelines of the Government’s wages policy, those employers should be made to pay the cost out of their own pockets and not go traipsing off to the Prices Justification Tribunal for an increase in cost in order to pass it on to the rest of the community, which means on to the other workers. [More…]

• During that time it was my aim to look at the total philosophy of the Government in relation to this Bill and its philosophy towards families in the community which is being exemplified in this Bill. [More…]

• The interim committee to set up the Commission must establish a philosophy in relation to ultimate goals incorporating standards innovations needs and priorities in relation to families and the community. [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…]

• That is why the error in this Bill is that it does not give an adequate balance between home centred help and community centred help. [More…]

• I am concerned at the transfer from home to community of services organised through this Bill and through other measures of assistance to families that have existed in the past. [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…]

• It is only part of a subtraction from the resources available to families in the community. [More…]

• I believe that anything short of that situation would not do justice to preserving what this Commission should be doing, that is looking after the total balance which is appropriate to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a case of an ad hoc arrangement whereby one tried to meet a particular problem that existed in the community at the time. [More…]

• I would stress that the emphasis is placed in the involvement of the community, whether by way of a community organisation, local government, or whatever form it might take. [More…]

• Every facility there is made available to the community. [More…]

• In a situation like this there is a minimum expenditure of capital with a maximum return in terms of benefits for the community. [More…]

• Planners, in addition to considering a multi-purpose approach, should give consideration to matters such as the increasing age of the community and the sharp decline in the birth rate as shown in the figures from the Bureau of Statistics. [More…]

• It should be looked at from the point of view of providing help to all sorts of organisations within the community, including local government. [More…]

• -The previous speaker mentioned that everybody in the community is in favour of giving proper attention to our children which is, in a sense, like supporting motherhood. [More…]

• Everybody in this House supports the view that a great deal needs to be done in providing proper care for children in that there are many children in Australia, particularly where both parents are working or the sole parent is working, who are not getting adequate assistance at the moment and that the community does have a responsibility to provide assistance to them. [More…]

• However, it could also be said that that is about where the consensus on the child care issue finishes because there are strong differences of opinion within the community on the whole philosophy of child care and this really centres on the role of women either as mothers or as members of the work force. [More…]

• The result of this is the belief that the community should provide and pay for the care of children while their mothers work. [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…]

• But that does not say that this should apply to everybody in the community. [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…]

• 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…]

• This is because, due to the interim funding plan initiated by the Australian Government through the Youth Ethnic and Community Services Department, the salaries of all staff at sessional pre-school centres are being subsidised by the Australian Government. [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…]

• I believe it would go a long way towards meeting the needs that I see in this community and which I believe ought to be met. [More…]

• The Government is saying: Let us look at how we can obtain a community oriented or community based service where parents play a part. [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…]

• to ascertain the needs of the Australian community for services for children and to make recommendations [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…]

• The position is that if there is a community interested in child care, which is prepared to do something about that need, we do not see any reason why funds should be denied. [More…]

• But so will the community. [More…]

• So will everybody in the community who pays taxes. [More…]

• I feel that, if it is the Government’s proposal to adopt a program such as this and to go on to television advertising of this program, seeking support for it from the community, one area that has been gravely misjudged and overlooked is the provision of trained personnel. [More…]

• Perhaps if this proposal was to be tied to section 96, State facilities, State training centres and other facilities already existing in the community would be more readily accessible for use under this program. [More…]

• In the main the bulk of the money going to New South Wales is for community oriented projects which are quite valid and meet the criteria. [More…]

• It should be borne in mind that the New South Wales Government is getting $6m out of the $22m and the rest is going to a community oriented program. [More…]

• This strategy recognises the contribution that each of the individual programs makes to better urban amenity and community standards. [More…]

• The views of the community on National Estate issues will be channelled to the Government through this Commission which, I cannot stress too often, will work closely with other levels of Government in a co-operative way and with voluntary bodies. [More…]

• Deprived community groups have not the same access as the wealthy to other sources of personal enjoyment and fulfilment. [More…]

• It bestows also benefits on the community, such as a more stable, hardworking, contented populace and therefore a better Australian. [More…]

• The proposal contained a two-fold benefit in that it encouraged savings- surely a laudable ideal particularly in this era since December 1972 of a Labor Party’s handout mentality- and it had the additional premium of channelling savings during the prescribed saving period to institutional lenders who were the medium through which more money was made available in the community for housing generally. [More…]

• -Every few months in this chamber we go through the same pathetic charade performed here by a Government of alleged compassion when all the time the situation facing all people in this community, young people in particular, who wish to purchase their own homes is getting more and more desperate. [More…]

• The policies which have been put forward by the Opposition to overcome the major problems facing the Australian economy are essentially directed at returning confidence to all sectors of” the community. [More…]

• There has been built up in the Australian community an expectation that we would have established an effective system of administrative review. [More…]

• The purpose of these amendments is to give the Tribunal some jurisdiction, to get the Tribunal operating once it has been established and therefore meet the need that has been perceived for so long by many in the Australian community. [More…]

• In our present way of life our community planning, the developing interrelationships between individuals and between the individual and public bodies, the standards we enjoy could not have been achieved without giving powers to certain public bodies or to have certain controls and rights to protect the community but which of necessity affect individuals. [More…]

• People have come to accept that in certain circumstances their private rights may have to be subordinated to the claims of the community at large. [More…]

• These advantages lead one to hope that for the first time in Australian legal history the laws and processes of administrative review will become of some real and practical assistance to the community at large. [More…]

• Yet, owing to the lack of facilities and priority given to it under existing arrangements, in the past it has not had any real significant impact on the Australian community other than upon a selective group of academic lawyers. [More…]

• Amongst all this conglomerate of problems which are facing the business world and which are forcing gloom, unemployment and retrenchment in the community today, no firms are harder hit than those in the wine industry. [More…]

• That, I think, is the most unfortunate aspect of it as it is now becoming known to the Australian non-legal community. [More…]

• There have been numerous complaints of this nature in the community. [More…]

• I am afraid that considerable distress could be caused in the community to people who suffer as a result of these sorts of failures. [More…]

• I might add that I have been visiting Darwin on and off for some 30 years now and on each occasion I take the opportunity to talk to people from all areas of the community. [More…]

• If the AMP, through its touts, is to have its way we are to see that the superannuation for Commonwealth public servants is to be frozen; we are to see that other people in the community who are not Commonwealth public servants are not to “have the opportunity for national superannuation; that members of the public are not to have the opportunity for national compensation at a time when the rates they have to pay for third party insurance are rising so abominably and onerously; that other forms of legislation which this Government has undertaken to provide for the benefit of the Australian people are to be stalled or repealed. [More…]

• One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal Elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]

• Having said that, let me say that there is no question in my mind that one sector of the business community has been hit a great deal harder than any other single sector. [More…]

• I think there is a need for such organisations to exist so that an independent, overall look can be given to industry in general from the whole community point of view. [More…]

• For a start- and this is a problem which I do not suppose we can ever really overcome- Australia is a relatively small market compared with the large domestic markets of Japan, the United States and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The result is that one section of the community only- the ratepayer- has received and is receiving the full impact of the heavy increases, particularly in respect of those services and amenities the whole community shares. [More…]

• They have seen it as a diminution of local freedom, as a less effective community democracy and’ as an encroachment of Canberra control over local councils, to the ultimate disadvantage of both State and local governments. [More…]

• In my opinion, local government, dollar for dollar provides better value for the community than the other 2 arms of government do. [More…]

• I would think that every honourable member and every person in the community would not only be glad and grateful that the brickworks are there but also would encourage its continuance and would encourage others to go and do likewise. [More…]

• I feel it would be inappropriate to allow this occasion to pass without placing on record the Government’s deep appreciation of the service which has been rendered to the community by those persons who have served on the Board of the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation and are serving on the Board at present, and I trust that similar opportunities for them to serve [More…]

• The Family Law Bill has crested great interest throughout the community and in both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• Its only purpose is to expedite discussion on this important Bill which it is believed, by honourable members on both sides of the House and by many sections of the community, should be brought to finality without delay. [More…]

• It is a piece of legislation which, to my mind, is of tremendous importance to the community and to the nation. [More…]

• I point out to him that I would hope that the same consideration will be given to other matters of equal implication to the community. [More…]

• Members of this famous socialist Government led by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who has contempt and ridicule for anyone who would dare to protect the Aus.tralian public from his socialist onslaught, have suddenly realised that the Australian community has a backbone and real guts. [More…]

• It offers no new benefits to the general community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes firmly than any constituent group in the community is entitled to make its views known prior to Government decisions. [More…]

• The Australian Government has a national responsibility to ensure that the community has maximum access to, and protection from, as wide a range of insurance coverage as possible. [More…]

• Government penetration will have reverberations throughout the industry and the community. [More…]

• We ought to examine why governments not only in this country but throughout the would in recent years have been literally forced to take both legislative action and direct involvement to give the community the security that it needs. [More…]

• I support the Bill in the firm belief that this measure will give the community the coverage and security to which it is entitled. [More…]

• In other words, we ought to have a totally socialised community and then there would be no troubles whatsoever. [More…]

• If there is incompetence or improper actions by companies then it is our job to bring down rules and regulations by way of legislation to try to protect people within the community, not to buy out enterprises or to establish enterprises and run them ourselves. [More…]

• This is at a time when there is urgent need for stimulation of that sector of the community and for the encouragement of private enterprise to try to get us out of the quagmire into which this Government has got us. [More…]

• Confidence is urgently and desperately needed in our community today if we are to have full employment, job opportunity and all that goes with it. [More…]

• This legislation, with all its implications for the private sector, will deal yet another blow to the flagging business morale of the Australian community. [More…]

• In the eyes of the Government and the Labor Party, apparently it is a crime for anyone to fight to protect himself against Government proposals which he believes will hurt him and the community as a whole. [More…]

• When the Government sets out to do things which a sector of the community believes will be damaging and which that sector tries to fight, the Labor Party retaliates with every device it can find, no matter how unfair or unethical those tactics may be. [More…]

• However, the Labor Party’s platform and the evidence of its actions since it has been in government make it clear that the Government’s intention is to get its hands on massive funds which the insurance industry now invests in a wide range of industrial, commercial and community development projects. [More…]

• I am told that the total of funds under the control of life officers and superannuation managers is more than $12 billion which is invested in an enormous range of business, manufacturing, mining, farming and community services and facilities. [More…]

• There is real concern in the insurance industry that the Government’s proposals could virtually decimate the funds it has- funds which are invested in productive enterprises and in a wide range of community services. [More…]

• This decimation would come about through the Government bringing in new schemes to take care of the needs of the community at enormous expense to the taxpayer and in a way that would put the existing insurance offices in a hopelessly handicapped situation. [More…]

• It is not hard to imagine what all this means in respect of additional taxation to the Australian and also the rate of inflation that this community has to suffer and will suffer. [More…]

• We believe that every individual should have access to adequate provision for his future needs, preferably through his own efforts but, where necessary, through the efforts of the community as a whole. [More…]

• One should look occasionally at the mechanisms we have for insuring the various social risks that occur in the community. [More…]

• An enlightened community ought to acknowledge that those who have wrought for it in the years of their strength are entitled to a remuneration or an income when they retire. [More…]

• Is that what the community wants? [More…]

• We are talking about indexation of wages and restraint within the community, yet we have these kinds of measures being introduced into the Parliament for discussion. [More…]

• This is a serious matter for the whole community. [More…]

• It is a commentary on the way influence can be misused in this community that the National Country Party should have been bought off by the insurance industry from supporting the establishment of an Australian Government insurance office which would provide the crop insurance for the farmers it purports to support, the crop insurance which they have needed for so very many years and which they have been denied by the industry which the National Country Party now so vehemently supports. [More…]

• The third point I raise concerns the continued building up of a massive and powerful bureaucracy in Australia that one day or other will dominate the community. [More…]

• I will vote against it because I believe confidence has to be restored, and the sooner the business community knows that this Bill will be chucked out and that the community will not be deprived of access to the money markets for its development programs the better. [More…]

• In addition to insurance services for the general community there is a range of insurance services which can be provided for government instrumentalities, including advice on the needs of insurance cover for government undertakings. [More…]

• It will offer this service not only to the man in the street but also to the business community. [More…]

• The Aus.tralian Government Insurance Commission will be an Australian community insurance service, managed by Australians in the interests of Australians. [More…]

• The Prime Minister made no attempt to inform the Australian community that the insurance industry has made a creditable contribution to the Australian economy, with 45 life offices- many of them in a mutual capacity- and 260 general insurers. [More…]

• All the indications are that there is a great deal of concern within the Australian community regarding this proposal of the Government. [More…]

• Not only people involved in that industry but also many other members of the community have demonstrated very clearly in the last few weeks that they are opposed to this intrusion into private enterprise. [More…]

• Inflation has already eroded the value of people’s savings in the community and has eroded the value of their policies. [More…]

• It continues to add disincentive and a state of despair throughout the community. [More…]

• Those honourable members opposite who are politically aware realise the groundswell in the community and probably thank the Opposition for the responsible attitude that it will take. [More…]

• What we need to get this country back on the rails is a little cooperation between the Government of the day and the private sector of the community that has built this nation. [More…]

• That is why there is so much concern, not only amongst the Opposition parties but in the community at large. [More…]

• It is necessary to look at it in conjunction with national compensation, national superannuation and Commonwealth Public Service superannuation, because there are flow on effects and there are impacts throughout the rest of the community and private industry from all of these schemes. [More…]

• In the living memory of more than half the population of this nation never has there been such a campaign designed to mislead, designed to create hatred and division in our community and designed and orchestrated by men in an industry which claims that it is the industry to which the public should entrust its funds and in which the public should place its trust and have confidence. [More…]

• We trust that amid all the pointed and pointless discussion raised about this issue, that our action will in some way strengthen your resolution in your actions for a better community. [More…]

• It has been asserted that the reason for this move is that ‘the community is secular, and that religion should, on merit, earn its place m the common ground of public significance and debate, rather than from an accession of privilege ‘. [More…]

• It will cost the community no more than the compulsory forms of insurance which it will replace. [More…]

• It has been made abundantly clear that there will be continuing consultation and discussion with the insurance industry as there will be with other interested bodies in the community. [More…]

• Regardless of the pros and cons of the Medibank debate I think there is at least one thing on which we can agree and that is the way in which this Government encouraged and allowed extended debate on this subject and the way in which it made access available to interested bodies in the community. [More…]

• Finally, I challenge Mr Steel and various insurance associations- I mention Mr Steel because his organisation seems to be giving the main impetus behind the propaganda- to state exactly what they would regard as a non-luxury form of pension for social service beneficiaries in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that everybody else in the community would reject such a proposition now, but the day will come nonetheless, after a few more people have used their anonymity to escape the rigours of the law, when all civilised countries will be forced to accept it. [More…]

• I have never sought to protect people who are sponging on the rest of the community. [More…]

• If inflation continues to climb to the level it has reached already in Britain or in many of the European Economic Community countries, then it will be impossible for industry to provide full employment. [More…]

• The law itself must be acceptable not just to the majority of the community but to the vast majority of the community. [More…]

• He suggested that, as far as possible with legislation of this nature, we should endeavour to arrive at some consensus as to the widely held views of people in the community in relation to what our divorce laws should state. [More…]

• But in an overadherence to the concept of abolishing fault and the relevance of conduct entirely, greater injustice will be done to some people in the community than is being done at the present time. [More…]

• Above all, legislation of this nature must cater for the spectrum of community views on divorce and marriage. [More…]

• A strong community view exists that marriage is an important institution and that therefore there should be a 2 year proviso which pays respect to that institution. [More…]

• Might I say at the outset that I have always been opposed to any groups of people in a community who try to impose their will and wishes on to everybody else whether they be religious persuasions, or social or political convictions. [More…]

• I submit that if proposed new paragraph (c) is deleted we will debar some members of the community from justice. [More…]

• Members of the House who, at the second reading stage of the Bill, were requiring the permanent upholding of marriage in the interests of what they believe community standards ought to be are now crying tears of blood about how there ought to be instant grounds for divorce if somebody finds himself in an intolerable situation. [More…]

• The second reason why I support the separation period of 2 years rather than one year in a unilateral action is that I think that one year is insufficient time to establish or to maintain the type of psychology in the community by which people expect a marriage to be a lifelong union. [More…]

• Therefore, I am concerned not only with the individual cases but also with the general psychology that pervades the whole of our community in relation to the marriage relationship. [More…]

• But, essentially, I support the amendment because I think it might do something to retain that psychology, if I can put it that way, in the community that gives force to the perpetuation of marriage as an institution to be preserved. [More…]

• Certainly, and more importantly, the law has the function of outlining, initiating and strengthening a community attitude. [More…]

• Not only have we in this Parliament the responsibility to bring about a fair and equitable law which deals with the dissolution of marriage; we have also the additional responsibility to introduce a law which will provide an acceptable framework to the community in respect of successful marriages or in respect of the responsibility incumbent upon people when contemplating marriage. [More…]

• In other words, it is not done to clarify the legislation; it is not done to alleviate the sufferings of persons; it is done to resolve some degree of antagonism by certain groups in the community. [More…]

• That is referred to in the definitions, if honourable members care to look at them, and it points to its value to the community, to the average man who feels that he is in trouble and wants to be able to go along and discuss these things. [More…]

• I recognise that within the community there are those who, because of religion or faith, under no circumstances can feel that this Bill can apply to them. [More…]

• I would trust that the Committee would acknowledge that in our community there are still people with very strong and robustly held views with respect to marriage and who, despite the fact that significant differences of opinion have arisen, nevertheless do not want to abandon the undertaking that they gave. [More…]

• They should look to the thoughts, the views, the feelings, the religious considerations and all those matters that help to make us a community. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• The experience over many years, both before and after this Government came to office, using methods which applied before the present Government came to office, and improved methods, has been that these people represent only a small minority in the community. [More…]

• It is better to use the present liberal system of providing unemployment benefits on the assumption that we must get benefits to the great mass of deserving cases in the community rather than to take tough measures to try to weed out a small minority and thereby impose a rather harsh repression on the great majority of people concerned. [More…]

• That person can bring that wife back to Australia to live in this land with his lawful wife whom the community in this country recognises, and he has fulfilled the laws and requirements of our land. [More…]

• If there should be but one person or five people in our community who take the view that because of deep religious views they have a preference for a judicial separation, I think it is a pity that the country cannot respond to that. [More…]

• I do not consider that this Bill quite considers community views on that sort of thing. [More…]

• I would ask honourable gentlemen to take into account as well that there are any number of qualified people in the community who might not satisfy the test of having been a judge, or having been enrolled as a legal practitioner of the High Court of Australia or of a supreme court of a State or a Territory for not less than 5 years, who would be suitable through experience in welfare work, counselling work or social work. [More…]

• Other courses than law are being offered today in the universities and there are other people in the community who serve the community, as lawyers do. [More…]

• I personally think that there are talent, experience and qualifications of a professional kind in the community that could well be available to be drawn upon and put to considerable use. [More…]

• I believe that the amendment will be welcomed by most members of the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that almost everybody in our community enters into marriage believing that it is for life and not something that is terminable. [More…]

• I believe that a family court should take into consideration circumstances which have been traditional and which still are present through much of our community, that a woman who gets married expects to be looked after by her husband and, even if the marriage breaks down, expects still to have some right to the protection of the law and some right to be looked after by the person she married at an earlier time. [More…]

• I think it would be a most unfortunate day for this Parliament if we ever passed legislation which put a thrust into the law to break down the traditional role that women have played in our community. [More…]

• The reason I wish to speak to the amendment is specifically this: The presumption throughout this legislation has been the equality of men and women to enter divorce and therefore to have exactly the same basis on which their marriages should be terminated, the fact of the matter is that a vast number of marriages up to the present time have been based on decisions made on social mores which were the accepted views of the community as early as 50 or 60 years ago. [More…]

• If a committee of that kind and a Senate which is constituted in the way that our Senate is, representing all sections of the community, has supported unanimously the clause that is now being put here, I believe that we ought to accept it unless some weighty reason is given for not doing so. [More…]

• I think that there is a distinctive factor in the role of a mother which is accepted in the community and which we not only participate in but also believe in, that those who hold to that belief in their role as mothers ought not to be overlooked in relation to this clause when one is considering maintenance factors. [More…]

• What other section of the community gets money today at an interest rate of 3V4 per cent? [More…]

• What evidence is there that private insurance companies adequately cater for the retirement needs of the community and that the interest of the Australian Government in national superannuation should be peripheral, unimportant and, in fact, can be discarded? [More…]

• From them he will learn that many people in the community are concerned about what is happening on Fraser Island which involves the Minister for Environment (Dr Cass). [More…]

• We can proceed in the normal manner and debate other matters of significant concern to the Australian community. [More…]

• There is apparently one law for the cockies and another for the rest of the community. [More…]

• The Distribution Commissioners are required to give due consideration to community of interests, to means of communication and travel, to trend of population changes, to physical features of each division and- and 1 stress this- to existing boundaries of divisions and subdivisions. [More…]

• Of course, it is within the knowledge of all honourable members that it would be an extremely difficult task for anybody charged with the responsibility of redistribution to be terribly dogmatic, particularly in metropolitan areas, and more particularly in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, as to where community of interest stops and starts. [More…]

• We all know that the broad community of interest of the capital cities of Australia is a whole. [More…]

• On the evidence of its own submission the Labor Party does not understand the political attitudes of the community or the norms on which the Commissioners were operating on this occasion. [More…]

• The community of interest in that area of South Australia in which specialist industries are followed has been disbanded and rended. [More…]

• They are watercourses and other things such as electricity transmission lines and mountains which actually divide communities and thus comply with the requirement relating to community of interest. [More…]

• In fact, the community of interest of the Kingston-Blackman’s Bay area and the hinterland down to the Huon is similar to the community of interest on the eastern shore, which is also in Franklin? [More…]

• Is the honourable member going to the extent of saying that commercial pedlars or people who want to satisfy a prurient interest in some members of the community should have access to these judgments to publish them as the scandal sheet of the week or something of that sort? [More…]

• On that occasion, I pointed to the fact that not only was this something totally novel and comprehensive covering every single section of the community but also that we believed this to be a positive government responsibility. [More…]

• I think that it has been well demonstrated over the years that the initiative of private enterprise is the only factor which gives benefit to the community. [More…]

• But the Government has not yet produced anything that is working with any great benefit to this community. [More…]

• It is no good the Government trying to protect the community by inflicting upon it a scheme that it does not want. [More…]

• It is also in direct contradiction of the statement of his Special Adviser on Community Relations who said on 10 May that Australians would welcome 1500 South Vietnamese refugees. [More…]

• It cannot speak only for the farmers in this place and, at the same time, change its name to broaden its base and take in the interests of other sections of the community. [More…]

• In this Parliament it cannot be the unique and specialised spokesman for the farm communities and, at the same time, represent other sectors of the community. [More…]

• It is a tragedy of a major order against the farm community which the farm community, in its ignorance, has brought upon itself. [More…]

• Because she is honest, because she puts a point of view and because she has gone to the farm community and said: Think, again; think very carefully; there are arguments you must answer’, the farm community instead of responding to the challenge calls for her scalp. [More…]

• I believe it would have been a grave injustice to Mrs Rolfe, to the farm community and to the whole purpose of finding objectivity in these matters to let this situation go unnoticed. [More…]

• The program is community based and community orientated and it is Australian in its complete context. [More…]

• I would be very surprised if the Minister was sincere in what he said to the Press, but if he is and he institutes this challenge forthwith we give him this assurance: It will jeopardise the program as far as his State is concerned but it will not jeopardise the program as far as the Victorian community is concerned. [More…]

• There is no doubt that since the whole of the Australian Labor Party’s program has progressively been exposed to community examination there is no individual sector in the Australian community which has suffered more than the rural sector. [More…]

• The significance in the Australian community of the Government’s policies on agriculture is that agriculture is essentially an industry composed of a multiplicity of individual productive units. [More…]

• That is not in any way to denigrate those other industries but I seek to make the comparison because it is important that the Australian community recognises the implications of the policies which this Government has applied to those individual productive units. [More…]

• In these circumstances the Commonwealth aid roads arrangement is demonstrably another of those direct additional burdens that Labor is adding to the rural community. [More…]

• One of the forces which unfortunately has not registered on Labor is the degree to which productivity and the value of goods produced eventually relates back to the availability of services to the community. [More…]

• Productivity means generating wealth in order to pay for those things which the community needs and for which it asks. [More…]

• The essence of the destructive intent in Labor’s rural policy is that it has ignored the necessity for those who are producers of wealth on rural estates throughout this country to survive and there is no doubt that the impact which the Commonwealth aid roads fund will have on shire rates is a distinct and direct product of Labor’s attempt to reduce the amount of assistance available to that sector of production in our community. [More…]

• It has gone through a period when overseas markets have been changing, when previous opportunities of access to the United Kingdom market have been prejudiced by arrangements entered into by the United Kingdom through its tie with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• On 2 1 May in response to a question on notice- one of those Dorothy Dix questions for which the Ministers of this Government are becoming so notorious- in which the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) was asked to what degree representations had been received from the National Country Party of Australia in regard to cuts in Government spending, the Treasurer outlined assistance totalling $670m which he said had been provided in the current financial year towards assisting the agricultural community. [More…]

• We believe that the Government has a responsibility to tell the agricultural community that that price support program will be continued. [More…]

• That aspect- it is central not only to the rural community but to the whole economy and the whole community- is the impact which inflation is having on primary producers. [More…]

• Can any honourable member tell me of any other person in the community whose income is falling at the rate of 40 per cent per annum? [More…]

• Virtually no other person in the community is so defenceless against inflation. [More…]

• He just has to sit back and watch people in every other sector of the community protecting themselves, with varying degrees of success, against inflation- and often making inflation worse in the process- while he is powerless to do anything to protect himself. [More…]

• Let me inform the Australian community, including the farmers, that the great bulk of this assistance, if not all of it, has been provided by way of loans on which interest has to be paid. [More…]

• This is happening while many other sections of the community are receiving grants to help tide them over. [More…]

• This Government is giving patronage to such companiesalmost a direct subsidy by way of grantwhilst the rural community is left abandoned to struggle on as best it can. [More…]

• That means that the cost of the major items a farmer must buy rose by twice as much as the things that the average person in the Australian community has to buy. [More…]

• This inflationary situation is rapidly reducing the Australian farming community to a peasant society. [More…]

• The money involved in a fertiliser bounty is returned to the Government over and over again through the increased taxes it collects on the higher production in the community. [More…]

• That is why I say to the whole community that we have a responsibility to do whatever we can to confront this problem. [More…]

• For the basic rate pensioner receiving the single rate pension, which is the much more numerous type of pension in the community, we have increased that pension by 80 per cent as against this 36.3 per cent increase in the consumer price index. [More…]

• However, having committed ourselves to providing supplementary assistance, and it does benefit about a quarter of a million recipients in our community at present, we should make an effort in terms of other commitments that we have to do what we can to ease the means test and, at the appropriate time, to increase further the amount of supplementary assistance which pensioners are allowed to receive. [More…]

• One of the main ones is that new proposals do not give sufficient consideration to community of interest. [More…]

• In fact, in the new electorate, proposed by the Commissioners to be named Flynn and renamed Kennedy by the Government, community of interest has been disregarded completely. [More…]

• I ask you, Mr Deputy Speaker: What community of interest does Mount Isa, a large mining town in the far north-western part of Queensland, have with large towns in south-western Queensland, of which Dalby is the largest, which depend on servicing highly fertile farming and grazing lands and whose manufacturing industries are almost totally engaged in the manufacturing of farming implements? [More…]

• In support of my contention that community of interest has been disregarded, I would like to quote from the statement by Distribution Commissioner, Mr I. F. Weise, the Electoral Officer for Queensland, for whom I have great respect, giving his reasons for dissenting from the proposals relating to the divisions of Capricornia, Darling Downs, Dawson, Fisher, Kennedy, Maranoa and Wide Bay in the 1968 redistribution of the State of Queensland into electoral divisions. [More…]

• The first was that the proposed division of Kennedy encroached upon the area of south east Queensland with which it has little or no community of interest. [More…]

• Let me repeat that: The proposed division of Kennedy encroached upon the area of south east Queensland with which it has little or no community of interest. [More…]

• So on Mr Weise ‘s own 1968 assessment- and he is a man with great experience and knowledge in this field- community of interest has been ignored on this occasion. [More…]

• So much for community of interest. [More…]

• The Commissioners acknowledged the strong objections received by them in this connection and, in fact, agreed that there is a strong community of interest between Holmesglen and the existing division of Henty. [More…]

• However, the Commissioners apparently felt that the retention of that subdivision in Henty would have resulted in a violation of the ‘community of interest’ criterion as it related to other electors. [More…]

• We can only understand its redistribution plans by understanding its plight in the Australian community today. [More…]

• The story here is that Labor is facing a hostile Australian community- not hostile at the outset, but hostile now because of the impact of Labor’s policies and because of the records that Labor is creating in so many vital fields such as record unemployment, record inflation and record interest rates. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman does not do himself, the parliamentary process in this country or the community a service when he endeavours to mislead the House by giving that sort of impression. [More…]

• In that way we have the views of the whole community transmitted to this chamber. [More…]

• My submission was in agreement with the views of the honourable member for Wimmera and of the Liberal Party of Australia when they, in writing to the Commissioners, listed the following as matters which should be taken into account when moving boundaries: Community of interest, commerce, education, religious affiliation, sport, kindergartens and general municipal matters. [More…]

• Your Distribution Commissioners appreciated that there was a community of interest between Holmesglen and the existing division of Henty, but to accede to the objection, the community of interest of other electors would be violated and a resultant major rearrangement of other division boundaries would only have aggravated the situation. [More…]

• It is a seat which has existed since Federation and is a complete community of interest, so much so that the electors signed a petition which is now incorporated in the report of the Distribution Commissioners. [More…]

• The way the Public Service acts, the people these days have much more redress there than they have from many other people in the community who serve them, in business and whatever. [More…]

• Labor Party members and supporters in the community were just as unhappy with the proposals as were National Country Party and Liberal Party supporters and members within the electorate. [More…]

• The Distribution Commissioners stated that they were cognisant of the community of interest within each proposed division, including economic, social and regional interests. [More…]

• I heard the honourable member for Phillip ask what was the community of interest between the people living in North Sydney and those living in Sydney. [More…]

• I ask not only the honourable member for Phillip but also the Commissioners what is the community of interest between the fine people who live in Broken Hill who mine the silver found there and the people in the Riverina who farm in the irrigation area. [More…]

• There is no point in saying that there is a community of interest among the people in the proposed new seat of Darling. [More…]

• Not only is Broken Hill a centre where the community of interest is completely different from that of the Riverina, but it is hundreds of miles away from the area of the Riverina. [More…]

• There is no community of interest between those 2 pieces of geography. [More…]

• It is a very important part of the community that exists on the tablelands of Eden-Monaro. [More…]

• Eden-Monaro is representative of the total community and of its geography. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• 12) Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• It created considerable distress in the community. [More…]

• If it is now its proposition that there should also be a substantial commitment through the Budget to this sort of financial outlay, which involves a very large amount of money, I repeat the challenge to the Opposition: If that is the sort of welfare program it wants, where is it going to get the money and at whose expense in terms of cuts in programs affecting the rest of the community? [More…]

• As a result freight has been diverted to inadequate highways with consequent economic and social costs to the community as a whole, in the form of higher road maintenance costs and the human misery and personal financial burden road accidents bring. [More…]

• They know that in general it is the underprivileged sections of the community who are more prone to confusion when asked to fill out a complicated ballot paper. [More…]

• These benefits would be provided where patients who need longterm treatment are not adequately catered for by the expanded community services. [More…]

• The honourable member for Petrie mentioned that there are very many lazy people in our community who are taking advantage of the welfare services that this [More…]

• There is now a widespread questioning in our community whether and how well the structures established on the recommendation of the Martin Committee suit a very different sort of a society a decade further on in our history. [More…]

• The honourable member for Sturt would know that figures have been taken out on the cost to the community of students who fail and students who drop out. [More…]

• Between the same months- March last year and March this yearlocal government employment rose by 11.4 per cent That, of course, represents the fact that the Federal Government- my Government- has been particularly anxious that local government should be given the wherewithal to fulfil the community responsibilities which fall to it. [More…]

• Is he aware that at least 30 000 in total of the increase in State and local government employment is due to schemes such as the Regional Employment Development scheme and other employment-giving activities, schemes which the Government is using to try to cover up the mismanagement of the economy generally throughout the community? [More…]

• The people who are employed are employed on useful projects; their dignity is preserved; they feel useful; and the community appreciates their efforts. [More…]

• Of course, it may not be complete naivety; it could be that the Government is again asserting a continuing determination to destroy all the productive sectors of the Australian community. [More…]

• Now, it is doing it only too effectively in the wool growing community. [More…]

• Orders were cancelled from Japan, the United Kingdom and the European Economic Community and there was the likelihood as a result of that Cabinet decision that no wool would be sold commercially between now and the end of June with the Corporation having to pick up the half-million bales that would have been offered. [More…]

• So we are proposing that we concede the point that the sentiment that there should be full and free consultation with the State governments, local government and the whole community be accepted and suggest that this could be considered in the Senate, where a more judiciously worded amendment can be put. [More…]

• The Bill states: the national estate consists of those places, being components of the natural environment of Australia or the cultural environment of Australia, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the present community. [More…]

• It will be avoided only by cooperation between all governments and the community at large. [More…]

• Co-operation and co-operative effort by all sections of the community are necessary to enhance the quality of our environment and to protect the National Estate. [More…]

• We face the unpalatable truth that health services in this area have lagged far behind the growth of the community. [More…]

• The hospital has insufficient beds and services to meet the demands being made not only by its own community but also by a much wider area. [More…]

• So far as the other matters are concerned, I would share the concern of any responsible person in the community who pointed out that profits as a proportion of gross domestic product have slumped in recent times. [More…]

• I share that sort of concern when it is responsibly stated by all members of the community. [More…]

• This is one of the most serious issues which must be confronted by the Government, the Parliament and the Australian community. [More…]

• None of these things can be achieved unless there is a recognition of this problem in the Australian community, unless there is support of the need for restraint in the demands on resources diverted to wages and salaries, and unless an opportunity is developed for private enterprise to be more profitable. [More…]

• If I may make the point in the friendliest manner possible, I think that, as spokesmen for the free enterprise system in our community, members of the Liberal and National Country Parties- especially the Liberal Party- are deplorably deficient in their advocacy of the role of profits and of the right to a respectable recognition of that role in our economy. [More…]

• The circumstances facing the Australian dairy industry are now very different since the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community in February 1973. [More…]

• The Commission shall, in the performance of its functions in relation to any matter, and so far as it considers appropriate having regard to the nature of the matter, consult with Departments and authorities of the States, local government authorities and community and other organisations. [More…]

• The amendment indicates that we and the new Commission will consult not only with the States but also with local government and the general community. [More…]

• The Commission shall, in the performance of its functions in relation to any matter, and so far as it considers appropriate having regard to the nature of the matter, consult with Departments and authorities of the States, local government authorities and community and other organisations. [More…]

• In Parramatta, for instance, 164 properties are considered to be of sufficient importance to warrant inclusion as part of the National Estate: In one community there is that large number of properties for which priorities have to be decided. [More…]

• consult, so far as he considers appropriate, with Ministers and authorities of the States, local government authorities and community and other organisations. [More…]

• The realisation of the importance of the Australian heritage has been the role in life not only of the Minister over all these years; the community at large has realised, as Australians have grown more mature, that these matters are important. [More…]

• The Minister reflects community attitudes- I give him credit for that- and reflects the attitudes of a lot of people on this side of the House. [More…]

• At the same time I think it is significant to realise that in the community today lots of people are living in places that could easily be declared to be pan of the National Heritage. [More…]

• If the result of a building being declared as part of the national estate is that the land on which that building stands is materially depreciated in value it is proper from the community’s point of view that the community should compensate the owner of that land. [More…]

• The separation of the two services will provide a unique opportunity for the reconsideration of all aspects of their future organisation and financing and hopefully will put them in better shape to cope with future community needs. [More…]

• If, as it is to be hoped, greater operational efficiency in the postal and telecommunications services is achieved, it is important to see that the results are enjoyed by the community in the form of better services and more reasonable tariffs. [More…]

• That end is better and more economical service to the community. [More…]

• At the same time it has to provide a service for the community at large. [More…]

• The acid test of the value of the Commissions will be whether they can provide a satisfactory service to the Australian community, including those deserving people in the sparsely populated areas of Australia where services are being provided at the present time, and indeed where it is reasonably possible to provide them. [More…]

• I think these lines of communications should be considered in the national interest and, in those cases where it can be reasonably shown, I think the provision of essential services in outlying areas should be shown on the balance sheet as a cost to the community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister and the Government whether they think it is reasonable to expect people to stay in isolated areas if they are not given whatever amenities can be provided, even if they are provided at some cost to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is an essential part of the Australian tradition and it is an essential part of our contribution as a nation to the benefit of the world community that we do just that. [More…]

• However, there is no doubt at all that great disappointment will be felt throughout the community, and particularly throughout the postal and telecommunications service, when the full import of the legislation and its application are clearly understood. [More…]

• Let us take for a moment the effect of that on the community, on the present day circumstances of business in this nation as we know it and the result on business of such an increased cost in postal services. [More…]

• In terms of the ordinary letter rate, once an increase of that magnitude occurs a fall-off in business is predictable and alternatives will be found by the community. [More…]

• We find that the boundary changes will ignore geographical considerations, and will ignore many of the commercial considerations which are important if the postal operation is to accord with the commercial needs of the community. [More…]

• This surely is pulling the wool over the eyes of people within the service and the community at large. [More…]

• It could be, of course, that a government that has a willingness to recognise the fundamental needs of service will see that there is some balance between the tariffs and the rates that are set by the Commissions, the gap that might arise and the requirements of the community, in the direction of both capital development and of plain service because in this period of ravaging inflation both will turn out to be very costly items in the budgeting of the 2 Commissions. [More…]

• If there is a sympathetic Minister and a sympathetic Government, we might run along for a year or two with some satisfaction to the community; but if on the other hand there is a firm rein on any extra revenue provision, then the community must suffer. [More…]

• In conclusion, I make only this observation: If we are to see ultimately an operation that will perform the service required, there must be less confusion in the matter of what the real costs are for capital purposes, for expansion and for the provision of what might be termed the community need. [More…]

• in reply- In the first place, I wish to raise the matter of the privacy of mail which apparently is causing a little concern in the community. [More…]

• As I pointed out during the debate on the second reading this is one of the aspects which goes too far beyond what is available virtually everywhere else in the community. [More…]

• This would put government employees in a highly favoured position when compared with the rest of the community. [More…]

• I think it must be understood by everybody that if this provision is introduced the extra cost that is part and parcel of it must be reflected in the Government ‘s program and will also be reflected in the higher taxation that public servants and everybody else in the community will have to pay. [More…]

• After all, there is widespread throughout the community a lack of provision for superannuation of any sort. [More…]

• Indeed it would make a section of the community immune from the ravages of inflation. [More…]

• What the honourable member is saying is that the retired people, and the pensioners, the people who have the least voice in the community, the least articulate group in the community, can bear the greatest burden. [More…]

• I went on to stress that it was not right that pensioners in particular should bear the effects of inflation, and that therefore there was justice in the measure, but I pointed out also that there were many other matters to be attended to in the community. [More…]

• Let me say that the community, conscious of its obligations to the aged, doubtless wants the very considerable net transfer, which is growing fast and will progressively grow, from current income earners to retired persons involved in this process. [More…]

• The Australian economy calls for a level of restraint by all sectors of the community. [More…]

• Importantly, the Hancock Report on National Superannuation recommends 65 years of age as the proper retiring age for the community generally on cost and social grounds. [More…]

• It is also important that government employees do not become entirely insulated from the ravages of inflation suffered by others in the community and have limited interest in its control. [More…]

• Public servants and government employees are a valued group in the community. [More…]

• The Public Service should neither lead nor lag, but should reflect community standards. [More…]

• We wanted to be certain that if we introduced a Bill that was not, in effect, a privileged type of a Bill- a Bill that granted benefits to one section of the community and not another- then we had to be cautious that we did not permit the public sector to get too much out of step with the private sector. [More…]

• I believe that the concept of a 5 per cent compulsory contribution of salary with 50 per cent of the final year’s salary indexed at 1 per cent of the consumer price index is a sensible basis on which we can approach the new measure, particularly when we are considering whether the community can pay the full amount as proposed by the Government. [More…]

• He went on to say that a government had no right to require the community to give its Public Service conditions of employment which the community could not afford to give itself. [More…]

• We live in a community in which there are 2 great evils besetting us economically and financially. [More…]

• The community cannot afford to pay for this scheme,’ said the right honourable member for Lowe. [More…]

• At the same time as he was telling this Parliament that the community could not afford this scheme for a minority in the community he was telling us that the community as a whole should have a generous scheme, that every citizen is entitled to expect the provision of a superannuation scheme which is effective and reasonably generous, to use his words. [More…]

• Now they are saying that the Government should offer insurance to every citizen in the community. [More…]

• I say to honourable members opposite that if they throw out this scheme, they are doing a grave disservice to this community. [More…]

• Otherwise I am afraid that they will have caused a very great disservice to Australia and to the Australian community. [More…]

• As a result, I believe that they are entitled to some extra consideration from the community. [More…]

• I do not think that there is any resentment towards the serving men who gain a benefit which is in excess of what would normally be regarded as reasonable in the community. [More…]

• Those are the generally accepted retiring ages under differing schemes which are in operation in the community. [More…]

• The argument is not about whether or not these people are entitled to an adequate superannuation scheme; the argument is about the cost to the community of an over-generous scheme, the cost to private industry of a pace setter scheme being brought into operation. [More…]

• The report of the Hancock Committee on national superannuation, which the Government commissioned, agreed that, based on cost and based on social grounds, 65 years of age was the proper age at which members of the community in general could be expected to retire. [More…]

• If it is good enough for Hancock and the rest of the community, why is not it good enough for public servants? [More…]

• Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 58- Independent consultants ‘ report on community attitudes to service careers. [More…]

• What is so disturbing is that certain sections of the Australian community are flirting with an organisation that has a most cruel and murderous record; an organisation that could well bring about great distress, if not a serious war, in the Middle East. [More…]

• The people of Australia need to be aware of the existence of people in the Australian community who will go to any lengths to try to achieve disruption in our community and in the world society. [More…]

• This has been the only referendum conducted and it is the only actual evidence of the community ‘attitude apart from Gallup polls, which vary. [More…]

• The only community test has been the referendum in Western Australia where opposition to daylight saving was expressed. [More…]

• No attempt has been made to see the effect of one policy on sectors of the community which are vital if the industrial base of Australia is to progress. [More…]

• Federal, State and local governments as well as industry and commerce must plan now to develop a wide range of leisure opportunities and facilities to meet the demands of the community in the 1970s and 1980s. [More…]

• Whilst there is a great need for the construction of community leisure centres, there is also a great need for public education in this new phenomenonand leisure is a phenomenon. [More…]

• This is why we have a great need for community centres- centres planned with the help of people from many fields, centres catering for every kind of social service, centres where the individual can arrive and have a couple of hours recreation at the activity appealing to him at the time, with no weekly commitments and no fierce competition, just a session of recreation, a time when the rigid structure of his daily routine can be far from his mind. [More…]

• -The Opposition and other vested interests in the community are currently waging a very vigorous campaign designed to convince the present Australian Government that there should be an indiscriminate, across the board, significant reduction in Government spending. [More…]

• There is no other life saving function in our community which is comparable in size or in regularity of service. [More…]

• In fact its members pay for the privilege of providing what is a very valuable community service. [More…]

• The report is a cautious one in that it views with some concern the commitment of a large amount of money on a particular project, a project of great importance to Australia and to the Australian community. [More…]

• -Even the polls are showing that the Australian community expects the Australian Labor Party to abuse the electoral system. [More…]

• We have yet to hear the proposed time schedule, but if the Minister follows his past pattern, his mania for cutting off adequacy of opportunity for debate is such that I guess we will have about half an hour to pass 5 major Bills affecting the electoral rights of the Australian community. [More…]

• In moving this motion the Leader of the House has demonstrated once again that the Labor Party in Government is inadequate, incomplete and has no credibility in the community. [More…]

• One reason he considers the Bills urgent is that he knows the Australian community does not believe they are urgent, accurate or necessary. [More…]

• It is to ensure that there is no adequate opportunity for the Australian community at large to know that the electoral redistribution proposals that Labor advances are deliberately intended to distort electoral boundaries to Labor’s advantage. [More…]

• It is afraid of the consequences of meeting the Australian community at an election based on ordinary electoral boundaries. [More…]

• But I repeat what I have said before: The real issue facing the Labor Government is not the matter of electoral redistribution but the matter of getting the economy back on the rails, of getting the nation moving ahead again, of creating full employment in Australia, of creating confidence in the community generally and of bringing back a spirit of incentive throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Let us look at what meaning the Government gives to community of interest and economic interdependency. [More…]

• How is that for a community of interest? [More…]

• What humbug the Government talks when it talks of community of interests. [More…]

• The Commissioners seem to have been imbued with the desire to secure equal electorates irrespective of whether or not community of interest was secured. [More…]

• Everybody knows that the boundaries were drawn up by reputable people, reputable public servants in the community. [More…]

• Section 19 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act states clearly that community of interest and means of communication should be taken into account when there is a redistribution. [More…]

• My submission in this instance is that to place the city of Cessnock and Bellbird in my electorate, as is proposed in the redistribution, is not to take into consideration the community of interest and lack of communication provisions of the legislation. [More…]

• To cut a city like that in half is certainly to make it extremely difficult because there is a community of interest between the people of East Maitland and Maitland itself. [More…]

• The inclusion of the subdivisions of Gunnedah and Coonabarabran in the north-western section of New South Wales with the Hunter Valley indicates that there has been a complete failure to take into account the lack of communication and community of interest provisions. [More…]

• Country interests have been completely disregarded, as have the important provisions of the Act concerning the community of interest and the means of communication. [More…]

• At the same time we have been told that concepts such as community of interest as well as population size and variations and communications are among the factors which are to be taken into account by the Distribution Commissioners. [More…]

• There is certainly community of interest in a suburb. [More…]

• The Liberals have revealed that they take little notice of the community interest. [More…]

• Let us have a look at the different community interests. [More…]

• Of course we would also want to endorse the program submitted by the community’. [More…]

• The committee includes Dr Mccloskey, of the Victorian Department of Health; Mr A. McVeigh, of the Victorian Department of Health; Mr E. Ryan, of the Victorian Department of Education; Mr H. McPhee, of the Victorian Department of Social Welfare; Mr D. Neville, of the Victorian Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation; Councillor Portingale, a local government representative; Mrs Mccaughey, a community representative and Mrs Witney King a community representative. [More…]

• Another is the Community Child Care Co-operative of Fitzroy. [More…]

• Will we have to allocate these funds for payment to the Victorian Government to act as a post office to pay this money into the Greek community? [More…]

• Suppose that there is a very worthwhile community that has a very good project. [More…]

• We have discussed the programs with the community. [More…]

• Why is it that the Opposition hates the community? [More…]

• It should examine the question on the basis of what the community has organised for itself. [More…]

• We will seek a means whereby it can be made comprehensive and whereby there can be meaningful cooperation between the Australian Government, the State governments, local government and community groups. [More…]

• We are as much concerned to involve community groups and local government and State governments as the Minister claimed that he was to involve community groups. [More…]

• Australia is coming out of a housing trough and, I suppose, most people in the community and certainly most honourable members would be aware by now that the difficulties which people are encountering with respect to housing result from the mismanagement which occurred in 1972. [More…]

• The community should deal with these problems. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Griffith does not spend much time in the House; but if he likes to spare a few moments and stay in the House I will give an instance of a community health project which is just on the border between his electorate and my electorate and which is a typical example of this deceit. [More…]

• The glaring examples on which I want to touch briefly this evening exists in my electorate and, as I indicated, the electorate adjacent to my electorate which included the community health centre at Cannon Hill. [More…]

• Another example of the deceitful attitide of the Queensland Health Department and particularly Dr Edwards, the Minister, is the recent announcement of a site for a community health centre in Clara Street, Wynnum. [More…]

• But when the announcement was made Dr Edwards conveniently made no mention whatsoever of the role that had been played by the Australian Government in the establishment of this community health centre. [More…]

• The deceit of the Queensland Government goes further as far as community health projects in the Brisbane area are concerned. [More…]

• But so far, very secretively, very quietly and carefully, whatever has been proceeding in regard to the establishment of this community health centre has just been kept very quiet, absolutely quiet by the Queensland Government. [More…]

• In particular, of the 500 community health projects it has funded 170 are in rural areas. [More…]

• A Constitution is a charter of government; it is a deed of trust, containing covenants between the sovereign community - [More…]

• At the same time a Constitution which did not contain provision for its amendment with the development, growth, and expansion of the community which it is intended to govern, would be a most inadequate and imperfect deed of partnership. [More…]

• He says that he does not accept the argument which the Opposition advanced and which the Australian community accepted, that this legislation disturbs the balance of the relationship between the 2 Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• The National Country Party of Australia is concerned that there should be an opportunity for the Australian community to vote, where necessary and where desirable, on referenda of national interest. [More…]

• It is not only totally opposed to such an accelerated resubmission of a proposal so recently rejected by the people but also it is opposed to this Bill because it obviously is intended to lessen the power of the Senate, the one chamber of this Parliament which at the moment is protecting the interests of the Australian community, if the decisions of recent weeks are to be taken as any indication. [More…]

• We are also opposed to this Bill because no doubt it is another one of the processes of trying to ensure that the Australian community gives its permanent support to the Labor cause. [More…]

• The answer must be a community solution- a social or a national approach. [More…]

• I can recall during those floods going to the area with teams of community workers to assist in repair work and in the recovery of homes and people’s possessions. [More…]

• It is an example of the results that can be achieved when problems confronting the community are approached in a true spirit of co-operative federalism, which has been promoted so staunchly by the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) who is presently sitting at the table. [More…]

• This in itself evidences a very large step forward for local government, because if the community is to receive the services it needs right down at local government level in terms of community facilities, better roads, better drains and better kerbing and guttering- things as mundane as thatthe personnel of local government must be prepared to look beyond their own council area. [More…]

• I put that forward to the House as an example of what can be achieved by people in local government and by the 3 levels of government in this nation when all concerned get together, face up to the problem and look at ways of solving the problem, not with a view to trying toobtain some cheap or quick political mileage but rather in providing solutions that are best suited to meet the community need. [More…]

• As a result freight has been diverted to inadequate highways with consequent economic and social costs to the community as a whole, in the form of higher road maintenance costs and the human misery and personal financial burden road accidents bring. [More…]

• There is a situation in all States in which the railways simply have to continue with certain uneconomic services in order to provide for essential community needs. [More…]

• In other words, the State governments have had no option other than to continue to provide some services at the expense of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is a classic case of ‘I’m all right, Jack’, with the Australian community paying for the feather-bedding and cosy deals benefiting a very small number of people. [More…]

• So we have the continual pressure of the Waterside Workers Federation leaning on the shipowners through the AEWL, causing a continual increase in costs which, as the honourable member for Corangamite spelt out so clearly earlier, is imposing a dreadful burden not only on the exporter but also on the community as a whole because the costs of imports and exports are increased by these sweetheart agreements. [More…]

• We cannot go on as we are with the cost escalation that is dogging us and that is imposing a burden on the whole community. [More…]

• If such a corporation were set up and the stevedoring companies that are now the subsidiaries of overseas shipping companies were allowed to continue to operate, it goes without saying that the P & O Line and the various other overseas shipping lines would continue to give their business to their subsidiaries no matter what the cost of this might be to the Australian shippers and to the Australian community. [More…]

• I think the Committee will agree that $15m a year is a quite unreasonable amount of money to be paid to people for doing nothing, especially when the Australian community eventually is called upon to pay for it. [More…]

• That these are matters of concern in the community and in education is reason enough to speak on them here tonight. [More…]

• 1658 in which he provided a list of all Departments, other than the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, with some responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, which Departments are represented on the Bilingual Education Consultative Committee, the Aboriginal Community Committee and the Health Care for Aborigines Committee. [More…]

• It is true that I sent out many letters to trade unions and to members of the Public Service, telling them that in my view the cost of the scheme would be astronomical if it were applied to everybody in the community. [More…]

• The funds also could have told their contributors that this rebate would be available to pensioner patients as well as to everyone else in the community, unlike the rebate under the present voluntary health scheme. [More…]

• It is no contribution in relation to the needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Senate has amended the Racial Discrimination Bill in a number of respects, the most important of which are as follows: First, the power vested in the Commissioner for Community Relations to commence legal proceedings where he is unable to effect a settlement by conciliation has been removed. [More…]

• Throughout the Australian community there are many people of good will, without racial prejudice, who do not believe that one achieves anything in a reduction of racial tension by passing the type of legislation that the Government originally wanted. [More…]

• I, like the Attorney-General and the honourable member for Bennelong, hope that this will be a significant step forward in assisting community attitudes to what has been a very intractable problem in other countries. [More…]

• The Coombs Task Force report was opposed to the existing limited subsidy to the industry on account of the cost to the community and to the public revenue which resulted from the bounty. [More…]

• The balance we provide in order to provide a service to the Australian community so that they can communicate to these places. [More…]

• Because a visit at this time would exacerbate divisions within the Australian community. [More…]

• The value of the real estate which would be offered back to the community as a result of this purchase was $14m. [More…]

• The acquisition and use of the property for defence purposes will enable substantial areas of land currently occupied by the Department of Defence at Randwick, Marrickville and Wooloomooloo to be made available for more suitable land use for the benefit of the community generally. [More…]

• The 1974-75 Childhood Services Programs are developed through consideration of proposals by State level consultative committees which represent a cross section of State Government, Australian Government and community interests. [More…]

• Most of the funds under the programs have been allocated to community groups, local government authorities and State Government departments, the only grants for individuals having been those made under the Child Care Act for approved research projects paid through the institutions with which the individuals are associated. [More…]

• In 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…]

• Liaison with other authorities of the Australian Government, the States and where appropriate, with community groups and local government bodies, ensures that there is no unwarranted duplication of expenditures. [More…]

• It consists of twenty-four members from the arts, the general community and the government. [More…]

• The Community Arts Program, which funds community festivals and projects involving multi-arts forms. [More…]

• Crafts (February 1973): To promote excellence by wider access to and understanding of the groups in the community generally; to stimulate an imaginative approach to crafts and to raise crafts to their rightful status as a profession. [More…]

• Music (January 1973): To develop excellence in music in Australia, including opera, by expanding professional opportunities to both creative and performing artists, by encouraging the formation of new methods in music education, by responding to community needs and promoting Australian music. [More…]

• Theatre (March 1973): To support professional activity in drama, dance and puppetry, including training and youth projects, and to assist audience development and community participation. [More…]

• Visual Arts (March 1973): To improve the status and condition of artists, to stimulate the creation and exhibition of new works of art; to encourage a greater community involvement in and understanding of all forms of visual an, and to assist and encourage education and public involvement in the visual arts. [More…]

• Community Arts (June1973): To encourage arts activities in the community at large, to make arts more accessible to individuals and groups who have had little or no contact with the arts and to broaden participation in them. [More…]

• In addition, studies are made by field officers for community needs in the arts. [More…]

• Information about the program is disseminated by means of regular national and regional press advertising, announcing particulars of grants available and inviting applications; by open meetings, accessible to the general public, held by most boards in rotation between the various States; by regular releases of information to the national media; by publication of annual reports and various information pamphlets; by community arts officers answering queries on all aspects of the Council’s activities and assisting with the filing of group/individual applications; and by interviews in the media by senior officers of the Council. [More…]

• In this reply I indicated that my Department is currently examining the possibility of publishing a directory or directories of organisations based on the information contained on its computerised list of groups involved in urban and regional development, which also serves as a mailing list for the Department’s monthly news magazine Community. [More…]

• I have reservations about making freely available a mailing list that has partly grown through individuals and organisations writing to the Department asking for copies of Community and other Departmental publications. [More…]

• This Government has seen the need and has moved to remove the cause, which is that the doctor is, as it were, left out in the community without any other resources to handle these problems. [More…]

• The Government has launched a community health program, incorporating a community mental health program, which will correct this problem to the extent that people such as social workers, lay counsellors, domiciliary nurses and home helps can be brought into the community health team and, increasingly, the community itself can be brought in. [More…]

• This is not a matter on which any proposals are currently being developed but I believe the potential benefits to be so great that incorporation of the Committee’s recommendation into the Bill could deny the Australian community many of the social benefits that could flow from the program. [More…]

• Community and the United States, have been largely unaffected by such events. [More…]

• The proposed Trading Corporation could help overcome this problem by providing a selling-purchasing agency with direct contact between the Australian trading community and the state trading corporations of the centrally planned economies. [More…]

• I pointed out that it would add substantially to taxation, to costs within the corporate sector and would in fact be a major disincentive to the business community. [More…]

• All these problems add up to a further erosion of the confidence of the business community. [More…]

• If it wants to revive the private sector it should try to demonstrate that it has this capacity, that it is serious about tackling inflation and that it is serious about tackling the enormous burden of taxation upon the business community. [More…]

• There are problems in knowing where we stand with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think it must be remembered that although Australians are eating 50 per cent more beef now than they did 2 years ago, the industry has had to suffer greatly reduced export markets due, no doubt, to selfprotective decisions made by our trading partners such as Japan, the United States of America and the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• Every member of the Australian community needs to recognise that the reason for the introduction of this legislation is that the funds so collected will insulate the taxpayer against the cost of the wool price support scheme. [More…]

• The wool growers of Australia are not being dependent on the Australian community. [More…]

• The levy will ensure that the wool growers will not be in a position of being in any way subservient to the rest of the community. [More…]

• Therefore about $30m of the levy collected for 1974-75 is still held by the Treasurer (Dr. J. F. Cairns) on behalf of the Australian wool growing community in accordance with the requirements of last year’s legislation. [More…]

• But at the same time we believe that the Government has a responsibility to account to the wool growing community for these funds. [More…]

• Many people in the community believe that the taxpayer is carrying the wool grower. [More…]

• I know that the Prime Minister has already passed a vote of no confidence in his Ministry, but the wool growing community and the Australian taxpayers cannot be subjected in considerable financial transactions to this type of speculative endeavour. [More…]

• I suspect that even the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan), who is in so many areas is critical of his electorate and who in so many areas is ignorant of the agricultural needs of this community, might agree that speculation of that sort does no good either to the producer or to any other sector of the textile industry. [More…]

• It will pay back at no cost to the Government the charges on the wool growing community. [More…]

• It is bad enough for this to happen but it is worse when a sector of the community has to be penalised as a result of it. [More…]

• I think it is appropriate that every member of the Australian community recognises that in that indecision and in that inability to reach decisions the Labor Government has, as it has in other actions it has taken, demonstrated once again to the Australian community its inability to guide this country in the changing and difficult times of the 1970s. [More…]

• If the legislation had been introduced as a result of the original Cabinet decision, it would have been strongly opposed by the wool community and it would have been opposed by the Opposition. [More…]

• I hope that in generalising the point that is made here, this problem of compensating for fluctuating farm income will not be restricted to the farming community. [More…]

• I think that if the recent debate about the fixed floor price in the wool market serves any useful purpose, it will have served its greatest purpose in directing the attention of the Government and the community at large to the restraint that exists in the normal approach to this problem by government- not just this Government, but by all the governments that preceded it. [More…]

• I think last week’s fiasco over the wool price showed the Australian rural community just how much consideration they are being given by the Government. [More…]

• One hopes that the Australian Dairy Corporation, forming ‘as it is something of a combine from the old Australian Dairy Produce Board, might adequately be able to meet the needs of dairy farmers as well as of Australian taxpayers and the community at large. [More…]

• The dairy farmer is one of the more aggrieved in the farming community and his future is uncertain. [More…]

• The Government’s unsympathetic and discriminatory treatment of primary producers has created an unprecedented lack of enthusiasm for production throughout the farming community. [More…]

• It has affected not only producers but also business people and the general community in all the country areas because of its attitude. [More…]

• The circumstances facing the Australian dairy industry are very different since the entry of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Recently I said that we do not want the rural sector to become one vast sheltered region soaking up scarce public funds that could be better spent upgrading vital community services that benefit both country and city dwellers. [More…]

• I hope the Corporation does do a job of real value to the dairy farmers within the community of Australia. [More…]

• Through the European Economic Community this meant that any surplus situation was less likely to develop. [More…]

• Of course, most important of all was the damaging effect of the cut on business confidence, and I suggest that the impact of that measure is still felt to some extent in the widespread lack of confidence in the business community at the present time. [More…]

• The Government tends to foster a community in which people take in one another’s washing, with representatives of the Government standing at the corner of the street saying: ‘A bit more here and a bit more there ‘. [More…]

• It bears a dreadful responsibility, because we are ending up as a community in which people are looking towards taking in one another’s washing. [More…]

• But the area that this sort of legislation covers and that the Administrative Appeals Tribunal covers, embraces everybody in the community. [More…]

• I think we all should realise that this is part of an evolutionary process which will show up some of the defects, or what appear to be defects, in the ability of the ordinary individual in the community to obtain his proper rights or at least to have his rights and role examined. [More…]

• The people in the community face this very problem. [More…]

• The husband of the lady in question- a doctor, a man of repute- was known favourably in the community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) to investigate the possibility of giving sympathetic consideration to the establishment of community or Governmentadministered health resource centres in Perth suburbs. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• What procedures have been adopted to ensure that, if no assistance is granted, these cases are presented to the Community Recreation Council of Western Australia for consideration for capital assistance grants from his Department in the 1975-76 program. [More…]

• The other projects were received too late to be considered within the 1974-75 capital assistance program for recreation facilities but have been referred by the Social Welfare Commission to the Community Recreation Council of Western Australia and will be considered for assistance in the context of the 1975-76 program. [More…]

• The petrol sites which will be controlled by the Authority may well be leased to private citizens or particularly to community groups. [More…]

• It is impossible, in the absence of explanations by the Minister, to know the criteria by which people are paid these benefits and, unless we can get the matter debated in the House, the people in the community are going to remain in ignorance of this question for 3 months, or whatever time will elapse until the House resumes sitting in August. [More…]

• The people of the Northern Territory, who were probably more concerned with the rights of Aborigines than were people in any other community in Australia, were denied the right to vote at that referendum. [More…]

• So you can see, Mr Deputy Speaker, and so too can honourable members, that the Government, with obvious determination, has set about successfully improving the rate of benefits measured in any real sense at a much faster rate than has occurred with other relevant indices in the community. [More…]

• The Minister has done an excellent job in this field and deserves much commendation and praise for the efforts that he has made and the cooperative actions he has taken with the community at large and with the Opposition since he has been the Minister. [More…]

• I say that sincerely, because he is seeking to achieve the sort of co-operative community involvement in matters affecting our environment that is needed. [More…]

• The real prosperity of the Australian people lies increasingly in the quality of the services governments provide for the whole community. [More…]

• So in all these things we have a situation in which the Prime Minsiter has ignored the major problems in front of the people of Australia and has talked about issues which for certain groups and sections of the Australian community can certainly be important, but they are not in the mainstream of concern in Australia at the present time. [More…]

• -The Opposition is concerned at this time when inflation is rife, when the economy is in a very serious situation, when the Parliament is about to adjourn and the Budget is about to be prepared, that the members of the Parliament should embark on an exercise which the community might feel will lead to the immediate expenditure of large sums of money to replace this building known as Parliament House. [More…]

• We recognise that it is a long term project, but we believe that the critical financial needs of the community are such- this is particularly so with respect to the Budget that is to come forward within the next couple of months- that a large sum of money should not be spent now in replacing this building. [More…]

• We would be concerned if there were any large allocation of moneys in the short term, for we see that as being unnecessary in relation to the overall community needs. [More…]

• It establishes an Australian Legal Aid Commission to advise the Government upon legal aid, and provides for consultation at State and local community level with the legal profession and others. [More…]

• The Bill reflects the Government’s expectation not only that the Office will provide legal aid in significant cases affecting the rights of people in need but that it will also contribute to community awareness on matters of rights and obligations, community education and assist the process of law reform. [More…]

• The purpose of these committees is to ensure that there is liaison and consultation at State and local community level between the legal profession and others interested in the provision of legal aid and the lawyers in the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]

• The membership of the Commission will be drawn from all sections of the community so that the widest range of views and expertise are avail.able. [More…]

• One has only to compare the provisions of this Bill with legislation providing for State Government services to see how far the Australian Government has gone to involve the profession and the community in this Australia wide system. [More…]

• The development will make provision for civic, community and staff amenity facilities and for retail purposes. [More…]

• The Committee saw a need for the community facilities proposed to help meet the existing shortcomings, and to provide some retail facilities in the centre to meet, in part, the requirements of employees and the general public. [More…]

• The Committee concluded that the community facilities should be financially self supporting and that the retail facilities should be profitable to the Government. [More…]

• I submit that if this policy were changed every member would support it, because ultimately it will have an effect on every community. [More…]

• Every community is affected by the degree of subsidy that is necessary at a local level. [More…]

• As the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) outlined when he moved the expediency motion for the acceptance of this report the project provides not only a tower block to accommodate 5000 public servants but also quite a number of community facilities, to wit, a 750-seat theatre and a 200-seat theatre for use by community groups. [More…]

• As I say, these facilities are being provided to the community at no cost. [More…]

• The Government knows this and I think all members of the community who are interested in this legislation also ought to know it If this scheme does not come into operation on 1 July it will not be the fault of the Opposition. [More…]

• They do no coincide with the general views of the current pharmacist, the other professional staff, or the Community Representatives on the Management Committee at the Melba Health Centre. [More…]

• The pharmacy service at Melba is an important and in many respects unique aspect of community health care. [More…]

• No permanent accommodation is at present available in the area, but I understand the local community group and the Pharmacy Guild are considering the possibility of seeking a temporary building for a private pharmacist. [More…]

• As a result of the increases in pensions/benefits and changes in the income tax structure there has been a considerable real distribution of purchasing power to the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• It is in no sense a blueprint for youth programs which can be picked up and applied by a particular community, or youth organisation. [More…]

• Local governments, youth organisations and other community groups are using the report as the basis for more specific and localised investigations of youth needs. [More…]

• Through the pilot Innovative Recreation Program grant-in-aid scheme, my Department provides assistance to unstructured youth and other groups to develop innovative and experimental recreation programs to meet community needs. [More…]

• They want to belong to a ‘community’ and feel some responsibility for shaping the life of that community. [More…]

• My Department’s Advisory Service has been established to put the community, voluntary leaders, planners, researchers and local government in touch with new ideas on leisure programs and provides guidance on where relevant information can be found. [More…]

• It will continue to generate opportunities whereby young people may be creatively involved in their community. [More…]

• Many officers of the Department of Tourism and Recreation are involved in research and development programs in relation to tourism, community recreation, sport and youth services. [More…]

• Community Recreation- Leadership Development. [More…]

• Community Recreation- Development Studies. [More…]

• Information on assistance available through programs administered by my Department is widely circulated to Governmental bodies at all levels, through the media and to interested national sporting, recreational and community organisations. [More…]

• What programs does the Department of Foreign Affairs or statutory authorities under the Minister’s control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program and the means by which applications can be submitted: if so, what attempts. [More…]

• 14) Is the Minister confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• The Australian Development Assistance Agency administers two programs which enable individual groups in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government. [More…]

• Agency administers a scheme of financial support for selected development assistance projects carried out overseas by non-Government aid organisations in Australia (such as ‘Community Aid Abroad’, ‘For Those Who Have Less’ and ‘Foster Parents Plan’). [More…]

• The broad purpose of the scheme is to encourage and assist closer involvement by members of the community in the provision of assistance to needy people in developing countries overseas. [More…]

• To be eligible for assistance, an organisation must be identifiably Australian and have significant community support; have as one of its primary objectives the provision of overseas development assistance; and have a capability, either of its own or through a local organisation in another country, to implement projects in an efficient manner. [More…]

• 12) ( 13) and ( 14) The various organisations which subscribe to and are served by ACFOA cover a wide crosssection of the community and have many diverse bases of support, both religious and otherwise. [More…]

• Financial Assistance to Community Associations for the welfare of private and sponsored overseas students in Australia. [More…]

• The Agency co-ordinates its community welfare arrangements through Co-ordinating Committees comprising representatives of regional community associations and overseas students. [More…]

• Community organisations applying for financial assistance do so through their respective Co-ordinating Committees. [More…]

• Each Co-ordinating Committee is affiliated with numerous groups drawn from diverse sections of the community- including business and service organisations, educational institutions, religious groups and community and student associations. [More…]

• In this way, an awareness of the overseas student welfare program is extended to a wide cross-section of the community. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• Community Information Centres [More…]

• Grants to National Welfare Organisations (0 Financial Assistance for Community Welfare Agencies [More…]

• Grants to Community Agencies Scheme [More…]

• To make grants to eligible organisations to assist in establishing and maintaining community information centres or citizens advice bureaux. [More…]

• f) To make grants to eligible organisations which provide a community service and who are in serious financial difficulties. [More…]

• To extend direct migrant welfare services to areas of need within the community which could not readily be covered by the Department’s resources. [More…]

• Grants are payable to community based welfare organisations to assist in the establishment of 12 new community information centres. [More…]

• Financial assistance is available to community welfare agencies in financial need due to increased administrative costs or decreased revenue from other sources. [More…]

• Projects proposed by individual groups or people in the community are required to be of a social welfare nature and to be recommended for my approval by the relevant Regional Council. [More…]

• Regular consultation has been maintained between the migrant welfare staff of the State Offices and voluntary agencies active in providing a welfare service to the migrant community. [More…]

• School submitted by the Katanning Community Committee to the Southern Regional Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• to (9) A report was made on aspects of radio broadcasting with particular emphasis on public access and community stations. [More…]

• He had a host of friends in fraternal, community, industrial and political circles. [More…]

• I am sure that many people in Brisbane, in callings and in areas of the community quite outside the Labor Party, will long remember Bert Milliner. [More…]

• But the people of the Australian Capital Territory can be grateful for the service that Senator Milliner gave in attempting to create a formula upon which the further progress of this community towards selfgovernment could be advantaged. [More…]

• On 9 June, at a time when the international financial community was completely aware of our proposal to raise the loans which are the subject of the present controversy, that AAA rating was confirmed by Standard and Poor’s, the other New York credit rating agency. [More…]

• My association with the private company, Sunshine Migrant Services Pty Ltd, was to see that the concept of leasing sub-division and low cost housing with a fully integrated community type development could be achieved. [More…]

• If the deferred interest allows the equivalent amount of finance to be invested and to earn more than the interest cost, then there is a net gain and our community is better off. [More…]

• It is my belief that a great deal of the surprise which is apparent in the community on these matters springs from the unorthodox, the unconventional. [More…]

• The Hospitals and Health Services Commission has received a number of submissions from the Nursing Mothers’ Association of Australia for assistance under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• is a matter which must be very carefully considered by the community and its representatives. [More…]

• For this reason, I have encouraged many individuals and community organisations to convey their views both to me and to their representatives in the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• In addition, I have referred the matter to the Legislative Assembly, which is representative of the Canberra community, for their careful consideration. [More…]

• In view of my active encouragement of an expression of views by the community, I do not consider that it would be appropriate for me to unilaterally insist on the holding of a referendum. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the wide discrepancies in the salaries offered to doctors staffing the Canberra Community Centres and the North West Medical Service of Western Australia, compared with those offered to District Medical Officers carrying out similar work in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• the social status of women in the community; the social, psychological and medical results of termination of, or and failure to terminate such pregnancies; [More…]

• I believe that this is now being accepted by large sections of the community. [More…]

• It was opposed by the Opposition in another place, and here also, when we sought to introduce it for Senate elections, but in South Australia there has been no complaint by any section of the community or any political party about the result or the methods employed. [More…]

• They are properly asking: Why is it that this Labor Government should be giving such advantages to one sector of the community? [More…]

• They are not getting into a scheme that will allow them to be index-linked- tied to the consumer price index- and proofed against the ravages of inflation that is affecting the rest of the community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman has had the gall to say in defence of the action of his colleagues in the Senate that they are trying to save the taxpayers’ money and that they are trying to think of other interested groups in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that it does have a responsibility to all sectors of the Australian community. [More…]

• We ought to know from our experience throughout the 1960s that there are very many people on the other side of politics, both within the Parliament and outside, who will try to exacerbate divisions in the community in the light of the Vietnam situation during that period. [More…]

• Whilst that is acknowledged, I think that many honourable members on this side of the House and people throughout the Australian community, might well think that had there been a little less legislation from this Government in many areas and a little more responsible government, we would all be a great deal better off. [More…]

• Incomes have risen, not only in terms of real personal disposable incomes but in terms of facilities provided to the whole community in health, in education, in social welfare. [More…]

• This Labor Government more than any other government has tried to change the Australian Constitution by referenda, but it requires only one determined group of people, hiding behind the words with which they choose to cloak their real thoughts, to oppose a referendum for the community as a whole to oppose it. [More…]

• The United Kingdom has been going ever increasingly into Europe as its entry into the European Economic Community and similar developments of that sort prove. [More…]

• As the level of community reaction against smoking increases, as hopefully it will, the arrangements made by the airlines for the accommodation of smokers on their aircraft will unquestionably reflect this changed community attitude. [More…]

• I am advised that the reports of these complaints do not represent a fair review of the output of the station, which devotes a great deal of time to community service programming. [More…]

• The Government provides orthoses to clients of the Department of Repatriation and Compensation through Repatriation Artificial Limb and Appliance Centres and these Centres would continue to provide orthoses in the event of Government assistance being extended to other people in the community. [More…]

• As civilian police attached to the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) the functions of the police are to undertake patrolling duties, investigation and community liaison work in their areas of responsibility. [More…]

• What formal contact does the Department of Foreign Affairs maintain with groups in the community specifically interested in foreign policy questions? [More…]

• 1 ) The Department of Foreign Affairs maintains contact with a large number of groups and individuals within the community interested in foreign affairs, mainly through its publications, itss public speaking program, and its contact with the media. [More…]

• The Department also accepts invitations from various groups in the community for speakers on foreign policy subjects and maintains close contact with the media. [More…]

• The groups in the community with which the Department of Foreign Affairs maintains contact in the ways mentioned in ( 1.) [More…]

• include educational institutions such as universities and schools, professional, community and charitable associations, and the media. [More…]

• 1 ) What sum will be spent in each of the media on advertising the Government’s community health centre program. [More…]

• Who is the adviser on community relations to the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration. [More…]

• ) Mr Bourke was previously Director of Community and Media Relations, Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]

• He has a background in journalism, community work and academic studies in sociology. [More…]

• It would be antithetical to the best interests of the Australian community to see a hothouse rate of recovery. [More…]

• As I said last night, by and large there are early signs of a recovery- a recovery which could prove elusive if the wrong measures were taken now, a recovery which could be eroded in its progress if there were enough dissimilitude on the part of the Opposition trying to scare people in the community, because a great deal of the input in recovery at this stage will be a matter of improved psychology. [More…]

• On the other hand, if the Opposition has its way it will try to spread an attitude of depression in the community. [More…]

• The Opposition would not care if a situation arose in which other measures had to be taken because of the erosive forces which it released by its activity in the community. [More…]

• The views of Professor Henderson and of many other worthy people who are involved in and committed to the welfare field and who have expressed their concern about the less well off in our community were vastly influential in the decision-making which resulted in the personal tax measures announced last night. [More…]

• People like ourselves in this Parliament who, by community standards, are very well paid indeed, get the same benefit as people who are much less well off. [More…]

• I think it is up to them to stand up and assert their position quite bluntly to the community. [More…]

• Do they want to obstruct this beneficial sort of redistribution which is going to help families in the community -the people about whom we are all supposed to be concerned- so that a minority who are comparatively better off will retain those benefits at the expense of the majority? [More…]

• It is now saying: ‘Nobody in the Australian community is to have any resources to organise against the dictatorship of the trade union movement’. [More…]

• Finally, the point made by the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) about fascist principles had a great deal of pertinence to the debate because here today operating in the private sector of the community is the exact thing about which he complained- the moguls of the insurance industry coercing employees in the industry into signing petitions, writing innocuous letters, giving their time and utilising policy holders’ money to promote the political causes of those who sit opposite. [More…]

• Funds that could have been spent on so many other aspects of community welfare and administration have been sunk into this project, which could have been undertaken by private enterprise. [More…]

• I come back again to the fact that the Minister is the link between society -our community, the people of Australia- and the defence forces. [More…]

• and (2) The Australian Government is working with the Aboriginal community at Wreck Bay to help it to overcome handicaps facing it, and to develop its capacity to manage its own affairs and increase its independence. [More…]

• The problem which the Wreck Bay community initially focussed on was its poor housing. [More…]

• An early proposal to allocate $1,000,000 from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account to enable the immediate implementation of a housing reconstruction project was not proceeded with when the Wreck Bay community indicated that it wished to undertake the re-building itself. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community at Wreck Bay has now formed the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Housing Company. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community has been vitally involved in the development of the town plan, and the design of the houses and facilities. [More…]

• This assistance includes enabling the community to employ expertise it may require, and funds have already been advanced to enable the Housing Company to engage an architect to design and supervise the erection of approximately 32 homes and associated community facilities. [More…]

• The Wreck Bay community is also concerned to obtain a lease of land on which to re-build the township. [More…]

• The New South Wales Government has shown over a period of time that it has severely neglected the people in need of welfare housing, particularly in respect of community services. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Treasurer been drawn to a statement this morning that adverse community reaction to Tuesday’s Budget has been excessive and dangerous? [More…]

• Can the Treasurer say whether the statement refers to a genuine community feeling or to synthetic indignation manufactured by some newspapers and some individuals for party political purposes? [More…]

• I find that rather puzzling because if honourable members opposite were successful in sowing discord and pessimism in the community- that is their purpose because they have only one objective in mind and that is to try to undermine confidence in the community so that hopefully they can capitalise on that for a very narrow, very short time, and very selfish political purposes- then the corporate sector of the Australian economy would suffer more seriously than any other sector. [More…]

• On the other hand, members of the Opposition who profess to be dedicated to the free enterprise system in the community seem committed to undermining that recovery to the disadvantage of the private sector. [More…]

• He has established his position in defence of a privileged minority in the community. [More…]

• He is saying, in effect, that the half a million people who currently pay tax under the present scheme, who are among the most needy in the community and who would cease paying tax under our scheme, in fact will be forced to continue paying tax if he has his way. [More…]

• One of the great strengths of this Government and one of the things that will hold it in good stead in any future campaigns will be the community programs which have been carried out and which are now threatened to be destroyed by a conservative government. [More…]

• It would consider the operations of the Schools Commission and the classification of schools as something not in the best interests of Australia- as something that we are trying to force upon the community. [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…]

• Sixty per cent of the Australian community made up of the skilled and the unskilled- the manual workersprovided 20 per cent of the intake. [More…]

• Equality does mean, however, that there ought to be roughly the same proportion of good, bad and indifferent students among all groups in the community. [More…]

• We have had a look at how the community lived with that excitement. [More…]

• Are we enforcing standards on the community which are unacceptable to the Liberal and National Country Parties? [More…]

• The Prime Minister, in justification of his action, made the spurious point that he was trying more or less to protect these people against us members of the Opposition and against those elements in the Australian community who, he alleged, would use them for devious political ends. [More…]

• So in respect of anything which affects the community in general, there is no big government for the middle-income earners and the lower-income earners. [More…]

• In addition, this Government has provided Medibank, which is available to everyone in the community, child care facilities, urban development and all these other infrastructures which go to improving the quality of living for people on or below average weekly earnings. [More…]

• I do not believe that there is any person in this community more despicable than the one who makes anonymous telephone calls or writes anonymous letters. [More…]

• But there are within the community people who are being subjected to a continuous stream of abuse from anonymous letter writers and telephone callers. [More…]

• But what I will not become accustomed to is the way in which an anonymous letter writer or telephone caller can prey on people within the community to the very severe detriment of their health. [More…]

• When the scheme was announced, there was a virtual flood of applicants, such a flood of applicants as to indicate the unsatisfied need of this community over a generation for retraining. [More…]

• People who are applying include those who have not had the opportunity to be trained in their youth, who have not had the opportunity to have a reasonable education, new settlers to this country, migrants from other parts of the world who have not had the opportunity to be trained in the skills required in this community. [More…]

• It ill behoves a former Liberal-Country Party Minister whose Government presided over the years of neglect in this field, to come along now and to criticise this Government for the deficiencies which may exist in the initial stages of an exciting scheme which will satisfy a great community and economic need for Australia. [More…]

• They have been developed to fit the needs as they have emerged in the community. [More…]

• I believe this approach is better for the overall Australian community and the cost of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. [More…]

• One wonders exactly what is behind the socialists ‘ emotional attitude that everyone in business is making millions of dollars at the cost of the rest of the community. [More…]

• I hope fervently that in this debate honourable members do not try to exacerbate differences about this station in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is important that these matters be discussed intelligently and without rancour in this Parliament and in the community. [More…]

• I conclude by congratulating Fred on 3 points: Firstly, his sincerity, diligence and conscientious work for the Australian Labor Party in a lifetime of dedication to a cause in which he believes; secondly, his 32 years of splendid service to the Parliament and the Australian community; and, thirdly I emphasise this again- his outstanding achievements which have provided the highest standard of conditions and amenities ever enjoyed by members and senators. [More…]

• My Department is producing a handbook on Australian Government financial assistance available to Local Governments, voluntary organisations and community groups, which 1 expect to become available at the end of August this year. [More…]

• The Australian Government already provides substantial assistance ($140,500-1974-75) to the Red Cross through grants to the Blood Transfusion Service and, because of the large number of requests for assistance to community projects generally, this request was, after careful and detailed consideration, declined on 20 July 1973. [More…]

• There has been continual liaison between the two Governments to ensure the success of this project and investigations are continuing to determine the most suitable development having regard to community needs and the economics of the proposal. [More…]

• For instance, personal taxation deductions under the $1,200 limit in respect of premiums for superannuation and insurance under section 82H of the Taxation Act cost the Australian community $200m last year. [More…]

• Concessions under section 1 15 of the Act cost the Australian community between $20m and $25m last year. [More…]

• I am talking now about the average member of the community who is not terribly sophisticated in handling investments for savings purposes and making small savings for the future. [More…]

• But if one cares to consider the return that one could get as an average saver in the community, one must weigh up the fact that the return on insurance is tax free as against the interest return on other forms of investment, which is taxed. [More…]

• I conclude by suggesting that perhaps if less exaggerated and sensational attention were devoted to a few aspects of the insurance industry following the recent proposals for a new system of personal income tax, and the more positive side were stressed, insurance companies would feel more secure and would continue to play an important role in mobilising savings for investment in the community. [More…]

• On other platforms they have been making outlandish promises to people in the community about new expenditure commitments they would be prepared to make. [More…]

• Hearing aids are available for certain groups in the community, as are artificial limbs. [More…]

• If it is the former one can only be alarmed; if the latter, the Government should declare its hand and state that it is its intention to destroy the community pharmacist, for this surely will become the result of the policy being carried out now, more particularly as this policy is, in effect, being dated back by 2 years to the year beginning 1 July 1973. [More…]

• As I see it not only has the pharmacist in community practice not been paid his just rights in the past 3 years but now, because the entitlement is being paid- or more correctly 2 years of it is being paid in the tax year- the Government will reap back a substantial amount of the payments in extra taxation. [More…]

• But I think that much more basic questions have to be considered, such as whether our community is much too oriented towards and hooked on the taking of pills, and whether the best way to do something about that is by increasing the charge. [More…]

• I believe that if we weigh the good against the bad overall the community will be well served by the increase in the prescription charge which is being made. [More…]

• However, in an industrialised community such as ours we have to look at whether there are diminishing returns from increased drug use. [More…]

• In addition we believe that beef producers, like any other section of the community which has lost its means of livelihood, should be eligible for welfare payments, which even this Government denies them. [More…]

• The suspension of the growth centre expenditures and the making of special economies in the urban rehabilitation and area improvement programs would have saved millions of dollars and would not have interfered with expenditure on land commissions, urban flood mitigation, the sewerage program, and the development of Aboriginal community amenities. [More…]

• The tax proposed by the Australian Government on the export of coal is in point of fact the exaction of a reasonable royalty for the benefit of the Australian community which we can do only through the imposition of an export tax but which the Queensland State Government could do through its royalties. [More…]

• I think much of economics is dependent simply on the degree of discipline in the community. [More…]

• It is quite clear, therefore, that it is the psychology or, if you like, the discipline in the community which makes certain things possible. [More…]

• It was the concern that was felt in the community that caused such drastic action to be taken. [More…]

• Again I come back to the point that it was the degree of discipline in the German community which made so amazing a transformation possible in a short time, just as I think one can argue that between 1921 and 1923- in the post war collapse- it was the degree of indiscipline of the psychology of the community that put the mark to the rate of 130 billion to the dollar. [More…]

• Nothing in the Leader of the Opposition’s speech- it was very largely a rodomontadewould induce the unity or discipline in the Aus.tralian community to solve anything. [More…]

• The points made were all too specific for him and I believe for many others in the community. [More…]

• Tonight the ball passed from the court of the Treasurer and the Government to the court of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• With a community appreciation of the need for restraint we can make a real start on getting inflation under control and further raising real standards for everybody. [More…]

• If there is an equal commitment in the community to play its part in steering the economy back to a firmer footing we shall be able to overcome any such temporary problems. [More…]

• Let us examine these proposals which the Leader of the Opposition feels he must condemn even if it means bringing down the economy around the ears of the entire Australian community. [More…]

• Today Medibank allows pensioners a free choice of both general practitioners and specialists on the same basis as other sections of the community. [More…]

• Equally, the Budget demonstrates the anarchy into which we can be plunged if major community groups each pursue to the bitter end their separate and sectional interests, irrespective of whether these interests are higher wages, higher profits or public projects where the costs exceed the capacity of the public purse. [More…]

• The shire of Warragul submitted 7 projects, all in the interests of the community’s benefit, all properly costed, specified and architecturally designed to an estimated cost of $348,000. [More…]

• The whole scheme has been designed to keep the community on a course of expectancy but not to give money. [More…]

• It showed a great community response, a great community interest and a tremendous community need. [More…]

• Would he cut the community health program? [More…]

• We are aware that in finding the money to balance that deficit the Government could let loose other forces in the economy such as a rise in interest rates, which would go right through the community. [More…]

• Will it enable or induce the private sector to turn its attention once again to growth, development and new horizons, with all that that means in terms of providing jobs for Australians and a higher standard of living and the very capacity the better to meet those aspirations in the education, health, welfare, defence and other fields where community demands have outrun the ability to provide? [More…]

• Their concern has never been for the poorer people in the community. [More…]

• Community health centres, schools, pensions and the like would have been areas in which the slack would have been taken up- the gap that is totally unexplained by honourable members sitting on the other side of the House. [More…]

• It panders to the type of selfish attitude expressed in the question we hear asked all too often in the community: ‘What’s in it for me?’. [More…]

• One of the greatest problems we face in the community today is the ‘What’s in it for me?’ [More…]

• We could have found a thousand and one ways to inject finance into all sectors of the community. [More…]

• That restraint needs to be shared throughout the whole community. [More…]

• There must be a community will to combat inflation. [More…]

• If only we could get rid of the strikes, the industrial dislocation, the planned stoppages, the feather-bedding and the unreasonable impediments to production it would be possible to maintain the full present wage without inflation, and it would be possible to increase productivity and to go on to higher standards of living for the whole Australian community. [More…]

• This Budget is made for my electorate and consequently I am particularly pleased that it is a Budget of consolidation and a Budget that continues to expand the public programs that benefit directly all the various aspects of the economic community in my electorate. [More…]

• They are a real part of the community. [More…]

• Are National Country Party members waiting like Micawber for something to turn up in the European Economic Community which might buy our beef again? [More…]

• But the world has changed for the Opposition and it has not realised the problems of the community. [More…]

• The new Treasurer, Mr Hayden, then had the unenviable task of trying to adopt what he calls the ‘middle course’ and in doing so he made a plaintive call for co-operation from the whole community. [More…]

• It is a crazy merry-go-round in which the Government is the only entity in the community not suffering a loss of income. [More…]

• So far as can be ascertained from the elections, public opinion polls, political meetings, letters from constituents and letters to editors of newspapers, the majority of Australians want the Government to create the overall economic conditions which will enable them to use their education and talents to live their lives with as much choice as the network of rights and obligations in the community will allow. [More…]

• And if there is one thing that can bring us down it would be unbridled greed on the part of all sections of the community. [More…]

• It means that no man lives to himself, that every man who lives in a community is a member of that community. [More…]

• I think that is a very important expression from Sir Robert Menzies because it points to the type of co-operation that a Treasurer of this country today should be calling for, not co-operation based on lavish public spending programs designed to make the community more and more dependent upon the Government. [More…]

• The amount of purchasing power in the community today can be illustrated by the fact that savings banks deposits rose by $3 11m in June this year to an all time peak of $ 12,768m, and these deposits are earning very substantial interest. [More…]

• While these cuts will certainly have an effect on employment in the future, the equally savage cuts in the area of housing can only add to the unemployment and social problems in the community. [More…]

• How can any government justify taxation policies which allow tax cuts to certain groups in the community, which will cost $205 in the current year, and yet impose a tax on beer which alone will bring in $246m in a full year? [More…]

• As the Leader of the Opposition illustrated, I thought very well last night, almost everybody in the taxpaying community will be worse off. [More…]

• There is absolutely no confidence in the business community to invest in new buildings or to expand present buildings. [More…]

• This does nothing to assist the confidence of the business community nor does it help solve their liquidity problems. [More…]

• Those who will suffer first are those on low incomes, the disadvantaged, and the underprivileged in the community. [More…]

• Because of the shortage of time I will not be able to itemise the complete list, but I point out that the Australian Government assists in meeting debt charges and in the fields of State emergency services, universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education, schools, pre-schools, child migrant educational research, Medibank, public hospitals, running community health services, television control, school dental health, health education, home dialysis, blood transfusion services, health planning agencies, housekeeping services, home care services, senior citizen’s assistance, assistance to deserted wives, employment grants, regional employment development schemes, social planning units, Aboriginal advancement, housing, area improvement, sewerage, local government, regional organisations, leisure and recreation tourism and, in Perth, the underground railway study and matters of that nature, going right through to the natural disaster area. [More…]

• I charge that the Liberal Party stands for the deliberate destruction of the small business sector of the community. [More…]

• Both have personal and community application. [More…]

• Community needs would be adequate health services, adequate means of transport and communication such as roads, railways, and adequate means of verbal and written communication. [More…]

• Whilst this list is by no means complete I think I have highlighted the main needs of the individual and of the community. [More…]

• At the national level the Government is charged with the very grave responsibility of declaring how and when the needs of individuals and of the community can be assisted with the moneys it collects in the form of taxes. [More…]

• Health is recognised by all as an individual and community need. [More…]

• So much for this Government’s handling of the community’s health needs. [More…]

• This constant whingeing about grants .to the arts is one very good example of our opponents’ hatred of anything that really improves the lives and opportunities of ordinary people, especially minority groups within the community. [More…]

• In Vh years, through economic mismanagement, it has raised the expectations of practically every sector of the Australian community and then, when it has realised the bitter facts of this economic mismanagement, it has attempted to cover up its shocking and culpable neglect with a Budget, the authors of which say is responsible. [More…]

• But the difference is that the priorities of the Labor Party and the Government lie in the area of quality of life, in the area of education, in the area of welfare services and in the area of community health. [More…]

• But left to his own devices he would have put up the price of crude oil which in turn would have flowed right throughout the community and increased the costs much more than the Labor Party can be accused of doing. [More…]

• It has allocated funds and resources available to it to areas that are going to be of benefit to the community. [More…]

• Last Tuesday night those of us who were privileged to be in this House, those of the community who were lucky enough to get into the gallery and those of the general public who were unfortunate enough to have their radios tuned in had to listen to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) bring in what he said was his alternative to the Budget. [More…]

• But it seems to me that history since has shown that people opposed to Australia’s involvement in Vietnam took a moral, correct and- in the eyes of the community- a justifiable attitude. [More…]

• They worry about the amount of the public purse that finds its way into the free enterprise section of the community. [More…]

• -No, I am not in favour of it as it is proposed by the Government for it is a proposal which will bring about first and second class legal aid in the community. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that it look at some of the articles that have been published dealing with its own social welfare program and the comments of people like Professor Downing on its proposals for compensation schemes and expenditure on a national superannuation scheme and on whether we can justify that sort of expenditure when there are other people in the community with real needs. [More…]

• He did not suggest that it ought to be an additional method of ripping off money without any effective result in the long term for the community as a whole. [More…]

• In spite of this recession, in spite of the obstruction of the Senate, in spite of the delays and distortions in this House, in spite of the opposition that has been generated by the Opposition parties outside this Parliament, the Australian Government has stood firm and has brought down a Budget that will bring justice and assistance to all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Organised protest by a few young Liberal Party students Will fool no-one because members of this Government have telegrams coming into their offices from all sections of the community congratulating them on maintaining a very high level of expenditure on education. [More…]

• If we do not wish to finish up in the same state of economic and social collapse as other countries then we must seek the co-operation of all sections of the community. [More…]

• Even now, Opposition members are crying out for more and more money for defence and at the same time are telling us that we should spend less and less on every other section of the Australian community. [More…]

• There are $ 100m or more of postal charges which have been imposed upon the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a question of the people of Australia and the people who were elected by the community- I am referring to all members of this Parliament- deciding whether extra money ought to be collected and whether that money ought to be spent on certain things. [More…]

• I think this is very important in the community because many of the disadvantages that have occurred in the economy are self-imposed and irrational. [More…]

• But it will not be lost on the Australian people that the cost to the community as a whole will be the cost of the Budget as it stands plus the savagely increased charges introduced by the Postal Commission and the Telecommunications Commission. [More…]

• But he will be known to many people in the community as a Minister who left unanswered, or very slowly answered, an enormous amount of mail. [More…]

• In its quest to improve the quality of all kinds of health care, the Government, through its Community Health Program, is supporting a variety of services and facilities, for example, day hospitals, health centres, and domiciliary care teams. [More…]

• 1 ) Who is conducting the research into community welfare needs in the Mount Morgan area. [More…]

• to (6) A suitably qualified worker was appointed to conduct research into community welfare needs in the Mount Morgan area but was unable to take up the appointment. [More…]

• Purchase, modification and running costs of a media van to be made available for use throughout the region to communicate to the community in the area on social and community welfare services. [More…]

• Availability of grants under these schemes is not advertised in detail but by reference to CSIRO Annual Reports and from general knowledge within the scientific community, interested parties would be aware of the existence of these schemes. [More…]

• Who is conducting the research into community welfare needs in isolated parts of the Jericho Shire. [More…]

• Mrs M. Nott who is suitably qualified, conducted the research into community welfare needs in isolated parts of the Jericho Shire. [More…]

• The printed report, containing 22 recommendations for social development action by the Regional Council and its community worker, will be released to Shire residents. [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…]

• The Government is sympathetically disposed towards the United Nations as an instrument available to the international community in cases of emergency, but the Government would be unable to react until a concrete proposal is on the books. [More…]

• They provide the first real hope that the Australian community has had to protect itself against the rapacious transfer of resources to the public sector which has occurred in the last 3 years and which has been characteristic of the misconceived mismanagement of the Labor Government. [More…]

• The fact is that these proposals, widely acclaimed today by the media and the non-government sector of the Australian community, represent the only long term, forward-looking and constructive proposals- the only certain incentives- which have been put forward for the private sector by any political party or group of parties in this national Parliament. [More…]

• I refer here, of course, to the bedevilling problem in the economy at present for the small business community. [More…]

• The business community will not react favourably to the Budget of the Labor Party. [More…]

• The amount of this year’s defence outlay- some $ 1,800m- represents a proper and just acknowledgement of the importance of maintaining a meaningful defence capability; it is a carefully thought out response to the needs of the defence community, taking into consideration the necessary containment of public expenditure in the current economic climate. [More…]

• Papua New Guinea will want to find its own place in the international community. [More…]

• Papua New Guinea has been most fortunate in having as its Chief Minister, and very shortly its Prime Minister, Michael Somare, a dedicated leader who has done much to prepare his country for the role it must play in the community of nations. [More…]

• That in itself I welcome because I believe that we should expand the educational opportunities available to the members of the community. [More…]

• I believe that isolated children rank as perhaps the most under-privileged section of the Australian community. [More…]

• These people, in common with the rest of the community living in remote areas, are being seriously disadvantaged by the reduction or elimination of postal services and by the Budget generally. [More…]

• Small businessmen are being forced out of business because of rising costs brought about as a result of the policies of this Government and the Budget adds further to the burdens of this deserving section of the community. [More…]

• It comes from all levels of the community. [More…]

• But this deficit has to be related to the cost to the community of the private car. [More…]

• Already in my electorate we have one which is carrying a good deal of traffic and which has been well received by the community. [More…]

• The community can have no more than it can itself pay for and build. [More…]

• If we attempt to satisfy community expectations beyond our real capacity it will result in inflation and ultimately unemployment. [More…]

• Our idealism will be best reached by building a more successful community and economy. [More…]

• As I outlined to the House before, because of the contingencies which arose and because of the shocking neglect of 23 years of ineffectual government before we came to power, the amount of spending in the social welfare, education and urban development areas in particular had to be massive; the expenditure outlays had to be massive to overcome the anomalies that were present in the Aus.tralian community. [More…]

• Like the rest of the community, he will be slugged with the massive increase in indirect taxes. [More…]

• Many people in my Party and in the community at large believe that capital is on strike and that nothing that this Government does will engender a favourable response. [More…]

• At long last there is an awakening in the community to the fact that riding a wave of wages chasing costs inevitably must dump the rider in the shallows and leave him stranded in a backwater of economic disarray. [More…]

• What concerns me is the lack of perspective about the role of public spending in promoting the increased welfare of our community as shown in the responses of the Opposition. [More…]

• Let me remind the Leader of the Opposition and his colleagues that the vast majority of Australians have always looked to the public sector to provide a wide range of basic community services. [More…]

• This Government inherited a backlog in basic community services, which we are committed to put right and which we Will continue to put right. [More…]

• These are the basic questions of equality and fairness and it is time that the burdens of tax policy were directed away from lower income earners and the family man, those who really need help in our community. [More…]

• The lack of co-ordination of community involvement and of money is a matter of national importance that this Government has recognised. [More…]

• It was established as a way of involving people and organisations within the community directly in identifying, planning and implementing programs to improve the regions in which they live. [More…]

• It was set up to look into the real community and regional effect, to get down to the grass roots and to see where the real inefficiencies exist. [More…]

• We reject that type of approach because it encourages a mendicant mentality on the part of the Australian people- a handout mentalityand discourages those in the community who want to make their own decisions about the way in which they will spend the resources that they earn. [More…]

• I do not think that anybody on this side of the House would dispute the fact that in our community there is a need for effective legislation to protect consumers. [More…]

• When Part V of the Act was being debated, the Opposition expressed concern that many of the provisions in it would overlap provisions in existing State legislation, that confusion would be caused to the manufacturer and to the consumer, and that the net result to the community might well be minimal. [More…]

• It is true to say that one of the greatest problems in the economy at the present time is a lack of confidence in the community. [More…]

• If we destroy the people’s confidence we destroy the community. [More…]

• We only have to look around the community today to realise that this is a fact of life. [More…]

• There is also the chain reaction from this created unemployed- I emphasise ‘created’- which goes right through the community creating more unemployment. [More…]

• That is another effect of the deliberately created lack of confidence in the community- something for which the Press and the Jeremiahs in the Opposition will have to answer in the years to come. [More…]

• At present there is a situation of collapsing demand, the result of a deliberately created lack of community confidence. [More…]

• We asked the members of the Taiwanese Chinese community whether the Fretilin Party was communist. [More…]

• It is intended to stimulate community contributions to policy-making in an area of vital importance. [More…]

• The objective of this scheme is to ensure that private environment and conservation groups receive the professional assistance necessary to enable them to prepare sound cases on specific issues and thus help the community to become its own environmental advocate. [More…]

• However, the library and information services of CSIRO are freely available to the Australian community outside CSIRO. [More…]

• This is ensured through a vigorous inter-library loan activity (CSIRO lends considerably more material than it borrows); through the marshalling of the scientific and technical expertise of CSIRO scientists in answering the tens of thousands of inquiries received from all sections of the Australian community; and through offering subscriptions to CSIRO’s computerised information service on the same basis to outside subscribers as to CSIRO ‘s own scientists. [More…]

• I ask: Do the guidelines for the community health programs recommended by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission and adopted by the Australian Government as policy, clearly envisage that local communities should be involved in the planning, initiation and management of community health centres? [More…]

• If so, could the Minister inform the House of the funds made available to the Queensland Government for community based health services, the extent of community involvement in Queensland community health centres and particularly whether the Queensland Government is adhering to the Australian Government policy of community involvement in community health centres? [More…]

• It is true that guidelines for community based health services recommended by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission were implemented under 2 programs by the Australian Government- the community health program and the community mental health, alcoholism and drug dependency program. [More…]

• The Australian Government meets 75 per cent of capital costs and 90 per cent of running costs of all projects under the 2 programs; the remainder is provided by either the States or community organisations. [More…]

• 9m for the 2 programs in Queensland which are now combined under the community health program. [More…]

• Administration of most community health centres is the responsibility of individual State governments. [More…]

• In response to the latter part of the honourable member’s question: Queensland does not have a good record of community involvement in community health centres, and a large responsibility lies with the Queensland Government. [More…]

• This Department’s policy does not allow for community participation in the management of its community health service centres, and it does not establish management or advisory committees at the local level for this purpose. [More…]

• The community health services should be responsive to the needs of the people they are designed to serve. [More…]

• Responsiveness can best be promoted by involving the community in decision making. [More…]

• Within my electorate I called a public meeting to inform people of the objectives of the community health program, but State Government employees of the Queensland Community Medicine Division of the Department of Health were forbidden to attend in an official capacity. [More…]

• Here, the Inala and District Community Health Services Committee, elected from a public meeting, is encountering what can only be called obstruction from the Queensland Department of Health. [More…]

• My attitude is that if the Queensland Government is not willing to allow community participation in management of its community health centres it is accepting money from the Australian Government under false pretences. [More…]

• If the Queensland Government will not honour federal guidelines for community involvement it should be prepared to initiate its own program of community health. [More…]

• One only has to look at the success of the Deer Park community health centre to realise the applicability and success of community involvement in community health centres. [More…]

• At Deer Park the local community is responsible for hiring and firing of staff and recommends to my Department new health areas the centre could broach. [More…]

• We can gather from the very few words he said on the matter under questioning in the House that the action was required because there are very many people on the other side of politics- on this side presumably- both within the Parliament and outside it who will try to exacerbate divisions within the community. [More…]

• Do you not exacerbate the divisions within the community by saying to 9 men: ‘Your life or your liberty’? [More…]

• The statements which have been made are designed to cause unrest, suspicion and unease among the migrant community. [More…]

• I am very disappointed to think that today he has used this occasion for cheap political purposes, to try to cause this dissension, unease and uncertainty among the migrant community. [More…]

• They can satisfy their needs only by a callous disregard for the weaker sections of our community. [More…]

• How long can industry continue to push commodities into the community? [More…]

• It is a masterpiece of technical skill resulting in a balance between the conflicting objectives needed to guide a sensitive economy responsive to the human as well as the economic needs of the community. [More…]

• The Treasurer, during his speech, called for restraint throughout the entire community to beat inflation. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition have a vested interest in a divided community. [More…]

• Secondly, he said that these union officers had made these decisions completely without regard to their effect on the community These matters are important enough but his third observation was that he was certain that ‘in part’ the decisions were designed to stop the issue of single vessel permits continuing. [More…]

• Unfortunately the policy of the Opposition has been to create uncertainty, fear and division in the community. [More…]

• I can describe it only as a fifth column within our Australian community. [More…]

• Its attitude has been one of continuing irresponsibility without regard for the damage that it causes in the commercial and community fabric of this nation. [More…]

• But those difficulties will be overcome only by a greater effort on the part of labour and capital and on the part of the community in facing the tasks which confront them. [More…]

• Those tactics are to create uncertainty, destroy confidence and to create fear among the community, and then to bring out the whip of oppression and to trample the underprivileged and the less endowed. [More…]

• If a federal member thought that a project was not a worthwhile one and was not in the community interest, he should have expressed opposition. [More…]

• Again we warned the Government that expenditure was too high, that the nation could not afford it and that the tax rates were becoming so high that there was a real disincentive in the minds of the community. [More…]

• This is because companies will not use accelerated investment allowances, which are not large enough anyhow, unless there is confidence in the business community. [More…]

• The State Government wants- and it is getting encouragement from some of the local councils- the Australian Government to put in the money to build the infrastructure for the district; that is, to provide a transport system, roads, sewerage, water, parks, schools, hospitals and all the things that make a community. [More…]

• One of the things that I find frightening in this present debate that exists not only in the Federal Parliament but also in the local community is the lengths to which the local Liberals will go to gain a political advantage. [More…]

• I believe that they are a disgrace to the community. [More…]

• People in the farming community have almost been crushed financially. [More…]

• Firstly, governments have taken small business for granted; secondly, the community has taken them for granted; thirdly, the chambers of commerce have not looked after the interests of small business; and small businesses themselves have taken their future for granted and this is not good enough in today’s competitive world. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the freedom to spend one ‘s income was considerably reduced by successive Liberal-County Party governments, presumably because they considered there were community needs that should be fulfilled and would be best fulfilled by government. [More…]

• That expenditure in the European Economic Community was 15.2 per cent. [More…]

• Besides that, in respect of one objection the Government claims it wants to achieve, we have not the building up but the destruction of morale and confidence in the business community and in society as a whole. [More…]

• Throughout the community the Budget has been received with approval. [More…]

• How bent was he to destroy facilities set up by our Government for the protection and services of the community in general and the underprivileged in particular while taking the necessary steps to reinstate himself and his fellow landed gentry as recipients of the superphosphate bounty to the detriment of the taxpayers in this country? [More…]

• It is the aim of the Australian legal aid program to make people aware of their rights and to place them on an equal footing with the more affluent members of the community. [More…]

• They still believe that the ALAO has a limited charter, that it dispenses only certain types of legal advice and that that advice is available only to certain disadvantaged groups in the community. [More…]

• The category of need embraces a very wide and comprehensive segment of our community. [More…]

• The following groups of people in our community are eligible for legal assistance, as distinct from legal advice: All exservicemen and women; Aboriginals; students; all who are receiving benefits which include old age pensioners, widows, supporting mothers, people on sickness benefits and the unemployed. [More…]

• The officers of the Legal Aid Office are encouraged to involve themselves in the fabric of the local community. [More…]

• The Government hopes that such growth will be characterised by full employment, reasonable business profitability and a satisfactory provision and distribution of community facilities and resources. [More…]

• People deny the Australian Government the right to set prices but there are plenty of other private price setters in the community which aid the inflationary trends. [More…]

• It has a lot to do in the policing of these cheating and defrauding people who operate in the community. [More…]

• The community, the Parliament and the whole of society are involved. [More…]

• I ask the community to give this Government a fair trial over the next twelve or eighteen months and then make its judgment. [More…]

• There have also been great increases in the field of social welfare to meet the ravages of poverty that exist in our community and that are inflicted chronically- not just for a time- on one and a quarter million people if we are to believe the survey on poverty which the Opposition, when in government, reluctantly set up at our behest. [More…]

• This means that there is an urgent need to move health expenditure away from the most expensive end of the health care spectrum- that is, the acute shortage of hospital beds- to domiciliary arrangements, day care arrangements, community arrangements, prevention, early intervention and rehabilitation rather than maintenance. [More…]

• The fact is that today there are very few people who can be entirely self supporting and entirely self sufficient, and for a large section of the community that sort of idea is simply not an option and not likely to be one in the foreseeable future. [More…]

• The second principle is to encourage personal development and individual participation in the community. [More…]

• The first two of these principles assume that the Government should not simply provide support at a minimal level and in a grudging way but rather it should provide an adequate support as of right, and the level should be such that the recipients do not merely live from hand to mouth but rather are able to live with some dignity and are able to participate normally in the community. [More…]

• There are no soup kitchens and nobody is on the bread line, so the community collectively is wealthy enough to look after those who are unfortunate enough not to find employment. ‘ [More…]

• Western Europe, including the European Economic Community has large coalbearing lands. [More…]

• Keith Johnson) concerning soldiers and their role in the community. [More…]

• In fact, he would find them on any committee designed to improve community living. [More…]

• We in the Opposition and members of the business community and economists know better. [More…]

• The whole community benefits from assistance to local government, and that is what makes it so tremendously important. [More…]

• Every man, woman and child in the community benefits from it, and it is necessary that problems of local government be studied seriously and that realistic decisions regarding assistance be made. [More…]

• So we are still in the same old position of local authorities having to slug the community through increased rate charges to maintain and provide essential services. [More…]

• There is a limit to what the community can pay in rate charges and many, if not all, local authorities are finding it extremely difficult to remain reasonably solvent. [More…]

• There is a way the Government could improve the situation if it were game enough to have a go, a mover that would earn it a pat on the back instead of a kick in the tail of the community, a chance for the media to praise it instead of criticising it. [More…]

• So why not give the $250m to local authorities and allow them to take up the slack of unemployment on necessary community projects? [More…]

• The community would benefit considerably and the genuinely unemployed person would feel happier earning his benefits instead of receiving a handout. [More…]

• Members of the Government through their mismanagement have made themselves extremely unpopular with the business community. [More…]

• This new rebate is a recognition by this Government of the difficulties facing this section of the community. [More…]

• Grants to Tasmania include the provision of money for the following purposes: Community health facilities, $1.8m; tuberculosis control, $305,000; school dental schemes, which of course are an innovation under this Government, $2.1m; health education campaigns, $51,000; blood transfusion services, $85,000; recurrent expenditure by health planning agencies, $20,000; home dialysis supplies and equipment, $114,000. [More…]

• We have seen very many worthwhile community projects which, in their way, are living monuments to Clyde Cameron. [More…]

• Firstly, it allows organisations, particularly those such as ourselves who are voluntary, to improve their position in the community without reliance on the Local Council or leaving them with a maintenance bill for years, and secondly it certainly helps the unemployment position in the local area. [More…]

• I recall grants of $145,000 under the Aged Persons Homes Act for 4 projects at Smithton and Ulverstone; $8,200 for environment and conservation; $253,000 for community health and school dental services; $206,000 for tourism and recreation grants; $100,000 for child care centre grants; $12,000 towards the Australian Assistance Plan for salaries; and $91,000 for road safety improvements. [More…]

• I hope that as soon as we are returned to government we will reintroduce a promising scheme that was well received by all sections of the community for those who were prepared to save some money. [More…]

• It has certainly tried to assist the less fortunate in the community [More…]

• One area that has again received some attentionthis is another of the new priorities set by this Government- is assistance to community health centres. [More…]

• The Budget allocates $65 m under the community health program. [More…]

• I am very pleased that the Australian Government, which is providing most of the finance, in conjunction with the South Australian Government has been able to establish community health centres in areas where previously health care services were either practically non-existent or left much to be desired. [More…]

• One area in which we would anticipate the official opening of a community health centre soon is the opal mining centre of Coober Pedy which is an isolated community with a population of up to 4000 people situated about 600 miles north-west of Adelaide. [More…]

• The Government in conjunction with the State Government provided a community health centre in this area. [More…]

• A hospital was established there but the Australian Government, again in conjunction with the State Government, will provide the bulk of the finance to establish a community health centre in that area. [More…]

• It was opened by the Federal Minister for Health about 2 months ago and it should help to overcome the health needs of that community. [More…]

• Also it acts as the normal community welfare office and provides most of the community needs of the people in the area. [More…]

• There has been an allocation from the Australian Government for community health centres and there have been some educational grants. [More…]

• So in my particular area the local government bodies, the sporting bodies and the various other bodies that make up the community have much for which to thank the Labor Government. [More…]

• There must be a community will to combat inflation. [More…]

• But he did nothing in the Budget to encourage this community will. [More…]

• He forgets, or due to his socialist philosophies he does not know, that community win is a tender flower that needs fertilising and encouragement, which we of the Opposition will give to it. [More…]

• Community will is not a stone to be crushed by the sledgehammer blows of socialistic ideologies. [More…]

• In a climate where the usual approach of the community is to be destructive, we on this side of the House advance positive policies to help in this area because we are concerned at the viability of small business. [More…]

• We aim to curb it, but we do not aim to throw away the great program of reform and change that this Government introduced into our community starting in 1972- the programs we have been following through steadily since in education, in community health, in social welfare. [More…]

• May I say that whatever criticism this Government attracts, there are 5 groups within the community who have cause to be thankful that at last they have a Labor Government. [More…]

• These are the 5 groups to whom we have a governmental responsibility as well as a community responsibility. [More…]

• Because they were not mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition or other honourable members opposite, do we take it that the Opposition endorses our policies on education, that the Opposition accepts the Schools Commission, our community health program, the hospital building program and Medibank? [More…]

• Good health surely should be the right of every person who lives within the community, but as before with education, good health for 23 years had been determined by the ability to pay. [More…]

• There will always be within the community those who need extra help. [More…]

• In fact if we look clearly at a community, even those of us who think we are independent are also interdependent each upon the other and all of us upon the services provided by the community. [More…]

• As far as I am concerned the speech of the Leader of the Opposition gave warning to all within the social services area and in the area of community health. [More…]

• The Government recognises that within the community there are groups which will always need assistance. [More…]

• There is no way in which we can provide community services unless they come out of federal revenue. [More…]

• These increases will hit those less fortunate in our community such as pensioners and people in receipt of superannuation. [More…]

• The preoccupation of the Liberal Government throughout its years of office with the dog eat dog way of life left much to be desired for the workers, for the young and the aged persons within the community. [More…]

• So I say to the Government that it is about time it woke up and really lived up to its responsibility to protect all sections of the community and not just those from where the biggest majority of votes for it come. [More…]

• Are we to be governed in the future on the basis that because one person received more than someone else, the rest of the community must pay the penalty? [More…]

• However, the situation is that the Country Party, the Leader of the Opposition and others- there are thousands of them in the same position as the Leader of the Opposition, wealthy and powerful men in the farming community- are raking it off in thousands at the expense of the small farmers and others. [More…]

• He says there is too much spending in the community, but this is not so where the cockies are concerned. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Urban and Regional Development: Has the Area Improvement Program been accepted by many hundreds of local government authorities and community groups in urban and country areas throughout Australia? [More…]

• What effect would the scrapping of the AIP have on the provision of community facilities? [More…]

• The area improvement programs are being undertaken in co-operation between the 3 levels of government -Australian, State and local- and community groups. [More…]

• Is he concerned that inadequate research could result in Australia’s becoming a third rate intellectual and technological community? [More…]

• As one of those members who came here in the group elected to the House of Representatives in 1974, it seems appropriate to look at some of the responsibilities that we have if we believe in upholding the role of Parliament and if we believe in selling ourselves and selling our system continuously to the community as being the best system that yet has been devised as a parliamentary democracy, observing the ways in which we are carrying out those duties, whether we are doing those duties successfully and whether the criticisms of parliaments and the inadequacies of our parliaments are the legitimate aim of people outside the Parliament who criticise the actions that we take. [More…]

• The aged blind, that is, those 65 years and over, are not a large group of people but it is one of the most disadvantaged and defenceless groups in our community. [More…]

• This concession was greatly appreciated by the blind community. [More…]

• It does it by sharing the ownership of private property, which is simply understood as the productive assets of the community. [More…]

• This will have the result not only of increasing inflation throughout the economy but also of affecting mainly those very sections of the community which this Government espouses a real humanitarian desire to assist. [More…]

• It destroyed the incentives which were made available to industries to produce and to improve their productivity and to add to the tax base that the Government has at its disposal to carry out the works that the community needs. [More…]

• It raised the expectations of the community. [More…]

• It offered support to every community group that it could find- to sporting groups, to local government bodies and to the pensioners. [More…]

• The Government has destroyed the capacity of the community to provide the improvements that the Government sought to provide. [More…]

• It is not only irresponsible but also unfair to hold out the promise of the Government’s providing all these improvements and of reducing the need for the individual and the community group to provide for their wants, and then informing the nation that it can no longer be done. [More…]

• To my mind we can only provide for the arts and the like after we have provided for the needs of the community. [More…]

• It said that it could show the Australian community how we could have fewer strikes. [More…]

• It was not prepared to debate the matter and it was not prepared to talk about it in the community. [More…]

• It is something that has to be discussed in the community. [More…]

• Incomes have risen, not only in terms of real personal disposable incomes but in terms of facilities provided to the whole community in health, in education, in social welfare. [More…]

• It has given me no pleasure to reach the conclusion that this Budget will not achieve its objectives, but after seeking information and opinion from a wide cross-section of the community it is the only conclusion that could be reached. [More…]

• No country can hope to maintain employment if sections of the community misuse their industrial power to obtain a larger share of a decreasing national cake at the expense of their fellow citizens. [More…]

• Secondly, people working for the Government cannot continue to set the pace for wage increases and conditions of employment which the rest of the community cannot match. [More…]

• I believe that he deserves the support of everybody in the community. [More…]

• The Treasurer has pointed out that the rapid control of inflation, whilst theoretically possible, cannot be done except at a very great social and economic cost to the community. [More…]

• The Whitlam experiment has set back community progress, not advanced it. [More…]

• The business community will also be required to take account of the cutbacks in overall industry assistance. [More…]

• There is overwhelming support, from all sections of the Australian community, for the principle of personal tax indexation. [More…]

• The Mathews report, an objective, independent report outside of government but widely representative of all of the views throughout the Australian community, went on in paragraph 27 to say: [More…]

• The Henderson report emphasised in precise terms the need for poorer groups in the community to be guaranteed sufficient income to spend according to their choice, not at government direction. [More…]

• They include an equitable distribution of the nation’s wealth, an optimum rate of growth, a healthy balance of payments and a concern with the quality of life or community welfare. [More…]

• The proposals show the Opposition’s rejection of community responsibility through government and a promotion of the outdated and outworn concept that what is good for big business is good for Australia. [More…]

• One could go on with many examples, but the people would prefer the Opposition to come clean and to own up to where it would make the cuts in government spending which provides the community welfare. [More…]

• The Budget is based on a different approach to stimulating business, a different understanding of business and the consequences of those approaches for the general community. [More…]

• We believe that it should be the community as a whole, not the wealthy few, who should determine what is best for Australia. [More…]

• At the same time, the Government has continued the community programs demanded by the electorate. [More…]

• Their cuts in Government expenditure and their handouts to their hidden donors of election funds would cripple the community sector. [More…]

• The other theme which I introduced in 1974 in the Budget debate was that we had then reached a watershed in history precipitated by the oil prices brought on by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, in October 1973- an event which for a time shattered the international economy to the point where it nearly crumbled but fortunately it did not Fortunately the leadership of people like Henry Kissinger and countries like the United States of America has begun to bring order back into the world economic community. [More…]

• Those in retirement who have no income other than what the community provides have been thriftless and shiftless. [More…]

• Each of our Budgets has aimed at raising real standards of living both through what the individual earns and what the community provides. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the international economic problems which Australia shares as a significant member of the international community. [More…]

• Last night the accusation was in relation to the export levy which has been imposed on coal producers in an attempt to have the community share in the windfall gains that coal exporters have received in the last couple of years, through no effort on their part but simply as a result of an increase in the world price for coal. [More…]

• The major proportion of our export trade goes to Japan, the European Economic Community and the United States of America. [More…]

• In the very recent past the European Economic Community- a bloc of countries that notably tends not to deal on a government to government basis- signed a deal with Egypt for $200m worth of agricultural products over 3 years, namely, one million tons of wheat in 1975-76, 75 000 tons of sugar each year for 3 years, 11 000 tons of beef in 1975-76 and 40 000 tons of butter, milk powder and cheese over 2 years. [More…]

• Between 1963 and 1973 the European Economic Community increased its share of the markets of centrally planned economies from 30 per cent to over 40 per cent while the United States of America increased its share from 3.5 per cent to 1 1.4 per cent. [More…]

• Countries such as those in the European Economic Community, and the United States of America, will move in and make trading arrangements because they are prepared to negotiate on a government to government or quasigovernment to government basis and they will take those markets from us. [More…]

• The European Economic Community deals on a government to government basis. [More…]

• Within the European Economic Community arrangements, more and more trade takes place within the EEC as against outside it and is being done on a government to government centralised level. [More…]

• What programs did the former Department of the Northern Territory or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How was the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant [More…]

• 12) Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program and the means by which applications can be submitted, if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• The Department of Northern Australia, Northern Territory Division, administers several programs which enable individual groups of people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for specific purposes. [More…]

• The Societies have to demonstrate an active and progressive role and to have raised funds for show ground improvements through the community and through admission charges. [More…]

• As the Minister for Tourism and Recreation said, the Report reveals such things as the diversity of young peoples’ recreation priorities, their preferences, and needs for social experiences and involvement in the community. [More…]

• The Youth Involvement Programme which enabled twenty-five young people to be creatively involved in the Canberra community during the summer school vacation. [More…]

• Support for the construction of a community activity centre directly linked with the Secondary College proposed for Wanniassa- a new neighbourhood in Tuggeranong. [More…]

• This centre which will be completed in 1979 includes a wide range of community facilities and some space that young people can call their own. [More…]

• The Centre will provide for the social and recreational opportunities that youth and the wider community are seeking. [More…]

• Assistance with the setting up of a magazine to inform young people and the community what’s on in Canberra. [More…]

• Just as important, however, as these initiatives, are the attitudes adopted by all sectors of the community to young people whether it be in the home, the school or the youth and sporting organisations that work with them. [More…]

• Following discussions with the Department of Repatriation and Compensation and its own independent study of the prosthetic and orthotic needs within the community,* the Victorian Institute of Colleges has approved of the Lincoln Institute introducing a three year full-time diploma course in prosthetics and orthotics commencing in 1 976. [More…]

• Given the increase in unspecified grants and the fact that the Australian Government contributes 90 per cent of the operating costs and 75 per cent of the capital costs of community health projects, it is difficult to understand why this worthwhile program has been slowed down. [More…]

• Consistent with the Australian Government’s ongoing commitment to community health services, the Budget provides $65m for this year compared with $42.5m in 1974-75. [More…]

• In all, about 1 500 positions were created in New South Wales under the community health program. [More…]

• Most authorities in the world concede that most of the money put into more efficient community care is more than saved by reduced demand for costly hospital care. [More…]

• I shall take up the matter with the New South Wales Minister for Health to find a way to ensure that these vital initiatives are taken in the community health field. [More…]

• The matters are not as simple as that and it is no justice when one section of the community tries to index itself at the expense of the rest. [More…]

• Since my views are sought on this matter, it seems to me perfectly reasonable that people who have the greatest number of dependants should in fact get the most assistance from the community. [More…]

• But when this Government seeks to establish such a wages policy which will be just and fair to all sections of the community, honourable members opposite are seeking to destroy it at this very critical time- at the very time when the case has finished and judgment is awaited with interest and when the trade unions are arguing about whether or not they will accept indexation in its totality. [More…]

• There is a community ambivalence, which the Minister has not fully recognised in his speech but which I am sure he understands to be the case, in regard to these matters. [More…]

• There are cases in which the community does expect sanctions to be applied. [More…]

• It is important then that we have a policy which is capable of meeting the community’s expectations as well as satisfying the community’s tolerance. [More…]

• If the honourable member cares to look at the Budget Papers he will see that the Government has provided almost $ 1 m for the establishment of a complete community health centre on the eastern shore to serve these people. [More…]

• Further to that the Government has established offices of the Department of Social Security, offices of the Department of Labor and Immigration, welfare offices and community centres. [More…]

• As a result of the work of these men a community health service has been provided, an office of the Department of Social Security has been established, new roads have been put in to service the area- I will deal with the Old Beach Road at a later stage and will tell the House just what did occur in regard to that road- grants have been made to the Clarence Council, an office of the Department of Labor and Immigration has been set up as well as Social Welfare offices. [More…]

• As I have said, this is not a party political matter- it is a matter for the whole community. [More…]

• There is need for a reallocation of the work of parliamentarians, for more committees of the Parliament and less social welfare and diplomatic work in the community by parliamentarians unless further aid is forthcoming. [More…]

• A vast majority of parliamentarians, for instance, seem to think that they ought never to give themselves a salary rise although everybody else in the community takes one. [More…]

• They give no consideration to the justice of their claims to certain rights and certain conditions to which they are entitled by reason of the positions they occupy or to the lead they should give the community. [More…]

• One final remark I want to make is that if this Parliament does not learn to carry out its functions or is not capable of carrying out its functions or is not capable of carrying out the functions for which it has been elected, and that includes the function of governing by a government elected by the people, other methods will be devised by people in the community who want things done. [More…]

• On this occasion, I am standing here not to support one way or another what was said by either side in this conflict but to say that in this community it is important that public discussion be not inhibited by any suggestion that somebody has a special right to be heard in silence. [More…]

• So we are speaking here of an organisation that represents everybody and every point of view in the community. [More…]

• I do think- and I say this to the membership and particularly to the leadership of the Returned Services League- that in recent years the RSL has been out of touch with the spirit of the community. [More…]

• I am just as much involved in all these matters as anybody in this House or in the community. [More…]

• I am involved in the community in such a way that often I am the recipient of criticism from younger people for my continued membership of the RSL and my participation in such events as Anzac Day because somehow some of the remarks of the people who lead the RSL have made the celebration of that day appear irrelevant. [More…]

• Aboriginal Medical Service, Sydney; Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, Melbourne; East Gippsland Aboriginal Medical Service, Bairnsdale; Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service, Brisbane; [More…]

• Yet, whether it is boring or not, it is still information which should be available to the whole community. [More…]

• I have some ideas on what ought to be done to enable the Australian community to be better informed about the views from both sides of this House. [More…]

• The academic community in Melbourne is aroused to the extent that a protest meeting is held tonight. [More…]

• Literally thousands of research projects and people throughout the community have been assisted. [More…]

• Tremendous concern has been expressed by the science community. [More…]

• Research is essential to may sections of the community in Australia. [More…]

• Other people have said that if we continue on this path we will reduce the nation to a third-rate intellectual and technological community. [More…]

• Mr Cameron went to Delhi and Sweden and absented himself from the tremendous struggle that was going on in the scientific community. [More…]

• Of course, the result was a tremendous outcry from the entire science community who recognised the move as a fragmentation and as a beginning of the dismembering of the CSIRO. [More…]

• With the decision on health, the decision on the ARGC and the attitude to the CSIRO, of course the science community throughout Australia has now become, like many other sections of the community, completely disenchanted with this Government. [More…]

• What I am saying to the Government- and it had better have a look at this- is that there has been so much waste and bungling ever since Labor came into office that here we have another section of the community which is paying the price for the inefficient management of the Australian economy. [More…]

• But it is a price that not only the science community will pay; the entire Australian community will pay. [More…]

• The Ministry of Science in the last 3 years has brought scientific research into a great deal of practical application to the community. [More…]

• I am very sorry to hear that the Government has decided not to allow the Opposition to join with the Government in a committee to try to solve this problem which is imposing a serious burden on the community in general. [More…]

• There is necessarily a compromise between what might seem theoretically desirable and the resources that the community can spare for tax administration in the light of other priorities. [More…]

• For certain sections of the community the marginal rate will go up quite substantially. [More…]

• -A debate on the estimates for the Department of the Treasury seems an appropriate time to look at the Treasury as it is the most important Department, and at the way in which we managed to overcome the problems inherent in our community. [More…]

• Professor Henderson found that no less than 12 per cent of our community lived below the poverty line. [More…]

• It seems to me that the community of Australia would want Medibank irrespective of the cost because it provides great medical and health justice for all people in the community. [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…]

• The fact is that 64 per cent of the members of our community in [More…]

• The members of the community, irrespective of the attitudes that are expressed by honourable members opposite, will not allow you to dismantle Medibank. [More…]

• They will not let you forget what Professor Henderson has told us about the Australian community. [More…]

• I am sure that the community will not let you undo them. [More…]

• The information concerned a person who is a prominent person in the Australian community and has great influence upon the media. [More…]

• Accountants have to follow up every sale, contra and purchase with livestock agents and community organisations to ensure the accuracy of the return. [More…]

• Aboriginal activity in which Aborigines can mix with the rest of the community. [More…]

• All I can do is stress the alarm of members of the Aboriginal community that they are being used as a political football for the purposes of the election or re-election of people. [More…]

• From what the previous speaker said I think that the Opposition still believes in a separatist policy for Aborigines because this appears to be what it is seeking in denying Aborigines the expertise of consultants and bureaucrats of the white community. [More…]

• This matter has arisen from the elected personnel of the Aboriginal community itself. [More…]

• We should endeavour to make them fully self-sufficient and integrated within their own community. [More…]

• It should be borne in mind that the white community is responsible for the situation in which the Aborigines find themselves through lack of education as a result of a lack of attention to the demands of the 1967 referendum held under the previous Government. [More…]

• Australian community that what this Government is doing or what its predecessor was doing is just and has to be done if Australia is to be the sort of nation to which we all aspire. [More…]

• No nation can be really great and really democratic and take its place in the world as an enlightened community if it has within its borders substantial numbers of people who are living in depressed circumstances. [More…]

• There are no absolute or objective criteria available on which to base designs for Aboriginal housing even where the efforts are made to discover the wishes of the community. [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…]

• The success of this Government’s policies or those of any future government will not hinge on resources alone; they will demand tolerance and understanding of all of the white community and the ability of the Aboriginal community to meet a confused period of social change, where traditional societies are being destroyed and where employment opportunities are almost non-existent. [More…]

• It seems to me that many sections of our community, when seeking financial assistance and unable to obtain aU they want, say that we should take the money from the Aboriginal appropriation. [More…]

• Yet I have never heard anyone deny that the gap between the average real living standards of Aboriginal life and the life of others in the community is not a real and widening gap. [More…]

• In point of fact, we are debauching the Aboriginal community, and the members of the Aboriginal community themselves know it. [More…]

• This letter to which I have referred and from which I will read parts is written on behalf of the Aboriginal community at Oenpelli. [More…]

• Oenpelli Council, Community Service Bag No. [More…]

• Extensive handouts or white intervention in the affairs of these tribal people, I believe, will only erode the power of the Aboriginal tribal structure with a consequential breakdown in their whole community. [More…]

• It is not unrealistic to suppose that the time will come when these people will wish to merge into the wider Australian community. [More…]

• In New South Wales, while most of the Aborigines and people of Aboriginal bloods identify themselves with the term Aboriginality they have become part of the wider Australian community. [More…]

• It is essential that they be encouraged to accept their full responsibilities- I underline that- as members of the total Australian community, because I do not think they can have it both ways. [More…]

• It is in this situation where they are living elements amongst white Australians, working amongst white Australians and enjoying their leisure time amongst them, that they must also be encouraged to assimilate into the wider community, accepting their total responsibility, accepting the laws of the land and accepting their responsibility to that community. [More…]

• Certainly I see them as a separate ethnic group not unlike the Greek, Italian or Baltic groups but integrated into that wider community. [More…]

• Unless the NACC is responsive to their views and reflects the diverse and differing requirements of each community it surely Will not be able to discharge the role of giving sound and proper advice to the government of the day. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will examine its structure to ensure that it is able to give expression to the grass roots feelings and attitudes of the Aboriginal people at the local community level. [More…]

• When all is said and done, we are talking about one of the great challenges that confronts the Australian community at the present time when we speak about the emerging Aboriginal people- people who are evolving at varying rates and who increasingly are being afforded the opportunity to make decisions for themselves. [More…]

• In the near future new legislation will be introduced- a councils and associations Bill- but I will not speak about it except to indicate that it is synonymous with the emergence of autonomy and is designed to give community councils and various organisations and associations the right to operate in an incorporated way with a legal entity so that they can make their own decisions and be recognised legally and officially by governments, instrumentalities and private concerns all around Australia. [More…]

• Where are the people who might take their place in a custody case, for example to identify the fact that contrary to the situation in a non-Aboriginal community, Aboriginal people often attach a great deal of importance to an uncle taking custody of a child?’ [More…]

• After that, it is used for general transportation of the community. [More…]

• In Oenpelli a lot of interest is being shown by the community in getting a police presence there. [More…]

• When one hits the Public Service in Canberra one hits the whole of the Canberra community. [More…]

• All of these people work on the outside and are doing a real job in the community. [More…]

• I think that the way in which the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) has co-operated with the community in relieving some of the problems of the city is a credit to him also. [More…]

• But one can look around this community and find 300 000 people unemployed in the private sector. [More…]

• I realise the danger in ever referring to anything that anybody in the Press has to say but I regard this newspaper as something of a thought leader in the community. [More…]

• Another aspect in relation to the Public Service is the belief often cultivated by the Opposition that the Public Service belongs to the non-productive section of the community. [More…]

• For instance, there are social disabilities imposed upon the people of Canberra because it is a new community. [More…]

• Perhaps not enough thought has been given to the supply of social necessities in some of the new suburbs, but we are doing our best in every way to encourage this community development. [More…]

• I will do everything I can to encourage community participation and ownership of the resources of the city. [More…]

• I believe that the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), did the city a great disservice with the changes he brought about but I give an undertaking that this Government will proceed along the lines that the community itself ought to have the greatest possible say in the government of this city, the greatest participation in its development and in the ownership and management of its commercial and general resources. [More…]

• People such as school teachers, community health workers, social workers, draftsmen, engineers, architects, building workers, road workers and a host of other people would be affected by such substantial cuts. [More…]

• Would it be the end of the community health centre program? [More…]

• Would it be the end of community welfare services that have been developed? [More…]

• attract them by giving them concessions and then look for people and encourage a community to build around the industries. [More…]

• From 2 p.m. until 6.45 p.m. last Friday we continually interviewed cross-sections of the community- mining interests, the Waterside Workers Federation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Junior Chamber of Commerce and various other people who said what they thought should be done with the air transport services between King Island and the mainland. [More…]

• But Medibank is something of value and assistance to every man, woman and child in the community. [More…]

• There is no area of financial allocation within this Budget which illustrates more the complete failure of the Government to keep in touch with the community at large for at this stage there is generally throughout many rural areas a marked depression either present or in prospect. [More…]

• The Bureau of Agricultural Economics has assessed the impact of inflation on the agricultural sector at 35 per cent over the last 12 months compared with the 16.9 per cent assessed inflation rate for the community at large. [More…]

• That is certainly true in Japan and it is certainly true of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• First, markets overseas in Japan, the European Economic Community and America closed down for political reasons. [More…]

• Of course, it would have given great impetus to the encouragement of production of a much needed community product. [More…]

• So we end up with a net figure of $2 7.7m- that is a very rough estimate- to which the farming and rural community, although not actually contributing it, is on the deficit side of the book. [More…]

• One has to remember the contribution that the rural industries of Australia make to our export income and also the amount of money which flows through the community because rural industries are great export earners. [More…]

• Under these circumstances one can see that the rural producer is endeavouring to more than pull his weight within the community. [More…]

• I make the final point that it is not only a matter of lack of concern by this Government in the areas that have been mentioned by my colleagues today; another great concern relates to the rising costs in our community. [More…]

• Our export problems have been in the European Economic Community and Japan. [More…]

• This is compounded in States such as Tasmania where varietal problems have meant that old and traditional markets, together with the application of the common agricultural pOliCy of the European Economic Community and competition from South Africa and other competitors, have made sales far more difficult. [More…]

• I urge this minor change of attitude upon the Government and in fact upon all people who deal with Aborigines and with any weak minority groups within the community, because success is so important to those groups. [More…]

• Accordingly, I bring to his notice, to the notice of honourable members in general and of members of the public the extraordinary cost to the community of the forms of compulsory insurance about which I was speaking covering the fields of workers compensation and third party insurance. [More…]

• It would provide little advantage for the average taxpayer in the community if he were advised by a Federal government that tax indexation was to apply to personal tax payments and at the same time the States were to apply their own forms of taxation as an additional charge. [More…]

• We could well see the situationone would expect it to happen anyway- where, whenever the central government decided to adjust tax rates down as part of economic management and to give benefits to the community, certain State governments at least would immediately step into the breach and increase their tax rates to derive additional benefits for themselves. [More…]

• But going even further than that, there would be no restraint on the level of taxationat least theoretically- which States could apply, and there would be a very uneven personal tax burden in the community as a result of the Opposition’s proposals. [More…]

• It is a pity they do not try to convince some of their State colleagues to withdraw their objection and their challenge to the continuation of schemes such as the RED scheme which are the initiatives of this Government and which assist in reducing unemployment and at the same time provide a useful community service. [More…]

• The policies of the Government have actually worked against those in the community without the industrial muscle to defend themselves. [More…]

• The Parliament has not had any opportunity to debate the report and I do not think the community has had an opportunity to understand it. [More…]

• This Bill is one of a series of 4 Bills the Government has undertaken to introduce, to assist in the implementation of its policy of assisting Aboriginal people to take their rightful place as citizens in the Australian community. [More…]

• In addition, the Australian Government has seen the need to provide a vehicle by which Aboriginal communities and organisations, whether they hold land or not, may more effectively achieve their aims and objectives within the general Australian community. [More…]

• They need a flexibility in such matters as establishment of the geographical base and membership of a corporation, the election of the governing executive for a community, the making of rules appropriate for that community and the control of that community’s funds and property. [More…]

• This Bill is therefore an important one for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• While it provides for simplified methods of incorporation it is itself a fairly complex document, and it will need to be studied very carefully by the Aboriginal community and its advisers. [More…]

• I will be taking whatever action is necessary in the next few months to ensure that the Bill is explained to and understood by the Aboriginal community, and that the community’s views on its provisions are taken account of in the later stages of debate. [More…]

• 1288 covers 3 columns in Hansard and gives a detailed blow by blow account of the many negotiations which are undertaken by the Department of Overseas Trade to protect Australia’s beef markets in the European Economic Community, Japan and America in particular. [More…]

• Whilst recognising and valuing our 3 major markets- Japan, the United States of America and the European Economic Community- if we are to expand our markets we must move into trading with new partners as well. [More…]

• I wish to speak about the loss of our market in Great Britain as a result of that country’s joining the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that the Opposition understands and believes the Public Service to be a valued group in the Australian community. [More…]

• We believe that their remuneration and benefits should neither lead nor lag- that is the principle of the Opposition- but that they should reflect community standards. [More…]

• I refer to the work of the Australian Assistance Plan and the work of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission in making sure that women are able to establish for themselves the community faculties which are required to meet their special needs- the women’s health centres which are springing up in the various States of Australia under the Hospitals and Health Services Commission program, the halfway houses which have been established in a couple of State capitals under the same auspices and the drop-in social centres which are growing up under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• Another important single step forward has yet to pay off for the women of our community. [More…]

• Members of the National Country Party ought to be consistent about the situation because it is quite clear that the markets that were available, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the European Economic Community, no longer exist. [More…]

• In the field of the protection of human rights, the Parliament will recall that very important law, the Racial Discrimination Act, which established a Commissioner for Community Relations and also a Community Relations Council. [More…]

• I believe it can be truly said that the conservative forces in this country do not want to see legal assistance given to the needy in our community. [More…]

• The Committee had been further informed that as it was involved also in providing a community service generally, financial assistance might be available from the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• What programs does the Department of Repatriation and Compensation or statutory authorities under the Minister’s control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• 14) Is the Minister confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• I am warning the community now what it is all about. [More…]

• The ABC reassesses at regular intervals the value, the effect, and the acceptance of its programs by the community. [More…]

• In fact, it has been hinted that there will be a change in quality which it is hoped will be better received by more people in the community than the very small group who now feel that such broadcasts are worthwhile. [More…]

• I wish he had been present the Sunday before that when the distinguished Governor of Queensland took the passing out parade of cadets of a school that was celebrating its centenary to sense the reaction of the cadets, the parents, the friends and the community in its corporate sense. [More…]

• The Cadet Corps appears to be insulated from the community and only rarely does it appear to become involved in community affairs when compared to other youth organisations. [More…]

• In this era of social consciousness steps should be taken to bridge the gap between the cadet scheme and the community. [More…]

• That is a new co-educational secondary school based largely on recent researches into community life, adolescent needs, value education and curriculum design. [More…]

• I come back to the interjection and say that the survey covered ethnic groups, students, people from areas of poverty and people from rural areas* The 1258 young people who were interviewed were a cross section of the community. [More…]

• The survey revealed that ‘uniformed groups’ are not desired by the youth of our community. [More…]

• We have been trying to assess the needs of young people in our community. [More…]

• If the legislation were fair and equitable, if it were accepted by honest and fair men in the community, this proposal would be understandable but the whole basis of the time allocations that are now under consideration is to preclude all opportunity for members of this Parliament- not just members of the Opposition but Government members too- to speak. [More…]

• Every time the Opposition criticises legislation or responsibly uses its majority in another place it is accused of obstructionism and of frustrating the democratic will of the Australian community. [More…]

• These two Parties were telling us this morning how united they are on this issue, whereas the Liberals have indicated by this map that they give little consideration to community of interest. [More…]

• The National Country Party keeps hammering aU the time that there is no community of interest in some country electorates. [More…]

• But what does it mean by community of interest? [More…]

• What does it mean that it has no community of interest with the people in these areas. [More…]

• I want these people to know, whether they are in country areas or in mining towns, that they have a lot of community of interest with me and I will be doing my best for them in this Parliament [More…]

• That $30m, some of which may have been spent validly on the small landholder but which basically is going to the wealthy landholder, should be spent to overcome some of the social problems in our community and not given to the rich landholders.’ [More…]

• The largest seats in area are represented by men from this side of the Parliament who consistently espouse the policy we are putting forward of one vote one value in the community. [More…]

• Furthermore, it is not reasonable to believe that community of interest or reasonable representation can be obtained in an electorate which runs from Mount Isa to Texas. [More…]

• The clear purpose of coming to this Parliament is to cast a conscious vote, because ostensibly, each of us represents as near as is practicable the same number of people in the community. [More…]

• That gives great credence to the belief that is held by members of the community that it is the National Country Party that is again twisting the taU of the Liberal Party and bringing about something that the Liberal Party does not really want but which is of great benefit to the National Country Party. [More…]

• It is all very well for members of the Government to talk about the fact that they represent far more members of the community than do members of the National Country Party in the rural parts of Australia. [More…]

• Rather, it came from aU sections of the community, including supporters of the Government who were very critical of the proposal. [More…]

• There are other places throughout the Territory which need similar support with regard to their community life. [More…]

• Clearly a problem that the Australian Legal Aid Office will not face is the need to convince the Australian community of the desirability of the establishment itself. [More…]

• There are a few pockets in the community where the need is perceived as not so great. [More…]

• These are the same arguments put up against 2 popular initiatives of this Government- Medibank and community health programs. [More…]

• Just as the community health services have taken the excess load off the GP and mainly serviced those who normally would not have gone to a doctor through not being able to pay, so it is with the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]

• The Australian Legal Aid Office will also provide legal aid for the culturally and socially disadvantaged, for migrants as well as community groups and for the inarticulate. [More…]

• As my colleague says, honourable members opposite have a one-track mind- they should understand the situation which one can sum up in the dictum that today’s profits are tomorrow’s investments and the day after tomorrow’s jobs and increased individual and community incomes. [More…]

• It is time that the business community started to look at the fact and that the Hendersons of this country realised that they have a responsibility in leading the business fraternity. [More…]

• There is no minister directly responsible for this section of the Australian business community. [More…]

• If a department is not established to advise a Minister and Cabinet on the effect of legislation that is introduced in connection with the business sector of the community how can there be government direction that shows any real concern for that sector? [More…]

• -When the honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) speaks of the underprivileged in education he should remember who are the underprivileged in this community. [More…]

• He should ponder what his Party in government has done to the underprivileged and to spread assistance between the most privileged and the least privileged in this community. [More…]

• This is the case certainly on the part of the Government, this Parliament and the community at large. [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…]

• The special function of the commissions is that they will have made their advice within the areas of their competence to the Government and the Government will be answerable to those people in the community who are concerned with education in relation to any altering of those priorities. [More…]

• Such was the outcry from the community, from the teacher organisations and from parent bodies which are just beginning to feel the real improvement in educational standards and facilities which this Government has been able to bring about that she has refrained from making any such comments since that date. [More…]

• This Australian Labor Party Government has made education a priority issue in the Australian community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mallee (Mr Fisher) cited quite a number of figures which, quite honestly, I have not been able to follow but I would suggest to him that the real test of what has happened in the last 3 years, irrespective of inflation, is just how important a contribution has been made by the provision of additional educational resources and the availability of those resources as spread amongst the mass of the students in our community. [More…]

• Only a few years ago there was a great dearth of secondary schools in the area but because of the change in the type of community with the growth of units and villas and so on which were more often occupied by retired and professional people and not so much by people with young families there is now an over-supply of secondary schools. [More…]

• It would be a mistake to make too much of the figures which have been set out by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in the paper attached to the Budget Papers and to which the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) referred because it has become very clear, I think, to people professionally involved in the field of education, and it is becoming clear to the community at large, that no amount of money can make good entirely for a lack of stimulus in the home. [More…]

• Some of them were able during 1971 and 1972 to get the hearing of quite a large section of the community. [More…]

• Two or three weeks ago in this House I read a letter that I had received from the Aboriginal community at Oenpelli. [More…]

• It was a rather dreadful letter telling of the devastation of the community by alcohol and the lack of discipline and the whole breakdown of the fabric of their society. [More…]

• There is not time because the processes of dissolution and decay are going on so rapidly in that Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Complementary information is available in the handbook on Australian Government financial assistance available to local governments, voluntary organizations and community groups, which is produced by the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]

• One of the fundamental objectives of the Australian Government’s concern with young people is to provide more opportunities for them to become involved in the community around them. [More…]

• The Australian Department of Services and Property (Tasmanian Division) is in the process of acquiring for my Department land in Bayfield Street, Bellerive, on which it is proposed to construct the permanent Eastern Shore Community Health Centre. [More…]

• Give the disadvantaged media and the community generally better access to national government information. [More…]

• 2843 concerning the return to the Government of property purchased by organisations in the community with Government funds, is any onus placed upon regional councils for social development, or other community bodies in receipt of Government funds, to return to the Government items which were purchased with Government funds but for which the organisation no longer has a need, even if the organisation continues to operate and has pot been dissolved. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware of concern about the consumption, of alcohol amongst some Aboriginal communities and of the matter concerning the community at Oenpelli raised by the honourable member for Mackellar during last night’s adjournment debate. [More…]

• -I am aware of the problems concerning the Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land at places like Oenpelli and Maningrida and many other parts where alcohol is taking a toll of the community. [More…]

• As I pointed out on Tuesday unemployment in countries of the European Economic Community now averages more than 5 per cent. [More…]

• Perhaps its most significant single recommendation was for the free installation of telephones for frail or severely handicapped people living alone in the community. [More…]

• The Commission recognised the need to improve the quality of life for the aged in the community by reducing their isolation and by supplying for them a constant source of contact with the outside world. [More…]

• The recommendation to provide free telephone installation to many aged, immobile, disadvantaged and isolated members of the community, if adopted, would enable them to possess a telephone in their homes when at the present time they find it financially impossible. [More…]

• Now let me deal with another group of people in the community. [More…]

• Let us be quite clear because there has been so much hypocrisy and so much talked about that the average person in the community cannot follow. [More…]

• He is being ridiculous in arguing that the Australian community can afford that sort of expenditure. [More…]

• I commend the principle of helping the underprivileged people in all parts of the world- it is a high ideal to which I subscribe in full- but if there is one section of the Australian community which is more underprivileged than another in my opinion it is made up of the people who live in the outlying areas of this Commonwealth. [More…]

• There is no end to the problems that confront people in country areas and which we are trying to bring to the notice of the country and the community at large. [More…]

• Surely these problems should be well understood by the community. [More…]

• Unfortunately the Government’s pious sort of outlook towards country people spreads far through the community. [More…]

• In my opinion the projects in the main are of great value to our community. [More…]

• It was important to the Government that these community projects would be built by local authorities, sporting clubs and organisations, etc. [More…]

• As they are so profitable we can ignore the feed back and the ripple effects of that industry upon a whole community.’ [More…]

• In my view such an approach is essential in order to achieve community co-operation and involvement. [More…]

• It will achieve nothing more than polarisation and community intolerance and impatience. [More…]

• The environment belongs to everyone and it will not be protected unless individuals and the community as a whole are concerned for it. [More…]

• It is an area which requires cooperation throughout all sections of the community, from the Parliament onwards. [More…]

• The Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart) was required to start with completely fresh ideas and initiatives to encourage people to think about community recreation and leisure activities and to transpose those ideas into action. [More…]

• It has not been a case of just pouring Government money into the field of community recreation, nor, in my opinion, should it be. [More…]

• Experience has shown that the demand for community recreation facilities has far outstripped the funds which are available to the Department of Tourism and Recreation. [More…]

• I know that the Department is doing some work along these lines, but in my opinion much more needs to be done to enable the community to share in the use of these existing and costly facilities. [More…]

• Worthy of consideration is the attitude of one State government, the Government of South Australia, which is developing community recreation centres in association with the schools of that State. [More…]

• They did not know that these facilities existed and that it was possible so to plan a school that it could be utilised for the general use of the community. [More…]

• Many years ago I was the Chairman of the Playground and Recreation Association of Queensland and I was well aware of the important job that that community effort did in providing supervised playgrounds in the closely settled inner suburbs and the new sprawling outer ones. [More…]

• It has taken this Government a long time- the Minister I think probably accepts this but I am certain some of his colleagues still do not- to realise the significance and the importance of private enterprise within the Australian community. [More…]

• Like the rest of the community the tourist industry needs some incentive. [More…]

• There are the competing interests between the community as a whole and commerce taken narrowly. [More…]

• In any community plan, there will be a conflict of interest, each party or person hoping to benefit most out of decisions that will be made. [More…]

• Planning is essential to safeguard the future and to enable scarce resources to be used to the best advantage of the community at large. [More…]

• Such an authority could ensure that the public was fully consulted, that the rights of the community and of individuals were upheld, and that land values were regulated so that some individuals did not gain unearned windfalls from taxpayers’ money. [More…]

• It would need to take into account also the social environment such as health, employment, safety, the community, recreation and privacy. [More…]

• Accordingly, finance is being provided to environment centres and conservation organisations to enable them to co-ordinate the activities of community groups. [More…]

• It is extremely important that that sort of assistance be given by the Australian Government and that environmental impact studies and public inquiries be carried out if all people in the community are to have their rights observed and the community rights observed. [More…]

• After all, we are all aware of the extremely high cost inflicted on the community as a whole by the Australian Government as a result of increased postal and telephone charges. [More…]

• If a little bit of humanitarian relief and a little bit of Christian charity had been shown to the Palestinians and a few of the other refugee groups throughout the world in earlier times the international community may not have been faced with the very testing problems with which it is faced today. [More…]

• I do not think the honourable member for Ryan would allege, as some people in the community allege, that the money was being spent on bullets. [More…]

• To see the standard of behaviour of these lads, the contribution that they are making and the community association with those organisations reveals to me something that I believe is valuable. [More…]

• I believe that in these circumstances there is very real danger of unrest, disturbance and violence within the Chilean community in Australia. [More…]

• The major thing I wish to speak on tonight is the community health program. [More…]

• On that day Mr Hayden stated that upon the Labor Party’s assuming power later that year it would immediately introduce a community health program and that for the first time a Federal government as it was called then- it is the Australian Government nowwould give funds towards that program. [More…]

• Right throughout the outer western suburbs of Sydney and various parts of Australia very worthwhile projects, such as community health centres, drug withdrawal units, antialcohol clinics, psychiatric centres and home nursing care services, have been undertaken. [More…]

• If the policy of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who wants to cut out section 96 grants, is introduced, these community health programs would be in jeopardy. [More…]

• Not only would the education programs, including Karmel recommendations, of this Government be placed in jeopardy but also the community health program would be placed in jeopardy. [More…]

• It is the largest community health project in this country. [More…]

• In the letter Mr Healey states that a grant has been made to the community aid service of the municipality of Blacktown to help the operation of its community cottage, which is a refuge for women in crisis situations, the grant being $10,585. [More…]

• The letter states that this was approved under the New South Wales community health program. [More…]

• In actual fact, this is part of the community health program of the Australian Government. [More…]

• He would not be aware, of course, that this Government is the first government to finance community health programs. [More…]

• Approximately 3 weeks ago the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) made a public statement which gave cause for grave concern among the community. [More…]

• The community would benefit considerably. [More…]

• A nation with Australia’s potential should not allow to develop throughout the community, and particularly amongst our young people, a hand out mentality where people believe that income can be obtained without work. [More…]

• The Government might be able to build more hospitals but it would not necessarily mean that we would have a healthier community. [More…]

• We might spend more on prescription drugs but it would not necessarily mean that we would have a healthier community. [More…]

• We might build more law courts or have bigger police forces but it would not mean that we would have a more law abiding community. [More…]

• The cost to the community therefore is very much less under the scheme that this Government has provided. [More…]

• What I am saying is that these sums have to be outlaid because of the degree of unemployment in the community which in the main has been created by the Government. [More…]

• I know that there are some people who are called bludgers and that there are some people who are polling on the community; that is true. [More…]

• We have never had anything like this sustained level of unemployment in the Australian community since those days. [More…]

• This is a unique hospital which has a remarkable record of service to the community. [More…]

• Possibly one of the greatest problems that we face in the community is the care of frail and the sick-aged people. [More…]

• She drew to my attention cases where people have been in hospital for long periods of time and were living in a community where there is virtually nowhere for them to go once they leave hospital. [More…]

• I believe it is significant that the first medical appointment to the Doveton Community Health Centre was a community nurse. [More…]

• Of course, we know that there are many other facilities available within the community to provide services to those who are looking after the elderly in their homes. [More…]

• 1 shows that 37 regional councils received social development grants for administrative costs and for the employment of community development officers or CDOs as they are referred to. [More…]

• The City of Brisbane Interim Committee at the moment is not receiving capitation grants but is receiving funds for the employment of administrative staff and also community development officers. [More…]

• It referred first of all to a letter of resignation from a community development officer, R. Phelps, addressed to the Reverend Laurie, the Committee Chairman. [More…]

• Your Committee should re-open the question of Community Development Officers being endorsed candidates seeking public office. [More…]

• There was also a dismissal of another community development officer but this gentleman happened to be the endorsed ALP candidate for the Federal seat of Moreton, which is now held by Mr Killen. [More…]

• There had been an agreement, I understand, between this community development officer, Mr Lewin Blazevich and the Committee that he would not operate in the electorate of Moreton as he was the endorsed ALP candidate. [More…]

• It is interesting to note also that another community development officer, Lyndal Sullivan, resigned at this meeting. [More…]

• Having dealt with the circumstances that surrounded the dismissal of the endorsed ALP candidate and community development officer, Mr Blayevich, I now turn to another endorsed ALP candidate who is also a community development officer in my electorate of Petrie. [More…]

• Anyone who knows the activities of a community development officer will realise that the scope is quite wide. [More…]

• He has met community groups and addresses them in the course of his work and he has had articles in local newspapers. [More…]

• I do not take issue with him on that point, but it is rather disturbing when a local newspaper contains an item stating that he has addressed a meeting in his capacity as a community development officer under the Australian Assistance Plan and on the same page or a page or two later he is named as the endorsed [More…]

• Either he did or he did not know what he was doing, but any Minister who can deliberately set to work to disenfranchise a small section of the community- there may not be many of them and they may vote against his Party- is doing a scandalous thing. [More…]

• That basic assistance was deeply appreciated by the community of Darwin which stayed behind to clean up the mess and they often worked under appalling conditions. [More…]

• She helped to fuel a spirit with many others throughout Australia which will ensure that the word ‘Tracy’ is an immemorial part of our national history- an occasion on which Australians and their friends overseas bent their backs together to help an Australian community recover from devastation and forge the will to rebuild that city. [More…]

• It relates to a campaign of coercion in the community and fear and intimidation by the Opposition. [More…]

• We are a lucky country compared with other countries but if the coercion and intimidation of people by the establishment such as is occurring in the insurance industry todayencouraged by the Opposition- and if interest groups in the community and migrant groups are whipped up into a frenzy on the basis or preWorld War II beliefs on the other side of the world- beliefs not relevant to Australia- if intolerance, greed and disregard for the less endowed and the less fortunate are to be encouraged as they are being encouraged by the Opposition, there can be only one result and that is disintegration of our system and ultimately violence. [More…]

• Advertising conducted by my Department (including advertising conducted on behalf of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission) is, in the main, of a service nature and involves advertising staff positions, calling for tenders, inviting applications for grants under programs such as the Community Health Program, advertising services available from the National Acoustic Laboratories and publicising Therapeutic Goods Standards. [More…]

• In addition, there is some advertising of services available such as the opening of community health centres, family planning services and publicising immunisation clinics and public meetings in the A.C.T. [More…]

• The only code that would be fully supported is one which rather than contributing to the promotion of increasing consumption, would involve the industry in contributing to the area of community education by promoting in a positive manner more enlightened drinking patterns. [More…]

• In addition, my own officers are working on developing a comprehensive national program to reduce the alcohol related problems of our community. [More…]

• However, by virtue of its germicidal properties, comparatively low cost and ease of application, chlorine has been until now, the most widely used disinfectant for community water supplies. [More…]

• Library services in foreign languages are seen also as part of community education insofar as it relates to migrants, and this functionally is the responsibility of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman will be aware of widespread demands from the Opposition and elsewhere in the community for a curb on the rate of increase of social services and welfare services provided by this Government. [More…]

• It obviously has not worked out the details of what it is putting forward to the community, and yet its proposal has key influence on the way in which the economy of this country would be managed. [More…]

• It would lead to great difficulty in economic management and most of all it would lead to great dissatisfaction in the community when people realise that under this proposal they would pay a lot more tax. [More…]

• For instance, in the last Budget we introduced a wide-ranging program of initiatives to benefit the handicapped in the community. [More…]

• It is now so much easier than it ever was before for community agencies to seek assistance from the Government. [More…]

• This is not big government; this is the role of government responsibly providing a facilitating support for the community. [More…]

• Without this sort of facilitating role the people in the community could not achieve the sorts of objectives they have set themselves. [More…]

• Without our interest in the field of welfare and in the field of need of the handicapped, the psychiatrically disabled or ill dominating our decision making the Minister for Health would not have undertaken a most extensive program of community psychiatric health centres. [More…]

• When members of the Opposition say they want less government so that there will be more freedom they really mean that they want to cut back on these sorts of initiatives, cut back on education and cut back on urban improvement so that there will be freedom of the wealthy- those who have had a happy and wealthy inheritance- to hang on to what they have and to mimimise their liability to support the rest of the community. [More…]

• He is respected throughout the community. [More…]

• I am told that in Sydney housing conditions for Aborigines are so desperate that South Sydney Community Aid literally has to beg real estate agents to accept Aboriginal tenants. [More…]

• The Aboriginal Housing Panel has provided a new wave of white technocrats, this time acting under the guise of ‘community catalysts’. [More…]

• The Liberal and National Country Parties are ready to determine Aboriginal housing needs and preferences in consultation with Aboriginal people and their community leaders. [More…]

• The task of white administrators and politicians, indeed of the entire white community, is to fund, to facilitate, to encourage, to sympathise. [More…]

• In this respect, I refer to sporting facilities, community centres and so on which are permitted under the new agreement- they were not permitted under the agreement with the previous Governmententered into by this Government to build such facilities and to use its funds to provide such facilities. [More…]

• I make this point because when a housing commission area such as Mount Druitt, which is in my electorate, is constructed and in which approximately 1 1 000 houses and flats are built, sporting fields, community centres and other facilities are not provided, the responsibility for the establishment of such facilities is left to the local government authority. [More…]

• But deliberately to downgrade a government service, as I believe the previous Government did, in my mind is very sinful and serves no good purpose to the community. [More…]

• By doing this we overcome a lot of other problems in our community. [More…]

• I suggest that no group in the community would be more vulnerable to potential disaster brought on by a downturn in employment opportunities than migrants and members of ethnic communities. [More…]

• For the Government which has made such a great claim about its concern for minority groups in the community, its determination to be rid of inequalities and its commitment to egalitarianism, the Treasurer’s statements on immigration show those worthy principles to be reduced to something less than farcial. [More…]

• In terms of successful integration and the success of a smoothly interacting multi-ethnic community the Government’s Budget measures are ill-judged. [More…]

• We believe that the assisted passage element of family reunion is vital to the well-being of the migrant in the community. [More…]

• In essence the RED scheme was the exact opposite to that scheme in as much as when the work was done the community had something of value to show for it. [More…]

• Is there anyone who would disagree with the view that surfing is not only a sport but is also a community service of untold value to Australians? [More…]

• I also wish to say a few words about the migration policies of this Government when one hears members of the Opposition decrying the efforts of this Government and when one looks back at the 23 years in which the conservative governments of this country dumped the migrants on our doorstep and hoped that everything would work out well for them as they entered the community, as they became the human fodder for the mass industries of this country and as they became the forgotten people one realises that this Government has done far more in its short term of office to assist those people once they have arrived in this country than the conservative forces did in 23 years. [More…]

• I consider that the NEAT scheme is the start of what will be a great undertaking by this Labor Government- a government which understands the problems of the community and which is introducing measures to overcome those problems. [More…]

• If we look at what is called the record of the conservatives between 1949 and 1972 we see the same sort of thing occurring but with no plans and no idea of how to counteract the problems thrust upon the community except for where the National Country Party, once again in its normal role of running government policy as part of the coalition, brought about a relief scheme supposedly to help people in country areas to find employment. [More…]

• At least the Regional Employment Development scheme demanded some sort of satisfaction to the community as to the projects that were being carried out. [More…]

• The Regional Employment Development scheme, with its teething problems at the commencement, was recognised by the community groups- the schools and the local government authorities- that used it as being a very worthwhile contribution not only in employing the 26 000 or 28 000 people who were employed under it at its peak but also for the manner of work that was carried out. [More…]

• They require some sort of help in order to integrate into the community. [More…]

• Among those valuable initiatives was the decision to appoint a committee of the Immigration Advisory Council to inquire into and report upon the extent of discrimination and exploitation of migrants, with particular emphasis on their use of community resources. [More…]

• In the interim report the Committee put particular emphasis on several aspects of community concern for migrants and highlighted several areas in which discrimination was practised against migrants. [More…]

• The recommendations of the Committee in its interim report included one numbered 25 which was to the effect that training institutions should offer facilities for the training of skilled interpreters to enable the formation of a cadre of professional interpreters available for employment in government departments, private enterprise, hospitals, courts, prisons and in the community generally. [More…]

• Having had the opportunity to take part in the deliberations of this Committee under the chairmanship of Mr Walter Lippmann, representing the Australian Jewish community from Melbourne, I must compliment the work that he undertook as chairman of the Committee and recommend to all members of the Parliament the value of this report. [More…]

• If we were to pay married women who have a primary breadwinner less than the $97 decreed by NEAT there would be more money to go around, more people would be able to be trained and more would be able to satisfy the essential aims of the Cochrane report which are to contribute to overcoming skills in short supply; to assist in long term structuring of the work force and bring about overall increases in the general levels of skill; and to serve the social and economic well-being of the community by the removal of inequalities and the enhancement of employment opportunities. [More…]

• In some cases at least, sponsors of RED scheme projects lost sight of the objective of the scheme, which was to put to work quickly people who were unemployed, whilst at the same time engaging in a project which had community value. [More…]

• They feel they are joining in a massive community effort to help those who are less privileged and those who are in difficulty. [More…]

• The fashion in this Parliament seems to be for the honourable member for the Northern Territory and to a lesser extent the honourable member for Kennedy- he not so much, although he has done so in recent weeks -to denigrate the Darwin Reconstruction Commission, together with the authorities and community organisations in Darwin, that are doing everything possible to return that city to its former state. [More…]

• He talks of it as one of growing influence in the Australian community, a sentiment that I share because I believe that science and technology can contribute enormously to the nation. [More…]

• There needs to be above everything else a community involvement, which has not been apparent in Australia. [More…]

• Again, after some weeks of substantial campaigning, particularly by the science community, success was gained with the aid of the Opposition and, I believe, with the aid of the Minister. [More…]

• We are pleased to see that it is to be drawn from the entire community. [More…]

• The staff did not sit in the offices waiting for customers but they went out and tried to agitate amongst the community to promote their services and to inform the people as to how they were being touched by false advertising and by prices in a store on one side of town which were well above the prices which were charged by similar stores on the other side of town. [More…]

• The officers also advised the community in no uncertain manner as to the interest rates being charged by the various money lending agencies in the cities. [More…]

• They were doing a great job, of course, in bringing up to date a community awareness. [More…]

• That is the sort of effect that advertising could have on the Australian community. [More…]

• In all the areas that we might recognise as regions we should have these legal aid and consumer protection offices- not based, as I said, on the concept of waiting in the office for the people to come in but actively agitating out in the community and advising the people of their rights and the manner in which they should go about their shopping. [More…]

• This development itself indicates the mounting community demand that Australian consumers should have a fairer deal and that there should be a proper voice for consumer protection demands in government. [More…]

• Whilst many factors have influenced the emergence of consumerism as a public issue, not least being a more articulate community, I think one of the factors which has led to the emergence of consumer protection as a live public issue is the development of the supermarket economy in the Australian society. [More…]

• I think the Minister would agree with me that consumer protection ought not, as someone has said, become the plaything of the middle classes and that there is tremendous scope for the development of consumer protection policies which will assist the more disadvantaged in our community. [More…]

• Since 1973-74, funds have been made available under the Community Health Program to support the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners ‘ Family Medicine Program. [More…]

• The Australian Government has been concerned about the number of medical graduates proceeding into community practice. [More…]

• Following consideration of advice from the Universities Commission and Hospitals and Health Services Commission, the Australian Government provided special funds of over $ 1.2m during 1974 and 1975 to support the establishment of departments of community practice in eight university medical schools in association with community health centres. [More…]

• including provision for pharmacy services in some Community Health Centres, where appropriate, this has been done. [More…]

• bringing to the notice of those who administer community health services that provision for involvement of, or co-operation with, pharmacists is essential; this is done. [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council has not made any recommendations relating to lead levels in air or in the blood which are applicable to the general community. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants- from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• 12) Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• (14) Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• 1 ) Grants are available to Aboriginal communities and groups from funds voted to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs by the Parliament for a variety of purposes, including Welfare, Housing, Education, Health, Community Amenities, Aboriginal Land Fund Commission, Loans Commission and Legal Aid. [More…]

• Developing special education workshops in schools and the community which would outline the dangers and problems associated with the use of alcohol in the course of discussing those social customs, interhuman relationships and other problems which determine sensible or unwise use of alcohol, as well as the related problems of use of other drugs, sexual adjustment, academic, vocational and other matters of concern to youth, in a non-judgmental, non-directive atmosphere conducive to national group consensus on responsible group behaviour, with teachers and parents invited. [More…]

• If members of the Labor Government would only go out into their electorates and talk to the parents of these people, to the headmasters and principals of the high schools, and find out their feelings, they would realise the concern that exists in our community today. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that the by-product of this Government is that today we have so many school leavers in our community looking for jobs. [More…]

• Some of these sorts of speeches made in this Parliament tend to undermine the confidence of the Australian community in the economy, thus making the situation worse. [More…]

• The situation is that on the one hand some members of the Opposition say that all youths who are not working are sponging on the rest of the community while on the other hand others are saying that we should not be encouraging them to get- out to work. [More…]

• It is not just the expenditure of 3 million dollars on a building, it is the generation of a whole new range of economic activities that will benefit everyone in the community. [More…]

• I know that this decision will create a great deal of interest in the community and I have had talks with the Minister with a view to seeing that the Tasmanian people are properly informed in the progressive development of this move. [More…]

• The Committee in recommending the construction of these works has concluded that: (i) The Stuart and Barkly Highways form the main road links within the Northern Territory and its continued development is dependent on the provision of adequate transport facilities; (ii) the upgrading in accordance with the national highways standards is justified and will increase road safety; (iii) the works will reduce the prolonged transport delays now experienced in each wet season; and (iv) the economic and social benefits which the proposed improvements will provide to the Northern Territory community are considered to outweigh any possible adverse environmental effects. [More…]

• The consumer could purchase goods with any savings that he made without the effects of the tragedy of the rate of inflation which currently is eroding the value of savings of people in our community and affecting more adversely those with less worldly goods than others. [More…]

• There is a need, as the honourable gentleman said, for community involvement in science. [More…]

• Our community does not know enough about science. [More…]

• The whole community must become more involved. [More…]

• There would not have been some of the other decisions taken by politicians had the community known enough about science to have made an intelligent response to demands by scientists for various assistance and for various projects. [More…]

• We would like to include more ethnic groups but they are the 2 biggest ethnic groups in the community. [More…]

• We have had a delay in public broadcasting and community access radio. [More…]

• I believe that that report will show a real need within the ethnic community for an ethnic broadcasting station in order that so many aspects of life in Australia can be more adequately explained to people of ethnic background particularly those people who do not speak the English language. [More…]

• In fact it could be said in the general sense that there has been almost a 100 per cent total ethnic community involvement in this experiment. [More…]

• That is one of the reasons why I would observe that the Department of the Media has a very great responsibility in this area to see that people are not being brain-washed and to see that all shades of political and community opinion are heard and are seen to be heard. [More…]

• The basis for such a council has support from the community as a whole. [More…]

• Ultimately, this system will change by itself, one way or another, and the community will get an accurate and comprehensive reporting coverage. [More…]

• Honourable members might note that on the one hand this would destroy one of the most important bulwarks against inflation at this time and, on the other hand, it would destroy a body which on the latest indications of the opinion polls has the support of the community at the phenomenal level of 95 per cent. [More…]

• Labor’s expansion into the areas of community access radio and ethnic radio as well as frequency modulation stations has generally been well received. [More…]

• I would like to talk also about community radio stations. [More…]

• On 15 October there will be a community meeting in my electorate in the Burwood Central Library for the purpose of setting up a 2R.DJ./FM radio steering committee. [More…]

• Community access radio stations have taken on in Sydney and, I believe, all over Australia. [More…]

• Recently the Minister for the Media (Dr Cass) and the people of Australia were given ample evidence of how dangerous this Department appears to some sections of the community. [More…]

• In considering the estimates for the Department of the Media it is essential to realise that its proper function is the wider dissemination of accurate information and the promotion of more effective communication between all sections of opinion, particularly from those who have never before had a voice in the community. [More…]

• It is equally important that the deprived and inarticulate in bur community should have a voice to make their needs known. [More…]

• One community organisation, the Warburton Advancement League, has also been quite active. [More…]

• The people have been advised that the only satisfactory system would be a community antenna system using cables to the various houses. [More…]

• Cable networks for the distribution of local television programs may be provided for local community groups, at thenown expense, where such provision would upgrade reception earlier than the planned provision by the Government of the necessary cable facilities. [More…]

• That is an interim sum, pending formulation of policy on the whole question of community broadcasting. [More…]

• I intend to have the working party ‘s paper distributed to anybody interested in the community before we discuss it to try to evolve a rational system which will permit not just ethnic radio but all community and access radio to be established in the country, because that is the point of the exercise. [More…]

• So it seems we are running a very poor third in that race to try to brainwash the community. [More…]

• But that does not mean that various minority groups of all sorts in the community are not going to be interested in a lot of the material which is not published. [More…]

• He first of all complained about the mass of material which goes out, incidentally, not from the Department of the Media but from the various departments, keeping the community informed. [More…]

• That is the reason why honourable members opposite presumably are unhappy about the ABC- because we are indicating that we do not intend to curtail the discussion on any sort of controversial issue or unpopular issue as long as it is considered by some people in the community that it ought to be aired and discussed, and ridiculed if that is what most people feel ought to happen to it. [More…]

• But I refuse and this Government refuses to be a judge of what is right and wrong in terms of community opinion. [More…]

• The community itself must make up its own mind. [More…]

• Put them; have people answer them; have arguments about them and let the community itself ultimately make its own decision. [More…]

• I think honourable members opposite should stop deluding themselves and trying to confuse the rest of the community. [More…]

• If ever one section of the community needs services it is those people living way out in isolated areas in the country. [More…]

• I hope people will remember that our primary objective is the provision of a better service to the community. [More…]

• It is trying to achieve the impossible and in the meantime is burdening the whole of the Australian community in an unreasonable manner. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister and the Government will look at the criteria under which the Commissions operate to enable them to provide a service for the community at large, even at some cost. [More…]

• The work that is being done in many areas throughout the Commonwealth is such that the community at large should be prepared at least to contribute something to help the people who live in such circumstances which are conditions under which many people in this country, in fact the majority of people, I believe, would not be prepared to live. [More…]

• The whole community is extremely grateful for the work of numerous charities throughout Australia and the fact that those charities exist saves the Australian taxpayer a great deal of money. [More…]

• I believe the efforts involved in that say a tremendous amount for the courage of individuals, for people who are endeavouring not to be a burden on the community and who are endeavouring to make use of the skills which they possess to overcome frightful difficulties. [More…]

• Charities do much good throughout the community and save the Australian taxpayer an enormous amount of money. [More…]

• They involve a great number of people in doing worthwhile work and in bringing a great deal of help and succour to the unfortunate members of our community. [More…]

• That is the sort of level of feeling that government supporters have for the unfortunate members of our community- the people on fixed incomes, the people for whom they are supposed to have some regard and the people whom they are supposed to represent. [More…]

• I believe that it would be a most worthwhile gesture for this Government to make towards acknowledging the efforts and the contributions that members of surf clubs do make to the total Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that the whole community would benefit from such action. [More…]

• It was, I think, on 28 August this year that the Government made an announcement in this chamber through the Minister for Defence that, without exaggeration, sent shock waves through a large section of our community and brought immediate discredit upon itself, the depth of which, regardless of what the Minister says, is still being determined. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Minister is aware of the duties performed by these cadets and the worthwhile part they play in community activities. [More…]

• Apart from community activities, the individual acquires the ability to read a map, use a compass, is taught survival, the proper care and cleaning of weapons, and one very important thing- respect for and common sense in the use of weapons. [More…]

• Where this means a slowing in the rate of improvement in the existing stock of housing and urban amenities it is a price which the community must bear as a consequence of Labor’s economic mismanagement. [More…]

• Where it results in the growth of the housing stock and essential urban amenities falling below genuine community needs, as is now occurring, the Government that brought such a situation about deserves the most severe censure. [More…]

• All too often it is those programs at the fringe which are cut back while the rest of the community goes on upgrading the services that are available to it and the young families pay the price of having to live in inadequate accommodation because they are unable to afford to purchase their own home, unable to realise the dream of home ownership? [More…]

• This is not the case, and I appeal to those representatives to look at the broader regional approach in seeking a solution to community problems and planning. [More…]

• I will read some of the headings: Urban expansion and redevelopment, urban services, transport in urban areas, housing, the urban and regional environment, community and regional services, and the location of Australian Government activities. [More…]

• The great tragedy of this Government, as I see it, is the psychological instability that it has brought to the community. [More…]

• Regions should also provide a means of decentralising decision-making, of increasing the access of community groups and interested citizens to decision-making, and of providing useful information gathering and disseminating units. [More…]

• In my electorate of Eden-Monaro, which embraces very diverse community groups, I have found that the activities of the Department have been extremely welcome to the communities. [More…]

• Queanbeyan, one of the fastest-growing cities in Australia, has been deprived of all sorts of community facilities. [More…]

• They are becoming community centres and places where people can exchange ideas. [More…]

• I could list relatively small expenditures so far as the totality of expenditure is concerned but they are expenditures on community facilities recognised as being necessary not by this Government, not by the State Government, but by the people of the towns and communities concerned. [More…]

• Its flexibility has enabled it to meet real community needs. [More…]

• As the Federal member for the area I have deliberately kept away from the decision making process, believing that the spirit of the whole operation was that local community groups ought to make their own decisions. [More…]

• In that community I have 2 very illustrious members of my electorate, people whom honourable members of this House would remember. [More…]

• If ever there were evidence of an abject failure we have it today in this community of ours in the Australian scene, a failure that is a reflection on everyone concerned with the activities of this so-called Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]

• We on this side of the chamber believe that the welfare of all sections of the community is important. [More…]

• Those governments dumped houses in those areas and put people in them but did nothing about providing the people with the various services such as community centres, playing fields, swimming pools and all the necessities that go to make a reasonable standard of life and a reasonable quality of life. [More…]

• This site at the moment is one of the few sites that provides large scale parking facilities in the Parramatta community. [More…]

• We took this action to rehabilitate the inner Sydney suburb of Wooloomooloo so that the urban community of 7000 people could be rehabilitated back into that area. [More…]

• I would like to see this done in a spirit of co-operation because if we are to solve urban problems this can be done only by co-operation between the 3 levels of government, with community groups and with the people themselves. [More…]

• The decision to disband the cadet corps has annoyed a lot of people in the Australian community. [More…]

• Through the high quality of housing and amenities it provided instant comfort, community happiness and comradeship in settlements which were established almost overnight in many remote parts of this land. [More…]

• Many people in the community misunderstand what happens in the so-called intermediate ward services and public ward services. [More…]

• When there is some sort of all-consuming monster, like we believe Medibank will be, which will take that much of the welfare cake it may well pre-empt a government from doing anything for other people in the community who are poor, sick or injured. [More…]

• Remarks will be made during that debate but I cannot help but say that in the area of legal aid, as in many other areas, unless all political parties in Australia are prepared to accept the need for co-operative federalism, the need for a partnership between the Federal Government and the State governments, we simply will not be able to deliver to the Australian people the sort of services they are entitled to receive and there will be increasing dissatisfaction and discontent in the Australian community about the inability or incapacity of Federal and State governments to co-operate. [More…]

• I believe that the community is growing increasingly unhappy about friction between the Federal Government and the State governments and local government. [More…]

• Ministers would not have time to meet deputations and to have discussions with the leaders of the community. [More…]

• The position of the Government is different from that of the honourable member for Lyne and the Opposition Parties in the sense that the Government recognises that power exists in the community. [More…]

• It reads: ‘It is easy to characterise the legal professions views as self interested’, said Mr O ‘Leary, ‘but that entirely overlooks the fact that the services being delivered are legal services in which the legal profession is the skilled body within the community.’ [More…]

• Priorities have been established on this fundamental notion of providing access to community facilities to those people who are urgently requiring our attention and protection. [More…]

• A great deal of debate has taken place within the community by representatives of law societies, legal referral services and interested groups. [More…]

• We have had debate in the community. [More…]

• We know clearly from all the informationby God, we have plenty of it- that over a number of years the previous Government totally disregarded the provision of facilities to protect individuals against the scoundrels in the community. [More…]

• A significant expansion of legal aid in Australia is required to meet legal needs within the community and to guarantee that all individuals and groups, regardless of means, have access to the full range of legal services. [More…]

• In other words, it will not trust the community that knows most about the question of legal aid. [More…]

• If we bureaucratise legal aid and keep out the legal profession we will find not only will a blow have been struck at the independence of the profession but also the community will be deprived of the practice and expertise of the profession. [More…]

• Unless the voluntary contribution of the legal profession is harnessed for the benefit of the community, legal aid will not mean very much, because we cannot afford it. [More…]

• In order to ensure maximum accountability and community involvement the legal aid scheme should be administered by a body or bodies which are independent of government. [More…]

• It seems that the Opposition parties are very happy with the general philosophy of providing legal aid to people in die community but it must be done their way. [More…]

• I can think of many people in the community who are disadvantaged under the law. [More…]

• I think of the migrant groups, the many needy people in the community, the pensioners and those who simply cannot afford legal advice. [More…]

• I am not going to denigrate the voluntary services that are provided in the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt about how the community feels in relation to the establishment of legal aid offices. [More…]

• Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau and the Springvale Council. [More…]

• I know that when the Springvale legal aid office is established that this service will then become a joint venture, that one service will be complementary to the other, that it will not be a case of the Australian Legal Aid Office taking over and pushing this group out of the community, that there will be the opportunity to work in co-operation. [More…]

• I emphasise that this Bill invites community involvement. [More…]

• The purpose of those committees at State and local community level is to ensure that there is liaison and consultation between the legal profession and others interested in the provision of legal aid, and the lawyers in the ALAO. [More…]

• Of course it reflects what I was saying earlier about the tremendous need that exists in the community. [More…]

• As stated in the Minister’s second reading speech, members of the Commission will be drawn from all sections of the community so that the widest range of views and expertise is available. [More…]

• The only reason I would like to see the Bill go to a joint committee, which is contemplated in the amendment of the Opposition, is to allay the fears which some people in the community have about the way in which the Legal Aid Office will function. [More…]

• Royalties to be paid to Trustees appointed by the local community most affected and by the Representatives of Torres Strait Islanders and coastal residents of Papua New Guinea and to be used for the benefit of these people. [More…]

• Ninety-four per cent of those interviewed said that the Legal Aid Office is of benefit to the community. [More…]

• There are many groups in the community, as we have come to understand, who need to be as it were persuaded to seek legal help and to overcome their ignorance of or reluctance to have anything to do with the legal profession. [More…]

• Taken from a lower income area of Sydney, the survey indicated a most unfavourable community attitude to lawyers. [More…]

• The Legal Aid Office goes a long way to ensuring that the humblest, the poorest, the least socially equipped member of the community can have adequate representation. [More…]

• I ask honourable members opposite to picture themselves in a strange country, trying to establish a family in an environment characterised by indifference, trying to take account of a new set of laws governing their relations with the rest of the community. [More…]

• I believe that the $10m to $1 lm which we have been spending on the cadet units can be better spent throughout the community in training our youth- I mean both boys and girls- in leadership, discipline, adventure. [More…]

• We can offer this money to the whole of the youth of the community, not just to 5 per cent of the eligible youth in Australia and not only to 16 per cent of the schools in Australia Unemotionally I believe that the cadet system in Australia did offer something to those young men who participated. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• We had a signal success in upgrading the job satisfaction of doctors and other professionals who work in this area, a significant success in involving the community in what is increasingly a matter of community responsibility- to take responsibility for its own health and not leave it to professionals in ivory towers, to move health care out of the highly expensive area of institutions and hospitals and into the community. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation has reached agreement on findings and recommendations which have been presented to the Parliament and if implemented will ensure that at least that part of our coastline in the Jervis Bay area will be available for the use and enjoyment of the community. [More…]

• This is a discipline which the Opposition must face up to as much as anyone else in this community. [More…]

• In South Australia there is the notable case of one polling place being abolished so that now the electors of that small community will have to travel 275 miles to a polling place to cast a vote, then come all that way home. [More…]

• Polling places have been abolished in small community centres throughout Australia. [More…]

• Whilst they will not be representative of particular organisations, nevertheless they will be chosen so as to cover the interests of all cross sections of the community. [More…]

• He confirmed it, and added: ‘I told them that in my opinion, the Croatian community in Victoria had great human content, and that I wanted to help it in every decent way, particularly by Access Radio. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lalor (Dr Cairns), explained that he believed that the Croatian community had been traduced, that there had been a misunderstanding but that all would be sweetness and light between him and the Croatians. [More…]

• This is almost incredible because it was Dr Cairns who led the pack of Australian Labor Party hounds which denounced the Croatian community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mallee had complained that in many cases sponsors had had projects approved and had in good faith entered into expenditure on materials and preparation for the project, implying that the sponsor- in many cases local government or community organisations with limited financial resources- would have to foot the bill themselves now that the project would not go ahead. [More…]

• The Department employs two Community Relations Officers and one Community Development Officer attached to the Glebe Project. [More…]

• The Community Relations Officers are Mr Harry Stein and Mr David Bornstein the Community Development Officer is Ms Nita McCrae. [More…]

• The duties for the Community Relations Officers are as follows: [More…]

• Under broad direction undertake field work in areas where the Department is engaged in studies and projects including: explanation of departmental policies on urban issues at local, regional and State level utilising all possible opportunities; detection, analysis and reporting of movemem of opinion and attitudes on urban, regional and community issues. [More…]

• The duties for the Community Development Officer are as follows: [More…]

• As a member of a small project team, assist in developing methods whereby Glebe Estate residents can effectively participate in the development of the Glebe Project, be responsible for liaison between the project staff and the community, assist residents with particular problems and needs, stimulate the formulation of ideas and methods for implementing specific objectives and assist in carrying out studies on the social and environmental aspects of the estate. [More…]

• 1 ) Mr Stein has had an extensive background in com.community relations work, had his own public relations and publishing business and long experience in journalism. [More…]

• He has extensive working experience with Government, Australian and State Departments, Local Government Authorities and Associations, the media, community groups and voluntary organisations. [More…]

• These have included close liaison with Australian, State and local government authorities and voluntary welfare organisations and community groups. [More…]

• Ms McCrae was for many years prior to her appointment and for the past five years in particular, very active in the role of a voluntary community development worker in the Inner City of Sydney. [More…]

• She was given excellent references by academics and professionals in the fields of Sociology, town planning and community work. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for the Media by saying briefly that the Minister would no doubt be aware of the feelings of a great number of people in the community regarding religious broadcasting by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• It is well known that in the community abroad there is a grave suspicion - [More…]

• It is proposed to start off with a register for those who may want a postal vote but the process may continue so that we have registers of specific people or classifications of people throughout the community. [More…]

• It is the sort of thing which may start in regard to the postal voting system but it could continue into other areas of the community. [More…]

• I fail to believe that these votes would be any different in normal circumstances from the votes that would apply in the rest of the community. [More…]

• We think that the practice applied to those forms ought to be standardised throughout the community. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that in the Australian community there are many faiths and many religions. [More…]

• Many of these people are from nonChristian countries, if I could put it that way, and we ought to recognise that not everybody in the Australian community upholds the Christian view, even formally. [More…]

• Considering that it is compulsory to vote and that many people in the community are not following political affairs as closely as we in this House do, it can take those people a little while to realise that they are in a period in which they must act reasonably quickly. [More…]

• There is an increasing recognition that development of community is not exclusively based upon geography. [More…]

• Regretfully, all too often those vertically structured departments have failed to identify the implications of their decisions on the community at large. [More…]

• That failure has resulted in a huge cost in human terms, not only in the way and style in which people can live but also in the cost to the community in the allocation of resources to redeem the defects which have come about because of the functional orientation of departmental decision making. [More…]

• Under the economic mismanagement of this Government we have found economic growth so slowed down that as a consequence we are not able to provide for the community the sorts of urban development that would otherwise have been possible. [More…]

• I would be unhappythe Opposition would be unhappy- to see centralised professional and technical services used in a way which fails to recognise the expertise in the community. [More…]

• If it is there to co-ordinate and develop the expertise of the community at large we can see it having a useful role, for there are professional and technical experts in local government, in State government authorities and their instrumentalities, in universities and in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• We would see the importance of a bureau or group within the Department playing that important role to ensure that the best return is achieved out of the skills within the community as a whole and gathering those skills to deal with urban problems as they develop in a way that preserves diversity, initiative and differing viewpoints so that we get different styles of development taking place in different parts of our diverse country. [More…]

• The Department has skills and it has some very fine officers, but one would want to ensure that an atmosphere did not develop in which they become inward looking, thinking that they as a group provide the fount of all wisdom and that those operating at other levels of government within the community at large have nothing to contribute in the development of our urban areas. [More…]

• I hope too that the independent professional consultants will be used for the reasons I mentioned earlier, because throughout the whole community, at all levels of government and in the private sector, there are large reserves of skills and ability, and they should be used. [More…]

• They have not had sufficient resources to enable them to meet the rising expectations in terms of standards that the community now requires. [More…]

• We would not be faced with these massive backlogs if we had earlier recognised the unavoidable costs that are incurred as a community when urban and regional development is allowed to go by default to men of the stamp of those whose records I have quoted from the Melbourne Age this afternoon. [More…]

• When we allow these aspects to go by default, when we let handsome profits be reaped by private individuals involved in the development process, the whole community bears the cost and ultimately that cost is sheeted home to the taxpayer. [More…]

• One of the prime reasons for changing the present training structure is to bring it within the mainstream of general education and to make available to the master mariner an academic award which is recognised by the community. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Gippsland said, if ever there was an industry in this country that was behind the eight ball, hidden from sight and not thought of by the community at large, it was the maritime industry. [More…]

• As well as this source of finance there is the Scouts and Guides ‘job week’ during which the young people themselves go out into the community and perform various tasks for people for which they receive payment. [More…]

• To develop transport facilities which best serve the complex pattern of activities necessary to the well-being of the community. [More…]

• 3 ) To provide for freight and essential private car movements at minimum cost to the community, and with minimum impact on the social and physical environment. [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…]

• I refer to the suppliers of goods and services to the Government and the suppliers of goods and services to people who serve the needs of government, community agencies, States and overseas governments. [More…]

• The Council for the Aged, the Council for Social Services and the Red Cross Organisation, to mention 3 agencies in the community, will find that their funds will have dried up. [More…]

• The Government of Papua New Guinea will be deprived of over $200m which is absolutely essential for it to maintain services in that community. [More…]

• Let us look at the type of economic management that the Opposition is proposing to the Australian community as an alternative to the budgetary outline that we put forward. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, we have listened to the Treasurer (Mr Hayden) who has used this opportunity to try to create fear in the Australian community as a result of the actions being taken or to be taken by the Senate. [More…]

• There will be no disruption of Government services, of payments to pensioners or anybody else in the community; and the Government knows it. [More…]

• This Senate is flaunting its authority, using its political muscle, because it is dictated to by the likes of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the privileged few in this Australian community who control the Press and the money and who are saying how they think this country should be run. [More…]

• And yet, it is they, the privileged sections of the community and the Press barons, who have most to lose from the destruction of the present system. [More…]

• Early in 1972 he pledged a Labor government to the establishment of community freehold ownership of land in the Northern Territory by identifiable Aboriginal communities or tribes. [More…]

• The concept of the Australian Legal Aid Commission is inappropriate to the policy of self-determination of Aboriginal community groups. [More…]

• Aboriginal Legal Services on the other hand are an example of community control by Aborigines. [More…]

• -I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate on legal aid in order to lay low some of the ghosts that have been raised by the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) and also to display further the concern of the Opposition with legal aid as a vital function of community service within Australia. [More…]

• Of course the one does not follow from the other, but it is a good example of the way in which the AttorneyGeneral enters upon a debate of such importance and magnitude to this Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• It was realised then that something had to be done to increase the availability of legal aid to people in the community who could not generally afford the ordinary professional fees. [More…]

• If I could make one criticism of the profession of which I am a member it is this: During the period of tremendous growth in Australia in the 1960s, and particularly in Western Australia, when the demands upon a very small profession were great to the point where the profession’s services were stretched not only to the limit but beyond, when we had a tremendous growth in the demand for legal services from corporations and wealthier persons within the community, the profession tended to forget that there were people who needed legal aid or who needed legal services who were not able to afford the fees that were so easily paid by corporations and others. [More…]

• Far from providing decentralised law officers with feeling and concern for the community in which it operates, it has become a monolithic body whose decisions on priorities, staffing and accommodation are taken in Canberra , he says. [More…]

• Far from reflecting the storefront lawyers’ image which the Attorney-General so often throws at all of us who comment upon legal aid, the legal aid offices in Perth, said Mr Dowding, ‘show the opulence of a Government department with unlimited funds, and present therefore a forbidding appearance to the poor and deprived people in the community’. [More…]

• What is at issue in the debate on this Legal Aid Bill is the question of access to the law by those persons in the Australian community who in the past have been deprived of their right to seek redress where they have suffered certain injury, their right to representation where they are the subject of criminal or civil litigation and their right to their day in court without being deprived of it because they cannot afford it. [More…]

• Both these groups have received far less than their fair share of services in our Australian community. [More…]

• In addition, there are community interest groups such as consumer organisations and environmental protection bodies which are not able to afford the cost of challenging the actions of corporations and governments but which have been assisted by the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]

• They will recognise it as an attempt to deprive a large group in our community of access to legal assistance in the many legal problems that can occur in people’s day to day lives but which in the past have been without remedy. [More…]

• The Bill embodies the following fundamental principles: A salaried legal service is a necessary component of a comprehensive legal aid scheme; the service should be staffed by fully qualified lawyers whose professional independence is guaranteed; the private legal profession is also a necessary component of an adequate schemethe profession should be involved in the general direction of the Office but should not dominate or control it; the Government should have a general policy role in relation to the Office, but not in any way at all related to individual matters; there should be an independent body, the members of which are drawn from all relevant areas of activity in the field to advise the Government on general policy and on grants of financial assistance- that is the Commission, the investigative body about which the honourable member for Stirling talked; there should be as much community involvement in the work of the Office as possible consistent with the professional responsibilities of its lawyers; and there should be co-operation not competition between the Office and other legal aid schemes. [More…]

• Of course, the truth is that the AttorneyGeneral says that either he or any subsequent Attorney-General in either a government of his ilk or a government formed from this side of the chamber will be a better judge of community need than people who are skilled in the sort of criteria that ought to apply to the provision of legal aid services. [More…]

• If it is desired by the Government not to develop in our community 2 categories of practitioners, those employed on a salaried basis by the Government and those engaged in private practice, the Government will subject the members of the Australian Legal Aid Office to precisely the same restrictions and privileges as private legal practitioners. [More…]

• the institution of proceedings relating to the protection, maintenance and preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia (including those places, being components of that environment, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the community). [More…]

• the nature and extent of any benefit that may accrue to the person, to the community or to any section of the community from the provision of the assistance or of any detriment that may be suffered by the person, by the community or by any section of the community if the assistance is not provided; and ‘. [More…]

• the protection, maintenance or preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia (including any place, being a component of that environment, that has aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the community) if the provision of legal assistance under this Act to a person is not authorised by the preceding sub-sections of this section, legal assistance may nevertheless be provided to the person under this Act in such circumstances as are specified in, or ascertained in accordance with, the regulations. [More…]

• The first amendment enables consideration to be given to the benefit to the community that might result from professional legal assistance to a particular applicant as well as the benefit to the applicant himself. [More…]

• Any disadvantage to the community which might arise out of the provision of assistance to an individual is irrelevant. [More…]

• Groups within the community concerned about the impact of an export industry or of the construction of highways on the environment may wish to bring either an individual or a collective action to try to control the damage which will be done, as they see it, by such an industry or by such a thing as a highway. [More…]

• We have highways being driven in places all the time which the local community does not desire. [More…]

• These are ready made situations where the community may need legal assistance because, collectively, it cannot provide the necessary funds to fight an action which maybe has to go right to the High Court. [More…]

• Amendment number 46 arises out of Part VII of the Bill which deals with consultative committees which it is hoped will come into being to involve the work of the Office and the Office itself more closely with the community it serves. [More…]

• The basic function of these committees is to provide a focal point for cooperation between the community and the local office- co-operation that will enable the office to ascertain more readily and respond more appropriately to community needs. [More…]

• The committee will therefore comprise a significant proportion of lay people drawn from the community of which the applicant himself could be a member. [More…]

• If the Liberals and National Country Party senators do this thing and reject Supply how can they ever again rise against the forces of violence and anarchy in our community? [More…]

• To promote closer understanding between the scientific community and the ABC and to examine problems relating to the broadcasting of science information in feature programs, News Bulletins and Public Affairs programs in radio and television, to promote the flow of information from scientist to broadcaster direct or through information officers of universities or scientific institutions, and generally to assist in the creation of an intellectual climate within which both scientists and the ABC can work together to serve the interests of both broadcaster and scientist; and to follow up the initiatives of the ABC’s Science Advisory Committee. [More…]

• I cannot believe that in this Parliament there are such cynical and heartless people as would inflict such economic vandalism on the Australian community by persisting with this action. [More…]

• Our opponents might as well face the consequences of their action, because these guilty men will be held responsible and the Australian community will reap from them a very heavy penalty as the price of such economic and political vandalism. [More…]

• Two of these determinations relate to the Secretary to the Postmaster-General’s Department, the Australian National Railways Commission, the Commissioner for Community Relations, commissioners under the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1 974, the Road Safety and Standards Authority, the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, the Schools Commission and the Health Insurance Commission. [More…]

• The other determination relates to the Special Consultant on Community Relations, Commonwealth Hostels Ltd. [More…]

• How long have they got to be in politics before they learn that their judgment is perhaps better than the servants they send out into the community? [More…]

• We would return to the situation which existed in 1972 when 1 500 000 people in our community were not covered by any form of health insurance. [More…]

• No Prime Minister has smashed business confidence, has smashed the confidence of the farming community, of small businesses, of mining operators and of people in factories as Mr Whitlam has. [More…]

• There are so many ramifications from this Senate action that could flow right through the community. [More…]

• What I am saying is that honourable members opposite have been creating fear in this community when there is no constitutional crisis. [More…]

• That petition is an attitude on the part of some members of our community. [More…]

• That is why the Australian people are turning out in their tens of thousands to voice their opposition and their disapproval of this wanton vandalism which the Opposition is trying to perpetrate on the Australian community. [More…]

• They refused and voted against legislation in this Parliament designed to allow the Australian community to see where the money is coming from. [More…]

• Are they there simply for the sort of subterfuge in which the Government engages or are they there to have life and breath and to exercise some influence in the community? [More…]

• In fact what we would be doing would be taking action to ensure that business remained viable and that the Australian community had a reasonable prospect within a reasonable time of getting affairs back on to a satisfactory basis. [More…]

• It would all be terribly entertaining and it would even be enjoyable if it were not for the fact that its consequences have already been so damaging and are so potentially disastrous to the welfare of this community. [More…]

• An analysis of the figures involved compared with the populations suggests that Victoria has not received its rightful share of funds under the community health program, the school dental scheme, and health planning and research grants. [More…]

• Community health projects in Victoria this year will absorb $15m compared with more than twice that amount $30.3m in New South Wales. [More…]

• Last year Victoria received about $5m for community health facilities compared with more than $ 14m for New South Wales, which is nearly treble that amount. [More…]

• Certainly self help and community involvement should be encouraged but some [More…]

• The most vocal sections of the community are generally those in the least need, but they obtain the best services. [More…]

• Its intentions are good, but because of mismanagement it has finished up hurting deeply those people who should be helped the most, in other words, the poorest in the community. [More…]

• However, as I have stressed on so many occasions, the relevant comparison to make is to relate pension increases to average weekly earnings; average weekly earnings themselves give a fairly good indication of the average standard of prosperity in the community. [More…]

• If we want to relate beneficiaries’ incomes to average weekly earnings because we want to relate those incomes to what the average person in the community is able to spend, then I think we should not correct them on the basis of seasonal adjustment. [More…]

• The average male in the community was not getting $ 1 52 a week but was getting only $146 odd in New South Wales. [More…]

• I do not necessarily disagree with this proposition because I can see very great difficulties in having guaranteed minimum incomes for everybody in the community. [More…]

• Let us be quite clear: We have to go out in the community and defend taxation and increased charges of all kinds so that we can provide those increased benefits. [More…]

• If we have a number of major reasons for being in this Party and for aiming to be in government I think one of the major ones, possibly the major one, is to help those people out in the community who are unable to help themselves. [More…]

• In December 1972 under the previous health insurance scheme pensioners were entitled to attend the general practitioner of their choice for medical consultation but if they needed specialist attention, as inevitably is most frequently the case among pensioners in comparison with other sections of the community, they were obliged to go to a public hospital to get that attention and they were obliged to accept the services of the specialist they found working in that public hospital. [More…]

• Today of course a pensioner enjoys the same rights as far as medical treatment is concerned as do other sections of the community. [More…]

• Now, of course, under Medibank pensioners have the same entitlement to hospital care- that is, they receive the same hospital benefit irrespective of whether they have standard ward care, intermediate ward care or private ward care- as other sections of the community. [More…]

• There are forces within our community, some of great power, that do not believe in parliamentary government. [More…]

• It is to be sincerely hoped that when these Bills reach the Senate on this occasion they will be passed in accord with proper constitutional convention and a real sense of responsibility to the Australian community. [More…]

• None of the quiet tedium that we have heard from the honourable gentleman today can hide the simple fact that this country is, and has been for some considerable period, in a position of economic crisis and chaos; that this chaos has been perpetrated by the Labor Government of which he is now the most senior Minister with financial responsibility; that the Government does not have the policies or the capacity to resolve the problems which mount as the days and months go by; and that this Government should resign while it still retains a modicum of respectability throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• This is a government which is not simply discredited by absolute economic mismanagement and the chaos which it has caused in the Australian community; it is a government with a taint of suspicion and scandal which has surrounded the Government since December last year when the sorry loans affair began. [More…]

• It is not a condition of normalcy to have brought this Parliament- this House and the other place- back from a winter recess in July for the purpose of resolving once and for all the doubts that existed in the minds of many people, not only on this side of the House but throughout the community, regarding the conduct of the loans affair. [More…]

• So far from failing to remove the doubts it has, by reason of what was said on that occasion and by reason of what was left unsaid, multiplied the doubts that have existed throughout the community. [More…]

• That is a view which is held with great sincerity by a large number of people, not only by those who sit on this side of the House but also by people throughout the community. [More…]

• The other unfortunate element which has been introduced into this debate- I am very pleased to note that a number of Government speakers have not lent their weight to it- is the proposition that in some way we are headed for violence in the community. [More…]

• Honourable members will realise, of course, that the figure of $ 192m does not reflect the total of Australian Government funds available to Aboriginals who are entitled to assistance available to other members of the Australian community by way of social security benefits, assistance under the National Employment and Training scheme and the Regional Employment Development scheme, Medibank and other schemes. [More…]

• The Department of Aboriginal Affairs remains and will continue to be the Australian Government’s monitor of the overall needs of the Aboriginal community and of the effectiveness of programs administered by other government instrumentalities. [More…]

• In the field of education approximately $9m has been spent on costs associated with schools and equipment, staff accommodation and so on, directly associated with the bringing of education to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I expect that as these schemes are consolidated and further developed, the community generally will see their benefit in the number of Aboriginals who are taking their place alongside other Australian citizens in well paid, stable employment. [More…]

• It has made concerted attacks upon specific diseases and health problems which seem to be peculiarly prevalent in the Aboriginal community and in doing so has taken substantial steps to involve the affected Aboriginal community in the solution of its own health problems. [More…]

• The Australian Government continues its development of these and other programs within the context of its policy of improving the Aboriginal community’s capacity to conduct its own affairs and to determine its own life style within the social, political and economic framework of Australian society generally. [More…]

• Of particular importance to the Aboriginal community has been the attainment of land rights and the Government has, as honourable members will recall, established the Aboriginal Land Fund in response to this felt need on the part of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I trust that this co-operative approach will continue to prevail as the Australian Government endeavours to implement policies which are acceptable to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I think it rather remarkable, though, to have heard and then to have obtained the transcript of the interview with the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on AM this morning and to find him now saying that stopping the Appropriation Bills has little effect on economic activity and on economic management in the community. [More…]

• The evidence is already showing itself up from the sorts of reports I am receiving from business contacts and people in the community. [More…]

• This was part of the exercise which was introduced in the early 1960s and which has been continuing since whereby certain groups in the community have access to the Cabinet for pre-Budget discussions. [More…]

• The denial of Supply will seriously affect every part of the Northern Territory community. [More…]

• Under this program the Australian Government has already made nearly $5m available to the community to the poorer groups in the community, the people who need it, and is planning through this year”s Budget to make another $7.4~m available. [More…]

• In the Department of Social Security they include the Australian Assistance Plan funds, which I have already mentioned: the grants to organisations under the Disabled Persons Homes Act, the Handicapped Persons As:sistance Act and the Aged Persons Hostels Act: and funds for various community welfare organisations such as the Australian Council for Social Service and the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled. [More…]

• What about another group of disadvantaged people in our community who need very great assistance from government sources both in the way of guidance and in the way of funds who have been neglected in the past by previous Liberal-Country Party governments? [More…]

• I am referring to our Aboriginal community. [More…]

• What about the money to fund the special works projects, to provide employment and training for Aboriginal people, so they can go out into the community and find jobs in their own right? [More…]

• Yet the Opposition claims to be concerned about the welfare of the disadvantaged groups in our community. [More…]

• Many people in the community have not been able to get a first mortgage, and therefore have been unable to benefit from a second mortgage scheme, whatever its attractions. [More…]

• It will also give help to community groups with special needs that can be met by new forms of assistance. [More…]

• There is overwhelming support, from all sections of the Australian community, for the principle of personal tax indexation. [More…]

• The Henderson report emphasised in precise terms the need for poorer groups in the community to be guaranteed sufficient income to spend according to their choice, not at government direction. [More…]

• I turn first to the lower income earners in the community. [More…]

• I dare say that with some sense of propriety he would not want to be conjoined with his own Prime Minister in the total story of deceit which that gentleman has sought to perpetrate on the Australian community. [More…]

• The business community will also be required to take account of the cutbacks in industry assistance. [More…]

• Why is it that during a debate of such fundamental significance to the Australian community the Federal Treasurer of this country is apparently not even prepared to grace the House with his presence? [More…]

• That view is supported by a large number of major groups in the community. [More…]

• I can recall no shabbier episode than question time this morning when the Prime Minister of this country for the first time in my recollection was prepared to say to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and to his Deputy and to other front bench spokesmen that he was no longer prepared to answer questions of very significant importance to the Australian community in relation to the loans issue. [More…]

• It is an insult to a proper consideration of legislation to ask the Opposition, or to ask the many community groups throughout Australia who are as interested as we are in consumer protection, to bring forward a considered response to the provisions of the legislation in this time. [More…]

• Allow those throughout the community who are interested to consider the legislation’, the Government has always said, ‘You are trying to kill the Bill. [More…]

• All the Opposition asks is that the Government allow a decent time for the Opposition and others in the community to consider this legislation. [More…]

• I think that the Minister will have an uphill battle convincing a number of people- not only those who sit on the ‘ Opposition benches but also people throughout the community- that a sharp distinction can be drawn between the two. [More…]

• again calls on the Senate to re-consider and pass the Bills without further delay in order to avoid the possibility of widespread distress occurring within the Australian community. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to ensure that the very many honest and reputable travel agents in the community are supported by legislation in their endeavours and are protected from the fly-by-nights, the cutthroats and those who are liable to act in a dishonest way. [More…]

• This program, quite legitimately but nonetheless as a fact, is part of the austerity program which the Government is imposing on some sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• In the 1973-74 financial year for example, $1,250,000 from my Department’s ‘Machinery of Government’ vote was expended on an advertising campaign which included advertisements on the workings of Parliament and on community/Government joint responsibilities in areas such as migrant assimilation and pollution of the environment. [More…]

• In the 1974-75 financial year, $392,000 from the ‘Machinery of Government’ vote was expended on an advertising campaign which highlighted community response to Government initiatives in the fields of community health, child care and education. [More…]

• We ought to bear in mind, as an aside, that the Opposition proposes to impose a levy on the community to pay for Medibank. [More…]

• In those circumstances, it would have been easy to have had the whole concept, strategy and pitch of the Budget misrepresented and, accordingly, for the Government to have lost that crucial support from wage earners in the community. [More…]

• Mr Hawke did persuade widespread support in the community by the action he took. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the efforts to invest in Mr Hawke the confidences of the Budget strategy were made for one purpose alone; that is, in the national interest to garner support for wage restraint and to ensure Mr Hawke was fully briefed and could accordingly project an accurate report of the purposes of the Budget, the strategy which was involved and in the course of this the advantages which lay in it for workers in the community. [More…]

• It wants to blur the spotlight on its ace performer’s activity in the community. [More…]

• If the momentum of that chain of events is to continue, I am afraid that many innocent people in the Australian community are going to be severely disadvantaged. [More…]

• We are moving inexorably towards a point where a severe crunch will be imposed on the community. [More…]

• It is absolutely essential that the community services be maintained. [More…]

• He can harm the economy and harm the people, hoping that he can build up a reaction throughout the community which somehow or other may get him last minute support. [More…]

• I think it is important that the members of our community recognise just what is happening and the way that it is happening. [More…]

• There is no reason for anybody in the Australian community to be apprehensive about what is happening as a result of the Budget being deferred. [More…]

• It is important that each one of the members of the Australian community and of his colleagues who sit around him recognise that that man has said nothing to the Parliament. [More…]

• I refer to the $707m for Medibank; the $47.5m for payments to preschools and child care; the $108m for payments to hospitals and health services programs; the $64m for community health programs; and the $275m for urban and regional development programs. [More…]

• If one makes an economic mess- a fiscal mess, a monetary mess- housing is such a great sector of the economy that one cannot insulate the totality of it from what is happening elsewhere in the community. [More…]

• You have an independently minded people and a people willing to make their own decisions only if they live in a substantially home owning Australian community. [More…]

• Time and time again we have seen that the people who are benefiting from this are the developers and not the people whom we are aiming to help with welfare housing- the poorer people in this community whom we are trying to assist to get homes. [More…]

• After opposing Medibank they now mock themselves by proposing not only that they support it but they would introduce a levy on all taxpayers in the community to pay for Medibank. [More…]

• I ask the community how seriously people can be taken who change their minds so frequently and so easily and who are so inconsistent in their statements of commitments in public office. [More…]

• Perhaps this is as appropriate an occasion as any, in case I do not get another appropriate occasion- I was hoping the Leader of the Opposition would give it to me- to remind members of the Opposition that they have been very keen in recent days to point out that we should heed the warnings of the attitude of our masters in the electorate, the people in the Australian community. [More…]

• It shows that 70 per cent of the Australian community say: ‘Pass Supply’. [More…]

• We have found for instance in the area of the Advance to the Treasurer, in relation to which I have authority to spend money to cover those unexpected cost increases, that we have had to apply considerable austerity to make sure that we maintain the Public Service functioning in order, in turn, to maintain essential services in the community. [More…]

• It has been of great value to this community. [More…]

• I believe that the community has derived great benefit from it. [More…]

• The important thing about this money- I hope that everybody in the community realises it- is that it is not a gift to the wool growing community. [More…]

• The taxpayers are insulated against costs, against loss, against failure to pay interest rates or against failure to pay capital because of the excise or charge payable on gross proceeds received by the wool growing community. [More…]

• It is most important that everybody in the community- those who are apprehensive about what is said to be the excess dependence of the rural sector on the taxpayer, those in this Parliament, like the honourable member for Kingston who has now left the chamber, who are critical of the function of and support for agriculturerecognises that this scheme will not result in a charge on the taxpayer. [More…]

• Everybody in the Australian community needs to realise that this is just one of the spin-offs of the lack of confidence of the leading financiers in Australia in the credit rating and capabilities of the Government. [More…]

• It is important that people in the community have an opportunity to recognise that, although Australia’s international reputation and credit rating may be high, when it comes to the little things those who are lending to Government authorities such as the Australian Wool Corporation must now surely be suspicious of the competence of Ministers, the integrity of the Government and its sheer ability to honour any sort of ordinary loan negotiation into which it may enter. [More…]

• We see that if there is a corporation that is given government backing and if the people in the community know that the corporation is to function with the government behind it obviously that corporation is able to borrow funds commercially. [More…]

• I think it is unfortunate that there seems to be so little community concern with the impact that this sort of premature release can have, be it an announcement to the director of 2 commerical companies in spite of whatever office he might hold in the afternoon of the presentation of a Budget, or be it an announcement a month or 2 months before the close of a wool selling season of a new price support level. [More…]

• As quantities reduce and the overseas earnings that are generated from sale of the wool are affected, there will be a serious effect on everyone in the community. [More…]

• Although Australia no longer rides on the sheep’s back, the community still depends to a tremendous degree on the rural sector. [More…]

• The Government has worked on ways and means of bringing a total section of the community to its knees. [More…]

• The Commission’s second report is devoted to the difficult issue of the proper balance between police powers which respect the rights of the individual on the one hand and the community’s need for practical and effective law enforcement on the other. [More…]

• These councils will provide a forum to stimulate the responsiveness of the regional units to local community needs and aspirations. [More…]

• The Opposition policy aims at creating a government in Australia responsive to the needs of the people and of the community. [More…]

• It seeks to provide and encourage wider participation and expression by individuals and the community in the 3 spheres of government. [More…]

• The main gains would be a return to responsibility to government, the removal of waste and duplicationthere has been an extraordinary amount of evidence of that in recent years- greater participation of the community in government and the enhancement of local government. [More…]

• Our policy will bring some incentive back into the community. [More…]

• This policy will be implemented with a great deal of” alacrity and we will then see a greater capacity for government to be closer to the people, wasteful expenditure cease and altogether a greater degree of efficiency and cooperation right throughout the entire community. [More…]

• Let the Government not run away from the fact that it is taking money across the board and is applying it to people in the community who own land. [More…]

• We had regions that did not take account of community of interest. [More…]

• In his obsession to cling to power at all costs, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is willing to defy all constitutional processes, to wreck democratic institutions and deliberately to inflict unnecessary hardship on the community. [More…]

• In the face of these facts, the Prime Minister is deliberately contriving to bring about chaos by bringing Public Service pay and community services to a halt. [More…]

• The community should understand that. [More…]

• All they are doing is causing harm, dissatisfaction and suffering in the community, simply by following their sleazy road to power. [More…]

• The Planning and Resource Division has been set up and quantities of information and resources have been obtained from overseas and are being collated and indexed for use by the Australian YMCA and other community organisations. [More…]

• There is no need for the community to suffer the disadvantages, discomfort and, in some cases, the quite serious financial penalties which are going to arise, especially in the corporate sector, if the Opposition in the Senate is to be reponsible and is to adhere to constitutional convention. [More…]

• I want to present all the facts of this matter to the House so that it and the community at large can judge the validity of the Prime Minister’s accusations and the character of my accuser. [More…]

• The town has been kept going and I believe it will form the base of a different type of community in the future. [More…]

• It will be a community on whose future we can depend. [More…]

• We are grateful to have on our side people who for forty or fifty years neglected everything in this area and wherever it was possible opposed anything we attempted to do to control miners and private enterprise exercises that did not contribute to the well-being of the community. [More…]

• As I said, this has contributed in a major way to the uncertainty and to the lack of confidence in the community, which is a major weakness in the current economic situation. [More…]

• Nevertheless, we aver that high duties require greater justification due to the larger cost carried by the community, which means ultimately by the exporting industries and in particular by the rural and mining export industries. [More…]

• The facts are that when this Government took office there was an outstanding deficit in educational and social facilities in the community. [More…]

• For instance, the bitterness of the business community to the Government has obscured the fact that it is only Government spending which is holding the economy up to the present recession levels. [More…]

• But the fact is that the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly- an important body, may I suggestand also the Aboriginal community councils of the Northern Territory have not had this Bill before them until recently. [More…]

• It is the Government’s intention, therefore, that, as with the Aboriginal Land (Northern Territory) Bill, a further debate on this Bill will not occur until there has been adequate time for the Bill to be examined by all who will be affected by it I will be taking whatever action is necessary in the next few months to ensure that the Bill is explained to and understood by the Aboriginal community, and that the community’s views on its provisions are taken account of in the later stages of debate. [More…]

• In this way, I believe, the Bill will, when passed, represent a coming together both of Aboriginal wishes and of the interests of other sections of the community. [More…]

• For instance, I have a long telegram from Mr Andrews, President of the Bagot community at Darwin. [More…]

• It will not bring harmony, as Mr Justice Woodward said in his report, between the Aboriginal community and the rest of the community. [More…]

• I remind honourable members that one of the principles which he stated was the promotion of social harmony and stability within the wider Australian community by removing, so far as possible, the legitimate causes of complaint of an important minority group within that community. [More…]

• One of the things which struck me, because I was aware of the possibility of this legislation containing the concept of large land councils, was the desire of traditional owners to say what was going to happen on their land; that is to say, people of a particular community- I will not name them because I do not think I should do so- in some part of the Northern Territory would say: ‘We want the right to say what happens to our land. [More…]

• So if a person did not live at a particular community, was not born there, did not have relatives there or did not have land there and wanted to go there, they would expect him to get permission. [More…]

• Because I was in the Gove case I should like to refer to the Yirrkala community which I came to know reasonably well in that case. [More…]

• In other words, there appears to be- and I believe there to be- a relatively cohesive community. [More…]

• I do not know enough about the matter but I suggest that right through the Northern Territory there are communities of Aboriginal people who have been living together, people who own the land in the traditional sense around about the community, who would be able to solve the problems of user of the land and also the problems of permits on to the land if they were given the task to do so. [More…]

• This could be done without any paid man except perhaps a community adviser. [More…]

• I could not go to every community in the Northern Territory, and it is like putting one’s finger into the water to take the temperature, but wherever I went I found the people saying this. [More…]

• Let us see what Mr Andrews, the President of the Bagot Community, says. [More…]

• That is just one person expressing the view of his community council. [More…]

• It is interesting in relation to clause 74, that Mr Andrews of the Bagot Community Council, said: [More…]

• Executive cannot agree that section 74 is necessary or desirable and have no wish to penalise any sections of wider community. [More…]

• All this, as I say, only points to the fact that from one end of this Bill to the other we find the problem of whether particular provisions are going to lead to problems with the Aboriginal people themselves, whether they have had the consideration of the non-Aboriginal community, whether they are going to lead to disharmony, or whether we are going to find a situation where a BUI is brought into law which will cause problems, trouble, havoc and increased bureaucracy of a nature that was never intended. [More…]

• Given the level of inflation in the community these grants provide much the same level of assistance as was provided the previous year. [More…]

• They are quite different from the land rights of Aborigines in a community like Cherbourg, near Brisbane, for example- and I do not denigrate in any way the right of the people of Cherbourg to own their own land. [More…]

• I listened with interest to the honourable member for Wentworth talking about the views of the Bagot community on access to the beach. [More…]

• It is the Government’s intention, therefore, that, as with the Aboriginal Land (Northern Territory) Bill, further debate on this Bill will not occur until there has been adequate time for the Bill to be examined by all who will be affected by it I will be taking whatever action is necessary in the next few months to ensure that the Bill is explained to and understood by the Aboriginal community - [More…]

• I perceive- I think all fair minded Australians would perceive- that in the Aboriginal community there is an acceptance of responsibility which we have not previously witnessed. [More…]

• Most of the group here has given hostels a go; there’s a community rejection of them. [More…]

• They are matters that have entered into the wisdom of the community. [More…]

• We should all be prepared to learn lessons from what has followed in the case of Lake Tyers where the property has gone steadily downhill, where the quality of the community has undergone a steady deterioration and where the people themselves have become increasingly discouraged and demoralised. [More…]

• It is an information brochure for distribution to members of the Canberra Community. [More…]

• 1 ) The Muramulla Gurindji Cattle Company was formed in Victoria and shares are held in trust for the whole Community . [More…]

• The Mudbra people at Wattie Creek are an accepted part of the whole community. [More…]

• There is no direct relationship no iron clad law, which establishes that the level of public expenditure is directly related to the level of inflation which exists in the community. [More…]

• When I was the Minister in charge of this portfolio for the purposes of administration I put in the definition that an Aboriginal was a person of full or part Aboriginal blood who himself claimed to be an Aboriginal and was acknowledged as such in the community with which he was associated. [More…]

• It is entirely inappropriate because what the Minister is saying in respect of the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Bill is quite correct if it is to apply to one kind of community and it is quite incorrect if it is to apply to another kind of community. [More…]

• There will be all sorts of inequities and indignations in the community. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member and the other honourable members who are present that there is a large number of community groups which sometimes act as total governmental operations. [More…]

• Within our community there are groups that come together, I suppose usually more for religious purposes than for anything else, and take on a total view. [More…]

• They have their own schools, their own community groups, their own property and so on. [More…]

• We could have the situation in which the local government council of that town, instituted under the Local Government Act, would be operating alongside an Aboriginal council set up under Federal legislation and which covered an Aboriginal community living near the town of Bourke. [More…]

• It is extremely clear to anyone in this Committee that there is a necessity to ensure that if an Aboriginal group of people is to conduct an activity of the kind that is spelt out in the provisions of subclause (3) of clause 1 1- including such things as community amenities, welfare, garbage collection, roads, relief work, education or training, communications, electricity supply, water supply, sewerage, health and housing- it is our responsibility, since the States are ceding it to us and since we have in any case acquired it as a result of a referendum, to provide legislation which will make certain that such an organisation operates as legal entity. [More…]

• Many people in the community and indeed in the Parliament are not aware of the comprehensive range of services which is conducted by such councils in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• We say to them: ‘Your way of running your community is all rubbish. [More…]

• This may be right for our community. [More…]

• A large number of community organisations operate in almost an autonomous way in our community, interposed with other organisations rather than integrated with them. [More…]

• It is just novel that we now propose to do it for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• They managed to resolve the difficulties between their internal organisation and the front they had to put on in relationships with our community in that way. [More…]

• It is an attempt- I expect that it will be a successful one after it has been administered for some time- to produce a new form of social organisation for the Aboriginal community of Australia. [More…]

• It may well be that it will produce for the rest of the Australian community some breakthrough instead of the normal reliance on such things as the company legislation which is available to the rest of us to do things. [More…]

• Our community has not been all that adventurous in attempting to create new forms of organisation and give them legal sanction. [More…]

• This is an affront to the Aboriginal community and we have to do something about it while the going is good. [More…]

• I am vague also because I am against the idea that we can have the same kind of legislation for an Aboriginal community in Redfern as we have for an Aboriginal community at Yirrkala. [More…]

• It is very clear that if these communities are to take full advantage of the land rights vested in them under this legislation, acceptable proposals will have to be made for a system of advisers to work with the Aboriginal communities because where great difficulties have arisen in the past, where there have been failures or the foreshadowing of failures in Aboriginal communities, has been where advice was foisted on the community from outside rather than where the means were provided for the community to obtain advice on its own account. [More…]

• The role of the adviser to the Aboriginal community working its way towards a new sense of identity and a new sense of self-respect is a very delicate role. [More…]

• If we do not systematically and with determination tackle this question of providing appropriate training for Aboriginal community advisers the whole matter will indeed go by default and people who are utterly inappropriate for the role will move into positions because there will be a vacuum waiting there for them. [More…]

• At this stage of the development of the Aboriginal communities most likely to take up their rights under this legislation, it is unquestionable that the services of advisers are needed even to carry through the most routine and bureaucratic aspects of their relationship with the wider community and particularly in their relationship with governments. [More…]

• We are trying to establish the rights, we are trying to establish the interests in a permanent way, of a section of that community. [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…]

• If it is true that there are inadequacies in the community in which the child finds itself, then of course we cannot allow that child to be neglected simply because we are concerned to see that the community is self-determining. [More…]

• We allow for the intervention of governments or government agencies in the affairs of other people in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that we should certainly define an Aboriginal as a person who is predominantly a member of the Aboriginal race and perhaps as a person who has been accepted in the community with which he is associated by reason of his conforming to its customs whatever they are. [More…]

• That would be a very low age for an Aboriginal to be considered an adult member of the community. [More…]

• This is the ceremony which makes a child an adult member of the community. [More…]

• Quite recently I had the example in my electorate of a young lady of Aboriginal descent who had married a European and who wanted to apply for a loan to buy or build a house in Cloncurry where, I might mention in passing, there is a splendid example of a community in which we have not tried to assimilate. [More…]

• The third criterion is that the person concerned is accepted as an Aborigine by the community with which he or she is associated. [More…]

• It does not say that that person claims to be an Aboriginal and it does not say that he is accepted as an Aboriginal by the community with which he is associated. [More…]

• They have their community adviser there. [More…]

• Why should they be interfered with by Mr X, Mr Y or Mr Z from some other community? [More…]

• A great deal of the decision making process in a particular community would still go on at that local level. [More…]

• It will not be a case of a land council dictating to a local community and saying that it shall do this, that and the other. [More…]

• Power will not be taken away from the community; rather, the land council shall have a general overseeing function dealing mainly with the ownership and acquisition of land. [More…]

• A land council will have a general function and will leave day to day decisions to the local community. [More…]

• It will go to the local community to ascertain its wishes in any particular case about which the land council may have to make a decision and it will see that the wishes of the local community are carried out. [More…]

• I only wanted to point out that the situation is the reverse of what was suggested by the honourable member and that in fact it will be the role of the land councils to see that the wishes of the local community, where the real decisions will be made, are implemented. [More…]

• I do not like those words myself; I would rather say that we are trying to find a way in which we can use the existing infrastructure of Aboriginal society in order to help the Aboriginal people to become part of the new world in which they and we ourselves must live so that we can have some kind of better community of interests between us and them. [More…]

• He was not talking about a corporate community. [More…]

• This refusal is already damaging the business community, threatening the normal life of the nation and endangering the delicate process of economic recovery. [More…]

• Is it considered that the long term effectiveness of the Community Health Program and the School Dental Scheme will be reduced, unless there is an early increase in capacity in these areas of health manpower. [More…]

• The long term effectiveness of all health services is dependent upon the availability of suitable personnel, and in this regard the Community Health Program and the School Dental Scheme are no exception. [More…]

• The recommendations made concerning increased supply in the various health occupations have been made having regard to the total demand on those personnel including that of the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Continuing to create hardship for the weaker sections of the Australian community who are suffering needlessly; [More…]

• I concede also that the particular honourable member mentioned in that interjection has been running a fairly consistent campaign, attempting in my view to frighten or to terrorise officers of the ABC and to ensure that they do not do as the Government has indicated we think they should do: Expose all controversial views, discuss any point of view at all which has some currency in the community and causes people concern and therefore in our view it ought to be the proper concern of an organisation like the ABC to ventilate it. [More…]

• The programs that have been mainly criticised by the honourable member mentioned have related to these terribly touchy moral issues and our view is that they are a concern of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• But to get back to the thing that is really niggling the Opposition at the moment: In the last couple of weeks the mood in the community has changed, if the newspapers- not just the ABC- are any reflection, if one leaves aside the schizophrenic nature of the newspapers, where the editorials are taking a line at variance with the news reports and the general commentary. [More…]

• For instance, yesterday I had to reject a proposal that I should allocate a little over $ 1 lm from the Treasurer’s Advance to provide grants for various community welfare agencies responsible for providing accommodation for the aged and the handicapped. [More…]

• Many people in this community were invited to give evidence before it but in no case was any substantial proposition put. [More…]

• They report the news of this Parliament and of the community. [More…]

• There should also be established a contemporary code of conduct for members of Parliament which will suit the needs of a modern community. [More…]

• That committee recognised that the problem of tertiary education at that time was due in a substantial way ‘to a genuine demand on the part of the Australian community for increased opportunities in higher education’. [More…]

• contends that insufficient time has been given to the Australian community to consider the implications of the report of the Panel to advise on arrangements for amalgamating the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education; [More…]

• They see little point in the decision to amalgamate the two commissions, unless higher education is seen ‘as having disparate ways of achieving community and individual needs and not as a hierarchical system ‘. [More…]

• The Australian Commission on Advanced Education does not regard the extent of the differences as the important point so long as college councils ensure that the introduction of facilities and educational standards within the colleges are not paralleled by an erosion of their essentially vocational and community role. [More…]

• Universities are elements in a world-wide community of scholarship and their effectiveness must be judged in that context as well as in the context of national needs. [More…]

• contends that insufficient time has been given to the Australian community to consider the implications of the report of the Panel to advise on arrangements for amalgamating the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education; [More…]

• The first is that insufficient time was given to the Australian community to consider the implications of this change. [More…]

• For instance, they could be very relevant in respect of clause 7(1) (b) which requires the Commission to perform its functions with a view to promoting diversified opportunities for tertiary education throughout the community. [More…]

• There are very good reasons for having this sort of composition and particularly it is important to have on those governing councils nominees of the State governments, that is, representatives of the community. [More…]

• It is also important to see that the aims of the institutions are met to the satisfaction of the community and that there is some method of accountability by the universities to the community. [More…]

• As a result I think there is a case to be made out for the universities to have some accountability to this Parliament and for this Parliament to be responsible for maintaining an accountability by the universities to the community. [More…]

• But it is important that the governments that finance these institutions ensure that these institutions have clearly in mind the interests of the community and reflect the needs of the community in the carrying out of their functions. [More…]

• I am not saying that we ought to be dictating to universities from this Parliament or from any other Parliament what their precise aims should be but we should be ensuring that the process of government within the universities should be such as will allow them to determine as freely as possible, in a way as acceptable as possible to both the community within the university and the community outside the university, the aims and functions of those universities. [More…]

• For instance they can return to the sort of cloistered insulation from the community which was once the hallmark of the universities. [More…]

• They just satisfied their goals as they saw them without reference to the community at all. [More…]

• One is that all aspects of the university community should be represented and should be able to participate in university government. [More…]

• More importantly, there must be adequate participation by the community itself. [More…]

• As I said before, I think that this is legitimate because we are totally responsible for funding them, because we have the prime role in determining when new universities will be established and because we have a responsibility to make sure that in return for the expenditure of those funds universities are fulfilling the roles which the community sets for them. [More…]

• I would like to see the commission set itself the task of examining university government and the government of tertiary institutions to see what changes could be brought about to ensure a more adequate representation of the community view within universities so that universities will respond more precisely to the needs of the community and will reflect the will of the community. [More…]

• It gives no community a right to appear before any tribunal. [More…]

• The protective devices in the Australian community after all often lie with the Minister administering a law from time to time from here or from elsewhere, whichever Parliament happens to be administering these things. [More…]

• My colleague has explained very clearly that a member of a Land Council may be a person who is not of the Aborigine community living in the council area. [More…]

• It is because of this likely wide variation within the Aboriginal community and in the ways in which they may wish to make their choices that the legislation has been worded in this way. [More…]

• I do not believe that it would be feasible in a piece of legislation which is already a fairly substantial document with some 80 clauses all-told to incorporate details of each of the methods which each individual Aboriginal community may wish to use to select its representatives. [More…]

• The people of Caledon Bay will not for a moment see themselves as part of a Darwin based community. [More…]

• Broadly speaking the choice lies between a council or trust basis, a community basis and a clan basis. [More…]

• 281-301) I suggested the adoption of the community basis. [More…]

• I also felt the approach was a sensible one because the community is the basic political and social grouping for Aborigines in modern society. [More…]

• 1 ) What programs does the Department of Labor and Immigration or statutory authorities under the Minister’s control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• 14) Is the Minister confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), a would-be Treasurer, has stated that he considers that stopping the Appropriation Bills has little effect on economic activity and on economic management in the community. [More…]

• Loans for private housing, reconstruction and the rehabilitation of small businesses will cease, as will funds for the whole range of public community services, including health, roads, power, water and sewerage. [More…]

• What sort of nonsense- and I believe it is nonsenseis it to assert as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is trying to assert that somehow the Senate instead of being a States’ House or a House of review is being elevated into a position of some kind of conscience of the community. [More…]

• He has been a great community worker, a great member of Parliament, a great parent and a great sportsman. [More…]

• -Mr Speaker, I congratulate you on your assumption of a very important and high office not only in this Parliament but also in our community. [More…]

• The Government believes that there must be more scope for community and individual initiative if people are to solve their problems sensitively and with a rational use of resources; [More…]

• Alongside its assistance to manufacturing and other industries, the Government has taken action to assist the rural community to overcome its present crisis. [More…]

• Australia will not return to a soundly based prosperity without understanding and cooperation between all sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government needs broadly based advice from the community and in this regard will be looking to such bodies as the Economic Consultative Group and the proposed tripartite national consultative council in the industrial relations area. [More…]

• A major step in the Government’s strategy and an important support for community cooperation will be the introduction of tax indexation. [More…]

• This will both make possible more effective community participation in State and Local Government and a more rational use of the Government’s resources. [More…]

• The new style cadet corps will retain the essential virtues of cadet training, but will seek to rely more heavily on voluntary support from the community. [More…]

• His great achievement was to restore to a quarter of the world’s people their proper place in the community of nations. [More…]

• Only in recent years have all Australian governments and parties come to accept the place of China in our region and in the world and the legitimate claims of her people to recognition and full membership in the world community. [More…]

• I believe that this section of the community has been worse hurt by the policies of the previous Administration than almost any other, yet we can all remember those charitable phrases, such as ‘You have never had it so good’, that were noised around. [More…]

• We will deal equally and properly with all sections of the Australian community on the merits of the case. [More…]

• Does he intend to continue such extravagances whilst other sections of the community are expected to accept his call for national restraint in spending? [More…]

• -Is the Treasurer intending to impose a credit squeeze on the Australian community at a time when the objective should be full employment? [More…]

• In response to the particular point the honourable gentleman raised, I refer him to the original Press statements put out by me in which I made it perfectly clear on behalf of the Government that, in seeking to mop up excess liquidity throughout the Australian community, that liquidity having been deliberately created by the honourable gentleman and his colleagues, the Government was at pains at the same time not in any way to prejudice the capacity of the free enterprise sector to underwrite economic recovery. [More…]

• His interest is of course quite genuine as distinct from the alleged monopoly of concern which some members of the Opposition have formerly sought to display to the Australian community. [More…]

• I mention only briefly that of course it is the Government’s total objective to put value back into the welfare dollar and at the same time to recognise that, so far as social welfare groups are concerned, the overriding objective in their interest and that of the balance of the Australian community must be firstly to wind down the present rate of inflation. [More…]

• Restraint now from all sections of the community, including the wage and salary sector, is an essential pre-condition for economic recovery. [More…]

• It is time for this community to face reality. [More…]

• Permissive government policies will only lead to further and more serious economic difficulties and to even greater hardship for the Australian community. [More…]

• I add that it is the Government’s firm view that, for the purposes of wage indexation, increases in prices resulting from tax measures of the sort that I have announced should be self-defeating if the system of wage indexation were to attempt to insulate the community from tax measures designed to redistribute resources for the benefit of the community in the form of improved public facilities . [More…]

• The reason the Government took the course it did before the Commission was its over-riding concern for the state of the economy and the consequences for the entire Australian community. [More…]

• In its very short life the credibility of this Government is at breaking point in the Australian community. [More…]

• Although not in the best interests of the unions and their members, the unions forewent any claim for wage rises at that time because they had accepted the principle that they would be compensated for increases in costs in the community. [More…]

• Apart from the Treasury- inspired gobbledegook that was used in this House by the previous 2 speakers from the Government side- I am sure that neither of them understood one word they said; they were reading from script which apparently had been prepared for them by the Treasury- what is understood by the community and by the trade union movement is that wage indexation is an increase in purchasing power for that lost through rises in prices. [More…]

• It seems to me that so long as there is purchasing power in the community, so long as people are purchasing goods, there will be people who will be prepared to make them because manufacturers do not make things and suppliers of services do not provide services unless they can find somebody who can afford to buy them. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite should not try to tell me that that is pandering to the business community. [More…]

• It would be self-defeating if the system of wage indexation were to attempt to insulate the community from tax measures . [More…]

• I was very interested recently to read that of all the groups in Australia the migrant community has the largest percentage of self-employed. [More…]

• Again I was pleased to see in the Governor-General’s speech that the Government will give scope for community and individual initiative. [More…]

• Unfortunately divisiveness is an element which has been creeping into our Australian community far too much in recent years. [More…]

• When one looks at the record of countries like Japan and America, where employees see their place as part of the productive process and see themselves as constituting one of the sections of the community which, given reasonable production, will get a fair share of profits, one must feel quite ashamed at some of the goings on in Australia. [More…]

• The policies of the former Government which resulted in a doubling of government expenditure in 3 years had the following consequences: A significant increase in personal income tax, leading to increased wage and salary pressures as tax compensation was fed into the wage bargaining process; a Budget deficit which would have exceeded $4.7 billion in 1975-76- more than $1.9 billion higher than estimated in August- and a rate of increase in the money supply of more than 20 per cent in 1975; a rapid transfer of resources from the private sector to the public sector- outlays increased from about 25 per cent of GDP in 1973-74 to about 31 per cent in 1975-76- causing serious adjustment problems and an erosion of business confidence; and a marked increase in community expectations which, in turn, has contributed significantly to inflationary pressures. [More…]

• During that time the conservative and reactionary forces in our community joined together in a way rarely experienced in Australia ‘s history. [More…]

• In other words, the members opposite will come to this chamber praying for their fellows while those who support them will be very busy in the community preying upon them. [More…]

• When speaking to the community he said he would not interfere with wage indexation, nor would he oppose it, and then he mumbled something about ‘except under exceptional circumstances’. [More…]

• Therefore unless people are encouraged to purchase more goods than they need, or use more services than they require, it is difficult to understand how a community already apparently saturated with goods and services can be persuaded to purchase more goods and services. [More…]

• The cutbacks in spending announced in the document are either window dressing of no real significance or are of such serious implication to the community that no responsible person would perpetrate them. [More…]

• Will it sell them to a community which, as I have already pointed out, seems to be saturated already with the goods and commodities of life, a community, I might remind the House, that led the world in the sale of television receivers when television was first introduced into Australia in 1956 and 1957. [More…]

• I do not think it is fair to any sector of the community, even though it comprises the weak and allegedly oppressed, that a government for a short period of time should offer them the world and do this for them and that for them and give them this and give them that in a quite irresponsible fashion when it is perfectly obvious that such a situation cannot last and that the next government will have the task of saying: ‘We are terribly sorry but this just cannot be continued’. [More…]

• No one on the Government side or in cockies corner immediately on my left can conscientiously say that the superphosphate bounty is fairly distributed between all sections of the rural community. [More…]

• I raised this question because the text of a letter from the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) was published on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald of 14 February. [More…]

• I do not want to offer any comment on what is desirable, but I am quite prepared to say that the development formerly proposed, involving millions of dollars, was not a desirable development when it envisaged a residential community growing in that location. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman should well understand that matters which affect the individual in his environment, whether it is the natural environment or the physical environment and matters which affect community development all round Australia have been brought within one department. [More…]

• By the time of the 1972 election, despite the cat calls from the Liberal Party and the Country Party, the AMA and the very profitable so-called non-profit medical and hospital benefit funds- the medical business lobby I referred to earlier- we had amended out financial assessments upwards and we won the support of the Australian community. [More…]

• Australian community. [More…]

• What is the Government’s policy on the health care of the community? [More…]

• It was debated throughout the community. [More…]

• If there is abuse, I do not think that any Government with any sense of responsibility could stand back and let people rip off funds at the expense of the community. [More…]

• There has been inference that Medibank represents excessive costs for the community. [More…]

• Let us look at the total cost and bear in mind that the cost has to be met by the community. [More…]

• Whether it all comes from the public sector or all comes from the private sector or whether some comes from each of those 2 sectors, the community in the final result pays. [More…]

• Because of the way in which there was further subsidisation through the tax scheme for net direct costs for health services, the middle class-and high income earners in this community were particularly well subsidised at the expense of the great mass of taxpayers. [More…]

• Nevertheless, even allowing for that as a significant qualification I predict quite confidently that by the end of this year at least $200m to $250m will be saved on the total outlay that was set aside for Medibank, which shows in fact that the total cost of Medibank is even cheaper than the total cost which the community would have incurred with an inferior, inadequate system of private health insurance with its attendant features of pensioner medical benefits and repatriation medical benefits. [More…]

• That is a significant improvement in the quality of health care available to people in the community. [More…]

• Previously costs were largely met by the community as a private outlay. [More…]

• If there is going to be an inquiry after such a short experience with Medibank- everyone realises that the members of the inquiry are really appointed as pall-bearers charged to arrange a respectable funeral for Medibank- there is a responsibility incumbent on the Government to produce the substantial evidence on which it justifies that inquiry so that the very broadly held suspicions in the community that the Government wants to bury Medibank can be completely rejected. [More…]

• So really a camouflage will be introduced to cover up the deceit of increased taxes on the community by designating it as a levy for Medibank. [More…]

• The ethnic communities have provided a very significant contribution to Australia, particularly to the seat of St George, by involving themselves in a wide range of community interests and activities. [More…]

• There are within St George a great many charitable organisations, benevolent associations, the Red Cross and a large number of similar groups working for the welfare of the community. [More…]

• I think that this is an example of the way in which all tiers of government and local communities can co-operate for the further benefit of electorates and the Australian community. [More…]

• Outside, perhaps, of some country communities, the community in St George would represent one of the most diverse communities in Australia. [More…]

• If these people on selling their homes are able to move into a village or some other type of accommodation near this area they will have access to their doctors, to their local friends- and to their community activities and they will be able to use the community resources that are already there. [More…]

• It is something which most of the community would like to see; it is something which regrettably has not come about. [More…]

• I would also like to see the community reassured in respect to defence, as I think they must have been by the Governor-General’s Speech and by the fact that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was the first Minister to make a ministerial statement, and by other activities of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I think this has been arrested, but the first thing is for every member of the Australian armed forces to know that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and every member on the Government side of the House and I would hope every member on the other side believes that his service is honourable, is worthwhile, and is welcome by the Australian community. [More…]

• I am proud that from this coalition, from the Liberal and National Country Parties, from the FraserAnthony Government, a firm undertaking has emerged that an advisory panel will be established to advise the small mining community. [More…]

• The community of Australia wants to know that justice is done and it should always appear to be done. [More…]

• That is why we wanted to encourage community orientated people to have their own programs of innovation. [More…]

• If we had allowed the community we represent, the 40 per cent odd, to break the rules there would have been anarchy in this country. [More…]

• I hope that we will try to discourage the belief amongst many educators that in order to have a tertiary institution of some standing and status in the community they must try to cover the whole range of disciplines that are normally covered by universities. [More…]

• As I have said, I anticipate that there will be a second Parliament for me to participate in because I believe that the policies of this Government which have been so ably outlined in the Governor-General’s Speech will work and will gain general community approval. [More…]

• We are now seeing the reversals of promises made to those sections of the community that the Liberals had to win over. [More…]

• After what was done by Premier Lewis in New South Wales and by Premier Bjelke-Petersen in Queensland in replacing Labor Senator Murphy and the late Labor Senator Milliner with senators from other parties, who in our community believes that Labor State Parliaments in South Australia and Tasmania should substitute Liberals for those 10 senators? [More…]

• The Government should be answering the alternative critical advice being offered to the community in a rational way which adds to the body of knowledge. [More…]

• Community of interests, means of communication and population are the criteria on which electoral boundaries are drawn, not population alone. [More…]

• We know that there have been problems with Great Britain entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• During his speech the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) said that confidence had not been restored in the business community. [More…]

• It is quite evident that he walks about with his eyes and ears closed, because there is confidence in the business community in Australia. [More…]

• As I travel throughout the length and breadth of Australia I see confidence developing in the business community already. [More…]

• From the day the Australian Government came to office in 1972 until the shameful events of last Remembrance Day, the Liberal and National Country Parties carried on a deliberate and effective campaign of undermining public confidence and creating fear, division and hatred in the community. [More…]

• We see now evidence of excessive Government intervention in the economy and the community. [More…]

• Certainly there is no under-supply of goods in our community at the moment. [More…]

• The major criticisms I have of the Government are that, in creating a psychological atmosphere, it has set out to reduce a deficit but in fact it has taken very severe action against those people in our community who are least able to defend themselves. [More…]

• There are people in our community who will in fact have their taxation increased indirectly by up to $2 a week because of this charge and they are people who must have regular prescriptions. [More…]

• If it saps the will of every member of the community to do something for himself and for the team, the nation must inevitably go down hill. [More…]

• Far from this being irregular, what we have done has been to take precisely the same action as the United States of America, the European Economic Community and Japan have taken in cases where they have had problems with imported knitwear. [More…]

• The real reason that the amnesty seems doomed to failure is that the people directly affected, the illegal immigrants and their community spokesmen, were not consulted before it was introduced. [More…]

• As one of my Turkish friends pointed out, news travels very slowly in their community. [More…]

• He did not say anything about protection of the health of the community or of the individual concerned. [More…]

• After the honourable member put his case- I thought he did so quite properly, quite fairly and quite well- I was then pleased to hear the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) say that he welcomed the discussion because it was non-partisan and it was an endeavour to get to the root of the problem that besets these people in our community. [More…]

• When he goes among the migrant community- in view of what he said, obviously he has not been there yet- he will find that it was not until the advent of the Labor Government in 1972 that the migrants in this country were elevated from a position in which they were brought here to do the dirty tasks, the unpleasant tasks and to fill the gaps in the factories in jobs which Australian people were a bit loath to take. [More…]

• They will tell him that it was the Labor Government which gave these people dignity, which elevated them from that status which was thrust upon them by 23 years of non-caring Liberal governments and moved them to a position of dignity where they were recognised in the community and encouraged to participate in the community. [More…]

• They are living in the same way as the rest of the community. [More…]

• I am very loath to trust it with the future security of a very large number of people who, if they continue to live in the community, will probably continue to live here undetected. [More…]

• If it is not known to the Minister I can tell him that stories are circulating in the migrant community- this is something which he will have to contend with- that this sort of thing is indeed happening, that people are going to the Department ‘s offices in the capital cities and without any query or explanation are being placed on ships or aeroplanes and sent out of this country. [More…]

• I am relaying to the Minister the fears that are found in the migrant community in Australia. [More…]

• What the Australian community would like to know, and I think is entitled to know, is: Did Sir John ever make it clear to Mr Whitlam that his Government would be dismissed if he refused to call a double dissolution? [More…]

• Whether we rely on the market place, as happened for example with regard to Medibank, where people can go to any doctor they want and the Government refunds all or a proportion of the money that is required to pay the medical practitioner, or whether we provide services such as community health centres and so on, is basically the question in cash versus services; it is an important question for any government. [More…]

• I suggest that he spares a thought for the inmates and staff at the Austin, Preston and Northcote Community Hospitals, and the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. [More…]

• In the area of health care, a community health centre was established in West Heidelberg and one is proposed for Northcote, which proposal may not be honoured by the present make-the-people-pay Government. [More…]

• In some sections of the community it has become a sport to rubbish those associated with primary industry in Australia. [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…]

• An electoral system is already established and there is a traditional involvement by people in local government and in welfare which gives an historical head start to community participation. [More…]

• If we conclude that the complexity of our society necessitates support to the community from the Commonwealth Government, it is the responsibility of this Government to find ways and means and to give that support, whether it be advisory, manpower of financial. [More…]

• The Government is committed to provide the individual with the opportunity to develop in the community; to provide a stable society where communities can interrelate; to build a fabric of society which recognises the right of the individual in that society; and to acknowledge the interdependence of the urban and rural sectors of this country. [More…]

• The Liberal Country Party preoccupation throughout its years of office with the dogeatdog way of life leaves much to be desired for the workers, the young and the aged in our community. [More…]

• Under the Labor Government Australian society was a much more challenging and exciting community in which to live. [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…]

• I am happy to say that after an initial period of confusion and suffering the Turkish community is starting to find its own feet. [More…]

• During that period the Kensington group, which represents a wide spread of Turkish migrants, formed their own social welfare group, hired their own premises and conducted a survey of their community. [More…]

• That section of the community has suffered most from the disastrous economic policies of the previous Government. [More…]

• They comprise a major part of the community. [More…]

• They worry about the impact which the close proximity of a large European community could have on their way of life. [More…]

• One should recall that when there was a Labor government in the 1940s the pensioners were receiving 25 per cent of average weekly earningsone quarter of the average wage in the community. [More…]

• Money, resources, were being directed to serve people’s needs- people in the total community, the public sector and the private sector. [More…]

• In my view the government policy could be seen as nothing more than cutting back on what we as a Labor government tried to establish to improve the quality of life, to protect the freedom of the community from exploitation by ruthless business practices. [More…]

• I have not noticed enormous complaints from the general community about that Act and the things that might hopefully spring from it if it is implemented. [More…]

• Not even the Government of which the honourable member for Swan is a supporter would propose to turn that theory totally upside down but certainly in his Government’s activities it will try to reverse the trend a good deal to make a sort of flatter distribution which, of course, will penalise the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• The way the Government got that support, the way it obtained the funds to give that support to that section of the community, was usually by depriving the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• What they mean is that they are keen to break down any controls which tend to increase the cut that the bulk of the community gets of the wealth. [More…]

• One could conclude, I suppose, by discussing the Government’s moves to control inflation because that is the great threat to the survival of this community. [More…]

• Of course the problem of cutting down government spending is that the Government somehow tries to suggest that government spending is something way out on its own and has nothing to do with the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government’s decision should add to confidence in the business community, particularly in the small business area. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maribyrnong will know that, following the publication of the draft environmental impact study by British Airways, submissions were invited to be lodged with my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Finally, in view of the concern that bond market activity and other monetary and fiscal measures may well be cutting back dramatically the rate of increase in the money supply at this time and the concern felt especially in the business community, will the Treasurer be good enough to indicate to this House the rate of increase in the money supply expected for this quarter and the target which he has set for this fiscal year? [More…]

• So that is a tip which has nothing specific to do with these clauses other than it relates in the long term to the cost of drugs to the Australian community. [More…]

• Much has been made of the enormous increase in the cost of drugs to the community and the increasing number of prescriptions written by doctors. [More…]

• I suggest that if honourable members are interested they might read some articles which appeared in the New York Times recently which discussed the rip-off in medical services and fees paid by the community, and, I might suggest, inadequate standards of medical care. [More…]

• We wish to divide on this issue because we wish to make the point quite strongly that the approach that the Government is now taking- just bumping up the fees, just increasing the amount the patient has to pay, particularly those in the community who cannot afford it, the ones who were on the scheme the Government itself introduced to subsidise these people- is a mistake. [More…]

• Medibank seeks to make medical treatment freely available to all sections of the community, irrespective of their financial capacity to pay. [More…]

• The community has recognised that. [More…]

• We believe that the community deserves the right to get the medical treatment it requires, irrespective of the financial resources of the individual patient. [More…]

• 1 feel that in view of the ever-persisting pressure to increase the cost of drugs the time has come when the Government should give consideration to overcoming this further financial obstacle to the sick in the community receiving medical care. [More…]

• I think the whole community accepted the principle of a concession to people on lower incomes, to people on social security benefits of various sorts or to migrants after the first two or three months of their arrival in the country- I forget the period, but it is not very relevant. [More…]

• One might generally put them into the group of disadvantaged people in our community. [More…]

• The pharmacists are surely entitled, as is any section in our community, to a fair fee for service. [More…]

• It appears to me that no one section of the community is happy with the pharmaceutical benefits plan. [More…]

• But in my view the Government has to adopt a basic position, and that is to ensure, firstly, that the system provides drugs essential to life and the welfare of every person regardless of his financial position, secondly, that pharmaceutical items are of the highest quality- I am sure that the Department of Health has done a tremendous job in that area- thirdly, that they are available at a reasonable price- nobody can claim that the Department of Health has not done a good job in that area- and, fourthly, there is also the necessity for the maintenance of a viable pharmaceutical manufacturing industry which has sufficient resources to carry out research and to keep pace with the needs of the community. [More…]

• Once we forgot that we are a federation we will forget our responsibilities as members in this House and as members of the Australian community. [More…]

• I merely want to concentrate on some of the economic reasons, the ones that have been felt by the community. [More…]

• It was because those conditions did not exist that there was a greater imposition of government upon the community, and the basic social conditions for the upholding of the basic social contract which Australians know and which they want to attain were not being attained. [More…]

• The quality of life depends less on the things which individuals obtain for themselves and can purchase for themselves from their personal incomes and depends more on the things which the community provides for all its members from the combined resources of the community. [More…]

• There you have a recipe for the substitution of community control for personal control and it is put into a clear philosophical context. [More…]

• In the Australian context, this means that the community, through the national government, must finance them or they will not be financed at all. [More…]

• In the business community very little is done in this respect. [More…]

• I want to conclude simply by mentioning that recently in Australia 2 people in the business community put forward some ideas that I think were extremely interesting. [More…]

• The only substantive statement that I can find by the Liberal Party on the Department of Community Development- it is now administered by Senator Greenwood who is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- was issued on 10 May 1974 by the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden. [More…]

• In the belief that governments should assist individuals in the community in the pursuit of their own excellence we will be increasing grants to small groups, to amateur associations, local clubs and sporting bodies. [More…]

• The Department will promote and encourage cultural, social, recreational and sporting activities within the community. [More…]

• Through the Department of Community Development and in association with States and local government a Liberal-Country Party government will actively promote the arts, tourism, recreation and sport and many other social activities which enrich communities. [More…]

• Not only will it promote international teams but it will provide incentives and initiatives for the large number of smaller organisations catering for specialised choices throughout the community. [More…]

• People in the community have not recognised the necessity for promoting our tourism industry and our recreational activities. [More…]

• It has put tourism under the control of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Senator Cotton, and it has put sport, recreation and physical fitness under the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, administered by Senator Greenwood. [More…]

• It is time that the whole community recognised the strife in which the tourist accommodation industry in Australia finds itself at the moment. [More…]

• This Speech is filled with caveats upon growth in keeping with the aspirations of an industrial community like ours in the last quarter of the 20th century. [More…]

• If one listens to some of the loose talk from the left or the right in our community, one hears irresponsible and stupid suggestions about a confrontation between this Government and the trade union movement. [More…]

• For every one the honourable member can concoct, I can give him 100 examples of bullying tactics by members of his own Party who try to influence votes and refuse people the right of free speech in the community in general. [More…]

• In these days of increasing costs, how on earth can the producer, with his responsibility for great wealth in that local community, expect to exist and provide the raw material for a wasteful government dedicated to destroying industries in country areas and around good, worthwhile country towns? [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the House whether the failure to issue visas is related to the Government’s closing down of the consulate in Nicosia, which is widely condemned by our own Cypriot community? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications: Is it a fact that high postage costs are causing considerable financial problems for business and the community? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that because of the common agriculture policy of the European Economic Community and the present world over-supply of skim milk powder the price to farmers could fall to that received in the Depression 40 years ago, with a complete breakdown of orderly marketing of city milk and disastrous social and economic consequences for rural Australia? [More…]

• There was ample liquidity for housing in the community in the banking system. [More…]

• As to the interest rate policy, although there was one impression given by the Treasurer in his statement at the time of announcing the Australian Government bond- the Australian savings bond, the 10.5 per cent bond- which led the community to believe that he was initiating a lower interest rate policy, every sign since then has been that that was a piece of window dressing. [More…]

• Of course this too has had a marked effect on the liquidity in the community, a marked effect on getting back to consumer confidence, consumer spending and the recovery which would follow. [More…]

• It is not good enough to talk glibly about $300m and expect a proper examination of this policy by parliamentarians, by the community generally and then give insufficient information about it. [More…]

• Let me remind the House of the 1974 credit squeeze, the 25 per cent across-the-board tariff cuts, the range of measures deliberately directed against the Australian business community, the deliberate moves to expand the public sector at the expense of the private sector of this economy. [More…]

• They also create other benefits for the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it ought to be remembered in accounting for the rates of inflation on public works which this measure has to do that the rates of inflation on public works are always higher than the rates of inflation felt generally in the community. [More…]

• That means of course that that assistance- that bonus which is given to the States as grants and because of the difference in the interest rate on the debt and the rate of inflation in the community will result in a differential rate of assistance as between the various States. [More…]

• Therefore it means that the assistance given to States by way of grants and the assistance given by way of the differential interest rates on them compared with interest rates in the community apply very differently between the States of Australia. [More…]

• Then they became critical because they thought that the wish to achieve more for the community was indeed a wish to control more. [More…]

• The percentage allocation of funds to the States needs to be assessed on the basis of the population of each State, the wealth produced in each State, the requirements, the public facilities and the interests and demands of the community. [More…]

• I think if there were within the States a readiness to recognise the importance of legislation of this kind there would be a better understanding on the part of State and local authorities and on the part of the community at large. [More…]

• By these generous measures our Government extends special consideration to the disadvantaged not only in this community but also in other countries! [More…]

• History Will not stand still while the Government endeavours to turn the clock back to some long past golden age of open exploitation of resources and people by the Government’s men of property, by the Government’s corporate partners of the stock exchanges and by the professional people, all of whom have exploited the Australian community for so long. [More…]

• The Government should be warned that a growing feeling of loathing is developing within the Aus.tralian community, a loathing of the falsity of what Government supporters profess to stand for; a loathing for this Government’s methods of assuming power as well as a growing awareness of the gross injustices done to the Labor Party in government. [More…]

• For the first time in 3 years there is a certainty abounding in all spheres of the Australian community. [More…]

• No wonder the average age in the Australian farming community has increased by 9 years in the last 10 years. [More…]

• It is about time the Government got away from this ‘Kick a public servant a day’ approach in order to destroy confidence in the public sector of activity when that public sector has added much to our community. [More…]

• Moreover, their broad-brush approach ignores the problems of particular industries, in particular the sectors of our community which were ignored for the 2 decades prior to 1972. [More…]

• There are other reasons too why an early election was forced on the Australian community. [More…]

• The burden has fallen most heavily on the productive sector of the economy, on those people who have lost their jobs and on the weaker and poorer sections of the Austrlian community. [More…]

• It was an unemployment directly consequential on Labor’s disregard for the facts of life, an unemployment which harmed most of all the weak, the migrants, the poorthose sections of the Australian community which have sometimes looked upon the Australian Labor Party as their protector and which turned in their tens of thousands to us because of disillusion and dismay in December. [More…]

• Excessive government spending tended to exacerbate inflation, and inflation has continued to sap the confidence of individuals and businesses in the whole community. [More…]

• In the fight against inflation we will conduct a continuing dialogue with key groups in the community. [More…]

• There are other examples in which the Government is actively seeking the views of a wide number of people in the community. [More…]

• We told the Commission what we saw to be in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Australians will expect- and rightly expect- that all sections of the community will co-operate in securing a return to prosperity. [More…]

• The Government endorses the principle spelt out in the report of the Inquiry into Poverty, namely, that need and degree of need should be the primary test by which help given to a person, group or community should be determined. [More…]

• It would be an Australia in which powerful interests- both business and trade union- recognise their responsibilities to the individuals they serve and to the wider Australian community. [More…]

• Mount Morgan has been a very stable community for almost 100 years. [More…]

• Last Saturday I had the privilege of attending the opening of a community health centre in a town in my electorate. [More…]

• I must say that the people of Doveton show an extraordinary spirit of community work which is remarkable and I shall never refer to that area as being underprivileged or backward. [More…]

• All sections of the community have a role to play in this processunions, employees, employers, both large and small, industry groups, consumers, representatives of welfare and social organisations, academics, the Public Service and the Government. [More…]

• In so doing, it introduced such a degree of capriciousness and incompetence into government policy making and administration as to destroy confidence throughout the entire community and to destroy the ability of the private sector- large and small business alike- to produce the real resources needed if Labor’s social welfare and other programs were ever to be fulfilled. [More…]

• Nor will we be able to build for the future, provide for the needy in our community, or improve all those things that need improving in this country such as health, child care, roads and so on. [More…]

• Its main role must be to create the right environment in which the community as a whole, all members of the community, can live and work and act with the maximum of individual freedom, economic prosperity, social wellbeing and human dignity. [More…]

• The Labor Party which for weeks we have heard pride itself on having the divine right of morality, has been seen to commit nothing less than a fraud upon the very people in this community who, under the Act should receive priority- the very people, servicemen and the like, who for the last 3 years were denigrated by this Government. [More…]

• The sooner this is remedied the sooner we can see that those most worthy persons in our community are given the justice to which they are entitled under the law. [More…]

• It seems very strange that a project which will cause no expense to the Australian Government but will provide an excellent service to the community, a benefit to our own employees, and an advantage to the construction industry, can be considered as part of an economic assessment. [More…]

• My attention has been drawn by the Prime Minister to the fact that the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is not present in the chamber. [More…]

• I have no knowledge of what the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development may or may not have recommended in relation to this matter, but I indicate to the honourable gentleman, who ought to know, that it is the Government which makes policy in these matters, not any one department. [More…]

• I understand that it is looking at its programming with a view to minimising any loss of service to the Australian community. [More…]

• 1 took the precaution immediately, on 20 June, of letting the Australian Jewish Times know exactly what I said so that there could be no misunderstanding by Israel or by the Jewish community. [More…]

• Again it is natural that vested interests in the community will lobby for political solutions. [More…]

• If Ansett was to be allowed to extend its operations, particularly to the New Zealand traffic, it would quite properly be seen by the community as another instance of payola by the present Government, of the pay-off to Ansett Transport Industries Ltd for the services that have been provided in the past to those people now in government. [More…]

• We believe that it is necessary to put a road through to an isolated community and we do not insist that that community, through its traffic along that road, should meet the entire cost of providing that road. [More…]

• The 2 tertiary commissions reached the state where, making recommendations quite separately, they were making tremendous competitive claims on the capital resources and the labour available in the Australian community. [More…]

• Unless this is done there will be a widening of the gap between the tradesman and the technical, technological, and professional grades in our community. [More…]

• I am greatly concerned at the ignorance and the misunderstanding that exists in this Parliament and throughout large sections of our community about the difficulties encountered by this politically weak section. [More…]

• A significant number- who have incomes which are not adequate by the standards of the rest of the community. [More…]

• Taking into account these things that have been taught in our schools and have been discussed in the community, a very dangerous situation occurred on 1 1 November and in the preceding weeks whereby the other chamber challenged the financial pre-eminence of this House and this House, through the action of some people for short term political gain, abdicated its position and left that pre-eminence hanging in the balance, probably lying with the Senate rather than with the House of Representatives. [More…]

• They are not my words; they are the words of many people, the 42 per cent of the community which supported the Labor Party in its stance on this question- a very substantial section of the community by anyone’s measurement. [More…]

• We must be willing to co-operate with the community and individuals so that we can achieve a society that is just and progressive, and one in which the individual can attain self-achievement and reward for personal effort and enterprise. [More…]

• It is a very diverse electorate which contains heavy density population areas, industrial estates, a large rural community, the very rich and the very poor. [More…]

• It is, however, small business which contributes in a very real way to the nature of the community by providing the employment for the local area and by providing support and help for local charity, sporting and community groups. [More…]

• In the field of housing, as in many other fields, the community is its best doctor. [More…]

• We should be encouraging the community to tackle its own problems and we can do this by ensuring that those on low incomes have the financial assistance necessary to have some choice in their own environment and lifestyle. [More…]

• It is my hope that during my years in Parliament I will be able to assist greatly in the development of the community of Bowman. [More…]

• As I have stated, housing and small business form an integral part of the community, but there are other facets which would go a long way to developing that sense of a community in the electorate. [More…]

• When a community moves towards its autonomy we have an obligation to encourage other areas of government likewise to develop and accept a responsibility for providing services to that community. [More…]

• I see federal co-operation in these projects as providing real service to community development as well as mopping up so much of the local unemployment. [More…]

• But at least its democratic structure, with the Caucus system and the tentacles which reach into the rest of the community, allows people to participate in it. [More…]

• I estimate that if the price of fuel in metropolitan areas was raised by approximately one cent per gallon, we could enjoy fuel at the one price throughout Australia without unduly penalising any section of the community and without the necessity for government subsidy. [More…]

• The farmers in the European Economic Community get six or seven times the value we receive for a huge range of their products. [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…]

• -My recollection is that during the election campaign of 1974 I addressed a meeting of members of the Arab community in Sydney, as I addressed meetings of members of the Jewish community, explaining the Liberal Party’s policy on the Middle East. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that, although it was an open meeting and although the Press was there- that is, the ethnic Press at least- I was not invited back in 1975 to explain that policy at all, though I was invited by members of the Jewish community to explain during the election campaign of 1975 our policy on the Middle East. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman mentioned certain reports about the volume of money in the community. [More…]

• We want to guarantee the community orientated programs. [More…]

• To suggest to the community that these programs could be started and now to take away from them that initiative is a damage that one can never repair. [More…]

• I speak not on any political basis but on the basis that the community has put forward these programs. [More…]

• Economic mismanagement brought about great suffering in vast sections of the Australian community. [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…]

• It was said that we of the Labor Party had moved away from the community and established central control but there is nothing further from the truth than that statement. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security has an obligation to the Australian community and to people interested in child welfare to spell out the answers to the questions. [More…]

• Preschools and groups seeking funds should satisfy the Interim Committee for the Childrens Commission that the needs of the community have been investigated fully. [More…]

• For example, in a community where there are several pre-school centres, not all need to provide full day care but every community must have some full day care facilities provided. [More…]

• We should not get the run around, and neither should the community get the run around that it is getting from the Government at the moment. [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…]

• It will assist community organisations, local government and State government to do more. [More…]

• How many honourable members of this House are associated with or know of genuine hard working community groups in their electorates which are seeking to raise funds to provide a kindergarten, a preschool centre, a child care centre, a play group or some other form of family day assistance only to find that $500 raised the year before last will purchase this year only the equivalent of $300 worth of goods. [More…]

• The rate of inflation is so high that community groups, which necessarily invest their raised funds in savings bank accounts and investments of that nature, quickly find that the resources they have raised decline in value so rapidly that they get further and further behind rather than bringing the project to fruition out of their own efforts. [More…]

• We will enable community groups which wish to help themselves to help themselves. [More…]

• When we look at the matter of child care services and pre-school education it is terribly important that as a nation and as a government we should have a philosophy relating to the position of the family in the community. [More…]

• In developing a continuing program to fulfil the needs within the community the Government now in office will recognise the needs of families. [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…]

• It is a continuation of that humbugging when one reads what was said last year and what was said this year by the current Treasurer in his speech when introducing these Bills- the contrived concern and spurious suspicion which were sprouted about last year in an effort to mislead and unsettle the Australian community. [More…]

• There was no substance in the Treasurer’s frequent implications to this House, to the community and to the Press gallery, the members of which did not seem to be too industrious in seeking out the details and the real functions of this system of public financing, that we were trying to use the Loan Bill, as we put it before the House in 1975, as a fiddle to raise money from overseas for purposes other than defence. [More…]

• I want to raise another aspect and that is the failure of the Government to give this Parliament and the Australian community full details of the sort of expenditure cuts it has imposed. [More…]

• Insofar as the Government is having what is called a mopping-up operation of surplus funds which are available in the community, I presume that it had its eyes more on M4 than on M3. [More…]

• Insofar as those funds have been transferred by redemption from treasury bills into the Consolidated Revenue Fund, there is an effective subsidy on those funds, to the extent to which there is a differential between treasury bill rate returns and what otherwise would have to be paid by the Government on funds which it would obtain from the community. [More…]

• The principle benefit of meat inspection is associated with public health and as such the cost of maintaining the public health must be borne by the whole community, not by the producers or the meat works operators. [More…]

• The whole community should pay. [More…]

• Our concern on this side of the House is that the rural industries, and indeed all industries and all sections of the community, should not be left to decay and very nearly to die before government comes in to give them some assistance. [More…]

• Then the bottom fell out of it because of action taken by the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States of America and we found that the beef industry was in real trouble. [More…]

• I think the Australian community would have been more interested and would have applauded the honourable member for Griffith more for speaking on that subject than on the subject on which he has just spoken. [More…]

• Provincial newspapers play a significant role in providing the community with information as part of the general fabric of society. [More…]

• I am sure that her appointment will be very warmly welcomed by the small business community. [More…]

• That appointment will be seen as evidence of this Government’s capacity to back the needs of small businesses which do depend upon the total economic health of the business community. [More…]

• The question of estate duty is of very considerable concern to a significant number of people in the Australian community. [More…]

• The general question of shorter working hours, whether in the postal and telecommunications area, the area of government employment generally or in all areas of employment, including private employment, is a matter of great moment both economically and socially to the community. [More…]

• The Government is presently considering in detail the implications of that decision not only for work in the Post Office but in view of its importance to the community. [More…]

• It also reflects a recognition by the community, particularly the business section thereof, that it now has an Administration which is serious about inflaton and which is putting down sensible economic policies. [More…]

• Indeed, the Liberal and Country Parties during their previous administration introduced many individual training schemes- for married women, Aborigines and other specially disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• Returns from sales have also been reduced by currency variations and increased tariff charges on imports into Britain and other countries which have acceded to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• But any sustained recovery will depend on our progress, as a community, in curbing inflation. [More…]

• It will consult with those in the community who are affected by its decisions or who can contribute to better informed government. [More…]

• Compassion for the less affluent in the community will be shown, not by the rhetoric of our predecessors, but by deeds. [More…]

• The recession has been intensified and prolonged, and unemployment worsened, by inflation and by the growing feeling in the community at large that, in the absence of resolute government, the only realistic expectation must be that inflation will continue and worsen. [More…]

• Nevertheless I can say that we are firmly resolved to put an end to the helplessness some in the community have been feeling about this seemingly intractable problem. [More…]

• The Government believes there is a growing realisation in the community that large money wage increases are not the way to improve real living standards and put people back to work. [More…]

• A recent Gallup poll showed that most of those polled did not favour the recent 6.4 per cent increase: An interesting comment on the thesis advanced by some that it had to be awarded because of ‘community expectations’. [More…]

• Most in the community, it seems, are not subject to the ‘money illusion’ which so distorts the vision of some that they applaud a money wage increase which can only harm recovery and cut back employment opportunities. [More…]

• The Government believes it has a duty to the community to pursue every possibility of reducing such pressures. [More…]

• The Government has a responsibility to say this clearly to the community and to do what it can to enlist the support of all in doing so. [More…]

• We are confident that a policy wholeheartedly directed against inflation will in fact command wide support from the community and that in the next 3 years a great advance to our goal of a freer, fairer, more prosperous Australia can be made. [More…]

• The third and quite different point in the amendment deals with the apparent policy, spelt out in the Governor-General’s Speech, of transferring funds from the lower income sections of the community to those in our community who are better off. [More…]

• This is a matter of some consequence because there are in every community those people who are unable to provide, care and tend for themselves. [More…]

• These people, for whom the community itself has a responsibility, normally are a minority. [More…]

• Their access to the media and even to the Parliament is restricted by their lack of finance and their position in the community. [More…]

• We find that any disadvantaged section of the community which represents a major section of industry or commerce, a major ethnic group or some other major pressure group will be able to be heard and will always be able to obtain space in the media in order to have its protest heard. [More…]

• There are a substantial number of such people in the community. [More…]

• It appears that the cuts in Government spendingthe items I have just mentioned are part of them- are designed more to set a mental state in the community than a financial one. [More…]

• This is part of the psychological warfare against the community in order to establish a state of mind. [More…]

• I suggest that, as the amendment says, the policy of the present Government is the transference of income from one sector of the community- the low income sector- to those who are better off, and that this is in line with statements made by the present Prime Minister last year that this rubbish about an egalitarian society which has been practised by governments, both Liberal and Labor, for the last 10 years has to stop. [More…]

• Such courses would inevitably exacerbate the issues of race and colonialism on which the international community has slowly been working towards a difficult consensus. [More…]

• However, the decisions of the Government in the recent past, and more particularly perhaps in the last few days, have put paid to the hopes and aspirations of the under-privileged in our community. [More…]

• All the proposals put forward by people in the community are never going to see the light of day. [More…]

• A government is only close to a given community if it is responsible and willing to involve that community in its decision making process. [More…]

• The Government ought to be going to the community and asking what areas of child care should be given priority. [More…]

• This Government has indicated that the previous Labor Government was divorced from the rank and file of the community and the reality of the situation. [More…]

• In implementing the Australian Labor Government’s child care program it was our desire to really involve the community and that desire was demonstrated. [More…]

• I have personally observed this process in my own electorate where there is a fairly substantial Turkish community. [More…]

• They dealt specifically with the needs of their own community. [More…]

• Indeed, they were reliably informed that people amongst that community had come to Australia believing that they were to be here for a period of time to work and then to return to their homeland. [More…]

• All sorts of problems are involved in that community, and it is an important one. [More…]

• But that is only one of the 68 projects that will be axed because of the disdain of the Government for the requirements of people who are disadvantaged in all sections of the community. [More…]

• But I believe that with the results of the election on 13 December there is now a resurgence of confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• As the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) said in this place this morning there is a resurgence of confidence amongst the business community and amongst the general community that gives people hope for the future. [More…]

• He had great hopes for the rural community of Australia. [More…]

• But it may just contain the kernel of the Prime Minister’s political strategy and of his attitude towards the disadvantaged in the community. [More…]

• There is a group in the Australian community which is dedicated to attempting to structure a political program based on the principles of selfishness and egomania extolled by Ayn Rand. [More…]

• It is only in this way that a government can improve the standard and style of living of the whole community. [More…]

• With increased community wealth governments can spend more on pensions, schools, roads, health and other welfare programs and on government administration. [More…]

• In times of inflation the challenges to creating community wealth are doubled. [More…]

• These opportunities can be provided only if governments and the community itself acting through its elected representatives will provide them. [More…]

• The inequalities in our community now reflect not so much gross disparities in income but the failure of successive Liberal governments to create opportunities for the overwhelming majority of our people- the lower, the modest and the middle-income families- opportunities which only governments can make and increasingly in Australia the national Government must initiate those opportunities. [More…]

• Other important factors include a new emphasis on equality of education opportunities, continuing research into the quality and direction of education and greater freedom and community involvement in the educational enterprise. [More…]

• We are awaiting a statement from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in regard to the outcome of this worthy plan. [More…]

• I urge this Parliament to be mindful of the task performed for the community by local government. [More…]

• Local government has continuous community involvement. [More…]

• However, mail deliveries, to my mind, are a service to the community and we must not forget it. [More…]

• I am pleased that the Government made it clear in its pre-election policy speech that it supported the establishment of the Australian Heritage Commission and that only last week the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) stated that consideration is now being given to the appointment of an adequate staff to enable the Commission to start its initial work. [More…]

• We do not represent just the business community; if we did, I would not support this Government or belong to the Liberal Party. [More…]

• These comments have been supported by the Henderson Committee when discussing the adverse effects of high inflation and unemployment rates on the poorer and weaker sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The money is simply not available at community and municipal levels to undertake these tasks adequately. [More…]

• It appears that community development offices which cost about $ 12,000 a year are extra. [More…]

• Commonwealth Government to the State Minister for Community Welfare, to the State committee for the implementation of the Plan, to the social planning secretariat thence to advisory committees and regional councils which in turn deal with local committees or projects. [More…]

• I point out further that another $12,000 is allocated for community development officers who are not incorporated in this. [More…]

• Since his election to this House the honourable gentleman has shown a very keen interest in the small business community. [More…]

• In part, one of the purposes of the investment allowance is to provide a major stimulus to the small business community as well as to larger corporations. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman would well understand, this will ensure that the incentive which the investment allowance is intended to create throughout the entire business community will not diminish on the basis mentioned. [More…]

• the economic cost to the community of road accidents in Australia in terms of- [More…]

• We intend to seek greater publicity for results of research so as to increase community awareness of factors contributing to road accidents and preventive measures which should be taken. [More…]

• the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, or [More…]

• to examine the awareness of specific learning difficulties among the community generally and among the medical, health, teaching and social welfare professions in particular; [More…]

• to recommend measures that can be taken to heighten community awareness of specific learning difficulties, and [More…]

• It is generally agreed by members of this Parliament and the general public that Aboriginal affairs, dealing with the lives of people requiring special attention within our community, should so far as humanly possible be outside the bounds of political bickering. [More…]

• This was concerned largely with the effects of bauxite mining on the Aboriginal people in the area but also dealt with health and education- other matters of direct and personal concern to the community. [More…]

• We all recognise our great community of interest, equally we have to recognise that there are great barriers- language, tradition, culture, distancein the way of making that community even closer and warmer. [More…]

• We do not have an equivalent in Australian but it is worth noting that this organisation, which is the Japanese Industrial Structure Council, is made up of some 20 committees which cover all facets and sections of the Japanese economic community. [More…]

• The committee also suggested that the council be representative of the community. [More…]

• Recipients of a Fellowship of necessity make reports on their return and bring back information which is provided to the community at large and not retained for a personal interest or for personal satisfaction. [More…]

• Perhaps the Foundation will set up resource centres where information can be disseminated to the community. [More…]

• I think that is a good idea, but I am sure the rural community has some eminent people who in their own personal right would be eligible for appointment. [More…]

• During the last 10 years there has been a growing recognition by both Canberra and Tokyo of the wide community of interests shared by the 2 countries. [More…]

• -There are mindless people in our community who make such remarks as ‘like the railways’ when they should know better and should know that railways are a declining industry everywhere and that no private company will take over any railway. [More…]

• I have no doubt that mindless people in our community will shout ‘socialism’ at this idea of mine just expressed about having 2 public enterprise airlines perhaps competing with each other. [More…]

• It is the society in which decision-making is based on the test of what is in the community interest, not just private profit interest. [More…]

• In many cases ownership in private hands is in the community interest. [More…]

• Furthermore, the assistance to the industry and to the community in general is fairly substantial if by the good offices of the Government these companies are able to secure borrowings on more favourable conditions than might apply otherwise. [More…]

• Earlier speakers remarked that in the purchase of these aircraft it is important to give attention to minimising the noise nuisance to the community in general. [More…]

• Whilst affording some relief to the community, considerable inconvenience and loss of time, and therefore money, is occasioned in travelling to the more distant locations. [More…]

• If a government has to build hundreds of schools every year, which it has to do in a growing community, it becomes a matter of bookkeeping rather than a matter of economic sense. [More…]

• An accusation has been made that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) is being attacked because certain sections of the community are trying to destroy him, that people are trying to undermine him because he is such an outstanding Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I have said before, and I will say it for as long as I am a member of this House, that the Telecommunications Commission is a service to the community as well as a business activity. [More…]

• It must never be forgotten that it is a service to the community and that this service must be given to the people who deserve it and need it- these people in rural areas. [More…]

• The Telecommunications Commission must realise that it is a community service. [More…]

• I believe also that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) must review a number of matters associated with the development of this complex as quickly as possible. [More…]

• The establishment of a community college is one proposal that could be examined. [More…]

• Why did the former Government treat the primary producer and the rural dwellers as the redundant section of the community? [More…]

• I believe that there is a responsibility on these men, the members of this union, to return to work and avoid the costs which are now flowing through to the wool growers as a result of their wool not being sold, which is to the prejudice and detriment of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• I am also aware that in the past 3 years the policies of the Labor Government were policies that engendered greater difficulty for those sections of the community concerned than at any time in Australia’s history. [More…]

• The growth centre concept is, in my opinion, better than the former policies whereby promotion of development was on an ad hoc basis without real relevance to the total needs of any given community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) should look very seriously at the expenditure commitments that may be entered into on such a long term basis if we try to follow through the pattern of the expenditure proposals of the previous Government. [More…]

• I accept that this is a vague term, but basically we believe that people ought to be able, by intelligent, rational discussion, to make it possible for everybody in this community to get a decent go at what is available in the community. [More…]

• The committee has in its terms of reference 4 main headings: Firstly, to inquire into the main causes of the road toll; secondly, to investigate the most effective means of achieving greater road safety; thirdly, to look at the particular aspects of the problem to which all concerned could advantageously direct their efforts and, finally, to try to assess the economic cost to the community of road accidents in Australia. [More…]

• It was hotly debated in the community and indeed within the Victorian Liberal Government itself. [More…]

• For example, if we look at the public’s attitude to the drunken driver on the road quite often there is some attitude in the community that such a person is regarded as a cause of mirth- “Look at old Fred getting behind the wheel of his car and winding away along the road”- whereas it ought to be a subject which causes great concern in people and which causes them to put some social pressure on other people not to behave in that way. [More…]

• So many environmental matters in the community today are judged on a subjective basis, on the emotion that they are able to raise, rather than on an objective balance of opinions and facts and working out what is the best for the present and for the future in our community. [More…]

• One of the striking features of environmental and conservation matters is the large number of people and organisations in the community with a point of view to put forward. [More…]

• Some of those points of view may seem foolish and some may seem extreme but it is important that the individual or group in the community has the opportunity to discuss them at a public hearing, to put forward its arguments and to allow itself to be questioned about them. [More…]

• It highlighted problems that I believe made the community aware of what was going on in relation to fauna trafficking. [More…]

• I would also indicate that the people who have given evidence- the parents in the community, representatives from education departments in each of the States and representatives from the [More…]

• But the Committee has also seen the need on occasions to go outside its terms of reference and to look at the socially deprived, Aborigines and migrants to see whether their background and the difficulties they face in a new community or a strange society prevent them from coping with the learning process. [More…]

• Members of the community- special interest groups, educators and medical people- right throughout the country have a vital concern in the nature of the work being undertaken by the Committee. [More…]

• I believe that the problem of specific learning difficulties is one which has been underestimated in our community and the facts and figures that were given to us indicated that for far too long we had neglected this vital area. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that I hope that the new Committee will display the same amount of infectious enthusiasm as did the previous Committee and that it will receive the same cooperation from all sectors of the community in helping to brighten the day for many boys, girls, men and women who otherwise would have a vast world of knowledge not available to them. [More…]

• I think that all honourable members ought to acknowledgeit was one of the matters that I pointed out very strongly- that although we preached to local government, to State governments and to private enterprise that they ought to take on Aboriginal people and train them and bring them to the skills that might equip them to take other positions in the community in which they live, it was genuinely recognised that in areas in which the Commonwealth had responsibility in rural communities no real effort was being made to involve it in projects similar to the special works projects. [More…]

• I must say that when I went to places like Derby and Broome the attitude of the white community in those towns to the non-white community was almost like apartheid. [More…]

• I do not believe that the community has any right to exploit the citizen. [More…]

• I do not believe that the citizen has any right to take a capital gain out of the community’s works. [More…]

• Retrenchments are starting to inflict themselves upon the community, and the availability of Commissioner for Housing loans has been reduced. [More…]

• One of its recommendations in 1974 was that self-government would be granted to the Australian Capital Territory community. [More…]

• I think that the members of the Committee should be able to see Canberra as having 3 distinct rolesits role as the seat of government and the home of the national Parliament, its role as the national capital, which is a very different role, and its role as a community of 200 000 Australian citizens who until recently have been discriminated against in terms of representation. [More…]

• If we have a heated pool it should be planned in such a way that it can be used by the school during the day and then by the community. [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister: In view of confusion which quite obviously exists in a lot of people’s minds, could he inform the House whether the guidelines so far established and discussed on a separate State income tax will allow expansion of a State’s taxes without any reference to other States or to the overall tax burden which will be applied to the general community? [More…]

• I am also aware that any increase in the charges of the Australian Postal Commission or the Australian Telecommunications Commission has an impact, and sometimes a very unfortunate impact, upon the community or sections of it. [More…]

• Is this another example of the absurd variations in the States’ company laws and their administration which bedevil the Australian business community? [More…]

• I should have thought that the Australian Labor Party of all parties would have been interested in seeing that those most disadvantaged sections in the community- the unemployed with very little skill- were the first, not the last, to be assisted by a training scheme. [More…]

• serve the social as well as the economic needs of the community and of individuals by means of special assistance, guidance, remedial training and other measures designed to aid the removal of inequalities and enhance employment opportunities; [More…]

• A far better method of increasing individual participation in the community would be via the Labor Government’s community welfare centre program- the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• That program contained 2 necessary facets of community welfaregovernment guaranteed services and local decision-making. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite will not like its report, and we will not like it very much either, but it has to be accepted by this Government, because if it is not accepted we will never be able to curtail the involvement of government in the community. [More…]

• We take the view that a certain sector of the community has to be protected and that another sector of the community has to be restrained. [More…]

• We are prepared to have them discussed but, above all, we are desirous of saying to the business community, to the private sector, to the wage earners and to everybody who is involved in our economy: ‘We are trying to set you guidelines which will continue and which will be consistent for a period of time in which you can make your economic decisions in the knowledge that those economic decisions will not be changed next week, next month or some other time.’ [More…]

• We, at least, will offer the most important thing that the business community and the economy could ask for- that is, consistency of policy. [More…]

• If we are to have much greater expenditure cuts, as seems almost certain to happen under the present policy, there will be much more in the way of breaching of election promises to various groups in this community. [More…]

• The shrinking exports of Australian canned fruit would seem to indicate a continuing trend with a 25 per cent tariff against Australian canned fruit in the European Economic Community, the extra competitive position of South African exports following the devaluation of the rand and the penetration of Greek canned fruit exports into the EEC by way of preference to Greece as an associate member of the EEC. [More…]

• He mentioned some of the reasons for that funding in his speech by pointing out that the European Economic Community countries which were big export markets in the past had now, by virtue of their own political action, their own protective measures, thrown the industry in this country into difficult circumstances. [More…]

• The greatest of these would be the increase in freight rates, especially to our traditional markets, and also basically our traditional markets being closed with an effective 25 per cent tariff against canned fruits exported from Australia to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I know we have difficult economic times in front of us and any thought of more Government expenditure in any field has to be gauged with the utmost caution and deliberation, but here we have a section of the community which in years gone by has been encouraged to increase production and which now finds itself for all the reasons I have given in difficulty. [More…]

• I know we have difficult economic times in front of us and any thought of more government expenditure in any field has to be gauged with the utmost caution and deliberation, but here we have a section of the community which has been encouraged in years gone by to increase production. [More…]

• If the Government does nothing more, or it does no more than what it has done to date with this BUI, there will be a collapse right throughout the fruit canning industry which will lead to tremendous social and economic problems in some areas, and these problems will reflect on the whole community. [More…]

• It is being put on the shelf at considerable cost to the community. [More…]

• Yet they reach a standard of living more akin to that of a peasant than of a landed proprietor in our great Australian community. [More…]

• It was quite obvious many years ago that the European Economic Community would gravely affect our export of primary products and it is time we faced up to the reality of the situation and got down to retructuring these industries in a practical way. [More…]

• Later Britain entered the European Economic Community, but exports continued at much the same rate until the 1970s. [More…]

• in 1965, after Britain’s second unsuccessful attempt to join the European Economic Community, he warned the canning fruit industry of the danger of increased plantings. [More…]

• The first and most important reason, definitely, was Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• These increases have further disadvantaged the dried fruit growers in relation to the rest of the community. [More…]

• Happily these lounge chair commentators no longer have much relevance in the community because they were destroyers rather than builders, theoreticians rather than achievers, talkers rather than doers. [More…]

• As honourable gentlemen would be aware, the Commonwealth is concerned that there should have been adequate consultation with the Aborigines of the Aurukun community concerning the proposal and the arrangements between the Queensland Government and the consortium in question. [More…]

• To stimulate interest and debate within the Parliament and the community at large will the Minister give consideration to calling for a White Paper? [More…]

• Closing overseas bureaus, curtailing programs and increased charges for services are only some immediate issues which suggest that the Commission may be put in the position of taking a less active function in Australian community and cultural life . [More…]

• We ask the Federal Government to ensure that the ABC not only maintains but extends and improves its services to the Australian community, including the propagation of information, culture and criticism at the highest possible level. [More…]

• I believe that these statements demonstrate quite clearly that the Commission will not be prejudiced in its freedom of expression which it currently enjoys or the active role it now plays in the Australian community. [More…]

• A Liberal-National Country Party government will further the potential of ethnic community access radio stations as both a means of language instruction and cultural dissemination. [More…]

• I acknowledge that in any consideration of the future of ethnic radio it is absolutely imperative that the rights and privileges of minor ethnic groups within the community be taken into consideration. [More…]

• It is interesting that a lot of the anxiety in the community over the future of ethnic radio stations and the Australian Broadcasting Commission stems largely from a large measure of anxiety, or paranoia one might say, on the part of the commercial broadcasters. [More…]

• No one told the commercial broadcasters that they had to ignore this significant section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I said that the success of the station proved that it was of value to a significant section of the community. [More…]

• It was not the fault of the ABC that in the time between the Budget allocation and the time it put in its supplementary estimates there had been wage increases in the community nationally, and it was clearly expected to keep up with them. [More…]

• I still felt that the things I was trying to do with the ABC and with community broadcasting were worth doing even before there was an inquiry. [More…]

• I think it is quite clear that there is a good case for community access stations, certainly centred on tertiary colleges, colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• Obsolete laws which do not accord with community standards, or which are kept as a veiled threat to inhibit freedom of expression, have no place on the statute books. [More…]

• For all the faults of the Whitlam Government, two vital threads ran, albeit imperfectly and inconsistently, through the fabric of its policy program: that welfare spending Should be based on need and that the nation’s resources should be used as efficiently and beneficially as possible in the community’s interest. [More…]

• By doing this we will not only be able to produce more resources and provide more services to the community but also we will be able to provide for the welfare of pensioners and those who might be regarded as being in the disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• It can mean only that an effort is being made to conceal the facts from the producers and from other members of the community. [More…]

• Somebody has to pay for the advantage that is given to one section of the community, tinder indexation today, not only is inflation institutionalised but it is the poorer sections of the community, the people who cannot look after themselves without government assistance, who have to pay. [More…]

• I had intended to speak about the private sector of the economy because I believe that the facts about how drastically this section of the community has been treated are not quite known. [More…]

• The socialist Governments of 1972 to 1975 stand condemned, not just for the record number of unemployed or the total economic uncertainty and chaos that Australia found itself in at the end of their rule, but also for the monstrous sense of hopelessness that has been engendered in the community, especially among the young. [More…]

• The Australian community rejected the Labor Party for its actions and for its rush into revolution. [More…]

• The Australian community rejected the Labor Party for its inability to govern intelligently. [More…]

• It will be an intolerable task unless we have the co-operation and the understanding of the whole Australian community in order to bring back confidence, not just in economic terms, but a confidence in Australia itself. [More…]

• Who among us hi this Parliament has not been exposed as a daily event to the work and interests of community groups concerned with the welfare of the less fortunate or the less able? [More…]

• I was pleased to see such a strong mention in the Governor-General’s Speech supporting the role and function of voluntary welfare organisations in the community and the strong assertion to continue financial assistance in this area as well as ‘placing Public Service resources at their disposal through improving opportunities for transferability of staff between the Government and the non-government sector’. [More…]

• This means that the Australian business community as well as members of this Government will have to publicise the need to counter anti-profit and anti-business attitudes and policies which have taken hold in surprising quarters in Australia. [More…]

• It has been LiberalCountry Party governments which have moved into all new areas of social welfare and concern and I am confident that in the years ahead it will still be the Liberal and National Country Parties, with their concern for the individual Australian and for his or her welfare, which will lead-and here is the great difference between our parties and the Opposition parties- in conjunction with community organisations to achieve the most effective welfare and advantage for’ all Australians. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will not be so ruthless or will not continue to be so ruthless in its prosecution of the unfortunate section of the community. [More…]

• The Government believes that there must be more scope for community and individual initiative if people are to solve their problems sensitively and with rational use of resources: [More…]

• I want to refer briefly to 3 areas which are of great concern to the people of my electorate of Barker and to the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• Rather, it is going to require encouragement from all sectors of our community to ensure that reponsible members of the unions stands for executive positions and, further, to encourage unionists to exercise their right to vote. [More…]

• I look to co-operation from all sectors of the Australian community in order that we might effect our economic recovery. [More…]

• Pensioners are already paying for the superphosphate bounty with the deferment of their pension increase- a bounty that benefits almost exclusively the wealthiest members of the rural community while the small needy farmers whose usage of fertiliser is perhaps only minimal will be fortunate if they benefit to the extent of a few dollars. [More…]

• Again I think the Government ought to be frank with the community and with the young home purchasers and tell them that it intends to abolish the scheme in this Budget. [More…]

• They are figures which the community ought to be thinking about. [More…]

• The only thing we can do is get confidence back in the community. [More…]

• The effect on the people is the important aspect because the economy of the country has an effect on every single person in our community. [More…]

• The Wayside Chapel was approved for a grant under the Grants to Community Agencies Scheme on 27 February 1969. [More…]

• In view of the growing community concern at the inadequate number of salaried specialists appointed to the staff of the Canberra Community Hospital and the concurrent increase in popularity of the salaried hospital services, has the Minister met, and if not when will he meet, the salaried medical specialist staff at the hospital to learn its needs at first hand, rather than depending solely upon discussions with the Australian Medical Association and the private specialists in the Australian Capital Territory, both of which groups have been opposed to the whole concept of salaried medical staffing for the Canberra Hospital? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Following the Prime Minister’s statement to the House yesterday that cigarette and tobacco advertising on television and radio will cease from September this year, will the Minister advise whether this ban will be applied only to the electronic media, or will he be initiating moves, along with State authorities, to ban also cigarette and tobacco advertising from the Press, billboards and movie houses, and through the sponsorship by tobacco companies of sporting events, sporting teams, cultural and community groups? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Is it a fact that he has informed leaders of the Greek Cypriot community in Australia that the Government will not honour the invitation which I extended to the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios- the senior Commonwealth head of government- during the Commonwealth heads of government meeting last May? [More…]

• It is not correct that I personally have refused to see members of the Greek Cypriot community. [More…]

• Does the honourable gentleman recall receiving a letter sent to him on 13 February by the representative of the Cyprian community of Melbourne and Victoria, the Pan Hellenic Committee for the Relief and Independence of Cyprus and the Federation of Cyprian Communities of Australia, seeking an appointment with him either in Melbourne or in Canberra in order to discuss the invitation to Archbishop Makarios? [More…]

• I said in answer to the earlier question of the Leader of the Opposition that I was prepared to meet with members of the Greek Cypriot community. [More…]

• That is why, when we set up the Australian Housing Corporation, we tried to use it to overcome some of the problems of that sector of the community. [More…]

• So, we have a problem within our community. [More…]

• I believe that the whole housing problem has to be looked at afresh and that the community should be more involved in this problem. [More…]

• We had to try to bring community centres, child minding centres and health centres into these places so that they could be made gentler areas in which to live. [More…]

• It is my personal view that the sector that will suffer greatly under the present Administration will be not only the public sector but also the welfare sector which is a most needy sector in our community. [More…]

• A lot of resources in the community are not being used and greater sums could be made available without any pressure on the economy. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) has power in name only. [More…]

• I agree with his contention that dark clouds are gathering over the Australian housing scene, and gathering with such intensity as to threaten the wellbeing not only of the home seeking community but also of a large number of people who are involved in the housing industry and its associated activities. [More…]

• I understand that Cabinet has decided against the proposal put by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) to speed up the reintroduction of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]

• I hope it remains the great Australian dream and that the dreams of those in the community who are not as yet fortunate enough to own their own homes are fulfilled. [More…]

• Such people are accumulating wealth; but they also have pride- a pride in their own person, a pride in their families, a pride in their own homes which flows on to a pride in their community and nation. [More…]

• Such people become less community minded, work becomes a drudgery to them and they finish up in the lower or disadvantaged groups. [More…]

• On the one hand there are people who own their own home and who have a pride in their person and community. [More…]

• I have spoken to the new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in relation to amending the current housing agreement. [More…]

• At no time since I have been a member of this House have I heard anybody divide the community so much as did the honourable member for Petrie. [More…]

• The Australian community is made up of individuals. [More…]

• He should look on the Australian community as a family and say to himself, for argument’s sake: ‘My wife had funds available to her and I had funds available to me. [More…]

• All sorts of social problems are created in the local community simply because those places are unsuitable and the people who inhabit them do not have the choice. [More…]

• Because of changing life styles and changing uses by the community there could be a need to redesign a street layout or to reconstruct the buildings. [More…]

• There is no provision in any housing commission area for community facilities. [More…]

• Times are difficult, but by co-operating with private enterprise we will improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used and we also will recognise the interest of consumers, which in this instance is owning their own homes. [More…]

• There is an inadequate provision of suitable housing for small minority-groups within the community who have special needs. [More…]

• I commend the Government and the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay), who represents the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood), for the fact that there has been no cutback in housing. [More…]

• I thank honourable members for their contributions to it and I reiterate that I shall make sure that their contributions are brought to the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood). [More…]

• If a college of advanced education is offering a course which provides expertise in a particular subject, such as the local government area which is a specialty of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, then a qualification in that subject or that discipline at that particular institution will be valued and regarded very highly throughout the community. [More…]

• Beresford Stock comes out on the side of having research activity in colleges of advanced education on the basis that to attract the sort of staff you need you must be able to provide that community of scholars in which research can take place. [More…]

• On the matter of adult education in the community I want to develop the thought that perhaps a number of the general courses which are being offered by colleges of advanced education could be offered by other sorts of institutions. [More…]

• It may well be that we do not need to have a college of advanced education for some of these general courses which are used by people as a way of updating their educational skills, learning the habits of study, perhaps even just doing something to involve themselves in the community such as getting out of the house and meeting other people. [More…]

• It may well be that we can find a good use for the facilities that already exists in the community or that are being developed for use at a limited time of the day. [More…]

• I am sure everybody in this community would like a guarantee that nothing can happen to them, at least for the next 3 years. [More…]

• I do not think the community at large necessarily accepts that proposition. [More…]

• There is a danger that the most vocal groups in the community the groups in the community best able to express their point of view, are able to get away with what I call a rip off in education. [More…]

• Only one group in the community is entitled to it. [More…]

• That is bad: I am probably in a minority comprising only a few members of my own Party in expressing that point of view, but it is an issue which ought to be discussed in the community and in this Parliament when we are prepared to sit down and slash other expenditure which may well be much more justified than the expenditure on tertiary education. [More…]

• When one sits down and tries to do a cost benefit analysis of what a university degree means to the community and what it means to the person, it becomes a very difficult exercise. [More…]

• Those who have tried to give us some idea of what the benefits are as against the cost to the community have found it a difficult struggle. [More…]

• Those studies indicate the cost to the community of producing a graduate in each of the faculties. [More…]

• These are the costs that the community bears in order to produce graduates, without really knowing whether they are to be used effectively and without really having achieved adequate methods for manpower forecasting. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite are trying to stop 2JJ because their commercial backers are distraught at the fact that it has been able to attract to itself 6.7 per cent of the listeners in Sydney, according to the latest survey, when its programs are directed only at one section of the listening community. [More…]

• Last but not least I point out that ethnic community radio is at risk because the Government intends to hand it over to private enterprise. [More…]

• I think they must realise that when they have, through their performance and their policies, earned the respect of the community they will be favourably reported by the media, but not until then. [More…]

• Therefore it is incumbent upon the company not only to look to its Australian operations but also to look to its obligations to the Australian community, where the company has been operating for a very large number of years. [More…]

• Accordingly, in speaking on the problems of devising ways of giving future assistance to the rural sector, I suggested that it was necessary to find an adequate way to give public recognition of the social impact of change in economic opportunity for members of the rural community as well as economic factors on their own. [More…]

• The Government supports increased autonomy in decision-making for all schools and greater involvement of the community associated with individual schools. [More…]

• The Government accepts that there will be a need for opportunities for many people to increase their knowledge and experience if there is to be genuine community participation and increased autonomy for schools, and hopes that funds will be used accordingly. [More…]

• The report states: … the Commission considers that the question of government assistance for the consumption of phosphatic fertilisers should be examined with respect to the effects on the efficiency of resource use, adjustment to change, and income transfers within the community. [More…]

• Let us consider the culture that has grown up in Australia and that primarily has been responsible for the Australian rural community being able to meet the enormous freight disadvantages and the enormous cost disadvantages in terms of input, with a fairly highly protected manufacturing sector in this country, and still compete over the years on the export market. [More…]

• Does it wish to see the cost price squeeze that is so apparent in the rural community today and, say, reconstruction measures result in land holdings in Australia being owned by big farmers? [More…]

• I look forward in years to come not only to measures similar to these Bills but to other measures dealing with reconstruction that can aid efficient production in the Australian rural community. [More…]

• For the community at large it is a time for austerity, for belt tightening, for hardship, for blood, sweat and tears. [More…]

• For the duration of what is one of the most significant debates for a large section of the Australian community one member of the Australian Labor Party has been in the chamber, that member being, at the time the debate started, the Opposition spokesman on agricultural matters. [More…]

• I ask the Australian community to put this matter into some sort of perspective. [More…]

• One of the major criticisms levelled at this legislation is that it will benefit the wealthy grazier and, to use the Leader of the Opposition s words, the Pitt and Collins Street farmers who make up the majority of the farming community. [More…]

• There is a divisiveness in our community today that is encouraged by the attitude of the Opposition, which breeds distrust between country and city communities. [More…]

• I have talked of poverty, amongst farmers and in the rural community. [More…]

• So it is in the national interest- not just in the interests of city or country people, but in the interests of the whole community- that this sector be sustained, but that it be sustained on a viable basis and that people in these industries are able to enjoy a reasonable standard of living. [More…]

• I have been waiting to hear a logical, rational or economic argument as to why the Australian community should subsidise superphosphate. [More…]

• Farming is a way of life and farmers should be able to expect reasonable standards of income in line with the rest of the community. [More…]

• I believe, however, that adaptation to change is a much more difficult problem for the rural sector than for other sectors of the community. [More…]

• I am delighted to see the increased attention that these areas are getting, both in this House and in other informed sectors of the community. [More…]

• There is, in my view, little virtue- indeed, there is a real cost to the whole community- in being a major producer of goods for which there is an insufficient market at reasonable prices over the longer term. [More…]

• If industry is to have the confidence necessary to expand, and thereby to provide more job opportunities, then industry must be able to see its future and know that it has community support in the role it plays. [More…]

• The main thrust of their opposition to the second Bill- the Phosphate Fertilizers Bounty Amendment Billhas been that much of this bounty will go to the well-off in our community. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that after the last 3 years of Labor administration there are not other sections of the community in difficulties. [More…]

• The rest of the community should recognise that the tariff structure is putting a burden upon the export industries. [More…]

• There should be an understanding of why rural industry should be assisted and assistance should be given willingly by the rest of the community. [More…]

• Ever since the member countries of the European Economic Community put their heads together and produced mountains of butter one year and mountains of casein the next year and mountains of beef the following year, our trade has been disrupted. [More…]

• Superphosphate greatly increases the productive area of land in Australia and that puts money into all pockets throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• So we are considering a most important sector of the community. [More…]

• For the first time in a long time the people who lived in the country areas of Australia genuinely felt, and they had good reason for genuinely feeling, that they were being neglected, that they were the poor relations of the Australian community. [More…]

• Yet do we hear any complaints from sections of the community who now complain because the Government has implemented recommendations of the IAC relating to rural industry. [More…]

• I therefore ask: Has the Government given consideration to the introduction of a scheme, such as the RED scheme, which would provide employment for unemployed people on projects of worthwhile value and enable them to do something useful for the community, instead of continuing the wasteful exercise of maintaining them on unemployment relief? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Government policies which influence mortality are posited primarily on the desire to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the community and their effect on population growth is incidental. [More…]

• It must be doubtful whether there would be acceptable and feasible means whereby an Australian Government could seek to increase fertility even if it were the community view that our natural population growth rate was too low. [More…]

• This is a tribute to our massive development potential, the good sense of Australian-born people and migrants in avoiding community tensions and the industry of our migrants. [More…]

• If the community sees some cause for concern in an ageing population, it may even be desirable to direct immigration in such a way as deliberately to have a ‘younging’ effect on the populationfor example by lowering the general age eligibility limits or by giving preference to younger applicants. [More…]

• They affect our whole community. [More…]

• In a liberal democracy the views of all levels of Government and of the community should be sought and taken into account in taking such decisions. [More…]

• The constraints on our potential for population growth are not so much those of our natural resources as of the need to ensure a continuing improvement in living and working standards, the avoidance of short-term pressures on our infra-structures, the preservation of the environment, the avoidance of pockets of disadvantaged persons and groups, the need to ensure the retention of a cohesive Australian community with scope for cultural, ethnic and individual diversity and the availability of the sorts of migrants the Australian community requires and wants. [More…]

• Even making full allowance for these constraints, it is the wishes of the community, rather than the potential to absorb population growth, that set the limits on our population objectives. [More…]

• Part and parcel of the hysteria about dole cheats has been not only the development of community antagonism towards the unemployed but also the development of hostility towards the Labor Government. [More…]

• It is trying to capitilise on a feeling in the community which almost borders on the hysterical about people, especially young people, who draw unemployment benefits. [More…]

• Intolerance is being directed by the rest of the community towards the increasing numbers of people forced into unemployment through no fault of their own. [More…]

• The out of work are not out of work because of an epidemic of laziness which has suddenly sprouted forth in the community, but regrettably because of the worst unemployment in this country since the great Depression. [More…]

• The Minister’s statement and the general behaviour of Government spokesmen and the support they receive from substantial sections of the media are thoroughly reprehensible in the way in which a very emotional response is sought from the community for crude, shallow political gain. [More…]

• More significantly, while he is considering that he might like to explore the difficulties of removing these people from the unemployed numbers in the community and providing them with work opportunities because on the basis of figures from his own Department it is quite evident that there were more than six unmarried people seeking a job for every vacancy which was unfilled during February. [More…]

• Clearly that ought to be evidence to any thinking observer that these are the people who are the hard core unemployed in the community, and that is evidence of the deep-seated nature of the unemployment which exists in the community at the present time. [More…]

• While that rests in the unfortunate recent history of this nation, it is still the fundamental responsibility of this Government and of this Parliament to make sure not only that these problems of unemployment are solved but also that in solving them we apply adequate work tests and programs to ensure that those people who need employment will be given every assistance to gain it and those who wish to bludge on the community- to use the words of the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden)- will not be assisted to do so. [More…]

• What has been totally ignored by the Opposition in this debate is the precise role of the Government in terms of supporting the unemployed members of the community. [More…]

• It would have been better tided ‘A Liberal-Country Party manifesto on how to divide a community’. [More…]

• If the Government were sincere it would initiate a debate in this chamber as to why in fact there is unemployment in the Australian community rather than go through this exercise. [More…]

• Still there is surplus money in the community. [More…]

• If that sort of situation continues, more commodities will be provided in the community but fewer people will be required to provide them. [More…]

• It will continue to do the things that are easiest to do; it will continue to beat those who are defenceless rather than to come to grips with the problem, understand the cause of it and take action which is in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• They should not be made the scapegoats for the rest of the community. [More…]

• I think that is an unfair imposition on a section of the community in order to overcome what I acknowledge is a problem, but a problem which could be overcome by different means. [More…]

• However, the Government is concerned to take steps to tighten eligibility for unemployment benefits which are politically acceptable and easy to sell to people in the community who, as I have said, believe that the other bloke is a cheat, not themselves. [More…]

• There is nobody in the community who will support a Party that supports the dole bludger or the man who will not work. [More…]

• Existing policy measures for passenger motor vehicles and components are designed essentially to develop an economic and efficient industry with high Australian content operating under levels of protection which are acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• They saw it as a plot on the part of the Government to try to bring about differences in the community, to try to bring about differences in the community, to try to create divisions and to indicate that there were people in the community who were not entitled to this benefit, that the Government was calling them names, and so on. [More…]

• It is an industry which can and will develop into a highly proficient section of our community, employing the female workforce throughout the world as it does, in a way in which no other industry can employ them. [More…]

• The migrant community has grown to love and respect him greatly. [More…]

• It is with much humility and pride that I will attempt to emulate his service to the community. [More…]

• Like the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), I have some fears of the power of the accountants and economists in the Treasury; but the people of my electorate and those millions of Australians who share my pride in the national capital may rest assured that I will keep a close watch on the ‘Wheeler* dealers and leave no ‘Stone’ unturned in ensuring that the National Capital Development Commission has the right ‘Powell’ to see that this city is ‘Engledowed’ with proper community facilities and that there are no ‘Blunnders’ in our management. [More…]

• Because there is usually one section of the rural community that is doing fairly well while others are not, perhaps I can exclude some of the wheat areas and the wheat towns. [More…]

• One of the reasons that they are so real, if I can harken back to it once again, is this matter of the Hayden Budget and what it now transpires is happening to the Australian community. [More…]

• If cities are going to be fed in the future, governments have got to act on the fact that the average age of the farming community today is 55, although somebody from New South Wales told me the other day that it is now fifty-seven. [More…]

• But the one thing I want to make clear is that we will not in any circumstance be influenced by the pressures of various pressure groups in the community. [More…]

• It has not been policy under the Community Health Program to issue such highly detailed instructions on activities to be undertaken within funded projects. [More…]

• Having said that, I must say that I understand that news of these changes has led to a number of protests within Poland and that these concerns evidently have been expressed with a great deal of vehemence by members of the Polish community in Australia also. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman should also understand that in the poverty inquiry Professor Henderson has had some very caustic things to say about the harm done to a significant number of poor people in the Australian community as a result of the inflationary policies of the Leader of the Opposition, as he now is, and of those few remaining who sit behind him. [More…]

• That the following words be added to the motion: ‘and this House commends the Government for its initiative in taking steps to ensure that the unemployment benefit relates to the genuine needs of the community and is not used as a vehicle for wilful job avoidance and the misuse of taxpayers money ‘. [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…]

• He will not have to do so because they are one segment of the community that no one bothers to count. [More…]

• That that type of person exists only in a minority in the community is accepted. [More…]

• But what I am certain about is that the great majority of Australians will agree with me when I say that those people should get no assistance from the community; they should get no share of the taxpayers’ money. [More…]

• If we can offer employment at current award rates and if the work needs to be done and is for the benefit of the total community why can we not offer this work to our unemployed? [More…]

• I believe that if you are working honestly, if you are required to do a job which provides a benefit for the community as a whole, and if you do it to the best of your ability, you have every reason to feel proud of your contribution and should do so. [More…]

• As a community we still firmly support and encourage what is called the work ethic, despite some of the attacks mounted upon it by certain sections of our intelligentsia, sections probably more accurately described as our psuedo intelligentsia. [More…]

• Experience has demonstrated that the present scheme has some features which meant that deserving sections of the community did not benefit in the way that other sections of the community benefited. [More…]

• That legislation would, if in isolation from the general improvement benefits, result in disadvantages being imposed on a number of social security beneficiaries in the community. [More…]

• We find this unacceptable and indeed incomprehensible coming from this Government or indeed any government claiming to have a mandate from the community, claiming to have a moral commitment for those more dependent than most upon actions of government for their welfare. [More…]

• Presumably there are some sections of the community excluded from the effects of this philosophy- social pariahs, a term I find objectionable and unacceptable, but that is the implication of his statement taken in the context of what he has been doing. [More…]

• Clearly pensioners in the community are being excluded from benefits flowing from any actions which he might be taking. [More…]

• Between them, those groups in the community- that is the poor, the sick and the needy- will make the sacrifice of $280m for the common good so that sturdy landholders like the Prime Minister can stand on their own feet better, with Government assistance because they are not used to sacrifice. [More…]

• That is the record for which these people stand, as is clear from their behaviour, with their bashing of people drawing unemployment benefits, their exaggerated statements, their provocation to the point of hysteria of so many people in the community through their distortion about the qualities of those who through no fault of their own are unemployed and drawing unemployment benefits. [More…]

• That is a record of benefits jammed at levels that languished harshly in the past and were allowed to languish in that way because of a lack of understanding within the ranks of the LiberalNational Country Party Government about the needs of a very substantial proportion of the Australian community, a proportion of people who very largely are dependent and who have to be dependent on the decisions of government for the standard of living they can expect, whether there will be dignity or whether there will be degradation. [More…]

• On any relative comparison, Labor improved the position of people who are dependent on pensions far ahead of any other cost index and far ahead of any wage movements in the community. [More…]

• We discharged our obligations with honour to the pensioners in the community. [More…]

• We introduced new initiatives because we were outraged at the neglect of important groups in the community such as double orphans. [More…]

• I am proud to put my name with those of my colleagues in the Labor Party to that piece of legislation because it does show some humanity and some concern for a group of people who were probably the most exploited and repressed in our community. [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…]

• We made arrangements for artificial limbs to be provided free of charge to all persons in the community who needed them, whether they were ex-service personnel or civilians. [More…]

• Their benefits for people in the community are clear. [More…]

• In the short term in which we were a government, a 3-year period punctuated by two elections and considerable disruption to the normal flow of government by a hostile Senate which was always prepared to abuse its position rather than to acknowledge its responsibility to the community, we achieved more than any other government had achieved in the history of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• We did that because we had what we regarded as a beholden commitment to people in the community who had been neglected for too long in the past by a rather coolly indifferent succession of Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]

• We will be demanding from the Government some justification for this quite inhumane treatment of a very dependent group in the Australian community. [More…]

• Unfortunately as the length of time from the end of a war becomes greater, people are apt to forget that there are some members of the community who will remain handicapped because they received thendisability during service and that this condition could remain until death claims them. [More…]

• People are poverty stricken when their income, even if adequate for survival, falls markedly behind that of the community. [More…]

• In other words, if inflation is to become negligible, and we all hope that that will be the case, and if community living standards increase, as we also hope will be the case, an adjustment of pensions to account only for inflation would merely sustain an absolute standard of living rather than provide an assurance that a standard relative to the community at large was maintained. [More…]

• There are many factors which make the index of average weekly earnings an imperfect measure of community living standards. [More…]

• Nevertheless, over a longer period of time the average weekly earnings series provides a reasonable indicator of the level of earnings in the community and, as such, is a more suitable indicator than the CPI, which makes no allowance for rising productivity and changes in real living standards. [More…]

• These Bills represent this Government’s very genuine concern for the hardships imposed on the disadvantaged sections of the community which have been affected very seriously by the economic difficulties experienced over the past few years. [More…]

• I think that they have been more harmful to pensioners than to anybody else in the community. [More…]

• I believe that when these provisions were introduced they were probably relevant to the situation at that time in the sense that self employed people- farming people, people with assets- were above average perhaps in relation to the wealth of the community. [More…]

• Although that shift has been gradual over a period of years particularly in relation to certain sections of the self-employed and farming communities, it has been dramatic in the last 3 years in relation to the wage and salary sector of our community. [More…]

• Even if the Government believes that there are financial stringencies, it ought to consider the principles in the summary of the Toose report where it is suggested that repatriation hospitals be integrated with community health facilities and that to keep them viable they should be there for the benefit of the community as well. [More…]

• To integrate repatriation hospitals into community health services would be a darn sight cheaper than putting up with the problems that exist in those general hospitals. [More…]

• They have played their part in the production of this community. [More…]

• As pointed out by the Henderson committee, the people who suffer most as a consequence of inflation are often the poorest in the community. [More…]

• At the present time, some pensioners who suffer a loss of pension because of the operation of the means test and who pay a tax which was imposed by honourable gentlemen opposite, pay a rate of tax that is higher than the rate of tax paid by those in the community on the highest incomes. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Sturt has said, this is a great emotional issue for many people in the community, particularly for people living in areas such as the industrial area that I represent and in which basically a big proportion of the working people are living on around about or below average weekly earnings and a fairly large percentage are pensioners of various sorts. [More…]

• But I suppose what shook the community more than anything else was the statement that by removing the funeral benefit we will save X million dollars. [More…]

• I suppose that what we should be looking at in a community such as this- and I take issue with the honourable member on the use of the words ‘automatic’ and ‘regular’- is the standard of living of a person receiving benefits, be they pensions due to age or invalidity or unemployment benefits. [More…]

• I will admit, with the honourable member for Sturt and with many other people in the community, that it is time we analysed the whole system and came around to what one would call a reasonable standard of living. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Stun pointed out, there are many families in the community that are receiving 2 incomes and the person relying on benefits is likely to be receiving 1 income. [More…]

• I look for a community in which the distance between the lowest salary levels and the highest salary levels is less than it is at the moment. [More…]

• Problems in Parramatta cannot be seen in isolation from problems that face the Australian community in general. [More…]

• As a result of the policies which the Australian people asked this Government to implement we are going to see a transfer of resources from the public sector of the community to the private sector. [More…]

• This project, in the form in which it was proposed and with the community facilities that were offered and associated with it, ought to go ahead as a whole when the funds are available and when the need is there and I cannot ask for anything more, nor would the people of Parramatta ask for anything more. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that under the direction of the former Federal Labor Government 70 per cent of welfare houses built by the States and funded by the Commonwealth were available on only a rental basis? [More…]

• In view of the growing community concern about the future of Medibank, aggravated by persistent rumours of gross abuse and thus rapidly increasing wasteful expenditure, can the Minister indicate whether statistics are available from Medibank to ascertain whether there has been a sharp increase in medical services rendered? [More…]

• Restrictions on business activity that should concern the community are those imposed by monopoly business organisations or corporations acting unfairly in the market place. [More…]

• There is, unfortunately, in the community a glib and vociferous minority which aims at destroying the fundamental family unit and replacing it not with anything demonstrably stronger but with alternatives that raise serious doubts about their long-term and short-term consequences. [More…]

• I want to emphasise that I do not deny women the right to choose their lifestyle in the community provided that their choice does not impinge on the rights of others. [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…]

• One aspect of taxation is often overlooked, I believe, when considering the stability of the family as the basic unit of a community. [More…]

• This is the inevitable financial cost to the community of what is sometimes called the permissive or libertarian society. [More…]

• He talked of the cost to the community of clinics and hospitals and social help for venereal diseases and abortion clinics as a result of a demand by libertarians for their permissive lifestyle. [More…]

• Granted, these people pay taxes but if their demands are met to the full the rest of the community, including the family where the mother remains at home, must cany part of the cost. [More…]

• Liberals acknowledge the vital contribution of the family in the development of the individual and, if the family is having difficulty fulfilling that task, the community must come to its aid. [More…]

• In this context the Government is the community and I urge the Government to do all it can to encourage women back into the home so the family is not deprived of its heart. [More…]

• The Minister should get on to Telecom and ensure that its great profit is used to provide more telephone connections and better services at cheaper rates to business people and to the Australian community generally. [More…]

• As an outgrowth of that we have the spectacle of the rural farming community, which accepts and in fact expects federal aid for its beef operations or grazing requirements but bitterly opposes all social programs that do not concern it. [More…]

• I do not disparage him personally, however, I point out that the Opposition’s attitude is seen in terms of opposition on behalf of unions, not in terms of the community or of this being a Treasury measure. [More…]

• There has been considerable controversy in Parliament and hot debate in the community about the benefits and costs. [More…]

• It contains many desirable features for Government employees and I believe it strikes a just balance between the demands of Public Service unions and individual Government employees on the one hand, and the cost to the taxpayer and the community on the other hand. [More…]

• This is a very generous provision which allows pensioners from Government employment to be largely insulated against the ravages of inflation which of course affect everyone else in the community, including all of those who are unable to be members of such a scheme as this. [More…]

• I think many of those in the Government service who have felt that opposition to an even more generous scheme was unfair, have not really understood, firstly, how generous it is and, secondly, the position of other people in the community outside Government service against which some sort of comparison or weighing up must be carried out by a responsible government. [More…]

• If it were not for the tax savings that are made by the person who pays a life assurance premium this area would not be a very effective way of mobilising savings in the community. [More…]

• Unless that is done there will be a maldistribution of resources and the criticism may well be made that the community as a whole cannot afford it. [More…]

• I am prepared to say categorically that a community can pay to people in retirement something that has some relationship to what they earned in the last years of their economic activity. [More…]

• I believe that it is a mark of an enlightened community that it will pay to people in retirement sufficient to enable them to live at the standard to which they believe they are entitled and towards which they contributed during their active years in the community. [More…]

• Parliament has an obligation to try to do justice to all sections of the community, to see that the national cake is distributed properly. [More…]

• Government is a very difficult business and to carry it out requires the services of the most talented, the most highly qualified, the most professional people that we have in the community. [More…]

• By and large that scheme was one which put public servants as a group into a privileged position in our community. [More…]

• I do not think that it is possible to introduce a scheme in any area of government administration that does not provide some degree of disadvantage for some members of the community. [More…]

• Going back in time, it is true to say that for a long while the members of the Public Service were the poor relation of other sections of industry and of other sections of the community in that their levels of salary and things of that nature were not necessarily commensurate with those applying outside the Public Service. [More…]

• What I do say is that the Public Service, for its part, must perform; it must be prepared to play its part; it must make its contribution to government and to the community. [More…]

• It cannot be pointed to as an area of deprivation in our community. [More…]

• The Government’s basic objectives are to encourage foreign investment in Australia because of the considerable contribution it can make to Australian development and prosperity but, at the same time, to see that such investment is on a basis of fair sharing of net benefits as between the foreign investor and the needs and aspirations of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Australian community quite properly demands that governments today take a more discriminating and mature attitude towards foreign investment. [More…]

• Added resources, access to technology, and increased managerial skills and other economic benefits need to be placed within the context of the community’s total requirements. [More…]

• They knew that the pacesetter role in which they were cast by the Whitlam Government, although superficially attractive, was full of dangers and long term costs for not only them but also for the whole community. [More…]

• There is also no doubt that the increasing demands put on government by all sections of the community will require an increasingly high quality Public Service in the years ahead. [More…]

• Nevertheless, they play a vital role in the community by the service they provide in day to day contact with the general public, which has a right to demand efficient and courteous service from the Public Service. [More…]

• Such cross-fertilisation is in my opinion essential if there is to be the improvement in communications and understanding between all sectors of the community which I believe is essential if we are to realise our full potential as a nation not only in economic terms but as well in social and personal development terms. [More…]

• I do not subscribe to the view that public servants continually ought to be chastised and criticised by the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is interesting to note, because these comparisons are being drawn a very large section of the Australian community, the working people of the Australian community, are not members of any superannuation fund at all and, as I have already stated, to try to compare the public servant with those people is to make a wrong comparison. [More…]

• It is only in recent years that the community caught up with them. [More…]

• I do not know the sort of women that the honourable member associates with and I am not reflecting on anybody who is related to him but from the way he described people to the House one would think that we had a community of ‘Bluebeards’ in which women went around accumulating husbands who were eligible for a Government pension and then disposed of them. [More…]

• It is incredible that in a Budget where more than $23,000m is to be spent the Government should decide on the one hand that it is prepared to add to expenditure a sum of $30m for the superphosphate bounty- a subsidy arrangement which will benefit, among other people, that strapping landholder the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- and on the other hand, as part of the sacrifice to be imposed on those members of the community who too often have to make sacrifices, pensioners will be denied the funeral benefit of $40 which is a small enough sum to provide some financial relief at a time of extreme personal distress. [More…]

• I felt personally distressed tonight to hear the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) stand in this House as an apologist for this rotten filch from the pensioners of the Australian community. [More…]

• He defends this rotten action of the Government in denying some of the most needy people in the community. [More…]

• At least the honourable member for Parramatta can claim the redemption of being ashamed of his action tonight in voting in support of what is clearly a rotten, unprincipled deprivation of pensioners in the Australian community. [More…]

• He is the man who did so little, relatively, in the time he was Minister for Social Services, for pensioners and other people in the community. [More…]

• By the time the Budget was passed the Government which had no money for pensioners, was able to find $120m for devaluation compensation for another section of the community. [More…]

• It was part of a political deal to try to get atmospherics in the community- these men mean business. [More…]

• But also in many of these matters- and I work in a community to which these things are important- there is a psychological question that has been raised by the persons opposite. [More…]

• We on this side of the House accept, firstly, that the indexation principle that is applied in these Bills is a useful one, but as usual the Government has failed to carry out its duty in both areas in accordance with its own expressed policies in the past and the needs of the community at the moment. [More…]

• Surely honourable members opposite recognise the feelings of the people in the community about this matter, particularly those people who have to be the beneficiaries of such government payouts. [More…]

• Although over the last 3 years the general citizenry in Australia, particularly that section of it which is likely to need this kind of benefit, has been better off financially than it was before, the facts are that this matter is a worry to a great number of people in the community. [More…]

• It may well be that the steps that we took to make sure that the people who produced the goods in the community received just reward for their work contributed to the inflationary spiral. [More…]

• It is also true that the people in the community who make profits strive as hard as they can to increase their prices and their profits regardless of whether people will be affected by inflation or not. [More…]

• But what is the situation in the rest of the community? [More…]

• They are some attempt by the community to repay for loss, suffering, incapacity and inconvenience. [More…]

• We, during the course of our operations as a government, were attempting to expand the repatriation system and to bring the community into its benefits, particularly in the hospital area. [More…]

• Tonight I am suggesting that the House give serious thought to taking the lessons out of the repatriation system, taking some of the standards we have adopted in the repatriation system and applying them as rapidly as possible to the rest of the community through the social security system. [More…]

• As the community becomes more prosperous and its standards of living rise, as I think they will, and as under this Government they will rise, I believe that pensioners should at Budget time share also in that rise in standards. [More…]

• When the whole situation of the community uplifts I believe that the position of the pensioners in real terms should uplift with it also. [More…]

• This taxation, which should fall on pensioners and non-pensioners alike- on all members of the community- is a reasonable way of applying a means test. [More…]

• I hope that as part of our scheme for decentralising and making use of the very real charitable feelings which exist in the community we can once again revive this aged persons homes scheme and drive it forward as it should be driven forward, because it is the pensioner who does not have proper accommodation at a reasonable rate who is the pensioner in difficulty. [More…]

• .Dr Jenkins- What about the community involvement? [More…]

• -Repatriation hospitals do admit a range of community patients. [More…]

• It was virtually impossible for those in the Lebanese community who may have sought to reach the immigration officer to do so. [More…]

• It must be evident to all members of the Parliament and, indeed, to the Lebanese community within Australia that, if a refugee situation should arise, it could well be of a magnitude beyond the capacity of Australia or of any one country to handle alone. [More…]

• I do not challenge the Minister’s feelings but if his feelings are so deep for the individuals concerned I point out that his statement and his answer to a question the other day do nothing to relieve the apprehensions of members of our Lebanese community. [More…]

• It means that a large ethnic community in this country must wait until this Government finds some magical formula before it is able to assist friends, relatives and countrymen in an extraordinary and extremely tragic situation. [More…]

• The Menai post office serves a little community 20 miles from Sydney. [More…]

• A very assiduous service is required by the community and a competent sort of a person is required to run the service. [More…]

• Although he did not attend the meeting, has he seen the communique issued by the Ministers after their discussions in which they called for a strengthening of income maintenance schemes to assist the unemployed and declared that a substantial recovery of employment levels will depend not only on a recovery in demand but also on selective employment policies such as job creation programs, community employment projects, increased expenditure on public works and strengthening of manpower training schemes? [More…]

• Those alternatives are not now available and it is for those reasons that it is so necessary that State and Federal governments join together to try to ensure that those members of the Australian community will not continue to be seriously disadvantaged as against all their fellows. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has suffered a budget cut of $31m. [More…]

• At the same time, the Government is determined to avoid a return to the earlier boom conditions in the home building industry which were neither beneficial to the community nor to the industry. [More…]

• In our policy great emphasis has been put on the need to rationalise the delivery of social service programs and I accept that this program at the moment is being part of an analysis of rationalisation and ultimately there will be a program which, in accordance with the recommendations coming from the Henderson inquiry into poverty, will be available to reach those people who are in need in our community. [More…]

• I am not prepared to accept the emotional arguments of those people opposite who have been quite determined to cash in on this matter, to cash in on the lack of understanding of these issues on the part of people in our community who may be more elderly and not able to comprehend immediately the analysis of this situation in the form that I have argued it today. [More…]

• Those who sit opposite are saying that here is something that is being taken away from the pensioners and they are building that up as an emotional argument, yet in the same breath they are prepared to ignore the plight of the superannuitants, prepared to ignore the plight of the poor in our community and those who are on small incomes, prepared to ignore the plight of people in rural communities, for instance, those who are relying on farm incomes that have been depleted, and so on. [More…]

• The fear of the threat of a pauper’s grave still hangs over many people of an older generation than anybody in this place and of whom there are countless thousands in the community. [More…]

• They now have salaries at levels which are very competitive with those paid elsewhere in the community. [More…]

• We must take into account the effects of our scheme on the community in general. [More…]

• I do not think that there are many members of the community who have quite the amount of energy and initiative that the honourable member for Griffith has perhaps suggested. [More…]

• In addition to these factors, whilst the motor car has had the general acceptance and endorsement of the community over the past 25 years, it would be a very game man indeed who would predict that future generations would adopt the same attitude. [More…]

• If they keep on making apricot pies when the community shows a clear desire to eat meat pies, clearly they will put themselves out of business. [More…]

• Having outlined the facts as such as they are known to me, I say by way of conclusion that they are in complete contradiction of what has been uttered by the honourable member for Hunter in his attempt to character assassinate 3 good, decent, upright citizens of the community. [More…]

• I should make 2 other comments: The Government will not proceed without full and formal discussion with the States, nor will any legislation that the Government proposes in this area be proceeded with without adequate consultation with those in the commercial community who might be obliged to comply with it. [More…]

• Does he feel that the decision to ban cigarette advertising will lead to pressure on the Government by interest groups in the community to ban the advertising of other products? [More…]

• Do not these leaders exercise immense political power over the community? [More…]

• Yes, I agree that union leaders do exercise considerable power in the community. [More…]

• that the costs of the benefits were paid for by the whole of the community and not just left to those directly involved to bear. [More…]

• If the cost is never mentioned, and obviously there is a cost, the community can never bear that cost. [More…]

• That support is found not only in the Government’s ranks but also in the ranks of the Opposition and in a wide sector of the community. [More…]

• It redistributes from the poor to the more fortunate in the community. [More…]

• These grants will be financed from revenue to which the poorer groups in the community contribute. [More…]

• It appeared to the community that, instead of encouraging home ownership, the then Government was encouraging the nation to be a nation of home renters. [More…]

• No person in the community would be restricted on an age basis. [More…]

• Migrants who come to this country from overseas and who bring with them their life savings to invest in the new country in which they will be dwelling, raising their families and contributing so well to our community, will have those life savings considered as part of this program and gain additional finance to establish their home. [More…]

• This program will mean that young people, migrantsthe whole community- will receive great benefit from the program provided that they are buying their first home. [More…]

• This will mean that instead of being used for the largest grants to those most in need, limited Federal Government resources will be spread across the community regardless of need. [More…]

• -Last week the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) acting on behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) announced the intention of the Government to amend the home savings grant scheme. [More…]

• Another matter which is most important and about which we are moving amendments relates to what we would call ‘community involvement’. [More…]

• Antipathy towards and apathy about direct community participation- [More…]

• One of the organisations affected is the Melton Community Resource Centre. [More…]

• The community, with funding from the Australian Government since 1972, has set up this organisation known as the Melton Community Resource Centre. [More…]

• The function of the Centre is to fill needs in the community that did not exist prior to its establishment. [More…]

• It provides a focal point where social security officers can call and meet members of the community. [More…]

• The Community Resource Centre runs an out of school program, for which it received $17,750. [More…]

• These programs are of great popularity in this small community. [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…]

• The Community Resource Centre provides a drop-in place where they can obtain the sort of information that they want. [More…]

• It has information sheets which advise the people in the area of Melton as to the sort of community facilities which are available to them. [More…]

• There is a real community spirit involved. [More…]

• I simply make the point that I believe it is completely anomalous that the Australian Government should make funds available to an organisation such as this for community activities and, when it purchases equipment with the money made available, should charge it sales tax on the equipment that it buys. [More…]

• There is really no primary responsibility on the Commonwealth, apart from and distinct from that which is the responsibility of local government, State government, State government welfare agencies and the like, to do anything differently in respect of Aboriginals than it would do in respect of other members of the community who, by their anti-social misbehaviour, bring themselves into ill repute with their neighbours. [More…]

• There are many occasions when they upset their neighbours and the community within which they live. [More…]

• In relation to government expenditure, I believe that last December the Australian community voted strongly for a firm reduction in government spending. [More…]

• Although this Parliament has been sitting for 7 weeks no substantive legislation has been introduced and no attempt has been made to attack the problems existing in the community. [More…]

• In a nutshell, what it means is that there should be some recognition of a fully developed community having an involvement with its schools. [More…]

• Through its recommendations, the Commission is seeking to move a greater range of decisions to the school community, where teachers, parents and students may participate in making them. [More…]

• It is quite clear that what the Opposition is seeking here is that, again only after consultation, there be some recognition of what is needed for the stimulation of community involvement as part and parcel of an education program. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to the paragraphs in that report headed ‘Community Involvement’, where Professor Karmel makes it clear that it is worth while. [More…]

• The Committee is neither able nor willing to be prescriptive about the forms which school-community relations should take, but values experimentation. [More…]

• Educationally, and from the point of view of efficient use of resources, it would make good sense to have the school as the nucleus of a community centre. [More…]

• Joint planning, and even conduct, of schools by educational, health, welfare, cultural and sporting agencies could provide additional facilities for the school, allow the community access to its resources, and thus generally increase its fruitfulness. [More…]

• Let me say at the outset that that is not because the Government does not believe in community participation in school programs; in fact, far from it. [More…]

• I indicated quite clearly in my second reading speech, as recorded at page 1013 of Hansard, that there is a strong public commitment by the Government to community participation in school programs. [More…]

• In drafting the Bill the Government gave careful consideration to the question whether the Commonwealth should have the power to impose a legislative requirement that part of the general recurrent grants for government or non-government systemic schools should be made available to school community bodies. [More…]

• Although the amendment speaks of authorising the Minister to permit the allocation of a specific amount from a school’s allocation to be spent at the discretion of the School Board, because of the caveat presented by the Schools Commission, as I have already quoted, the Government considers that more thought needs to be given to the particular manner in which legislative approval of the process of community participation should be given effect. [More…]

• For these reasons the Government had the Bill drafted so that it would be quite open to a State or a nongovernment school system to use its own discretion in allowing funds to be allocated direct to school community bodies, but it would not be incumbent upon either to do so. [More…]

• As I pointed out, because the amendment is worded in such a way as to make it permissive rather than directive that certain funds be spent at the discretion of the school board, it would not add in any way to the capacity for community involvement that is already provided for in the Bill. [More…]

• As a concrete indication of our interest in community involvement the Bill provides in clause 39, as I point out to the honourable member opposite who moved the amendment, under the definition of ‘approved development and service activities’, for the participation of parents and other members of the community in developmental programs. [More…]

• As I have indicated, the Karmel Committee clearly highlighted the fact that in a large section of the Australian community the needs of the child are very great indeed. [More…]

• A further amendment we propose to moveand it is in accordance with Liberal Party policy, or any party’s policy and indeed the recommendations of the Schools Commission- is that there should be some community involvement with a school. [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…]

• The Schools Commission did say there ought to be some reasonable amount apportioned where the teacher would have some encouragement to initiate programs and the community could be involved in them. [More…]

• I do not think any Australian would deny that this is an effective method of getting a community to be involved with its school. [More…]

• Speaking briefly about the child care program which concerns the pre-school area, there is no hope of running an effective program unless there is community involvement, particularly on the part of the parents. [More…]

• I will be surprised if the Government rejects it because in the concept of what we are talking about here we cannot run any worthwhile program without the support of the people and the community particularly who are urged to be involved in their schools. [More…]

• Appointees should represent a wide selection of the community, but in no way should they be regarded as representatives, let alone delegates, of sections of the community. [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…]

• I think that is one of the distinctions which the Australian community will gather between this Government and the Government which preceded us. [More…]

• I do not believe that the level of their responsibility, or their standing in the community for that matter, demands such a salary- a salary which, I might add, the Academic Salaries Tribunal saw fit not to grant. [More…]

• I agree with the provisions dealing with and the ideas behind community involvement, parental participation and a much closer identification with local issues and needs of schools. [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…]

• Prior to 1972 the teaching staff at community schools in the Northern Territory was supplied by and administered by the South Australian Department of Education. [More…]

• I am quite sure the honourable member agrees with me when I say that that observation applies no less to Aboriginal members of the Australian community than it does to other members. [More…]

• Different types of roads serve different needs in the community. [More…]

• If this Government had inherited an economy as sound as that inherited by the Labor Government we would be promoting policies of this Government to the advantage of the Australian community that would ensure the progress of Australia so much faster and better than at present. [More…]

• Every section of the Australian community benefits from the development of a good road system. [More…]

• We are fortunate in having a Minister of the calibre of the present Minister- that has already been mentioned- in charge of this very important facet of Australian community life. [More…]

• Local government, provider of some of the most basic services to the community, should not have to depend for its finance on the vagaries of Federal-State politics, the waxing and waning of Federal-State relations, for it effectively to meet the expectations of the people who depend on it. [More…]

• This is one area of activity where the whole of the community benefits substantially from the assistance provided. [More…]

• I hope also that this Bill which we are discussing tonight will be an indication to that body that the Government is sympathetic to the needs of local authorities and understands the essential needs of the community at large with respect to road development. [More…]

• It is all very well to sound off and make noises about centralism but there is a resonsibility to the community to co-ordinate the various modes of transport, to co-ordinate the various amounts and directions of public investment so that there is an efficient use of public funds and so that there is a conservation of public funds. [More…]

• It does not deal seriously with the question of a population policy; nor does it go to the point of providing answers to our now outmoded attitude towards population policy in general, migration in particular and community relations in the true sense of the term. [More…]

• I trust that the ensuing debate at least will lead to consideration of vital questions of policy in the future and will lead, to some degree, to solutions to the problems which we will have to face in the short term and the long term in relation to population policy, immigration and community affairs. [More…]

• The association of countries in the European Economic Community is such that technicians and people trained at that level need not travel the long distance to Australia. [More…]

• In so far as community tensions are concerned, the Minister contends that it is universally agreed that the immigration program has been of enormous benefit to Australia. [More…]

• He said that this is a tribute to our massive development potential and the good sense of Australian-born people and migrants in avoiding community tensions. [More…]

• Time is slipping away from me, but I think I should say that it seems to me that at this point in time community tensions are emerging. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in another place has made a series of statements in answer to questions there, making it quite clear that the Government supports the establishment of an Australian Heritage Commission. [More…]

• It is true that many of them have been driven to almost desperate means in their search for some type of economic sustenance and that prices being paid in many areas of Australia to dairy farmers dependent upon the supply of manufactured milk to factories have been such that these farmers are receiving a lower income than almost any other person in the Australian community, including many who are on unemployment benefits. [More…]

• I think it is necessary for those in this House who so often criticise the farming community to recognise the plight in which many dairy farmers now find themselves. [More…]

• So we have confronting us in Australia today a very, very serious situation and it is at a time when the Cabinet has rejected a recommendation by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) that a rescue operation should be invoked to do something not just about the construction industry and the housing industry but about all the other industries that rely upon those primary industries. [More…]

• It is this Government which has to bear responsibility for the cut of $31m in the budget of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• But there the similarity ends because whereas the Labor Party’s policy was hostile and negative in its approach to foreign investors the whole psychology and philosophy of the present Government ‘s policy is positive and recognises the need for continuing foreign investment but on terms and conditions acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• Nothing less than a total sell-out will satisfy some multinational corporations and some sections of the Australian business community which see an opportunity for private profit in a sell-out of the national interest. [More…]

• What seems to have escaped the attention of many commentators in the community is the important achievement that there now appears to have been established a bipartisan policy on foreign investment. [More…]

• I think it would better serve the community and rational consideration of the important topic of foreign investment in this Parliament if it were acknowledged that there is so little difference between the 2 statements that at last we have reached a bipartisan approach to foreign investment. [More…]

• If we are not going to have economic growth there is a fundamental challenge before those people, namely, are they prepared to tolerate a situation in which there is still a very large proportion of our community who are nowhere near as well off as they are and who want to be and should be able to have a reasonable expectation of being as well off? [More…]

• But it is trying to live in the past, it is being unreal and it is not doing a service to the community to suggest that we can proceed with some sort of cottage industry approach, preserving every small producer who functions in the economy. [More…]

• They are a detailed and comprehensive response by the Treasurer to sentiments which seem to be widely held in the community. [More…]

• The price which the community may well have to pay for those sentiments, for the evaluation of the foreign investment proposals, may be a slower rate of national economic growth and therefore a slower rate of improvement in individual living standards, especially material standards. [More…]

• I think honourable members will also agree that the present system is undeniably clumsy; it is confusing, it is time-consuming and clearly it does not fit the needs of the community as they exist today. [More…]

• There are many community organisations in Canberra which require guidance on this Ordinance and it is not available. [More…]

• I think this Bill is welcomed in all sectors of our community which are concerned with these matters. [More…]

• Now the last cause for community foreboding is the decision to place the administration of the Act within the responsibility of the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard). [More…]

• The Minister has already shown himself to be an uncritical admirer of the business community. [More…]

• It should be obvious to every honourable member that the interests of the business community and the interests of consumers are fundamentally opposed- at least insofar as consumer protection matters are concerned. [More…]

• This Government has already shown its readiness to side with the wealthier and more powerful sections of the community against the weak, the disadvantaged and the needy. [More…]

• In the fight against inflation the co-operation of all sections of the community is essential. [More…]

• Any legislation, any amendments to the Trade Practices Act which unduly favour the business community and discriminate against consumers or small businesses, will create new divisions in society, damage consumer confidence and make economic recovery more difficult. [More…]

• The Australian people must ensure that the Trade Practices Act remains a true guardian of the interests of consumers and of genuine and healthy competition in the business community. [More…]

• Any government in a modern community would appreciate that fact and seek to implement effective trade practices legislation and other complementary legislation. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister will be looking at a number of the practical effects of the legislation concerning the regulatory bodies that he has responsibility for in his portfolio and ensure that in the coming review of the trade practices legislation and any other reviews he might be conducting of other regulatory bodies, he will seek to ensure that they are acting consistently and in the best interests of efficiency and the welfare of the community. [More…]

• 1 ) I am not aware of the proportion of non-smokers in the community, and I am unable to confirm this to be the same as for the air travelling public. [More…]

• Filled positions- 219 (comprising 91 positions providing social planning secretariats to Regional Councils and undertaking related administrative duties and 128 Community Development Officers. [More…]

• Community Development Officers are not administrative staff but serve the community in social development activities and stimulate self-help groups to be organised). [More…]

• Vacant positions- 7 (2 of which are Community Development Officers). [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s questions: [More…]

• The Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Treasury, Administrative Services, Environment, Housing and Community Development, and the Capital Territory. [More…]

• Indeed, I understand that at the moment the Labor Party is particularly sensitive to any attempts by those on this side of the House to establish in the minds of the Australian community the true relationship between the leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales and the leader of the Labor Party in the Federal Parliament. [More…]

• The one black spot is the European Economic Community, which, under its common agricultural policies, still has a complete or virtually a complete embargo. [More…]

• He will be aware that sections of the Australian community regard reports provided by his Department on the deaths of the five Australian newsmen in East Timor and the disappearance of Mr Roger East as incompetent and incomplete. [More…]

• There is a very real difference between measures that are designed to achieve stability in the value of the currency and measures designed to achieve a return to normal habits within the Australian community. [More…]

• Firstly, the Fraser Government persuaded Sir Eric Willis to have them now because of the horror Budget in August that the Fraser Government has been promising the nation, with its damaging effects on and tragic hardships for so many people in our community- indeed those who are most in need of help in our community. [More…]

• All it has done has been to remind this House again just how implacably opposed is the Federal Labor Party, and in particular its leader, to decent revenue sharing arrangements between the Commonwealth and the States; how irrevocably committed the Federal Labor Party still is to policies of centralism; how absolutely blind it is to the developments that have occurred in the Australian community over the past 10 years; how absolutely insensitive it is to the need of State and local governments to have the financial capacity to discharge their legal and constitutional responsibilities. [More…]

• It is also essential for the survival of our free enterprise system that the union movement recognises that abuse of power will no longer be accepted by the Australian community. [More…]

• It is important that people of responsibility in the business community and the private sector contribute to the general debate on the defence of the free enterprise system. [More…]

• The business community has a right to express clearly the point that some clear guidelines must be laid down so that they might be able to plan ahead and that they may see some future for themselves in regard to this particular aspect. [More…]

• They would like to return to the days when they were in power and trying to frighten business houses and the business community with the power that they were contemplating and that they were going to introduce into this commission. [More…]

• If that was not trying to force upon the community of Australia, a political monopoly, then I am afraid I am not sure what the word means, because the Labor Party was aiming at forcing a one party system on Australia. [More…]

• Commonwealth grants have been made to the Health Commission of New South Wales for the Wayside Chapel since the Community Health Program was introduced in 1973- 74. [More…]

• -The Minister for Health will be aware of the concern of the medical research community that this Government will continue the low priority the Labor Government gave to medical research when it reduced the already modest allocation in the last Budget. [More…]

• I am also very conscious of the deep concern among the medical research community about the level of funding for 1977-78. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of the concern of many members of the community at the Government’s deferral and reduction of overseas aid, amounting to $2 1.5m in the current financial year? [More…]

• I am aware of the concern in the community over the cuts in Government aid programs for this financial year. [More…]

• Be that as it may, one of the realities to be faced these days is the growing size of the community. [More…]

• They will say that these amendments merely put into operation the recommendations of the Industries Assistance Commission and the other bodies, and to some extent they are right, but all these amendments were made by the Whitlam Government after the reports had been tabled in this House, after the community could discuss them and after a deliberate political decision by Labor to pursue a particular course. [More…]

• In chapter 3 of its annual report the LAC puts forward the view that its recommendations are made for the good of the community at large. [More…]

• ’, so the question ‘What is for the good of the community?’ [More…]

• The justification for income maintenance to individuals and closure compensation to firms is largely based on equitythose who bear the costs of a change that benefits the community as a whole should be compensated. [More…]

• I think it is a very important aspect of the Jackson Committee report which looks at manufacturing industry and which has now come under a great deal of scrutiny from all government bodies, the Government itself and the rural community and its representatives, that there ought to be not only thinking in terms of whether a company is efficient or inefficient, whether it is profitable or unprofitable or whether it should continue to operate because it is perhaps in a country area, but also there ought to be a permanent government fixture or infrastructure that can deal with the effects of the operation of IAC reports. [More…]

• Structural adjustment is a very positive measure to see that all the people affected not just one area of the community- accept all the responsibility of change. [More…]

• It always talks in terms of what it considers is best for the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, we do aver that higher duties require greater justification due to the larger costs carried by the community and require more frequent review. [More…]

• But it must not be left to make that decision itself, as it purports to do now in its annual report, claiming that its decisions are for the good of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I should like to refer to the assertion made by a number of people of a net subsidy equivalent, which has been bandied around by some uninformed groups within the Australian community. [More…]

• So despite the massive surge of imports the prices skyrocketed and the community received no benefit at all. [More…]

• The policies that are followed within countries which are members of the European Economic Community have precluded us. [More…]

• In tariff matters, one cannot look at the interests of one section of the community in isolation from another. [More…]

• 1 know that if that money is received by these organisations it will do a lot to assist the way in which they in turn help the community and do a great job. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hume quite legitimately raised the question of whether too much of the money provided under the Australian Assistance Plan goes in fact to salaries and administration and too little goes into the community. [More…]

• However, the Western Adelaide Regional Council for Social Development has taken the trouble to point out to the honourable member for Hume in a very comprehensive reply, as it ought to have done, the way in which the money is spent under the plan in our area and the proportion of each dollar that goes to the community groups and the proportion that is retained for administration. [More…]

• Members of the House of Representatives that a scheme such as the Australian Assistance Plan can function properly in its context in the community. [More…]

• The Western Adelaide Regional Council for Social Development has at its disposal $456,000 to be given to the community in grants to support community welfare activities. [More…]

• In addition to that, all regions (both the unfunded as well as those regions with Capitation Funds) are performing social planning and community development activities. [More…]

• 1.1 The Australian Assistance Plan (the AAP) is essentially a Plan for planning- it provides resources to enable a community to plan and develop social services in a way which reflects community needs and priorities. [More…]

• Through it all levels of government, community organisations, groups and individuals can become involved in social planning. [More…]

• Federal, State and Local Government), together with local organisations and interested members of the community, to consider the social needs of an area and the changing patterns of those needs; and then to plan for measures which will lead to an integrated and comprehensive range of social services being established within that region. [More…]

• 1.8 The AAP provides some financial resources to be allocated by the Regional Councils for Social Development by way of grants for community welfare activities. [More…]

• Other specific Commonwealth Government programs such as Community Health, Child Care, Community Arts, Tourism and Recreation, and the Aged and Handicapped Persons programs, for example, are the main source of funds for particular aspects of community welfare. [More…]

• A statement is attached which outlines some of the activities in the social planning and community development field that the Western Adelaide Regional Council for Social Development has been involved in, other than the administration of capitation funds. [More…]

• You may see quite readily from this list that the vast majority of man hours is employed with assisting the community in a variety of ways other than merely handing out capitation funds. [More…]

• The Western Adelaide Regional Council for Social Development, in other words, uses capitation grants as only one of its resources to assist the community. [More…]

• Other resources include staff expertise and skills, and availability for assistance to the community. [More…]

• In addition to that there is an Administration Officer who is in charge of capitation funding as well as providing advice to community groups (as far as their administrative problems are concerned) at a cost of approximately $1 1,000. [More…]

• All this so far has made no reference whatsoever to the tremendous amount of benefit to be derived by the community through the voluntary efforts put in by many members of the community. [More…]

• The Western Adelaide Regional Council of Social Development is fortunate to have amongst its members such notable people as 3 local Mayors, a number of Aldermen, several medical practitioners, a Regional Director of the Department of Community Welfare, a member of Parliament, Chairman of Community Councils for Social Development, a Superintendent of Police, a Baptist Minister and other activists in the community. [More…]

• The sheer potential, in terms of human resources, of such a group indicates the tremendous savings to government and the community by having an organisation such as the Regional Council for Social Development to bring together these people for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• administration grant, better called ‘community development and social planning grant’ involves a great variety of activities for the benefit of the community other than handing out the remaining $7. [More…]

• May I quote further from the same statement: ‘The Liberal and National Country Parties reiterate their commitment to supporting and enlarging participation in the decision-making structures relating to the AAP and reaffirm their commitment to the on-going nature of the Plan as a means of assisting individuals, groups and areas in greatest need of social welfare assistance at the community level . [More…]

• ‘We are in favour of increased funds for social welfare projects and agree that the AAP is, basically, a suitable vehicle through which social welfare funds may be channelled to the community . [More…]

• In this review, care will be taken to avoid disruption to any legitimate community programmes already underway and there will be no changes made merely for the sake of change. [More…]

• In this review we will be concerned primarily to see that the AAP fulfils its original promise as a participatory scheme which gives all sections of the population a say in their community . [More…]

• May I on this occasion also quote from the official Liberal and National Country Parties Social Welfare Policy Document: ‘We welcomed the introduction of the Australian Assistance Plan, because we believed that provision of some Commonwealth funds and assistance would act as a catalyst for citizen involvement in positive community service. [More…]

• The Western Region of Adelaide can very well be seen as a natural community which does not consider itself imposed by the Canberra government. [More…]

• Let me stress once more that due to the representation of all three levels of government and non-government voluntary community welfare agencies the Western Adelaide Regional Council for Social Development serves very well the role of a co-operating and liaising body which does not impose its views on the community but is representative of community opinion. [More…]

• There can be no doubt whatsoever that many community groups have benefited greatly from the assistance of the Australian Assistance Plan, both financially and through the expertise provided by Community Development and Social Planning staff. [More…]

• The Australian Assistance Plan provides an opportunity for the community to determine its own needs and to do something about them. [More…]

• We feel that with the assistance of yourself and your parliamentary colleagues these benefits to the community can continue in the future. [More…]

• In its submission to the Universities Commission for the 1976-78 triennium, the University of Wollongong proposed the establishment of a postgraduate department of community medical practice, as an initial development in 1976. [More…]

• The Commission commented in its Sixth Report that the establishment of a postgraduate department of community medical practice should not be considered in isolation from the proposal to establish a medical school at the University of Wollongong [More…]

• As a result, I hope that henceforth, when consideration is given to matters pertaining to assistance to the rural community, particularly to farmers who are grievously affected because of the decline in their incomes, honourable members opposite will lend their support. [More…]

• We are trying to get the broadest cross-section of the community to tell us their views about it. [More…]

• I am terribly afraid for Australia’s integrity in the world community, and for the guilt that our authorities will bear throughout history for allowing such a situation to unfold. [More…]

• We believe the emphasis should now be on accepting the inevitability of Timor s incorporation into Indonesia, letting the dust settle and looking ahead, while taking what steps we can in Australia to curb the growth of further hostility towards Indonesia within the Australian community. [More…]

• The exceptions are those people who are on fixed benefits, and there are countless thousands of them in the community. [More…]

• If one studies- and I will not attempt to do so today- the barriers put up against trade by the European Economic Community in general one must acknowledge that it is a source of some horror for all thinking members of parliament. [More…]

• They have been faced all of a sudden, primarily due to actions of the European Economic Community, with a situation in which their goods have flooded the local markets. [More…]

• Every way that money can be found to help to effect a stable cost structure within those industries is a matter of very grave importance to the small farmers in the Australian community today. [More…]

• I believe that in this country today, where most sections of the community get this type of assistance, because the rural producer who is supposedly self-employed cannot get this type of assistance, it is imperative that we as a government assist him to live in some type of dignity and set a period from now to enable him to get out of the industry. [More…]

• Because of factors beyond the control of the apple and pear industry- Britain joining the European Economic Community, our rapid inflation rate and a whole lot of other things- the industry is painfully having to adjust. [More…]

• First, we need to look at the political decisions that were made in Europe with the formation of the European Economic Community coming under the framework of a common agricultural policy. [More…]

• One of the factors that may not be known to the community is the tremendous effort that has been made by the wives and families of fruit growers. [More…]

• -This Bill proposes an arrangement by which voluntary agencies in the community which are entitled to draw benefits under the Aged Persons Hostels Act will be able to maintain their eligibility for that benefit over an unstated period. [More…]

• As the demand and momentum built up behind the program for nursing home accommodation the capacity of successive governments to provide alternative forms of care for the aged- care in the home, care in the community, care in various community activity centres- was constricted. [More…]

• It is not always true that popular demand is the best measure of the most effective way of establishing a program for the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Health will discover, if he has not already, that the profit making people in the nursing homes know full well how to be quite ruthless and brutal in trying to mobilise emotional responses in the community against a government so that they can exploit the taxpayer by forcing a government into paying out more money. [More…]

• It is not the sort of welfare initiative which gets votes but it is the sort of welfare initiatives which satisfies one greatly because one realises that one has discharged a very important moral obligation in society to do something for the very serious social casualties that we do have in our community, and to help the very worthwhile people who dedicate their lives to helping the men and women who are homeless and who are drifting in the community, often in a situation of that nature because of some sort of crisis that has occurred in their life. [More…]

• I think it is a very harsh, a very brutal and very insensitive society that does not accept the point of view that there are people in this community who, in spite of all we did, are still not being reached by the programs of welfare which are available, and that more needs to be done, not the least of which is the introduction of some sort of guaranteed income concept. [More…]

• I suspect that the Government is trying to evade its responsibilities in this area, trying to impose a burden on the aged and a burden on voluntary agencies in the community. [More…]

• I am sure that hundreds of thousands of unemployed in this community would not consider that Labor had made a soft society for them. [More…]

• If we are to discourage people from going to nursing homes unless they really need to do so- if their families and outside support services can help them- we should be looking at increasing the domiciliary nursing care benefit in line with the rate of inflation, we should be providing as much help as possible for these people in the way of community services, such as district nursing services, and perhaps we should be extending the flexibility of the domiciliary nursing care scheme not only to allow for a change in the ratio of registered nurses to nursing aides but also in relation to the requirement of a medical assessment for the domiciliary nursing scheme as distinct from the medical assessment that is required for the aged at the present time. [More…]

• If we can do more in the community with respect to such people it is not only cheaper but also more socially desirable to do so. [More…]

• I think that he attributed unfair motives to the many fine private nursing homes in our community. [More…]

• If we do not adopt that view we are being socially unjust because in our community there are not enough charitable nursing homes to cater for those who need nursing home accommodation and there never will be enough because larger amounts of government money are needed for the construction of more of that type of nursing home. [More…]

• When one talks about the general theme of the community accepting greater responsibility in the future than it has in the past, one automatically is giving credence to the idea that one should not engage in a cutting of the expenditure in the public sector of the economy. [More…]

• Therefore I believe that this prerogative to catalyse should follow in the wake of a careful government analysis of the community needs that prevail throughout Australia. [More…]

• There has already been a delay in paying pension increases which has cost the pensioner community some $29m. [More…]

• There is also a very high degree of community interest in this area. [More…]

• A pilot scheme is being organised by a number or groups including the Rockdale Community Mobile Nursing Service. [More…]

• This pilot project is placed as part of a community-geared program for retraining and reassessment. [More…]

• Such a centre would be able to accept basic referrals from a widely distributed community, from the St George hospital or any other centre envisaged by the Benevolent Society of New South Wales for hospital beds for other types of care for the aged. [More…]

• We should enable a co-ordination of services such as senior citizens groups, aged pensioner groups, aid and counselling groups, Meals-on-Wheels and community integrated services which will reach out into the community on a formed basis instead of a fragmented basis as exists at present. [More…]

• There should be interest and involvement by the community by way of training in these types of activities. [More…]

• As for the involvement of nursing home nurses and facilities and the involvement of the local community, these are all available. [More…]

• The honourable member for Oxley would understand the Government’s approach if he had been present at delegations I brought recently before both Ministers- one from a firm of architects which believes that it has a reasonable scheme to take advantage of the Aged or Disabled Persons Homes Act to allow a greater degree of self-care, and the other a delegation from the community nursing scheme. [More…]

• It is an attempt at moderation within this Party to come to a sound and sensible basis to cater for the developing needs of all in this community from an ever-diminishing economic cake. [More…]

• The then Minister for Social Services, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth)- a man with great compassion in this and other fields- brought forward this legislation, recognising the fact that Australia was entering a long period in which there would be an increase in the number of aged persons in our community in proportion to the population. [More…]

• Probably it would be easy to argue that if the subsidy had remained on a $2 to $1 basis many of those 900 projects would have gone ahead, even though, of course, under the $2 to $ 1 system it is necessary to find a greater proportion of funds in the community. [More…]

• Another problem that occurred in respect of the $4 to $ 1 subsidy system- I should not impute this to the Labor Party itself- was the fact that because the money was buttered thinly and because there was great pressure from many voluntary agencies to have their projects funded, there was a fair deal of cynicism in the community about the method of valuation. [More…]

• Maybe this attitude is cynical, but I can appreciate the problem when there is not an unending amount of money available at any stage for any group in the community. [More…]

• I do not accept the proposition that welfare agencies in the Australian community or the aged people who are dependent upon this program are representative of the soft society, that this measure is necessary so that people will be saved from the moral degradation which flows from being victims of the soft society. [More…]

• The aged people in the Australian community will be the people who will bear the burden of this regression. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian community has to be made aware of the situation. [More…]

• The community welfare agencies which very grandly and proudly maintain these sorts of services, will find that financial assistance which we would have provided- we would have guaranteed that the program would have been finished in less than 3 years- in fact may not come within 5 or 6 years. [More…]

• How much longer are we going to see this sort of thing where those least able to bear sacrifice in the community have to bear the most sacrifice. [More…]

• I think it is significant that more and more the attacks are being made on the aged in the community. [More…]

• Why not some of the more wealthy people in the community? [More…]

• I again ask what sort of situation it is that saves money for the Government in some sort of crude measurement sense but imposes a greater social cost which in itself imposes within the community economic costs that have to be borne. [More…]

• There are very few people in this community who can adequately discharge these sorts of demands that arise in life, meet the challenges and successfully face the crises and the consequences which flow from them and which affect just about all of us without the support of government in one form or another. [More…]

• In all these welfare issues that have been debated in the Parliament, I have noted that he has derived great hilarity from the concern expressed by the members of the Opposition about people affected by the discrimination and the unfairness of the burden which has been imposed on these sections of the community. [More…]

• I am asking the Minister to put an end to this sort of concern, this feeling, this outrage which is spreading through the community, and hopefully will seep into the Senate, by giving a very firm commitment by stating a maximum of no more than 3 years and saying that the program will be completed as it would have been if the Labor Government that was in office until November of last year had continued to hold office. [More…]

• Until we get the wealth producing industries of Australia going again and start generating wealth in this country, we will not have the wherewithal to try to overcome the great problem confronting the less privileged and the disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• As an indication of the Government’s concern in this field, I have given to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, as its first task, a reference on alcohol abuse problems in the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I believe that the report fully justifies the stand taken by the then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Cavanagh, who, against great odds and despite the reluctance of the Western Australian Premier, despite the reluctance of the Minister for Community Welfare in the Western Australian Government and despite the opposition of the Police Commissioner and the Deputy Police Commissioner, persisted with the idea of probing this unfortunate incident. [More…]

• To some degree it must be regarded as reflecting the prejudice which prevails to too large a degree around Australia towards the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The House will know that there are very considerable disturbances in the Aboriginal community equivalent to the disturbance at Laverton to which the Minister makes mention in his statement. [More…]

• Last Friday the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood, who is the Minister responsible for growth centres, made a sensible speech in Adelaide on the future of growth centres. [More…]

• I was very pleased not only that he had read the recent speech by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) in relation to growth centres, but also that he praised it. [More…]

• Taking these goals as a whole, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development stated last Friday a series of basic objectives of a settlement policy in Australia. [More…]

• The Minister cannot gloss over the dispute which has arisen between the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Senator Greenwood) concerning the growth centre program. [More…]

• It is now at a stage of development where systematic federal assistance could produce a thriving and prosperous community. [More…]

• Without such assistance the city will never meet the demand for roads, sewerage, drains, transport, health, child care and other community facilities which its recent growth is creating. [More…]

• I commend the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood, for what I believe is a balanced and rational dissertation on this Government’s present attitude towards growth centres. [More…]

• That was a political act which has irreparably damaged not just tolerance in our community but the fragile fabric of our constitutional monarchy. [More…]

• One or two aeroplane crashes can turn Senate majorities into Senate minorities and the results in the New South Wales State election show how quickly popularity in the community can wilt away. [More…]

• We want every single section of the community to have the opportunity to share in prosperity. [More…]

• I believe it is on the right track in attempting to divert resources from one section of the community to another- from the public sector to the private sector. [More…]

• It is a concept in which local communities in various regions throughout Australia can band together and look after, evaluate and assess the evolving social needs in a community. [More…]

• As a result 37 or more regions have been formed throughout Australia and thousands of Australians who never bothered about getting involved in local government or Government have joined in, have contributed to the plan, do attend meetings, join its task forces and go into the grass roots of each community to find out what the social needs of each community are. [More…]

• The thing that holds it together is the fact that the Government has said: ‘We will fund the appointment of an executive officer, an office, a secretary and up to 4 community development officers who can be the people who will go out among the community and report back to you so that you can report to your regional committee ‘. [More…]

• It is in those kinds of electorates that we find the swinging voter who does care about his community. [More…]

• I think we must determine a level of welfare spending which is acceptable to the community and to the Government. [More…]

• Obviously there must be a very sympathetic approach to those people in our community who are in need. [More…]

• I hope we are able to get the community to support that proposition and that we do not have a situation in which we, as a parliament, are put in a position of not being able to support the worthwhile aspects of our commitments because of the increasing amount of money that will be needed. [More…]

• There does not appear to me to be any rationale in setting ceilings on Government activities where those activities are commercial activities, where the commercial activities are profitable, where the business community and the community at large have a demand for exclusive services that can be provided by that Government activity, and where setting ceilings reduces the capacity to service the needs of the community and to further the commercial interests of the activity concerned. [More…]

• I would like to hear an explanation of why, in an area of business activity where the Government is making good profits, where it is neither a burden on the Treasury nor a burden on the community, the Government is slowing down the rate of training of personnel, is slowing down the rate at which vital communications can be provided to both private and public sectors, and is reducing the intake of funds which will assist in providing the capital necessary to increase the capacity to service the community’s needs. [More…]

• Whilst that capacity exists we have a chance- I say a chance- of the Commissions developing the means by which the Commissions can properly operate and provide the services at the highest possible level for which the community is prepared to pay and reducing the fairly low incidence of industrial disputes within the Postal and Telecommunications Commissions. [More…]

• There would have been some expenditure in the transfer of public servants in a couple of years time, but that expenditure as a total community commitment would have been reduced considerably if it were offset against the community costs of having public servants travel into the centre of city areas and the community cost of providing access to cities. [More…]

• There is a myth around this Parliament and in the community that something can be had for nothing. [More…]

• We should look at the cost to the community as a whole- not the cost to the disadvantaged section of the community but the cost to the whole community across the board- of what we are doing. [More…]

• In addition to the measured loss, a substantial loss results from misallocation of resources within the industry groups of the models that they used to measure the loss to the community at large. [More…]

• hey do not represent the losses to industry receiving low or negative protection- which are in fact greater- but the losses to the community at large. [More…]

• However, the burden is certainly not spread throughout the community evenly. [More…]

• Either the pipeline will suddenly gush forth and the system will not be able to cope with it or else provision of needed services to the community will be delayed. [More…]

• The residents of Melton and those responsible for the management and operation of the Melton Community Resource Centre are particularly concerned about the fate of a reasonably recently established service for the people of this delightful satellite town only some 30 kilometres from Melbourne. [More…]

• Unless funds are supplied after 30 June by the Australian Government these worthwhile schemes will wither and die, to the detriment of the community generally. [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…]

• Where the Australian Labor Party differs from the Liberal Party is that the Labor Party believes that community services should be provided by the Australian Government because then everyone pays according to his capacity to pay. [More…]

• I sincerely hope that Mr Hawke, the leaders of the trade union movement in this country and all sections of the Australian community will join this Government in its attack on inflation. [More…]

• We all know from the bitter experience of so many floods, fires and wild elemental disturbances how costly these natural disasters can be and how severe they can be in terms of personal and social stress on the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe from the general tenor of discussion in the community that there would be a popular belief that the likelihood of an earthquake disturbance is restricted to possibly a part of Western Australia, and for those with longer memories, to a part of South Australia. [More…]

• In fact the need for improvements in the arrangements for protecting the community against losses to property arising from natural disasters was highlighted in January 1974 by the floods in the Brisbane River valley. [More…]

• By contrast, the investment incentives provided for by this Bill are long term and will act as a firm basis for investment planning by the business community. [More…]

• It has been the Government’s concern to ensure that the industry should be as efficient as possible and to operate in such a way that the wider community interests are fully recognised. [More…]

• The deficiencies that those involved in the industry claim to exist are of concern to the Government because they all add to the industry’s costs and because the burden of those increased costs falls to the community. [More…]

• That is to say that the Government’s central concern is to ensure that the community interests are fully taken into account. [More…]

• However, as the costs associated with this industry have been a source of central concern to successive governments, I have consulted with my colleague, the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) and expressed the view that in the light of the impact costs in this industry have on all sections of the community it is proper that such costs should come under surveillance to ensure that prices set are fair both to the supplier and the consumer. [More…]

• In this speech I have sought to outline the Government’s aims, but it is clearly the responsibility of those who would seek to be free of the legislative and regulatory requirements imposed for historical reasons in this industry to demonstrate their capacity to act with reason and restraint and with the community interests to the fore. [More…]

• This is not to say, however, that it will no longer give attention to and seek to influence events and attitudes in relation to those matters affecting the industry which give greatest concern to the community generally. [More…]

• Before asking honourable members to agree to such a course I believe they and everyone concerned with the industry and the community generally should have a clear indication of the Government’s intentions. [More…]

• In the Australian community, in social and economic affairs government expenditure is the key to progress in nearly everything. [More…]

• It strikes me that this is a most unfortunate feature of what inflation does to our capacity to pay welfare to the community of this nation. [More…]

• I suggest, with the greatest of goodwill in the world to the honourable member, that from his term of service with Patrick and Partners he could not exactly claim to have embellished the term ‘profit’ in the view of the Australian community. [More…]

• Already one can observe the unease which is displaying itself in the industrial field in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a difficult department to administer, involving as it does quite literally millions of personal contacts in the Australian community in the course of discharging its responsibilities. [More…]

• This is the new rallying cry which the Government is broadcasting in the community. [More…]

• One of the influences which has led to some uncertainty in the community and has disturbed the consumption led recovery which was showing up weakly but showing up nevertheless when we went out of government, has been the completely irrational, ill-informed and irresponsible statements of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) about making things tough, implying gloom and horror ahead, tightening up the belts and crying tears of blood. [More…]

• I want to go quickly through this issue of the deficit and I hope that I can lay to rest some of the unjustified fears which the Treasurer and the Prime Minister have encouraged in the community. [More…]

• Wages represent about 60 per cent of the total cost of goods and services in the community. [More…]

• The honourable members to whom I have referred are pursuing their vendetta and causing bitterness and hatred within our community. [More…]

• We must continue to be concerned for the aged, for the poor, for the mentally and physically handicapped, and for the less fortunate in our community and other communities in the world. [More…]

• But I believe that a good many of our farmers are being exploited by other people within the community. [More…]

• 1 turn to the national employment and retraining scheme which was specifically designed to meet the retraining needs of members of our whole community in general, and in particular our ethnic communities. [More…]

• I have already stressed the importance of child care in our community and I do not need to do so again. [More…]

• Amongst the provisions of the Act was the establishment of a Community Relations Council. [More…]

• I believe that the refusal to finance the establishment of a community relations council to advise both the Attorney-General and the Commissioner for Community Relations concerning the observance and implementation of the Convention constitutes a violation. [More…]

• What the Government has done in its Budget cutbacks is to make it quite impossible for the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations to carry out this vital education role. [More…]

• This is important because if discrimination comes about through inadvertence there are no underlying community attitudes which have to be changed. [More…]

• There was an allocation of $184,000 for the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is able to process only those very postevent cases that the present Minister, while in Opposition, correctly identified as playing a very small part in implementing the overall ideals of the Act. [More…]

• But the program which encompassed every area of ethnic group participation in a proper and adequate sense in the Australian community has been disastrously cut by this Government. [More…]

• I inform the House that in the absence of Senator the Honourable Ivor Greenwood, Q.C., the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Honourable M. J. R. MacKellar, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, will act for him. [More…]

• As a consequence, the following representational arrangements will operate in the Senate: Senator Carrick will represent the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Public Service matters, and the Acting Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Our philosophy is the reverse of that of the Australian Labor Party which would seek to take unto itself not only all political power but also all financial power leaving this whole community utterly dependent upon what it decides. [More…]

• I think a short answer to your question is that, yes, there is a commitment under Medibank to the total community . [More…]

• The division will create inevitable social divisions in the community itself. [More…]

• It would not have been limited to the disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• It is humbug for the Government to complain about the growing cost of health care to the community. [More…]

• The community will pay a far greater cost in the long run if health care is neglected. [More…]

• The community has to pay these charges whether they are met by the public or the private sector. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is placing his ideological obsessions, his hatred of the public sector, ahead of the community’s needs. [More…]

• He is creating needless social divisions in the community. [More…]

• In paying for Medibank the Government will make sure that the poorest people in the community do not have to make any payment. [More…]

• Medibank has achieved universal coverage in its present form at the expense of very largely disregarding the need for economy and efficiency in overall health care expenditure by the individual and the community. [More…]

• Any government that did not look at the total rising cost structure and analyse whether in fact every dollar spent is being spent wisely and that the health of the community has improved as a result, would be failing in its duty. [More…]

• However, it is characteristic of the Leader of the Opposition and the Labor Party to see no occasion to control costs or to attempt to achieve efficiency in health care to the advantage of the general public and certainly to the advantage of the more disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• As a general statement maybe there is something to support that proposition, but not a levy so severe that the public will groan under its burden, not a program that will be so cruel in the way in which the cost burden falls that there will be massive dissatisfaction in the Australian community. [More…]

• While it is true to say that the State and Federal governments are meeting costs which, in a significant proportion in the past, were met by the public directly, the fact is that the total cost is still being met by the same people- the taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• Medibank meant that money could be spent more efficiently and that the same total volume of money could be spread further and could provide adequate attention for all people in the community. [More…]

• The proposals of the Government are to shift a large amount of the funding on to individual income earners in the community. [More…]

• If the full benefit of indexation is not provided in the forthcoming Budget it will represent a reduction in consumption in the community. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister said last night, it was in danger of declining for the most underpriveleged section of our community because of increasing competition for standard wards beds, the only hospital accommodation for such people. [More…]

• Under both forms of Medibank the poorer sections of the community would be covered at no cost. [More…]

• This constant barrage and attack, fostered within the ranks of those who espouse socialism and the brotherhood of mankind, that has followed the Governor-General around this community in the last 6 months has been disgraceful in the extreme and by no means anything of which the Opposition as a political party should be proud. [More…]

• It is a question of who pays for it and how the payments are distributed amongst different sections of the community. [More…]

• An independent observer of standing in the community such as Professor Don Aitkin has made it quite clear and my own observations in that campaign make it quite clear that the attempts to describe the federalism policy as one of double taxation and the attempts to discredit it failed miserably. [More…]

• If people go to a different office they can obtain the document Statement of Savings Expected in Annual Appropriations and find out how their hopes and aspirations for a decent community in this country are being dashed by this Government. [More…]

• It appears from the Prime Minister’s speech last night that all of a sudden the Prime Minister has discovered that there are 300 000 families in the Australian community who pay little or no tax. [More…]

• It is irresponsible to spend more money than the Australian community can be reasonably expected to provide while at the same time enabling prosperity in this country to continue. [More…]

• That would be to the advantage of the honourable member for Port Adelaide as well as the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• Nevertheless it is important that no sector of the Australian community should suffer unduly in carrying the burden that will have to be carried. [More…]

• He and other Government members have urged the community to spend more and to invest more in private ventures. [More…]

• They know when a government is trying to protect their rights as well as to uplift the totality of the Australian community and the Australian economy. [More…]

• system does not result in a minimisation of social costs there will be a welfare loss to the community. [More…]

• Let him tell us the reaction he has had from the mercantile community when it realises that henceforth the amount on which it would pay duty would be increased by the allocation of advertising expenses over a period, although unrelated to the particular goods- as set out in the Valuation [More…]

• 76/41 tells the importing community that advice will be available from Customs Houses but that the prime responsibility for establishing the value rests with the importer. [More…]

• I remind the House, in case there should be any doubt that this legislation has been introduced without warning or suddenly flung upon an unsuspecting commercial community, that it was first publicly mooted in July 1 973 by, I believe, Senator Murphy when he was Minister for Customs and Excise. [More…]

• Any suggestion, therefore, that this legislation has been suddenly dropped out of the sky and comes as a surprise to those in the commercial community who will have to cope with it is to mislead the House. [More…]

• It is a concept that I believe draws a majority support- a very strong majority support- from those in the commercial community who will have to contend with this legislation. [More…]

• It is important to note philosophically that drugs of this type interfere with and cause problems in the community amongst the people who are most susceptible to them. [More…]

• It is important for the community at large to note that in the United States of America more people are now turning to cocaine, or ‘mush’ as it is known, for their kicks and that this is causing alarming problems in that country. [More…]

• Such services meet a growing community demand, albeit at great cost, and also provide competition for the Post Office. [More…]

• He is obviously a very respected member of his community. [More…]

• It does not matter whether there is a Liberal government or a Labor government in office, if any group in the community is going to challenge the authority of the Parliament democracy is on the way out and totalitarian dictatorship is on the way in. [More…]

• They do not care anything about the particular status of any institution or group other than its assistance to them to exercise what power they can within the community at large. [More…]

• The fact is that the Parliament is the subject and the servant of the people, and until the Labor Party tries to make the system work more efficiently, until all groups in this community co-operate and realise the need to support the Parliament, we will get far less support in this country for real democracy. [More…]

• However, I would remind honourable members that, with the co-operation of almost every State Government, arrangements have been made for the Commonwealth, through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, to assume a major role in policy and administration in the States following the decision of the Australian community in the 1967 referendum. [More…]

• More traditional communities have done this by their own control of the availability of alcohol within the community. [More…]

• There is a strongly held view in the community at large that value for money is hot achieved by many programs. [More…]

• What are the definite steps that have to be taken if we are to have a waterfront position that is sensible and that can do what the Australian community wants it to do- to handle the goods on the waterfront sensibly, responsibly and at a reasonable return? [More…]

• We have to get rid of this position on the waterfront now where the chap who is a member of the Waterside Workers Federation has certainty of employment until he dies, unless he is bought out with a golden handshake, which is the envy of all the community. [More…]

• It had the effect of giving wine makers an advantage over most others in our community. [More…]

• The business community itself obviously realises the problems that arise for the private sector when a government acts as this one has done in relation to expenditure cuts. [More…]

• The Government wants to move wealth from the workers to those whom they really represent- the monopoly sector of this community. [More…]

• I would have liked to give the House more details of this petition and the benefits that would accrue to tourism, to the business community, to families, and- for the benefit of the honourable member for Melbourneto pensioners, for whom he does not care one whit. [More…]

• The whole nature of the problem is such that many dairy farmers, as indeed many beef producers, are in ii position where their incomes are significantly less than almost everybody else’s in the community. [More…]

• I hope that as a result of this measure there may well be a greater acceptance, therefore, by the community at large of the necessity for measures to help the aggrieved rural sector. [More…]

• Is he concerned that for some years now statistics have shown that farmers are an ageing and numerically declining sector in our community? [More…]

• Mountains of skim milk powder have accumulated in the European Economic Community countries and in New Zealand, and the surplus is rising very quickly in Australia. [More…]

• The conservation of these resources can best be obtained through the efforts of the community as a whole. [More…]

• The losses caused by soil erosion are: Firstly, to the land itself; secondly, to other lands; thirdly, to public utilities and public authorities; and fourthly, to the national economy and the welfare of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is a major responsibility of Australia as a nation to ensure that both public and private landholders do not adopt systems of land use which secure benefits for themselves in the short term but at the same time transfer the costs to other users and to the community. [More…]

• The profession is very worth while but it perhaps has the disadvantage of being disorganised as a result of being distributed throughout the States and being more State-orientated rather than looking at the general needs of the community. [More…]

• The Government’s federalism policy provides a framework for a co-operative partnership between all 3 levels of government- Federal, State and local- to ensure effective and responsible government with maximum community involvement. [More…]

• Air pollution levels in some of our cities are approaching, and on some occasions have already exceeded, safe community health levels set by the World Health Organisation. [More…]

• Where high levels of pollution occur, the cost Of such pollution is met by the community in the form of higher health bills and work absenteeism, lowered property values, and general loss of amenity. [More…]

• The Broadcasting and Television Amendment Bill 1 976 is designed to give effect to the Government’s decision to ban the advertising of cigarettes and cigarette tobacco on broadcasting and television stations as from 1 September 1976 and to amend the existing provisions of the Act in relation to the licensing of television translator stations, community television aerial systems and to extend the provisions of the Act relating to television translator stations to permit the licensing of broadcasting translator stations. [More…]

• The other proposals in the Bill amend the existing provisions relating to the licensing of television translator stations and community television aerial systems and extend the provisions relating to television translator stations to permit the licensing of broadcasting translator stations. [More…]

• It is proposed that the provisions be extended to permit the Board to recommend the grant of a licence based on ‘community of interest’. [More…]

• The proposals will enable the Board to recommend the grant of a licence where the television service already available does not emanate from a station which is identified with the local community- for example, in the case of a station close to a State border which may provide an adequate signal from a technical point of view to residents of the adjacent State but which does not provide appropriate programs. [More…]

• The amended provisions relating to Community Television Aerial Systems will similarly permit the Board to take into account ‘community of interest’ considerations when recommending the grant of licences, and provide for such systems to be developed where, for aesthetic reasons, housing estates could be planned without the necessity for houses to have individual external aerials. [More…]

• This belief is now so widespread in the community that many people of Labor persuasion are not buying McWilliam ‘s wines. [More…]

• He has on hand some of the best experts in Australia from Treasury and the Taxation Office who can fully inform him in the time he has available and he can explain to honourable members how the benefits of both these programs can be drawn on by the community- programs provided by a government which is committed to reducing total government expenditure. [More…]

• Is it really the purpose of the Government to ensure that those sections in the business community which are able to draw on the investment allowance and who, with the introduction of the Mathews proposals, will be able to benefit from the indexation proposals in regard to company tax, will enjoy both those benefits? [More…]

• How do honourable members opposite reconcile that with the sort of stuff the Government is going to put over tonight about giving with one hand purportedly to the poorer families in the community and taking away from the same group in another way, that is, by the imposition of a levy on Medibank that is probably going to be something of the order of $ 1, 000m. [More…]

• Maybe the featherbedding will be at the expense of a lot of other general welfare in the community. [More…]

• It is a straight out subsidy at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• If anyone suggested that that course of action be taken, there would be screeches from all parts of the community. [More…]

• Frankly, I think it ought to be referred to a select committee comprising members from both sides of the House of Representatives to go into it in detail, not so much to save the face of the Government because I do not think that effort is worth undertaking under any circumstances, but to save the Australian community from unnecessary cost and, most of all, to save the bureaucracy from being bogged down in the litigation which will symbolise the operation of this section of the Act in the near future. [More…]

• I believe that the Government would get credit if the Minister would only indicate that this whole matter will be looked at again, with the idea of providing some semblance of social justice that ought to apply in respect of this section of the community. [More…]

• This scheme was introduced to provide benefit for the home seeking Australian community. [More…]

• I do not need to stress the importance of this in the overall interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I would have thought that the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) might have expressed some interest in the Australian community. [More…]

• Such a spirit of co-operation is vital in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• This would make sure, for example, that the Department for Community Welfare in South Australia may continue to take maintenance proceedings on behalf of persons to whom it pays pension. [More…]

• Honourable members will recognise the need to remedy promptly any defects in an area of law that is so important to so many people in the community as this law obviously is. [More…]

• These decisions should be seen as but the latest instalments of the Government’s continuing policy to restore economic health and at the same time to improve the living standards of less well-off sections in the Australian community. [More…]

• The reduction of $2,600m from the original forward estimates will however make it possible, within the context of a sound overall fiscal framework, to announce now certain other decisions which are of vital interest to all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government’s objective will be to reach co-operative arrangements with the States designed to maintain the provision of legal aid services to the community at a reasonable cost to the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Grants to the States, local government authorities and other eligible organisations in 1976-77 under the community health program will maintain already approved services and facilities at a viable level. [More…]

• The new arrangements will ensure that those in the community with higher incomes will pay a major proportion of the insurance cost of their health expenditures. [More…]

• These low income reliefs, and the fact that levy payable will be graduated according to income, demonstrate that our reforms have given recognition to the circumstances of the less well off sections of the community. [More…]

• It has achieved universal coverage, but at the expense of largely disregarding the need for economy and efficiency in overall health care expenditures by the individual and the community. [More…]

• As a result, Government subsidies out of general revenue will be concentrated on the members of the community who are in greatest need, yet means tests will be avoided. [More…]

• While these are substantial amounts they still represent only part of the full cost of hospital and medical insurance when averaged over the community as a whole. [More…]

• As a corollary to its objective of universal coverage against medical and hospital costs for all persons in the community, this Government sees as its responsibility the need to protect the interests of persons who elect to contribute to registered medical and hospital benefits organisations. [More…]

• I am confident the Government will obtain the ready co-operation of registered health benefits organisations which will have an important role to play in providing health care protection for a significant percentage of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Secretary of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has raised the matter in the course of discussions with State officials. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development will be consulting also with the Public Service Board as the study develops because of the Board ‘s special concern for the rights of staff. [More…]

• the promotion within the community of a general understanding of the value of sport and physical recreation: [More…]

• Community Recreation Council of W.A. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development made an assessment of possible effects, particularly with respect to the levels of activity within the industry over the period to 1980. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development are as follows: [More…]

• It is not designed to and it will not cause the divisions that the Australian Labor Party would like to see created in this community. [More…]

• -If the New South Wales Government refused to enter into negotiations and to come to some agreement along the lines that were suggested in a letter from myself to all Premiers last week the result would be that the New South Wales Government would be putting itself in a position of wanting to offer larger subsidies to the better off in the Australian community and to those who wished to insure for intermediate and private ward treatment. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The proposition that we have been putting in this House and before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is that if there is to be a reduction in the overall rate of inflation this year then that reduction must take place with the acceptance by all members of the Australian community of restraint in the wage and salary area. [More…]

• I am keeping in very close contact with the leaders of the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• I believe that not only the community but also the defence services were not well served in previous years when this sort of rampant emotionalism ran wild, when professional patriotism was used to oppress and duress other people. [More…]

• But what he is aiming at is the creation of a little bit of trembling around the ankles in the community. [More…]

• The frenzy which is engendered by the sort of emotionalism we have seen associated with defence discussion in this community in the past leads too often to the wrong sorts of decisions. [More…]

• Such a policy can be developed only if there is sensible and restrained discussion, if there is responsibility on the pan of those people who participate in the debate, and most of all, if we in the community are not clobbered by professional patriots who use their professional patriotism as a shield to camouflage their own sluggishness which was the record of previous Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]

• I believe that he and all who follow him should stand condemned for the unnecessary hardships they are causing so many in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is socially damaging, leaving unhealable scars on our community. [More…]

• In the meantime there is no reason why we should not be using what we have in the Department of Construction and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to get on with the task of putting into production unused capacity in the building industry of this country. [More…]

• It has a long history of public sector activity; each colony had to develop its own economy, and its own service to the community. [More…]

• Real spending cuts will obviously reduce total community spending, causing lower levels of employment and utilisation of capacity in directly affected industries and indirect effects on the rest of the economy. [More…]

• My ninth point is that the lesser amounts in specific grants to the States for hospitals are well short of last year’s figure in real terms; for education, well short of recommendations by the education commissions; for railways, even the Adelaide-Crystal Brook line is questioned, as is the standard gauge program generally which seems now to be a thing of the past for this government; for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, slashed by over $400m, and so on. [More…]

• This is one of the many things which breeds this aura, this atmosphere and this attitude in the community of a lack of confidence in this Government. [More…]

• Lastly, in summary, I draw attention to the lowering of the quality of life by the dismantling of sections of the public sector and by instituting 2 classes of health care, to the unnecessary penalties applied to large sections of the Australian community on modest incomes in reducing their take-home pay and to the increase in burdens on the States and local government- and thus on the people who pay State taxes and local government rates- in forcing more functions on those levels of government without providing the funds to carry out those functions. [More…]

• The only way to reduce the pressures on already overstrained and overburdened community resources is to encourage the growth of new cities. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) admitted to his own statement on Thursday: [More…]

• It is beyond question that the only way to rationalise and apportion these costs fairly throughout the community is by means of a single, comprehensive, national insurance fund. [More…]

• The statement last Thursday by the Treasurer and that of the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development made it clear that Federal funds for land commissions will be curtailed. [More…]

• Only through government intervention can the community ensure that land is made available at fair prices to homebuyers. [More…]

• It must be a surprise to everyone- every single thinking person in this House; every single person in the community- that a man with such a record can be sustained in office. [More…]

• The community, for the first time, was consulted in a regular way. [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 massive cuts in expenditure on sewerage, the shutting down of community health centres, the dismantling of Medibank certainly have reduced their standard of living- reduced the standard of living of the majority of Australians. [More…]

• These are the people whose standard of living will drop because the Fraser Government has ceased to provide important public services to the community. [More…]

• One outstanding feature of the proposals contained in the economic statement of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) is that the next Budget deficit will be very substantially reduced without undue hardship on any section of the community. [More…]

• I say that not because I do not accept the fact that reasonable profits have to be made and reserves built up to tide businesses over difficult times, but in these special circumstances I believe that it is encumbent upon every section of the community to adopt a very responsible attitude towards trying to achieve a more stable economy than that which we have at the present time. [More…]

• The Government has given a splendid opportunity through these proposals for these major sections of the community to work together with the Government for the common good of all Australians by providing an economic program which is vitally concerned with social justice in conjunction with sound economic management. [More…]

• The Australian community should think about that fairly clearly. [More…]

• Inflation has seriously and adversely affected all sections of the community but in no area has it been more severely felt than in the area of the low income group and disadvantaged families. [More…]

• This redistribution of social welfare assistance will not be as costly to the community as many people may think. [More…]

• The Opposition has said that the proposed scheme will divide the community into 2 sections. [More…]

• To obtain the full advantage of tax indexation I believe it will be necessary for all sections of the community to act with restraint in an endeavour to bring the full benefits of these proposals into operation. [More…]

• I hope this will be done by the community at large. [More…]

• If all sections of the community are prepared to work in this way to reduce inflation it can be reduced very substantially indeed. [More…]

• Governments are tempted to meet the demands of the community at large. [More…]

• There is a very great need in this area and this is recognised within the community. [More…]

• People within the community have done a tremendous job in this area. [More…]

• The Opposition wanted to socialise the community and to bureaucratise it. [More…]

• Above all, it forgot the balance that needs to be induced in the Australian community in order to get progress. [More…]

• Secondly, the use of regional organisation is by far the most effective way of delivering a large number of Government programs at the community level. [More…]

• The Australian Assistance Plan was based for the most part on the participation of community groups, and this was resented by local government. [More…]

• On the other side, community groups which felt that they had got nothing out of local government preferred to work through a regional concept based on the community. [More…]

• One of the great things about the regional approach was the way in which it brought a closer relationship between local government and the level of community participation. [More…]

• Much of the community was alienated from conventional local government. [More…]

• But the programs of the Labor government for the first time brought the national government down to the community level. [More…]

• The demands of the programs brought local government and the community into a closer working relationship. [More…]

• Or is it the Government which scraps the transfer of Australian public servants and wipes out the programs on which decentralised federalism linking the community with the 3 levels of Government can be based? [More…]

• Other community programs have either been abolished or reduced to the point of uselessness. [More…]

• This tragic experiment which is doomed to fail has destroyed 3 years of creative work in evolving a new federal structure based on the community and linking the 3 tiers of government together in decentralised patterns of administration. [More…]

• There is, however, another major advantage in the proposals put forward by the Government and that is that it ensures effective and responsible government with maximum community involvement. [More…]

• Despite its many values to the community and particularly to the employment of unemployed people, the decision by the Labor Administration to halt that scheme created many injustices to local government authorities and organisations. [More…]

• Local government, provider of some of the most basic services to the community, should not have to depend for its finance on the vagaries of Federal-State politics, the waxing and waning of Federal-State relations, for it effectively to meet the expectations of the people who depend on it. [More…]

• They expect a whole range of services for groups in the community which have special needs such as the old, the sick, the young, women and Aborigines. [More…]

• They are a subsidy of the whole of the community by one segment of it and there is a limit to the sum that can be raised by them. [More…]

• At the same time, developing countries have not been overlooked by the international financial community. [More…]

• Carried through on an annual basis it will mean a withdrawal of $780m, matched presumably by that sum being transferred to the mothers of the community. [More…]

• Commonwealth Government responsibility for Albury-Wodonga development is vested in the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, but the Albury/Wodonga designated area incorporates only sections of the Lake Hume foreshore within the Lake Hume catchment. [More…]

• -Is the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of reports in the media of an alleged statement by a Mr John Bulbeck that the Australian Government delegation to the United Nations Habitat Conference on Human Settlement to be held shortly in Canada is in a mess and that there will not be a Minister leading the Australian delegation? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It is most unfortunate that the intention of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) to inform the community better on proposed economic policy should have become a casualty so early in the piece. [More…]

• Similarly, the proposal to introduce personal tax indexation is helpful and something that is welcomed by the community generally, but then that too is qualified because there are efforts to reduce the benefits of personal tax indexation- efforts which have not been spelt out too well but which can be divined from the statement of the Treasurer. [More…]

• Perhaps a fairly obvious product of that in the community is a suspicion that is growing in the public mind that the Treasurer and the Government have been less than candid for some deceitful purpose. [More…]

• The confusion, uncertainty, unease and suspicion which have developed in the community following this statement demand that there should be a full spelling out of the arithmetic associated with that statement. [More…]

• From the statements of a number of Premiers it is clear that increased charges will be imposed on the community as a result. [More…]

• This, of course, contributed to much of the confusion in the community. [More…]

• I assert that it adds to them to the extent that the open competition from those 2 authorities for a loan of $200m pushes up interest rates and does not have a healthy effect in the community. [More…]

• To the extent that it squeezes out other worthwhile programs or forces up the costs of them, there are social as well as economic costs imposed on the community. [More…]

• In any case, the community is bearing the cost. [More…]

• I believe that the national Parliament and, more importantly, the confused community and the worried businessmen, should be given more detail so they can accurately assess the effects that will flow from these economic decisions. [More…]

• Quite frankly this document must have the community in jitters. [More…]

• Medibank in total costs no more than the old private health insurance scheme cost; yet it covers everyone in the community. [More…]

• The program is quite cruel on the less lucky in the community. [More…]

• It is not working, and the reason it is not working is that there is no demand in the Australian community to take from production. [More…]

• This is given as a palliative, a sort of sugar coating to the Medibank pill which, of course, is an enormous tax slug to most people in the community. [More…]

• Not only are most people in the community worse off in respect of their arrangements with the Commonwealth but also the States will be far worse off under this package. [More…]

• I know that many of those programs were in themselves beneficial to certain sections of the community. [More…]

• It introduced the Medibank scheme, community health centres, welfare rights officers, and translator and interpreter services. [More…]

• The Labor Government introduced child migrant education programs, community recreation projects and schemes designed to improve the quality of life in the disadvantaged areas of our cities- the areas of high ethnic group concentration. [More…]

• There has been a reduction in forward estimates of over $400m in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The reference to the community health program is brief and lacking in detail, but with a proposed cut in spending of $100m its future hardly looks hopeful. [More…]

• At best, we can hope that existing community health centres will continue to function while the plans for expanding and establishing new centres, so badly needed in the areas to which I have referred, will be shelved. [More…]

• Once again I stress the vital role that community health centres have begun to play in our ethnic communities. [More…]

• They are important for the medical services they provide and, for many people, community health centres are the only places where they can obtain medical advice in their own language. [More…]

• These community health centres are playing a vital social role as well as performing a medical function. [More…]

• Most of the regional councils in areas of ethnic group concentration are employing ethnic liaison officers- people who are actively seeking the views of our ethnic communities and are providing the skills and expertise to allow our ethnic communities to voice their needs in the wider Australian community. [More…]

• At the same time this Government is systematically destroying all the support systems, the community centres, the area improvement programs, the community development officers, the regional councils, the community recreation programs and, as I have said, the translator and interpreter services. [More…]

• We as a government believed that every person arriving in Australia had the right to expect that community services would be geared to his or her particular needs. [More…]

• I welcome the Bill because it indicates to me that while the Government on the one hand is prepared to make difficult and perhaps politically unpopular decisions to combat unemployment and inflation, on the other hand it is determined to ensure that the weaker and the poorer sections of the community will not suffer. [More…]

• In this context it is of great significance, in relation to the Government’s decision to use the vehicle of family allowance to direct resources away from the relatively well off to the poor, that the report showed quite clearly that the group of people in the community whose incomes fall below the poverty line by the biggest percentage were in large families whose fathers were earning the minimum wage or a little more. [More…]

• At least now the relatively well off in the community will have less opportunity to do this. [More…]

• The family allowances plan obviously, therefore, has a dual benefit for the country: Firstly, it introduces a very real measure of social justice into our welfare system and, secondly, together with the impact of” personal income tax indexation, it will redirect resources to people in the community who have a much higher propensity to consume. [More…]

• Our migrant families are a particular group in the community who will benefit very substantially from the introduction of the family allowances proposals. [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…]

• They will try to point out that some people will gain more than others, and that some people will not gain at all, while others in the community will be slightly worse off. [More…]

• One thing honourable members opposite will have to concede is that the poorest and the weakest members of the Australian community will have their circumstances immediately and substantially improved by the combined family allowances and tax indexation measures. [More…]

• Amendment Bill as a major step by this Government to alleviate the circumstances of those most in need in the Australian community. [More…]

• There have been changes in a number of other areas that I think ought to be drawn to the attention of the House and the Australian community. [More…]

• A number of these areas cannot be discounted entirely; they are areas in which the community will require the continuation of Commonwealth participation. [More…]

• I refer not necessarily to new programs of the last 3 years but to community facilities which must be provided. [More…]

• It would appear that the States will be required by some magical formula to raise additional funds- at the moment it is not a State tax but during the New South Wales election campaign the Government parties clearly indicated that it would not be an additional tax- in order to meet the requirements which the community has and which the Commonwealth previously met in areas out of which it has now moved. [More…]

• If revenue from Commonwealth sources which is raised more equitably than revenue from other income sources, either State or municipal, is replaced by those forms of revenue then the cost to the community in the long term increases rather than decreases, and the competence of the community must decrease rather than become the abundant flow which is hoped for and which will send out people to spend their money in glee. [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…]

• Either Labor had not the courage of its convictions or it was unconcerned about the real social need in the Australian community. [More…]

• The introduction of full personal tax indexation is a measure which also has been acclaimed by all sections of the community, including the union movement. [More…]

• But for many people there will be a very real and significant increase in their real take home pay, and the people who will be most affected in that respect are again those who are most in need in the community. [More…]

• Medibank never was and never could be free to the community as a whole. [More…]

• That was the reaction yesterday of South Australia’s Community Welfare Minister, Mr Payne, to the announcement by the Social Security Minister, Senator Guilfoyle, that the Federal Government would cease to provide funds for the Australian Assistance Plan after 12 months from 1 July. [More…]

• [Under AAP, introduced by the previous Labor Government, the Commonwealth provided financial help for community welfare programs through the Regional Councils in which there was considerable local community participation.] [More…]

• ‘The SA Government is firmly committed to the community councils for social development established under State legislation’, the Minister said. [More…]

• In reply to a question asked by a Government supporter the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) said, that 2 specific initiatives had been designed to assist the small business community. [More…]

• There has been a lot of argument on the point that the taxpayers in the poorer section of the community should not subsidise the richer people who go into private or intermediate wards. [More…]

• But it is important to remember that the taxpayers in the poorer section of the community still will have to pay for it because those people who do not insure themselves and who in fact claim deductions for hospital and medical expenses still will be entitled to a rebate of 40c in the dollar for their expenses. [More…]

• But, whatever the reasons, I think it is an important principle, as the Prime Minister pointed out the other day, that the poorer sections of the community do not subsidise those sections of the community which go into intermediate and private wards. [More…]

• We have recognised the special position and the degree of independence needed to help women in the community. [More…]

• We therefore welcome the substantial moves in recent years by several States into the provision of more comprehensive family and community welfare services . [More…]

• There has been great discussion, for example, about the investment allowance, whether this is the best way to try to redress this disgracefully unfair collapse of real profits of the business community. [More…]

• I would much rather see us, for example, force upon the business community the requirement to report profits accurately; in other words, not to say that a piece of plant or equipment is valued at the historic price which was paid for it, but that the piece of equipment should be shown as being depreciated according to what it would cost to replace it. [More…]

• I submit very strongly that if the Government were to force upon the business community the requirement to report depreciation provisions that related to the replacement value of plant, in other words, if it said to the business community that it would get this special depreciation provision provided it reported its accounts to the public in that way, then there would be a massive fall in reported profits by Australian companies. [More…]

• That amateur government did not recognise that monetary policy would have a much more direct and serious impact on the business community than ever before because of its massively increased vulnerability to movements in monetary policy. [More…]

• All of this is paid for by the community eventually. [More…]

• contributions … are beyond the capacity of some members of the community and involve considerable hardship for others … An unduly high proportion of the contributions received by some organisations is absorbed in operating expenses. [More…]

• In other words, Medibank is simply a more efficient mechanism for collecting funds from the whole community to pay to the doctors and hospitals and nursing homes. [More…]

• Under the present Government’s proposal a proportion will still be collected by the Taxation Office as tax and a larger proportion will be collected via the levy from the whole community but still through the Taxation Office. [More…]

• The Government will pay less from the other money collected from the community via what it still calls tax and so will appear to reduce its deficit. [More…]

• The Government is fooling itself but I am sure it will not fool the community with this sleight of hand, this dishonest juggling of words. [More…]

• Another study by the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, a community sponsored prepayment comprehensive direct service movement, agreed with the other studies and showed ‘20 per cent less hospitalisation than a comparable Blue Shield population’ where the doctors are paid on a fee for service basis. [More…]

• have demonstrated that the contrary situation exists in that community, the perinatal and infant mortality among patients receiving care from salaried doctors in group practice being substantially lower than under fee for service plans. [More…]

• Experience in Perth shows that it is not; it is honorary service which is costly to the hospital and community. [More…]

• In terms of administrative costs, the cost of Medibank will be less than the cost to the community of the multitudinous voluntary health insurance funds which now will get much more business. [More…]

• By the Government’s manoeuvre it is increasing the cost of administration by forcing many people back to the voluntary funds and of course increasing the complication and the nuisance value to many members of the community. [More…]

• I am very much aware of the great concern of the Polish community in Perth. [More…]

• Regarding Poland’s place in the socialist community, the revised wording of the constitution omits reference to an ‘unshakable fraternal bond’ with the Soviet Union and simply states that Poland ‘strengthens its friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union and other socialist states’. [More…]

• I certainly endorse the resolutions to this effect which were passed by members of the Polish community of Perth at a public meeting at which I had the privilege of attending in Maylands on 14 March 1976. [More…]

• I am asking the Government to consider seriously stopping payment of that money because I believe that what the Australian Conservation Foundation does is diametrically opposed to everything that this Government is trying to do in this community. [More…]

• Is it correct that the present round-up system of illegal residents allows the apprehended holder of an expired visitor’s visa once again to disappear back into the community? [More…]

• Secondly, the Government wishes to see greater involvement of schools and the community generally in cadet training. [More…]

• It will encompass both school and community sponsored units. [More…]

• Under the new scheme, the Navy, Army and Air cadets will retain their individual identity- a desire which was strongly expressed in the submissions of individuals and community groups and is shared by the Government. [More…]

• The common aim of the Australian Services’ cadet schemes is, by predominantly voluntary effort, better to equip young people for community life by fostering initiative, leadership, discipline and loyalty through training programs also designed to stimulate an interest in a particular arm of the Defence Force. [More…]

• At a later date consideration will be given to the formation of ‘open units’ not attached to any school, but drawing membership from the general community. [More…]

• I believe the community support necessary to make this scheme a success will be forthcoming, and once again cadet training will make a worthwhile contribution to the physical and mental development of Australia’s young people. [More…]

• Does it provide the sort of cost advantage over other benefits that could be achieved by the community if the money were spent elsewhere to justify this sort of outlay? [More…]

• The reason numbers are limited is simply that governments previous to the last Labor Goverment realised what an enormous waste of resources was represented by the cadet undertaking but did not have the political courage to face up to the sort of pressure which would come from the community if they justifiably terminated the system. [More…]

• This coutry has been witness to, some of the most severe and, in many cases, quite unjustified expenditure cuts on very worthwhile community programs, in such areas as health, welfare, education and urban improvement. [More…]

• At the same time, a whole range of important community welfare programs-health services, health benefits- were cut back and made more expensive because they were given a lower priority in the eyes of the Prime Minister. [More…]

• We could have built one or two community health blocks such as those to be found at the Woden Valley Hospital with 222 beds for geriatric, psychiatric and rehabilitation patients, with the full range of therapy facilities. [More…]

• There is a very high demand in the community for that sort of service but it receives a low priority in comparison with the Minister’s hobby-horse. [More…]

• He says the objective of the scheme is, to use his words, ‘by predominantly voluntary effort, better to equip young people for community life’. [More…]

• Aurukun has a Presbyterian mission and the board of the Presbyterian missions asked the Premier of Queensland ‘to withdraw the Bill pending consideration of it by the Aurukun community’ and ‘to ensure that the negotiated rights of the Aboriginal people are safeguarded’. [More…]

• In the community we talk about a competitive spirit. [More…]

• What will that do to the community? [More…]

• But how do we communicate this decision to the rest of the community? [More…]

• Today we are talking about the betrayal by the Queensland Government of the general consensus that has developed in this Parliament and throughout the community concerning the rights of the Aboriginal people and their land. [More…]

• One of the astounding things about Aurukun is that it has shown how widespread throughout the Australian community is concern about Aboriginal affairs- concern about the fate and the future of Aboriginal people; concern about the relationship of Aborigines with their land and the impact of economic exploitation of that land. [More…]

• When I became responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, Aurukun was then a very live issue and I considered it important that of all the places I should go to to meet the Aboriginal people Aurukun should be the first, not only because of the political sensitivity of the matter at the time but because it was a remote Aboriginal community and one where to a very large measure the integrity of the Aboriginal culture still existed. [More…]

• From the time of that visit of mine to Aurukun with people like the legal adviser to the Aurukun community, Mr Frank Purcell, Senator Neville Bonner and departmental officers, we were aware and very conscious of the nature of the concern of the Aurukun people. [More…]

• The lines of authority within the Aboriginal community are not the same as ours. [More…]

• When we speak of giving equal opportunity for employment to an Aboriginal community, it is not enough to ask employers to throw open their employment books to Aborigines and say to them: ‘Write your name down and we will look at the prospects of employing you’ because of course, that ignores the lack of skills, the lack of training and the lack of prior opportunity to be trained in the kinds of skills that a mining operation would require. [More…]

• Other considerations are social development within the community, community facilities, living facilities, town facilities. [More…]

• Are we to have side by side, in an architectural and landscaping sense, a beautifully designed, mining town for mining employees and only a short distance away an Aboriginal community, with all that that implies in terms of past history? [More…]

• We know we have a long way to go because community understanding of what is involved in land rights still leaves much to be desired. [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…]

• 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…]

• I also want to compare the health care situation with that of education, because very few people in the community would now argue aggressively that public school education is second class education, that state school education is not as good as private school education. [More…]

• It has nothing to do with the total cost of health services for the community. [More…]

• So in that case alone, if you were honest with yourselves, dear supporters of the Government, you would concede from a businessman’s point of view that the Australian community would be better off if all its health funds were collected via Medibank, purely on the grounds of efficiency. [More…]

• I can assure the Government that it is ensuring an increased cost for total health care for the community; it is forcing the people to indulge in the voluntary health insurance funds. [More…]

• But the honourable member for Maribyrnong has pointed out that all these things are paid for anyway by the community. [More…]

• I think it is to the eternal disgrace of this country that the Government is seeking to mesmerise the Australian community with the fallacious idea that there are advantages in going into such a gloppy situation. [More…]

• All it is interrested in is a bookkeeping exercise- in somehow fiddling with the books to make it look presentable to the public on the basis that the Government somehow has reduced their liability; but there is no saving to the community when the cost is transferred from one account to another account, when the cost is transferred from the public account, the Budget, into people’s pockets. [More…]

• Of course, in the main doctors are decent, honest Australians doing a great service to our community. [More…]

• He was largely responsible for its introducion I would like to talk about the way in which Medibank has affected some of the little people in the community. [More…]

• At the same time, if the net result is just an increase in the consumer price index, which spreads throughout the whole community, I am not sure that there is any benefit to be gained. [More…]

• If we consume too much of the social dollar on health we are left with insufficient resources for education, for helping the underprivileged in the community and for providing assistance to the needy. [More…]

• But most important and significant is the question of the quality of health care in the community. [More…]

• He is not saying, as some of his colleagues and many people in the community are saying, that the cost of Medibank is becoming prohibitive. [More…]

• The ordinary person may consider that doctors as a group are a terrible lot; they make too much money and they sponge off the community in a variety of ways. [More…]

• The report makes the claim that these doctors were no better or worse than the general run of doctors in the community. [More…]

• The cost was very significantly lower than in the general community where the doctors charge fee for service. [More…]

• The community complained: ‘Why does the Government not pay more?’ [More…]

• Honourable members may recollect that I staunchly defended the firm action in defence of the public evidenced on that occasion by Mr Gorton, who as Prime Minister was one of the first Ministers in a very long period of government in this country prepared to oppose a very powerful vested but minority interest group in the form of the Australian Medical Association in the interests of the community. [More…]

• In Australia, because of these subsidies which were operating before this Bill was brought in, the people in the community with chronic illness, the people who were rather a larger burden on the medical services, were carried by the general taxpayer. [More…]

• It is time the funds were called to heel and forced to recognise that they have a responsibility for the total spectrum of people in the community, not just Medibank. [More…]

• I refer to the Electrolytic Zinc Company Community Council. [More…]

• As the Minister, I think, is well aware from Mr Judd of the Electrolytic Zinc Company Community Council, who saw the Minister last week, members of those funds have a particular pride in being part of those funds, and they have no desire to be forced into a larger fund. [More…]

• They were circumstances in which the opportunities of hundreds of thousands of Australians had been curtailed and destroyed and in which the weaker sections of the community had suffered most of all. [More…]

• Our Medibank reforms show our concern that the poorest people in our community should have access to high quality medical care. [More…]

• It shows above all our concern for the disadvantaged in the Australian community in a way the Opposition never even dreamt of. [More…]

• His comments about the advising received by me as a Minister would be as reliable and have as much integrity about them as other comments he has made from time to time about scandals, staffing disclosures and so on, none of which could stand, all of which help to wither away his own stature in the community. [More…]

• The final observation I want to make specifically in relation to his comments relates to his complete incomprehension, as is displayed so often at question time, of the simple mechanics of Government operations, of the way public finance is shifted about or of the way costs are met in the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister of course is finding his way, but as he stumbles the community pays. [More…]

• It is an expensive course for beginners, and the community has to pay. [More…]

• That is the sort of confusion being fed into the community at present. [More…]

• Am I creating unnecessary fear in the community? [More…]

• The Treasurer has already indicated that it is his objective to obtain a reduction in real income for wage and salary earners in the community. [More…]

• This statement adds credibly and disturbingly to the widespread and growing belief in the community that there is more seventy to come, that we have amateurs handling the affairs of this country. [More…]

• The community health services and facilities program, barely lifted off the ground, has now been slashed by $2 4m. [More…]

• In the urban affairs area the estimates of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development have been reduced by $400m. [More…]

• The basis has been established for a willing and confident cooperation by all sections of the Australian community to arrest inflation and restore economic and social stability. [More…]

• There may be those sections of the community which still insist that Medibank should be totally free. [More…]

• This will call for a maximum effort from all sectors of the community, a willingness on the part of trade unions to respond to Government overtures directed towards accord and increased prospects for employees to derive a fair share from such prosperity as the Government’s policies may attain. [More…]

• However, we are aware that the business community in its collective and individual judgment will undoubtedly take the view that it will not spend on new productive equipment unless it knows that it will have a market. [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…]

• Let those honourable members and others in the community who are concerned for the Aborigines in Australia take note of this: Of every dollar spent on Aboriginal welfare only 13c ever reached the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• and with it community confidence, is on the way to restoration. [More…]

• One could well imagine, I might add, the sort of problems which would arise if governments were freely and not too thoughtfully to throw about the community the legal advisings which come to them. [More…]

• From today the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Newman) will act as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In practice the power and responsibilities of that guardianship have been delegated to the Director-General, the Department of Community Welfare in South Australia, and to the principal officers of the relevant child welfare authorities in other States and Territories. [More…]

• Department of Youth, Ethnic & Community Services, [More…]

• Soviet maritime activity in the Indian Ocean, despite some of the cynics in bur community, is of a very significant proportion. [More…]

• It is quite possible for me to make a comment or a request to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as it is proper, I think, for any member of the Australian community to do so. [More…]

• I remind the honourable gentleman that every survey that is coming out at the present time from the business sector reports increasing confidence by the business community, and it is because the business community now has a government that knows where it is going, which is unlike what it would have with the honourable gentleman, who - [More…]

• It offers a real hope for containing costs in Australia while maintaining the purchasing power of the less well paid members of our community. [More…]

• It is up to all sections of the Australian community to back that decision in their own interests and those of Australia’s economic recovery. [More…]

• The detailed appropriation of revenue in the Supply Bills does not give very much indication of what the Government will do in the next Budget but there are 2 areas in particular- the appropriation for Aborigines and the appropriation for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- which draw to our attention once again the unfortunate statement of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) which was made on Thursday of last week, in which he announced such devastating cuts in so many areas of government spending. [More…]

• The tragedy of the situation is that expenditure of money on Aborigines now could have such a wonderfully beneficial social effect on integrating the Aboriginal community into our Australian community. [More…]

• By reducing the appropriation for Aborigines as this Government is doing, as is witnessed in one of the Supply Bills before us, we can only come to the realisation that the Aboriginal community, growing in numbers, will become more and more bitter and that the expenditure on Aborigines by this Parliament over succeeding years will have to be greater in order to overcome those problems. [More…]

• However, before moving on to deal with that overall strategy, let me mention the other appropriation to which I have already alluded- that for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• What environment development, what housing development or what community development will there be after the drastic reduction in funds that is apparent in both of the Supply Bills? [More…]

• What we want is confidence in the community. [More…]

• If this cutting is seen to be a virtue, then its adverse effects will, of course, flow over into the community. [More…]

• My question to the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) today gave just one indication of the adverse effect this attitude has had on the community because since the Treasurer’s statement- itself allegedly designed to bring confidence to the community- the stock exchange indices, one of the most immediate indicators, have shown a downturn. [More…]

• I return to the details of the Supply Bills and say that particularly in the areas of appropriations for Aborigines and appropriations for environment, housing and community development, we see the first signs of real cuts. [More…]

• It has diverted more income to the less well off section in the community. [More…]

• The community has a different area of approach to so many things, but the greatest needs m Australia are those things supplied by governments- communication, transport, housing finance, roads, railways and all the rest. [More…]

• Because there is still a great deal of confusion not only in the House but also in the community at large, I think it is important again to draw to the attention of the House the fact that the wool support scheme, the floor price scheme, operated by the Corporation is financed by the growers. [More…]

• It is always rather sad that members of the Country Party are never generous enough to acknowledge that the Labor Party has ever done anything good for the rural community. [More…]

• We are concerned that not only within the Convention but also within other aspects of discussion of responsibility in our community there be proper recognition of local government. [More…]

• One of the great political developments of our time has been the resurgence of community involvement in the solving of community problems. [More…]

• Local government is very much the instrument for community involvement in the solving of community problems. [More…]

• I believe, as regards financial matters which to many minds are all that matters constitutionally in Australia, it is more necessary even than it was when the Constitutional Convention was first mooted in 1971-72 that there should be amendments of the Constitution to permit local government to have the recognition and the role which all of us now would recognise that it must have in a contemporary community. [More…]

• Some of these innovations also involved local government and the community at the grass roots level decision-making process. [More…]

• It was also an attempt to direct people’s attention to their environment and to encourage them to become involved in solving the problems of their community. [More…]

• We also saw regions as the most effective forms of clearing houses for the delivery of State and Commonwealth services to the community. [More…]

• It was also the best way in which the community and groups within the community could participate in the planning and decisionmaking process in respect of the services provided bv all levels of government. [More…]

• They do have pacesetting effects or they can lead to leap-frogging between various groups in the community, with one award which is granted in one place leading to higher awards for other groups in the community. [More…]

• In these days when we talk increasingly of a social contract in industrial relations, of arriving at some general agreement between government and trade unions on what should be the general level of wage increases in the community, of what could be the total package in terms of things like taxation measures, tax indexation, wage increases and various economic measures that might be introduced, it is even more necessary that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission should be required to take into account matters of direct relevance to the economy. [More…]

• Wage restraint, as most people in the community recognise now, is essential for economic recovery. [More…]

• Such co-operation is vital in the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• -The short answer is that legally Portugal is still allegedly the administering authority but, after all, it opted out of that role and there have been too few prepared to remind the world community of Portugal’s own delinquency in this regard. [More…]

• Because of the discussions that have occurred the Commissions are very much aware of their need to serve the Australian community in the broadest sense. [More…]

• Because of necessity this was part of the package of economic proposals announced by the Treasurer and it was not possible to have prior discussions with the funds to enable them to have their schedules ready for announcement at the same time as the Treasurer’s statement, nor was it possible to have prior discussion with all sections of the Australian community that might be involved. [More…]

• I ask the Acting Minister for the Environment, Housing, and Community Development whether the environmental impact statement on the Concorde has been exempted from the requirements under the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974-75. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I ask: In view of his answer to the question from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and in accordance with the administrative procedures of the Environment Protection Act, when was the final environmental impact statement prepared by the proponent, which I take it was British Airways? [More…]

• In fairness to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, I think that I, as Minister responsible for the decision ultimately to allow Concorde to come to Australia, should answer the question asked by the honourable member for Maribyrnong. [More…]

• The cost of postage is one of the most contentious issues in the community at the moment. [More…]

• If the wage increases will not be damaging to the price level of the rest of the community through higher prices, why should those increases not be granted? [More…]

• I do not need to stress the importance of this in the overall interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that what I suggest is also correct total economics and it takes account of the fact that in the determination of any award there is a local effect in relation to the dispute itself, but there is also an aggregate effect related to the economic growth of the community, related to deflationary effects that may occur in the economy and related to a possible credit squeeze in the economy. [More…]

• The Conciliation and Arbitration Act is among the 5 Acts of this Parliament which are most used in the community and which ought to be the easiest of all to follow. [More…]

• Sixthly, problems of energy and raw material supplies have faced the international community with a novel set of problems which, if unwisely handled, could add a new set of disputes to the catalogue of dangers confronting mankind. [More…]

• Above all I have advocated that Australia recognise China’s central role in the affairs of our region and her rightful claim to a place in the world community. [More…]

• I do not want to overstate it, but it has been a great loss to the international community. [More…]

• There can be no justification for the efforts of the Prime Minister to inject emotional fears into the community by falsely representing the situation. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Opposition pointed out, if there were escalation of a Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean it would cause as much alarm for the Opposition as for any other body in the community. [More…]

• What causes us the great alarm at the moment is the way in which the Government is reprehensibly prepared to distort, magnify and totally misrepresent the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean in an effort to create a quite irrational fever of concern in the community and to distort the possibilities of developing detente internationally and maintaining some sort of sensible relationship in the areas near this country. [More…]

• Although the present Government has so far continued the national air monitoring program through this Bill, and while the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) indicated his personal support for improved air quality monitoring in his second reading speech, what does the future hold for this program? [More…]

• The way in which the Fraser Government abolished large numbers of positions in the former Department of the Environment when it was made a part of the new Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is another. [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development did not indicate whether his Government intends to extend this program over the 4 year period. [More…]

• These companies, as well as several European manufacturers, have recognised their responsibilities to the community as manufacturers. [More…]

• There are people in our community, including members of all political parties and indeed members of the Australian Conservation Council, who are genuinely concerned with the environmental impact of our actions. [More…]

• The Government’s policy is that the telephone network should continue to be developed to serve the reasonable needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Community Health Centres- Committees of Management: [More…]

• Federal-State Co-ordinating Committee for Nursing Home Accommodation in S.A. Eastern Regional Geriatric Rehabilitation Advisory Committee Southern Regional Geriatric Rehabilitation Advisory Committee State-Federal Committee on Community Health Planning Federal-State Mosquito Control Committee (Torrens Island) [More…]

• The Minister for Overseas Trade will no doubt be well aware of the ban on beef imports by the European Economic Community and the effect it is having on Australian beef producers. [More…]

• -Since this Government took office- since the Australian people put us into office convincingly- the Government has been extremely active in continuing its effort to try to get greater access for primary products to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• They were also told that in the future the Community would again provide a continuing market for large quantities of beef. [More…]

• I ask the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question. [More…]

• The only thing I can say about the question, which is related to one that the honourable member for Lang attempted to ask yesterday- I will try to answer part of what he was getting at- is that we have a commitment to community development projects. [More…]

• The Government believes that that allowance is certainly required by the business community at the present time in order to seek to initiate and maintain that form of incentive which business needs to get investment under way once again. [More…]

• I must observe that questions on environment, housing and community development seem much more popular than questions on repatriation. [More…]

• His colleague, the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) also failed to comply with the requirements of the Act. [More…]

• These regulations were ignored by both the Minister for Transport and the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Regulation 8.2 provides that the final environmental impact statement, when prepared, will be circulated to interested bodies, including the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and those people who made comments on the draft. [More…]

• Regulation 9.1 provides that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development shall examine the final environmental impact statement on behalf of its Minister. [More…]

• After it has been circulated, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development must examine the final statement on behalf of its Minister. [More…]

• It has not been done even though I am informed that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development had many questions to ask British Airways if its final environment impact statement did not satisfactorily dispel many major doubts raised by concerned Australians such as the Society for Social Responsibility in Science. [More…]

• But some blame must be placed on the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister responsible for the administration of the Act. [More…]

• As a former Minister who was closely associated with the departments that now form the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, I have no doubt that the officers of that department advised the former Acting Minister to ensure that the procedures were followed. [More…]

• If the Minister for Transport maintains that his actions were legal and that the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development agreed that there was no need for these procedures to be followed, I call on the Minister for Transport to table the letter that is required under the legislation to have been sent to him by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development under regulations 11.1 and 1 1.4. [More…]

• This view was supported eventually by my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development Parliament House, Canberra, A.C.T. [More…]

• The letter confirms that in the judgment of the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on the information that had been made available there was no need for a public inquiry. [More…]

• In other words this is the impact statement, with an addendum covering the submissions that have been made on it by Australians, upon which the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development made their judgment that there is no cause for a public inquiry. [More…]

• That is why we discussed the details of the legislation with many groups in the community and with members of the then Opposition, the present Government. [More…]

• But, on the Minister’s own admission, the final EIS has not yet been received by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Minister for Transport could have asked the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for an exemption from the requirements of the procedures. [More…]

• Perhaps, in accordance with section 11.2, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development consulted the Department of Transport concerning the request for exemption. [More…]

• He should stop insulting the intelligence of the Australian community. [More…]

• I note the letter that the Minister for Transport received from the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, which says, in part: [More…]

• It looks to me as though the former Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has made the mistake. [More…]

• In rising as the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and therefore the one concerned in the application of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act, I have certain difficulties. [More…]

• Secondly, I have had only a short time to acquaint myself with the provisions of this Act and the responsibilities of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Such is the report of the Medibank Review Committee which the Prime Minister refuses to release to the community or to the Parliament. [More…]

• The tragedy and suffering this causes reaches everyone in our community at some stage or other. [More…]

• This Parliament and the community should not be denied information under the smokescreen of an economy drive. [More…]

• I see the assistance given by the Commonwealth as a catalyst which already has commenced to generate a massive response by the industry to the advantage of the community at large. [More…]

• They were subjected to great pressure from the community because of the increased number of deaths and accidents that were taking place on the roads. [More…]

• This was most unfortunate because it meant that a rational, informed discussion of one of the most significant cost items a government has to bear and a community has to bear did not take place. [More…]

• It would remove all of the turmoil, the confusion and the concern which dominates thinking in the community at present about what is happening to Medibank and what is going to happen to the States’ hospital systems. [More…]

• In case there are a growing number of people in the community who think that they can make it by themselves, that they can be self-reliant and that there is some substance in the frequently expressed philosophy of the Prime Minister in these things that ‘public spending spoils people’ or in the philosophy of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that ‘it makes them too soft’, I should like to remind them that few actually could afford the cost of extended, expensive treatment in a hospital at present if they met the full market cost of that sort of service. [More…]

• I repeat, and it cannot be said often enough, that the best standards of health service come from our public hospitals and that access to adequate health services cannot be guaranteed to a public unless there are adequate public hospital services available in the community. [More…]

• There can be only one conclusion on the part of any reasonable person in the community: That, in the light of the fact that the Government will not proceed with validating legislation, it temporises with interim legislation and states that it intends to negotiate with the States and implies by the way in which it says this that it is going to be a tough negotiation and the States are not going to be as well treated as they were under the arrangements which we as a government entered into with them. [More…]

• He even reprimanded the then shadow Minister for Health, the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp), who seems to be the only person on the Government side who has ever taken the trouble to understand at least some of the concepts of health services and health services financing in the community. [More…]

• Medibank is good- good because of its achievements in covering everyone in the community, good because of the security it gives to people, good because of the summarisation it has removed from the deserving poor under the old subsidised health insurance benefit scheme which was a total failure, and good most of all because it spread the taxpayer’s dollar further. [More…]

• It provided total cover in the community and it did so at no additional cost. [More…]

• We are going back to the old system of private health insurance which means it will be more expensive for individuals in the community to cover themselves with private insurance because of the inefficient nature of the private health insurance system. [More…]

• It will stimulate all sorts of industrial disputation in the community and wage demands. [More…]

• There is just no justification whatsoever for having bed charges in public hospitals for private and intermediate ward accommodation pitched at $20 and $30 a day when the cost of those beds to the taxpayer, to the community, is more in the order of $100 a day. [More…]

• The community at large has to pay in one way or another for the provision of any service that the Government offers, that the Government gives. [More…]

• I want to make it perfectly clear that what we are doing in the modified Medibank proposal is directing the subsidies to the most disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• I repeat that the new arrangements direct the subsidy to the most needy section of the community. [More…]

• I think that what we have done has been to impose a levy in such a way that it directs the subsidy to the most disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• I do not think the cost has run out of control more than have most other costs in the community. [More…]

• In fact Medibank could cost more and yet be a saving to the community and to the public at large. [More…]

• Obviously past Liberal-Country governments should have tailored the level of production in dairy products as far as practicable to balance with realistic domestic and overseas market demand, with production designed to suit the long term trends in markets for agricultural commodities, such as the decline in access to the European Economic Community markets. [More…]

• With the virtual loss of this market, due to the United Kingdom joining the European Economic Community and due to the somewhat selfish, inward looking trade barriers of the EEC, these industries are left with a high export component from their total production. [More…]

• We are dependent, on export, to the extent of about 57 per cent of the total production of our dairy industry, which in the early 1960s was mainly to Great Britain before it joined the European Economic Community. [More…]

• When we compared this with the average holding in Australia of 73 cows per farm we can see that there is no question that the efficiency of our dairy industry is vastly superior to that of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It ill behoves anyone to criticise the Government of Australia for what has happened, because anyone with any knowledge of the industry knows that the problems have been mostly thrust upon us by the policies emanating from the European Economic Community, which are completely outside our control. [More…]

• I have always found solicitors and counsel to be people of honour who are prepared to make their commitment to the needy people in this community. [More…]

• This extra cost is borne by the whole community. [More…]

• This over manning is a very substantial cost which is borne by the whole community. [More…]

• We do not want to have uneconomic subsidised com- petition for which the community must bear theeavy cost. [More…]

• I repeat that costs are automatically passed on to the community. [More…]

• The community particularly ought to have greater knowledge of the practices followed by the airlines of applying for extensions to the service periods of engine parts and particularly of engines. [More…]

• There have been accidents in the past but let me point out to the community at large that I understand that on general average a person has approximately 1000 times greater chance of being killed in a road accident than he has in an air accident by a commercial carrier. [More…]

• The organisations likely to be affected include the National Youth Council of Australia, the Scout Association, the Girl Guides Association, the Surf Life Saving Association, amateur sporting organisations, the Duke of Edinburgh Award Committee, the Outward Bound Movement and other community and church youth organisations. [More…]

• They stress that their organisations cater for hundreds of thousands of young people from all sections of the community, not a mere 42 000 young males who attend our more affluent private schools. [More…]

• If we look at some of the decisions that have been made recently on Medibank, on the indexation of taxation, on the new family allowances scheme and on depreciation allowances as incentives to industries, we see that there is nothing more certain than that this Government, in the few months it has been in office, is making ad hoc decisions, it has its priorities and is aiming not at the people in the community who deserve assistance but rather at the people who follow the Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]

• I appeal to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Newman), to ensure that the programs commenced or enlarged by the Whitlam Government for the young people of Australia are maintained at least at the present level for 1976-77. [More…]

• It is the role of any government to give assistance to any community group, particularly where that group by such assistance will be able to better itself in life. [More…]

• It seems that people involved in the media business are able to use the media to create their own news items (a reflection on payment for news reported) and extending this bias into the community. [More…]

• It has started the move to restore major confidence in the private sector by making it quite plain that this Government is not going to take, and continue to take, a larger share of resources from the taxpayers of Australia- resources that are needed to provide real, productive jobs throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• This continued high level of support emphasises the Government’s firm commitment to support and encourage the development of the arts throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Ideally, the arts through individual and community patronage should be self-supporting, but there are few if any places where this happens. [More…]

• We believe a genuinely vigorous and stimulating artistic climate will emerge only when governments, individuals, private enterprises and corporations are actively and cooperatively offering decentralised and diversified patronage for the arts in our community. [More…]

• We know that basically parliamentarians are held in contempt by the community. [More…]

• It ought to be a matter of some concern, not because we are thin skinned but because we are not taken seriously in the community. [More…]

• It ought to be a matter of concern to the community that the media and spokesmen in the community find great glee in attacking politicians and laughing at them each time they want a salary increase or each time they receive an alleged perk. [More…]

• People say now that parliamentarians are amongst the most highly paid people in the community. [More…]

• They are by no means overpaid when one considers the role which the community expects them to play. [More…]

• When the policies put before the Minister are policies of other persons, the community ought to be concerned. [More…]

• The community really asks the impossible of its politicians. [More…]

• Because of the contempt in which the community hold politicians, governments have been afraid that if they gave more resources to back benchers there would be a public outcry: ‘They are feathering their own nests’. [More…]

• The community cannot have it both ways. [More…]

• Information is now filtering through that because of cuts in allocations to the community health program by the Federal Government to the State, the Health Commission of New South Wales will be faced with the situation of having no alternative but to phase down the building activity on Westmead Hospital, yet it is an urgent work. [More…]

• This comes into the field of this Federal Government which is responsible for allocating funds to the New South Wales Health Commission under the community health program. [More…]

• All Government pensions reduce individual incentive towards thrift, self-help and self-reliance; but is generally conceded that no member of a civilised community, however unfortunate or improvident, should be reduced below the minimum level; and Governments (including the Australian Government) generally and quite rightly set the basic rate of pension substantially above this level. [More…]

• Yesterday the Minister for Overseas Trade (Mr Anthony) referred to meat exports to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It was not until Labor became the Government in 1972 that we saw the establishment of a Department of Tourism and Recreation which was charged with the responsibility of doing something for those people in our community- young, middle-aged and old- who desired to participate in competitive sport or in some other field of recreational activity. [More…]

• This appears to me to be an entirely responsible approach to the provision of community facilities having regard to the resources available and to the demands across the nation. [More…]

• Since those 2 statements we have seen the youth, sport and recreation sections hidden in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The provision of opportunities for sport, competitive recreation and purposeful use of leisure time are vitally important to our concept of community development. [More…]

• I made a speech during the adjournment debate last night in which I asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to see that the allocations of funds to sports, youth and recreational organisations are continued in the 1976-77 Budget. [More…]

• The Bill is a tangible indication of this Government’s commitment to the principle that Aboriginals and Islanders should be as free as other Australians to determine their own future and to take their rightful place as citizens in the Australian community. [More…]

• Councils are geographically-based bodies which may undertake a variety of functions on behalf of an Aboriginal community of the area, provided that these include the provision of at least one of the kinds of services listed in clause 11(3) such as housing, health, municipal and related services. [More…]

• By providing for the incorporation of councils, the legislation will allow Aboriginal communities to incorporate without requiring registration of community membership, as in the case of associations. [More…]

• A council is in the nature of a community corporation based on a local Aboriginal social structure serving the special interests of that community. [More…]

• As well, it ignores much of the community not directly part of either sector. [More…]

• More important, however, is the simple fact that, if we want this nation of ours to develop its full potential and to generate the goods and services needed to accommodate the community’s increasingly rising and diversified material and other aspirations, we must utilise our resources in the most efficient manner compatible with our other policy objectives. [More…]

• I stress both these considerations- namely, the objective of efficient resource utilisation and the fact that the community and the Government may also have other objectives which are not directly in harmony with the first objective, at least in other than the very long term. [More…]

• Equally, account should be taken of the costs incurred by the whole community in which the industry operates. [More…]

• We, along with most other developed countries, are in the midst of a fundamental reappraisal by the community of quality of life issues, of the appropriateness of the traditional work ethic and of the whole gamut of industrial relations. [More…]

• There are of course the European Economic Community, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the 2 Americas. [More…]

• From now on we have to be a community that really faces up to the problems, and not just accede to the wishes of particular industries in particular areas. [More…]

• We have an obligation as a relatively wealthy member of the world community to assist the developing countries with our international trade arrangements. [More…]

• I find myself very much in sympathy with his comments and his strong recommendation that we think again about the restriction of moneys to this area of activity in the community. [More…]

• There is considerable concern in the Australian community today about the Government’s entire approach to Aboriginal affairs, and about the sense of priorities involved in the allocation of funds for those purposes. [More…]

• There are some houses in isolated regions where the architect has gone mad with expensive free-standing roofs made with massive overscaled steel trusses and also other instances where there has been excessive use of plate glass picture windows which are often the first casualty in an Aboriginal community where broken glass can be seen all over the place. [More…]

• I have seen top quality bricks carted long distances to a housing project where the community has had every capacity to learn the skill of cement brick making. [More…]

• We must have money for the schemes, the ideas, the education, the housing, the health care- you name it- for the Aborigines, to bring Aborigines up to a standard whereby they can hold their heads high in the community. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition trumpet here about the good that organisation is doing the community. [More…]

• Something should be done whereby the Aboriginal community benefits from these organisations. [More…]

• The people of Hill End regard the hostel today as part and parcel of their community. [More…]

• I have said to a few people: ‘Come with me and we will watch the high school coming out, or we will look at some people who are settling into the community quite well and have been accepted by their neighbours’. [More…]

• This is where I think the white community has to change its attitudes. [More…]

• I believe that, not for the purposes of this Act but the the purposes of other Acts, we should be adding words which confine the definition to those people who claim to be Aboriginals and who are accepted as Aboriginals in the community with which they are associated. [More…]

• Likewise the success of government programs and the outlook of the Australian community towards Aboriginals will be exemplified by the occasions when people realise that Aboriginals must be judged by their conduct in the same way as other Australians are judged. [More…]

• If we seek to understand it and give full recognition to it within our community, then in this way we can seek to bring about fundamental social changes in what we as a government and as a people do in respect of Aborigines. [More…]

• At the present time, because the EFIC is not able under its Act to give these bonds, Australian industry is not able to enter into a fair comparative position with competition in the United States, the European Economic Community and so on. [More…]

• It is certainly relevant for the business community to be aware that there are some facilities available. [More…]

• It was a truly joint effort between the community and government. [More…]

• I trust that this relatively minor adjustment to our export armoury will encourage our business community to accept more readily the good sense of investing overseas and shows that it is in fact a normal commercial decision rather than some move shrouded in the mystery of government control and interference. [More…]

• As the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) said in his second reading speech: [More…]

• This Bill does not assist any other groups in our community. [More…]

• The amendment covers various areas of the existing program, including the Government’s commitment to introduce a new home savings grant scheme, a program that will allow equity and pride in ownership and a possibility for young members of the community to purchase their first home. [More…]

• We are not opposed to this as long as the Government understands that it will not be able to spread the wealth of money to many other needy people in the community. [More…]

• Despite what the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) said in the second reading speech, if a person attracts a grant for a home under the homes savings grant scheme and the home is for the purposes of rental or sale, provided the person has never had a home before he can go on to rent it or to sell it. [More…]

• You have little regard for the needy people in this community- the homeless people. [More…]

• But community attitudes are changing. [More…]

• The Australian Conservation Foundation with its 7 000 members is one of the bodies that has played a great role in educating the community on these issues. [More…]

• It deserves the gratitude of the community and of future generations for what it has achieved. [More…]

• Environmental issues must be one of the factors considered in each decision, together with other factors such as the economic cost and community convenience. [More…]

• Its value to the community is enormous for present and future generations. [More…]

• With that in mind I asked my research assistant and secretary to conduct a survey among some people in my electorate to try to find out what were the attitudes that were being reflected in the community. [More…]

• I just want to put that forward as perhaps suggesting that there might be some people in the community who have an abhorrence of the questions that are going to be asked and who as a group will not comply. [More…]

• It occurred to me that perhaps I should talk about a similar situation in my electorate, the Northcote Community Hospital, which is bursting at the seams and which carries the highest casualty load of any of the metropolitan hospitals. [More…]

• I want to use that example to urge that honourable members respect the program of community health and welfare centres started by Dr Everingham when he was Minister for Health in the last 2 Parliaments. [More…]

• West Heidelberg is a good example of the success of these community health and welfare centres. [More…]

• When the opportunity was given to them to say what they wanted for medical treatment and social work and residents of the area, who apparently were downgraded in this report, actively formed their own committee, got expert advice and put up a case to the Federal Government under the community health and welfare centre scheme for such a centre. [More…]

• This enabled them to start originally in a couple of Housing Commission flats, with nurses and social workers who were able to visit homes, who were able to become involved with the community, a community which, despite what was said in that inquiry, was ready to be involved and was ready to play its part and help in the management of such a centre and use the facilities that were there. [More…]

• There too, despite the fact that social workers and the like would say that this is an area of great deprivation and with not a great initiative, the residents took the opportunity to ask for and receive from the last Government an appropriate health and community welfare centre which they are helping to manage and which they are using. [More…]

• Two primary industries have suffered more than any other as a result of British entry into the European Economic Community and changed market demand. [More…]

• Appropriate arrangements concerning environmental safeguards will be applied in consultation with state governments by a group of officials led by officials of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I rise in this debate to forward the proposition explained by the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr MacKellar) and the previous speakers from the Government side and to rebut some of the spurious arguments advanced by members of the Opposition. [More…]

• Even at this late stage once again I make a special appeal to the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to see whether it is possible to make retrospective payments to people who built their homes and, on account of” inflation, exceeded the $22,500, even by the sum of $400 or $500. [More…]

• I was pleased to hear, and I agree with in part, some of the submissions put by a former eminent criminal counsel, and one who was fairly well respected by all quarters of the community, the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Birney). [More…]

• All of these are required for heating by all sections of the community, that is, public, private, commercial and industrial. [More…]

• The fuels authority would be required to establish storage facilities for both liquid and solid fuels so that the community could withstand any delivery problems for up to 3 months. [More…]

• As this stock of fuel would be for community services its cost should be provided for by the community. [More…]

• With the co-operation and goodwill of other spheres of government and the community, we are determined to ensure that the principles set out in the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the National Estate are honoured. [More…]

• Fundamentally, the responsibility for protecting the national estate is one that rests on the whole community, including governments. [More…]

• They show also our concern to work with the States and the voluntary bodies, and indeed with the whole community for the improvement of environmental and conservation standards. [More…]

• I immediately think of one of the most enthusiastic and efficient cadet groups I knew and this was at the Mount Morgan High School, a small mining community, not the mecca of sons of the idle rich. [More…]

• The Government’s attitude seems to be to dismantle and destroy as quickly as possible all initiatives introduced by the Labor Government, irrespective of their merit or community demand. [More…]

• I agree that all members of parliament, all leaders of the community, have an obligation to develop qualities of leadership, discipline, selfreliance and loyalty in our young people; but I doubt that the introduction of the new cadet scheme will achieve those aims in a wide enough section of the community for it to be of any great value. [More…]

• We see how this Government now and other governments of similar political persuasion during the period between 1949 and 1972 have shown lack of consideration of the young girls in our community. [More…]

• That is the impact statement that the whole world community deserves to be shown. [More…]

• It is a fundamental change in social thinking in Australia to recognise that within our community there are some people, the Aborigines, who live by a unique and distinct system of customary law. [More…]

• It is the objective of the Government to secure conditions in which all Australians can realise their own goals in life-to find fulfilment in their own way- consistent with the interests of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• A. Staley, M.P.Minister for the Captal Territory; Senator the Honourable M. G. C. Guilfoyle- Minister for Social Security; the Honourable R. I. Viner, M.P.-Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; the Honourable R. Payne, M.P.-Minister of Community Welfare, South Australia; the Honourable B. Dixon, M.P.-Minister for Social Welfare and Youth, Sport and Recreation, Victoria; the Honourable J. Herbert, M.L.A.- Minister for Community Welfare Services, Queensland; the Honourable D. J. Baldock, M.H.A.- Minister for Housing and Social Welfare, Tasmania; the Honourable N. E. Baxter, M.P.-Minister for Community Welfare, Western Australia; the Honourable R. F. Jackson, M.P.-Minister for Youth and Community Services, New South Wales; the Honourable R. J. Walker, M.P.-Minister for Social Welfare, New Zealand. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government does not propose to make funds available for new community welfare projects but commitments on projects already approved, but not totally funded, will be met. [More…]

• Beyond this, the Commonwealth does not propose further funding for the Australian Assistance Plan either for community welfare projects or for administration or development. [More…]

• 1 ) What was Australia’s attitude to the counter proposals of the European Economic Community and the United States on international grain stabilisation proposals at the GATT cereals sub-group meeting on 28 January 1976. [More…]

• European Community: $57,000, 150 000 tonnes of powdered milk. [More…]

• Is it expected that the Commission will be able to achieve the necessary growth in output of 7 per cent needed to meet the community demand despite the reductions imposed upon it for the year 1 975-76. [More…]

• Having regard to these difficulties, will Telecom Australia be able to meet the needs of the business community and the private subscribers for the remainder of the year 1975-76 and for the year 1976-77. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the provision of 2 community nurses at Narromine. [More…]

• 1 ) Under the Community Health Program administered by my Department, Commonwealth funds have been made available to the Health Commission of New South Wales to assist in the appointment of a community nurse and a community nurse aide to be based at Narromine. [More…]

• Commonwealth assistance made available under the Community Health Program for this service was $10,380 in 1975-76. [More…]

• The usual level of Commonwealth assistance under the Community Health Program applies to this service, namely, 75 per cent of capital costs and 90 per cent of operating costs. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development has announced that outstanding legal commitments for 1976-77 in Albury-Wodonga will be met fully. [More…]

• Has the Commonwealth Government followed the example of the Queensland Government in officially recognising the descendants of the South Sea Islanders as a distinct ethnic group in the community. [More…]

• 3 ) South Sea Islanders and their descendants arc eligible for assistance available to the general community. [More…]

• asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Housing and Community Development have. [More…]

• The report entitled ‘Geelong Strategy- Employment in Geelong’ can be obtained from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Housing and Community Development or by agencies responsible to the Minister or his Department in a staff recruiting capacity and what amounts are chargeable to that Department or such agencies in respect of their annual salaries. [More…]

• To what extent does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development or any such agency engage private employment agencies to assist in the recruitment of staff. [More…]

• Housing and Community Development or any such agency in engaging private employment agencies in the financial year 1974-75. [More…]

• 4 ) I’o what extent does the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development or any such agency engage or otherwise obtain assistance from the Commonwealth Employment Service in the recruitment of staff and what sum has been paid to the Commonwealth Employment Service in respect of such assistance. [More…]

• Ivor Greenwood, Q.C, as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Peter Durack to hold offices of Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Minister for Repatriation respectively. [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and Senator Durack will represent the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) and the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard). [More…]

• Earlier than most, he foresaw the importance of bringing China into the international community. [More…]

• He enjoyed the respect and affection of the whole community. [More…]

• I think that all of us who knew him as a citizen respected him as one who had a continuing interest in the community around him. [More…]

• He was a man who contributed in countless ways to the community. [More…]

• At the same time it will build further on the social reforms of 20 May so as to assist the most needy in our community. [More…]

• But the Government and all sections of the community must persist with the fundamental task. [More…]

• I think the House would agree that clearly something which is suggestive of the use of drugs, and in particular hard drugs, ought not to be available in the community especially if it is sold as a toy, directed to young people, said to be good for laughs or capable of drawing blood, giving shots or the like. [More…]

• The first relates to item 18 of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations which refers to goods dangerous or a menace to the community. [More…]

• It is also, I put to the House, necessary that warnings be given to the community generally and that the House and the Minister be advised of other places where this product might be on sale. [More…]

• Surely in the interests of the community an approach to retailers to refuse to sell these items would be warranted. [More…]

• In 1973-74, the cost to the general community of these tax concessions totalled over $ 12m and, by 1980, they could cost in excess of $40m annually depending on movements in production costs and in the price of gold. [More…]

• Those recommendations seeking action on the part of the Aboriginal community and the action which I am informed has been taken by the community are: 7: The Aboriginal community has established an incorporated body to represent the community’s interests, including the receipt and disbursement of moneys generated by the mining project. [More…]

• 1 1: The Aboriginal community is actively considering this recommendation which relates to a contentious matter within the community. [More…]

• Recommendations seeking action by Nabalco Pty Ltd and action which I am informed the company is taking in respect of those recommendations are: 3: The Company has adopted the practice of holding meetings with the Aboriginal community on an ad hoc basis when specific issues need to be discussed, rather than at tegular monthly intervals as was the earlier practice; these meetings are held at various locations appropriate to the subject under discussion. [More…]

• S: The Company has been seeking to improve the effectiveness of its communication with the Aboriginal people and is prepared to meet with the Aboriginal people at any time or place nominated by them; the Aboriginal community is free to avail itself of whatever outside advice it considers necessary. [More…]

• 13: The present red mud disposal areas were established as pilot projects but have continued in use pending negotiations of further leases for red mud disposal; the effects of red mud disposal on the environment are being taken into account in the consideration of the Company’s further requirements; the appropriate Government Departments, the Aboriginal community and the Company are involved in these negotiations. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• On 12 March 1 976 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development formally invited the Queensland Government to nominate members for the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• In a statement issued on 20 May 1976 the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development advised that an urgent review of the National Sewerage Program was being undertaken. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The information requested is not held by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• and (2) The Information requested is not held by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Consultation at the local community level takes place at Consultative Committee meetings held twice yearly in each of the seven areas into which the State is divided for administrative purposes. [More…]

• The Aboriginal Medical Service field staff consult at a training level with major hospitals and liaise with Community Health Services field staff informally. [More…]

• Community Health Services has recently conducted seminars for field staff in Kalgoorlie and Port Hedland which should promote more effective consultation in the future. [More…]

• The Community Health Services Director is a member by standing invitation of the Medical Committee of the Aboriginal Medical Service. [More…]

• Community Health Services, with an increased Aboriginal field staff, has local contact with communities throughout the State. [More…]

• Community Health Services is making a baseline health study of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Community Health Services conduct Health Education programs in schools and the Education Department is currently reviewing the effectiveness of the program. [More…]

• The terms of this recommendation are now receiving priority attention from the Aboriginal Affairs Co-ordinating Committee Health sub-committee which includes representatives of the Alcohol and Drug Authority, Community Health Services and the Department for Community Welfare. [More…]

• The Alcohol and Drug Authority in conjunction with Community Health Services, Department of Corrections, Aboriginal Medical Service and Aboriginal organisations is developing proposals for management and treatment of habitual drinkers. [More…]

• Agreement has been reached between the State Housing Commission and the Department for Community Welfare to give priority in towns where reserve closure is planned and applicants appear to have potential. [More…]

• Houses for use as training centres have been offered to the Department for Community Welfare by the State Housing Commission. [More…]

• The Department for Community Welfare has indicated its intention to appoint as many homemakers as are required subject only to the availability of suitable personnel. [More…]

• The Commission does obtain views of other agencies, including the Department for Community Welfare but does not accept that any other agency can determine standards for tenants. [More…]

• The Department of Education is now reviewing the health education program for schools and communities in conjunction with the Community Health Services with a view to upgrading the service as required. [More…]

• The Aboriginal Affairs Co-ordinating Committee has authorised its Health Sub-committee to invite the Community Recreation Council to participate in its activities. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The following list shows the sporting organisations known to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the latest available registration figures. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community The registrations by State of National Sporting Associ-Development. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1976/19760817_reps_30_hor100/#subdebate-56-58)

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• There are members of this community who do not have powerful industrial muscle. [More…]

• Putting all the technical jargon to one side, I do not believe that there is any disbelief in the community that inflation will fall this year as a consequence of what we are doing. [More…]

• The Government recognises its obligation to Aboriginals and to the community at large to see that where money is spent in areas like this it is spent wisely, effectively and efficiently. [More…]

• What the trade union leaders who lead these strikes do not seem to understand is that they are threatening the jobs of many of their fellow workers throughout the community. [More…]

• A scheme which benefited the whole community is being sacrificed to benefit a few. [More…]

• The Government justifies its vandalism and deception by the spurious argument that health costs are beyond what the community can afford. [More…]

• All that Medibank can do is apportion those costs as fairly as possible throughout the community and eliminate unnecessary expense in insurance procedures. [More…]

• The wage earner on $ 100 a week will pay 90c a week more under the Government’s scheme than he would if the levy were 1.6 per cent and the whole community were paying. [More…]

• If doctors who bulk bill take advantage of the Government’s offer the community will pay another $30m for medical care. [More…]

• As usual, the poorer sections of the community will pay more than the better off. [More…]

• Everyone in the community uses and benefits from emergency health services and the teaching facilities of the large public hospitals. [More…]

• The lower paid Medibank contributors will be subsidising the provision of these sources for the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is amazing how many sections of the community and how many people have tried to rip off Medibank. [More…]

• So the Government does not have to find money out of tax revenue to pay for those who are forced out of Medibank; and for those who stay in, the poorer section of the community, they pay for it themselves through the high levy imposed on them. [More…]

• Quite contrary to their claims, the basic cost of health services to the community will be unchanged in that the cost of doctor and hospital charges will be the same. [More…]

• Added to this basic cost is the cost of the administrative system devised to collect the money from the community and to pay it to the providers of the health services. [More…]

• Everyone pays tax, so the collection of funds from the community for all medical refunds under Medibank and to pay the cost of standard ward care in public hospitals required no, or a negligible, additional administrative cost. [More…]

• None of this takes into account the loss to the community in the destroyed potential for Medibank to provide the Government with real statistics for the first time on the state of health services for the whole community. [More…]

• It was the potential for the Medibank computer to provide truly comprehensive figures for the whole of the Australian community which was such a valuable spin-off, as it were, without significant additional administrative costs. [More…]

• The Government claims that the freedom of choice will improve the health services for the community. [More…]

• Quite apart from all that, which I think is superficial to the basic argument as far as the Australian community is concerned- the quality of health care and none of this has anything to do with the quality of health care- it is only an argument about how the bills are paid. [More…]

• Not only will it provoke industrial unrest in the community as wage and salary earners realise how their disposable income has been substantially reduced week by week from 1 October as a result of the special tax for Medibank being imposed on them, but also trade unions will try to offset its effect on the living standards of their members. [More…]

• The someones who will have to meet that $900m will be the wage and salary earners in the community. [More…]

• Politicians in this place are almost unable to mix with the Canberra community, the diplomatic corps and the public servants or to lead that sort of life. [More…]

• -The Broadcasting and Television Amendment Bill 1976 refers to the areas of advertising of tobacco and cigarettes on television, the licensing of translator stations, community aerial systems for television and allowing the licensing of radio and television broadcasting translator stations. [More…]

• One would hope that all those bodies would be showing a very real responsibility in making sure that the advertising did comply with a standard that was acceptable to the general community. [More…]

• The second section of the changes in the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Bill 1976 will help this situation because it is this part of the Bill that provides for changes concerning the licensing of television and radio translator stations and the community television aerial systems. [More…]

• The provisions of the new Bill will make it possible for repeater stations to be established in community of interest areas as well as in areas of difficult television reception. [More…]

• Not only country centres will be affected by the new provisions relating to community of interest. [More…]

• The same, of course, can be said of the amendments to the Bill concerning the community antenna systems whereby it will be possible to license major reception facilities and to feed these facilities by means of a cable into homes in which reception is difficult. [More…]

• But it seems much more rational to me- and I hope to other members of this House- that the way to persuade people not to use tobacco, not to smoke, or not to do any of the things which a community as a whole feels should not be done, is not by prohibition or by prohibiting the mentioning of them on radio, television, or in other media but by active education, propaganda and advertising against these things. [More…]

• We are told in the second reading speech that the purpose of this amendment is to enable translator stations to be licensed in areas that now receive television signals but which receive those signals from a community different from that in which they live. [More…]

• The illustration is given of people who live in Mount Gambier or people who live east of the South Australian border who would prefer to receive signals from Melbourne rather than from Mount Gambier because the signals from Mount Gambier contain a South Australian community interest. [More…]

• Some 500 or 600 households depend on cable television- community antenna television services. [More…]

• It was suggested by the Board a number of years ago that community aerial television systems, known as CATV systems, should be established to enable these people to have the benefit of television. [More…]

• I have urged the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) I again ask him to consider this- to expand the legislation now before us so that it is not merely limited to the provision of translator services in circumstances where the community of interest demands that people have a signal other than that received from the normal radiated stations but that in the case of cable television the Board is allowed to have a discretion to consider applications and to recommend, where it believes this proper, that the operator be able to send alternative and additional programs. [More…]

• Television Amendment Bill is to give effect to a government decision, firstly on the banning of advertising of cigarettes and cigarette tobacco on broadcasting and television stations as from 1 September 1976, and secondly to amend the existing provisions of the Broadcasting and Television Act in relation to licensing of television translator stations, community television aerial systems and to extend the provisions of the Act relating to television translator stations to permit the licensing of broadcasting translator stations. [More…]

• Basically, as I see it the Bill is divided into 3 parts: Firstly, the banning of cigarette advertising; secondly, giving authority to the Broadcasting Control Board to recommend the licensing of television translator stations; and thirdly, to Ucense community television aerials. [More…]

• The Bill allows licensing on a community of interest basis, irrespective of area or distance involved. [More…]

• The same community of interest basis applies regarding aerial systems, so avoiding the multiplication of individual aerials. [More…]

• It discriminates against a section of the business community. [More…]

• ‘(3) Where the Board is of the opinion that satisfactory reception of broadcasting programs from a commercial broadcasting station or commercial broadcasting stations is being obtained in an area, but the Board is also of the opinion that those programs do not adequately serve the interests of the community in that area by reason of the fact that they are designed to serve primarily the different interests of a community in another area, the Board may recommend that a licence be granted for a broadcasting translator station to serve the needs of the community in that first-mentioned area. [More…]

• by inserting after sub-section (2) the following subsection: ‘(2a) Where the Board is of the opinion that satisfactory reception of television programs from a commercial television station or commercial television stations is being obtained in an area, but the Board is also of the opinion that those programs do not adequately serve the interests of the community in that area by reason of the fact that they are designed to serve primarily the different interests of a community in another area, the Board may recommend that a licence be granted for a television translator station to serve the needs of the community in the firstmentioned area. [More…]

• those programs do not adequately serve the interests of the community in that area by reason of the fact that they are designed to serve primarily the different interests of a community in another area; and [More…]

• satisfactory reception of television programs that would adequately serve the interests of the community in that area could be obtained in that area by the means to be authorized by the permit; or ‘(d) in the opinion of the Board, the use of the means to be authorized by the permit to provide a television service in that area is necessary or desirable for aesthetic or environmental reasons. [More…]

• In clause 7, after sub-section (3) insert the following sub-sections:- ‘(3a) In making recommendations under this section the Board shall have regard to the principle that, subject to the necessity of ensuring that the needs of the community in the area concerned are adequately served, it is desirable that a broadcasting translator station licence for the purpose of the re-transmission of programs for reception in an area that is not within a metropolitan broadcasting area should be granted for the purpose of the re-transmission of the programs of a station that is not a metropolitan broadcasting station in preference to a broadcasting translator station licence for the purpose of the re-transmission of the programs of a metropolitan broadcasting station. [More…]

• In clause 8, omit paragraph (b), substitute the following paragraph:- ‘(b) by inserting after sub-section (2) the following subsections: ‘(2a) Where the Board is of the opinion that satisfactory reception of television programs from a commercial television station or commercial television stations is being obtained in an area, but the Board is also of the opinion that those programs do not adequately serve the interests of the community in that area by reason of the fact that they are designed to serve primarily the different interests of a community in another area, the Board may recommend that a licence be granted for a television translator station to serve the needs of the community in that firstmentioned area. [More…]

• ‘(2b) In making recommendations under this section the Board shall have regard to the principle that, subject to the necessity of ensuring that the needs of the community in the area concerned are adequately served, it is desirable that a television translator station licence for the purpose of the re-transmission of programs for reception in an area that is not within a metropolitan television area should be granted for the purpose of the re-transmission of the programs of a station that is not a metropolitan television station in preference to a television translator station licence for the purpose of the re-transmission of the programs of a metropolitan television station. [More…]

• Honourable members will note that the amendments provide that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board shall have regard to the principle that, subject to the necessity of ensuring that the needs of the community in the area concerned are adequately served, it is desirable that in an area that is not within the normal range of a metropolitan station a translator station licence should be granted to a non-metropolitan station. [More…]

• The amendments also provide that in respect of a community television aerial system programs may only be received from nearby television stations. [More…]

• It would have been unfortunate if there had been transgression which may have interfered with this capacity, but of greater concern was the risk that translators placed in difficult areas for transmission purposes, still to maintain community of interest and the area of service of a country station, may have been put in jeopardy. [More…]

• I am, of course, disappointed that the amendments we are now looking at specifically limit the power in granting licences for community television aerial systems to programs that may be received from nearby television stations. [More…]

• I hope that all the inquiries into the overall structure of our television and broadcasting system will be concerned with not only reconstructuring the system so that we get a more efficient operation of it but also restructuring it so that we can have a policy that ensures the maximum communications for the community at large. [More…]

• Radio station 2KA at Katoomba wishes to put in a supplementary booster lower down the Blue Mountains so that it can beam into the western suburbs of Sydney and specialise in the problems of those suburbs, which have a particular community of interest We should keep in mind that these areas now range 35 to 40 miles beyond the centre of the city of Sydney and accordingly no longer should be looked upon as an ordinary metropolis. [More…]

• Thirdly, what impact would this have on community access stations? [More…]

• What I hope to achieve by this inquiry- I say quite genuinely that it is designed to improve the structure of broadcasting- is to see what is in the best interests of the nation as a whole and of areas in particular, and to see that when licences are given they are properly founded on a legislative base and designed to take into account the community which they serve. [More…]

• Clause 7, page 3, after sub-section (3) insert the following sub-sections: ‘(3a) In making recommendations under this section the Board shall have regard to the principle that subject to the necessity of ensuring that the needs of the community in the area concerned are adequately served, it is desirable that a broadcasting translator . [More…]

• I ask: How does the Board decide upon the necessity of ensuring that the needs of the community in the area are adequately served? [More…]

• (9) seeks to add a sub-section which reads: ‘(2a) Where the Board is of the opinion that satisfactory reception of television programs from a commercial television station or commercial television stations is being obtained in an area, but the Board is also of the opinion that those programs do not adequately serve the interests of the community in that area by reason of the fact that they are designed to serve primarily the different interests of a community in another area, the Board may recommend that a licence be granted . [More…]

• I am concerned, for example, that in clause 7, in sub-section (3), given various conditions the Board may recommend that a licence be granted for a broadcasting translator station to serve the needs of the community in the first mentioned area. [More…]

• When we first brought in this Bill we sought to change the Boards authority from purely mechanical or engineering needs to community needs. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Melbourne Ports is concerned as to whether the Board has the competence to decide what is in the community needs I think the safeguard is contained in the amendment because it simply says that where there is need for it the Board will first of all advertise in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in the area that it is considering the need for the grant of a licence in an area, and interested persons may then apply to the Board or make written objection to the Board about the granting of a licence. [More…]

• I think that that is the safeguard, so that the public can be convinced that the Board is operating for the good of the community. [More…]

• I sense that the honourable member for Melbourne Ports is concerned that the needs of the community are adquately and fairly reflected in the Board’s decision, and that is the reason why we are bringing in these amendments. [More…]

• I think it is in everybody’s interest that we have a range of stations serving the community, particularly in the provincial areas and the rural areas, and which reflect the community and safeguard it against intrusion. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has stated publicly as has the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is now sitting at the table, that no money will be spent by this Government until the register to be established by the Commission is well advanced. [More…]

• There is information on this matter within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• For 23 years the conservative governments of this nation excluded the human and social problems that built up in the urban community and a crisis situation occurred in Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]

• It was only when the Whitlam Labor Government came into office in 1972 that we were able to commence to do something about the problems, to try to rectify many problems and those fine young public servants or, as I call them, young bureaucrats came in to help us change the face of our urban community. [More…]

• Of course, the pressure will still be on back benchers opposite to ensure that that commitment is met, because all we have done to date is buy the internal fittings of the Palace Hotel, which in fact are in the custody of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It can be done only by co-operation between the Australian Government, the State Government and local government, as well as with the pressure and support of community organisations. [More…]

• We initiated the setting up of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, apart from ensuring that conservation organisations and groups received financial assistance to obtain technical advice on controversial issues of general community interest. [More…]

• With the cooperation and goodwill of other spheres of government and the community, we are determined to ensure that the principles set out in the report of the committee of inquiry on the National Estate are honoured. [More…]

• There unfortunately has been a tendency of late to label those in our community who support conservation or express concern for the protection of the environment- our National Estate- as freaks. [More…]

• There is much to be learnt from the United States experience and it is pleasing to note that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Commission have examined this and other overseas examples and are very well aware of the requirement and work necessary to establish the register. [More…]

• The objectives of that Interim Committee were along these lines: The identification and classification of sites; the legal protection of designated sites; the physical protection, including maintenance, restoration, management and preservation of sites; professional and technical training; community education and information; and support for community groups concerned with protection of the National Estate. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) must accept responsibility for this. [More…]

• That fact having been acknowledged at the first meeting of the Commission, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said that the Commission had no doubt that the Government was committed to policies which would protect the environment. [More…]

• I would add that the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development announced that $9m will be provided in 1976-77 to meet forward commitments. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development (or the relevant predecessor Department of Urban and Regional Development) was also represented on each occasion. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• As regards the question of rates and other matters of that type, the Prime Minister has already made clear in the House today that because of the beneficence of the measures the Government has brought down in its Budget, which provide a real increase in funds, we do not believe that local government or the States at large have any need at the present time to be seeking to increase their own charges upon the community. [More…]

• In its actions the Government has had very much in mind concern for people throughout the total Australian community. [More…]

• We are introducing a housing voucher experiment which might well widen the avenues of housing available to less well off people in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a situation which has caused grave disquiet in the community and, of course, great concern to the individual union members involved. [More…]

• All I can say to the honourable gentleman is this, and I hope he will accept it in the normal genuine way in which I respond to his questions in this House: If he has a real concern for persons outside this chamber who are today unable to get job opportunities because of what he did to the country in the course of 3 years, let him get up in the community and say, as the Labor Premier of New South Wales has been prepared to say: ‘Let us give the Budget a go’. [More…]

• We have said consistently in recent days that the broad guidelines which are set down will not be accommodating to inflation but will make it perfectly certain to the business community that it will have adequate funds to underwrite economic recovery. [More…]

• There has been simultaneously a new awareness of the potential role of radio in education and community affairs. [More…]

• As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development knows, the Government has cut back its expenditure on the National Estate. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development knows that his Government has not conferred with all States. [More…]

• I wish these young bureaucrats would brief the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) a little better on the development of and the necessity for our creating an Australian Heritage Commission with approximately 18 commissioners. [More…]

• -Last night during the second reading debate I commented on this clause, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) would be aware. [More…]

• What saves marriages is access to places such as the Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre in my district, which is always pilloried in the lowest terms by members from the other side of the House. [More…]

• Access to community health programs saves marriages and those are precisely the programs on which the Government is cutting back. [More…]

• The Bill does what is required as a matter of law to assist in solving some problems and enabling the community at large to see that this Government is serious about upholding the institution of marriage. [More…]

• -This debate which is deeply involved with social questions in which the community is interested, has been dominated, and probably rightly so, by members of the legal profession. [More…]

• Despite the promiscuity which goes on today in the community, a lot of women suffer great embarrassment at bearing an illegitimate child, and that could have been brought about by the legal humble-bumble the young couple had to go through. [More…]

• Apparently the Government thinks that the working class and the poorer section of the community on low wages are not worthy of the concession provided for them. [More…]

• In the Family Law Bill we attempted to deal- I believe we did so in a very realistic way- with the community attitudes towards divorce. [More…]

• This Bill was laid on the table in May and the purpose of that was to let everybody in the community say what he wanted to say about it. [More…]

• We wanted to get community attitudes. [More…]

• We got some community attitudes. [More…]

• The people of Australia have asked that the Canberra community should no longer be offered a preferred position without regard to their incomes. [More…]

• I have personally negotiated for the Woden community services group to be provided with an occasional care centre built at a cost of almost $250,000 plus an operating subsidy of over $28,000 plus assistance from the Woden traders of $2,000 per annum. [More…]

• The Press release in question claims that there has been a cutback in this community’s standards of living. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware of the grave discontent in the Lebanese community in Australia arising from the lack of firm guidelines for the entry into Australia of relatives and friends who have had to flee the Lebanon because of the conflict in that country? [More…]

• As every honourable member knows, the situation in the Lebanon is such as would cause disquiet to all members of the Lebanese community in Australia and in fact to all members of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am aware that a great number of members of the Lebanese community are seeking to have reunited with them members of their families who can manage to get away from the Lebanon and reach Australian posts surrounding that country. [More…]

• I am aware that stories about some malpractice in various places, in particular Cyprus, are circulating in the Lebanese community at the moment. [More…]

• What I am saying is that since the crisis in the Lebanon developed the Government has been in close and continuing consultation with leaders of the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• Has the Government abandoned its commitment to the community health program? [More…]

• Finally, is it intended that State governments have flexibility in applying their own and the Commonwealth’s resources in maintaining the community health program? [More…]

• I should like to make it very clear that the Government has in no way abandoned the community health program. [More…]

• The allocation under the community health program this year will be $81m, $70m of which will be going to the States to assist in maintaining the existing level of activity. [More…]

• We do want to see the block grant that we have made to Victoria- I think it is of the order of $ 15.2m- applied in such a way that the community health program will be maintained at its present level. [More…]

• We indicated our concern for this matter and the community’s concern by reference back to the IAC which at the same time was asking the IAC to - [More…]

• This in turn will benefit the community at large, whom we have been elected to serve. [More…]

• But the trade union movement cannot be strong if it is not at the same time responsible; if it does not take decisions which are in the interests of its members and of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Today I want to talk about this new despotism as it affects the operation of the Migration Act and as it affects the daily lives of the ethnic groups in our community. [More…]

• He must have the confidence of all sections of the community. [More…]

• What is important is that the ombudsman should be seen to be a person who is acceptable to all sections of the Parliament and to all sections of the community. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• Money is lavished on privileged sections of the business community, but industries like manufacturing, which depend most on consumer confidence, get nothing at all. [More…]

• There is a conspicuous neglect of the rural community. [More…]

• It is the same with the business community as it is with everyone else. [More…]

• Australians are told to spend their way back to prosperity by a Government that deliberately endangers their jobs, destroys Medibank, reduces their community services, takes cash from thenpockets and does everything possible to curb their wages. [More…]

• It is behind the so-called new federalism- the attempt to shuffle off all national responsibilities and let the impoverished States take over our run-down community services. [More…]

• I reject any inference that my community has settled for some sort of shack. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has allocated only $7 1.8m for community health facilities when $88m is needed to maintain current commitments. [More…]

• Wherever the Budget makes a gesture to the rural community it is a development of a Labor policy. [More…]

• I have mentioned growth centres in another context; our plans for urban and regional development embraced in the widest sense a whole range of policies for improving the environment, for improving roads, transport, the supply of land, sewerage and essential community services. [More…]

• It has fondly imagined that these would somehow impress the business community and get the economy moving. [More…]

• The whole thrust of this Budget strategy is to increase unemployment, sharply reduce disposable incomes and real incomes, and reduce community services. [More…]

• It will lead to nothing but a reduction in consumer activity and an undermining of general confidence and optimism in the community. [More…]

• The truth is that the Government seeks to create more employment through expanding investment in the private sector of the community. [More…]

• But the result of the Labor Parry’s policies, whatever the motive, was to reduce greatly the value of people’s earnings and savings, and that affected the whole community. [More…]

• The States, like other sectors in the community, must share in the restraint necessary following 3 years of Labor high living. [More…]

• As was the case in the 1920s, the Treasurer should be addressing himself to questions such as: Why should a community possessed of abundant natural resources, which urgently needs commodities to satisfy the necessities of life, allow willing workers to become unemployed, to remain unemployed and to suffer all the horrors of privation, disease, degradation and human despair and death? [More…]

• At least when we place our incentives in the right direction- the direction of the business community which employs 75 per cent of the work force- the unemployment created by honourable members opposite will be reduced. [More…]

• For our part, our hope is that with a community appreciation of the need for restraint, we can make a real start on getting inflation under control and further raising living standards for everybody. [More…]

• The costs of Medibank to the consumer will add up in 3 different ways to approximately $ 1,000m, either in the form of revenue received by the Treasury or in the form of income forgone by the community. [More…]

• Should the honourable member for Canberra and his colleagues be unaware of the effect the Government’s policies are having on the residents of Canberra, he may be interested to know that Lifeline, a community organisation well known throughout Australia, has had an increase of 2000 calls during the last 6 months. [More…]

• As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said in his statement of 26 July: [More…]

• Governments have to choose a middle road between helping the elite and helping the whole community to be engaged in physical activity. [More…]

• The first level of assistance should be at a community development level. [More…]

• I believe that the Corporation should acknowledge that this autonomy carries with it an obligation to give proper and fair regard to the community it serves, in all aspects of its operations, not just its banking aspects. [More…]

• For the information of the honourable gentleman, I point out that apart from the fact that he has pointed to, there are the out-flow going into the community as the result of the Government’s deficit, transactions between the Reserve Bank and the private sector, the question of bank lending, net change in bank assets or liabilities other than loans, net purchases of Government securities by the non-bank sector and the public holding of coins and notes. [More…]

• I am quite sure that it will be a very real help to the farming community. [More…]

• For those in other sectors we hope that, as a result of the very firm and positive economic program being introduced by this Government, they and all members of the rural community will again return to profitability, and of course everybody will then be able to benefit. [More…]

• Whether reaction is measured on those bases, or whether indeed one takes a passing interest in what the media of Australia have said about this Budget as compared with previous Federal Budgets, this Government has every reason to be delighted with the reaction which has been received from the media, from the Australian public and from the business community which is responsible for providing the jobs which the honourable gentlemen opposite talk about. [More…]

• Sir John Crawford hopes to discuss his interim report with the community, I understand, in the course of the next week. [More…]

• I have no reason to believe that the system which the Government is intent on pursuing, as clearly set down in the Budget, is not the system which the business community itself believes to be the best. [More…]

• That is not without its importance because it is the business community which has been suffering as a consequence of the former Government ‘s inflationary policies. [More…]

• The approach to the particular paper referred to was not made directly by myself or by my staff but by a representative of” Victoria’s Lebanese community. [More…]

• It was run as a community service by the paper involved. [More…]

• The Lebanese community has eagerly responded to the offer and I am in the process of documenting their difficulties. [More…]

• It seems intent on persuading people in the Australian community to support its policies because both political parties are of the one opinion. [More…]

• The Government fully recognises the importance of social welfare in the life of the Australian community. [More…]

• A continuing study of the changing roles of existing workers and the emergence of new needs in the community requiring new types of personnel, both professional and voluntary, if necessary. [More…]

• We still claim that the basic work unit in the community is the married male. [More…]

• I am not too sure whether everybody knows what M3 is, but broadly it is the total of trading bank deposits, the total of savings bank deposits and the total of cash and notes in the hands of the community. [More…]

• The unions that do their job and improve the lot of their members will be smashed beyond repair by the cynical increase of the numbers of unemployed in our community. [More…]

• Any attempt to forecast the number of unemployed must be a guess as the full implications of the Budget are yet to be revealed or felt by the community. [More…]

• Miners of minerals, hardly the poorest section of the community, are to receive $60m as a direct payment brought about by a complicated system of taxation allowances- not a bad sort of payback by anyone’s standards. [More…]

• There will be more opportunity to elaborate on the cutbacks in real terms of funds available to various departments such as Health, Education, Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• The Government stands condemned because of its overall Budget strategy of cutting back on public works, which in fact would improve the conditions and working life of the community. [More…]

• Never before has so much been taken away from the under-privileged section of the community and given to the privileged section. [More…]

• He gave a clear indication of what section of the Australian community he intended should pay the price. [More…]

• It has caused growing anxiety and disillusionment in the community. [More…]

• There is division in every section of our community. [More…]

• A firm continuation of the thrust of policy against inflation continues to be necessary to sustain the tentatively emerging indications of economic improvement For the community to countenance the persistence of inflation would be to hinder the growth of economic activity and prejudice national living standards. [More…]

• Many honourable members have detailed the long list- family allowances, personal income tax indexation, handicapped persons’ allowances, the new test for pension eligibility, the experiment with a new housing allowance voucher system, the expansion of health programs, community health, hospitals and so on. [More…]

• The Budget has far reaching advantages for the pensioners in our community. [More…]

• It must be decided to what extent people should be supported by the community in times of stress or crisis and the need for continuing support for those who have some more permanent social or economic disadvantage. [More…]

• When a wife and mother is deserted and left without maintenance the community, through welfare benefits, makes provision to take over the breadwinner’s role. [More…]

• It could be argued that if the community is prepared to take the responsibility of breadwinner for a single mother, then it should also take the responsibility for the provision of a substitute mother. [More…]

• However, if a single father stays at home the community frowns on him. [More…]

• The Finer Report, the report of a community on one-parent families in the United Kingdom in July 1974 found that even at the level of disposing of everyday chores and despite the degree of merger between the traditional roles of male and female which has taken place in the last decade, many household tasks still tend to be allocated sexually. [More…]

• They are the only conclusions to be drawn, otherwise the inquiry would be public and the committee would have adequate industry and community representation in its membership. [More…]

• In both those areas the previous Government raised with the local people the question of building community health centres. [More…]

• Land was purchased in both areas, Sunbury and Broadmeadows, and the committees set about their task of planning the community health centres. [More…]

• The community health care services and community health centres go part of the way towards providing some of those services. [More…]

• The thing that has disturbed the people in that area is that now they have been advised by the Hospitals and Charities Commission that funds will not be made available for the construction of the buildings and for the engagement of staff; in fact, staff ceilings have been applied to the full-time people already working in the community health centre. [More…]

• They do not have the time to inquire into the community to find out what ills are really affecting the community, whether they be physical or mental. [More…]

• There is no facility which provides for research into community health. [More…]

• The doctors are relying on people coming to them from the community. [More…]

• The community health centre would do that. [More…]

• He may know when he has a serious illness, but he may not know when he has an affliction or problem which may cause other problems in the community. [More…]

• Imagine a group of people which is larger than the population of the city of Canberra- in fact, half as big again as the population within the environs of Canberra- and which has no community health service and no public hospital. [More…]

• I believe that the operators must also become involved with community groups such as unions to provide these package tours at cheaper rates within Australia. [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…]

• Their jobs are threatened, and we all must be concerned about their plight; but there are other people in the community with similar problems. [More…]

• I hope that Sir Arthur George and Sir Peter Abeles will clear their names if they can because they are men who enjoy the respect of all sections of the community. [More…]

• A capital investment of this order is necessary if the Commission is to meet the reasonable demands of the community for modern telecommunications services and our network is to be up-graded to take advantage of the latest technological developments. [More…]

• The apportionment of the allocations between the State Housing Authority and the Home Builders’ Account for each State is as determined by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development after consultation with the housing Minister of the State concerned. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• It has put in considerable effort to diffuse the reaction of the people, to disguise the extent to which the Budget and the overall strategy reduce their position in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that this is just simply the use of words to try to confuse the community. [More…]

• I regard the attacks upon government expenditure over the last 3 years as having a great potential for disaster in this community. [More…]

• But once we start to reduce the capacity of the public sector to service the rest of the community we reduce our capacity to recover from anything. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants . [More…]

• The debate should elucidate the Budget not only for the members of this place but for the community as a whole. [More…]

• I find a lot of confusion about it in the community; but perhaps the Treasurer sees a different public from the one we see. [More…]

• Perhaps the public to him constitutes the entrepreneurs who, by their control of capital and investment, manipulate the employment, and lack of it, of human beings in the community, apply pressure to governments, require subsidies and bounties to keep them going, defraud members of the community- all in the name of free enterprise and profit- and who can manipulate and destroy small businesses by controlling supplies, applying pressures and so on. [More…]

• Under the Labor Government positive efforts were made to solve the community problems. [More…]

• Under the Whitlam Government for the first time there was a government responsive to the needs of the community. [More…]

• No longer were they treated as second class citizens, fit only for the most menial, lowest paid jobs in the community. [More…]

• Local communities were encouraged by the Whitlam Government to set up community health centres geared to their needs. [More…]

• It signifies an attempt to crush the hope and destroy the newly awakened involvement of the community. [More…]

• It spells a return to the philosophy of government indifference in the face of community need- a return to a system of government which is cold, distant and irrelevant. [More…]

• The people in the Areyonga community outside Alice Springs believe it. [More…]

• Among other things, that letter refers to the fact that a Budget allocation of $290,658 was requested to cover wages, operating costs, tools and equipment, materials and new capital items for the Areyonga community. [More…]

• In the 1975-76 Budget the community received the princely sum of $174,000. [More…]

• Recently I visited the community. [More…]

• The community health programs, the community information bureaus, the welfare rights and the area improvement programs all directly affect our ethnic communities. [More…]

• Another area of particular importance is the area of community health services. [More…]

• These community health centres became focal points for ethnic community incentives. [More…]

• This cut will have the effect of dismantling the community health program. [More…]

• For the first time the voice of our ethnic communities could be heard in the community. [More…]

• Once again the ethnic community is being discriminated against. [More…]

• In an earlier speech in this House, on 6 May, I drew attention to the fact that this Government had effectively prevented the Commissioner for Community Relations from carrying out his functions in the way in which the Act demands. [More…]

• When the office of Commissioner for Community Relations was established it was envisaged that it would play a vital role in the community, that it would deal not only with specific complaints of instances of discrimination but also would actively initiate programs to rid our country of discrimination and racist attitudes. [More…]

• There was no section of the Australian community that escaped unscathed from his plans for Australia’s future. [More…]

• We have put it to the Arbitration Commission and to the Australian community. [More…]

• Those few militant officials who inflict senseless strikes on the community are undermining recovery and restricting job opportunities. [More…]

• That indicates renewed confidence throughout the total Australian community. [More…]

• An effective public sector is one which acts to improve the position of the poor and the disadvantaged- not to undermine it, as Professor Henderson has indicated the rabid expenditure of past years had done to important groups of poor people in the Australian community. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship, notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]

• There is no way now of their winning a satisfactory concensus with the industrial movement of our community. [More…]

• Government outlays have been constrained by an inadequate conception of the role of the public sector in effectively providing services to the whole community and contributing to the growth of productivity in the private sector by improvements to infrastructure. [More…]

• I repeat that improvements in infrastructure such as roads, transport facilities, water and power supplies, not only improve services available to the community but also increase the efficiency of the private sector- a result at present forgotten by the Government. [More…]

• The Labor Party must learn that, while various sections of the community will happily urge it to spend more and more on this or that worthy cause, the great majority of the public is just not prepared to pay for it. [More…]

• There must be an acceptance by the community of the need to work together if living standards are to improve. [More…]

• The moves to assist the mining, oil and coal industries certainly have been welcomed by those industries and should be welcomed by the community at large. [More…]

• The provision and operation of sheltered workshops and therapy units in the training centres is vitally needed throughout our community. [More…]

• Over the next 3 years $225m is to be provided for the accommodation of 15 000 aged people, and that is another move that will be welcomed by the community. [More…]

• Moves and statements have been made by many pensioner organisations within the community that I represent to pressure for quarterly increases in the various pension services. [More…]

• This, coupled with the incentives offered to business, will get Australia back on its feet economically and enable it to provide the employment so very urgently needed in our community today. [More…]

• There is no doubt at all that it was taken also throughout the business community and the major mining companies. [More…]

• I will bet that the pollsters of these savage cuts in socially necessary areas consulted neither the people responsible for the administration nor the recipients in those areas and those needy people throughout the community who have to rely on the one avenue to sustain a reasonable standard of living. [More…]

• There have been too many occasions on which efforts to assist the poor in the community, and low income families in particular, have resulted in additional salaries being paid to middle income professionals. [More…]

• There have been some major increases in expenditure but, by and large, I suggest that the institutions involved in technical and further education have been operating economically, have been making maximum use of community resources and have been providing courses that meet community and individual needs. [More…]

• We must avoid making institutions offering these types of courses entirely dependent on government financing in a way that allows them to lose touch with the community. [More…]

• It requires them to keep in touch with the community because they cannot survive without community and industry support. [More…]

• They must rely greatly on the goodwill of the community from which they draw their students. [More…]

• What the trade union leaders who lead these strikes do not seem to understand is that they are threatening the jobs of many of their fellow workers throughout the community. [More…]

• In spite of its all time record of repudiated election promises, this Government and those who sit opposite, including all the oncers who hope to be twicers- they can all smile; it Will be a little different later- have been consistent in the one thing that they did not put to the community last year, and that is their absolute determination to reduce living standards, to cut real wages and to expand unemployment. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite represent a Party which lives on divisiveness, which created hatred amongst the community and which is deliberately provoking violence in the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Governor-General daily make statements that are inflammatory and that can be interpreted only as a deliberate provocation of the extreme elements in the community. [More…]

• It was realised that there were substantial costs associated with high protection which were borne by the whole community and disproportionate costs borne by sections of it. [More…]

• Has he advised the States that the Government considers Australian Assistance Plan type programs, being programs primarily of a local community nature, are best funded and administered by State governments? [More…]

• The misrepresentation is that during my speech I quoted what the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) had said. [More…]

• by leave- It is of major concern not only to the Government, but also to individual rank and file workers and the community generally, that orderly methods of wage fixation are under attack by certain elements within the trade union movement. [More…]

• we should proceed cautiously in order to avoid, if possible, prolonging unduly by our decision the hardship to which a large section of the community including wage and salary earners have been exposed ‘. [More…]

• It is hoping, as it did during the 1950s and the 1960s, to split the Australian community and to bring about some political gain for the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]

• In a series of submissions to the various tribunals around Australia the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union has been able to maintain wage relativities with other sections of the community because inherent in its wage claims was a $30 overaward payment. [More…]

• But it is important to stress that the ruthless destruction of cost effective public programs by this illinformed and economically incompetent Government is forcing rising unemployment and slower economic growth on the Australian community. [More…]

• It is creating further timidity on the part of those people in the community who are squirrelling away their savings rather than bringing about that economic confidence which is so necessary. [More…]

• This statement by the Minister- this attack on the real wages of the people in the community- is but one further example of the attack on the consumers of this country and on their confidence. [More…]

• There was widespread community criticism of and the unions were naturally antagonised by, the Government’s failure to honour the election promise of support for wage indexation. [More…]

• The numbers employed under the NEAT scheme are now climbing, and I am glad to say that the increased emphasis on in-plant training, as distinct from the much longer tertiary courses to which the Labor Government gave priority, will be not only of more immediate benefit to the people undergoing training but also far more advantageous to the community as a whole because these people enter the productive work force so much more quickly. [More…]

• The Government and the community at large are well aware that, by the end of last year, the unemployment level had risen to the figures that I have just mentioned. [More…]

• Promises given to the Australian community and believed by the Australian community last year have been broken. [More…]

• -No more cost than the present cost of paying people unemployment benefit with no return to the community, only a serious loss of morale and confidence to the people concerned. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• We cannot allow our employment situation to continue to worsen, our building industry to continue to lag, our productivity to operate below capacity and imports to flood into the country, and expect either the community or industry to make the first move to rebuild confidence in the future of our nation. [More…]

• -Before the suspension of the sitting I was making a suggestion that I felt might stimulate the private sector of the community and that was the introduction of a form of export incentives with emphasis on the export of manufactured items which previously have not been in the export arena. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• Inflation is one of the most damaging factors in destroying the capacity of governments to carry out worthwhile community programs. [More…]

• We cannot help the community generally unless the private sector produces the resources to enable us to do it. [More…]

• If anyone wants to call these things handouts, let it be understood that they are handouts with a tremendous significance for the whole Australian community, and for the work force in particular, because they are the key to a strong, productive and expanding economy in the private sector of the community. [More…]

• If this country is to recover from the economic illness it caught under the Labor Administration, the goodwil and the co-operation of all sections of the community will be needed. [More…]

• The mining industry is of vital importance to Australia and no government or community can afford to ignore its problems as the Whitlam Government did. [More…]

• No doubt many people in various sections of industry and in the community would like to see more being done for them in this Budget. [More…]

• The 1975 Budget recognised the need to maintain government spending to provide the Australian community with the basic amenities of a civilised and industrialised society- adequate health and educational facilities, sewerage and housing opportunities. [More…]

• With regard to apprenticeships, the most recent figures available indicate that in New South Wales alone- I accept that the extent of the crisis in this industry varies from State to State with New South Wales being accepted by all, including the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), as the worst affected- over 1650 apprentices from this industry are now on the dole. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has itself recognised that it is unlikely that the rise in private commencements in the June quarter will be maintained on a national level. [More…]

• There is a very good awareness of politica events through a widespread cross-section of our community. [More…]

• Even in early 1 978- when the electorate will be stirring to the calls of a new electionthe economic listlessness of this Budget will still bear heavily on the community. [More…]

• In the Budget we should be able to read about the Government’s concern, or lack of it, for the long-term health of the individual sectors of the economy and we should find reflected the Government’s priorities in regard to the welfare of the different sectors or groups in the community. [More…]

• This Government is perfectly happy, it seems, to impose tremendous costs upon the economically weaker sections of the Australian community while it takes a punt on a very doubtful assumption of the relationship between unemployment and inflation. [More…]

• There is some justice, we must agree, in permitting those members of the community who have severely fluctuating incomes to average those incomes for taxation purposes. [More…]

• It is a parsimonious Budget because the potential query exists for there to be more economic stimulation flowing from more generous treatment of those in the community who most deserve assistance. [More…]

• All entities in the community, all individuals in the communitynot merely those who are categorised as wage earners- are asked to show patience. [More…]

• All entities in the community can say with no less justification that can wage earners, that they should have received more immediate assistance. [More…]

• In their own interests, however, and in the interests of other people in the community. [More…]

• I rise one again to draw attention to the plight of migrant people in our great cities and once again to refer to the misleading way- I have not used the term that I wanted to use as I have been advised by you, Mr Acting Speaker, in the past not use it- in which the Government attempts to pull the wool over the eyes of certain individuals in our community. [More…]

• Precisely this: The Prime Minister came up with the idea of buying off legitimate criticism of his Government’s shabby record in the migrant welfare field by making $50,000 available to the Greek community in Melbourne and $50,000 available to the Italian community in Sydney. [More…]

• The same situation applies to one of the commitments of the Minister for Social Security, Senator Guilfoyle, who went to the Italian community in Melbourne and made a great play of donating $5,000 to FILEF, which is an Italian welfare organisation. [More…]

• The program is rubbish, and I believe sincerely that the Australian community generally should not be forced even to have a choice of whether they want to look at rubbish or not, particularly from the ABC. [More…]

• In my opinion, the question is whether we are going to use the gift of communication we have within the community for the benefit of the community or whether we are going to set about destroying that gift. [More…]

• Those members of the ABC’s staff who would see fit to impose a set of extremely poor values on the community should know that they will not get the backing they need and that Sir Henry Bland and the commissioners will get the backing on each occasion they see fit to take this sort of action. [More…]

• The visits take place only after all the proper environmental controls have been applied, and my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is principally in charge of those matters. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to the claim by the Executive Director of the Master Builders Association, which is supported by the building unions and associated industries, that only by committing an extra $350m can the Australian and New South Wales Governments save the New South Wales building industry from total bankruptcy? [More…]

• The cost of land, the cost of building and the location of land away from community facilities and places of employment present problems that the New South Wales Government and local government bodies in that State have themselves to help to solve. [More…]

• I ask: Will the Minister convey to Sir Henry Bland the deep concern of myself, other members of Parliament and many people in the community that a self-appointed arbiter of viewing tastes has acted in this way- not necessarily in relation to the program under discussion, but on a matter of principle that similar unilateral action might be taken in the future on more important matters, such as questions of political and social significance? [More…]

• We have always said that inflation, particularly inflation at the rate of 15 per cent, bears more heavily upon the disadvantaged people in the community than on the advantaged people in the community. [More…]

• Confidence has returned to the business community. [More…]

• It is my intention to join the Prime Minister in Indonesia- not to accompany the Prime Minister to Indonesia, because I will be firstly at the United Nations and then in Brussels for talks with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is a classic example of a selfish pursuit of excessive wage claims without regard to thousands of other workers, their families and the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will remember that in the document entitled Environmental Considerations of Visits of Nuclear Powered Warships to Australia tabled on 4 June, it was stated that because the authority for controlling emergency services is vested in State governments, the Commonwealth Government must rely on the States to establish and control the safety organisation in their ports. [More…]

• Secretary of the Department of Housing and Construction and the Secretary of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development as well as the Secretary of the Department of Housing. [More…]

• Obviously we have the right to pass comment on those matters which affect the Australian community. [More…]

• In fact, I go further than that to state that surely the indicators of increased saving within the community rather than spending and the indicators of retail sales figures must lead one to this conclusion. [More…]

• The Treasury believes that any higher deficit would put upward pressure upon interest rates; but, if the deficit were increased by up to $500,000,000 in order to fund selected works programs, such as schools, hospitals and roads which are needed and which will employ people, I believe that the business community would be no less likely to invest and the consumer, being less afraid of unemployment, would be even more likely to spend. [More…]

• During that period the strategy adopted consistently by this Government will need modification as community responses demand. [More…]

• But on the other hand, I do not think it is a thing that should become the subject of speculation in the community. [More…]

• His income is well below the basic wage, but in many instances he is levied huge sums of money to provide amenities such as swimming pools, community halls and art centres. [More…]

• The expectations of the community in relation to local government have risen enormously. [More…]

• So there will be a quite phenomenal reduction in the allocations to various community organisations for the provision of accommodation for the aged. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that contracts to construct 400 family homes to be built by the New South Wales Government have not been let although tenders closed on 19 July? [More…]

• Despite the Liberal policy promise to maintain standards of health care and continue the present community health programs, funds for these services have been cut by 15 per cent in real terms. [More…]

• There were numerous promises by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) to the rural community, including the establishment of a rural bank. [More…]

• He created divisions in the community which never existed before. [More…]

• He perpetuated, and the policies of his Party perpetuated, divisions in the Australian community which we had not had since the 1930s. [More…]

• It is a government which has given once again to the armed Services of this country their rightful place in the community. [More…]

• Issues of major concern to this inquiry will include the co-ordination and rationalisation of existing types of post-secondary institutions, the relevance of new kinds of institutions, and the capability of both existing and possible new structures for meeting the educational needs and preferences of the individuals, the community and the economy. [More…]

• In addressing itself to the provision of educational facilities and services it will examine amongst other things the overall pattern of institutions and courses including their objectives, the magnitude of the provision including the desirable balance between sectors, the relationship of educational provision to community and individual needs and preferences, the accessibility of education and training including reentry and transferability, the problems of special groups, for example, the handicapped, ethnic groups, Aboriginals and women, the responsibility of State and Commonwealth authorities in relation to the nature and location of institutions, preparation for employment including skilled and semi-skilled groups, the provision of recurrent education and the means of evaluating the quality and efficiency of the system. [More…]

• These include widening, educational opportunity, including access to education for those with the ability, but lacking the means; expanding educational and occupational choice; developing quality and excellence in all spheres of education, and encouraging community participation in education and training matters. [More…]

• The findings of the inquiry should be of value to the community and to Commonwealth and State governments for many years ahead. [More…]

• There is a growing belief that these costs tend to outweigh the benefits to the community at large. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• In other words, if we add somewhere between $20 and $50 a week to that unemployment relief which is going down the drain, and in respect of which we are not obtaining any benefit for the community as a whole, then we have the wage of a labourer or a tradesman and the community gets something for its money. [More…]

• We are quite prepared to look at any sort of proposal but the important thing is to give to the community something which will be lasting. [More…]

• It is rather ironic that all governments meeting the social attitudes of the day, insisting that more and more money be made available to relieve the distress of those disadvantaged sections of our community, find too often that when we move out to remove the blot on our society we often find that the blot grows larger. [More…]

• What he does not tell the House and the community is that his own people do not believe him. [More…]

• I do not think that we of the Opposition or the community should be asked to interpret something that his own colleagues cannot interpret. [More…]

• Let there be no misunderstanding by the Australian community: This Government is being manipulated by big business, and this Budget is the pay-off. [More…]

• The present community health program will be continued. [More…]

• The $500,000 community health centre going up in my electorate will not be built. [More…]

• I hope that their sons and daughters, when they go looking for work and are unable to find it, receive the same sort of treatment from other persons as honourable members opposite have been meting out to young people in this community over the last 1 8 months. [More…]

• Allied to those factors are the actions of the Prime Minister and the Governor-General at public appearances, actions which can be interpreted only as designed to create and promote violence in the community. [More…]

• The lack of confidence and uncertainty in the community flow directly from the actions of those who sit opposite, those who last year tore up the rules and destroyed parliamentary conventions in their indecent haste to grab power. [More…]

• I can well remember a former honourable member for Barton, the late Dr H. V. Evatt, during the election campaigns in 1954 and 1955 talking about the need for Australians to spend vast sums of money on social welfare and decrying the standards of education in the community. [More…]

• I was here when Sir Arthur Fadden delivered the famous Budget in 195 1 which did such appalling things to these products that are relatively important in our community. [More…]

• The establishment of community health centres is going to be cut back, as one Liberal supporter said earlier in respect of health care in outlying areas under the community health program introduced by the previous Minister for Health, Dr Doug Everingham, the Minister established community health centres in outback areas. [More…]

• Altogether, there were 7 community health centres either agreed to or established while he was the Minister for Health. [More…]

• I have said that 7 community health centres all told were established. [More…]

• Other big centres such as Port Lincoln also received community health centres. [More…]

• It is a fact that in this Budget the amount of finance provided for the community health centres will be cut back. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• That opportunity will be lost unless we recognise the problem areas and unless there is co-operation from all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The scheme will make a great difference to many families, particularly the poorer families in the community. [More…]

• This Government is genuinely concerned about the needy people in our community. [More…]

• Specifically the allegations are: Firstly, that there are far too many service stations and that the industry, and through it the community, is burdened by immense over investment in retail outlets; secondly, that motor spirit and other petroleum products are overpriced and that both wholesale and retail margins are excessively high; thirdly, that there are too many oil marketers and that the petroleum market in Australia is irrationally fragmented by up to 9 parallel marketers; fourthly, that the market is sometimes chaotic and often not price competitive; fifthly, that unfair competition and especially discriminatory price practices are rife; sixthly, that the tiers of pricing and the pricing structure generally are archaic and irrational, and, seventhly, that dealers are sometimes dealt with oppressively. [More…]

• Not to recriminate or to allot blame, but for the purpose of considering how the industry may be restructured on a basis once more rational and in better interests of the community, and of the oil companies, as well as those who find employment in the industry. [More…]

• The Commission is firmly of the view that it is quite essential that Government retain a flow of organised and regular information relating to all aspects of the industry from all oil companies and other organisations within the industry so that the government is in a position to understand and to evaluate the needs and problems of the industry from the point of view of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• I would have no objection to the retention of that bounty if people on lower incomes in the farming community were able to get the advantage of it. [More…]

• For the community to countenance the persistence of inflation would be to hinder the growth of economic activity and prejudice national living standards. [More…]

• Firstly, community expectations of government have increased substantially in recent years. [More…]

• I have pleasure in supporting a Budget which is both responsible from an economic management point of view and which ensures that disadvantaged sections of the community will have their circumstances improved. [More…]

• We wish to help, and we realise our responsibility to help, all people and all pans of the Australian community. [More…]

• I realise the importance of such centres to the community. [More…]

• It hits hardest at those in the community who can afford it least. [More…]

• Within our own community, there has been widespread endorsement of the Government’s approach to our economic problems. [More…]

• Again and again in statements by business leaders, economists and others in the community, a common denominator is evident; it is almost universally agreed that attacking the high rate of inflation should be the Government’s first priority. [More…]

• This approach has been widely endorsed by the Australian business community. [More…]

• Unquestionably, one of the most important has been the continuing call for the Australian community to exercise wage restraint. [More…]

• I propose that it should be designed merely to communicate to the Australian people the fact that this Government has a coherent economic strategy which can and will work, but only if it has the active support of all members of the community. [More…]

• In each case co-operation has been achieved from the community in moderating wage demands and price increases. [More…]

• We, as a Parliament, must get the message across to the Australian people to get behind the Government and ensure that this plan works for the benefit of the whole community. [More…]

• As a result, we are building up a very valuable store of mutual trust and respect with the communications unions which, ultimately, will bring benefit to the whole community. [More…]

• Of course, this will improve the mail sorting facilities, give a better service to the members of the community and, as has been said by a number of the commissioners of the Australian Postal Commission and by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson), give an overnight mail delivery service in most areas. [More…]

• She will be caring for an Australian citizen who is not able to care for himself, and therefore performing a useful service for the community. [More…]

• Additionally, as a result of close and continuing discussions we are assisting members of the Lebanese community in Sydney and Melbourne in a special project. [More…]

• Members oi the Lebanese community will shortly be travelling overseas to arrange for group movements of those accepted. [More…]

• I believe that the officers have worked long, hard and well and have displayed great consideration and co-operation with members of the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• It was to carry the most populous nation on earth out of feudalism and chaos and make it a secure, stable and self-confident member of the world community. [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development concerns mermaids. [More…]

• without State supplementation the provision of what might be termed normal health opportunities for Aboriginals as well as special facilities to enable them to start catching up with the rest of the community would be at risk. [More…]

• It draws attention to health problems associated with climatic conditions, the leprosy situation which it says is still serious, eye diseases which it says are getting too little attention, the failure to deal with the problems of diet and nutrition and the long-term effects which will accrue, alarming ear disorders, ear abnormalities which occur at the rate of 60.4 per cent compared with 1 6 per cent in a comparable community, and venereal diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhoea which have increased considerably in the last 2 years. [More…]

• I set up the working party earlier this year after receiving a letter from the Mowanjum community in the north-west of Western Australia. [More…]

• The people were concerned at the serious social effects of the receipt of unemployment benefits within the community and desired to see whether there was some way in which those benefits could’ be pooled and then used by the community for beneficial work projects within its settlement. [More…]

• The sad fact of the matter is that over wide areas no one performs up to standard for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that over the last few years honourable members opposite have continually denounced Aboriginal programs without ever visiting any of the Aboriginal communities that are so short of the things that they need and without facing up to the fact that in a community such as our own, which is basically one of the more egalitarian in the world, there is still a great deal of social inequality. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the health of the Aboriginal people of Australia is far behind the health of the rest of the community. [More…]

• Irrespective of whether it is in relation to infant welfare, the care of the aged or the supplying of hospitals and services, we still do not perform to the same standard in respect of Aborigines as we do in respect of the rest of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps that is fair enough in respect of some parts of Australia, although frankly I do not think that it is going to work for the general community. [More…]

• The private enterprise part of the community has run out of the area of growth. [More…]

• It is also an immense intellectual challenge both to the people who administer such projects and to the Aboriginal community itself. [More…]

• It would be a good thing if the honourable member for La Trobe were to spend some time looking at the other pan of the community himself. [More…]

• As was pointed out in the Australian Broadcasting Commission television program, it is not easy to design a house that fits the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• In many cases they are just as capable of being integrated into a white community as any one of us would be if we were socially deprived in the communities in which we lived. [More…]

• But the very fact that it has been done without the full import of the decision being canvassed- certainly not in the second reading speech, as I mentioned earlierhighlights the disservice being done to the Australian community by the debasement of economic debate in relation to deficits, contributed to 12 months ago by members of the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]

• It was not always a practice to borrow money in this manner or even to go onto the market and pay interest on borrowings for the purpose of providing such basic services to the community. [More…]

• Until 1959, as the House may recall, postal communications were considered to be a national undertaking whose capital cost was spread over the whole community. [More…]

• That was a regressive change since charges imposed according to usage tend to minimise the usage where the interests of the community required it to be encouraged. [More…]

• This raises the question of whether this is a basic service to the community. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]

• But what of the other sections of the community, and I refer to retired people, pensioners and producers? [More…]

• Money is lavished on privileged sections of the business community, but industries like manufacturing, which depend most on consumer confidence, get nothing at all. [More…]

• There is a conspicuous neglect of the rural community. [More…]

• They are seriously disadvantaged by the freezing of the development of community health facilities. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has allocated only $7 1.8m when $88m is required to maintain current commitments to community health facilities. [More…]

• That applies to every single section of the community. [More…]

• There is no confidence in the community. [More…]

• For a government that maintains that its close relations with, and understanding of, the business community are vital to Australia’s business recovery, the Lynch Budget documents once again demonstrate the paucity of the national leadership now facing Australians. [More…]

• We are not for tax enforced redistribution of wealth from one sector of the economy to another; we are for the creation of wealth so that the whole community can prosper and be enriched. [More…]

• Opposition speakers have tried hard over the last 10 months to raise needless fears in the community. [More…]

• There are very few people in Canberra who cannot get help and assistance from excellent cooperation between welfare, housing and community based organisations. [More…]

• Recommendation: That consultations be held between community groups and the Government to assess the means of assisting unemployed young people in Canberra. [More…]

• In Geraldton, Western Australia, a Community Development Officer, David Perso advertised in the local press for people who were out of work and who were therefore free to do things for the community. [More…]

• Surveys were undertaken on community services, the location of doctor’s surgeries, and so forth; including the question: how often do you contact your MP? [More…]

• Some volunteers have mowed lawns and collected shopping for elderly people and carried out other community tasks. [More…]

• The young people are also taking over the production of a community newspaper, run previously by the Rockhampton Social Development Council and directed at social welfare readers. [More…]

• It also refers to young people in Geraldton in Western Australia helping the community and to SLUMP or School Leavers Unemployment Mobilisation Scheme in Rockhampton. [More…]

• I believe that it should be treated in a non-political manner, and anybody who seeks to make political capital out of the situation is doing a disservice to himself, to the Australian nation and to the Australian Lebanese community. [More…]

• Have the results of the 1974-75 Household Expenditure Survey revealed a significant difference in the expenditure pattern of age-pensioners between the age of 65 and 69 years, as against the expenditure patterns of the community at large. [More…]

• I ask: Did the Minister during his recent visit to Europe raise the question of the ban on imports of Australian beef by the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Is there any sign of the European Economic Community’s re-opening its doors to Australian beef? [More…]

• We are now running into the third year in which the European Economic Community has had a total ban on the importation of meat. [More…]

• We have been able to get Japan to reopen the door, and we hope that the European Economic Community will consider reopening its door in the near future. [More…]

• What progress has his Government made in concluding a framework agreement for commercial and economic co-operation between the European Economic Community and Australia, such as Canada was able to consummate on 6 July? [More…]

• We have strengthened our political relationships with the European Economic Community and if it seems appropriate to have a unilateral trading arrangement with the EEC we will proceed to have one; but at the moment we have not seen the advantage to Australia in such an arrangement. [More…]

• In a way their lives have been wasted because they have not been able to pursue their professions and, ironically, the Australian community has been robbed of their services. [More…]

• to ensure as far as practicable that the adoption will be successful and that the child will settle harmoniously into its new community. [More…]

• Other possibilities include job-creation programs in the private and public sectors, community employment projects and increased expenditure on public works. [More…]

• Any suggestions of some easy way out, particularly by a massive injection of public funds, not only is economically unsound but also is doing a total disservice to the community. [More…]

• Typical of the values of the LiberalCountry Party Government, seeking to bolster private enterprise at the expense of the rest of the community and with no relationship to the basic quality of the service provided, this Government has offered a bonanza in the form of $50m. [More…]

• So to facilitate the spending of the community’s money, the Government lowered the qualifying period from 60 days to 35 days. [More…]

• In our view, it is wrong to expect the general community to pay for that out of taxation revenue. [More…]

• I was saying that the whole community, contributing via general taxation revenue, will provide this subsidy. [More…]

• I am arguing against the principle that the whole community, through taxation, should subsidise a small privileged section of people who seek to have additional facilities provided for them. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite cannot establish to my satisfaction the reason why, if some people choose to go into private insurance, the rest of the community should subsidise them. [More…]

• I suggest that, if those people are chronically ill, the right and proper place for them to be treated is the same as for most other members of the community, namely, the public hospital system. [More…]

• Everywhere in the world chronic illness is a drain on the whole community. [More…]

• There is no sensible reason why the community should subsidise treatment for such patients in intermediate ward accommodation. [More…]

• It would be much better for the whole community if there were no subsidy which allowed some patients to go into private hospitals which do not give anything for this extra money because it simply goes into increased profits for the private hospitals. [More…]

• What is the moral obligation on the poor section of the community to grant that privilege to those who are richer? [More…]

• Of course the irony of all this is that we fool ourselves and so we charge the community extra money to provide these people with private and intermediate hospital treatment on the assumption that it is superior to public hospital treatment. [More…]

• It provides a subsidy for the treatment of private patients in private hospitals at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• So as not to lose with the community - [More…]

• Again the point arises: It is the general taxpayer subsidising, admittedly only slightly, the better off section of the community which feels it can afford to insure itself for intermediate ward care. [More…]

• We are going to subsidise the poor richer section of the community. [More…]

• The poor section of the community will subsidise the poor richer section of the community which desperately needs to have intermediate ward cover. [More…]

• If people want the luxury of private hospital care they should pay the real cost so that the community knows what the real cost is. [More…]

• I hope the Minister accepts the assurance from this side of the House that we will commend him if he exposes those rogues to the whole community, including the honest members of the medical profession who are being blackened by this sort of behaviour. [More…]

• We do not think that private insurance is worth while, but we have to accept the fact that a significant proportion of the Australian community feels that it is essential. [More…]

• I believe that there is some confusion in the community at the moment, but it is not confusion as to whether people have to pay; it is only confusion concerning the details of the scheme. [More…]

• There are people in our community who believe that they have to pay for private health insurance and pay the Medibank levy. [More…]

• The Government set a figure of $ 1 35 a year as the amount which people would have to contribute to a private health insurance fund, including Medibank- and Medibank private health insurance fund is nothing more than another private health insurance fund- and accordingly added to the proliferation of those funds in the community without in any way improving the system of health insurance overall or the quality of health care. [More…]

• How does he justify the sort of discrimination that arises for a very large number of people in the community who, if they wish to stay within the basic Medibank cover for public ward and medical insurance and take out optionally hospital insurance for intermediate ward cover, have to pay a lot more in total than if they were to go directly to a private fund, including Medibank Private if it is the person ‘s whim to take out that sort of cover? [More…]

• This is evidence of the clear discrimination which is directed against the original concept of Medibank and further evidence of the determination of the Government generally to undermine the viability of the original concept and its attractiveness to the community. [More…]

• This attitude involves higher costs for the community. [More…]

• In government we would take steps, I assure this House and the community, to guarantee that the principles that we wrote into the earlier schedules would be reenshrined in any arrangements with the States. [More…]

• The Government has been enormously short-sighted in this area because the community will have to bear the additional costs- the rapidly escalating rate of costs- which will arise as a result of the scheme it has introduced. [More…]

• In turn, it will be subjected to enormous pressure from within the community, and particularly from the sorts of persons who tend to support the Government parties. [More…]

• For example, it would be a higher priority to spend money on school dental health services and on the development of community health services- a whole range of community health and welfare services and other areas of responsibility of public office- rather than plugging benefits into a system which will just incite more utilisation because of the nature of the fee for service system and the sort of benefits that can be derived from that system because of the absence of adequate restraint on it. [More…]

• I refer to the fragmentation of health insurance cover that will occur in the community. [More…]

• I fear that administratively it will be such an impossible nightmare that it will bog down in many important areas and will create the gravest dissatisfaction and antagonism in the community. [More…]

• The committee took evidence from a wide section of the community, including the ACTU. [More…]

• The Opposition has been allowed 3 speakers on 3 Bills, and I think that the way this Government is handling the affairs of the Parliament is a disgrace, particularly in relation to this issue, which is of such vital interest to the community. [More…]

• Therefore, the greater will be the cost that the community bears. [More…]

• In total economic impact it matters not whether it is the Government meeting that cost or whether it is the public meeting the cost directly as patients, because in the final result the community bears these costs and it has the same sort of effect on the economy. [More…]

• If the cost is greater than it would have been with some other system of financing health services, then it is not in the interests of the community for an alternative, more costly system to be brought in. [More…]

• If in fact the Government is going to force people to pay for public ward beds, then the whole concept behind Medibank as we developed it- I believe it is a very acceptable concept as far as the Australian community is concerned: free public ward treatment, free of means test- has been destroyed. [More…]

• The decision was taken basically because of a wish expressed by a considerable percentage of the Australian community. [More…]

• The phrase ‘Medibank Private’ is well accepted in the community. [More…]

• Having said all that, I should like to say to the House- I think it ought to be said on behalf of all serving personnel in the armed Services- that these people very often find themselves in a somewhat different position from other persons in the community. [More…]

• People in the community generally who are injured know that there is nobody to look after them, so they automatically go to a lawyer. [More…]

• I believe the Government’s decision reflects very largely the majority of views as expressed by members of the ethnic community and I believe permanent ethnic radio, as decided by the Government, will be beneficial for ethnic communities and the Australian population as a whole. [More…]

• I ask the Attorney-General: Have the Bartons in fact been providing detailed information on the network of their companies and making serious allegations against prominent persons in the business community? [More…]

• We have heard a lot and we have been lectured a lot by the Government on the need to be responsible, particularly if one belongs to the wage and salary earning section of the community, and the need to lower our demands and contain our desires for a better way of life, all in the cause of reducing in effect the share of the wealth of the community flowing to wage and salary earners so that more of the resources in terms of the gross national product can flow back to the private sector. [More…]

• After all it is not just wages that are of concern to the whole community; it is also prices. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the whole thrust of the Government’s approach is simply to beat down the working section of the community. [More…]

• Accepting for the moment the Government’s assumptions about the causes of inflation and about where we need to have restraint, it seems totally unjust that the only restraint is being placed on the trade union section of the community and not on the private enterprise sec.,tion of the community. [More…]

• In keeping with the whole Government approach- restraint in all areas- this Budget has shown that, whereas the Labor Government may have made some mistakes in attempting to stimulate development in areas which have been stultified for 20 years, the only positive actionthis is a rather Irish approach, I guess- the present Government has taken has been to stifle every initiative the Labor Government put forward, every initiative the Australian community voted for, and every initiative we talked about in the period from about 1968 onwards until we were elected which clearly excited the Australian community and prompted people to vote for a Labor Government. [More…]

• It was in keeping with what the community was used to. [More…]

• In terms of cost to the community, money paid out by the community, whether via the taxation system, via the Medibank levy, via contributions to benefit funds or in the form of direct payments to doctors and hospitals, the real total cost- not just the payments via the taxation system, which is what honourable members opposite crow about- will go up dramatically because of the stupid meddling of honourable members opposite. [More…]

• They include also the bills paid to the hospitals, again irrespective of how they are paid, and finally the administrative costs of getting the money transferred from the community to the doctors and the hospitals. [More…]

• In short, the end result of the Government’s meddling is at least a doubling of the administrative costs of the whole system, as well as an enormous waste of time and effort by the community to fulfil all the requirements, make all the extra decisions, fill in all the paper etc. [More…]

• The Liberal Government surgery on the funding of the community health facilities might well prove fatal. [More…]

• The community has shown its appreciation and is flocking to these centres. [More…]

• No one could suggest that the community in Canberra is being forced against its will to patronise the community health centres. [More…]

• That is a sheer waste of community resources. [More…]

• All this is being done to prop up a system which is going to strangle the community. [More…]

• Popular though those concessions were with so many people in the community, the really important acceptance of this Lynch Budget related to the tax indexation of personal incomes, together with the decision to increase social welfare in real terms, to accept a greater financial responsibility in the field of education, again in real terms, and to bring back some realism in the field of defence spending. [More…]

• It showed that this Administration, the Fraser Administration, was fair dinkum in its plan to show a special concern for the underprivileged in the Australian community. [More…]

• Responsible economic management has to be accompanied by resposible community attitudes and realistic expectations. [More…]

• I am certain that industry, commerce and the community are awaiting strong leads and are most anxious to promote what is becoming a consumer based recovery. [More…]

• There are further specific grants to local government in relation to the Meals on Wheels service, handicapped persons, Aboriginal advancement and community arts activities. [More…]

• It is implicit in the application of the federalism policy that local government must play an added role to better serve the communities in the areas of health, social welfare, housing and urban and community development. [More…]

• I like to think that in the years from 1968 to 1972 no one in the community talked about the Liberal [More…]

• We were in Opposition then and in those years in the community right across the country people discussed our proposals for a national health insurance system. [More…]

• He invited or encouraged voluntary health funds to set up- in other words, he enlarged the number of organisations which were already doing this sort of thing- by setting a restraint on the freedom with which members of the community could get their tax contributions back in the form of medical or hospital rebates, because an integral part of the system was that the patient had to contribute to a voluntary fund. [More…]

• The cost to the community is not Medibank or the voluntary benefit funds. [More…]

• The cost to the community is the money that finally finishes in the pockets of the hospitals and the doctors and in whatever administrative costs have been incurred in transferring the money. [More…]

• That is the cost of health services to the community. [More…]

• Given that whichever way we do this is represents a tax and given that the whole community ultimately has to bear the whole cost, I ask: What is, socially, the most equitable way to do this? [More…]

• It bears more heavily upon the lower income sections of the community. [More…]

• However, in real terms the cost to the community will go up. [More…]

• So in no way can it be suggested that it will be cheaper for the community to fund the whole business via private benefit funds. [More…]

• When all the ordinary citizens of the community know they can go to the doctor for nothing they flock there two or three times a week and they urge the doctor to operate on them three or four times a year. [More…]

• … the rates of surgical admissions among a geographically isolated low-income group in Boston were measured before and after installation of a comprehensive health clinic in their community. [More…]

• We think Medibank should encompass the whole community. [More…]

• The proposals contained in them are widely accepted by the Australian community and by the majority of honourable members in this House. [More…]

• Without this how can the community be expected to respect the system of universal health care or to have confidence in it? [More…]

• The dubious benefits of competition and choice between Medibank and the private funds are likely to be more than offset by the higher administrative costs of this needlessly fragmented system …. the Government has increased the total cost on the community. [More…]

• If any members of the Labor Party, any members of the community or any technical experts want to argue that the Labor Party’s policy on financing part, at least, of Medibank out of taxation is wrong they have to go back on the principles that the Labor Party established when it first decided to introduce the scheme. [More…]

• I believe private systems are effective and efficient and that they do good for this community. [More…]

• The contributions have increased to such an extent that they are beyond the capacity of some members of the community and involve considerable hardship for others. [More…]

• The community pays. [More…]

• The Government is attemptingand I believe attempting successfully in a very complex area- to try to bring some sanity and commonsense into a very important program for the Australian community. [More…]

• It has been conceived in an atmosphere of lies, deception and humbug and will mean increased cost to the community, chaos and needless confusion. [More…]

• So let us go back to Launceston, which was the scene of the start of the long march and which is where his favourite Tasmanian- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman)- comes from and see what the exceedingly conservative Launceston Examiner has had to say about this scheme. [More…]

• The honourable member can be assured that appropriate initiatives taken by the community will receive ready cooperation and assistance from my Department. [More…]

• In contrast the Labor Party is a Party of double standards, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) pointed out a few moments ago. [More…]

• As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development pointed out, there were 7 Maoris in the New Zealand rugby team that went to South Africa. [More…]

• Firstly, people who use the facilities of the Family Court- its staff, its buildings, its documents and forms, its equipment and servicesshould make some contribution to the costs which would otherwise be borne by the community at large. [More…]

• So again there is evidence that the Government is concerned about the needy and believes that the needy in the community must be assisted. [More…]

• The income received will enable the Commonwealth Government to continue to provide excellent legal aid services for those people in the community who are in need of such services. [More…]

• The development of the Statistical Information System by the Local Government Branch of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, in co-operation with the Bureau of Statistics, will provide a data bank of information of benefit to researchers and people concerned with local government. [More…]

• But I would respectfully suggest that we have only seen the commencement of the compilation of knowledge that will enable Commonwealth, State, local government and community organisations to understand the role that each will play in the federal structure. [More…]

• The Council will have on it representatives from Federal, State and local government and from the community. [More…]

• Accordingly the representation is likely to be 5 Federal representatives, 6 State representatives, 3 local government representatives and 5 community representatives. [More…]

• In the Local Government branch of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development we see the nucleus for a specialised [More…]

• It is clear from discussions that I have had with many of the councillors in the McMillan electorate and with representatives of the Municipal Association of Victoria that there is a belief that local government will take on greater responsibilities in the areas of social welfare and community planning provided it has the necessary financial resources properly to administer and implement such programs. [More…]

• In its place is a mish-mash of health insurance which is to be supported for the less well off half of the community by a tax. [More…]

• it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants. [More…]

• Ethnic radio was a particular experiment, and since the Budget we have seen a less than adequate response from the Government to the demands of the ethnic community- not the demands of interdepartmental committees and boffins in the broadcasting industry but demands of the ethnic communities, clearly articulated but never acknowledged by this Government. [More…]

• It is my duty to point out to the few unions which are causing the trouble in the Australian community at present that they are causing an enormous amount of pressure to be brought upon persons like me from those who have no such control over their income. [More…]

• Use of this emotive word has operated against the confidence which the Treasury alleges it needs to engender throughout the community, and has thus retarded recovery. [More…]

• It is quite a different thing to apply that same principle to valuable capital works at a time when we have unused resources of men and materials, and when the revival of private enterprise can be so much helped by public expenditure upon things which are needed by the community or which would provide the infrastructure for future industrial ventures by the private sector. [More…]

• With value in the dollar much more can be achieved by individuals, by corporate bodies or by companies, and by all sections of the community. [More…]

• For some time the Australian community has been looking for security and a sense of well-being. [More…]

• I believe that the community is only beginning to feel that confidence. [More…]

• The activity within all walks of life has started to bubble and there has been a relaxation in that part of the community. [More…]

• The well-being of the community is established by a sense of security. [More…]

• He should feel some considerable sense of satisfaction that the application, hard work and dedication which he has no doubt given to his awesome and onerous task has been rewarded by the general approval of the Australian community. [More…]

• I say to honourable members opposite that through the deliberate confusion that they have tried to whip up in the Australian community they have done a great disservice to the very system which their Government introduced. [More…]

• They have demonstrated to the Australian community that they are more interested in political point scoring than making Medibank work. [More…]

• This new scheme will place inD the hands of the mothers in the community some income over which they have complete and total discretion. [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 are those who would by guile and by the use of emotive argument seek by various devices to redirect the concern of the community in such a manner that substitute care becomes the inevitable and accepted thing for the community as a whole. [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…]

• Those support services include the provision of a higher family income to enable parents to provide for their families the standard of living the community has now come to expect. [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…]

• This idea of substitute care is conjured up because within the community we have not identified clearly enough our philosophy for the family. [More…]

• Estimates of numbers of homeless men using central city community facilities in Melbourne were of the same order of magnitude. [More…]

• Has the Government taken heed of the vast proSalemi feeling, both among the Italian people and the community in general. [More…]

• The Government announced this morning a number of initiatives in this area that it believes will make a significant contribution towards the amelioration of the problems experienced by this section of the community. [More…]

• It is no wonder that the honourable member for Port Adelaide, who claims to be such a champion of the unfortunate in this community, should seek to interrupt a Minister giving details of a scheme that is designed to help the youth unemployed in Australia. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, is supplementary to that asked by the honourable member for Prospect and is concerned with the sell-out of the ex-servicemen of this country by the Fraser Government - [More…]

• Community Development. [More…]

• The 2 State governments have already invested heavily and their forward planning envisages the investment of a further $ 1 5 1 m in the centre during the next 5 years on the provision of State-type services such as hospitals, housing, schools and other basic community services. [More…]

• The purchase of some 50 000 hectares is an extravagance which this community cannot afford. [More…]

• There is also a need to re-examine the role of the local community and the private sector. [More…]

• The critical comments made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) cannot be directed just at the former Federal Labor Government; he is obviously taking to task State governments of his own political persuasions which acquiesced in the land acquisition program at AlburyWodonga which he has so trenchantly attacked and criticised. [More…]

• This Government, through the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in his position as Chairman of the Ministerial Council on the Development of Albury-Wodonga, will encourage private industry to develop and private enterprise generally to be active in the Albury-Wodonga area. [More…]

• In this Budget we can see a series of moves that are deliberately intended to try to inject confidence into the business community and the individual. [More…]

• We have endeavoured to provide a program that will overcome the hiatus in the principal sector of employment in our community. [More…]

• It quite fascinates me that honourable members opposite still fail to realise that the principal employer in the Australian community is the private sector. [More…]

• Look at what has happened to the average weekly earnings and consider what effect that must have had on the people who must be the concern of this community. [More…]

• The principal burden of people in the rural community is the mark-up value between the farm gate and the customer. [More…]

• What it demonstrates is that we are prepared to reassess the whole of the basis on which the rural community needs to be helped. [More…]

• We have made adjustments in the Medibank program which I am quite certain every member of the Australian community will be a lot better for. [More…]

• The Opposition still seems to believe that spending money will cure the economic ills of this community. [More…]

• This Budget is part of a continuing Government program to restore employment, to contain inflation and to make every producing sector of this community worth while again. [More…]

• That decision, which was made by one man as a result of the frustrating and undemocratic tactics of the then Opposition in the Senate, is still causing disquiet and conflict in the community. [More…]

• We know that the tribunal is headed by 3 highly competent people who determine the rights not only of parliamentarians but also of academics and members of so many other sections of our community. [More…]

• I conclude my remarks on this point by saying to these people: ‘Put your minds to it, be more careful and earn the money that you are being paid, because if you are hurting members of Parliament by your carelessness no doubt other sections of the community also are suffering’. [More…]

• It has met with the general approval of the community and of the Australian Public Service. [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…]

• As you can see from these figures, this certainly does not substantiate the Government’s claim and we feel Sessional Pre-Schools play an extremely vital role in the community and there is a definite need for such Pre-Schools, but without continued Government funding it will become financially impossible to run these Centres. [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…]

• 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…]

• Quite clearly the health costs in this country have to be paid for by the community by one means or another- either by taxation or by distributing the costs by some means. [More…]

• Further, does he consider that statements he has been making around the country depicting Australia as the potential victim of Soviet aggression have caused considerable alarm and near hysteria in sections of the community? [More…]

• There is no doubt that the cash flow from the first payment in past years has made a tremendous difference to the general affluence, not just of the wheat grower but of whole sectors of the rural community. [More…]

• How on earth are we to know what is causing the squirrelling away of funds into deposits when we want these funds spent in the community if we do not have the necessary raw material to make these decisions, namely the material coming from the Bureau of Statistics? [More…]

• Without a doubt the enlightened sections of the business community, industrial and commercial, agree with such a proposition. [More…]

• The point I want to make is that it seems to be in the minds of a number of people in our community that somehow or other you can set down a rigorous economic plan for a number of years, that everything will happen, that everybody will know where they are, and that there will not be - [More…]

• It is the only way in which we can make significant payments for foreign aid, for assistance to Aborigines and a number of other groups in the community. [More…]

• There are in our community, quite rightly, pressures to reduce tariffs and yet with relative inefficiency it is going to be more and more necessary to provide protection if we are to keep a significant number of our population employed. [More…]

• My attempt today is to draw attention to what I believe is the central problem and I hope many other members of the community will see it more and endeavour to improve the situation. [More…]

• Table 3 in that document shows that the total saving by the Australian community for the period ended June 1976 was $ 10,971m. [More…]

• There can be no doubting that if changes were made in this interest rate we could see a greater downward mobility by the trading banks m all their lending rates to the community. [More…]

• The task of drawing attention to the reality of constraints on what ministers, departments, parliamentarians and groups and individuals in the community would like to do or have done is not one which easily wins friends for those who perform it. [More…]

• It is simply unemployment which occurs when the work force experiences an inability to respond to an increase in the gross domestic product or to an increase in total production within the Australian community. [More…]

• Every other production sector of the community declined. [More…]

• One of the many reasons, and I shall not canvass them all, which prompted the Labor Government to establish the Commission was that we felt that for far too long the community’s attitude to social welfare had been determined in large measure by politicians and bureaucrats, prompted perhaps by pressures arising for support or assistance for a particular group in the community which was perceived to be suffering some severe disadvantage. [More…]

• But rarely, if ever, do we seek the opinions or advice of the community itself. [More…]

• But I still do not have to accept it as the best or ideal way to ascertain what are the real social welfare requirements of the community. [More…]

• Its purpose was to look more closely at the whole network of social welfare in the country, a network which, if I might continue the image, had a hell of a lot of holes which allowed a lot of people who were in real need to fall through and not be supported in the way a modern community such as ours should support people like that. [More…]

• Another facet of the Commission’s activity in the process of trying to better understand the social welfare needs of ordinary members of the community, apart from the pressures of politics, was to get more local community involvement, to seek the active co-operation of the various voluntary welfare agencies which are set up by concerned citizens because they recognise that governments are not looking after a particular area. [More…]

• Leave it for charity and these well-intentioned members of the community.’ [More…]

• They contribute more than their fair share in trying to provide for the deficiencies they perceive which ought to be the responsibility of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Welfare services provided to the underprivileged members of a community are not a form of charity. [More…]

• In a modern society such as we like to pride ourselves to have, those things should be rights that people are entitled to have simply because they are members of the community. [More…]

• The fact is that there are large numbers of people in the community who for a variety of reasons are unable to look after themselves. [More…]

• When we do have unfortunate members of the community who are unable to sustain themselves- and the Social Welfare Commission investigated a whole range of things- we are all the poorer for their suffering and misery. [More…]

• The Australian Assistance Plan was positively geared towards drawing in interested sections of the community to give the Government an indication of what those people perceived to be the needs in various areas and then providing the funds to enable them to do the job. [More…]

• Ironically, although the Liberal Opposition often accused us of wasting money, it is significant that in those local groups Liberal Party supporters often were actively involved in presenting their point of view on the needs of the local community. [More…]

• So the actions of the Labor Government positively helped even its political enemies to better express their views on how we might better cater for the social needs of the community. [More…]

• Yet with the abolition of the Commission and the dropping of the Australian Assistance Plan the community on all sides has risen up and shown its deep concern, its appreciation for what we were doing, perhaps in a very inadequate way. [More…]

• 1 ) To ascertain the social welfare needs of the community and report these to the Minister. [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…]

• Political policy in a democratic community does not depend upon purely economic considerations. [More…]

• It is most unlikely that, fortuitously, regions are going to have all the elements of community aid and assistance without any planning. [More…]

• Together these groups were able to apply themselves to community needs in a very effective way. [More…]

• It organised the preparation of the regional social welfare directory and in general terms it rendered a very great community service. [More…]

• I hope that the unit that has been proposed will have a successful period of operation until something more desirable and more useful to the Australian community emerges. [More…]

• The Plan was an experimental program under which the Government funded community welfare projects and the employment of community development officers who were quite often used in projects themselves funded under the Plan. [More…]

• But the clear message of the Social Welfare Commission’s work is that Federal funding is essential to the continuing viability of the community welfare projects initiated. [More…]

• One particular crying instance of this relates to the Dulwich Hill community centre. [More…]

• Two examples that spring to mind are the grants to community agencies administered by the Migrant Community Services Branch of the Department of Social Security and the Community Arts Program of the Australia Council. [More…]

• The Government ought to think about the ways in which those kinds of flexible grants are again made available to worthwhile local community projects. [More…]

• The planning of such local community projects, and the funding of such local community projects should remain the goal of Federal Parliament and the Federal Government. [More…]

• I think most of us would agree that in the regional areas where the AAP program has got off the ground it has in fact brought together a great number of people who certainly have improved the quality of life of the less advantaged people in the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) made the very important point that in today’s society the Government and the community should be turning their attention to the rights of the less privileged people in the community. [More…]

• I think that the community as a whole has accepted the fact that there is a great responsibility on all our shoulders to ensure that the less advantaged people in the community are given their rights by both governments and the community. [More…]

• I think it is important that people realise that when we are debating foreign affairs we are debating matters which have a fundamental effect upon the future and security of the community and the nation at large. [More…]

• The other thing to which the community ought to start to apply itself is the utter hypocrisy of this Government. [More…]

• It is regrettable that some Australian trade unions have not shown the same common sense for their own long term good and that of the community. [More…]

• It had even become aware of the possibility that aid programs aimed at helping a whole community might unintentionally worsen the position of women. [More…]

• Their programs have a flexibility and an ability to get down to the community level in recipient countries which it is hard for governmenttogovernment aid to match. [More…]

• That represents not just a reduction of last year’s allocation; in real terms it is the castration of funding for hospital facilities, clinics, health centres and health education programs for our Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Let me turn finally to community health facilities. [More…]

• A further $70m- compared with $S4.3m last year- has been provided for payment of grants to States, local government authorities, and other eligible organisations under the community health program. [More…]

• I suggest that it is deliberately and cynically designed to indicate, wrongly, that the Fraser Government is actually increasing community health facilities. [More…]

• If it were not for this Government’s reining in of last year’s Budget allocations one project that could have gone ahead is the muchneeded community health centre in Northcote. [More…]

• Given the fact that the estimates for community health facilities have not increased at all, let me look at a second important element. [More…]

• What do the Liberals say to the people of Northcote who have planned and worked hard for such a community health centre for more than 12 months? [More…]

• You will be aware that an amount of $70m will be appropriated for the continuation of the community health program in 1976-77. [More…]

• This is a substantial contribution to the continuation of community health services but is available only to permit the maintenance of currently approved projects at previously approved levels of activity. [More…]

• Necessary restrictions on Commonwealth expenditure have meant that, at this stage, it has not been possible to provide community health program funds for new projects such as the Northcote proposal. [More…]

• I should add that future Commonwealth financial assistance for community health projects will take the form of annual block grants for State programs as a whole, and it will be primarily a matter for the State authorities to decide allocations to individual projects from the block grants. [More…]

• Organisations such as the Northcote Community Health centre society are therefore being advised that they should keep in touch with their State health authorities concerning the further consideration of their proposals in the event that community health program funds become available for new projects. [More…]

• Meanwhile, it is unconcerned that community health programs administrators, such as those in West Heidelberg in Victoria, do not know what their allocation will be. [More…]

• In the case of the ex-service community this creates excessive hardship for the service pensioner as well as the age pensioner. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the community health centre program and to the hospital improvement program. [More…]

• It is in regard to the community health centres that I wish to speak because my electorate is one that is quite markedly affected in this way. [More…]

• The West Heidelberg Community Health and Welfare Centre has been operating for some time in temporary premises. [More…]

• Of course, the last of those directions is the one that most concerns the Management Committee in the immediate future because it seems to imply that the community health program is to be allowed to wither away in Victoria. [More…]

• The long term concern of the residents is that the Commonwealth Government should continue to fund the community health program. [More…]

• This meeting expresses its wholehearted support for the Committee of Management of the West Heidelberg Community Centre and for the work of the Centre in West Heidelberg and demands that the State Minister of Health: [More…]

• The other point I wish to make is the Government’s failure to appreciate that these community health centres are not just treatment centres but are out-reaching organisations for the community that deal with many social welfare aspects as well. [More…]

• There are other things that I want to talk about so I will have to move off the community health program. [More…]

• The West Heidelberg Community Centre has given permission for the establishment of a voluntary ‘drop in’ centre in an attempt to institute a job creation program to cover community jobs such as small household repairs and actively assist the unemployed to find work in the community. [More…]

• The group desires to establish a centre with focus on community action against unemployment. [More…]

• I direct my remarks also to community health centres. [More…]

• The honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) who preceded me in the debate mentioned community health centres. [More…]

• In fact, the direction of the community’s request for its needs is changing. [More…]

• But contrary to what they and their Treasurer (Mr Lynch) have been telling us for a long time, the pursuit of the community in Australia is not for manufactured goods but for services that can be provided only by government. [More…]

• It is in pursuit of better community health facilities that can be provided only by government. [More…]

• These are the areas where the unemployed in our community will more likely be employed rather than in manufacturing industry. [More…]

• Having said that, we come to the area that was covered, I thought very well, by the excellent and honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) when he spoke about community health centres. [More…]

• The honourable member for Petrie complained that when people are being treated in community health centres they ought to be told that those centres are provided by Commonwealth funds. [More…]

• If he did live in Victoria it is apparent that he is not living in either Scullin or Burke because we do not have any community health centres in those 2 divisions. [More…]

• There is no community health treatment for the people. [More…]

• The community health centres are just not there. [More…]

• In fact both of the community health centres have been told by the Hospitals and Charities Commission that with the present staff ceilings they have one person too many. [More…]

• When I made a submission to the Federal Minister for Health I got back a very courteous letter in which the Minister said he deeply regretted that the Hospitals and Charities Commission in Victoria had told the Broadmeadows Community Health Centre that its existing staff exceeded the ceiling placed on it by the Hospitals and Charities Commission. [More…]

• But he is a captive of the ultra-conservative Fraser regime which denied him the funds to perform these services that are so urgently and vitally needed in the community as was very clearly spelled out by my colleague, the honourable member for Scullin. [More…]

• Any one of these estimates for the Department of Health, the Department of Repatriation and the Department of Social Security with which we are dealing gives no consideration to a very significant group in our community and they are the people who are deaf. [More…]

• I think it is incumbent on the rest of the community to bear the cost of providing this instrument to people irrespective of the cost. [More…]

• It is one that I am sure any reasonable person in the Australian community- any person without afflictionwould cheerfully bear. [More…]

• The lone father is financially discriminated against, and I agree with the proposition that if the community is prepared to take the responsibility of breadwinner for a single mother, it should also take responsibility for the provision of a substitute mother. [More…]

• All of us should have an equal opportunity for personal development and we should have the right to participate as good members of the community. [More…]

• Need and degree of need should be the primary test by which help is given to a person, group or community. [More…]

• It is very difficult in 10 minutes to deal with such large departments, but I will start with the Department of Health and deal specifically with community health. [More…]

• Nonetheless, it is important that there are many people in the community who see themselves as being chronically ill, who see themselves as not being as active as they would like to be, and in a smaller proportion of cases being unable to work. [More…]

• Obviously they need all kinds of health services, and those health services are at least partially being provided by the community health services which Labor introduced over the last two or three years while it was in Government. [More…]

• I am proud that the people of my electorate have a pilot scheme which involves many community nurses. [More…]

• Each primary public school in the electorate of Prospect and in some of the surrounding electorates has one or two community nurses attached to it to try to prevent people from going into hospital. [More…]

• There are all kinds of other complications, and I hope that much work will be done to see just how beneficial community health services are, both from the point of view of benefits to the population, which I suppose is the most important point, and from the point of view of economics. [More…]

• One aspect which concerns me is that many of the young women who have gone into community nursing, certainly many I have met in my area, are exceptionally bright girls with much more go in them, I think, than many others in the nursing profession. [More…]

• Perhaps some of the best nurses are leaving the hospitals and going into community nursing. [More…]

• I want to devote some time to the community health program. [More…]

• A total of $70.7m has been provided for the payment of grants to the States, local government authorities and other eligible organisations under the community health program, as well as assisting major national voluntary organisations in the family medicine program. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government’s grant to Victoria for this financial year has increased from $ 10.5m to $ 15.2m and we understand that that should maintain the community program at a viable level in Victoria. [More…]

• We would expect the States to establish priorities in accordance with community health programs as we are continuing the hospitals development program. [More…]

• -Over the past 3 years there have been many strikes in the petroleum industry on the eastern seaboard paralysing industry and causing undue hardship to everyone in the community. [More…]

• Transport, industry and the farming community have been seriously affected by these strikesstrikes which seem always to occur at times when the most inconvenience will be caused to industry and members of the public. [More…]

• If a member of Parliament raises an issue such as this under the guise of public interest, he also has a responsibility to the Parliament and to the community to say that he stands to be disadvantaged from that disputation or that he stands to benefit if such disputation does not occur. [More…]

• Between 1972 and 1975, the Labor Government tried on several occasions to introduce legislation that would force members of this Parliament to register and disclose to the community their pecuniary interests, investments and shareholdings. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) continues to represent Senator Durack in this House. [More…]

• For the purpose of a great number of our Aboriginal affairs programs, the definition of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is that he or she be a person of Aboriginal or Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Islander and who is accepted as such by the community with which he or she is associated. [More…]

• Many of the CSIRO ‘s research programs are directly concerned with industry development, but its work has wider implications for the nation and the community as a whole. [More…]

• As the CSIRO is therefore primarily a scientific body concerned with research which affects the whole community, why are there to be 2 businessmen on the Committee of Inquiry and only one scientist? [More…]

• When I announced Mr Hay’s appointment to conduct this inquiry I said that the purpose of the examination was to ensure that the funds being made available for the Aboriginal community were being spent for the maximum benefit of Aborigines. [More…]

• They were to assess the effectiveness of the services financed, to recommend improvements in the delivery of services and their financial arrangements in the interest of Aborigines and the community at large, and to establish whether there were any areas of waste and inefficiency. [More…]

• This decision, I know, will be welcomed by Aboriginal people, whose lives in many cases centre around the community hall and whose social contact with other Aboriginal groups is largely through the performance of their sporting teams. [More…]

• The provision of funds for these purposes can be instrumental in forming the nucleus for community development and, through this, selfesteem. [More…]

• I have seen a number of examples of Aboriginal community spirit matched by government funds producing just such self-esteem and a new sense of social involvement where previously Aborigines were out on the fringe. [More…]

• While speaking of community development, I would particularly mention the suggestion by Mr Hay of the compiling of community profiles. [More…]

• Such profiles will give the Government a better understanding of development through the totality of different programs meeting various needs in the one community. [More…]

• In working out the contents of community profiles, the family allowances received by a community will be taken into account. [More…]

• He mentioned to me that he did not find an Aboriginal community where the Aboriginal people were able to say: ‘We discussed the problems affecting the Aboriginal communities and the Department with Mr Hay’. [More…]

• I am quite sure that as a conscientious officer and former administrator of Papua New Guinea he is skilled in administrative processes and is able to link into the report the views of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and some Aboriginal community leaders. [More…]

• With some of my colleagues who are members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, which is currently engaged on an inquiry into alcoholism in Aboriginal communities, I went to the Mowanjum community near Derby just the other day. [More…]

• I have never seen a community deteriorate so quickly in terms of responsiveness and enthusiasm. [More…]

• That community is quite unsure of the possible continuation of future projects. [More…]

• We can still see paternalism in evidence around Australia, regardless of the attempt of the Labor Government to discourage it Last week some of my colleagues visited an Aboriginal community where all the pension cheques are received by the mission and the food is supplied to all the Aboriginal people from a little kitchen. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) was speaking of the Mowanjum community. [More…]

• He is quite right when he says the Mowanjum community in the last year or so has deteriorated beyond belief. [More…]

• The Mowanjum community does have in Pantijan its own station. [More…]

• The final variation to which I wish to refer involves the deletion of a section of Currong Street between Ainslie Avenue and Allambee Street in Reid to allow for medium density development and community facilities on this location. [More…]

• While the Committee has agreed to recommend closure of Currong Street to allow the development to proceed, it has also recommended that public participation in planning should be broadened by the National Capital Development Commission and the Department of the Capital Territory building up their liaison with community groups and individuals with respect to any variation which might affect those groups or individuals. [More…]

• We believe that unless the community recognises that there is this critical nexus between wage levels, unemployment and investment, then we are not going to have a revival of confidence in this country and we are not going to have the economic revival that I believe is the wish and the aspiration of all members of this House. [More…]

• So, he is not only uncomfortable about that, but he is also uncomfrotable about the fact that we have introduced a family allowance scheme- a scheme which any honest, objective person would agree is of more direct benefit to the lower income earners in our community than to the higher income earners. [More…]

• -The Opposition has raised for discussion in this Parliament as a matter of public importance the question of the Fraser Government’s inconsistent attitudes towards the regulation of incomes and prices because it believes it is of the utmost national importance that the community should become more aware of the slanting of the Government’s approach to economic management towards the expansion of the profit factor at the expense of the wages factor. [More…]

• The Minister tries to persuade us that the record level of unemployment in the communitythe highest rate of unemployment since World War II- the attack on and denigration of unemployed people by this Government, the vilification and persecution of the young unemployed people by this Government, and the increasing prices, are all matters of fantasy, that they are not really happening. [More…]

• The fact is that the Government is continuing to try to perpetrate a confidence trick upon the Australian community. [More…]

• The countries which have achieved most conspicuous successes have secured a consensus of the various economic and social groups within the community. [More…]

• He is the man who last year said that people who are thriftless should not be the responsibility of the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Labour at the time, the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), was busily using the Public Service as a pace setter and effectively forcing upwards wage levels in the community. [More…]

• Most Aboriginal legal services are at present undergoing an acute shortage of funds which, quite naturally, is affecting their capacity to provide the services necessary and, in many instance, vital to Aboriginals throughout the community. [More…]

• That is to be found in every community in the Northern Territory, almost without exception. [More…]

• It is the creation of a new community spirit and beings in areas that are remote from us, in cultures different from ours, and in situations which perhaps nobody has resolved so far. [More…]

• There has been an immense increase in the number of Aboriginal people who can speak for themselves and who can take thenpart in the community in such a way that they have almost dropped out of sight. [More…]

• I believe that all members of this Parliament and the Austraiian community in general should concentrate their efforts on the very considerable problems confronting the Aboriginal people rather than using the issue for some political advantage. [More…]

• The Australian community has been terribly suspicious of granting any powers to the Federal Parliament in all the referenda that have been held over the years, but suddenly there was this emphatic protest at the whole course of Australia’s relationship with the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• He spoke in favour of the continuance of Aboriginal legal aid services as autonomous units, working in co-operation with other legal aid services in the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) spoke of unemployment benefits and of the request by numerous Aboriginal communities that either they not receive those benefits or that the money which is paid into the community in that manner be used to provide job opportunities for the men and the women. [More…]

• Mention was made earlier in the day of the community at Mowanjum. [More…]

• I inform the Committee that the Mowanjum community wrote to me in February of this year pointing out the great socially destructive effect of unemployment and other social security payments on the community. [More…]

• The community asked me whether I could do something to help. [More…]

• I have recently said publicly that the Department is now working on ways and means by which we can convert those unemployment benefits into work money, not in any sense of discrimination or to deny to Aboriginals their entitlement to unemployment benefit but to see that the money which would otherwise go into a community in that way and not be put to work is in fact put to work. [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 has cut back on any improved sewerage proposals, on improved housing, particularly in the public sector, in improvements to urban public transport, health services, real value in education and in environmental and cultural services within our community. [More…]

• I regard his comments on the proposed numbers of migrants coming to Australia this year as an insult to the migrant community. [More…]

• In addition to the matters before the Committee this evening, there are other important matters referred to in the Budget which concern the migrant community. [More…]

• Similarly, in social security areas there are substantial measures for migrant services throughout the community. [More…]

• The Government’s policies and actions reflect concern for the migrant community. [More…]

• We are not 2-faced about our policies, and I believe that the migrant community of Australia and all Australian citizens recognise the real concern that this Government and the Minister and my colleagues on this side of the Chamber have for the Immigration and Ethnic Affairs portfolio. [More…]

• May I make brief reference to a most excellent publication prepared by the Community Services Centre in Melbourne under the auspices of the Victorian Hamer Government. [More…]

• The ethnic community organisations are crying out for the money. [More…]

• I refer to the allocation for the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The appointment to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations was of a man who had a distinguished background in working with ethnic communities in this country. [More…]

• The creation of that Office and the appointment of this man to that position raised significantly the hopes of ethnic communities that positive discrimination in their favour may at last take place and that a good deal of discrimination that took place so unfairly in the community would be stopped. [More…]

• If honourable members look at the allocation in this Budget for the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, they will see that there is no increase whatsoever over the allocation for last year. [More…]

• In one of the recent debates on this subject in this place, the Minister not unfairly, said that we should never raise the expectations amongst the Lebanese community in Australia that everybody who can escape from the Lebanon will be able to come to Australia. [More…]

• But those arrangements received wide currency in the Lebanese community. [More…]

• The communication with the Lebanese community in this country has not been good enough. [More…]

• Perhaps he does this because he has no concern, as is the case with the majority of Opposition members, for immigration and its impact on the Australian community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Grayndler says that the Government has not increased expenditure for the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• On 20 May the Minister issued a statement saying he was surprised at criticism levelled at him by the local Lebanese community. [More…]

• The facts show that in his handling of the grave and tragic plight of refugees from the Lebanon the Minister has been less than candid and less than sincere to the Parliament, to the Lebanese community in Australia and to the refugees themselves. [More…]

• There is a lot of work in the Geelong area for an officer of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and I hope the Minister will consider restoring that service to the migrant community of that area. [More…]

• In this regard I refer to the lesser migrant communities such as the Turkish community which want their relatives to come to Australia. [More…]

• The people in our Turkish community and other such communities have religious and other differences and are in desperate need of close relatives, especially in some areas. [More…]

• Within our community we are beginning to get more detailed consideration of immigration- it has been exemplified by statements tonight- not just in terms of immigration but in terms of the broader context of a population policy for Australia and that is what we are seeking. [More…]

• We are seeking to develop within the community at large a realistic well-informed debate about the future size of Australia’s population. [More…]

• The Commission is firmly of the view that it is quite essential that government retain a flow of organised and regular information relating to all aspects of the industry from all oil companies and other organisations within the industry so that government is in the position to understand and evaluate the needs and problems of the industry from the point of view of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of this Parliament to heed them and make decisions in the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• There have been critics of the Plan but all organisations within the community have been able to receive great benefits from it. [More…]

• No fewer than 64 community programs were launched in the Port Adelaide electorate under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• It was not a very large budget, but it allowed many of the community programs to get under way. [More…]

• It allowed these community groups to have some form of semi-professional organisation so that they could carry out their work more effectively and more efficiently. [More…]

• But what we do regard the scheme as being, and what is significant about it- the House should take note of this- is that it has been tailored specifically to cater for that group of people in the community which presumably is the subject matter of the Opposition’s motion to discuss a matter of public importance. [More…]

• It is one of great importance to a very large section of our community. [More…]

• The work carried out for the Australian Government in this area is carried out by private contractors who engage people in the community generally. [More…]

• However, the paradox of that situation is that unless the wealth created by the machines is distributed among the community then the manufacturer will soon run out of consumers. [More…]

• So we are seeing the development of some groups of young unemployed in the community who are getting together to work on co-operative projects that will provide them with work and with an avenue for discussing their problems. [More…]

• But housing, which is a fundamental need of a community and one of the great social areas, is being used for the exploitation of the citizen. [More…]

• I suppose one could add something like 10 per cent of the revenue- say another Sim- about the level the general community charges for such services. [More…]

• What is the moral ground upon which people continue to raise the interest rate on money that was taken from the community and invested in the system 20 years ago? [More…]

• The people of the Australian Capital Territory, more than the people of any other community in Australia, have been asked to pull their weight to revitalise this country. [More…]

• The real problem has been a sort of community future shock, fanned consistently, I might say, by those people opposite who pretend to be the champions of the people. [More…]

• But there have been increases in essential community service areas such as servicing and caretaking of government dwellings, recreational, cultural and community services, fire brigade and bus services, maintenance of parks and gardens, lighting and cleaning, police and- of very great importance- social welfare. [More…]

• We have already seen increases in the staff of the Departments of the Capital Territory, Education and Health and such essential community services as fire brigades and police. [More…]

• Our education authority and health administration likewise must be answerable to the local electorate through the community and through elected local representatives. [More…]

• The spirit and morale of the community is a sensitive thing. [More…]

• First of all, this community has the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• There were pressures from various areas in the community. [More…]

• I do not necessarily mean in quite the same way as my Labor predecessor, but we will certainly break through bureaucratic red tape in the interests of proposals for the community, individuals and business. [More…]

• We are ensuring that all essential community services are being maintained. [More…]

• The Department has been increasing the number of its staff so that it can service the community at times when other departments, for very proper reasons, have been sacrificing some staff. [More…]

• But I should like to remind the Territorians of the effects of his tenure of office as a Minister which in some way touched some parts of the Northern Territory and sections of the community. [More…]

• Maybe it is not their task to provide solutions; perhaps it is the responsibility of the community to delve a bit deeper and get solutions. [More…]

• If and when the community refuses to contribute, no significant exploration will be done. [More…]

• World-wide exploration effort is very closely related with tax-effected community involvement. [More…]

• 8 ) A well-housed supply of construction and plant operators can be drawn upon from the above established population centres where new housing and community services have already been planned in advance for employees and management staff of the Redcliff petrochemical project, which was subsequently abandoned. [More…]

• Macarthur has one of Australia’s richest and highest grade seams of coal, and in the Burragorang mines a great degree of development is proceeding, providing more employment not only in the mining industry itself but in associated industries, and bringing increased benefits to the whole community However, there is a big ‘if involved, and that ‘if depends on the capacity of the industry to export its product through the ports of New South Wales. [More…]

• Additional jobs, with their multiplied benefits for the community, could not be created. [More…]

• Many people in politics and in the community in Australia may be of the opinion that a few overseas shareholders would benefit from Australian uranium mining. [More…]

• The major barriers to our exports of meat were faced in 1975 in our major markets of the United States, Canada, Japan and the European Economic Community, but the situation has improved in recent times. [More…]

• Some members of the community, employers and workers- a few of them- have to accept full responsibility for what most of us believe is in the best interests of this country. [More…]

• Only by the closest possible communication between government and industry can we achieve the goals spoken of in the Green Paper and which would have widespread community support. [More…]

• He went before various sectors of the community and the travel tourism industry saying what the government would do for tourism and travel within Australia. [More…]

• Finally, I believe that insufficient consideration of the effects of the recommendations on the social life of the community has been given. [More…]

• At the weekend he represented the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) at a seminar which was sponsored by Civic Constructions Pty Ltd. A Press report of his speech states: [More…]

• In this district, in my district and even in the community of the honourable member- he knows this from the extent of the swing against him at recent elections- the feeling of the people was that they were not prepared to take that sort of treatment without consideration of all the implications and without discussions with the State Government which is required to consider all the ramifications which must be associated with any airport development in any area. [More…]

• 1) It is assumed that the ‘statements’ referred to in the honourable member’s question are letters which the Chairman of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission forwarded to honourable members in August 1976, advising them of Community Health Program projects in their electorates which have been approved for Commonwealth purposes in respect of 1976-77. [More…]

• As indicated in a reply to ( 1 ) above, Commonwealth funding under the Community Health Program in 1976-77 has been in the form of a block grant to each State, and the allocation of funds to individual projects from within the block grant is a matter for detailed decision by the State health authorities. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s offer of Community Health Program annual block grants to each State for the State’s total program of community health projects is based upon the Government’s federalism policies. [More…]

• The bases on which block grants have been offered to the States under the Community Health Program are that the Commonwealth will continue to have roles in relation to- broad policies and strategies for the Program; agreement with each State on the inclusion of individual projects in the State’s annual program, and on priorities within the annual program; and joint Commonwealth/State evaluations and progress reporting activities. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to reports in the Press, in particular the Adelaide Advertiser of 20 July 1976, in which the Commissioner for Community Relations was reported as saying that the Federal Government was monitoring 23 organisations that it regarded as racist and that 95 000 Australians were members of these organisations? [More…]

• I wish to stress that the Commissioner for Community Relations is a statutory officer with certain functions set down in the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]

• As a statutory officer the Commissioner for Community Relations is not a spokesman for the Commonwealth Government, nor do his statements necessarily reflect the Government’s position on specific matters. [More…]

• In view of the wide interest generated by the reports which the honourable member has mentioned I requested the Commissioner for Community Relations to indicate whether the newspaper reports were an accurate statement of what he had said, and also requested information on the 23 organisations which are alleged to be racist and on the nature of the monitoring to which he referred. [More…]

• The figure of 95 000 Australians quoted by the Commissioner for Community Relations as being members of the organisations is the total of the membership of the 23 organisations as estimated by them. [More…]

• I made this suggestion simply because the booklet was not of a standard which in my view would bring any credit to the Commissioner or further the cause of those of us in the community who are opposed to racism and to discrimination based on racism. [More…]

• From 1972 to 1975 there was a greater recognition of those needs and increased confidence amongst those in the community of migrant origin. [More…]

• If one looks at the European Economic Community and the way its governments make import decisions without going through these objective procedures, one can see the point I am making. [More…]

• The Committee strongly believes that each Aboriginal community should make its own decision as to whether alcohol should or should not be permitted on a settlement. [More…]

• Should a community decide to ban alcohol every effort should be made by the Government to assist the community in enforcing that decision. [More…]

• At present, in cases where a community has banned the importation of alcohol or imposed rationing, large quantities are being brought in, mainly by charter aircraft or taxi. [More…]

• Should a community decide to allow the consumption of liquor, the Committee believes that a licensed club should hold the only liquor licence within that community. [More…]

• In the report titled 40 Gallons per Head’, which was produced by the Alice Springs Regional Council for Social Development, this contention is made: the people of the southern region of the Northern Territory drink almost twice as much as any other heavy drinking community for which data is available. [More…]

• It also reflects the community nature of Aboriginal life and the sharing characteristic which is customary of the Aboriginal race. [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…]

• We were told of a communityand I quote- ‘collapsing in a great, bloody, brawling, sprawling drunken heap’; that white men are selling flagons of wine to Aborigines at $20 a flagon; that one Aboriginal drunk pick-up service picks up 50 to 60 people a night; that one Northern Territory town has 52 liquor outlets; and we were told of a community rationing beer to 12 cans per adult per day and 24 cans on Saturdays. [More…]

• The local option system is supported, but clearly more attention should be given to this matter, particularly in terms of decision-taking processes by Aboriginals and the frequency with which the question might be put to a community. [More…]

• One of the reasons for this point of view is to ensure that communities opting for prohibition can still provide permits for visiting contractors and servicing personnel if that is considered necessary by the Aboriginal community concerned. [More…]

• When either the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock), who is the Chairman of the Committee, or the Deputy Chairman of the Committee was speaking earlier one of my colleagues said: ‘That sounds very much like the rest of the Australian community’. [More…]

• However, the kind of impact that alcohol has upon Aboriginal communities, particularly isolated Aboriginal communities, is different from the kind of impact that it has upon the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• We discovered in many areas that the access to alcohol had produced a total drinking situation and that in some communities almost 100 per cent of the people drank much more than was good for them or for the community and in others the women were excluded either of their own volition or because of a community decision. [More…]

• Therefore this is an important issue for consideration if we are going to do anything for the revival of the status and morale of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The issue originally was not alcohol but the fundamental question of freedom, of human rights and of equal rights for everybody in the community. [More…]

• It is not unusual to find in a community a new council chamber, a new government store and new nursing quarters erected without any consultation with the community as to its needs. [More…]

• On one community those 3 things are standing there, brand spanking new, and have no relationship to the needs of the community. [More…]

• A tremendous amount of money has been spent on one community. [More…]

• It has no relationship to the needs of that community. [More…]

• The community which I mentioned was in desperate need of adequate toilet facilities and additional housing to bring it up to a reasonable standard. [More…]

• The essence of the new federalism is the Fraser Government’s avowed intention of reducing funds for the States and local government and forcing them to raise their own taxes or allow essential community services to decline. [More…]

• The elected local councillor is not only more willing, but also more able to respond to the wishes of the community than a bureaucrat appointed and controlled by a central legislature. [More…]

• Even if this happens, it is impossible to see much benefit filtering through the federal channels to the community groups which should be the point of delivery for all government programs. [More…]

• Nor is there much chance of important issues moving up to the Council from the grass roots of local government and community groups. [More…]

• I believe it is incredible that both the Leader of the Opposition and his deputy failed to advert to the fact that in addition to 6 local government representatives we, believing in the opinion of the grass roots of the community, are legislating for 5 community representatives to be appointed to the Council by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) but after consultation with the Premiers of the participating States. [More…]

• So 1 1 out of 22 members will represent local government and the community. [More…]

• Also the community has the right of direct approach and representation to the Commission. [More…]

• The Council will have the opportunity of getting the views from both government and opposition at State level, from local government and from members of the community who will serve upon it. [More…]

• Of course, there is a reference to the 5 citizens who are not members of Parliament, and they are to be drawn from different sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The community health program is a particular example I have in mind. [More…]

• Indeed, the whole concept of an Advisory Council for InterGovernment Relations is specifically to enable the 2 principal tiers of government to have a continuing forum on a broad range of matters but also to enable local government participation and to enable citizen participation so that the 3 tiers of government and the community will participate together in broad general discussions. [More…]

• What considered philosophy can be discerned in his statement that ‘a genuinely vigorous and stimulating artistic climate will emerge only when governments, individuals and private enterprises and corporations are actively and co-operatively offering decentralised and diversified patronage for the arts in our community’? [More…]

• Yet there is a growing community demand for arts services- not just for the traditional grants but for such things as cultural exchanges, exhibitions, artistic activities in prisons, in hospitals, for the disabled. [More…]

• The Australia Council has always given the strongest emphasis to community and local involvement in the arts, and rightly so. [More…]

• We are not told what is to become of the Board’s important work in video access, with its opportunities for community participation in film and television making. [More…]

• There were people in the community who were becoming professional fund applicants. [More…]

• Worst of all, perhaps, the Labor Government aroused expectations which no community could meet, and I think that is the worst legacy left by the Labor Government. [More…]

• What it could do, if done properly- I think it would have to be done very cautiously- is to try to involve the local community more in the sorts of decisions which are too often taken by remote bureaucrats in Sydney. [More…]

• The second problem for the Australia Council is the inevitable conflict between the pursuit of excellence and community involvement. [More…]

• I think the answer is clear A very large proportion of the community wants the Government to support the arts. [More…]

• The performing arts widen the opportunities available to the individuals in our community. [More…]

• An essential component of a civilised community is that the community should have full access to the arts. [More…]

• This will ensure community support for activities which the Federal Government is supporting. [More…]

• Our arts will then not be confined to an adult elite but will be spread across the community. [More…]

• The Government is concerned that assistance should be given to the artists, to those in the field, whether at the higher reaches of art or in the broad areas of community arts which the Government seeks to support. [More…]

• What is a matter for the concern of the community, the Government and all governments is whether they are responsible purchases which fit into a coherent and accepted acquisition policy. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and I have already had some discussions on this matter with the National Gallery which believes that it is important for a policy to be developed, put to government and to the community for discussion and agreed upon so that against that background appropriate purchases can be made. [More…]

• Then there is the matter of devolution in the area of the community arts. [More…]

• There is no question that the Australia Council will maintain its oversight of the community arts program. [More…]

• The performance of the Government to date, the amounts allocated in the Budget and the concrete decisions made all make it plain that the Government believes in the arts and in their future at the heart of community life in this country. [More…]

• When we are debating matters relating to rural industries we need to be conscious of the importance of rural industries in our total national economy and of the flow-on effect this has on all sections of the community. [More…]

• In August last year the then Minister for Overseas Trade, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, Mr Frank Crean, emphasised the growing trends in government-to-government deals in agricultural products, especially by the United States, Japan and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Mr Hullick has also claimed that local government is to be inadequately represented at the national level on the soon to be established Advisory Council for Inter-government Relations, with only 3 local government members on the Council compared with 6 Federal, 6 State and 6 community representatives. [More…]

• In fact the legislation introduced by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 23 September and further debated today provides for 6 local government members compared with 5 Federal, 6 State and 5 community representatives. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt on 3 June 1976- quite recently- said: -If in fact we find that Mr Whitlam has acted improperly in this matter, he will be dealt with not only within his own party but also in the community itself. [More…]

• Throughout the Australian community there are signs of the ascendancy of the Communist Party, and of the radical left in the trade union movement. [More…]

• We had not allowed for what happened in the European Economic Community and in other markets that we had looked on as being traditional markets. [More…]

• It is no wonder, therefore, that the average age of the working farm community is increasing. [More…]

• Accurate figures are difficult to obtain and we will have to wait until the recent census figures are dissected but in June 1961 the average age of the farming community was 40.5 years. [More…]

• It is easy to say what a great thing the farming community or any other community is. [More…]

• We intend looking at averaging provisions and preferably apply them to all sections of the community whose incomes fluctuate violently. [More…]

• The current situation is that transport is tending to decline in a number of areas because of a lack of profitability on the part of operators and the incapacity of the community to meet the costs of the provision of reasonable transport services. [More…]

• I believe that this Committee, the Government and the Department whose estimates we are considering have to look very seriously at the subject of long term investment in our transport industries in order to make sure that the capacity to move goods between population centres and between points of production and points of usage still exists at a level which will enable the community to continue to use those goods. [More…]

• I think that we are all sufficiently realistic to know that when people can use their private motor cars they will continue to do so even though the cost to the community is very extreme. [More…]

• The Department of Transport has a very important community service to carry out. [More…]

• A great deal of praise for the scheme has come from the public in Tasmania, from people involved in public life in that State, from industry spokesmen, and indeed from a whole cross section of the Tasmanian community. [More…]

• As I understand it, the plan is used predominantly to transfer ownership of airports serving local community needs to local community authorities, and the airports on the north-west coast do not serve only local community needs. [More…]

• I think that if we were to extend that sort of concept to government contracts, if we had contracts which were firm but which did not show favouritism, contracts which demanded delivery of service and considered the well-being of the people they were meant to serve, contracts that were thoughtfully designed and thoughtfully let, we would see in many sections of the community a growth in the capacity of government to provide those services which the public so strongly demands. [More…]

• This gives some idea of the massive costs involved in maintaining a very worthwhile service to the community. [More…]

• The Labor Government set priorities in the field of education which I think were essential for the community in which we live. [More…]

• The fact is that many of the school grounds there are a disgrace to a community such as our own. [More…]

• If a person starts from a wealthy home in a wealthy community, particularly a well founded community such as Canberra where the schools have been well-endowed for the best part of half a century, that person is much better off than one who starts in one of the congested areas of Australia in the great cities or out in the bush. [More…]

• As a group of people committed to a certain purpose or cause arising out of their religious beliefs they have been more prepared than most other people to commit themselves to spend 2, 3 or 4 years with a particular community in order to commit that language to paper. [More…]

• I believe we can do a great deal more to apply the principle of bilingual education to many schools in the community other than the Aboriginal communities of Australia. [More…]

• It enables education programs to respond more quickly to changing community needs and authorities to plan guidelines a year or two ahead. [More…]

• Such an inquiry should be as broadly based as possible and should reflect the expectations and the needs of the whole community. [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…]

• Additionally, the industry attempted to point out to the Commission the magnitude of selected community costs associated with reallocation of resources. [More…]

• Against the background of the Government’s Federalism policy and its concern at the proliferation and overlap of Commonwealth services and programs in the health, welfare and community development fields, the Task Force shall examine and report on- [More…]

• the identification of particular services and programs, currently being undertaken by the Commonwealth, in the health, welfare and community development fields, which could be better delivered by a State, local government or voluntary agency and the administration of which could be transferred to the States; [More…]

• the possibilities for elimination of individual programs and consolidation into broader based programs in a manner which enables more efficient and economic delivery whether by the Commonwealth or the States, and the establishment of appropriate consultative arrangements with the States, local government and voluntary agencies on future policy planning, administration and service delivery in the health, welfare and community development fields; [More…]

• take account of views expressed by consumer groups and voluntary agencies, noting the Government’s support of the concept of maximum realistic community participation in health/welfare programs funded by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• After the Liberal Party returned to government he became Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In December he became the first Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I remember the huge and boyish enthusiasm he found for his new and, on the face of it, unlikely portfolio of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• He quickly decided that in moving from the area of AttorneyGeneral to Environment, Housing and Community Development he had not, in fact, moved from the sublime to the ridiculous. [More…]

• Honourable members will know that the Government reorganised and strengthened the framework of the Australia Council earlier this year in a way which I believe has been well accepted and generally applauded by the artistic community throughout Australia. [More…]

• One only has to see the extent to which community an in many areas is spreading throughout the country towns, the villages and the suburbs of the cities to know that art is widely understood and appreciated by hundreds of thousands of Australian citizens. [More…]

• The amount being expended to try to maintain community health centres in the Australian Capital Territory is running into many millions of dollars. [More…]

• Surely this is a firm indication of the intention of the Government to provide this community facility to the people of Canberra. [More…]

• This Government is maintaining the community health centre program that a former Liberal-Country Party Government initiated in 1 97 1 . [More…]

• In my statement on 6 May I highlighted the Government’s concern at the costs which could be imposed on the Australian community by this industry. [More…]

• It would be inappropriate if we did not pay a tribute to an honourable member who, as Minister for Education between 1972 and 1975, saw the interest of this Parliament in education rise to a level of real meaning and real worth in the community. [More…]

• The time has come when we must ask: ‘Is the community getting value for the money it is spending on education? [More…]

• Many of the anti-union elements in the community would applaud that tool. [More…]

• improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; [More…]

• b ) encourage those economic activities in Australia, and the producers of the goods and services concerned, which contribute to improving the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used; [More…]

• It might well be that there are very few in this community who realise that members of this House normally have only between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in which either to attend committee meetings or to have a meal. [More…]

• Community Development. [More…]

• We discuss adult literacy problems and make recommendations for provision of more services to enable those in the community with literacy problems to seek assistance to overcome them. [More…]

• Broadcasting media, book publishers and public libraries could all make an important contribution to a community effort to assist those in the community with literacy problems and to reinforce the learning process. [More…]

• At that stage and previously this action was acknowledged and appreciated by the Lebanese community leaders in Australia. [More…]

• On 15 September the special projects for Lebanese community representatives to travel overseas and to be involved in the presentation of nominations to Australian posts and to arrange group movement was announced. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman suggests that somehow the Lebanese community has not been appreciative or has regarded what the Government has done as being less than forthcoming, less than a strong reaction to the situation as it developed in the Lebanon. [More…]

• I should like to quote some of the community leaders in the Lebanon. [More…]

• Mr N. G. Farah, President of the Australian-Lebanese Association of New South Wales, today said that the reports of a statement attributed to Mr John Saroff … did not reflect the true situation that exists between the Lebanese community and the Australian Government. [More…]

• The Lebanese community is grateful for the assistance already given by the Government and looks forward to further steps being taken by the Government in the future if the need arises and it is practical to do so. [More…]

• I wish to thank you for the sympathetic compassionate and understanding manner in which you have dealt with the problems of the Australian Lebanese and the effect of the current disturbances in Lebanon on the community living in Australia. [More…]

• The community as a whole is not unmindful of your personal efforts in obtaining from Cabinet the wonderful concessions which have been implemented and which have eased the anguish and uncertainty in the minds of the Australian Lebanese community in general. [More…]

• The very fact that the Minister gets a few letters from leaders of the Lebanese community in Australia does not indicate that what this Government has done meets with the approval of those people in my electorate, in the electorate of Grayndler, in the electorate of Melbourne or in other electorates that are represented by Labor members. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) referred in his second reading speech to people who can exercise this option. [More…]

• In other words, contrary to what the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) has been advising the Australian community and in spite of the very high social and economic costs which are going to be imposed on the community, with record high post war unemployment in January and February 1977, prolonged economic stagnation, business failures and so on, the Government is going to make very little impact on inflation. [More…]

• I am not making my own projections and the implications are clear- the Government has been much less than candid in the economic forecasting it has been disseminating in the community. [More…]

• A succession of reports on poverty in the Australian community has confirmed that among the most needy people of those identified as being relatively poor are those of very limited means paying rent for their accommodation. [More…]

• They are amongst the most needy in the community. [More…]

• There are many people, with dependants, in receipt of social security benefits who are among the most needy in this community and it is a most inglorious chapter in the social security history of this country that so little is being done for these people. [More…]

• That is a clear record of neglect of the needs of the more needy people by and large in the community. [More…]

• Why should the rest of the community be required to pay tax to subsidise that sort of person, to provide him with a pension? [More…]

• There is mounting evidence that the present Government will seek to unwind that commitment which we entered into for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• According to the second reading speech by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), this is what the Government proposes to do: [More…]

• Consequently vast numbers of people in our community decided that they would sell their assets. [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 new income test to determine pension entitlements is a concept attributed, in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), to Professor Ronald Henderson. [More…]

• It is significant and important for the Australian community to realise that the total outlay on social security and welfare in this Budget has been increased from $5,0 12m in 1975-76 to $6, 187m in 1976-77. [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…]

• I wish to congratulate the Minister for Social Security and the Government for responding rapidly to the welfare needs of our community. [More…]

• I am quite sure that in having a look at this peculiar situation some changes will be brought about that will allow these people on dried fruit properties to be eligible for unemployment benefit under the same income test and the same work test as any other people in our community. [More…]

• It is a benefit which is of real use in the community. [More…]

• This was a very satisfactory way of assisting many elderly persons in the community who live on the pension and who also have a small amount of supplementary income. [More…]

• These findings show that people on pensions with dependants and with limited resources of their own are among the most needy in the community. [More…]

• As real community living standards improve over the longer term it will be necessary to adjust the real level of the pension at regular intervals in order to ensure that pensioners enjoy with the rest of the community the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth. [More…]

• The Fraser Government, after almost completing its first year in office, appears to have set a strategic course designed to make welfare a dirty word in the community. [More…]

• Community resentment has been fostered against the poor, against the unemployed and against the supporting mothers I have mentioned. [More…]

• This Government’s whole purpose and thrust has been to direct the subsidies and help to those in most need in our community. [More…]

• Support of federalism means support of a proper distribution of powers and functions of government between these 3 spheres so that government may be responsive to the needs and preferences of the community and of individuals. [More…]

• None of the problems facing this Government is more difficult than that of restructuring our manufacturing industry which provides over 20 per cent of jobs in the community and causes many others to be created in tertiary industry. [More…]

• They must establish tripartite machinery for ensuring that the community’s wishes are understood and they then must devise policies to meet these wishes as best the economy can afford. [More…]

• The funds available for the NEAT scheme as it is known- the National Employment and Training scheme- by which people not necessarily engaged in industry are trained at community expense to take up other work which is sometimes more lucrative or sometimes more fulfilling are the same as they were last year, $40m. [More…]

• Therefore, there is clearly no intention in the mind of the Government to look at the real problems that beset the community. [More…]

• I think the scheme left more socially useful things for the community after it was finished. [More…]

• The community simply was not ready. [More…]

• A package deal should be prepared for a whole community. [More…]

• The regional council, the Federal member of Parliament, the State Council, the State member of Parliament and the local community should get together and say: ‘We will spend $3m in this area over so many months. [More…]

• We will have a package of projects which includes a full range of things that covers all the activities in the community’. [More…]

• Both areas covered by this Department are critical, now and in the long term, for the planning of any government and for the welfare of the community at large. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• -This is the first time we have discussed the Estimates of the new Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• We were able to show within the Budget context where the money within our urban community was being invested. [More…]

• Even the Minister who administers it, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), is a junior Minister who is not even a member of the Cabinet and consequently not on the Cabinet Economic Committee. [More…]

• Government, they were not asked for by the community. [More…]

• However, they were accepted by the community because it was thought that this was manna from heaven. [More…]

• There are different priorities and more overriding priorities, priorities that will have far more long term effects upon the community and upon Australia as a whole. [More…]

• These 2 programs- the homes savings gram scheme and the tax deductibility of interest payments- joined together will produce and are producing a very significant effect in the Australian community. [More…]

• They are positive and thoughtful, and they create a benefit to the community. [More…]

• I know that the Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development are concerned about the area of dwelling and non-dwelling construction in this country. [More…]

• What is the future in the areas of environment, housing and community development and construction? [More…]

• I know the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is more thoughtful and more effective in what he seeks to achieve. [More…]

• The challenges for the future are there in these departments, particularly in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It seems that there is a potential to build an area of concern and real achievement around a total way of life, about the home, about the community and about the environment. [More…]

• We should be looking at minimum standards of achievement in the areas of environment, community development and housing. [More…]

• -The estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development show how the Fraser Government has downgraded the range of initiatives taken under the Department of Urban and Regional Development by the Labor Government. [More…]

• The present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman)not a bad fellow in many respects- is suffering the indignity of presiding over the Australian Government’s abdication of its responsibilities. [More…]

• Every one of those Budget estimates associated with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction has been the subject of some savage curtailment. [More…]

• There is a growing awareness of the importance to the well-being of the Australian community of having a coherent strategy for urban development. [More…]

• This Institute has done a remarkable service for the Australian community in playing a significant part in making people within the community, in government and in business understand the significance of urban development. [More…]

• Many of the decisions of governments, business enterprises, community groups and individuals affect the character of our cities and suburbs. [More…]

• Likewise, all levels of government need to have a higher degree of co-operation with business enterprise, community organisations and individuals. [More…]

• I wish to speak on a matter affecting the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• While I recognise the program of monitoring that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is interested in, it is no good having that program unless there is a back-up to it. [More…]

• In the couple of minutes left to me I move to another area, the area of community development, that is associated with this section of the Estimates. [More…]

• I refer to the effect that the changes that the Government has brought about in funding local areas of community development has had in my area- on the Preston City Council at any rate- despite the assurances that were given by the Victorian Government that no council would receive less than it received last year. [More…]

• The effective reduction in what can be used in that community, allowing for the drop of $15,000 in the finance available and an inflation rate of 14 per cent, represents a drop of 18 per cent in the community development work which can be done. [More…]

• The political effect of the withdrawal of the funding of the regions for community development has been the loss of worthwhile community involvement and a return to an institution-type government with decisions being made without consultation with the community. [More…]

• The economic relationship Australia has with the European Economic Community is, of course, of great importance. [More…]

• However, the Government decided that it should broaden its relationship with the Community, not merely because of the strategic importance of Europe, but because the Community is acquiring a significant international personality in its own right, distinct from its individual members. [More…]

• For example, as a community it is increasingly represented in international forums. [More…]

• I hope that the medical profession has seen the need for restraint and will settle down to its professional task and show restraint, as other sections of the community are showing restraint. [More…]

• This factor alone, and one does not need to be tedious about its application in the Australian community, would prevent any decline in the rate of inflation during the present financial year. [More…]

• As a result of the Government’s economic policies the Australian community can look forward to a resumption of real economic growth and a decline in the level of inflation. [More…]

• He could have come cleaner still and confessed that there is a tougher year ahead of the Australian community, a much tougher year financially, and that in fact by giving aggregate figures for the last half of last financial year recently concluded- that is to June- he in fact hid a decline in economic performance in the community. [More…]

• The Treasurer is keen to quote figures for real growth in the economy for the first half of 1976, but he could as the honourable member for Adelaide did, have disaggregated them on a quarterly basis and indicated to the Australian community that in the first quarter there was a real rate of growth of 3.6 per cent following the momentum built into the economy subsequent to the economic policies initiated last year. [More…]

• It is clear from the Budget statements of the Treasurer that the Government intends to lower the rate of economic growth, that it intends higher unemployment, that it is aiming to bring about a situation of prolonging economic stagnation, which as a simple interpretation means tough times for business and the community generally over the 12 months ahead. [More…]

• The economic strategy signalled in the Budget warns that there is going to be more of the same bitter medicine to come for the Australian community. [More…]

• The Chairman of the CSIRO, Sir Robert Price, has put the best gloss that he can on things with his recent statement that changes which had taken place in the 1970s had made the organisation even more aware of the need for more effective external relations with official bodies and community groups, particularly industry, departments of State, universities and the Australian Science and Technology Council. [More…]

• -The reference I made to air pollution under the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, leads me to refer to the same matter under these estimates for the Department of Science. [More…]

• Yet despite all this expenditure on monitoring and experimental work, we find that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is reported as saying at page 1924 of the House of Representatives Hansard: [More…]

• I offer these comments because of my concern at the expense to the community and the waste of available energy. [More…]

• I believe that in debating the estimates of the Department of Science we should say something about the appalling effect in the community of the gross misrepresentation at the present time, and the guessing about the future effect of nuclear energy on the environment. [More…]

• Within an expanded Department of Science I believe that our medical research foundations would prosper and be of greater advantage to the Australian community. [More…]

• Such a statement would be a real opportunity for the Minister for Science to prevent what has become a worrying trend to the scientific community in recent months, so I am told. [More…]

• The proposal was applauded by all political sections of the Tasmanian community. [More…]

• That action could well be taken with advantage to both of the Commissions, the community at large and perhaps the Minister as well. [More…]

• I come now to the question of who should pay for community services such as communications. [More…]

• Although they commenced operations by increasing rates for the services they provided in order to place their operations on a more viable level, they have adopted a more businesslike approach and have endeavoured to increase the service they provide to the community. [More…]

• I am sure all honourable members would agree that the decision of the previous Government was a wise decision and is one which will bring great benefit to the community, provided that their charges are kept within reasonable limits. [More…]

• Such programs have a capacity to reflect the moods and preferences of the local community. [More…]

• Local people are involved in preparing these programs and, therefore, know how the local community ticks. [More…]

• Local program content and production also generates work in the local community. [More…]

• It could well be that the benefits lost to the community of Adelaide and the ABC in that community far outweigh the relatively minor cost saving in this instance. [More…]

• If I may paraphrase him, Sir Charles Curran, the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, said: ‘Radio exists to serve the community in which it exists’. [More…]

• I believe that programs produced within the community to which the particular radio station broadcasts are an important part of that service to the community. [More…]

• The benefits which flow from local program content to the community with a local identity, such as we have in Adelaide, to the ABC operating within that community and to those who work in the ABC are such that its provision deserves the highest priority. [More…]

• He said that there should be continuing emphasis on Australian content and that the station would like to get involved with community projects. [More…]

• While the coalition Government parties had qualifications and reservations about setting up the Commissions, experience with them is demonstrating that it is a system that can work well for the benefit for the Australian community. [More…]

• We want to try to establish among the Aboriginal people that they have a role to play in this community. [More…]

• How will the Government justify its attitude to the Australian community if the Aboriginal people say they are getting out of legal aid altogether because of what the Government has done? [More…]

• We can achieve it by noting the way in which our Constitution was structured and its very purpose of holding together a community which has quite diverse interests. [More…]

• There are many people in the community who wish the Attorney-General well in stamping out criminal activity. [More…]

• I noted with approval the recent speech of Archbishop Stylianos, on behalf of the Greek community, pointing out the crime rate in this country and the law-abiding nature of Greeks here. [More…]

• The actions that were taken last year by the Governor-General which brought about the downfall or sacking of an elected government have since 11 November split the Australian community and those who think that this is to the benefit of the Australian society are gravely mistaken. [More…]

• We do not have a community of people on equal salary. [More…]

• We do not have people of equal status in the community. [More…]

• There would hardly be any other political issue on which the community’s political consciousness was as great as it was oh the issue of the existence of legal aid offices. [More…]

• There are community groups that on some occasions want legal representation to fight the Government. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that there is much frustration in the Canberra community at the delay in erecting this facility? [More…]

• First of all, the community is better served if the officers in its armed Services are better educated, at a more reflective standard of education and intellect, with a firmer grounding in the liberal traditions of our society. [More…]

• This will ensure their proper integration into the Australian community and also ensure that there is no disruption of the Island. [More…]

• Every effort will be made to ensure that those resettling are properly equipped to fit into the mainland community. [More…]

• I quote figures which show that, on average, wages for serving members of the defence forces are going to increase by about 7 per cent compared with a projected 12 per cent increase in average income for the rest of the community. [More…]

• So I start by suggesting to the Minister and to the Government that I believe there is room for calmer joint consideration of many of these items, and the calmer joint consideration would be in the community interest. [More…]

• It is unnecessarily disturbing for members of the Australian community who, in their misguided way, tend to place considerable trust in the loose statements that are made by members of the conservative coalition from time to time and which are made so easily because of their hawkish commitments in these areas. [More…]

• I find that the general community believes, for some unknown reason, that the Australian Labor Party has never been interested in the subject of defence. [More…]

• It is even more to the credit of the Government that this money has been provided during times of economic difficulties because there is always a conflict between the requirements for spending money on ordinary civil programs and community interests and spending money on military programs. [More…]

• If one goes to the European Economic Community and talks to the people there who were directly involved in the front line in 2 world wars, the first thing they say is: ‘The most intelligent thing we did was to get together as a common market. [More…]

• We must also ensure that our community understands that the British influence, the old imperial concept, has finished and that we cannot live in the past. [More…]

• The area is an important agricultural region and the management of water is of vital importance to the farmers, the general community and, indirectly, to the nation. [More…]

• Neither are they recognised as being sick people in our community and therefore entitled to Medibank cover. [More…]

• There is another area in which we see the New South Wales Government taking Federal funds, laundering them, and putting them out to the community under the guise of benefits from the State. [More…]

• We must ensure that people are trained properly in order to fit them for community jobs in the future. [More…]

• These critics should recognise that the Government is not able to draw on a bottomless pit of money to spend on all the projects it or the community may regard as desirable. [More…]

• The community of Australia is interested in these affairs and in this democratic institution. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Is it a fact that the United Nations General Assembly will debate the Habitat Plan for Action next week? [More…]

• The so-called Handbook of Hate came about as a response to a request by me to the Commissioner for Community Relations following a statement he made- I believe it was in April of this year- in which he quoted various figures. [More…]

• Essentially, as I mentioned in the House some time ago, I did not believe that the standard of the booklet or the collection of material was such as to enhance any attitudes against discrimination in the community if it was publicly made available. [More…]

• During recent months and over a protracted period of 2 Governments, the activities of the Industries Assistance Commission have been a source of considerable concern to substantial proportions of manufacturing industry, in the latter period to trade unions and, I think now, to most sections of the community. [More…]

• But latterly there are also the interim reports which are being made which immediately give some indication of the intention of the Commission but which also stir up considerable agitation in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me to be a far more sensible way of providing this facility to the community at a lower cost because there is no duplication of buildings, books or personnel. [More…]

• Therefore I strongly urge the Australian Government to look into this matter and to examine the possibility of coming to arrangements with the municipal and the State governments, if you like, on the basis of there being a rationalisation of the provision of libraries because of their importance in the community, they being generally the only source available to the average person to further his knowledge and his education in his own way. [More…]

• If the Australian Government can through its attitude- I am sure that it can because it holds the purse strings- bring about a rationalisation of the situation that I have suggested the community would be better off, the cost of libraries would not be so high and the people in all areas, particularly in my own area, would be provided with a service that does not exist now in many areas. [More…]

• I take the opportunity to make a few comments on disputes within the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the role of the ABC and the community. [More…]

• I hope that it is realised fairly widely that the battle that is going on from the community’s point of view comes down to the question of who is to manage the ABC. [More…]

• The institution of the ABC is important to the Australian community. [More…]

• The people want the ABC to have a strong role in the community and many people watch its programs. [More…]

• The community wants that and the Parliament wants it. [More…]

• One hears this in conversation with honourable members of all political parties here and whenever the subject arises elsewhere in the community wherever one goes and the subject arises. [More…]

• A very significant change such as an increase in accrual rate could set an unduly generous standard which could lead to pressure on other employers in the community to match it. [More…]

• I know there has been a lot of criticism made of the Government recently and a good deal of concern expressed within the community about our priorities. [More…]

• They are funds that are needed to help some of the less well off in the community to obtain access to minimum housing requirements. [More…]

• In New South Wales in particular it would lead to a boost in consumer confidence as the fear of future unemployment was slowly removed from the community. [More…]

• Does the Government not realise that there are definite benefits to be gained for the industry, the economy and the community by gaining stability in this industry? [More…]

• During this debate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) interjected about the problems of those people on 135 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]

• I doubt if the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) would have done that because I know that on previous occasions the Minister has indicated that there is a great need for additional funds. [More…]

• The high cost and poor location of much of the available land relative to employment opportunities and community amenities is likely to prevent the achievement of the desirable levels of construction for some time to come. [More…]

• I mention as an aside that it seems peculiar that in a situation like that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is presiding over a situation where allocations for land commissions have been cut by $28.9m in the Budget that has been debated recently. [More…]

• Additionally it has been proved that in the community sense the home owner tends to take better care of his home and becomes more interested in his surrounding community. [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) for insisting that in the Agreement with the States the long established interest rates of 4 per cent and 4 1/2 per cent be maintained, although when the original agreement was made interest rates at 4 per cent and 4 1/2 per cent were approximately only 2 per cent below the current long term bond interest rate. [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…]

• It is to be regretted that one of the State Premiers criticised the Federal Government for, as he described it, hitting the poorest and most underprivileged sections of the community, that is, the people who desperately need rental housing. [More…]

• It is easy to offer criticism, but, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development quite rightly stated in his second reading speech on this Bill, the States are able to make money available for welfare housing from their own funds. [More…]

• The Australian community is mindful of the importance of urban public transport programs. [More…]

• There is a growing belief that these costs tend to outweigh the benefits to the community at large. [More…]

• One aspect of car usage which is often neglected is the real cost of the car to the community at large. [More…]

• One of the major costs of car usage is the cost to the community of the construction and maintenance of roads, especially freeways. [More…]

• Another cost to the community in building freeways is the social consequence of rehousing people to make way for the freeways. [More…]

• That constitutes a massive unproductive cost on the community and a complete thwarting of State government ambitions. [More…]

• Coal loading and port operation is a public service and it ought to be under community control. [More…]

• The Alberta royalty scheme is a backlash from the increased awareness of the value of nonrenewable natural resources and the duty of governments to understand that the mining of these resources is in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• This one is called the Community Youth Support Scheme, otherwise known as CYSS. [More…]

• What it does is provide for community groups to be established to undertake such things as job search orientation for youths, voluntary community activities and vocational, hobby and interest expanding activities. [More…]

• Yet this program, which is providing some support for community groups, specifically excludes those people. [More…]

• In addition $ 1 .20 per day per Aboriginal child is paid by the State Department of Youth and Community Service to all pre-schools from funds provided by D.A.A. [More…]

• 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…]

• At 30 June 1975, twelve women’s refuges were in receipt of Commonwealth Government assistance, under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Consistent with the Government’s federalism policies, Commonwealth financial assistance under the Community Health Program is now made available to the States by way of a single block grant for each State’s program of community health projects as a whole, each financial year. [More…]

• The purpose of these block grant arrangements has been to provide the States with increased administrative flexibility in the use of funds under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• As I indicated in my press statement of 20 May 1976, the Commonwealth’s intention is that Commonwealth funds be available to enable projects previously approved under the Community Health Program to be maintained at a viable level of activity in the 1976-77 financial year. [More…]

• He will know that last Thursday his Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development issued a statement that the Government ‘will be looking very closely at the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and will be announcing its decisions’. [More…]

• I am greatly concerned- and I believe everybody in this community should be- to find that this technique apparently now has the approval, indeed it seems the encouragement, of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• There is a greater awareness in the community today of the social and environmental issues and, of course, that is a highly desirable thing. [More…]

• -I address my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Post and Telecommunications aware of the widespread interest in the community in the structure of the radio and television industry? [More…]

• The results of inquiries so far ordered by the Government may never be released to the organisations caring for the aged or to spokesmen for the aged such as the Australian Pensioners Federation, or for that matter to the general Australian community, who after all supply the funds. [More…]

• We now have to scrutinise carefully any statement the Minister puts out to detect further examples of attempts to mislead the Australian community. [More…]

• Community information centres help mainly the aged. [More…]

• A pensioner could consult any doctor in the community- specialist or general practitioner- and the doctor did not charge the pensioner but simply bulk billed Medibank, which meant that the doctor got 85 per cent of the scheduled fee and the pensioner paid nothing. [More…]

• The truth is that far too many- not all- doctors in the community are both bulk billing and charging the pensioners not just the difference between the 85 per cent rebate on the scheduled fee and the scheduled fee, but also the difference between the 85 per cent rebate and their fee which is often higher than the scheduled fee. [More…]

• So now pensioners are being caught as is everyone else in the community, and the doctors are being guaranteed at least 85 per cent of the scheduled fee because they use the bulk billing facilities. [More…]

• Every action the present Government has taken is simply reducing what we were doing, increasing the insecurity of the aged in the community and increasing the burden on families of the aged, so that in fact the lights are going out for the aged. [More…]

• How many of the programs for the aged in our community were new ones instituted by the Labor Government and how many were really instituted or implemented by the previous LiberalCountry Party Government? [More…]

• The first paper is on the aged in the community in institutions- nursing homes and so on. [More…]

• The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) stated in answer to a question less than 2 weeks ago that when the Holmes Committee reports to him and through him to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and Cabinet the nursing home benefits will be reviewed and he will consider a retrospective increase in this area which we know is of concern to many of the aged in this community. [More…]

• In many cases the middle-class middle aged in our society have been able to transfer their responsibility for their aged parents or relatives to somebody else- to a certain extent to the community and the government. [More…]

• We have to make sure that the needy in our community have first priority for hostels, nursing home beds and selfcontained accommodation. [More…]

• I challenge Labor to deny that the inflation which it unleashed in this country, which reached 17 per cent, has done most to harm the aged in our community. [More…]

• The facts are that the Government is winding back the clock on the provision of suitable accommodation, care and attention for the aged in the community. [More…]

• The simple principle is that those who have borne most sacrifice in our community are best equipped through experience to continue bearing it. [More…]

• The fact is that those commendable people in the community who provide accommodation and services for the aged through various organisations will be severely disadvantaged. [More…]

• Among the many responsibilities that the coalition Government wants to shed to the States is the responsibility of providing adequate accommodation and care for the aged in the community. [More…]

• The Government did that because it had to pay for another welfare benefit, the reintroduction of the superphosphate bounty- a bounty to subsidise the wealthy graziers like the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the expense of the aged in the community. [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…]

• That sort of situation has been multiplied throughout the Australian community time and again. [More…]

• The worst aspect of it is that the $4 for $1 subsidy tended to help mainly the community organisations providing accommodation for the aged and the disabled in the lower income areas. [More…]

• The fact is that the Government is neglecting its responsibilities to the community and to the aged in particular. [More…]

• The development of services for the aged in the community has proceeded in a piecemeal, spasmodic way. [More…]

• There is not enough support for programs which encourage people to maintain involvement in the community, providing on a much more generous and more conveniently available arrangement domiciliary care in the home and visiting services in the home. [More…]

• It is true that a greater effort will be required on the part of the community, but I believe that the community is prepared to accept that challenge. [More…]

• I believe that in the absence of a proper system of capital gains taxation, estate or probate duty is one of the very few measures left for redressing the maldistribution of wealth and incomes that exists within a community. [More…]

• I certainly do not think that any community that is interested in questions of social equity can decide to abandon the field altogether. [More…]

• But I do not believe that any modern community can afford to do away with some form of taxation upon estates, particularly large estates, because of the existence of large estates does pose very many difficult problems in a society that claims to give support to equity and social justice. [More…]

• I do not agree with every decision of the Queensland Government, but its decision to abolish death duties in that State effective from 1 January next year is one which has been approved by not just the Queensland community but all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• It was introduced because of the loss of viable overseas markets, particularly the traditional United Kingdom market, due to the United Kingdom’s entry in the European Economic Community and the external tariff that it would provide on fruit. [More…]

• Britain ‘s entry into the European Economic Community and the tariff exclusion have been compounded by Britain developing its own canned fruit industry in southern Europe and also by better storage methods for fresh fruit. [More…]

• The Commission has found these schemes to be too expensive to the community. [More…]

• It has a community of mixed ethnic origins. [More…]

• The Royal Military College, as anyone in the University community would know, has a distinguished academic staff of over eighty, some of whom have world wide reputations and who already aspire to academic excellence. [More…]

• It would also be of interest to Canberra people to know whether the new Academy is to be a closed shop available only to educate Service personnel or whether in appropriate circumstances when places are available other people in the community may be accepted for enrolment. [More…]

• No built-in co-ordinating mechanism for administering the scheme existed at the local level with the result that relative importance of projects within the community could not be adequately expressed. [More…]

• At the same time it is not, of course, possible to ignore the economic and social absorptive capacity of the Australian community during the present unemployment situation. [More…]

• 1 ) and ( 3 ) My Department itself is not conducting studies into the effects of traffic noise upon the community. [More…]

• The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Treasury and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• There has been increasing concern among the rural community as a result of escalating costs and the declining returns that are generally available to it. [More…]

• -I am well aware of the impact that advertising has upon the community and there is no doubt that the impact of television advertising is greater than that of other forms. [More…]

• In itself, it would be inflationary because of the Government’s problems of financing that deficit in a non-inflationary form, which necessarily would drive the Government into the market place to sell government paper to the nonbank public, thereby creating pressure on interest rates, which is not helpful to the business community in general or any section of it. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman can tell me how the Government can provide that amount out of its financial resources at the present time without adding to the problem of inflation and thereby the problems of the business community I would be very interested to speak with him. [More…]

• I commend the honourable member, as chairman of that Committee, and his colleagues for the very real work they are doing to assist the disadvantaged rural members of the Australian community. [More…]

• The need for a public commitment by the Government to eliminate from the Aboriginal community the diseases and disabilities of yaws, leprosy, hookworm, trachoma, pulmonary infections, deafness and malnutrition and the need to establish a Select Committee of this House to recommend and accelerate action to achieve these ends. [More…]

• It is an unhappy fact that this idea was not extended originally to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• One of the reasons why it was not extended to the Aboriginal community was that if the European basic wage was given to Aborigines over many of the years since 1946, they would be receiving, as sufferers from tuberculosis, an amount far in advance of what they had been receiving over a great part of that time. [More…]

• It is probable that because these strategies were not applied with the same resolution to the Aboriginal community in relation to tuberculosis, almost the only sufferers from tuberculosis in the Australian community are Aborigines. [More…]

• If the Government makes the decision, without as yet knowing how to implement it, that it is going to eliminate these scourges from the Aboriginal community and nails that flag to the Commonwealth mast, from time to time it will develop the strategies which will achieve that result. [More…]

• So, if there is a Government commitment and an all-Party committee of this House to monitor what is being done and what should be done, I believe we will have real traction in the assault on the debilitation of the Aboriginal community by these diseases. [More…]

• At least the same number of people in each community were blind in one eye. [More…]

• When people whose hygienic ideas were developed in moving on from place to place and never living with the consequences of a community being at one place for any length of time the hygienic problems were not acute. [More…]

• But when this inadequacy of medical force is applied to the Aboriginal community it becomes entirely disastrous. [More…]

• In conclusion I thank the honourable member for Fremantle for the contribution which he has always madeindeed, has made again today-in bringing to the Parliament an opportunity for us to debate and discuss this very real problem and for helping to focus public attention on what is Australia’s biggest single community health problem. [More…]

• It is not necessarily a question of lack of will, but somehow we do not seem to be able to deliver the goods to the Aboriginal communities in the way in which we do to the rest of the community. [More…]

• Almost ever since the beginning of settlement in this country there has been an acknowledged failure of the community at any stage to be able to handle satisfactorily the Aboriginal population. [More…]

• Perhaps that relates to the point raised by the honourable member for Fremantle- that by a forthright attack, with devoted services and an unrestricted flow of funds, the impact of ill health upon the Australian community can be reduced. [More…]

• We on this side of the House were the recipients of that attack as a political exercise, but there is no doubt in my mind that it was part of the pattern of thinking created in the community which made it even harder for this [More…]

• I want to warn the House and the community that we should not be sidetracked into believing that that is the only issue involved. [More…]

• The points at issue and mentioned by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) are twofold They are these: Firstly, is there a commitment on the part of this Government to deal with the elimination of these diseases and health problems from the Aboriginal community? [More…]

• The question arises whether we need an additional com- .mittee of the Parliament to examine one aspect of the problems that face our Aboriginal community. [More…]

• It is clearly the consensus of this Parliament that the arrangements for the governance of the Northern Territory should more adequately reflect the views and aspirations of the local community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Wilmot spoke about extremist groups within the community using the trade union movement. [More…]

• -The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), as is well known, has spent the last nine or ten months in the closest consultation with union representatives and the community at large on matters affecting his portfolio. [More…]

• I take issue with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), who proclaimed across the table to the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) that this matter was known to the community before today. [More…]

• What he is saying is that health care should not be provided to the Australian community because someone might cheat. [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…]

• Canberra Community Hospital [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development Parliament House, Canberra, A.C.T.,2600 16 August 1976 [More…]

• Mr Carter feels ought to be faced by the international community. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is not represented on this Committee and is not being consulted? [More…]

• He may rest assured that the Government will take very close note of what the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, advised by his Department, says in relation to all matters affecting the environment as obviously this report does. [More…]

• It has never been a matter of urgent debate within the Australian community. [More…]

• The decision to move towards a substantial proportion of private television ownership has, I believe, mitigated against the quality of viewing and programming which could have been available to the Australian community. [More…]

• The need to make money is forever present with the executives of the major groupings and therefore television programs are slanted towards that end rather than an alternative which could be more beneficial to the community at large. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) subscribes to the principle of freedom of speech, why is he bringing forward a Bill designed to exclude certain sections and interest groups in the community from their democratic right to have access to one particular form of media outlet? [More…]

• Thirdly, exclusion would not increase the level of community participation in commercial broadcasting. [More…]

• By its very nature, commercial broadcasting must derive its revenue from advertising aimed at a mass market, whereas broadcasting involving substantial community participation is generally intended for minority or special interest audiences. [More…]

• It introduced programs for imaginative reforms in the area of community radio. [More…]

• In fact it is the exact reverse of what is always put as being one of the major advantages of having a community of interest between newspaper owners and the owners of television and radio stations. [More…]

• Other persons in the community have had occasion in the last week or so to comment on them. [More…]

• We have a strong-arm operation by a gang of unionists who are endeavouring to hold the whole community to ransom. [More…]

• Surely the sense of outrage in the community should be sufficient to stop this action from being continued, much less repeated. [More…]

• It is to be deplored by every thinking person in this House and in the community that people will stand in this House and use the privilege of it to incite and inflame others who are at this moment deciding among themselves how a difficult situation can be resolved. [More…]

• It forces this harsh choice upon the States: Either they increase their taxes to meet the shortfall in their revenues or they allow essential community services to decline and new federal initiatives in these areas to expire. [More…]

• There is no way that our programs can take that kind of cut without chaos in the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) let the cat out of the bag. [More…]

• Because of the problems facing local government in its attempts to deal with the grass roots problems facing our community, we believe that any basis for general revenue sharing should be reviewed over a 3 to 5-year period. [More…]

• It would be used to assist in providing adequate levels of community services, to promote the meeting of community needs on an equitable basis and to provide an easing of the pressure borne by local government through its share of the national debt burden and its requirement to continually raise rates to provide the basic services to our society. [More…]

• This system of specific purpose grants affecting local government would express the Labor Party’s national concern for basic community standards. [More…]

• If the Federal Government actively involves itself in programs affecting people at the community level, the federal system can work. [More…]

• In areas such as the area improvement program, urban roads programs and environmental programs- just to name a few- the tied grants appropriated for these pro- grams were tied only after full discussions with local government, the community and State governments. [More…]

• These Bills provide the means by which this Government will be able to support a proper distribution of the powers and functions of government between those 3 spheres so that government may be responsive to the needs and preferences of the community and of individuals. [More…]

• They have to face problems resulting from the changing requirements and expectations of the community as to what local government should be doing. [More…]

• Of course many honourable members know what was done under the community health program. [More…]

• Before Labor was elected in 1972 there was no national community health program. [More…]

• These facilities and great reforms such as community health centres, drug referral units, anti-alcoholism units, home nursing care services and psychiatric referral units were introduced under the community health program. [More…]

• In other words, the basis services required by the community should be provided by the level of government closest to it. [More…]

• The Council will advise the Government on responsibility and revenue sharing as well as provide a medium for consultation and co-operation between Federal, State and local governments in vital areas such as health, welfare, education and community services. [More…]

• Clearly the Green report is of considerable interest to the whole community. [More…]

• In essence the Minister is depriving the community of a chance to discuss the report while the Government itself is considering it. [More…]

• I see no harm in community discussion. [More…]

• I should have thought that it would be better to have a public body continually investigating the needs, responses and disappointments of the community. [More…]

• I do not object to the ABC being under scrutiny to ensure that it fulfils its functions or alternatively to expose further requirements in the community as far as the national network is concerned, but I see no reason why the commercial and public sectors should be excluded from this continuing review. [More…]

• For too long it has become identified in the community’s eyes as a policeman for those sensitive souls who object to facing facts, and a censor to those who sought to express unconventional points of view. [More…]

• I think it is up to the community itself to determine the standards by its response to whatever the media provides in the same way as community response dictates the ultimate standards of newspapers in terms of the contents of the Press from a censorial or policing point of view. [More…]

• I think this is wrong in an area such as broadcasting where the continual fear and the continual complaint of the community is that there is too much government control. [More…]

• I think it would have been wiser to let the advisory council do the investigating, to let it formulate ideas in response to what it learns from the community. [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…]

• Let that body formulate its ideas on what it thinks the community needs and then pass those ideas on to the government department which then has the last say. [More…]

• But at least let there be an independent council reporting to the Minister and the Parliament so that the whole community can see its assessment of the community needs. [More…]

• What this Government is seeking to do under this Bill and the previous Bill is to opt out of community responsibilities, to push back on to local government and the States financial responsibility for programs that were initiated in a number of cases, particularly in community services, many years ago by previous LiberalNational Country Party governments. [More…]

• For too long in this nation local government has developed as 899 separate entities when in many hundreds of cases those separate endues ought to have been operating together and sharing capital equipment, the cost of administration, the cost of services provided to the community and the general increase in the standard of living that has occurred throughout the nation over the past half century. [More…]

• To treat lightly, as some members of the Opposition tend to do, the problems of people on the land in Australia at die present time is to do a great disservice to a large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• The truth of the matter is that the Labor Party, by its performance when in Government and its posturing now when in Opposition, has no right to claim that it represents the concerns and the aspirations of the rural community of Australia. [More…]

• However, there are several points that the Opposition wishes to bring to the notice of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think the Minister was clearly and responsibly expressing a view that the subject should be looked at responsibly and accurately so that the community can be informed and so that we do not have a government making decisions based on cronyism as appears to occur at present. [More…]

• That is part of the way he operates and it does not worry me at all, but I think for the consideration of Parliament and the Australian community it is time he took a hold of himself and started to bring before the Parliament the kind of information that those committees must be handling. [More…]

• The dependence of Wangaratta on the textile industry is such that, more than any other collective community in Australia, its fortunes are inseparably tied to the protective levels of tariffs and quotas on textiles as, I add, are many other towns and industries outside the capital cities of Australia. [More…]

• A community just recovering through the benefits of sandmining from the closure of the shipyards by the previous administration in 1974 would suffer a shattering blow to its confidence. [More…]

• As to the uranium question, there has already been many opportunities for all interested groups within the community to put their views. [More…]

• Some sections of the Australian community have been hit very hard in recent years. [More…]

• These would include: greater representation for tribal people in South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland through an increase in the number of electorates from 41 to 46 and a redistribution in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania; plenary sessions of the NACC be held only once a year with State branch and National Executive meetings 4 times a year; the next elections for the NACC be held during the northern dry season of 1977 for a term of 3 years; official recognition being given to the appropriate role of an NACC member as being that of the politician; and funds and staff be provided for the NACC for the production of a quarterly newsletter and that consideration be given to community radio, film, and video as means of improving communications between the NACC and the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Mr Luther is a community adviser to the Hooker Creek community in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community can be proud of the work done by the Committee on its behalf. [More…]

• I have noticed a comment in the Minister’s speech to the effect that funds and staff should be provided for the NACC for the production of a quarterly newsletter and that consideration should be given to using community radio, films and video as a means of improving communications between NACC and the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• In essence the Minister is depriving the community of a chance to discuss the report while the Government itself is considering it [More…]

• By that I meant no harm in allowing the community to see it even while the Government was still considering it. [More…]

• The whole community is now to pay the cost. [More…]

• I suggest that honourable members ask any small businessmen in the community and that they look at the economic indicators right now. [More…]

• Let me state categorically to the Australian community what the Treasurer has said. [More…]

• What these measures will do is to forestall a real credit squeeze, the sort of thing that the Australian business and private community experienced under the previous Government in mid 1974, a squeeze which would otherwise occur in the latter stages of the financial year if this excess money or liquidity is not mopped up now. [More…]

• So I put it to the Australian community: Ignore the posturings of Opposition members on this matter and get on with the business of your normal economic activities. [More…]

• Opposition members are not the only people in the community who are complaining about the economic mismanagement of this Government. [More…]

• Most sections of the community are either stagnant at the moment as they have been for the last 12 months or are experiencing conditions which continue to decline. [More…]

• There is still a lack of confidence in the business community. [More…]

• The third Minister is none other than the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• They come back to this chamber again and again attempting, as the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) says, to talk the economy down, attempting, for some political advantage no doubt, to cause disruption in our community and attempting to create confusion in the economy as a whole. [More…]

• The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) told us that cuts in Government expenditure are important; that they are affecting people; and that they are reducing the number of jobs in the community. [More…]

• The important feature of this matter is that we have exemplified economic management The Government has demonstrated to Australia and to the community at large that it has been pre- pared to take charge of the shambles that was eft behind by the Labor administration of the previous 3 years and to accept the challenge to come forward with a firm policy to restore confidence and activity in the community. [More…]

• Not even the European Economic Community imposes a tariff on wool but the United States does and this Government, which is supposed to enjoy a special relationship with the Government of the United States of America, cannot do anything to get that excise dropped. [More…]

• There is no single person in the rural areas of the community involved in export industries who does not clutch at trying to bring down tariff protection as it affects Australian industries and consumers. [More…]

• If he did, he would know very well that not one member of the rural community would not agree precisely with what I have said this afternoon. [More…]

• I have made this point before and I will continue to make it: While we have secret inquiries and reports about the aviation industry or any aspect of transport, which are not tabled in the Parliament, there cannot be properly informed discussion in the community on the pros and cons of what ought to be done. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) went to great pains in his second reading speech to demonstrate his Government’s commitment to the environment. [More…]

• Another and more important example is the statement of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development immediately after the Fox report became public that the green light had been given for uranium mining to take place in this country. [More…]

• As to the uranium question, there has already been many opportunities for all interested groups within the community to put their views . [More…]

• The Labor Government provided these grants in recognition of and support for the valuable work being done by the community action groups in defence of our environment. [More…]

• We considered community participation in environmental decisions as essential. [More…]

• Broad based community participation in the fundamental decisions that affect all Australians is the basis of the Labor Party’s philosophy. [More…]

• These grants were intended to encourage community group action and not to control these conservation groups. [More…]

• We regarded the grants as pioneering grants or seed money given to help the growth of community concern and activity for the protection of our environment. [More…]

• In effect, this provision prevents the emergence and development of new community movements. [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is well able to defend himself. [More…]

• These bodies enjoy an important place in the operation of this Government and, more particularly, in the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In particular, I commend to the House and the nation the leaflets that have just been produced by the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The 2 bodies concerned insofar as this report on trafficking in fauna in Australia is concerned- the Department of Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) stated in his second reading speech, in 1974 the Parliament legislated to make it possible for the Commonwealth to provide financial assistance to the States for purposes connected with nature conservation. [More…]

• We are not prepared to interfere with the cardinal principle of our constitution, and that is that the nominal head of the Government should be only the nominal head of the executive and not become a real substantial legislative force in the community. [More…]

• -The Government’s position in relation to this matter will be made known later this afternoon or this evening by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• This is not just a company and it is not just a mine; it is a community which is isolated and in which there are not many other areas of employment. [More…]

• My Department in South Australia, in conjunction with the Point McLeay Community Councilthat is the council of the Aboriginal people living there- and the South Australian Engineering and Water Supply Department, has taken emergency steps to supply water to the community. [More…]

• The Community Council entered into a contract with the South Australian Engineering and Water Supply Department to carry out this work. [More…]

• By this means the Committee can inform itself on community attitudes to proposals. [More…]

• Far too much fiction has been made available to members of the Parliament and to the Australian community. [More…]

• Indeed, such a review would be helpful to the ABC because, after all, the members of the Australian community happen to contribute $170m of the taxpayers funds- $ 130m in direct costs and $40m by way of engineering costs- for expenditure by the Commission. [More…]

• That simply highlights our criticism that the Government at least might have done the Australian community the service of tabling the Green report before it came up with these proposals so that we could have enjoyed digesting and thinking about it while the Government was making up its mind. [More…]

• We could not organise the public hearing unless we had enough evidence, and we could not get enough evidence of community dissatisfaction unless we had public hearings. [More…]

• It should be up to the Government to appoint more females because obviously they represent a larger section of the community than one would gather from the representation of only one female on a body of nine. [More…]

• It will encounter a lot of opposition not only within the ABC but also within the community. [More…]

• by leave- The Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry reported its final findings and recommendations to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 2 1 October 1976. [More…]

• In reaching this decision, the Government has recognised that it needs to act, in conjunction with the Queensland Government, to ensure that the special features of Fraser Island are preserved for future generations as well as for the present community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will consult with the Queensland Government seeking joint Commonwealth-State action to develop an agreed management plan for Fraser Island, having in mind the preservation of the Island ‘s natural features and the oversight of Island activity. [More…]

• After listening to the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), I do not feel much satisfaction about the protection that is being offered to persons who are directly affected by the decision. [More…]

• These include widening educational opportunity and promoting equality; parental choice in schooling; encouragement of community participation in education policy development and implementation; and special assistance to the educationally disadvantaged. [More…]

• We endorse in particular the emphasis the Schools Commission wishes to see given to moves to create two-way communication between schools, parents, employers and the community at large, and encouragement of cooperative planning between government and non-government school authorities. [More…]

• I must make comment upon the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on this subject. [More…]

• Community Development (Mr Newman) announced the decision of the Federal Government on the report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• That was a traumatic experience for the community, but, because of the introduction of sand mining, the members of the community gradually regained their confidence. [More…]

• There was a new spirit in the community. [More…]

• Now- a short 2 years laterthe community has been devastated by this decision of the Government. [More…]

• All of those things could have the same effect of tearing the heart out of a living community. [More…]

• There will be massive depression if this situation is not remedied within this community. [More…]

• It is of aesthetic, historic, scientific and social significance for the present community, and for future generations of Australians, as well as being of international environmental significance. [More…]

• If we demand that sort of sacrifice from the people in that area, in my view the Australian community is morally obliged to carry a larger burden in ensuring that those people do not suffer personally. [More…]

• The multiplier effects of mining are now very great in the community in which mining operates. [More…]

• I believe the proposals put forward by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) concerning the workers and the region are not good enough. [More…]

• There has been a wide-ranging debate covering all environmental matters affecting the community. [More…]

• The health and welfare of the community must be safeguarded at all costs- even at the risk of making a Labor Government look like strike-breakers. [More…]

• Although no action has been taken to amend Territory legislation along these lines, my Department in Darwin is currently investigating the magnitude of the task and the likely cost to the community. [More…]

• The working party consisted of representatives of the Insurance Commissioner, the Australian Government Actuary, and the Departments of the Treasury, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Environment, Housing and Community Development, and Primary Industry. [More…]

• The fact is that the Institute is perfectly entitled, as are others in the Australian community, to put forward its views on the direction which economic policy ought to take in this country. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and relates to AlburyWodonga. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• This particular dispute draws attention to the drastic effects of such action not only on the people immediately involved but also on the community as a whole. [More…]

• Until inflation is overcome there is not going to be full confidence throughout the Australian community for businessmen to invest and to create jobs and at the same time for consumers to spend. [More…]

• We are now providing a great deal of money for this system and looking to the future to produce young Australians who will be the fathers of our community in a very short period. [More…]

• Aboriginal students be encouraged to enrol in short inten’sive courses at the College, with the bulk of the training being given in the home community. [More…]

• Selection of students for courses be done by consultation between the College, prospective students, community councils and traditional Aboriginal leaders. [More…]

• The College continually liaise with Aboriginal communities to ascertain training needs and that nomination of students by communities reflect community needs and employment opportunities. [More…]

• Apart from those periods of national emergency it is widely considered that technical and further education has been both under-valued by the community and inadequately supported financially. [More…]

• Firstly, we stressed the need to deal with the needs of the community for education and we placed needs at the top of the list. [More…]

• I am the first to admit that great debate was generated not only in the ranks of my own Party but also, I guess, throughout the community generally when it was suggested that universities were for a special son of people. [More…]

• What matters is the decline which has occurred in literacy and the aspiration held by our community for all its children. [More…]

• There is a screaming need for community relations officers who are bilingual. [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…]

• It was only after a scream from the community that they were put back in the service for a limited period. [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…]

• If one goes into the schools seeking to discover what is missing in the link between the education situation and the home environment one need only speak to community relations officers. [More…]

• We encourage migrants to come out here and immediately set for them standards which are inferior in many respects to the standards we set for the community generally. [More…]

• I quite agree that there are tremendous problems with vocational education among the Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Our puzzles about policies on Aborigines are likely to be such that those who attempt to will usually find very great disappointments as they try to find what is the best thing to be done for a community which has a background very different from our own. [More…]

• This environmental inquiry has been long and exhaustive and has presented opportunities for all interested individuals and groups within the community to put their views. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said on 7 November, there will shortly be a debate in the national Parliament on the first report of the inquiry, and this will reflect the views being expressed in the community. [More…]

• We believe that it gives some community involvement. [More…]

• This amendment is directed towards the encouragement of community involvement, a principle with which the Government is very much in sympathy. [More…]

• In drafting the Bill the Government gave careful consideration to the question of whether the Commonwealth should have the power to impose a legislative requirement that part of the general recurrent grants for government or non-government systemic schools should be made available to school community bodies. [More…]

• For these reasons the Government had the Bill drafted so that it would be quite open to a State or a non-government school system to use its own discretion in allowing funds to be allocated direct to school community bodies, but it would not be incumbent on them to do. [More…]

• Because the amendment is worded in such a way as to make it permissive rather than directive that certain funds be spent at the direction of the ‘school board’, it would not add in any way to the capacity for community involvement that is already provided for in the Bill. [More…]

• As a concrete indication of our interest in community involvement, the Bill provides in clause 30, under the definition of ‘approved development and service activity’ for the participation of parents and other members of the community in developmental programs. [More…]

• I recognise that all sorts of conflicts can develop inside the community, with the school and the community itself, if we make the system totally autonomous. [More…]

• I have said that the Opposition welcomes this Bill as providing simple justice for the Asian community on Christmas Island. [More…]

• This community, as honourable members well know or some of them know- some of the back benchers on the Government side would not know but they may learn about it if they listen intently- has been subjected to some quite shameful discriminatory practices in the past. [More…]

• His experience of Christmas Island was of a well established community which in no sense saw itself as impermanent. [More…]

• Firstly, has the Government taken steps to establish whether the Christmas Islanders wish to maintain their community after phosphate extraction has finished? [More…]

• They have been readily accepted in the community and have become very fine citizens. [More…]

• However it must also be borne in mind that when people are brought into a completely new environment there needs to be special consideration so far as housing is concerned if they are to fit adequately into a community. [More…]

• I believe that they form a very well ordered community. [More…]

• It is not out of disinterest for the rural community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) shows a deep concern for environmental issues. [More…]

• The questioning in the community of the need for further clearing of land for plantings of other crops applies just as much to softwood plantings as it does to many of the grains. [More…]

• Many members of the community are interested in the very versatile material that comes from this crop- timber- in the building of their homes. [More…]

• The international markets are dominated by the common agricultural policy of the 9 member nations of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The group has been offered land by the Hospital and Charities Commission for a quite reasonable price but needs some financial assistance in order to continue its charitable work in assisting, in a very positive way, the less fortunate members of our community. [More…]

• the Community Health Program) recognition of a Women’s Refuge as it catered for deserted wives and single parents’. [More…]

• I hope that some notice will be taken of this problem and assistance given to people who are doing very valuable work for those less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• There is a great Unking, a great understanding and a great community of interest which not even the efforts of gentlemen opposite can break down between the processing and the cattle producing sections of this nation. [More…]

• The contents of the first report for 1974-1976 include the election of officers, the Chairman’s report, activities such as the family support program, housing, planning and community structures, and reports from South Sydney, the City of Sydney, Leichhardt, the staff, the treasurer and a financial statement. [More…]

• I want to bring to the attention of the House the importance that divisions should not be created within the Australian community by criticisms of the Governor-General which, in the words of Francis West ‘rest upon strained law and bad history prompted by political anger’. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of mischievous speculation in the Press and a feeling amongst certain members of the community that the Government proposes to disband or reduce symphony orchestras supported by the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [More…]

• Can the Minister add anything further to his recent Press release to assure the community that this speculation is completely false? [More…]

• Recovery will be assisted as the business community sees that this Government is intent on winding back the rate of inflation. [More…]

• Does the Prime Minister view the situation in Victoria concerning the Newport power station as a clear challenge to the right of an elected government to make decisions affecting the whole community? [More…]

• I had pointed out how inflation had fallen heavily on some sections of the community- sections unlike public servants and politicians and people who go to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and to some extent have their wages indexed. [More…]

• I had pointed out that we would not be seeing additional costs put on such sections of the community. [More…]

• I believe that uniform legislation is desirable not only from the point of view of investor protection but also from the point of view of the business community. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development issue copies of his speeches to the Opposition 2 hours prior to presenting them in this House? [More…]

• He will know that last Thursday the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development stated that the Government welcomes any international initiatives for strengthening the international nonproliferation regime. [More…]

• As has been said, the real advantage is with those in the community who are affluent and not those who are disadvantaged. [More…]

• People committed to extending social justice in the community are to be put out of work. [More…]

• It is rather ineffective in coping with the legal aid needs of the community in Victoria. [More…]

• The Victorian government and the legal professional bodies nave neglected legal aid so badly that the community there has had to set up its own voluntary legal aid service. [More…]

• Separate State bodies mean that differences will grow between means tests and accessibility of legal aid to the community. [More…]

• It ought to be the place through which lawyers express their concern for the community. [More…]

• I do not suppose there would be any sociologist in Australia who would not be able to establish very clearly that lawyers must be about the most conservative people in our community. [More…]

• For example, an extraordinary position arises in respect to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We must have this industry for the wellbeing of the community. [More…]

• I am glad that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made that amended statement. [More…]

• There were implications- deliberately, it seemed to me- in the reply by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development at question time this afternoon that members of the Opposition had given people outside the House copies of a proposed ministerial statement. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, you will have noticed that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) stated quite properly at what time he handed the statement to me. [More…]

• A brief history of the previous Acts is given in the 1975 report of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The community is now paying substantial moneys to correct existing pollution. [More…]

• We then ave the questions of acquisition of easement, compensation and access which often disturb the individual and the community generally. [More…]

• The philosophy which the Australian Water Resources Council proposes seeks to maximise community benefit, having regard to economic growth, the impact on social wellbeing, on regional development and on environmental qualities generally. [More…]

• The policy will become binding on all sections of the community-industry, trade, commerce, householders and Government Departments and agencies, including the Environment Protection Authority and the Environment Protection Appeal Board. [More…]

• It is the first piece of legislation introduced by the Government specifically for the benefit of the business community in the Territory and as such highlights the changed attitude of this Government compared with that of the Whitlam Government which did everything possible to beat business in Canberra into the ground. [More…]

• It is obvious that it is imperative to expand the employment base of Canberra, firstly, because of reduced employment and recruitment in the Public Service and, secondly, because an unhealthy reliance on one area of employment is undesirable in any community. [More…]

• It is evident that the business community in Canberra is becoming stronger and surer of economic recovery, due to the solidity and the strength of the economic policy that is being put forward. [More…]

• We want work, a good environment with the sort of community facilities modern urban living should provide and the right to earn and pay our way. [More…]

• They do not think that it was so unfair for the rest of the community to be brought into line. [More…]

• I am sure he is very pleased to see the sound economic management that is coming into Canberra because under the Government of the Party he represents he saw over a period of 3 years a large part of his electorate being developed with very little community faculties and very few of the proper facilities for the people who live there. [More…]

• The Government should put before the community what it proposes to do so that the management of these authorities and companies can themselves also be aware of what is happening. [More…]

• In the current period of difficult trading for international airlines it is vital to the performance of Qantas as Australia’s international airline that the management and the Australian community know exactly what the Government has in mind for international air traffic to and from Australia. [More…]

• It is necessary that this be done from time to time because of certain decisions that arise in the community or interpretations by the High Court. [More…]

• We need long term plans from government to restore confidence in industry, to restructure if necessary, but at a pace and price which the community can afford. [More…]

• Above all, we need a policy that takes into account not only the effective functioning of manufacturing industry but also the well-being of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Since the Minister for Primary Industry has announced that the Government will take into account Japan’s reduction in beef imports from Australia when it considers the renewal of Japan’s fishing rights in Australian waters, I ask him whether there are any arrangements between Australia and Canada, the United States of America, the European Economic Community and Great Britain which could also be reviewed in the same way, in view of the unilateral decisions on minimal notice which those customers have also imposed by way of quotas or even bans on their imports of Australian beef? [More…]

• In relation to statistics, I repeat what I said yesterday, namely, that 1977 will be a year of sustained economic growth in the world community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is at the table came to this Parliament as a result of undertakings of that nature. [More…]

• Last week the Minister for environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is at the table, announced certain proposals relating to Fraser Island, proposals which were supported by the Opposition. [More…]

• I was surprised to hear the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) begin his speech by reminding me that I came into this House in June last year because of the previous Government’s economic policies which almost destroyed the economic community in the electorate of Bass in which I live. [More…]

• A community youth sports scheme has been introduced also. [More…]

• This will provide financial assistance to community groups, including recognised youth organisations, for supportive programs and services to the unemployed. [More…]

• Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Lucock)Before I call the honourable member for Corio, I want to make one comment in regard to what was said by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) started his speech by saying that he would not have won his seat in Parliament if it had not been for the policies of the previous Labor Government. [More…]

• I refer now to the rather pathetic bleatings in the Press statement of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition issued on 7 November following the statement of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on growth centres. [More…]

• Here we have legislation which has been contemplated by the Parliament by the people and by the Aboriginal community over a number of years. [More…]

• Their words have been echoed by the Aboriginal community of Groote Eylandt and the people of the Tiwi tribe on Melville and Bathurst Islands. [More…]

• -The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill may have aroused widespread debate and interest amongst the Australian community in the past 5 months but it certainly did not arouse a very widespread sense of understanding or interest amongst members of the Opposition. [More…]

• Land characterised 2 things- the distribution of wealth in the community and also the nature of the culture of the community. [More…]

• They are both big steps towards giving the Aboriginal people a proper place in this community. [More…]

• He criticised them simply for putting the views of the total community whom they represent. [More…]

• I could not criticise one thing that the company has done, and yet its impact upon the community has not been at all favourable. [More…]

• An Aboriginal, under that definition, is somebody of Aboriginal descent who claims to be an Aboriginal and is accepted as such by the community with which he is associated. [More…]

• The minimum disruption of our community. [More…]

• -If he does not go, he should go along to the Areyonga community and tell the people there that he does not believe them. [More…]

• The definition of Aborigine’, which I heard very recently was: Someone of Aboriginal descent who is accepted as an Aborigine by Aborigines in the community in which he lives’. [More…]

• But they are not necessarily people who are sensitive to the needs of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that these divisions in the Australian community are unique between colour. [More…]

• We have all these sorts of cleavages of social association and normal social association in the Australian community. [More…]

• The intregrity of which the honourable member speaks in relation to rnining will, of course, be provided through the veto power which came under such attack from certain quarters within the community but which was maintained by the Government intact for the very good reason that we sought to maintain the integrity of Aboriginal ownership in the Aboriginal sense of what is their land. [More…]

• The legislation then provides that they shall be able to perform functions or services in respect of such matters as housing, health, sewerage, water supply, electricity, communications, education, relief work, roads and associated works, garbage collection and disposal, and welfare and community amenities. [More…]

• One of the great difficulties from which the Aboriginal people have suffered is their inability to become involved in community development in their own way. [More…]

• They are a group of people who are naturally on the edge of things socially and in relation to community development. [More…]

• It has been suggested that the community itself will decide whether one may or may not visit the community. [More…]

• I would like to raise this evening the shortcomings of the community youth support scheme which has been projected by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street). [More…]

• Under the scheme community groups will receive financial assistance for supportive programs and for services to the young unemployed. [More…]

• It involves job search orientation groups, voluntary community activities and vocational, hobby and interest expanding activity. [More…]

• Local communities in which there is a disproportionately high percentage of youth unemployed will be encouraged to establish local committees to initiate and co-ordinate community efforts. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government community youth support scheme at least shows some initiative in organisation, but one must be dismayed that community self-help groups will not be funded for job placement and job creation programs. [More…]

• In the United States of America and Canada community groups are funded for these purposes. [More…]

• We ought to understand that the community self-help groups depend on the approval of the members of Parliament and local committees. [More…]

• I urge the Government to reconsider the requirements and implications of this scheme concerning the initiatives to non-government community organisations. [More…]

• Alternatively, as a society, we set ourselves the task through increasing costs to outwit all acts of God, but at what a community cost. [More…]

• That the Fraser Government deserves the utmost condemnation for its haste in announcing decisions on the mining of uranium without giving the Australian community dme in which to debate this highly important subject, thereby disregarding the Commission of Inquiry’s final recommendation. [More…]

• He has displayed considerable concern for the future financial and social position of a very significant number of small businessmen in our community, the independent petrol resellers. [More…]

• Arab Republic of Egypt (Cairo), Republic of the Argentine (Buenos Aires), Republic of Austria (Vienna), Bahrain, Belgium- Mission to the European Economic Community (Brussels), United States of Brazil (Sao Paulo), Britain (London and Manchester), Canada (Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver), People’s Republic of China (Peking), Fiji (Suva), Republic of France (Paris), German Democratic Republic (Berlin), Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn and Hamburg), Hellenic Republic (Athens), Hong Kong, India (New Delhi), Republic of Indonesia (Jakarta), Iran (Tehran), Iraq (Baghdad), Israel (Tel Aviv), Republic of Italy (Rome and Milan), Japan (Tokyo and Osaka), Kenya (Nairobi), Republic of Korea (Seoul), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Republic of Mexico (Mexico City), Kingdom ofthe Netherlands (The Hague), New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch), Nigeria (Lagos), Pakistan (Karachi), Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby), Peru (Lima), Republic of the Philippines (Manila), Poland (Warsaw), Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Singapore, Republic of South Africa (Johannesburg), Spain (Madrid), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Berne and Geneva), Thailand (Bangkok), Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain), Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Moscow), United States of America (Washington, New York, Chicago and San Francisco), Yugoslavia (Belgrade). [More…]

• The Australian Trade Commissioner Service is highly regarded by the Australian business community. [More…]

• A great deal of frustration has been caused to the business community by the necessity to comply with 8 different pieces of legislation- one in each State as well as those of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• These provisions authorise directors to have regard to the interests of employees, the effects of the company’s activities on the environment and the interests of the community. [More…]

• The business community these days, as is highlighted by the many problems which have arisen and was highlighted by the Rae report, does not have to worry about crossing State boundaries when dealing in trade and commerce. [More…]

• If one listens to the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith and the honourable member for Grayndler one is led to believe that the commercial community in Australia is crying out for total and absolute Commonwealth control over the minutiae of this whole area without any qualification and without any safeguards, checks or balances about the possible abuse of that power. [More…]

• Although there is a very strong feeling in the commercial community for uniformity there is a very strong belief that the frustrations of having to comply with differing State requirements and with the expenses involved are matters which ought to be eliminated. [More…]

• It was prepared without any meaningful consultation with the business community of Australia. [More…]

• In other words, the most fundamental piece of commercial legislation that we can have in this country, that is, the basic statute to regulate company behaviour, was, I understand, prepared without any meaningful consultation with either the business community or State governments. [More…]

• I think this indicates why the approach that was adopted by the previous Government towards matters such as national companies legislation and regulation of the securities industry was greeted with such scepticism, concern and in some quarters, criticism by people in the commercial community. [More…]

• It is little wonder that great suspicion and concern were felt in many sections of the commercial community with regard to this legislation. [More…]

• They are a genuine attempt to provide both a politically acceptable solution to this problem and a genuine attempt to provide a solution which will cause a minimum of disruption, confusion and delay to the business community of Australia. [More…]

• Rather than debating his actions, the European Economic Community policies, tariff movements and exchange rates, I wish to concentrate on cost movements that were the direct responsibility of the last Whitlam Government. [More…]

• Should the Tribunal find that the community favours more autonomy being given to the broadcasters by allowing them to develop and largely administer their own codes of programming and advertising practice, the Tribunal would then withdraw from the day-to-day administration of standards. [More…]

• However, I am pleased that they are being undertaken and, as I said to the House in May, in light of the impact costs in this industry have on all sections of the community, it is proper that such costs should come under surveillance to ensure that prices set are fair both to the supplier and the consumer. [More…]

• The Government views the current examinations of the industry as positive means of protecting community interests. [More…]

• It is a further move to secrecy, to close off the access of the community, including councils, members of the general public and motorists’ organisations. [More…]

• The Government does not place a high priority upon roads and a high priority upon community input. [More…]

• Its attitudes towards transport must be such that the members of the community -Mr and Mrs John Citizen who use our roads, trains, buses and aeroplanes- have an increasing opportunity to say something about the decisions that are being made in respect to the services they pay to use. [More…]

• The Bureau has won wide acceptance from all levels of government and, most of all, from the community. [More…]

• Even the President of the South Australian Pharmacy Guild, as did the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) earlier in this debate, has drawn attention to the fact that the present measures being used to combat the spread of drugs in our community are not working and that those who seriously want to overcome this problem- I assume that that applies to every member in this House and the vast majority of the community- would be well advised to look at measures adopted elsewhere and seek even the introduction of more committees of inquiry in order to try to find the proper method of overcoming this very great problem. [More…]

• It also involves the drug alcohol and the spread of that form of drug taking in our community which is itself an increasing problem. [More…]

• The interests of the wider community of consumers would have benefited from this arrangement had it been more generous. [More…]

• Often the Bureau has to strike a difficult balance between the civil liberties of the innocent citizen and strong pressure on the part of the community to have effective surveillance methods for the interception of the people who are trying to smuggle drugs into [More…]

• Perhaps the next stage of the Paper ought to spell out this question more emphatically so that the community can turn its mind to it. [More…]

• I have no doubt that this debate has been going on pretty thoroughly within the defence Services but, in the final analysis, defence is a question for the whole community. [More…]

• I make one final plea for a continuing and more effective study of the reserve capacity of Australian forces which lies in the civilian community. [More…]

• We have done little enough to retain a reserve base in the community in such a way that we can deal with a potential war or take up the capacity of the Australian community. [More…]

• The leadership has been given to the community. [More…]

• The have encouraged members of Parliament to go out amongst the forces and to attend exercises to show to the Australian community that members of the Government- I know that members of the Opposition have done this also- are vitally interested in the welfare of the Services. [More…]

• It has set the basis for a most valuable debate in the community. [More…]

• We must ensure that the reserve is given a full military aid to the civil community role. [More…]

• They include officers who hold positions (with exempt conditions) with the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications and officers working with the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• No community has been refused Government support to form a housing association. [More…]

• Some communities and organisations have, however, been discouraged from forming housing associations for one or more of the following reasons: the community’s housing needs were better met by the State Housing Authority; a housing association was already operating satisfactorily in the area; insufficient interest in the community to form a registered housing association; insufficient managerial and administrative experience to successfully operate a housing association. [More…]

• Did he recently announce the closure of the departmental area offices at Swan Hill and Morwell, Victoria and the withdrawal of community advisers and other staff. [More…]

• Departmental staff have been relocated to provide a more efficient service to the Aboriginal people but there has been no withdrawal of Community Advisers or other staff from the areas. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Also, we have introduced the community youth support scheme. [More…]

• My announcements covered a series of monetary policy measures designed to ensure that there was not excess liquidity in the general community as a consequence of the decision to devalue. [More…]

• The facts are that we do have television facilities for more than 90 per cent of the Australian community but they serve only, I think, about 15 per cent of the land mass. [More…]

• There will also be a broadcasting council which will bring together the national network, the public broadcasting, the commercial network, the Department and the community so that we can have a greater community involvement in broadcasting. [More…]

• This broadcasting council, which will have a consultative role, will be of great assistance to the Australian community and to the industry generally. [More…]

• The industry and the community will be better informed. [More…]

• It would be a good thing for the Commission and for the Australian nation if the community had the right from time to time to comment independently and, if necessary, to criticise the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• Quite unrealistic views were also fostered in the community about future incomes and the capacity of the economy to sustain those incomes. [More…]

• Secondly, it deliberately pushed up wages, and more significantly, promoted improved conditions of service for Commonwealth employees in a pace-setting fashion that had highly significant flow-on effects throughout the community. [More…]

• The Austraiian people were solemnly assured that only a Liberal government could restore Australia to economic prosperity after the international recession; that only a Liberal government could provide sound economic management; that only a Liberal government could restore full employment; that only a Liberal government could revive business confidence and beat inflation; that only a Liberal government could command the confidence of foreign investors and the world economic community. [More…]

• The vacuum at the heart of the Fraser-Lynch strategy, the panic and desperation evident in their latest decision, is a matter of the gravest concern for the Australian people, for employers, for trade unions, for consumers, for the business community. [More…]

• What confidence can the Australian people and the business community have in a government which lives by ad hoc and random decisions, which vents its hostility against anyone who questions its motives or its wisdom? [More…]

• The Commission decided that since the Government’s strategy had been given a fair trial and had been shown to be something less than infallible, a concession to the opposing side was called for in the interests of the whole community. [More…]

• Eventually it must return to economic policies that will benefit the whole community. [More…]

• The Australian people have had enough of a Government which favours wealthy minorities, trades off one section of the community against others and makes the vast majority of Australians pay for the windfalls and favoured treatment it gives to the few. [More…]

• The confidence of the community has been shattered. [More…]

• When we came to office we were faced with an over-valued currency which placed great burdens on particular groups in the community- manufacturers, primary industry and import competing industries. [More…]

• They must be kept in balance by each section of the community accepting its fair responsibility in the fight against inflation. [More…]

• It cannot be won if the burdens are distributed inequitably across the community or only amongst a few groups. [More…]

• Equally, it will not be won if there is not an end to the selfish pursuit of advantage by different groups in the community. [More…]

• The fight we are involved in now is not a fight for one group, one section of the Australian community; it is nothing less than a fight for Australia’s future in which every Australian must be involved. [More…]

• Quite frankly, I do not want to take the credit all by myself for being the most influential person in the Australian community when an expression of opinion is put forward on the issue of exchange rate values. [More…]

• Does the Government want some sort of peasant standard for the Australian community with the base wage concept destroyed? [More…]

• How much suffering are they prepared to inflict on the Australian community? [More…]

• This reminds me that yesterday I was talking to a lady who was a little stunned like most of the community by the devaluation and its implications and she said to me: ‘Mr Fraser told me before the last election that if I voted Labor I would be voting for more unemployment, more inflation, more business failures and a worsening of the recession’. [More…]

• It increasingly looks as though a large section of the community will have to bear the burden of sacrifice and disadvantage as a result of this decision, especially if there is to be substantial capital inflow. [More…]

• On final point to which I should like briefly to refer is the benefit which devaluation will bring to the Australian community. [More…]

• Indeed, the whole of the restructuring- this devaluation plus the monetary and fiscal measures that accompany it- will ensure that not only will inflation be contained but also there will be a proper redistribution of wealth within the Australian society which will help in the revival of the rural industry, the stimulation of the mining industry and the encouragement of employment within the manufacturing industry which will be very much to the betterment of the Australian community. [More…]

• On 28 October, the day it was issued, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made a Press statement in which he singled out for emphasis only two of those findings. [More…]

• In a recent letter to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, the Fox commissioners have claimed their first two findings do not amount to recommendations . [More…]

• And on page 171 of their report they spell out precisely why Australia has a special place in the international nuclear community. [More…]

• I will not subscribe to the view being put by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that the Ranger inquiry itself constitutes a full examination by the people of the uranium and nuclear industry issue. [More…]

• If the Government is trying to suggest that this now is a national parliamentary debate on the Ranger inquiry and this now is reflecting the views being expressed in the community it is very much mistaken. [More…]

• The Minister knows perfectly well that he has not consulted the general community at all. [More…]

• My Party has joined with many concerned groups in the community- trade unions, Aboriginal people, church groups, women’s groups, environmentalists and groups of citizens concerned with the preservation of democractic rights- in condemning the haste of the Government in making its 11 November statement, its disregard of the final recommendation of the Fox report and its general stance on the issue of uranium mining development. [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, this debate encompasses the contents of two documents, the first report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the Ministerial statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in respect to the supply of Australian uranium under existing international contracts. [More…]

• Obviously from statements of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development at the time of the delivery of the Fox report and on the occasion of the statement in the House of Representatives pertaining to existing contracts, the Government does not take the Fox Commission’s warnings seriously. [More…]

• They are everywhere, like a germ on the community. [More…]

• Ask any common worker, any unionist, any executive in the mining companies, anyone in the community involved, even the smallest child, and he can tell you that the safeguards required for the mining of uranium are well known and that we did not require a costly report to bring them to our notice. [More…]

• Nonetheless, my views, probably as a reflection of the views of many people in the community, may be of some interest. [More…]

• I ought to point out first of all that in common with many people in the community I once felt and expressed the view that we should mine and export uranium. [More…]

• Fourthly, but not important by itself, the economic benefits to the community seem to be extremely limited. [More…]

• I repeat that I speak as a layman and I believe I speak as many people will in the community who are not persuaded by the extreme positions adopted either by the anti-nuclear lobby in the community or the pro-mining lobby in the community- people who nevertheless when presented with rational argument can feel concerned about the implications. [More…]

• I sincerely trust that the debate in this community will proceed with some restraint. [More…]

• The interdepartmental committee which was established to examine the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Petroleum comprised the Departments of Business and Consumer Affairs (Chairman), Attorney-General ‘s, Capital Territory, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Industry and Commerce, National Resources, Northern Territory, Primary Industry, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Transport and the Treasury. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to allegations that some so-called ‘access’, ‘ethnic’ and ‘community’ radio stations, especially in Melbourne, have made very provocative attacks on ethnic communities. [More…]

• As the honourable member will be aware, 3EA is an ‘ethnic’ broadcasting station operated at present under the control of my Department; 3ZZ is an ‘access’ station operated by the Australian Broadcasting Commission; 3CR is a ‘community’ station operated by the Community Radio Federation Ltd. [More…]

• Accordingly, in its decision of 9 September 1976 to place ethnic broadcasting on a permanent basis, it adopted a set of criteria for the new service which include the following; assist in promoting mutual understanding and harmony between and within ethnic groups and between ethnic groups and the English-speaking community; avoid political partisanship. [More…]

• Although the Task Force’s advertisement did not specifically seek submissions from amateur and professional sporting organisations, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development did, I am advised, draw the Task Force’s advertisement for submissions to the attention of national sporting organisations. [More…]

• However, a new import regime is still to be concluded by the European community. [More…]

• Australia is pursuing every possible diplomatic initiative to try to ensure that we do again obtain reasonable access to the Community for Australian exports. [More…]

• This year, in spite of restrictions, we have exported a not insignificant quantity of beef to the Community. [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…]

• It is not just a question of the company and the employees, it is a question of a community which is utterly dependent upon this operation. [More…]

• There are 3 main thrusts to this argument Firstly, at a time when consumer demand ought to be stimulated and not cut back, least of all cut back severely, the proposals for the imposition of compulsory charges for all wage-earners- with few relatively minor exceptionsresult in a reduction in spending power in the community and, accordingly, a reduction in consumer demand. [More…]

• Thirdly, as as result of these combined factors the arrangements will result in industrial unrest which in turn will lead to costs which will have to be borne by the community at a time when this sort of unrest ought to be avoided as much as. [More…]

• In the course of a full year the cost of the Government’s proposals, in terms of charges that have to be met by the community, reaches something like $900m. [More…]

• The community will not receive for that additional outlay anything more than it was receiving before. [More…]

• So the community is paying near enough to $900m more for something which it was receiving already. [More…]

• Accordingly, its capacity to demand goods and services in the community is reduced by that amount, and the cost of living will rise as a result of this action. [More…]

• Incidentally, it is not without its irony that a government declaiming its opposition to compulsion in the community should be responsible, by its stated intention, for conscripting half of the community into private health insurance funds, into commercial organisations, just as it conscripted youth into Vietnam. [More…]

• I always find it remarkable that the conservative coalition parties can always declaim that they are opposed to compulsion and that they want freedom of choice in the community; yet they resort so frequently to the imposition of compulsion. [More…]

• We hear so much about the private sector that it has become almost part of the mythology of our community, almost a spiritual incantation, as though it is quite improper to criticise anything about the private sector where the conservative coalition Government is concerned. [More…]

• That really erodes the position of the private sector of the economy and activity generally within the community. [More…]

• It was quite inappropriate for the Government in the situation in the course of this year to introduce those charges because, as I repeat, all they serve to do is to reduce, in the course of this year and next year when economic circumstances will be quite difficult, the capacity of people to demand goods and services in the community. [More…]

• Of course, in the case of the Medibank levy it is seeking to bypass its responsibilities to the community in the form of tax indexation. [More…]

• It increased personal taxes in the community to a level unparalleled in the history of the nation. [More…]

• If we take these aspects together, given that a set sum of money must be found- we are not arguing about that factor at the moment- whatever that sum is, this Government’s system ensures that more of that money required for the scheme comes from the poorer section of the community than from the richer section of the community. [More…]

• Let us look in real terms at the total cost to the community of this Government’s health scheme. [More…]

• Despite that fact, this Government is now forcing a large proportion of the community out of Medibank, away from the organisation with overhead administrative costs of 4 per cent into the arms of private organisations with overhead administrative costs of IS per cent. [More…]

• The study found that there was no significant difference between patients belonging to health maintenance organisations and the general community. [More…]

• The first was that changes needed to be made to constrain costs, to give incentives to keep costs down, to encourage efficiency in the State hospitals and to push ahead with preventive medicine and health and community programs. [More…]

• Deductions available for capital expenditure on the development of a mine or oil field, on the provision of community facilities adjacent to a mine or field, or on the purchase of mining rights or information, that currently are allowable over the estimated life of the mine or field will, for new expenditures, be allowable on reducing balances, by reference to a maximum life of 5 years instead of 25 years. [More…]

• the community’s knowledge of Australia and the Australian heritage, [More…]

• community health and welfare, and [More…]

• In short, the many facets of this important and growing industry contribute to the Australian economy through: Urban and rural development; decentralisation; new and expanded employment outlets; contribution to foreign exchange earnings; avenues for profitable short and long term investment; a contribution to education; new avenues for improving community health and welfare, both physical and mental; a deeper understanding of different cultural standards and community attitudes; and a wider base for international understanding and goodwill. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there are many diseases which are almost entirely confined to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• We have tended to believe in the past that if we set up facilities for the whole community in the Northern Territory or elsewhere then they were accessible to Aborigines. [More…]

• I accept the Northern Land Council’s view that the system should be administered by the officers of the Land Councils, who would, where necessary, consult with the local community and clan leaders before issuing a permit. [More…]

• Although it was intended that the function be administered by land councils and through them delegated to community councils, we will be substituting a situation which will have the effect that instead of the remote land councils making decisions, remote Darwin-based bureaucrats will be making them. [More…]

• It is clearly indicated in the statements I have made that the laws relating to entry will operate through land councils and with respect to the wishes of the clan or community councils, many of which are already established in the Northern Territory and which also will be capable of incorporation under the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Bill previously passed by the House. [More…]

• Someone of Aboriginal descent who is accepted as an Aborigine by Aborigines in the community in which he lives. [More…]

• Can a town be proclaimed over a community to exclude it from the definition and the provisions of this Bill so as to prevent people in the community from obtaining a grant of Aboriginal land? [More…]

• Can a community be designated under the laws of the Northern Territory as a town and so be excluded from the benefits of this legislation? [More…]

• He recommended that the Land Council field officers should identify their needs in respect of such matters as camping areas, community housing areas, hostels, single family housing and the like, and that their views should be put to the town planners and the land commissioners. [More…]

• Is group’ in fact to imply ‘community’? [More…]

• Is a group a community? [More…]

• Is a community a group? [More…]

• I looked at a dictionary a short time ago to find the definition of ‘community’. [More…]

• The dictionary that I consulted defines ‘community’ as joint ownership; identity of character’, which seems to be an appropriate term to use in respect of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• When we consider the conditions enjoyed by some of these people, the Australian community would be shocked to know the extent to which this great bonanza has been handed out on a platter. [More…]

• One of the sad things about the Aboriginal situation is that when they have to have advocates for their own cause, in the face of the needs of the rest of the community, the advocates are normally the people who also act for the sovereign power. [More…]

• In his first report the Commissioner suggested that local Aboriginal land be held on a community basis, a suggestion which was based on what the Commissioner felt to be a fairly clear consensus of Aboriginal opinion and because the Commission represented the basic political and social drift of Aborigines in modern society. [More…]

• The Commissioner then noted that Aboriginal communities had appreciated the lack of practicability in vesting small areas of land in Aboriginal claims but also commented that as ‘the most likely development over the next 50 years or so will be a gradual weakening of links with specific areas and sites and the strengthening of community identity with larger tracts of land’ community ownership would be more appropriate at that time. [More…]

• any Aboriginal community or group that may be affected by the proposed direction has been consulted and has had adequate opportunity to express its view to the Land Council. [More…]

• the resumption of Crown Land held under a lease that is required for Aboriginal community purposes; [More…]

• the reservation by planning authorities of land for Aboriginal community purposes in towns; [More…]

• I do not think this would be to the advantage of either community. [More…]

• In this respect I am thinking particularly of the advantage of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Was Aboriginal employment at the Garden Point community on Melville Island reduced from the present level of 40 to 19 as from 3 1 October 1976. [More…]

• As stated by the President of the Garden Point Council, is this due to their reduced budget allocation; if so, what is the reason for the reduction when he gave his personal assurances to the Aboriginal community on 30 June 1976 and repeated it on 19 August 1976 that levels of Aboriginal employment would be maintained. [More…]

• Did a meeting of the entire Garden Point community on 19 October 1976 pass a resolution condemning the Government for misleading the people and making untrue promises. [More…]

• 1) and (2) As announced to the Parliament by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 10 November, the Government has reviewed in detail the findings and recommendations of the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry and has decided that the export of minerals extracted from Fraser Island, other than from below high water mark on the beach south of Indian Head, should be phased out and export should not be permitted for minerals mined after 3 1 December 1 976. [More…]

• 1 ) How many community health centres were operating in each State with Australian Government assistance on (a) 30 June 1973, (b) 31 December 1975 and (c) 30 June 1976. [More…]

• For the purpose of answering this question, a ‘community health centre is defined as a community located facility which has the characteristics of a general health service as distinct from a specialised service (e.g. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• to (4) An Interdepartmental Committee comprising representatives of Prime Minister and Cabinet (Chairman), Treasury and Environment, Housing and Community Development was established immediately before the Acting Minister’s announcement. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• A decision on programs and projects in the community development area will be reached after examination of the report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health which is expected to be available to the Government in November 1976. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environ ment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• A decision on programs and projects in the community development area will be reached after examination of the report of the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health which is expected to be availabel to the Government in November 1 976. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -It is helpful for the Australian community to hear the voices of the wreckers, that is, to hear the interjections that are being made by the people who wrecked the economy over 3 years. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question concerning correspondence between him or other Ministers and Mr Justice Fox. [More…]

• No doubt the Treasurer who, I suspect, attended this august gathering last night in his endeavours to see that all sections of the community receive a fair slice of the national cake, will ensure that no deserving groups will be exposed to rip-offs and strip-offs by members of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• The basic reasons are these: There is in New South Wales a spectre of nationalisation, a socialist government in office determined to undermine the morale and confidence of the business community. [More…]

• All we get from this Government are programs such as the community youth support scheme which will give young people a bit of pocket money for fares if they go and do community service work. [More…]

• That one case illustrates so much of the present problem and indicates the hopelessness of so many young people who are looking for apprenticeships in the community. [More…]

• It explores the problem in some depth and detail and its December 1975 report on housing for Australia is a document worthy of consideration by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and his Department. [More…]

• I trust that that Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and his Department will have a serious look at this matter of the lack of rental accommodation. [More…]

• They will be expected to provide a multi-lingual reference and information point for migrants, particularly in respect of services provided by Commonwealth, State and local government intrumentalities, and a range of resources which would be accessible to social workers and welfare officers working with migrants, to ethnic community leaders, welfare administrators, teachers and students interested in migrant problems, and so on. [More…]

• The Committee has recommended that the proposed Australian Broadcasting Tribunal hold an inquiry into both ethnic and community access radio stations and that the Australian Broadcasting Commission take an active interest in the selection of qualified and responsible organising committees for ethnic radio stations. [More…]

• The Committee appreciates that when such incitement to conflict and contempt occurs it is invariably generated by a faction not representative of the ethnic community as a whole. [More…]

• It hurts the worker and it hurts the community because productivity is lessened. [More…]

• I think there is a fairly uneconomic use of ports in Victoria and this may well be costing the community sums of money as large as or larger than the cost attributed to industrial unrest and other obvious areas of excess cost. [More…]

• It was in doubt because the Government was in the process of consulting interested parties, including the trade union movement and sections of the business community, regarding the future of the Tribunal. [More…]

• It will be able to do that to the satisfaction of the Australian people only in so far as there is total equilibrium within the Australian community and total equilibrium within the economic community. [More…]

• After all, we set up the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission because of the belief that the community, while applauding the virtues ofthe market system, knows that in practice it does not operate. [More…]

• Having discharged any commitments made regarding consultation with relevant sectors of the community, a government ought to be quite free to make its decisions. [More…]

• A woman who was working as a typist in local government in Sydney, who was shifted with her family to Canberra, who took the opportunity of settling her family in the Canberra community, who was off work for no longer than 12 months and who then decided to take a job with the Public Service, would continue to have an entitlement to long service leave credits. [More…]

• I do not think we should apologise for being pacesetters because, as I have said, government today demands the very best brains and the best trained people we can attract in the community. [More…]

• As I read the Minister’s second reading speech the theory is that if we allowed certain provisions we would be advancing Commonwealth public servants to such a level that a dangerous precedent would be set in the community. [More…]

• It is argued that the other members of the community would look at public servants green with envy and demand that their rights and eligibilities should be increased to that level. [More…]

• The honourable member for Fraser has pointed out that the legislation falls a long way short of establishing new trends or making public servants the pacesetters in the Australian community. [More…]

• The community as a whole is more dependent in a large measure upon the work of public servants than it is upon the work of people employed in private industry. [More…]

• But the facts of life in the community are that the real machinery for making society work lies in the hands of governments- municipal, federal and State governments and public authorities. [More…]

• As productivity rises in the manufacturing sector fewer and fewer people will be employed in it, and fewer and fewer establishments will be involved to supply the community with its needs. [More…]

• To handle these arrangements we will have to demand the best brains and the best people and give them the best opportunities that the community can offer. [More…]

• Fruit which otherwise might not be made available to the community or utilised economically could by utilised. [More…]

• Community, and rising costs, especially freight costs. [More…]

• While the proposed collection process will not involve the grower or the Corporation in any cost, the cost to the community borne initially by agents and merchants will be high indeed and entirely out of proportion to the revenue raised. [More…]

• It is very plain from the answer that was given that the Governor-General is monopolising works of art from the Australian National Gallery which should be available for the enjoyment of the Australian community. [More…]

• The entire community would benefit if the collection was exhibited on a circulating basis to the places that I have mentioned. [More…]

• Some time ago it may have been said that this kind of activity could have been expected of the Labor Party, the working class, but not of proper people, nor of the correct people in the community, not of the representatives of the establishment, to run what would otherwise be visible only in a peep show. [More…]

• The Government has provided funds under the Community Health Program for a Regional Diabetic Service operating from the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. [More…]

• 1 ) Do health maintenance organisations in the United States of America generally use their own hospitals rather than community hospitals. [More…]

• Many HMO’s, however, do use community hospitals. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Special Youth Employment Training Program which Mr Howard announced on 22 September 1976, as extended along the lines I announced on 21 November 1976, and the Community Youth Support Scheme which I announced on 2 1 October 1976, have been initiated with the objectives of increasing employment and training opportunities for young people. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme, operative from 1 November 1976, aims to encourage community action toward the provision of supportive programs and services to the young unemployed, both girls and boys. [More…]

• Therefore express its confidence in the Government’s integrity to reduce inflation and to seek the co-operation of all sections of the community and, in particular, of trade unionists who understand both the wage rate structures and the employment situation at this critical time of national economic recovery. [More…]

• The Government is quite determined to ensure that there will be a maintenance of additional Government aid so that, despite the economic traumas which are apparent in the statistics that I have given, that sector of the Australian community will not be too disadvantaged for too much longer. [More…]

• The Government has foreshadowed that because of the impact of devaluation on the Australian community there is a need for a much stronger line by the Government before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to seek necessary restraint in wage and salary movements so that the inflationary consequences of the wage front which we have experienced in recent years can be subject to very sharp action, one would hope, by the Government in making its submissions before the Commission. [More…]

• Certainly they have maintained bans on the building of this power station, but they have done so for good and cogent reasons which have been supported by men of science and others in the community who have been led to say: ‘Thank God for the unions because they are the only thing standing between the community and potential disaster’. [More…]

• That Government’s solution to the stopping of one project is to stop all projects, including schools, hospitals, and sewerage and water installations, which are all vitally needed by the community. [More…]

• The SEC has actively discouraged community awareness. [More…]

• The SEC, however, continues to threaten the community with industrial power shortages, stand-downs and unemployment if Newport is not built immediately. [More…]

• has in the community. [More…]

• At the same time, no government would be responsible if it were to refrain from speaking out on issues when it believes that the behaviour of particular groups is not consistent with the overall interest of the community. [More…]

• It is open to unions and to every group in the community to express and to seek to promote views which they hold on any particular matter which is of direct interest to their members. [More…]

• So, if the honourable member’s action m proposing this subject for discussion as a matter of public importance today has done nothing else, it has enabled this House to have a look at actions which quite clearly are contrary to the best interests of the trade union movement and contrary to the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• It has only been the efflux of time and the increasing pressures from various sections of the community that has forced the Government to - finally honour the promises which it very freely made. [More…]

• I suggest that those promises were very significant in persuading the community to trust the Liberals and to dispose of the last Labor Government. [More…]

• I fear that the community is learning a lesson the hard way. [More…]

• It is my impression that there is little or no public sympathy in the community for a particular professional group when there is a suggestion that the professional group is inadequately remunerated. [More…]

• Is the community reaping the full benefit of the pharmacy education dollar? [More…]

• The profession must diversify for the good of the health of the community and for the morale and mental outlook of the individual pharmacist. [More…]

• The pharmacist’s more meaningful role could be achieved in many areas such as the dissemination of information to the community in health education programs and assistance to the medical profession by providing more pharmacological information. [More…]

• If the operations were to cease a very important and essential service would be removed from the community. [More…]

• It redistributes from the poor to the more unfortunate in the community. [More…]

• These grants will be financed from revenue to which the poorer groups in the community contribute but those poorer people will be denied assistance for housing because of their inability to save. [More…]

• When we established that Corporation we recognised the value placed by the community on housing. [More…]

• These are a direct Federal Government responsibility; but problems in housing, like so many other aspects of life and other responsibilities of government, can be solved only by the Federal Government acting in co-operation with the other tiers of government, the community, private enterprise and the trade unions. [More…]

• Unless we work together at all levels of government and with the private and community groups, this problem cannot be solved. [More…]

• The Government and in particular the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, do not appear to understand the importance of financial and monetary management to housing policy. [More…]

• That is an indication of the priority that this Government gives to the important issue of housing, not to mention the environment and community living. [More…]

• That was followed in government by a statement by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the late Senator Ivor Greenwood. [More…]

• I think that this is a very sensible, humane and sympathetic interpretation of the needs of the community. [More…]

• But it is thoughtful and sympathetic, and I know that it will be very well adminstered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who is at the table and by his Department. [More…]

• It seems that in our community the average Australian seeks to establish a home between the ages of 2 1 years and 35 years. [More…]

• One can only say that the change of Government and the greater confidence that has been created within the community is the sole reason for this. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is responsible for these matters, is showing an interest in what I am saying, because the same kind of problem could occur again. [More…]

• Even the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who has come out of a very protected life in the socialised service of the Army, would probably know that there are lots of people around who lack the capacity to save $40 or $48 a week. [More…]

• So the poor in the community are protected. [More…]

• Therefore, they must have been in a reasonably good position in the community by comparison with others. [More…]

• It is good to see that the honourable member for Hughes at least acknowledges that that mortgage deductibility scheme still operates, because many people in the community, as a result of Labor propaganda, think that it has been abolished. [More…]

• The Labor Opposition has a vested interest in gloom and doom because it is about the only way that it can propagandise in the community at large to produce fear. [More…]

• This Government has introduced a scheme which will be welcomed in the community and which must have a reasonable chance of providing a booster to the stimulus in the housing industry. [More…]

• There is concern about interest rates generally in the community. [More…]

• The National Country Party believes that the introduction of this Bill by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is very appropriate and continues the great work of the late Senator Ivor Greenwood. [More…]

• I pay tribute to the honourable member for Wimmera (Mr King), the honourable member for Mitchell and the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Jull), who represents a most important farming section of Queensland, for the positive moves that they have made to have the farming community included in this legislation. [More…]

• Let me summarise what I have said in this way: We have heard the same old tired, weary cries that we always hear in this House, to the effect that this Government somehow or other is directing its endeavours towards helping the silvertails of the community and forgetting those who are really in need. [More…]

• What the Labor Opposition tries to put around the community in this respect is a misconception; it is totally wrong. [More…]

• Within these there is a component, fixed by the Public Service Board, to cover such employment, based inter alia on the Board’s assessment of the needs of officers at each level at each post, in the light of conditions and community practice. [More…]

• oil industry dispute and resultant bans which have denied the people of that State a vital commodity namely, petrol, and further, expresses its concern at the immense public anxiety people have been subjected to, having to line up in queues for petrol, as well as the effects on hospitals and other essential services and the significant loss of revenue suffered by petrol station proprietors and others employed within the industry together with the overall dampening effect on the economy and morale of the nation, and therefore this House, without desiring to recriminate or to allot blame to any individuals or organisations, considers that the time has now arrived for an urgent and rational restructuring of the Australian oil industry in the interest of the consumers, oil companies, service station proprietors, those employed within the industry and, indeed, in the interests of the total Australian community. [More…]

• I also remind the honourable gentleman of statements made by the Prime Minister and by me which clearly recognise that the tax burden which the general community is suffering at the present time is both inequitable and a disincentive to work. [More…]

• I think all members of this House believe that it would be much better to carry on with those men fully employed, especially in view of the community aspects of Queenstown. [More…]

• As I have said previously in this House, it is not just a question of management and labour; it is a community that is very much affected. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled Indicators of Community Well-being together with a statement by the Minister for Social Security relating to that report. [More…]

• It has created the community youth support scheme, which is at the moment in its early stages and cannot be evaluated. [More…]

• It is denigrating to the people who are actually doing the work because they know that what they are doing is useless to the community. [More…]

• -The whole community can only be appalled at and condemn the Government for the secrecy and haste of this whole sordid exercise. [More…]

• The pressure from the community has coaxed or has forced the Government, depending on one’s point of view, not to sack anybody. [More…]

• Fortunately for the ABC, hence the whole community, the Government could not fool its own back benchers. [More…]

• The ABC claimed that the business community was in disarray because of the Government’s non policy. [More…]

• Any day I expect someone from the Government’s ranks to declare Pickering and Petty pinkos and the rest of the cartoonists soft on comms just because they dare show the community how ridiculous the Government is, and that despite the Government’s loud claim that its action, or lack of action, is clothed in economic respectability it has no clothes. [More…]

• No wonder the Australian Broadcasting Control Board never did anything to ensure that the private media fulfilled community expectations, such as those specified by the Vincent Committee in 1963. [More…]

• The commercial stations provide programs that theoretically cater for perhaps 70 per cent or 80 per cent of the community. [More…]

• I am quite happy to concede that the bulk of the community occupies perhaps a fairly narrow spectrum and their tastes are satisfied by seven or eight radio stations and perhaps 3 television stations in each capital city. [More…]

• That is the case now as private broadcasters justify providing a common level of junk to an enormous number of people with little or no choice for those people who have a range of interests in the middle of the total spectrum of community interest. [More…]

• In other words, if the Government were really sincere in its endeavours to do something about the broadcasting system, if it really took the Green report seriously- frankly, I do not agree with all of the contents of the Green report although I think it is a worthy report- it would allow serious consideration and discussion of the subject in the community. [More…]

• If the Government had taken this matter seriously it would have allowed much more community discussion. [More…]

• They try then to do something about changing the system to cater for community needs. [More…]

• But all the Government is doing with this legislation is excluding community participation and any real active control. [More…]

• Everyone in this community must accept his share of responsibility for economic recovery, for the maintenance of democracy and for unity in the Australian community. [More…]

• It as much as any other component of this nation must shoulder its responsibilities towards the whole community. [More…]

• I suggest to the members of Parliament and to the Australian community that they utterly disregard this obvious scurrilous reporting . [More…]

• Should the Tribunal find that the community favours more autonomy being given to the broadcasters by allowing them to develop and largely administer their own codes of programming and advertising practice, the Tribunal would then withdraw from the day-to-day administration of standards, and examine only those significant matters of standards or regulation referred to it by a representative body of the broadcast operators, such as the Broadcasting Council designated in this Bill. [More…]

• We approved new ethnic radio and community access stations. [More…]

• For instance, each ethnic community desiring to participate should be able to elect its program committee and chairperson. [More…]

• The size of each program committee and the method of its election should be left to each ethnic community to determine for itself and to organise. [More…]

• An ethnic broadcasting council should be established in each State, with some representatives from the ABC, but the majority should be elected from each of the community broadcasting committees. [More…]

• Furthermore, there has been no time for the community to contact honourable members on both sides of the House with objections to the wording of this legislation. [More…]

• The Opposition may have amendments to move to any one of these 4 pieces of legislation in the Senate or later on after the community has had time to absorb what is in these Bills. [More…]

• I deplore the misrepresentation perpetrated on the Australian community to the effect that everyone has benefited from tax changes. [More…]

• For example, no matter how much taxation is lowered to allow people supposedly to spend as they choose, the restrictions on any individual or group of individuals being able to provide a better road or any other community facility are such that the task becomes impossible. [More…]

• These Bills contain several amendments and all the amendments are important to various sectors of the community. [More…]

• They are very important to me also because a substantial mining concern is about to begin operations in my electorate and it will benefit the community. [More…]

• Other people have asked me ‘What about the question of extension to other groups in the community?’ [More…]

• The development of exports from that industry has enabled a higher standard of living to be spread throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Candidly, I have the old-fashioned view that they belong to the people of Australia because they are in the ground, but we seem somehow to think that somebody who happened to hit upon them is entitled thereafter to exploit the rest of the community. [More…]

• A great job has been done for the mining industry but if I may say so I think it has been done at the expense of the rest of the people of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is fair enough to give justice to the mining community; but who can say that these measures are justice? [More…]

• It is a very heavy penalty for the rest of the Australian community to pay. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member of what my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said recently. [More…]

• The obsessive pursuit of this single aim was used by the Government as justification for imposing enormous costs on the community. [More…]

• There would be massive community opposition to the abolition of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• For the sake of Australia, I hope that the Government, with its advisers, can quickly work out a comprehensive and detailed set of economic policies so that all sections of the Australian community can plan effectively. [More…]

• The Treasurer went on in that statement to explain that the Government, although it knew that the exchange rate was overvalued compared with other currencies, nonetheless sought to obtain the necessary discipline within the Australian community in order to reduce inflation and to create more job opportunities. [More…]

• Businessmen, consumers and members of the community generally can now look forward to stable, responsible and honest government under the coalition parties. [More…]

• All the tripping around the world that the Treasurer did, inviting foreign capital here, has to be squeezed off by the mechanisms, to which he referred at question time, of the Reserve Bank, because if foreign inflow comes into this country and if the Government believes it has to manage the money supply rigorously it will have to close down all lending available to the Australian community for housing and for all other things such as general manufacturing and all the areas where there is employment. [More…]

• So, I urge the Government to look favourably at establishing a new general aviation facility on the north side of Sydney, where 45 per cent of Bankstown ‘s traffic comes from, in the interests of providing facilities for people in that area who fly and also in the interests of safety and of giving some relief from noise to the people of the Bankstown community. [More…]

• I, like many people I talk to in the community, have grave doubts concerning this self-regulatory type of mechanism. [More…]

• If the Tribunal, amongst its responsibilities, can use its influence in this way, it will be to the benefit of the community generally. [More…]

• In addition, some concern has been expressed within the community that the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations and the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters believe that in many ways the ABC should not compete with the commercial stations. [More…]

• This meeting, in the interests of ensuring that the greatest community benefit is achieved as a result of the current debate on Australian broadcasting, urges all participants to pay due regard to the following fundamental matters: [More…]

• At that time he had great difficulty in defining the phrase acceptable community standards’. [More…]

• The phrase ‘acceptable community standards’ was difficult to define then and it is difficult to define in an amendment of this kind because it is a vague concept. [More…]

• It is the same sort of problem that the honourable member for Hotham had when he was the Minister and talked about ‘acceptable community standards’ about 5 years ago when he did such a good job of liberalising censorship in Australia. [More…]

• What is the point in making such programs if they are not accepted by the community. [More…]

• It is an opportunity for the whole community to come together, to examine the problems that exist in Australia and to make some constructive suggestions. [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) to explain to the Committee how he can guarantee that the Tribunal will be responsive to community needs. [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…]

• There was no indication given of what we think the community deserves. [More…]

• I have supported this amendment only because there is nothing else in the legislation that gives any hint that anything will be done to ensure that the commercials do abide by what the community expects time after time. [More…]

• Way back in the days of the Vincent Committee- and now we have the Green report -everyone said that the Australian community deserved quality programs which would help to establish an Australian identity. [More…]

• If the Government allows the Tribunal to have public hearings for renewals, if the Tribunal invites the community to express its views and if the community says: We do not think it has been good enough’, if the Government then has the guts to back the Tribunal when it says that the licence should not be renewed I will commend the Government for its actions. [More…]

• It would be better if all the hardware were owned by the community. [More…]

• I am aware of a very real concern in the community to maintain the capacity which we have achieved in recent years in the various areas of drama, theatre and, generally, contribution to Australian content in entertainment. [More…]

• I want to say that rather than being a backdown, the announcement by the Minister on Friday of last week represented on behalf of the Government an acceptance of a broad consensus from the back bench and from the community. [More…]

• If we take that to its fullest extent, if any party embraces that principle, it virtually says to all the large companies and corporations throughout Australia that it believes that the best way of managing their affairs on behalf of their shareholders and on behalf of the Australian community is to implement such a system. [More…]

• What we are looking to and what this Bill includes is formal consultative machinery which will be set up so that all the components that make up the ABCall the various organisations, Actors Equity, senior officers, staff and so on- will be able to come together with management and with commissions for the common purpose of uniting the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the 6800 people it employs for its own benefit and for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• Surely it will be much more desirable and much more valuable to have a large group of people involved in creating the best circumstances under which the Commission can discharge its charter to the Australian community. [More…]

• That is what we mean by being accountable to the community. [More…]

• Of critical importance to this decision is the need to see that planning in relation to the Broadcasting Council would bring together all sections of the industry- the national, the public and the commercial sectors, the community and the Department. [More…]

• In any case, there ought to be substantial representation from people outside the industry- from the important section of the Australian community, the consumer, the people for whom the broadcasting service exists. [More…]

• Our suggestion is that not only should they be put to the Department but also the comments should be tabled in this Parliament so the whole community can know what they are. [More…]

• It should be honest with the community. [More…]

• Let a semi-public body like this Broadcasting Council, with representatives from the community as members, consider the complaints. [More…]

• Let it communicate via the Council with the community at large. [More…]

• What the Government looks to in this Council is for representatives of all sectors of the system, whether they be from public or commercial broadcasting, from the department and from the community- certainly by the appointment of an independent chairmanto come together not only to comment upon Government planning and Government decisions but also to initiate their own action and through liaison and, in a consultative and advisory capacity, to be of assistance to the development and conduct of the overall system. [More…]

• However, that matter has not been finally resolved other than to say that it is important- and I agree with the honourable member for Maribyrnongthat there is a balance so that the Council reflects the overall view of the industry and of the community. [More…]

• Surely, but what about the 99.99 per cent of the community who are not in the industry and for whom the industry exists? [More…]

• It exists to communicate with the community. [More…]

• The community has a right to have some say about what sort of service it will obtain. [More…]

• This system could give a lot to the community in terms of communication facilities. [More…]

• Never mind the needs of the community. [More…]

• Never mind the advantages that may be obtained for the whole community. [More…]

• The reason is that this communication industry is concerned with culture and with uplifting enterprises- with educating the community about its heritage and its past, about anything related to the areas which, I should have thought, are dealt with and considered by the Australia Council. [More…]

• If the Government wants to get a real feeling about what the community might feel about these matters, and what it might aspire to, I think that it has no choice but to institute some sort of body like this to help. [More…]

• I am sick and tired of the humbug about community participation. [More…]

• We feel quite genuinely that this is not a Labor Party proposal; it is a community proposal. [More…]

• Perhaps we may want to be flexible and look at the possibility of having more representatives from the community. [More…]

• The Government appears to have passed up a unique opportunity to construct a viable and consistent adjustment assistance policy tailored to the long term adjustment needs of the rural sector, and to provide the necessary administrative machinery to ensure that this form of assistance is effective, and can itself adapt to the changing needs of the rural community. [More…]

• The recent devaluation of the Australian dollar is another example of how this Government has attempted to dress up long term losses in the guise of short term gain to the rural community. [More…]

• The questions the Opposition poses are these: Has the Country Party so called, explained to the rural community why the income effects of the devaluation will only benefit some farmers and not others, or how the increase in freight rates will erode the devaluation gain to some industries in the rural sector? [More…]

• Has the mouthpiece of various sectors explained to the rural community that if the expected large export earnings of the small number of predominantly overseas owned mining companies materialises, and the need to revalue arises because the balance of payments moves into a surplus situation, that many of the short term gains to the rural sector of devaluation will be eroded and eroded seriously? [More…]

• It is these factors which have made the development of an efficiently administered and effective structural adjustment policy, tailored to the special long term adjustment needs of the rural community, a matter of urgency. [More…]

• The internal policies of the European Economic Community countries fostered an over-supply in skim milk powder as the honourable member well knows. [More…]

• Having seen more than 2000 farmers on the dole in its time of tenure or office, the Government is duty bound to provide suitable welfare proposals to maintain the income of farmers who are judged to be nonviable, up to the level of unemployment benefit prevailing in the community at large. [More…]

• However, it is apparent that there are factors which have inhibited the adjustment process, resulting in considerable economic and social cost to the individuals affected and to the community as a whole. [More…]

• Dairy farmers, in common with all other members of the community, have been adversely affected by inflation. [More…]

• -I rise in this adjournment debate to draw to the attention of the House the proposed demise of the Migrant Community Services Branch of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• By far the largest element of the division is the Migrant Community Services Branch, which contains over 40 officers working in the specialised area of post-arrival services for migrants. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, it is not possible to overrate the importance which the Migrant Community Services Branch has in fact, and in the eyes of migrant people. [More…]

• The Migrant Community Services Branch is the real’ ethnic affairs’ branch of the Public Service. [More…]

• The future of the Migrant Community Services Branch is a matter of some importance. [More…]

• Let us now hope that she acts on that belief, and that the Migrant Community Services Branch will be allowed to remain, and to remain at its current strength. [More…]

• This is, after all, the only identifiable branch of the Commonwealth Public Service which is currently able to develop specific programs for the migrant community. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle disclaimed any knowledge in the Senate today of the review into the Migrant Community Services Branch. [More…]

• -This evening I shall talk about the community involvement program which was launched by the National Capital Development Commission on 3 December. [More…]

• The NCDC has announced moves to involve the Canberra community in decision making processes on 4 major issues. [More…]

• The 4 issues which it wishes to raise with the community include: The potential use of undeveloped land in inner Canberra; possible options to change the policies on redevelopment; amendments to the Commission’s design and siting policy; and public comment on changes to the present front fence policy. [More…]

• The Commission is asking the community to discuss these matters and to bring its views to the Commission. [More…]

• The Commission has given the community until March of next year to do so. [More…]

• The NCDC, having such wide powers is in a position if it likes to use those powers, of almost being able to do as it likes without asking the community for its comments. [More…]

• The NCDC will have to take a position in the Canberra community as we move towards more responsibility for the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• I suggest that it is most important not only that the NCDC should feel that it can discuss such matters with the Canberra community but also that the law should require such discussions. [More…]

• I suggest that proper planning appeals tribunals be established in the Australian Capital Territory so that the general community, when faced with a wide ranging planning change, can appeal. [More…]

• The duty was the subject of discussion in five rounds of consultations held with EEC and British authorities between April 1972 and May 1974 concerning the effects of British entry to the Community on Australia’s trade. [More…]

• Australia and the European Economic Community are signatories to the Tokyo Declaration of December 1973 which commits participating countries to engage in negotiations aimed at further liberalising tariff and non-tariff barriers in world trade. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• As part of the Commonwealth Government’s review into health, welfare and community development programs, including sport, I reconvened members of the former Sports Council Tor a meeting in Melbourne on 16 August 1976. [More…]

• to a group to object in a Mining Wardens Court to applications by a company for mining leases which threatened underground water supplies to a rural community; [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Recognising that international co-operation, based on the principles of the United Nations Charter, has to be developed and strengthened in order to provide solutions for world problems and to create an international community based on equity, justice and solidarity, [More…]

• There is need for awareness of and responsibility for increased activity of the national Governments and international community, aimed at mobilisation of economic resources, institutional changes and international solidarity by: [More…]

• The solutions to the problems of human settlements must therefore be conceived as an integral part of the development process of individual nations and the world community. [More…]

• With these opportunities and considerations in mind, and being agreed on the necessity of finding common principles that will guide Governments and the world community in solving the problems of human settlements, the Conference proclaims the following general principles and guidelines for action. [More…]

• It is condemned by the international community. [More…]

• The environment is the common heritage of mankind and its protection is the responsibility of the whole international community. [More…]

• Adequate shelter and services are a basic human right which place an obligation on Governments to ensure their attainment by all people, beginning with direct assistance to the least advantaged through guided programs of self-help and community action. [More…]

• Governments and the international community should facilitate the transfer of relevent technology and experience and should encourage and assist the creation of endogenous technology better suited to the socio-cultural characteristics and pattern of population by means of bilateral or multilateral agreements having regard to the sovereignity and intersof the participating States. [More…]

• Guided by the foregoing principles, the international community must exercise its responsibility to support national efforts to meet the human settlements challenges facing them. [More…]

• Since resources of Governments are inadequate to meet all needs, the international community should provide the necessary financial and technical assistance, evolve appropriate institutional arrangements and seek new effective ways to promote them. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• In that sense I emphasise to the honourable gentleman that the flexibility of the system ought to be understood and comprehended, even if that understanding or comprehension will take a little time, throughout the general community. [More…]

• So far as business confidence is concerned, I have no doubt that the business community will be able to work effectively with the new system because it will obviate the disruption that has occurred under the system which has been followed since 1974. [More…]

• I know that they, together with other members of the community, are concerned about the levels of taxation which now prevail. [More…]

• The earnings of auxiliary firemen, like the pay and additional earnings of other people giving service to the community, have long been taxable. [More…]

• I should emphasise that, while the discussion paper outlines proposals for a scheme, the Government is not committed to these proposals, as it believes that final decisions on the detailed nature of the scheme should not be taken until all areas of government, interested business and community groups and the public generally have been given every opportunity to make their views known. [More…]

• It should be noted that the studies already undertaken indicate that much planning and testing remain to be carried out before a scheme can be devised that will effectively meet the community’s need for adequate protection against losses resulting from natural hazards. [More…]

• These sites should also be managed so that they can be converted to community use in the shortest possible time after the landfill process has been completed. [More…]

• That will have personal consequences to the farmer and his family and will flow through to the whole rural community- the shopkeeper, the supplier of rural machinery, the rate collector from the local municipality, the bank manager giving consideration to realisation of the bank’s security or considering deferment of payment of interest on the farmer’s loan. [More…]

• The whole community will benefit from the introduction of the household support scheme. [More…]

• Many would not even apply for unemployment benefit because they considered that if they did they would be sponging on the community. [More…]

• The benefits contained in this Bill will prove of considerable advantage to the rural community. [More…]

• We need publicity about the provisions of the scheme so that the rural community is aware of what is available to it. [More…]

• But I think it can be fairly said that in a way the private banks, or some of them, have let the rural community down by not providing adequate counselling and advisory services. [More…]

• The establishment of such a Board would ensure concurrent contact with the farming community and State authorities and set rural adjustment policy in a non-partisan framework. [More…]

• The White Paper on defence calls for the most wide-ranging debate in the community on an extremely important topic which the White Paper points out is the first priority or first duty of the Government, namely, the security of the nation. [More…]

• The radio broadcast was carrying that debate to the widest possible section of the community which was prepared to listen to it. [More…]

• It is to be disposed of at the very end of the sitting without the community being able to listen to the broadcast of the proceedings. [More…]

• Have any companies made representations to the Government to pass legislation to validate uranium price-fixing agreements which would otherwise contravene (a) the Trade Practices Act, (b) Article 83 of the Chaner of the European Economic Community and (c) United States of America anti-trust laws; if so, which companies. [More…]

• This housing bank was to introduce innovative programs aimed at those sectors of the community that were not and still are not being catered for by any of the existing housing sources. [More…]

• It concerns us on this side of the House that the Government has not tabled the annual report of the Corporation, which demonstrates these inequities, even though the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who had the responsibility for the Corporation, has had the report for at least 4 months. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, is aware that interest rates will rise by at least 2 per cent in the next year. [More…]

• The intentions are quite clearly set out m the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development ( Mr Newman). [More…]

• In addition to assisting those categories of people, the Labor Government was able to establish that under the family allowances powers of the Constitution, it was competent for an Australian Government to provide a very wide range of assistance to the average home seeker in the Australian community. [More…]

• Tax cuts have been mentioned by some of the more brighter ones in the community. [More…]

• The blame, if there is any blame, for the jump in wages that occurred in 1974 belongs to the community. [More…]

• That meant that those people throughout the community who had business commitments were placed in a difficult situation of having orders to fill but not having the goods. [More…]

• But that would produce in our community a situation in which, in the event of a change of government in certain countries which are no longer favourably inclined to Australia and our way of politics, we would not have a source of supply. [More…]

• The United States of America, Japan and the European Economic Community not only have tariff duties and quotas; they also have exchange controls and complete bans on the imports of textiles. [More…]

• The new procedure of notification for exclusive dealing recognises the concern of the business community as to the backwash of section 47 casting legal doubts on ordinary commercial contracts not intended to be dealt with by the Trade Practices Act. [More…]

• The Government recognises that some sections of the community might argue that provisions of this nature should be included in other Commonwealth legislation such as the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]

• The marketing of unsafe products is a major concern of the community. [More…]

• I emphasise that the Government does not intend to rush into amending this technical legislation without adequate consultation with and study by the community. [More…]

• Because community needs were being adequately catered for by the private pharmacist it was decided to return the salaried pharmacist to Woden Valley Hospital when he resumed duty. [More…]

• Salaries paid to community medical practitioners are currently under review. [More…]

• Finally, since when has it represented good economic analysis to ignore the most pervasive and consistent factor of all economic and financial experience- the speed of responsiveness of the economic community and the time scale of events? [More…]

• I think his concern for those in genuine need is widely recognised throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that that change has been widely supported, not only on all sides of the House but also throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• That, again, is a demonstration of our Government’s concern and, I believe, of this Parliament’s concern for those who are in a genuine position of need in the Australian community. [More…]

• But I say to the honourable gentleman that, unlike the decision taken by him and his colleagues, this Government has taken a series of offsetting measures which are designed to protect the community against the inflationary consequence of the decision. [More…]

• It is important that all honourable members recognise what a significant employer of labour the canneries are so that it is not just the producers in the industry who are concerned but, significantly, the whole community. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the first annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]

• by leave- I tabled this morning the first annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I should point out that the views expressed in the report are those of the Commissioner for Community Relations and are not necessarily endorsed by the Government. [More…]

• The report of the Commissioner for Community Relations has been in the hands of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) for at least 3 weeks. [More…]

• When I was a student in Canberra between 1928 and 1934 his father was the Clerk and he served the community in 2 capacities- in church and state. [More…]

• That is another example of a secret commitment made to tie political funds to the advantage of a section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Labor insists that the measure of real prosperity, real security and true well-being is to be found not only in wages but in the services which governments provide for their people and for the whole community. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has attacked living standards on 2 fronts- by reducing the real value of wages and by scrapping necessary investment in community services. [More…]

• It is bad enough that a government, because of its economic mismanagement, should attack people’s wages; it is bad enough that a government should neglect community services which people expect it to provide. [More…]

• One only has to ask the small person in the community what happened to his living standard in 1974-75. [More…]

• They are organised by officers and officials of the Commonwealth and State parliaments, and their success depends absolutely upon the assistance and co-operation of the members of the Australian parliaments and local government authorities, and upon the good will of various community organisations and interests. [More…]

• -by leaveThere is a growing interest and concern in the community both in Australia and in other parliamentary democracies over Parliament’s effective oversight of the Executive, especially in the field of public finance. [More…]

• The departments from which the Committee has taken evidence during the year in connection with the Auditor-General’s report and Treasurer’s Advance include Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, AttorneyGeneral’s, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Resources, Overseas Trade, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Science and the Treasury. [More…]

• We are now protecting the interests of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd- one of the real suffering groups in the community! [More…]

• They are Aboriginal and Island people who sowed the seed of understanding among the rest of the community. [More…]

• In this area, particularly, it will take a commitment by all sections of the community to take up the fight against inflation and to restore employment opportunities. [More…]

• This Government will not allow an unreasonable burden in the fight against inflation to fall further on any section of the community including wage and salary earners. [More…]

• Western Australian skin divers are encouraged to take an interest and to participate under supervision in some of the Museum’s maritime exploration and excavation with excellent results -in terms of responsible community attitudes. [More…]

• One sees from the report that the Aboriginal community organisations course at the Swinburne College of Technology is about to be discontinued. [More…]

• There are, of course, many areas and levels in the community where the problem of under-achievers can and must be tackled. [More…]

• I think that the community at large as well as educatorsparents, school teachers and the total communityneeds to study and debate this report. [More…]

• I think there is perhaps a shyness involved as well with members ofthe migrant community. [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…]

• Let us face it: Expenditure on universities represents shifting purchasing power upwards in the community. [More…]

• I am stating that there is a social effect on shifting resources upwards in the community. [More…]

• If a government does anything in education expenditure that starts shifting resources downwards in the community it will find itself under fire from articulate sections ofthe community. [More…]

• At that stage not much more than 50 to 60 per cent of the community was literate. [More…]

• According to the census returns, by 1900 Australia was basically a literate community. [More…]

• That type of community outpouring of goodwill, concern and identity should be encouraged. [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 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…]

• The Government’s policy towards the entry of refugees is governed by its obligations as a party to the United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees and its acknowledgement that as a member of the international community it must accept a share of responsibility in refugee and quasi-refugee situations which often involve personal danger and loss of human dignity, basic rights and means of livelihood. [More…]

• In accord with this approach the Government is prepared to do what it can to facilitate the resettlement of those refugees who can be integrated into the Australian community as well as others who though not in a strict sense refugees have been displaced and are the victims of severe privation. [More…]

• The extent to which Australia can participate in these types of projects must allow for special arrangements to be made to interview applicants and must take into account the ability of any particular group of refugees or displaced persons to integrate into the community. [More…]

• Has the Union of Christmas Island Workers made a formal complaint to the Community Relations Commissioner. [More…]

• 1 ) What are the principles laid down by his Department regarding use of lands set aside for recreational purposes, which have not been leased to organisations, by (a) individuals, (b) non-profit making community and sporting groups and (c) individuals or organisations intending to make profits. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to allegations that some so called ‘access’, ‘ethnic’ and ‘community’ radio stations, especially in Melbourne, have made very provacative attacks on other ethnic communities. [More…]

• 3ZZ is an ‘access’ station operated by the Australian Broadcasting Commission; 3CR is a ‘community’ station operated by the Community Radio Federation Ltd. [More…]

• Ethnic broadcasting should: assist in promoting mutual understanding and harmony between and within ethnic groups and between ethnic groups and the English-speaking community; avoid political partisanship; ‘ [More…]

• Apart from the measures announced on 1 1 November 1976 by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Government’s attitude is that policy decisions in relation to the further development of the Australian uranium industry will have to await the outcome of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• Article 85 of the Charter of the European Economic Community; and [More…]

• Which pastoral companies in Northern Australia, including the Northern Territory, have negotiated or maintained previously existing contracts to supply meat to (a) Japan, (b) the United Kingdom, (c) the United States of America and (d) the European Economic Community in the last 12 months. [More…]

• 1 ) Was the South West Sydney Regional Social Development Council Ltd an early applicant for a Community Access Broadcasting Licence in New South Wales. [More…]

• 1 ) The South West Sydney Regional Social Development Council Ltd indicated, in July 1 97S, its interest in obtaining a licence for a community access radio station. [More…]

• Approval was given to the Southern Media Centre Community Radio Group, to conduct frequency modulation test transmissions for the period 26-28 November 1 976. [More…]

• Will the Minister explain why only 4 copies of the report entitled Indicators of Community Well-being have been made available to members through the Bills and Papers Office. [More…]

• Is this further evidence of the Government’s determination to deny the Parliament important community information. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2 ) In the tabling statement for Professor Vinson ‘s report on Indicators of Community Well-being I said, and I quote. [More…]

• He was the second Moslem of India ‘s 5 Presidents- a widely respected figure in India and leader of India’s Moslem community. [More…]

• This is because inherent in their construction is the proposition that the community has always paid in any way or another for its health care. [More…]

• Those, however, who pursue this course pay little heed to the effects their actions have on confidence in the community and, particularly, on those who would most benefit from increased confidence- I refer to the unemployed. [More…]

• Within the ambit of fiscal responsibility open to it up to this time, this Government has acted decisively to lighten the community’s taxation burdens. [More…]

• These necessary adjustments to the monetary instruments have been executed with care and with close regard to the needs of the community for access to credit. [More…]

• It is a litany of all the announcements we have heard already during the parliamentary recess- a litany of many more mistakes which have been inflicted on the Australian community. [More…]

• That decision by this Government will be supported to the hilt by those people who want tax cuts in a real sense, because the full implementation of that kind of decision is the action that will make real, meaningful tax relief possible in the Australian community over a period. [More…]

• The Parliament has resumed today with the national economy in disarray, the people confused, the business community demoralised, the Government discredited and with no coherent or credible strategy to deal with the nation’s problems. [More…]

• Its drastic and ill-balanced cuts last year rightly incurred the anger of those sections of the community affected by them. [More…]

• Government authority, no individual or community group can plan for the future. [More…]

• The community youth support scheme is beginning to prove of great value in giving unemployed young people a sense of purpose and self esteem, as well has having real practical value. [More…]

• Lower interest rates would be of tremendous benefit to the economy and the community. [More…]

• That is an indication of the lack of faith of the community in the economic policies of the Government. [More…]

• The Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the Melbourne University this month reports that consumer confidence has again declined substantially and that there is long term pessimism in the community about the Australian economy. [More…]

• The community may well ask itself whether the additional very high cost justifies the very small improvement that has been made. [More…]

• More importantly, the community may well meditate upon the fact that the exceptionally high rate of inflation coming through in December will mean that for the 12 calendar months in 1 976 there has been virtually no improvement in combating inflation over the previous 12 months of the Labor administration. [More…]

• The community must ask itself sober questions. [More…]

• If one makes allowance for those people one is talking about an unemployment rate not of 5.8 per cent but of considerably more than 7 per cent in the community at the present time. [More…]

• On the evidence that I have produced tonight it is quite clear that the official statistics are under-reading the level of unemployment in our community. [More…]

• Tonight I would like briefly and simply to describe the present state of the economy as I see it and as I believe many thinking people in the community see it. [More…]

• Above all, what the Fraser Government has done through its restoration of sanity to economic management has been to give each and every taxpayer in the community more opportunity to keep more of what he earns and to spend his income in the way he wishes to rather than to have big brother government take it away from him in ever increasing taxes and decide, without his involvement, how his income will be spent. [More…]

• As a result, the voters elected a Government which is dedicated to increasing the freedom of the individual and the respect of his basic rights as an individual, while at the same time exercising its responsibility as a Government to protect and to assist those in our community who cannot care adequately for themselves. [More…]

• It also makes the executive government more representative of the community, which should improve its prospects of success. [More…]

• 1 ) As far as the Commonwealth is concerned nursing home patients, or their relatives, have the same right of selection of the doctor of their choice as any other member of the community and are subject to the same limitations of availability and willingness of medical practitioners to attend the particular patient. [More…]

• I am told that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has prepared a list of Commonwealth building projects where an arts component could be included in the costs. [More…]

• This list has been passed to the Australia Council and its recommendations will be given to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for further consideration. [More…]

• -The answer to the honourable members ‘ question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) Medical services are rendered to nursing home patients on much the same basis as any other members of the community and do not come within the Commonwealth nursing home benefit arrangements. [More…]

• Has this Centre made a valuable contribution to the Aboriginal community through its plays and other cultural pursuits. [More…]

• I believe the Centre has made a useful contribution to the Australian Arts and to the Aboriginal community in the past and I am pleased to note renewed activity in the Centre in recent months. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• The steps which might be taken to minimise future expenditure having regard to the needs of the various sectors of the industry and the necessity to maintain or, where necessary, improve the facilities available to and required by the industry to meet the demands of the community. [More…]

• An increasing number will be employees of Aboriginal community organisations, subject to dismissal. [More…]

• 1 ) What was the capital cost of each of the public or community swimming pools constructed in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Will he give an assurance that the new Bureau of Transport Economics will be able to actively seek, from the public, individuals, community groups, State Government agencies and local governments, facts and opinions, that may be opposed to Government policies, and that the results of these investigations will be publicly reported; if not, why not. [More…]

• Today I think we have to talk about the feeling of the Government for people in employment who are threatened by unemployment, what lies ahead for the industries of Australia, and what the Government is doing to see that any structural adjustment affecting our industries has the full confidence and participation of the community. [More…]

• I believe, and the Government believes, that the great problem of manufacturing industry in Australia at the present time is a problem of competitiveness, and until such time as the competitiveness of manufacturing industry in Australia is restored and until such time as the entire community recognises the extent to which this country has priced its way out of world markets and the extent to which the domestic cost structure in this country has created difficulties for its import competing industries as well as its export industries- until that realisation come to all sections of the Australian community which are involved in, affected by and concerned with manufacturing industry- the great problem of the industry is not going to be solved. [More…]

• Essentially the problems of manufacturing industry in this country are problems of competitiveness, and until such times as the entire community accepts and realises these basic problems the long term future of manufacturing industry will continue to be difficult. [More…]

• These are the qualities every government must look for in appointing public servants, for the good of the service and for the good of the community. [More…]

• I think that the salaries that are now paid to public servants are comparable to salaries paid in the community generally. [More…]

• Why must the Public Service, which I have heard described as a career structure, stand distinct from the rest of our community in respect of salaries and career prospects? [More…]

• What does it do that is different from the things done by the rest of our community? [More…]

• Therefore one should be looking at careers in the whole broad spectrum of the Australian community and not in one localised section of it. [More…]

• It was public knowledge and a number of former members of the defence forces, including the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), publicly stated that their political ambitions were prompted by their concern for the country and the neglect of the defence forces in which they were serving. [More…]

• Regional councils for social development were stimulated by the Labor Government’s desire to have the ordinary people in the community involved in social matters. [More…]

• Within our community there is a very large and increasing number of unemployed people, more particularly of our concern in the Preston/Reservoir and West Heidelberg areas. [More…]

• On behalf of actual beneficiaries, involved individuals, agencies and organisations, such as the Commonwealth Employment Service offices at Preston and Heidelberg, Preston Employment Action Group, Program for Unemployed SelfHelp (West Heidelberg), the 2 community health centres situated in the large Housing Commission estates of Preston/Reservoir and West Heidelberg, Preston and Northcote Community Hospital, Austin Hospital and North Eastern Suburbs Regional Office (Social Welfare Department), we request that you give your most urgent consideration to the relocation of an unemployment and sickness benefit component at the Preston regional office. [More…]

• First, the community loses because of the loss of duty that should have been collected. [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…]

• The New South Wales Minister for Youth and Community Services, Mr Jackson, was reported in the Press initially as saying that the New South Wales Government would take over the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• Any proposal about increasing these charges will be considered very carefully by this Government because we realise the inflationary effect they have upon the community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has eased some of its restrictions and is offering a market of about 125 000 tonnes of imports of which we will have a part. [More…]

• This has been reflected in the mountains of butter in the European Economic Community, the lakes of wine and surpluses of other commodities and, the consequential collapse in world prices. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that if this proposal is bludgeoned through by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) the immediate effect on many tenants of Housing Commission dwellings will be a large increase in rental rates. [More…]

• Rather than attacking the Labor Premiers who have these and other doubts over the end result of the Fraser Government’s proposal, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development would be more productive if he ensured that studies were undertaken correlating the cost benefit and social welfare implications of alternatives to the existing scheme. [More…]

• The terminating building societies are the institutions which give the opportunity of private sector home ownership to the poorer sectors of our community. [More…]

• Will these families be denied benefits of home ownership- like those in our community who earn between 95 per cent and 135 per cent of average weekly wages- by a mechanism of high interest rates and the creation of the arbitrary repayment gap? [More…]

• He took a letter, which was written by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to State Premiers, as the basis of discussion for a new agreement, out of context and has attempted, for blatant political purposes connected with the Western Australian election, to totally misrepresent the Commonwealth Government’s position. [More…]

• If the Government abandons it, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is apparently contemplating, the effect could be disastrous in many ways. [More…]

• He said that this would put home ownership beyond the reach of a very wide section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Certain State Premiers are under attack because they are alarmed at the terms of a letter from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• If this agreement is to be tampered with and if interest rates and consequential rentals are to rise, a powerful weapon for keeping down general housing costs will be struck from the hands of the Australian community, and that will be a great tragedy. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) may have had that sort of test on a number of occasions recently but very few other people in the community would need that battery of tests and for that sort of test to become common shows that lots of unnecessary tests are being carried out. [More…]

• They hurt the community as taxpayers because unnecessary money is going to people but they do not hurt the patient. [More…]

• There were not just lawyers, people who represented only a particular profession within the community, but people from all stratas of society representing local government, State government and Federal government, Federal Parliament and State parliaments. [More…]

• It really brings the circumstances of the judiciary into parallel with those of other members of the community. [More…]

• The other 2 Bills come in categories where there is without doubt some concern in some sectors of the community. [More…]

• It has divided the community. [More…]

• No one denies that many of the judges who have reached advanced years, the names of whom were recited by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), retain high intellectual talents which can be of use to the community. [More…]

• If there is any fear that by requiring judges to retire at 70 years of age we will be losing talents that could be used in the service of the community, I suggest that that fear should be set aside. [More…]

• It is a good thing that the community can see in the House a constructive debate on this occasion, with honourable members from both sides making valuable suggestions. [More…]

• The legislation concerning the referendum on retiring ages for judges is very welcome and would no doubt be supported throughout the community. [More…]

• The important point is that the judiciary must to an extent be remote from the community. [More…]

• But it cannot be entirely or substantially remote from the community, and an age limit should be determined so that the community can have confidence that current-day sets of values, which often conflict and which are varied, are within the general realm of experience of the currently sitting judges. [More…]

• In some cases a judge may retain full capacity of mind, full general mental knowledge and vigour but be out of touch with much of what is occurring in the community if he be very elderly. [More…]

• There may be some rumblings in the community from very small sectors. [More…]

• If we are to get long range planning into this country ‘s affairs, regardless of political matter, in my opinion it would be satisfactory to extend the period of elections to 4 years so that governments are not tempted to indulge in political activity for much of their term of office or act within the constraints of political circumstances most of their time but are able to devote more of their term to those functions of government which would produce a longer range benefit to the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that they ought to be the subject of wide and cogent debate m the community before they are put to the people. [More…]

• A consolidation of various programs for domiciliary care into a single community care program. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall the decision to establish the Task Force on Co-ordination in Welfare and Health arose out of the Government’s concern at the proliferation, duplication and overlap of Commonwealth programs and services in the health, welfare and community development fields. [More…]

• In proposing various administrative changes, both reports make suggestions as to how the Commonwealth can safeguard the role of local and voluntary agencies delivering health and welfare services in the community. [More…]

• The group will be assisted’ by officials from other departments including Treasury, Finance, Health, Social Security, Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Public Service Board. [More…]

• Many of the proposals they contain affect governments at all levels, nongovernment agencies, and the community. [More…]

• In other words, the object of this exercise is not so much greater co-ordination or efficiency, still less greater service or care for the disadvantaged, but an abandonment of Federal responsibility for the most deprived and needy members of the community. [More…]

• It deals with such matters as legal aid, telephone interpreter services, post-arrival services, grants to community agencies, ethnic research and surveys. [More…]

• If we examine the case of the community health and community mental health programs the Government’s intentions are abundantly clear. [More…]

• Following the amalgamation of these 2 programs the Fraser Government allocated only $7 1.8m for community mental and community health services, a reduction in funding in real terms. [More…]

• Implementation of this decision would save the Government between $60m and $80m but would probably cost the community at least this amount in additional insurance premiums. [More…]

• There will always be individuals who will abuse certain conditions that are provided to assist the people in our community who really need help. [More…]

• In my memory none has been able to whip up enthusiasm in the community for reasons why Senator A should be elected instead of Senator B. [More…]

• I am confident that most Australian citizens will see Canberra not only as the seat of the Commonwealth Parliament and the national capital but also as a community of 200 000 people, many of whom have moved here from other States. [More…]

• The time has come for the community at large to take a deep interest in the Constitution, to study it, to be informed about it and to change it. [More…]

• There is no doubt in my mind that the major error tha we have committed in the past is failure to educate the community about the Constitution, failure to get them to understand its principles and to understand what it is all about. [More…]

• I believe that the document itself belongs to the community at large-the citizens. [More…]

• If that pace of change had been allowed to continue at the rate at which it did as a result of these forces working through the Australian economic community, quite plainly there would have been grave disruption, and it would have been very difficult indeed to provide jobs for Australians who wanted to work. [More…]

• This is because inherent in the construction of these implicit deflators is the plain fact that the community must always pay, in one way or another, for its health care. [More…]

• Health services did not suddenly become free on 1 July 1975; nor did they suddenly become more costly to the community on account of the changes effected on 1 October 1976. [More…]

• To give the lie briefly and decisively to the program which the Australian Labor Party would foist on the Australian community I quote again the words of the British Prime Minister, Mr Callaghan: [More…]

• I predict confidently but quite unhappily, because so many good people in this community will suffer- so many good people are friends of mine, if I want to personalise it, and that is not unimportant in influencing people’s attitude- inflation will be of the order of 17 per cent to 18 per cent by the end of this financial year. [More…]

• I doubt whether there are many sections of the Australian community, particularly those on minimum wages- the minimum wage at the moment is about $135- whose food component is as little as 27 or 28 per cent. [More…]

• In other words, perhaps the index is false as far as they are concerned and it underestimates the true impact of inflation in the community. [More…]

• It is a mechanism, first, for firms discovering the kinds of goods and services the community wants and the manner in which these may be supplied in the cheapest possible way. [More…]

• So I believe that if we are fiddling with the role of the Commission to enhance competition within our community then the Government should come out and say so. [More…]

• It is both a snide and, in the long term, a divisive manoeuvre which will set groups within our community on a senseless collision course. [More…]

• merger provisions ensure that the control of significant capital assets in the community does not change hands in circumstances that disregard any anti-competitive effects of the change. [More…]

• How they could ignore the anticompetitive factors which would be part of that takeover is also beyond me, because there could be many cases- there were many prior to the introduction of this legislation- of small businesses being taken over in circumstances where a certain element of competition was eradicated from the community. [More…]

• Let us have a look at the turnover of such a company, and let us have a look at where it operates and at what impact its having an additional company added to its list will have on the community. [More…]

• I emphasise that the Government does not intend to rush into amending this technical legislation without adequate consultation with and study by the community. [More…]

• This is the whole tenet on which the trade union movement was built and only in countries such as Australia, which has a totalitarian government, would one find such an action being taken to isolate an integral part of the fabric of our whole community- the trade union movement- and set it aside and say not that it will receive the same protection as everybody else but that it will receive special protection because it is engaged in special activities. [More…]

• It is the managers who decide that, for the sake of greed, the workers will destroy a building or will build on land that would be better used by the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) blithely talks about community interests. [More…]

• It is important that in an Act of Parliament which applies to most people in the community and which has in it quite harsh penalties- not penalties that we have imposed but penalties that were imposed by a government of the political persuasion of the honourable member for Burke - [More…]

• If the honourable member is saying to us on this side of the House that there are other people in the Australian community to whom such legislation should not apply if they are in breach of that law- that is what he is saying to us, that there is one group of people to whom the law shall not apply but that it shall apply to all others with all the harshness and all the penalties that his Government saw fit to include in the legislation- and if that is what the honourable member refers to as honesty, then I think it is quite clear that all the honesty rests on this side of the House. [More…]

• That sort of view is simply not abroad in the community. [More…]

• If the Labor Party has learnt one lesson in recent years, surely it is that the vast majority of jobs in the community are provided from successful private enterprise and usefully employed people are the greatest national asset we can have. [More…]

• Why is so much emphasis placed upon a certain small segment of the community in Sydney which is allegedly keeping up the price of petrol? [More…]

• unwarranted by any benefits thus derived by rail users or the community generally. [More…]

• Not only is he utterly irresponsible in raising that matter but also his constant harping on matters of this type in this House is very destructive of confidence throughout the general community. [More…]

• One of the things that people do with great disservice to the total Australian community is to try to divide that community into separate and competitive sections- those who work on farms, those who live in cities, those who work at the Ford organisation’s factory at Geelong or in some other factory, or those who work in the mines. [More…]

• There is an interdependence between the major sectors of the Australian economy, between different sectors of the Australian community, and it is not possible to look at one in isolation from the other. [More…]

• I would have thought that we would have been much better served if we stopped talking about different sectors of the Australian community being competitors or about somebody getting something at the expense of others, and looked at the whole to see how we can advance the whole. [More…]

• I think there is also a widespread view in the community- it is certainly a view which the Government strongly supports- that there ought to be reasonable rules for the conduct of human affairs in all important areas of activity within society. [More…]

• It will take into account also the necessary requirements of the public interest and the community at large. [More…]

• It is my hope that later this year a comprehensive purchasing policy of the National Gallery, endorsed by the Government, will be able to be announced in this Parliament so that all honourable members, the community and the artistic world will be able to know and to understand the full purchasing policy of the Gallery and the background against which purchases are made and priorities formed in the conduct of that policy. [More…]

• -By contrast, the Government has instituted a series of measures aimed at specific groups in the community who are experiencing employment difficulties at present. [More…]

• We have also recently introduced the completely new apprenticeship scheme known as CRAFT- Commonwealth Rebate Apprenticeship Full-time Training-which has had a very favourable response from all sections of the community including, I am pleased to say, the trade union movement. [More…]

• I would like to mention briefly the community youth support scheme which, I am pleased to be able to inform the House, now has something like 60 projects in operation all over Australia and involving some 12 000 young people. [More…]

• In the normal course, if there was an unemployment relief scheme, we could look forward to those funds going into projects which would be of lasting value to the community. [More…]

• It would be far better if we were employing people on community projects which would be of long term value to us as a whole. [More…]

• There is no doubt, as the community realises, that the wage spiral encouraged by the Labor Government has been the primary cause of inflation and the primary cause of unemployment. [More…]

• I believe that the community wants to look very closely at the CES and its operation. [More…]

• Moreover the community is concerned about the unemployment figure and wants it analysed properly. [More…]

• I think it would be of general assistance to the community if there were a definitive statement on the effective future of such places and particularly on their capacity to build naval vessels completely and, if that is not [More…]

• The medal will be struck for issue as a personal award from the Queen to people from all walks of life in Australia, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries who have rendered service to the Crown or to the community. [More…]

• The trust will be styled The Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Trust and its income will be applied, in part, to foster involvement in and service to the community by young people. [More…]

• Young people will be encouraged to develop qualities of initiative and leadership and to serve the community further through voluntary associations and organisations. [More…]

• Primarily, assistance will be given to young people working in the service of the community and in the trade and technical fields-for example, young apprentices, craftsmen and trainee nurses. [More…]

• The trust will give consideration to giving financial support to any proposals put forward by community organisations which are designed to involve young people in the life and welfare of the community. [More…]

• The trust will be responsive to community views, particularly those of the younger generation, in deciding how to carry out its objectives. [More…]

• There is no doubt today that the farming community looks for comfort when they are farming their huge areas of wheat, sorghum and other grains. [More…]

• So it is good to know that large horsepower tractors will be manufactured in Australia because with the huge production of grain in this country large horsepower tractors will be required by the farming community to cut their costs, to cover the ground quickly, to conserve moisture when it rains and to give increased production. [More…]

• The economic community in Europe does it. [More…]

• Mr FitzPATRICK (Darling) (8.50)- I oppose certain clauses of this Bill because I consider that they will do a great deal of harm to a large section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I remember that when he introduced the Bill before Christmas he said that he was doing so for the express purpose of exposing it both to honourable members and to the interested section of the community for scrutiny and comment and that when Parliament was prorogued the Bill would lapse and would be reintroduced later, incorporating such changes as would come out of this debate and submissions made by the interested section of the public at large. [More…]

• But if the Government is sincere in its call for co-operation from all sections of the community, why is every measure it takes aimed at worsening the conditions of the workers, the trade unionists, and at making things better for big business? [More…]

• The terms of reference of the Trade Practices Review Committee, or the Swanson Committee as it is known, included that proposal, and the unions have had the same opportunity as everybody else in the community to consider what changes may be made and to make submissions to that Committee and to the Government. [More…]

• I think there has been adequate debate on those matters in this Parliament and they are things which are generally accepted by the community. [More…]

• It has done more than could normally be asked for in terms of consultation with the community, with the people who are affected by the legislation, and in terms of the way in which the debate in this House has taken place. [More…]

• These amendments will rectify and redress the sort of privileged positions that were given to some sectors of our community by the Bill which was introduced and passed when this House was controlled by the Labor Party. [More…]

• Trade unions will be able to do all the sorts of things that they were able to do before but there will be particular things which have developed in the trade union movement which the Government and the community in general considers to be to the detriment of the normal operations of the community and economy which will not be permitted under this legislation. [More…]

• Honourable members may accept the Galbraith thesis about countervailing power- that the 2 great powers in the community are capitalism on the one side and the trade unions on the other- but that is not what trade practices regulations are about. [More…]

• I hope there is an acknowledgment that trade unions are a necessary part of the division of economic power in the community. [More…]

• This would mean, in real terms, a reduction of the purchasing power of the great majority of people in the community. [More…]

• The Australian community would not survive without them. [More…]

• The legislation acknowledges that in the community certain organisations by reason of their existence can be more powerful against the community than others. [More…]

• He speech illustrated that on the Government side there is a complete lack of understanding of the trade union movement and of the role that working people play in the community. [More…]

• Unfortunately and tragically for the Australian community, it seems that there is a sufficient number of honourable members on the Government side who are prepared to put sound economic sense to one side and to follow the blind ideological course that if you put enough people out of work you can force the whole of the work force to take a reduction in living standards. [More…]

• Radio station 2NX in the Hunter Valley ran an open line program today asking people to telephone in for their own ditties, thenown anti-Nixon limericks, to illustrate the community’s reaction to the attitude of the Government to the Hunter Valley and to the Newcastle dockyard. [More…]

• To try to force a reduction in living standards you are seeking to crush and oppress a section of the community which is unable to defend itself. [More…]

• I could understand if it was a back bencher; I could understand if it was the honourable member for Holt because he is still back in the 19th century, but this is the 20th century and if this nation is to solve its economic ills and if we are to have some sort of good will and accord in the community, we need conciliation and good will and it does not do anything for those objectives if Government supporters embark on a program of confrontation and denigration of people who are unfortunate enough to be experiencing great personal hardship because they are unemployed. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received representations from persons purporting to represent the majority of people in the Geelong area suggesting that the people of Geelong do not want any Commonwealth assistance for growth centre proposals? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Construction aware of the hardship and suffering caused to the elderly and sick, the inconvenience to housewives and losses to the business community as a result of the continual breakdowns, stoppages and power shedding at the Stokes Hill power station in Darwin since 1974, especially during the last 6 months? [More…]

• We have also said to this House, as we have said to the Australian community, that the key to consumption-that is spending by people in the community as well as by business investment-is the rate of inflation which has seen a significant moderation during the course of the past year. [More…]

• These include smaller families, higher female work force participation rates, longer periods of formal education, the employment market’s emphasis on accreditation, the increased affluence of many members of the community, and changing life styles. [More…]

• It believes that in the future greater emphasis should be placed on meeting the particular needs of youth in general community programs, rather than developing more specific youth programs and services. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, the Government has noted the report and has taken a decision to establish an office of youth affairs within the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Government has asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to investigate further the question of a youth advisory council or panel and report to it after the Office has been operating some 6 or 1 2 months. [More…]

• We on this side would support any action taken by the Government which does something of a positive nature for the youth of this nation, because we believe that if there is one section of the Australian community now suffering from the present economic constraints imposed by the Fraser Government it is the young people of this nation. [More…]

• I believe that if we do scrap those programs there will be a great deal more suffering in this community. [More…]

• Put simply, everyone in the community will receive protection and the whole community will save money. [More…]

• By reducing administrative costs, by spreading the burden of cost evenly and fairly throughout the community, a great reduction in charges and a vastly improved system of benefits will be possible. [More…]

• The tremendous costs of the systems and the loads their premiums place on employers and motorists are of primary concern to the States and, of course, the community generally. [More…]

• On that there is unanimity throughout the community. [More…]

• The central flaw in the existing schemes is not just their exorbitant cost to the community but their total inadequacy as a system of social justice. [More…]

• This is not a satisfactory system for the victim and it is cripplingly expensive to the community. [More…]

• In sheer economic terms, leaving aside the compelling social and human arguments for a national rehabilitation and compensation scheme, the present costly system must be re-organised and rationalised for the benefit of the whole community. [More…]

• The total saving to the community estimated by the working party, would, therefore, have been between $325m and $375m in 1975-76- $lm a day- and in this financial year the saving would be far greater. [More…]

• I put it forward as a general proposition that any form of insurance, indeed any community activity that is compulsory for everyone by law, is best administered in uniform fashion by a government agency established for that purpose. [More…]

• That principle is the need to establish the most rational, just, humane and efficient procedures to administer any social welfare scheme from which the whole community benefits and to which the whole community is obliged to contribute. [More…]

• In all this the objective is not so much to bring administration closer to the people or to involve the community in programs of local or regional concern. [More…]

• For instance, the scheme was not supported by all sections of the community. [More…]

• It is confidently anticipated that State governments will have to bear the whole of the responsibility in motor vehicle insurance and workers compensation insurance because no private sector of the community can afford to take the risks that will be involved. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has eased some of its restrictions and is offering a market of about 12S 000 tonnes of imports of which we will have a part. [More…]

• This is because there is a community of interest in rural areas- small shires, small towns, small newspapers and so on. [More…]

• It talks about community of interests, including economic, social and regional interests. [More…]

• I think the community looks at the present situation with a jaundiced eye. [More…]

• All the community centres in his electorate are served by commercial airlines. [More…]

• That is a rather wordy description, but in essence it means that this legislation will continue to maintain the principle that some people in the community are entitled to bias in their favour to make up for some deficiency that exists within their electorate. [More…]

• The sooner we can get electoral redistribution away from the political scene and out of the hands of politicians so that the public will see that it is not being done for the purpose of gerrymandering or arranging electoral advantage, but that it is for the purpose of achieving fair and democratic representation for all Australians, the sooner the standing of this Parliament will be greatly enhanced in the eyes of the community. [More…]

• I believe that despite the undoubted problems which may befall some sections of the political community in this country, whom in passing I commend for their capacity to conciliate and to compromise on a very difficult electoral matter, I do not believe that we as Australians could have held our heads high in a situation in which we had 115 or 118 electorates with a 10 per cent variant and 7 or 8 electorates with a 20 per cent variant. [More…]

• These members ignore the first criterion of the commissioners which states that consideration must be given to the community of interests within the division, including economic, social and regional interests. [More…]

• Within this framework the participating States will recognise and respect the freedom of the individual to profess and practise, alone or in community with others, religion or belief acting in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice: [More…]

• That this House and the nation are entitled to better information about subversive communist activities in the community so that people may know who their real enemies are and may be enabled to take measures to protect themselves from them. [More…]

• The Australian community owns Telecom. [More…]

• Any surplus goes back for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• I would like him to know that, as a policy attitude, the Telecommunications Commission is determined to try to improve services and to reduce wherever possible costs throughout the Australian rural community. [More…]

• Can the Minister detail whether moneys will be forthcoming to enable QCOSS to continue at an acceptable level of service to the community or whether alternative methods of funding are available? [More…]

• In addition to Government support, the Council may call upon community and voluntary organisations for support, as one would have thought it would have done already. [More…]

• Unfortunately, progress has been pretty limited because of different opinions between the United States of America and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• There is likewise a general recognition in the community of the need for wage restraint in the context of the currently existing exceptional and compelling circumstances. [More…]

• Australians surely must be concerned about the level of industrial disputation in the community and should support strongly the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission’s view that each union member and each union official must evaluate the impact that any stoppage, ban or limitation may have on the viability of the existing wage indexation package. [More…]

• One must acknowledge that many people in the community have suffered very dramatically indeed in recent times, especially- I hope that this does not sound political- between 1972 and 1975 when inflation was so rife and when prices got out of control. [More…]

• During that period the poor in the community who are not able to protect themselves against inflation, particularly the elderly people on fixed incomes, suffered so dramatically and the farmers of Australia suffered their worst plight for many, many years. [More…]

• There is normally something that is being replaced and that item, whether it be a television set or a motor car, remains in the community. [More…]

• The number of unemployed in the community went from 2.4 per cent to 5.4 per cent, an increase of 150 per cent or 191 000 people. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme is now getting under way. [More…]

• This is not Government policy but I raise the matter here because there is a strong feeling about it in the general community. [More…]

• This question is affecting the community in a number of ways. [More…]

• I think the work would help them; equally, it would assist the total community. [More…]

• I realise that there are problems but those problems can be overcome if there is a will, and an appreciation, of the depth of feeling in the community about this particular problem. [More…]

• We have been through periods of rapid expansion in our industrial and manufacturing capacity, of rapid population and immigration growth, of stock market booms, of unprecedented minerals and resource discoveries and of significant recognition by the world community and, in particular, by many of our Asian neighbours. [More…]

• In this place and in the community we hear the National Country Party denigrating communism and denigrating our potential customers; but when National Country Party members are lucky enough and have begged and grovelled enough to get an order they cannot come up quickly enough to try to gain some sort of credit for obtaining the order and to express their pleasure. [More…]

• But we still want our community services and there is a certain level at which a machine cannot do this type of work. [More…]

• From the soundings I have made with local government I believe that there is some prospect that some thousands of young people in particular could be employed, if only on a part time basis, in activities of general use to the community. [More…]

• I refer to not only political leaders but to commercial leaders and leaders from virtually every other section of our community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly), of course, does not believe in discord in the community, and I am surprised that he supported what was going on at that time. [More…]

• Criticism will always emerge in the media and in all sorts of rough and crude forms, and from people who are irresponsible, who are prepared to accept lower standards of living in the community and who will make no effort to help themselves and their own nation. [More…]

• I can well remember the Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Werriwa, when he was Prime Minister standing at the despatch box and saying that the time had come for the Government to use the civil service as a pace-setter in the development of standards for people working in the Australian community. [More…]

• He said that it was largely due to these highly increased wage standards within the Australian community. [More…]

• I see opposite my old friend the Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is well known in this Parliament as the ‘undertaker of social reforms’ because on his own initiative he has jettisoned about twelve or fifteen major programs which were initiated by the Labor Minister for Urban and Regional Development, by myself and by other Ministers of the Labor Government. [More…]

• In the face of this dilemma- this incapacity to pay- which provides a distressing situation for very many families, the bright idea of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is that the Government is going to introduce this housing voucher scheme. [More…]

• He has the hide, the temerity and the audacity to criticise the most imaginative Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development ever to come from Tasmania. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) needs no defence at all. [More…]

• The petitions received very strong support throughout and had the support of the local government authorities, the newspapers and the community in general. [More…]

• -Some years ago many members of the Australian community, including well known members of the present Opposition, protested against the American and Australian involvement in the Vietnam war. [More…]

• We, unlike the previous Government, are attacking not only the basic causes- that is, inflation and the excessively high wage level which were not tackled by the previous Government- but also in relation to the problems that these cause we have directed our programs to specific groups in the community who are finding special difficulties. [More…]

• I mention the expansion of the National Employment and Training scheme which now has some 14 000 people under training, the great majority of them in productive employment, I emphasise; the special youth training programs that we have introduced; the incentives to employers through the Commonwealth Rebate Apprenticeship Full Time Training system; the Community Youth Support Service scheme which now has some 60 projects going throughout Australia, involving over 12 000 young people, keeping them motivated towards work, with a sense of purpose in life. [More…]

• During question time the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development indicated that adequate copies of the Fox report were available. [More…]

• Leaders of the Lebanese community in Australia know the gravity of the situation and have told me many harrowing tales of their countrymen, their relatives, who have been stuck in Nicosia for months sustained only by what Australian Lebanese are able to send them. [More…]

• The price of that bungling is the despair of the refugees and the heavy financial burden on the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• In case anyone thinks I am using the tragedy of the dispossessed and desolate people to make political capital let me put to the House what has been put to me by members of the Lebanese community. [More…]

• It puts certain points and no reasonable, humane man could say that the members of the Lebanese community are asking for anything excessive. [More…]

• The members of the Lebanese community ask that the present policy which excludes a total family from emigrating to Australia where one member fails the medical examination be altered so that only the seriously medically unfit members may be excluded. [More…]

• The Lebanese community here regards this matter as one of extreme urgency, as it would relieve the suffering of the refugees and would lift from their relatives the burden of having to pay the huge cost of supporting them in Cyprus. [More…]

• The Lebanese community in Australia is understandably disturbed and frustrated by the Australian response to the refugee problem. [More…]

• The Minister can go to the leaders of the Lebanese community in Australia to check these facts. [More…]

• It has been suggested by my informants in the community that the reasons for rejection are so vague that people suspect that they have been turned down because they are too fat, they are too thin or they do not wash behind their ears. [More…]

• If there is any real doubt about that matter, approach the Lebanese community and ask them. [More…]

• I ask for permission to incorporate in Hansard a letter from the Lebanese community to me. [More…]

• We have sought to do that As a result of the special measures taken to facilitate the reunion of Lebanese people with close relatives in Australia, prima facie acceptable nominations received prior to 31 December 1976 covered 31071 people- including 4000 community list nominees- of whom 18 149 lodged formal applications at our overseas posts during the period 1 July 1976 to 28 February 1977. [More…]

• The Opposition has made great play of the suggestion that allegedly we have not responded to points put up to us by the Lebanese community. [More…]

• Before nominations were accepted from people in Australia, the Lebanese community, as a result of discussions I had with them, accepted responsibility for the post arrival resettlement of their relatives. [More…]

• Throughout the whole of this exercise the efforts of some people- I emphasise the words ‘some people’- within the Lebanese community made things a bit more difficult than otherwise they would have been. [More…]

• I am hopeful that the Opposition will not say that we should relax the medical and character checks which, after all, are instituted to protect the Australian community as well as the individual. [More…]

• The honourable member for Melbourne said that he wrote to me in relation to suggestions put forward by the Lebanese community. [More…]

• One of the suggestions of the Lebanese community put forward by the honourable member as a means of helping to alleviate the problems that remain is the reopening of our embassy in Beirut. [More…]

• I can assure him and the Lebanese community as a whole that there is no truth in the statement that medical assessments have been altered in some way and that tougher criteria are being employed. [More…]

• There was an understanding and an undertaking when particular operations were commenced in September of last year whereby some people nominated by groups within the Lebanese community and were placed in category A could travel to Australia and would be assessed on medical grounds once they arrived here. [More…]

• He has received many applications from the Lebanese community or its various groups. [More…]

• He made a special ruling last year that the Lebanese community itself should get together and send special envoys to Lebanon to bring back relatives. [More…]

• I know that the Minister will consider the widest possible aid to the Lebanese community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lang also forgot to mention the community youth support scheme which in his own electorate operates with the assistance of the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]

• There is no question that there is a tremendous amount of confusion in the Lebanese community about the Government’s policies and particularly about the administration of those policies. [More…]

• The reason why this situation has arisen is not only that people have been desperate but that the Department has not been able to handle compassionately and to communicate with the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• The letter which the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) tabled points up one of the demands of the Lebanese community in Melbourne, that there ought to be additional interpreter staff within the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs available to assist sponsors in this country who are concerned about their relatives in the Lebanon or who have escaped from the Lebanon. [More…]

• The fact is that this procedure was in force for such a short time that, by the time it had become well known and communicated throughout the Lebanese community, by the time the people had communicated with their relatives in the Lebanon and they had made arrangements to go to Syria, by the time they had gone or were en route, the facility was closed down. [More…]

• Again we are faced with the same situation that by the time these relaxed policies have been communicated throughout the Lebanese community and persons’ relatives have been able to act on them and to get to Cyprus, they are arriving just as these rules are being changed. [More…]

• I believe that the honourable member for Melbourne has, in fact, insulted the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• I believe that the Opposition is playing politics in the Lebanese community and that it will reap the reward of that action. [More…]

• The Government regards the Commonwealth as a significant force for co-operation and understanding in the international community and believes it should be used to make a real contribution to resolving contemporary international problems. [More…]

• the community’s knowledge of Australia and the Australian heritage, [More…]

• community health and welfare, and [More…]

• If he wants to refer to the Medibank blip, it is a consequence of the wilful policy of the Prime Minister who, on an ideological basis, broke another specific election promise, upset the Medibank arrangements and imposed this cost upon the community. [More…]

• The Government has forced upon Australia by stealth a credit squeeze of fairly massive proportions which probably will lead to an increase in interest rates and a severe curtailment of the amount of money available in the community for lending. [More…]

• It will need a lot of luck for that to happen because one thing that the dismissal of the Whitlam Government did for the Australian community was to raise very sharply the level of political awareness of this community. [More…]

• The community will not tolerate these broken promises of and lack of performance by the Government, particularly when it was elected on the basis of those promises. [More…]

• The Government of course is prepared to speak to individuals and groups in the community which have a contribution to make on economic matters. [More…]

• We have heard a lot of comment in this place, in the public media and in debates throughout the community about the unemployment problem. [More…]

• It seems that groups in the community and a growing number of people throughout the Australian nation are saying to the Government: ‘We are not satisfied with the present economic conditions. [More…]

• We, as a government, industries throughout the country and individuals in the society must realise that this problem is not residing only in Canberra, that governments cannot wave a magic wand and solve all these problems for the community. [More…]

• It touches every individual in the community. [More…]

• If the people of this country, if governments and if unions and all the other social groups in the community want economic recovery, each has a responsibility to work for that objective. [More…]

• I am addressing my remarks not so much to the economic problems in the community but to the social problems in the community. [More…]

• What are the social problems in the community? [More…]

• Unfortunately some leaders of our industry do not play their part either in the community or in contributing towards peace in industry. [More…]

• I am extremely fortunate in the number of distinguished Lebanese that are in my electorate and in the contribution that they have made to community life in that area. [More…]

• If agreement can be reached so that the increase is held because of the adjustment in taxation, I believe this would be an advantage to all sections of the community and to Australia. [More…]

• One minute an appeal for stringency and attacks on essential community services; then a series of massive handouts to private companies and foreign and multinational interests. [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…]

• It has closed off every rational and decent option and is left now with no course but to attack wages, demolish government programs, reduce living standards and cut back on essential community services. [More…]

• Is it any wonder the whole community lacks confidence when so many areas defy any sanguine expectation? [More…]

• If the costs of any essential community service are high, a Government’s obligation is to see that they are reduced to a minimum and that everyone shares in paying them. [More…]

• If people have to contribute by law to any form of insurance or community service governments must see that the money is raised equitably and spent efficiently. [More…]

• Every government program for the people’s welfare and security, every State and federal and local initiative for better cities, health care, transport and community advancement will be starved and strangled. [More…]

• In simple terms, the degree of inequality in the community increases as unemployment increases. [More…]

• In the area of industrial relations, one of vital importance to the economic and social well-being of the Australian community, my Government will bring down legislation to protect the rights of individuals and the community, and establish an industrial relations bureau. [More…]

• It does not give specific solutions of the numerous problems that we know exist in our community. [More…]

• If you are going to give freedom in that sense to the people in an organised society- and the Australian community is an organised society, whether the Liberal Party likes it or not- all you are doing is saying to the people who cannot fight back, such as the people traditionally beaten down by the Liberal and Country parties, those who are incapable of fighting because they are young, because they are old, because they were not born here, because they have a language problem, because they were born poor, because they were born with a disability or because they incurred a disability, that everybody will have the freedom to live his own life in the way that he chooses. [More…]

• Those sitting opposite know that but they are not game to stand and say that in our organised community in the twentieth century, heading rapidly towards the twenty-first century, there is a need for government intervention to protect those who are not able to protect themselves. [More…]

• The community there is in the line of the present microwave transmissions running south from Norseman. [More…]

• Its only significant commentary was that the Government intends to press ahead with its industrial relations bureau which can serve only one purpose- to undermine the conciliation and arbitration system and to create disunity in the Australian community at a time when the most important thing that any government could seek to achieve in this community is unity of purpose among the Australian people. [More…]

• It seeks to divide the Australian community. [More…]

• Such people are taking down someone else in the community in order to make a living. [More…]

• The wage earner has been attacked because he seeks to recoup the increased cost in the community which he must bear. [More…]

• Instead, the Government satisfied itself with wasteful cosmetic schemes such as the Community Youth Support scheme and the Special Youth Employment Training program which do little or nothing for unemployment in general or for the unemployment of youth in particular. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support scheme may have some benefits as a social welfare scheme because it is designed to provide unemployed young people with an orientation to work and make them more acceptable to employers but it will have absolutely no benefit in combatting unemployment. [More…]

• Incidentally, what little value the scheme does have as a sound measure is being eroded by the incredible bureaucratic bungling and red tape that is being created by the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations for the Commonwealth Employment Service and the community organisations that are making applications. [More…]

• What is so despicable about this particular Government is that not only has its economic policies added to the unemployment but also with the aid of some of its back benchers, the media and some Cabinet Ministers it has constantly waged a campaign to denigrate the unemployed by the use of the term ‘dole bludgers’ and to play on the prejudices of the members of some sections of the community who are fortunate enough to have a job. [More…]

• We also heard today from another honourable member, the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam), a desperate speech on a topic of great importance to the community and to newcomers to this country, from which he departed for no apparent reason to make a personal attack on a member of this House. [More…]

• One thing that has been grossly devalued in our community is skill. [More…]

• Nor should we allow them to push claims that the community in general cannot support. [More…]

• I believe that when the Government introduced full personal income tax indexation it was not fully appreciated by the community. [More…]

• I believe that before the next Budget it is most important that dialogue should commence within the community. [More…]

• We should assess within the community its willingness to exercise restraint and to adopt a sensible approach to wages so that this Government can look at tax reform and institute that reform without bankrupting the country. [More…]

• We also need to assist a great number of other persons in need in our community. [More…]

• The 8.2 per cent increase in pensions and other benefits has been a magnificent boost in real terms to the position in the community of many pensioners. [More…]

• I have no doubt and I certainly hope that the Cabinet will meet with all groups in the community to discuss these matters. [More…]

• What we must avoid is pandering to or in any way refusing to recognise the extremes in our community. [More…]

• The sooner the Australian community acknowledges this, the better. [More…]

• There is a demand for abortions coming from the community, not only from women but also from men. [More…]

• The sheltered workshops in the area adjoining the school are completely full with partially retarded people, partially physically handicapped people and other disadvantaged members of the community. [More…]

• I believe that these discussions will assist in achieving a satisfactory solution that will be fair to both the Banabans and Gilbertese and it will ensure that the Banaban community can develop without being a burden on the Fijian community. [More…]

• I have said before in this place, and I repeat it now, that real household disposable income- surely the honourable gentleman knows exactly what that means- is seen as a barometer of living standards in the Australian community. [More…]

• This is not just a matter of what we did or what the Government did; it is a question of Australia’s interests in relation to our credibility and our standing in the community of nations on the question of the preservation of human rights and on the question of self-determination. [More…]

• In the area of the community of nations I suggest, from my own experience in addressing the United Nations Security Council, that our credibility was decreased considerably by our failure to take a moral stand on the Timor question. [More…]

• They have consistently and persistently taken decisions in our relations with other countries that have sought to advance their own political fortunes in Australia, either in terms of playing on the prejudice of some sections of the Australian community or in terms of enhancing trade and profit. [More…]

• We should be, say, converting the Darwin Community College into a university to which students from the ASEAN countries could come in tropical Australia in order to learn before returning to their own countries. [More…]

• It has always been narrow and the community has always been peppered with the view that all things that occur around us are communist inspired. [More…]

• It is a claim that cannot be disproved easily by the community; but nobody has ever brought forth a shred of evidence to prove that this is occurring. [More…]

• This Fraser Liberal Government often says that there are no easy options and it uses that as a code to cut back on public expenditure and on the development of community services in Australia. [More…]

• Going back to that situation sensibly must be done steadily without dislocating the community too much and without fuelling the fires of inflation. [More…]

• It was essential because there had to be a return to balance- some type of balance and justice to different sections of the community. [More…]

• For devaluation to be an effective economic weapon, a few measures have to be taken by all sections of the community. [More…]

• There must not be a situation where the wage earning section of the community can quickly take up the slack of the profitability that has come about quite deliberately by devaluation. [More…]

• I belong to a particular section of the community. [More…]

• There are sections of the community that have no protection. [More…]

• Anyone who has anything to do with that productive sector of our community knows that. [More…]

• Devaluation has given us, the whole community, an opportunity to have this country really motivated again. [More…]

• As soon as there is any pressure on the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), he caves in. [More…]

• As soon as any group in Australia, be it academics or students or other people in the community, puts pressure on the Government to give it extra money, the Government caves in. [More…]

• The Government cannot treat all members of the community as morons, especially those who make decisions on investment. [More…]

• I think that if the Government wants the economy to improve- I assume that all of us do, because a significant number of people are suffering since the economy is not improvingthe community must have some justified faith in the sayings of the Government, the Treasurer, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the others who normally make statements on behalf of the Government. [More…]

• I must admit that I had a vague feeling during the last year that we were in power, 1 975, that maybe what honourable members opposite said was correct- that there was a lack of confidence in the community and that the people with whom the present Government superficially at least had more empathy, the people who control our business enterprises, felt that a change of government would improve the position and that they would have more confidence in the Lynchs and the Frasers than they did in the Haydens and the Whitlams. [More…]

• Honourable members will understand that the Prime Minister’s assurances, the sincerity of which I do not doubt for one moment, have not completely dispelled the apprehensions of a community savaged by the impact of a decision influenced by a remote society, a society brainwashed by a diabolically effective propaganda campaign waged by elements of the conservation movement. [More…]

• A fresh apprehension has descended upon the Maryborough community with the appearance of an article which could be the thin end of the wedge to stop timber harvesting on Fraser Island. [More…]

• In an article in a recent issue of ‘Environs’, a publication of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Professor F. H. Talbot, the Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Macquarie University comments on the report of the Commission on Inquiry into Fraser Island. [More…]

• In view of the legal, health and local community attitudes, I think that it would be wise to heed my warning at this stage. [More…]

• Its membership also includes prominent industrialists, members of the legal profession, trade union leaders and members of various community organisations. [More…]

• The main purposes of the Green Paper are to stimulate within the Australian community interest in and debate on the broad options which might be considered. [More…]

• I urge members of the Australian community to think about these issues and to express their views on them. [More…]

• The submissions received during the preparation of the Green Paper point to the interest in the community on the issues. [More…]

• On the basis of this public debate, it will be possible for the Government to review current policies and programs to ensure that they take fully into account our immediate needs and those of the future and that they are consistent with contemporary community values and aspirations. [More…]

• I encourage members of this Parliament and individuals and organisations throughout the Australian community to give serious thought to the issues raised in the Green Paper and to participate fully in the public discussion of them. [More…]

• The second great crime being perpetrated in this country is the capitulation of the Liberal Party and the persuasion of members of our community who support that Party into believing that the coalition can continue only if the Liberal Party submits itself to the whims or the electoral wishes of the National Country Party. [More…]

• They have shirked their responsibilities to minority groups who have rights also in a democratic community. [More…]

• I refer to minority groups like Aborigines, who still have to be represented whether they are enrolled or not, or ethnic minority groups in the community. [More…]

• Young people have to be counted as much as any other group in the community when electorates are being determined, according to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]

• Firstly, it will be of significant benefit to the business community. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘Community control’ the report stated: [More…]

• Aboriginals are the poorest, worst housed, least educated section of the community, with the highest morbidity and mortality rates. [More…]

• It is now freely acknowledged that many different groups in the community who do not conform to the general educational pattern, predicated as it is on the needs of white, middle class Australia, require specialised provision. [More…]

• We want to give growers an additional stabilisation payment of $ 1 a box for apples and 40c for pears to enable them to survive at a level of income which is not grossly out of step with the Australian community at large. [More…]

• We have always supported the stabilisation funds as an interim measure and we have always supported the view that everyone in a resource-rich country like Australia is entitled to receive at least an income which keeps them above the poverty line as generally accepted in the community. [More…]

• No matter what one thinks about this the fact is that it is just as well for the total community of Australia that stories of this sort do emerge largely through inquiries made by an impartial economic body such as the IAC which can make recommendations to the Government. [More…]

• I think any more assistance would be seriously questioned by those people in the community who take an intelligent view as to what should or should not be done to help a particular section of the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the average income of the people who work in and own the orchards is miserable in the extreme and unworthy of an Australian community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has become a closed corporation in some ways. [More…]

• If we are to keep growers in this industry above the poverty line the techniques of reconstruction and the income maintenance provisions that are available to the community at large are the only means by which we will keep growers, people who are now or have been in the apple industry, above the poverty line. [More…]

• What the community has to realise and what it tends to forget is that for the last 28 years in this nation 25 of those years were under the stewardship of conservative governments. [More…]

• I believe that the Government can be criticised for sitting on the IAC report for 3 months and then not promoting discussion on it in the community, in the industry or in the Parliament, or not in strict terms acting on it as it was recommended to do - [More…]

• But in any area of Government expenditure we must consider total community interest. [More…]

• We must be concerned about the interest of the total community, and I include in the total community people in other rural industries who are in such a difficult position at the moment, in the main due to policies of the previous Labor Administration. [More…]

• In the area of industrial relations, one of vital importance to the economic and social well-being of the Australian community, my Government will bring down legislation to protect the rights of individuals and the community, and establish an Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]

• But why put in another bit of the pyramid to increase costs to the community, the economy and the Government as a whole? [More…]

• This is the kind of change that a lot of people in this community are saying we cannot face. [More…]

• For instance, there is no Australian Broadcasting Commission translator for a community of over 10 000 people in Dysart and Moranbah. [More…]

• Their forefathers in the grazing industry opened up large areas of land and helped to meet community needs, debts and taxes. [More…]

• Regional Councils have proven over three years that they have the capacity to catalyse the community in a costeffective manner. [More…]

• The major benefits of Regional Councils arise more from their providing a resource base, umbrella and skilled staff to the community than from the provision of direct funding for Services. [More…]

• Lack of certainty regarding the future of Regional Councils is destroying three years effort at establishing community networks. [More…]

• A fund of $500,000 should be established for community development projects. [More…]

• 1 Priority for Government must lie in encouraging community involvement and self-help: 1.1 Regional Councils, working as they are with a wide range of disadvantaged segments of the community, could not but agree that life isn’t meant to be easy. [More…]

• We support the contention that in many fields the community is capable of tackling its own problems. [More…]

• 1.4 We argue that any country that can afford to spend over $8,000m on community services at a Federal level alone can afford less than $ 10m to ensure that this money is used effectively. [More…]

• It should be spent according to the priorities of the supposed beneficiaries in a manner that harnesses the strength of the community. [More…]

• Regional Councils have proven over three years that they have the capacity to catalyse the community in a costeffective manner. [More…]

• The major benefits of Regional Councils arise more from their providing a resource base, umbrella and skilled staff to the community than from the provision of direct funding for services. [More…]

• Lack of certainty regarding the future of Regional Councils is destroying three years effort at establishing community networks. [More…]

• A Fund of $500,000 should be established for Community Development Projects. [More…]

• Priority for Government must lie in encouraging community involvement and self-help: 1.1 Regional Councils, working as they are with a wide range of disadvantaged segments of the community, could not but agree that life isn’t meant to be easy. [More…]

• We support the contention that in many fields the community is capable of tackling its own problems. [More…]

• 1.3 We argue that Government must avoid the simplistic solutions of establishing a new Department or program to deal with community problems. [More…]

• 1.4 We argue that any country that can afford to spend over $8,000m on community services at a Federal level alone can afford less than $ 10m to ensure that this money is used effectively. [More…]

• It should be spent according to the priorities of the supposed beneficiaries in a manner that harnesses the strength of the community. [More…]

• Regional Councils have demonstrated ability to increase meaningful community involvement in governmental expenditure in a cost-effective manner. [More…]

• 2.1 Participation by the community is more than a trendy method of giving planners and decision-makers a ‘feel’ for the people on whose behalf they spend money. [More…]

• They need assistance in community organization, information on options procedures, implications of decisions, and resources to encourage community consensus. [More…]

• The synchronization of resources with existing community networks relies upon the trust and confidence of the people themselves, not upon the good intention of decision making bodies. [More…]

• The Government has invested over $2,000,000 in building that trust, the community has responded with thousands of hours work- this cannot be wasted. [More…]

• 2.3 Regional Councils are cost-effective because they can develop only on the trust of the community. [More…]

• Regional Councils give benefit to the community both directly through activities and indirectly through assistance to Government: [More…]

• 1 Firstly, the RCSD’s benefit the community for which it works through: [More…]

• being responsive to local need in that RCSD’s can use community skills to act swiftly and effectively in tackling local problems. [More…]

• developing resources in the voluntary sector by acting as a catalyst which provides an initial impetus to harness the time and skills of the community. [More…]

• acting as a forum through which different attitudes in the community can be discussed, and at which community groups, and government agencies can meet in an impartial atmosphere. [More…]

• providing an information channel that can keep interested people in the community abreast of policy developments, exchange news between community groups, and inform Departments of the needs/problems of the community. [More…]

• assisting in planning for community needs to overcome the expense of ad-hoc approaches that can waste money in unnecessary or inappropriate expenditure. [More…]

• assisting in decentralization through the creation of autonomous regional bodies not controlled by any Head Office, but developing in accordance with community needs. [More…]

• increase community self-reliance through giving people a chance to do things themselves, and, [More…]

• start bringing about value changes that will result in a more harmonious community. [More…]

• Some Regional Councils go further and argue that Capitation sidetracks people from community development functions, and causes problems when other levels of Government question innovative ways of funding. [More…]

• 4.3 We would argue for the establishment of a Community Development Fund at the State level, to be used on an application basis for community development projects on a needs criteria. [More…]

• 5 Lack of certainty regarding the future of Regional Councils is destroying three years effort at establishing community networks: [More…]

• Already, people actively involved in community programs are asking ‘What’s the use if we are to be abolished?’ [More…]

• Regional Councils are reluctant to initiate long-range community development programs because they have seen too much damage done by promises without action. [More…]

• We will not destroy community trust. [More…]

• We have witnessed the difference it makes to emerging community groups to have easy access to printing, meeting and video facilities. [More…]

• 6.3 Community Development Officers (CDO’s) [More…]

• 6.3 Community Development Fund [More…]

• It is proposed that a fund of $500,000 be established for Community Welfare projects. [More…]

• They are a community-based structure, not a Governmentbased one. [More…]

• This would require $9 1 3,000 for the Administrative and Community Development Grants. [More…]

• We propose further that, until the role of Regional Councils in State decision-making is finalized, this amount be an increase in the Community Services Fund, under the control of the Minister for Youth and Community Services. [More…]

• This would imply a commitment of $913,000 for Administration and CDO grants, and up to $500,000 for the Community Development Fund. [More…]

• However, before doing so, I suggest to my friend the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) that a good example of stamps produced by a small community which lives on a small dot of land is the stamps of Norfolk Island. [More…]

• No one here today would qualify in any way the need, indeed the obligation, for the Government to give adequate financial support to groups in the community that are genuinely disadvantaged. [More…]

• What must be understood is that the Government has an obligation to ensure that welfare programs are not rendered inefficient by excessive administration and delivery costs, such as those that occurred under the former Administration, and that they are not directed towards those in the Australian community who have a capacity to look after themselves. [More…]

• However, I am aware of the discussion taking place in the community. [More…]

• The aim should be to ensure economic and social justice for all members of the community, whatever their origins; to reduce or eliminate inequalities of opportunity between social groups; and to protect and enhance the social and physical environment. [More…]

• The quality of life we enjoy, the structure, the efficiency of our manufacturing industries, the distribution of and the demand for welfare services, the role that Australia will play as a member of the international community- in short, Australia’s population policies-are central to the population decisions of government. [More…]

• All that the Minister can offer is a collection of time worn cliches and sweeping generalisations that will not satisfy the Australian community nor serve the interests of future generations of Australians- a statement that reflects the bankruptcy of this Government, its lack of vision, initiative and insight. [More…]

• I have been persistently saying in our community that it is not good enough to manipulate the migration program to meet the needs of the economy. [More…]

• Our future population policies must be founded on the most accurate and reliable information available and must be developed on a basis of general community consensus rather than on narrow political platforms. [More…]

• The Minister’s Department has provided the bulk of the policy advice that the Council has considered but I believe that the Council should be more representative of people in the community. [More…]

• The dispensing of services at community level is a two-way factor in considering the future destiny of those whom we have brought here. [More…]

• There has been a wave of pessimism that has gone around the Australian community and the cause of that wave of pessimism ought to be examined. [More…]

• I take it that the honourable member for Lilley was suggesting that population could be increased from the migrant content of the community when, in fact, I believe the migrant content of the community conforms in the main to the normal social attitudes that we take in Australia in regard to family size. [More…]

• It is because of the problems that I face as a member of Parliament representing such a community that I am interested in what the future migration program in Australia will be. [More…]

• The question is raised of the balance of the aged in the community. [More…]

• There are ways other than bringing out youth to combat the aging of the community. [More…]

• We should consider the value of the human being over 65 years of age and his place in the community. [More…]

• In the first article of the series it was mentioned that the migrants from continental Europe making up a significant proportion of our numbers are significantly and favourably influencing our cultural development but at the same time thenpresence creates social problems in the community. [More…]

• The article refers to the need for a spirit of partnership in the community between the new arrivals and those of us already here- the older Australians who have had the responsibility of making such an environment as we have- to be as helpful as we can to the new migrants. [More…]

• I think we have failed in not making the effort then of trying to integrate and welcome those migrants into our community. [More…]

• That creates many problems in their assimilation into the community. [More…]

• Until we have that sort of understanding where we look at the social consequences and provide for them, it will lead to further social problems in the community. [More…]

• That is brought about by a lack of understanding of the social consequences that flow from their introduction into our community. [More…]

• It will not meet the cost, in social content, of people being lobbed in Australia and asked to survive for up to 20 and 30 years without the normal social amenities of any community. [More…]

• This is a discussion paper which should provoke interest and comment in the community. [More…]

• Public understanding of these issues in the community today is needed. [More…]

• The Government wants ideas from the community and from interested groups, so that it can decide its policies. [More…]

• I suggest that there is confusion in the Australian community about the exact nature of unemployment. [More…]

• This is a serious problem for those involved, and one for the community at large. [More…]

• As I have said, we have 3.4 million migrants in the community. [More…]

• The Green Paper points out that the situation of the Aboriginal people is quite different from the overall expectation of the community. [More…]

• I believe it is not inappropriate at this time to pay a tribute to those new settlers who have come to Australia since 1945 and who have integrated in our Australian society and who in the overwhelming majority of cases have made an outstanding contribution to the community life, progress and development of this nation. [More…]

• It is a matter of considerable pride when one sees in Australia men and women who came here straight after World War II with nothing but the clothes in which they arrived and who have now settled into our community and have become some of our leading citizens. [More…]

• There are some people in the community who parade themselves as supporting zero population growth. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) deserves some credit for this because he and others- I know that the Minister is aware of this- have been urging for some time that we should be talking in terms of net figures rather than raw figures which are erroneous, inflammatory and cause considerable misunderstanding in the community. [More…]

• I think sufficient figures are available already to indicate that if Australia is to sustain its population and if it is to provide the population expansion which is necessary from many points of view, including the point of view of defence and point of view of getting effective utilisation of our generously endowed resources, it ought to be at this stage laying the basis for an immigration program which will contribute to the well being of this nation, to the growth of our economy and to the prosperity of the Australian Community. [More…]

• Advisory bodies can protect weaker groups in the community. [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…]

• Let us look at wage indexation and the Arbitration Court in relation to what this Government has done; the castration of the Regional Employment Development scheme and the National Employment and Training scheme; the promise of anti-union legislation; the nastiness shown towards the Aboriginal community; the haranguing of social service recipients and tertiary education students; the disregard for the status of women, community health and urban planning; and the mutilation of Medibank. [More…]

• Unfortunately energy usage is an essential part of the economic nature of the community; hence the development and final implementation of an energy policy requires decision making at top levels of government. [More…]

• The members of this element are the worst because in many cases they have succeeded in business and professions and believe that they have put themselves amongst the ordinary men who work with their hands and produce the goods that are used in the community. [More…]

• I warn with regret that what they are facing in that respect is a harvest of hate because they have revived the old class divisions in the community which we hoped had been softened to give us a more egalitarian society. [More…]

• I rise this evening to point up once again the hypocrisy of the Government in the way in which it deals so blithely with migrant problems, particularly in some of the areas represented by honourable members on the Government side, who day after day pay lip service to what they say they do in the interests of the migrants in their community. [More…]

• It has recently made an application to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Created uncertainty about the future of community involvement projects, such as the Area Improvement Program, the Australian Assistance Plan and others introduced by the Labor Government; and [More…]

• I find it a matter of supreme irony that the honourable gentleman should seek to concentrate on the impact of devaluation, because he knows full well that he and his colleagues did more than any other section of the Australian community to assist speculation against the Australian dollar. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman wants to know how to sell more government paper I invite him to ask the honourable member for Oxley because in a somewhat- it is difficult to find a term for itscrappy Press release issued representing his own policy he charged the community at large with the fact that he had some secret weapon about how to sell more government paper. [More…]

• The failure of the Government’s Medibank changes to satisfy the community’s need for health insurance. [More…]

• -The community’s need for health insurance stems from the nature of illness and its unpredictability, coupled with the very high costs of medical care. [More…]

• Under the previous Liberal Government’s voluntary health insurance system we had experienced government moves in this field which had sprung from previous moves in the community dating back many years- moves to get a comprehensive insurance system to cover illness. [More…]

• It found that contributions were often beyond the capacity of some members of the community and involved considerable hardships for others. [More…]

• When we consider the number of practising doctors treating patients on a private fee for service basis- not all the doctors in the community would be in this category because obviously many of them are salaried doctors- and bear in mind that the ratio of patients to doctors is of the order of one doctor to about 1000 patients, we can appreciate that a disproportionate number of doctors is cheating the system. [More…]

• The reality for the Australian community is that the Government’s Medibank monster is a costly monument to the obsession of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to prevent what he calls ‘the socialisation of medicine’. [More…]

• By this he seems to mean reducing the Government’s responsibility for the health care costs of the community. [More…]

• The failure of the Government’s Medibank changes to satisfy the community’s need for health insurance. [More…]

• The community does pay one way or another. [More…]

• To that extent, I agree with the honourable member for Maribyrnong that the community will pay by one means or another. [More…]

• There was no attempt to direct the scarce resources in the health area to the needy sections of the community by means of the health insurance system. [More…]

• It is true that community health centres were being established. [More…]

• I give credit to the former Government for having initiated the community health program. [More…]

• They now have a clumsy, unsatisfactory, inefficient system which contributes nothing but confusion and dissatisfaction in the Australian community. [More…]

• The fact is that the changes to Medibank represent much greater cost in real terms to be borne by the Australian community than was the case before. [More…]

• Let us have no more of this nonsense from the Minister that the public are better off, that the Government is concerned about the costs which the community has to bear and that the Government is alarmed about the level of taxation that has to be borne by the community. [More…]

• For balance, I might mention that the medical profession is not alone in this community for want of ethics and for having amongst its members people engaged in this sort of monetary acquisitiveness. [More…]

• They were being borne by the community before. [More…]

• The community should not be deceived. [More…]

• The additional costs that the community now has to bear, collectively and individually, come about not for any reason associated with Medibank but because the Government wanted more revenue. [More…]

• It represents an increase in the personal tax paid by the community. [More…]

• That is the sort of deal that the Government is offering the Australian community. [More…]

• Let me move on to deal with the efficiency of Medibank and nail the lie that Medibank would lead to abuse by the Australian community. [More…]

• I thought that in introducing this subject for discussion, namely the failure of the Government’s Medibank changes to satisfy the community’s need for health insurance, the honourable member for Maribyrnong would have been looking at the scheme, how it was operating administratively and how well it was serving the public because after all it is the service to the public that really matters. [More…]

• It is significant to note that probably the sort of increase he has been referring to is explicable in terms of the substantial increase in unemployment benefits paid- scarcely an improvement in the average standard of living for people in the community. [More…]

• Signals on the performance of the economy such as these and those I mentioned earlier are cold comfort for the Government and the community. [More…]

• Over the rest of this financial year, economic management and community reaction, to whatever measures are applied coupled with community expectations will powerfully determine whether the Government has any success in trying to recapture the control of the economy which it clearly lost in 1976, or whether it will be another fumbling case of trying to catch and squeeze mercury by hand into a narrow-necked bottle. [More…]

• As inflation mounts over the next few months there will be growing community unease. [More…]

• State Ministers, who for the sake of cheap political propaganda and personal notoriety- unfortunately we have plenty of them in Queenslandcriticise their Federal counterparts for not giving them sufficient finance for their pet theories and projects, must shoulder the major blame for developing a consensus of isolated responsibility in the community that ‘restraints are necessary to control inflation providing you do not put restraints on me’. [More…]

• It will improve facilities for local communities; it will give some return to the community for taxes paid and revenue used to pay unemployment benefits insofar as money expended will be in lieu of unemployment benefits, and it will sieve out those who are termed ‘dole bludgers’ in that if they do not accept work they will not get social security payments. [More…]

• It has taken a little time for this to filter through to the community as people offset their loss of purchasing power by cutting back on non-essentials and using available lines of credit. [More…]

• There are people in our community who do not know, or do not care, about their starving brothers. [More…]

• But surely if there is any decency within the ranks of the people who represent the Government in this place they would realise that the Deputy Prime Minister was advocating that the cattlemen should go on strike and withhold their cattle from the market irrespective of the inconvenience that they may cause to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I was disappointed at the time that it was not until the last few paragraphs of the Speech that the Australian ethnic community was mentioned, and then it said only that consultation with migrant communities and imaginative experiments, whatever that may mean, with migrant resource centres were under way. [More…]

• I hope that the Green Paper on immigration policies and Australia’s population will stimulate throughout the community dialogue and debate regarding the quantity and quality of Australia’s migrant intake. [More…]

• Now the Labor Party is suddenly prepared, for political reasons, to cultivate the ethnic community in our country, but it is not prepared to bring any more migrants to Australia. [More…]

• Let the migrant community know that it was the Whitlam Labor Government that cut down migration for the first time to give us a net outflow of people from Australia. [More…]

• Now in this Parliament, as elsewhere in the community, we always see life as a problem of economics. [More…]

• Violence in many forms, extending down to what is called licence, permissiveness or a ‘just don’t care attitude’, is a significant and growing part of every community. [More…]

• Assuming that the values of community, friendship and mutuality are indigenous to the natural needs of the human being- I believe they aresociety will change. [More…]

• The Northern Territory is a vast area- one-sixth of Australia- from which can come great wealth if it is not utterly stifled in the developmental stage by claims made by factions of the community. [More…]

• It is something that is resented by the more intelligent members of the Jewish community in this country. [More…]

• They have driven divisions in this community that are totally unnecessary. [More…]

• But what is disgraceful and what these men will carry with them to their graves is the certain knowledge that for short term political expedience they have driven this division into the community; they quite unnecessarily have turned elements in the country area against their fellow citizens in other States and in metropolitan areas. [More…]

• Can a nation like this, long endure when men like this for their own narrow purposes make these divisions in the community and when they get into power dash the hopes which they raised so falsely as they certainly knew they would be dashed? [More…]

• The divisions that the Country Party members and their rural allies in the Liberal Party have wrought in our community will be with us after they have gone from this place. [More…]

• We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]

• The National Country Party properly represents the interests of a small sectional group- some of the rural community- but improperly in my view, and unduly, influences national policies quite out of proportion to the small group it represents. [More…]

• A reference for a major review of the laws protecting privacy in our community was given last year and is well advanced. [More…]

• There are other initiatives to which I could refer but it is enough to refer to those mentioned to demonstrate the concern of this Government with the individual, the ordinary man and woman in our community. [More…]

• It is a system, inherited from the common law, in which we can take pride and which has contributed much to the standards of criminal justice which the international community now embraces. [More…]

• We should especially do so against standards accepted by the international community. [More…]

• The list of persons and organisations that made written and oral submissions, as set out in Appendix A to the report, bears witness to the major attempt by the Commission to ascertain the views on reform of this area of the law held by police, the professions, community organisations and the public. [More…]

• In its preparation, an endeavour has been made to strike a balance between the community’s needs for effective law enforcement and the need to preserve and respect basic human rights. [More…]

• The Government recognises these competing interests and has decided to allow the Bill to remain on the table for sufficient period to ensure adequate public consideration by all interested segments of the community of its terms. [More…]

• Crime is too rife in our community to impair the basic efficiency of our police. [More…]

• As previously stated, the Bill represents an attempt to strike a balance between the community’s need for effective law enforcement and the need to preserve civil liberties. [More…]

• It is also vital that the community should be involved in the formulation of this legislation. [More…]

• thereby adds to the mounting uncertainty and concern in the community; [More…]

• This ineptness is leading to enormous suffering in our community. [More…]

• It is happy to clamp on strict bank lending curbs and increase interest rates which penalise the smaller business men of our community. [More…]

• This has been outlined often by the Labor Opposition and is receiving increased support in the community, as is witnessed by some of the editorials in national newspapers. [More…]

• There are no promised programs to overcome the hardships being suffered by so many in need in our community. [More…]

• The report was uncritical and did not display a total acceptance of it, but to put it in the Auditor-General ‘s report is to give it the strength of holy writ in this community. [More…]

• We were competing in an area where there had been great failure to perform, where no government instrumentality anywhere performed up to the standard it achieved for the rest of the community. [More…]

• I am sure that we should establish immediately some sort of managerial system which would grow into a town council operation in which the specialist services would be supplied as they are in every other community in Australia. [More…]

• A large group of the men gave one the impression of being just as capable of thinking constructively about their own affairs as any other community. [More…]

• It is a fair statement that nowhere near the amount of effort administratively is expended on the Aboriginal people as on generally the white community. [More…]

• That which results from Aborigines not know their own rights or having the power to apply them, so that in the courts of the North many more Aborigines are arrested and charged with drunkenness and appear before the courts without adequate legal representatives, say, than is the case with the white community. [More…]

• I would like to see a permanent, impartial and powerful watch dog established for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• In some districts infant mortality is from 10 to 20 times as high as that prevailing in the white community. [More…]

• Yaws, hook worm, tuberculosis, leprosy are much more frequent in the Aboriginal community than they are in the white community. [More…]

• The primary schools in any area where there is a significant Aboriginal community need special equipment. [More…]

• As it was described to the Yirrkala Committee they draw spiritual refreshment from their tribal lands, and these should be handled with the same tenderness with which the State government would handle the favourite sports grounds of the community- say, the Melbourne or Sydney cricket ground. [More…]

• On Aboriginal reserves it is no different from in the ordinary white community. [More…]

• The Government has failed completely to meet the needs of migrants or of any other section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Certainly we did not do enough but we were working on significant new directions in migrant welfare and community relations when the present Government conned its way into office on the pretext that it could run everything much better. [More…]

• The Migrant Community Resources Branch of the Department of Social Security is being dismantled. [More…]

• Public Service and the only institution capable of developing specific programs for the migrant community. [More…]

• The Government has also transferred the office of Commissioner for Community Relations, which Labor set up, into the area of the Attorney-General’s Department where legalism is likely to become the order of the day rather than the compassionate, ombudsman type of operation which is necessary to deal with the real and continuing needs of migrants. [More…]

• That is the sort of principle on which the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations should operate rather than getting bogged down in a heap of legalism. [More…]

• Lip service is paid within the concept of community relations to the matters of community education and migrant education. [More…]

• There are plenty of advocates to be heard in favour of the notion that the total community should be educated into acceptance of diversity and multiculturalism. [More…]

• The problems of migrants rest at the community level where there should be migrant resource centres spread plentifully through the urban concentrations of various migrant peoples. [More…]

• The problem of migrants rests at the community level, as I indicated. [More…]

• What I have related is just an example of what has been frequently pointed out- that overseas born residents are often ignorant of their rights in and the resources of the Australian community. [More…]

• I am sure many honourable members of the House and members of the general community found the speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) to the Victorian State Council of the Liberal Party of Australia most enlightening. [More…]

• The Treasurer quite correctly stated that the Government has an obligation to give adequate financial support to groups in the community that are genuinely disadvantaged. [More…]

• Among the many members of the community who will suffer because of this Government’s indifferent and callous approach to social justice are the many thousands of young Australians who suffer reading and learning difficulties. [More…]

• It is very easy for a government to win electoral appeal by increasing education spending, by increasing health spending, by increasing social welfare spending or by increasing subsidies to a number of industries and concessions to many employment areas in the community. [More…]

• If a government is going to give something to someone in the community, then someone else has to pay for it. [More…]

• If a government is going to give increased health cover, then the community will have to pay for it. [More…]

• To those who believe that this Government has not kept its electoral promises and has not put this economy on the right direction, I say this: Within the constraints of our present economic situation, we have made a significant number of moves in the right direction, in the direction that will help not only businesses, but also the average wage earner, the family man, the everyday citizen in our community. [More…]

• What that meant to the community was that with every wage increase, most of it was taken in taxes. [More…]

• thereby adds to the mounting uncertainty and concern in the community; [More…]

• The Auditor-General’s reports have a very high standing in this Parliament and the community, and I think properly so. [More…]

• We should not invest huge sums in one particular transport area without first ensuring that the investment is soundly based and is meeting the requirements of the community. [More…]

• Mr Loxton guided the Bureau to its present position of high regard by the transport sector and the community in general and the Government commends him for his dedication and successes as Chairman. [More…]

• The Northern Spencer Gulf Regional Council for Social Development is staffed by 3 community development officers operating from the 3 industrial cities. [More…]

• There is an administration clerk cum community development officer and a project officer operating in the area east of the Flinders Ranges. [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…]

• Most migrants to Australia come here either because they have families already here and as a result can integrate into the Australian community relatively easily, or have job qualifications that ensure that they will be readily employed and whereby able to sustain themselves in their new home. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• That the House take note of the Ministerial Statement relating to uranium exports made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 1 1 November 1976. [More…]

• I think the question asked by the honourable gentleman is certainly of some interest to this House because over the weekend statements have been made which have been reported in such a way as to indicate that the proposals contained in those statements would certainly add very greatly to the burden of taxpayers in the Australian community. [More…]

• The consequences of that throughout the Australian community would be very great indeed. [More…]

• Labor’s policies in these fields are policies for women; they are part of our program to improve the welfare and widen the rights and opportunities of the whole community. [More…]

• It was given because many of the women most active in our cause were, and are, among the most gifted, driving, and articulate people in the community. [More…]

• We must move from a particular concern with specific women’s interests and rights to a more general concern for women as members of the community, as consumers, as members of the workforce. [More…]

• I ask women to remember that their needs and interests are not special or separate but identical with those of the whole community. [More…]

• They are our goals for the whole community. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has not only neglected the specific needs of women but attacked their basic interests as members of the wider community. [More…]

• This conference reflects that community of interest. [More…]

• Also, I think the Government certainly had in mind that there is a very genuine desire among many people in the Australian community for a modernisation of the Constitution where it can clearly be shown that reforms would be beneficial to the Australian people. [More…]

• In other words, in all of these matters there would seem to be an element of justice, fairness and reasonableness which I believe will gain them majority support in the Australian community. [More…]

• Also helpful comments have been coming from the European Economic Community. [More…]

• On the day the first Fox report was issued, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made a Press statement in which he ignored all the inquiry’s findings on the risks of inadequate safeguards and the dangers of nuclear war. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was not even represented on the committee. [More…]

• It spelt out precisely why Australia has a special place in the international nuclear community. [More…]

• Mr Justice Fox was moved to protest at the misrepresentation by the Government, both in a call which he sought on the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and in a letter to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development which has never been published. [More…]

• Their urgency is accepted throughout the world’s atomic and scientific community. [More…]

• Mr NEWMAN (Bass-Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development)- With your indulgence, Mr Deputy Speaker, I think I should answer that. [More…]

• -The only thing that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has done in a public debate in this Parliament has been to re-introduce on the Notice Paper the uranium debate. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is a lightweight, and we all know that little notice is taken of his Department. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development issued a Press statement which deliberately encouraged this interpretation. [More…]

• On 11 November 1976 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who has just spoken in this debate, said: [More…]

• No matter how the Government tries to squirm out of it the issue is this: After the Fox inquiry presented its first report the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made a short statement and there was a 2-hour debate. [More…]

• The consequence of that is that until there is satisfaction by the international banking community that cash flows will not be interrupted by the use of the Commonwealth’s export power to interrupt payments to companies to service debts, money will not be advanced to small Australian uranium miners to establish plants of the order of $200m to $225m. [More…]

• If the wider community wishes to debate these matters, obviously it will be able to discuss the decisions which the Government has so far taken. [More…]

• Since the time that this debate was initiated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), the Government has adopted a steady and evenhanded approach to the debate and to the mining and export of uranium. [More…]

• I deplore the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) when he said that the debate has been continuing, deplorable though the state of the debate may be. [More…]

• I am indebted to the Leader of the House and to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table. [More…]

• But is should be borne in mind that, as the report suggested, when we have economic problems as we do at the moment- they are not of a serious nature- we must give money in an organised manner and it must be money that we can afford without placing great burdens and strains on the Australian taxpayer and without taking funds from other sections of the Australian community where money is needed also. [More…]

• These resources are in the flow of finance and funds throughout the community but they are also in the development of community resources. [More…]

• It has a substantially solid community life going back for some 2000 years, with a cultivated society torn into political discord over the last few years and now ruled by military people. [More…]

• The real difference between a good quality of life and a poor quality of life for people in a community stems basically from the kind of government and the kind of stability that they are able to develop in their own society. [More…]

• That, indeed, is one of the things that I am told when I go into the community. [More…]

• That cannot be tolerated in this country because there must be some effect or some potential effect upon the freedom and safety of our own citizens if any person in the community is to take up arms, explosives or the like and carry out training or similar activities. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development been drawn to the announcement that a film made in Australia entitled Leisure was awarded an Oscar in the animated short film section of the Academy Awards? [More…]

• I believe there is a requirement to involve China to a greater extent in the international community. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development related to that asked him by the honourable member for Lang, in answer to which he gave an endorsement of the Hollywood award to the Australian film Leisure. [More…]

• I also ask him: What steps have been taken to pursue the proposal which the Bailey task force made Vh months ago for a new community assistance and recreation program to incorporate among others this leisure facilities program? [More…]

• -Over the last 12 to 18 months there has been probably no more aggrieved sector of the Australian community than the beef producers. [More…]

• The Government’s attitude on these specific commodities is no different from that of the United States of America, the European Economic Community or Japan. [More…]

• Many people in the community have adopted this idea that everybody must make a contribution to a Common Fund. [More…]

• -The world dairy trade has immense problems mainly because of the restrictive trade barriers that operate in North America and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If we can get major producers such as New Zealand and the European Economic Community to support our proposals the world price should increase. [More…]

• Many of the plans for this year, which will be to increase the number of automatic exchanges, will assist the great bulk of people in the rural community. [More…]

• It is not so long ago that the feelings in this community about the Irish question ran as hotly as they did in Ireland and Britain. [More…]

• They ought to have been isolated from the world community a long time ago. [More…]

• Since the present corrupt, conservative Government came to office we have seen a succession of measures designed to reduce community access to the decision making processes of government and to reduce the public availability of information on the background to government decisions. [More…]

• However, in the past decade the Bureau has earned a high level of credibility for its reports and a wide level of acceptance by all interest groups in the transport scene, from State governments, local government units, and motorists and transport organisations to individual members of the community. [More…]

• As the Bureaus is small, autonomous and free from the normal departmental function of administration of legisation, we are able to work closely with official and unofficial groups within the community. [More…]

• Equally we can, in a completely independent manner, express and evaluate the views of governmental, industrial and community organisations. [More…]

• The community was able to attach trust and credibility to the Bureau’s activities. [More…]

• Unless we as a community recognise this, and demonstrate a better willingness to co-operate together to fight inflation than we have in recent times, not only road construction and maintenance but also a vast number of other desirable programs will be frustrated and our national living standards will be eroded. [More…]

• But in so doing we need to give the closest consideration to what we as a community expect of local government. [More…]

• What we have to do is to determine community priorities in the allocation of funds between these different modes of transport, each of which performs a specialised role. [More…]

• Those are the sorts of things that disturb the community, as the Government will find out when next it faces the people. [More…]

• In reaching its findings the Committee will take into account all relevant factors- economic and financial, social, technical, operational, environmental and land use, and community attitudes. [More…]

• The Committee wiil inform, and consult with, other Commonwealth and State Departments and organisations, the airlines and unions, local government authorities, community organisations and other interested parties. [More…]

• Is it a fact that all States, except Queensland, are funding women’s refuges from Commonwealth grants under the community health program? [More…]

• It is a fact that under the block grant under the community health program of the Federal Government the Queensland Government decided not to pass on any Federal funds to the women’s refuges which were mentioned by the honourable member. [More…]

• In many cases it has given women in the Australian community a degree of financial independence which they never had before. [More…]

• In addition to that, of course, the Government is showing much greater concern for and giving much greater attention to the provision of child care facilities where there are very real areas of need in the Australian community. [More…]

• That is the report to which I have referred- the Government has had, there is a grave community concern about the dangers of radio-activity in the mining and milling of uranium. [More…]

• At the moment 3 high level missions are in Australia looking at the coal mining industry- from Japan, South Korea and from the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Bulk billing provided an opportunity for utilisation control because it gave a precise effective recording of utilisation rates by the various medical practitioners in the community. [More…]

• What is relevant here is that the total cost has to be borne by the community. [More…]

• If the Government proposes to adopt the latter proposal as some small concession to community feeling on this issue, it is a totally inappropriate son of measure. [More…]

• Broadly, there is certainly evidence of over-utilisation in some specific areas by medical practitioners, not by the community. [More…]

• Medical practitioners are no different from anyone else in the community. [More…]

• It is like feather dusting of the Australian Medical Association when there is outrageous abuse going on in the community. [More…]

• It is in the community interest for these ratios to continue to climb because the higher the proportion of medical practitioners who are bulk billing the greater the capacity of the Government to monitor utilisation rates and the more effective the Government will be in ensuring adherence to the fee schedule; that is, the public will not be abused with excess fee charging by the medical practitioners. [More…]

• I take the opportunity of this grievance debate to raise a matter that will be of particular interest to a significant migrant community within my electorate. [More…]

• While aged relatives may not have contributed through taxes they are an important part of family and community life and the cost of supporting aged relatives of migrants is one which must be recognised and borne by the country inviting immigrant families. [More…]

• So the cost of health services would be hidden even further and the actions of those doctors would be a further rip-off from the community. [More…]

• On 8 February this year the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) announced an additional grant of $100,000 to the Australian Foundation of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence under the Commonwealth’s community health program. [More…]

• Strenuous attempts have been made at Government, media and community level to warn the public of the dangers of drugs and tobacco. [More…]

• Australians seem to have no real appreciation of the extent of alcoholism in the community much less of the damage it is doing. [More…]

• Ever since the Commonwealth Government came to office on 13 December 1975 with overwhelming community support, the Dunstan Government has continually misrepresented the position of this Government on a range of issues and then indulged in criticism of that misrepresented position. [More…]

• The action proposed by the Bill now under consideration by the House should provide assistance to the industry in planning for the future and will allow users access to the latest and best computer technology at, or near, world prices to the benefit of both Australian industry and the community as a whole. [More…]

• 3m in capital funds into the Kingston area will have substantial short term benefits for the building industry and for the community of Kingston and the long term employment potential for Tasmanians desiring to work at the Antarctic Division and for the many from mainland States who will be coming to Tasmania and will find our State a most delightful place in which to live. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) nods his agreement with that. [More…]

• The Minister may kid himself but he will not kid Australia’s neighbours; he will not kid the countries of the Commonwealth, the members of the United Nations, or the world community. [More…]

• Let there be no doubt that our aid program is being wound down- and wound down in defiance of the Government’s promises to the people and in defiance of Australia’s obligations to the world community. [More…]

• One of its objectives was to provide a link between our aid policy and the wider community, to establish a source of independent advice and to expose our aid policy to the outside knowledge and humanitarian concerns of a range of community interests. [More…]

• Of course we want to give more aid, but if we give more international assistance it means less funds for Australian projects and it means less funds for all the other competing needs which have to be met in the Australian community. [More…]

• Those principles are: Each member of our community has both rights and obligations; individual rights must be protected; equally, obligations must be met. [More…]

• These must apply no less so in industrial relations than in other facets of community life. [More…]

• Industrial relations affect all of us and we, as Government, accept that it is our responsibility to develop an industrial relations framework in which the rights of individuals are protected, for example the right to choose employment and to join, or not to join, industrial organisations; labour and management can communicate and settle differences in a manner which recognises the rights and responsibilities of both; and the community at large is protected from harsh and disruptive effects of industrial disputation. [More…]

• Since shortly after federation Australia has had a system of conciliation and arbitration which was designed to settle, by peaceful means, industrial disputes between employers and unions- a system which has provided many advantages for employers, unions and the community. [More…]

• Many trade unions have recognised that the privileges granted to them by the community, and the protection that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has afforded their members, also have placed an onus on them to behave in a reasonable manner and, in pursuing their industrial claims, to have regard not only for the interests of their particular members, but also, for the well-being of the community in which they operate and in which their members are citizens. [More…]

• Regrettably, some unions have tended to disregard their responsibilities to the community and, indeed, to their own members. [More…]

• But the problem is more fundamental than that: The Government believes that it is basically a manifestation of the phenomenon we have all witnessed from time to time when an organisation which sets out initially to serve the interests of its members and the community becomes so large and powerful that it loses sight of what it should be doing; self-interest takes over, and its original purpose is lost in the pursuit of selfinterest. [More…]

• Industrial disputation affects the whole community. [More…]

• I have stated, and reiterate, that the Government accepts that it has the responsibility to provide the means by which parties to industrial relations can settle their disagreements in an amicable fashion but with least disruption to the community at large. [More…]

• In conclusion, I would again reiterate that the Government is pledged to protect individual rights, and the rights of the community, in industrial relations matters, and ensure the observance of the obligations labour and management have to each other and the community at large. [More…]

• It believes that with the co-operation of the community, the measures proposed will prove successful. [More…]

• For this reason, and because of the fundamental importance of the legislation, it believes that there is a need for time to be given not only for the members of Parliament to give the proposed legislation their objective consideration, but also for the principal parties to industrial relations- the peak councils of the employer organisations and trade unions, individual trade unions and individual employers and, more importantly, the community at large- to examine the contents of the Bill and to be able to make their views known to the Government. [More…]

• The decision to recognise the administration of our economic aid programs is based on the view that improvements in aid must be affected in almost all aspects of our aid endeavours- in the machinery for formulating policy, in ensuring greater attention to the welfare and distributive effects of our aid, in evaluating the effectiveness of our various schemes, in bringing greater expertise into our staffing arrangements and in more directly associating the community with the program. [More…]

• This secrecy will tend to stifle public debate, and the Australian community will not be aware of the policies from which Australia’s aid programs emanate. [More…]

• We should for example have a school of community medicine that can be sent to developing countries; a school of agriculture that can go into developing countries on a secondment basis. [More…]

• The developing nations rightly believe that the division of the world into rich and poor is largely a function of the international economic order and that a new international economic order is now necessary in the interests of the international community as a whole. [More…]

• That the House take note of the ministerial statement relating to uranium exports made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 1 1 November 1976. [More…]

• On a small point of a technical nature let me say that during that debate the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) made the assertion that the only thing that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has done in a public debate in this Parliament has been to reintroduce on the notice paper the uranium debate, that it has been put back on the notice paper only because of the matter of public importance submitted by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• There is no doubt that it is a panic response by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to the Opposition’s matter of public importance last Tuesday. [More…]

• We would like to extend the exercise to the whole community, but we do not have the means with which to do that. [More…]

• What we must do also is to achieve community acceptance of our conclusions- acceptance by business and acceptance by unions but not, if I may say, by the extreme left-wing unions. [More…]

• He is purporting to be looking back from a few thousand years hence at the feasibility of coal stations and he draws the same sort of difficulties and objections to coal power stations that are now being drawn in the community to nuclear power stations. [More…]

• So the economic work effort of those persons in the middle age bracket of our community will produce sufficient wealth to look after those persons who have yet to be brought up and educated and those persons who are older. [More…]

• He has been sympathetic to the problem of refugees and he has set the stage for this country to consider this vital topic, for persons to write to him, for submissions to be made and for community attitudes to be developed. [More…]

• But I wonder on what grounds the assumption is made that the standard of living of the community has been raised specifically by immigration. [More…]

• I suggest that it took a long time for the Australian community really to accept them. [More…]

• Why should we assume that they all have to become dependent on the rest of the community once they turn 65 years and retire? [More…]

• I think that we on this side of the House may well be as unaware of these points as are honourable members opposite and the whole community. [More…]

• The point is that we cannot just seek to push for our own development in this selfish fashion, recognising that we have a lot of unemployed that we cannot accommodate, that we have an increasing aged population, that somehow they will have to survive on social welfare and that we will have to maintain our own productive sections of the community by bringing in trained migrants. [More…]

• It is only a small community but it serves a very historic and large pastoral district. [More…]

• I mention this little story tonight to illustrate how important a seemingly small part of the Government’s work is to an isolated community. [More…]

• How does this compare with the rights or the Jewish community? [More…]

• If his point of view is accepted in the Australian community we will find ourselves totally without defences; we will find ourselves with an Indian Ocean which has been converted into a Russian lake, and we will find ourselves a satellite of Moscow within a very short period of time. [More…]

• It will also be circulated to interested groups in the community for comment. [More…]

• The Committees’ functions, as announced in the Prime Minister’s press release, include the examination of legislation and assistance with the development of policy; providing a two-way channel of communication between the Government and the community at large; and reporting to the Party Room on proposed legislation after consultation with appropriate Ministers. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 9 March 1 977: [More…]

• The Acting Minister for Aboriginal Affairs will be represented in this chamber by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -The Premiers and the Commonwealth have been involved in wide ranging discussions with a wide variety of groups, organisations and individuals throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that at those discussions we will see some advance in the total proposition because, as my colleague the Treasurer has indicated, there is a widespread view throughout the whole Australian community- with very limited exceptions indeed- that the total community ought to accept the call from the 6 Premiers and the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I have also indicated that it is too early to establish that group at this point because we are waiting and I believe the whole Australian community is waiting for the official voice of the union movement to give some indication of support for a general proposition which the total community supports to a very large extent, which union members support to a very large extent and which their wives certainly support to a very large extent. [More…]

• Why should this inquiry not be held in public as Conciliation and Arbitration Commission hearings are always held in public so that every Australian, not just doctors, will be aware of the Government’s policies and submissions with respect to the most highly remunerated section of the Australian community? [More…]

• But if the total community, including the union movement, accepts the wage-price halt I believe that everyone has an obligation to play his part. [More…]

• The Commonwealth and the Premiers have been saying for quite some time that it is important that there be a broad commitment on the part of the total Australian community in relation to these matters. [More…]

• If there is that broad commitment, that broad resolution, it can carry the community over particular areas of difficulty, and that is the only way in which the wage-price halt will have a real chance of success. [More…]

• All reasonable people will join with the Government in condemning this highly irresponsible industrial action by a few key employees in this industry which has brought great hardship and inconvenience to the community at a time when it can have the effect only of delaying economic recovery and when the great need is for the support of everyone in this community to restore the economic health of the country. [More…]

• There is also an opportunity within that 3- months period for different sectors within the community, including the officers of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the Prices Justification Tribunal, to sit down and examine the transitional arrangements that would be made for a smooth end to the 3-months pause to see what ought to be done thereafter. [More…]

• Australian community want but which one or two members of the Opposition have been seeking to undermine. [More…]

• As the Prime Minister has said today, in every possible area within the community we would hope that the prices and wages freeze will apply. [More…]

• I ask, Mr Speaker, whether in your opinion we may regard as parliamentary the term ‘mainland gangsters’ used to describe some section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I move this motion at this time because it is obvious that there is rank confusion in the community. [More…]

• It asks for what the Australian community is asking- not plaudits, not platitudinous statements, but factual evidence that the Government knows what it is talking about and what the prices freeze, to which it has given a lot of publicity, is all about. [More…]

• The next national wage hearing is based upon the price increases which are already flowing throughout the community. [More…]

• Instead of getting behind a move which is supported by its own State parliamentary colleagues and its own Party colleagues and endorsed widely throughout the community, it is trying to point out those areas in which it will be extraordinarily difficult for it to apply. [More…]

• Obviously, throughout the whole of the Australian community, a good many people are determined to make this effort work. [More…]

• The functions of ASTEC are to advise the Government on science and technology, including: the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development and application of science and technology in relation to the national well-being; the adequacy, effectiveness and overall balance of the national effort in science and technology in government, industry, education and other sectors of the community; the assessment of gaps and overlaps in science and technology in Australia; the identification and support of new ideas of science and technology likely to be of national importance; the practical development and application of research discoveries and the fostering of technological innovation in industry; and the means of improving efficiency in the use of resources related to science and technology. [More…]

• The Council’s membership will have experience and knowledge across the spectrum of science and technology and its impact on the community. [More…]

• If we are to achieve the goals to which we should aspire the Government will have to promote a better public understanding of the impact of science and technology upon the community than now exists. [More…]

• We need a broad involvement of the community in the decision-making processes relating to the priorities and objectives of science and technology, and to that end it is quite critical for the future of our country that we encourage contact between the community and our scientists. [More…]

• Science and technology should be encouraged to help the majority and not just a privileged or sectional group of the community. [More…]

• -For the past hour a small- nay, a miniscule- number of members of the Opposition who are prepared to walk out of step with the leader of their Party, who to say the least has taken a statesman-like approach to this matter, have done everything they can to prevent this Parliament from debating a matter of the utmost national importance, namely, the need for active support from all sections of the community to ensuring the effectiveness of the prices and wages freeze agreed to last Wednesday by 6 Premiers and the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• Accordingly workers, and employers, all sections of the Australian community who seriously wish to see the defeat of inflation in our land must start with a voluntary prices and incomes freeze which will break the intolerable nexus which we have experienced for 3 years at least, by which constant increases in wage costs have been followed by even higher increases in other costs and thus higher and higher prices for consumers. [More…]

• Governments including local government have agreed to commit themselves not only to not increasing their own charges during that period but also to doing all they can to encourage other sections of the community to do likewise. [More…]

• The Heads of Government called on all members of the Australian community to give full support to this vital endeavour to help overcome inflation. [More…]

• The wage-price freeze clearly requires the total co-operation of all sections of the community, and in particular, the support of the trade union movement is critical. [More…]

• The gesture of the 7 heads of Government was undoubtedly a determined attempt to achieve a significant reduction in our current rate of inflation, which obviously is hurting and will continue to hurt all segments of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is depressing to think that those members of the Opposition who believe they stand for compassion and concern are prepared to go against the clearly enunciated belief of the vast majority of the Australian people that inflation is our major enemy and that they are prepared to do all in their power, as individuals and as members of the community, to break the nexus which I mentioned earlier between constant increases in prices and wages and, therefore, further increases in inflation. [More…]

• In this regard, it is worth noting that the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) has also requested the Prices Justification Tribunal to monitor voluntary price pauses in the community and to investigate any claims that increases in prices have occurred and also to encourage the deferring of decisions on price increases. [More…]

• When this nation learns in clear and coherent terms from the Fraser Government the implications of a so-called prices and wages freeze and more details concerning that freeze, and if the people judge those economic policies to be fair, effective and workable, there will be active support from the whole community as called for in this matter of public importance. [More…]

• Do we not have the right to know the answer to that question before blindly following the sentiment of this pious matter we are debating which states the need for active support from all sections of the community to ensure the effectiveness of such a freeze? [More…]

• The need for active support from all sections of the community to ensure the effectiveness of the prices and wages freeze. [More…]

• Anybody can raise difficulties where there is a free resources allocation system and where there is a large degree of freedom in a community. [More…]

• We should aim to ensure economic and social justice for all members of the community, whatever their origins, to eliminate inequalities of opportunities between social groups and to protect and enhance the physical environment. [More…]

• The rate of growth of Australia’s population is in large part determined by the age structure and social values of the community. [More…]

• Immigration is the second major component of population growth and it is here that the rate of growth should be regulated to allow the maximum welfare of the present community and those who make their homes here. [More…]

• I do not believe that one community because it has put in a large number of applications should be favoured over another community that has put in a smaller number of nominations but which has a much larger community here in this country. [More…]

• Despite all the things that are said about Australian society, the way in which the community accepted that absorption pleases me. [More…]

• I have been pretty close to the community in all the years in which I have represented it. [More…]

• Schools that were peaceful, well organised community groups 20 years ago suddenly became crowded with the people of diverse languages. [More…]

• We did not prepare community services such as translation services to accommodate them, nor did we take any steps to accommodate them by changing our social climate. [More…]

• I am inclined towards a ceremonial admission to the Australian community but I would make naturalisation easier with a shorter qualifying period. [More…]

• I am taking the opportunity to speak tonight in this debate for an entirely different reason, but before I deal with the subject I wish to canvass I should mention that I personally have been enriched in the last decade because I have had the privilege of representing the largest migrant community in any Federal electorate in the State of Queensland. [More…]

• I want to question seriously the suitability of Mr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, to continue in that position. [More…]

• I do so because I believe that a person in his position should be regarded by the community as being able to administer a delicate task with balance and fairness, and without bias. [More…]

• It may not be Mr Grassby’s fault, but he has given the community the distinct impression that he has a pre-occupation with the subject of racism to an extent which seriously impedes his judgment. [More…]

• As I said before, I have a large migrant community in my electorate. [More…]

• That is a very widely held view in the community, and I repeat it: He causes more problems than he settles. [More…]

• I must allude to a current personal experience which reaches into new dimensions in what I regard as his unsuitability to hold down his position as Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Firstly, the group which I had every reason to believe existed was easily identifiable and, secondly, it was a warning to the business community that that sort of activity was well and truly on in Brisbane. [More…]

• Following that, Senator Colston, a Labor senator from Queensland, called on me to retract my comments and to apologise to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• On 6 April 1977 I received from Mr Grassby, the Commissioner for Community Relations, a letter in which he outlined certain procedures that he had undertaken and gave me certain advice as to procedures I should follow. [More…]

• Of course, what prompted that outrageous tirade from the honourable member were some activities of the Commissioner for Community Relations in investigating activities by the honourable member. [More…]

• But I do think that the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, during his time both as Minister for Immigration in the first Whitlam Government and now as Commissioner for Community Relations, has devoted a good deal of time and attention to a lot of the problems which are canvassed in this Green Paper that we are discussing tonight. [More…]

• I believe that we can get a good picture of Australian society now if we look at something that the Commissioner for Community Relations said in his first annual report last year: [More…]

• Honourable members will see for themselves that ethnic organisations, in order better to promote their causes in public, in the parliaments, in life generally in their communities, have banded together into ethnic community councils. [More…]

• In dealing with every level of community organisation in my constituency I see how much better ethnic organisations are able to function when they work in this way. [More…]

• I do not have to canvass here for honourable members the tensions that exist within the Yugoslav community in Australia between the various peoples of the republics of that country. [More…]

• By coming together and working together it is impossible for anybody in the community who has regard for the interests of these persons to ignore such a large group. [More…]

• Whenever this kind of violence occurs- I am referring particularly, I suppose, to the way it occurs between Serbs and Croats- persons who are active in the Yugoslav community understand that it is their responsibility to work it out for themselves and to get their own people who have come here to abide by Australian standards in this matter. [More…]

• To the extent that that question concerns the Council, I hope that it will do some surveys when it comes out with further reports, as I hope it will, and that the Council will see that in fact not only amongst the ethnic communities themselves but in the perception of the active ethnic community organisations by older generation Australians, it has been a positive advantage to have had this identity of ethnic groups emerge during the past couple of years. [More…]

• I hope that this discussion will take place in the broadest sense throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that the length of the debate in the House and the nature of the contributions will stimulate both individuals and organisations in the community at large to contribute their views to the Government in relation to the matters raised by the Green Paper. [More…]

• There is a high percentage of women in the work force in those countries as well but the point I should like to make in relation to pro-natalist policies is that the evidence we have so far indicates that they are not likely to be terribly successful and even if they were, the cost to the community of achieving the aims of these pro-natalist policies would be extremely high. [More…]

• I believe that it will be even more successful if it brings about in the community at large a better understanding of the background to immigration policy development and as a result of the increased knowledge of that immigration policy development, a series of submissions to the Government which will reflect community views. [More…]

• As a result of that reflection of community views, the Government will be placed in a much better position to development immigration policies which will be acceptable to the nation as a whole and which will bring about the development of Australia, not just in the short term but, most importantly, in the medium and long term, of a size and of a nature which we would all support. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the professional planners within the Bureau of Transport Economics and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are well aware of the consequences which flow from the complexity of our present urban society. [More…]

• The social infrastructure for a community also is expensive. [More…]

• Some would argue that social facilities are more important for the development of the community than the supply of the physical infrastructure, such as sewerage, roads, power and public transport. [More…]

• If, however, we are to ask the Bureau of Transport Economics to play its part in planning or advising on the future shape of our urban society it must have available to it all the relevant expertise which is necessary to create an environment which will allow the majority of citizens to fulfill their ambitions as members of the community. [More…]

• Worldwide evidence suggests that the conflict between cars and cities in its more acute and unplanned forms has led to congestion, pollution and the dehumanising of community life for large sections of the community. [More…]

• Overseas experience suggests that attempts to eliminate traffic jams through building more highways are far from a panacea and that public transport solutions have only partly met community requirements. [More…]

• The pursuit of purely transport efficiency rather than effectiveness criteria will inevitably lead to conflict between transport and the community to the detriment of the community at large. [More…]

• But the city built for urban man will maximise the ability to move while minimising the need for unnecessary motion, and in the process will use the transport system to further the goals of the community. [More…]

• The prospects for doing so are strengthened by the fact that so much of the urban area is absorbed by streets and because, as many urban redevelopment projects reveal, street space can be effectively used to create new neighbourhood patterns and more efficient organisation of the community. [More…]

• Future transportation policies will require recognition that transportation is not an end in itself but is integrally related to community development. [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…]

• Those of us who are aware of this situation realise that there are conservative people in our community who still rely upon the depth of people’s pockets to determine the benefits that shall accrue to them. [More…]

• It is clear from the comments made by people on my geographic left that there are people in this community who do not agree with the concept I mentioned but who agree with the concept that people should be educated only according to the wealth of their parents or their grandparents and who agree that people should enjoy good health only according to the cost that their parents and grandparents can afford. [More…]

• They ignore the fact that there are people in our community who have disabilities. [More…]

• ’s, in the interests of effective use of services in short supply, to obtain nursing and home care services through the local community health program. ‘ [More…]

• The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has been utilising local community health care associated services since 1953 when approval was given for domiciliary nursing to be arranged for patients awaiting hospitalisation. [More…]

• In the States where the local community health program exists, any domiciliary care necessary is arranged through the organising body. [More…]

• The Department does not provide its own domiciliary services but utilises those available in the community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• If studies have been carried out, will he make the results available promptly to the Parliament for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• Yes- At 17 March 1977 one part-time female pay clerk was employed in the community store. [More…]

• On 17 March 1977 there were no applications from Australian citizens seeking employment in the community store. [More…]

• Mr R. Claridge; Department of Investment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 3 1 March 1 977: [More…]

• He said he would be prepared to act in any way that the parties or the community required in order to ensure that the voluntary freeze might be achieved. [More…]

• The heads of agreement were agreed upon unanimously by those who were present at the Premiers Conference and, in those circumstances, there is no doubt that whatever variation is made to the heads of agreement must be seen as a breaking down of what looked to be an almost unanimously agreed position throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• As I said to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the other day, no action will be taken to withdraw the Tasman Limited without a proper examination of what effect such a withdrawal would have on Tasmania and the tourist industry in particular. [More…]

• I believe that they came to that agreement because they recognised that there was a wish within the Australian community for a halt in the mad round of wage and price increases that Australia has seen in recent times. [More…]

• There has been a warm response to their action from people in the community. [More…]

• None of it would have promoted restraint in this community. [More…]

• The statement issued last Wednesday by the heads of all Governments in Australia has received the support of a large section of the community and nothing put to us today detracts from its importance. [More…]

• -I have read reports, and indeed I know, of the concern within the community about the increase in drug trafficking. [More…]

• There are 2 issues in this matter: First of all there is the question of privacy with regard to the mail, and secondly- this is a very important matter- the question of community interest, public interest. [More…]

• The States knew that once the Federal Government withdrew from essential community services and abdicated responsibility for essential programs they would be forced to fill the gap from their own resources. [More…]

• The States have consistently failed to provide community services in the places where people most need them. [More…]

• It is because it is made up of tired old men who presided over the destruction of responsibility in government economic management in 1973, 1974 and 1975, and because it is led by a man who is desperately trying to hold on to the leadership when he knows he has lost all credibility in this Parliament, in his own Party, and throughout the community. [More…]

• It not only believes that government knows what is best for the individual, it also believes that government centralised in Canberra knows better than State and local government what is best for the members of our community. [More…]

• It would accordingly appear as though the Government had been particularly generous to the community and it could sell this as a proposal to reduce taxes by something like 6 per cent on average or $2.30 or $2.50 a week for the average income earner. [More…]

• This Government would not be averse to transferring to the States the responsibility for much of the revenue raising in the community, much of the sacrifice which is required to try to finance the rather blinkered view it has on economic management in the Budget area. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the previous Labor Government was spending money as a centralist government to provide services at the expense of certain taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• Any Minister of this Government would be viewed with suspicion by the community, and we on this side of the House have the opportunity to watch daily the political gymnastics of Government supporters in this House. [More…]

• I am not surprised that people suspect the Government of having some hidden motive and that there will be some severe unannounced consequences to the community from a seemingly innocent Bill. [More…]

• We all will remember, particularly honourable members on the Government side of the House, the inflationary factors pressed on all sections of the community by the administration of those days. [More…]

• One is quite distressed to find that the possibility of slowing down this growth in cost has been rejected only today by various sections of the community. [More…]

• The capacity for unions and employers to pause in regard to increases in cost in the freight area would have been welcomed by the community. [More…]

• I am sure that those people responsible for that decision will pay sorely in future times for their thoughtlessness and lack of concern for the community at large. [More…]

• That would seem to indicate that there is thought in the community, an understanding in the communityand certainly an understanding at the level of the ministry of New South Wales at that time- that there is a need for close co-operation, a close binding together of the objectives of the 2 bureaus. [More…]

• The appropriate place to locate the new Bureau, to my mind, would be within the responsibility of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• As I read the present organisational structure of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Bureau has been absorbed totally into the Department and there is no trace of its old independence. [More…]

• Therefore I believe that it is important that the present counterpart of the old Department of Urban and Regional Development- the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- should be given greater muscle in this administration and that the Bureau of Roads should be made a statutory authority under the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The proper solution is to merge the 2 bureaus into a single statutory authority and, in my view, to place that under the administration of the Ministry and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In fact, that is why the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, so far as this Government is concerned, has a very low priority. [More…]

• The community bears the burden of excessive cost, unwarranted monopoly or competition and undesirable social or environmental effects. [More…]

• In that report we emphasised that transport should be related to the goals and objectives of the community. [More…]

• We said: ‘That transportation services are a means of assisting a community towards satisfying broad socio-economic and development goals. ‘ [More…]

• In 1973, we indicated the importance of considering roads and road transport in the context of the total transport services for the community. [More…]

• It is quite clear from that paragraph that the Bureau considers its role is to ensure that the importance of the roads system in Australia is looked at in the context of the total transport services for the community. [More…]

• I have had many approaches from the representatives of local government bodies in South Australia who are concerned that the amalgamation may prejudice the chances of their obtaining suitable independent advice as to the road needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• One of the things that the Labor Government pledged for those rural areas was to introduce community health centres and various other amenities such as that, which Liberal Governments for years had never provided. [More…]

• The Heads of Government called on all members of the Australian community to give full support to this vital endeavour to help overcome inflation. [More…]

• This in turn created the conditions for the widespread community acceptance of the desirability and equity of a wage-price pause. [More…]

• Messages were sent to over 200 major employer, employee, professional and community groups. [More…]

• It is a pity that honourable members opposite do not recognise that, as does the whole Australian community, and that they do not embrace this policy entirely. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (3) and (4) As at 5 April 1977 the following organisations had received grants under the Community Youth Support Scheme in the Federal electoral divisions indicated. [More…]

• What were the cost, nature and duration of each project for which assistance has been (a) sought and (b) approved under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• As at 5 April 1977, 238 applications had been received for funding under the Community Youth Support Scheme of which 103 have been approved. [More…]

• I think that is sad and tragic for Australia because there is obviously an overwhelming wish throughout the Australian community that the wage-price freeze be successful. [More…]

• Is this action in conformity with the general response of the business community to the call by State and Federal governments for a price and wage freeze? [More…]

• I think the behaviour of the Leyland company and its managing director in this matter is starkly out of step with the general response of the Australian business community. [More…]

• We believe that there is a very real wish throughout the wider Australian community and we hope that it will be possible through the avenues open in the Arbitration Commission to explore the real possibility of a fair relationship between the prices pause which is in place and a situation in relation to wages that we hope can be established. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable gentleman that it is not the view that is shared widely throughout the community. [More…]

• I think it is important, however, that the members of this House and the community at large realise how low that return still is. [More…]

• This Government, in quite marked contrast to its predecessor, has provided a significant measure of government help which at least is helping to bring the income of primary producers to something in line with those in the rest of the community. [More…]

• Finally let me say, however, that the farmers still are concerned, as everybody else is concerned, with the level of prices and the price escalations in the community. [More…]

• I regret very deeply indeed, as I am sure the whole community regrets, that the ACTU has not also altered its view. [More…]

• I recall that last night he said that immediately after the Premiers Conference messages were sent to over 200 major employer, employee, professional and community groups. [More…]

• I take the opportunity to say also that we are continuing to enforce the strictest rules and regulations in respect of quarantine generally, because if blue tongue or foot and mouth disease were to enter Australia this would spell disaster for the economy and for whole sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the unemployment burden is being borne substantially by the young people in our community. [More…]

• Let me quote briefly from a journal known as European Community, which is published by the European Economic Commission, for September 1976. [More…]

• It talks about unemployment in the community. [More…]

• That by its very being will bring us to a socialist state in which there will be equitable distribution of the wealth created without some people in the community- I repeat ‘some people’- having to labour. [More…]

• In my view, for what it is worth, we are not looking at buyer resistance but at a community that is saturated with goods. [More…]

• Clearly if there is work to be done, albeit this work will be principally capital intensive and mechanical rather than labouring work, it will flow through the community and people will be absorbed into it. [More…]

• If they sincerely believe that the unemployment problem is as serious as we on the Australian Labor Party side of the House know it to be, let them agree with the motion that the Parliament set up a committee to inquire into this very problem and report back to the Parliament so that a debate can ensue in the community. [More…]

• Before I finish, I point out that the Commonwealth has implemented the community youth support scheme which provides financial assistance to community groups, including recognised youth organisations, for supportive programs and services to the young unemployed. [More…]

• Much more important than what the figures show is the fact that something is seriously wrong with morale in the community. [More…]

• This erosion of morale, particularly among young people, is most serious for the whole community and is even more serious than the cost of the unemployment benefit, which at the present time is running at almost $600m a year. [More…]

• It is typical of the Fraser Government that it should direct its economic policies against the weakest and most defenceless groups in the community. [More…]

• Unemployment benefits, social welfare benefits and other benefits are designed to relieve people of hardship and suffering and are paid for by the taxpayers and the community generally. [More…]

• The Department and the Government have a very real responsibility to protect the community and the taxpayers from abuse. [More…]

• I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the terms of reference of those inquiries which are seeking to ensure that justice is done both to those who are eligible to receive unemployment benefits and to the community generally. [More…]

• the level of benefits the community should provide to those unable to find work, including new entrants to the work force; [More…]

• Among the number of Federal initiatives was the establishment of the State committees to assist in the administration of the community youth support scheme, which provides financial assistance to community groups and recognised youth organisations for supportive programs and services to improve the ability of young people to find employment and to help young unemployed persons to maintain a sense of direction and purpose. [More…]

• The chairmen are associated with community activities in their respective States. [More…]

• Additional requirements under the heading include: $850,000 for the community youth support scheme under which financial aid is provided to community groups which provide supportive services and programs for young unemployed persons; $3. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has a 10 per cent import content and a 90 per cent local content, which is almost total protection. [More…]

• We now have a situation where major organisations are closing down, and in speaking in this debate today I am deeply disappointed to have to say that that is an unfortunate occurrence which is creating a problem within the Australian community. [More…]

• This is an annual cost and is a figure that certain sections of the community view as being too high both in absolute terms and in comparison with other industries. [More…]

• This cost was borne by the community generally; - [More…]

• That is, based on the same production and sales which occurred with bounty assistance - tractor manufacturers would through higher selling prices have received the equivalent of a subsidy of $3.7m; however, the community generally would have received about $10m in tariff revenue. [More…]

• The cost of about $14m would have been borne by tractor purchasers although a pan of the cost would have been passed on to the community. [More…]

• It is very important that a sense of interdependence be established between the various sectors of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that what is important to the rural community in relation to Australian production of tractors is that at least the protection is open and by way of bounty and will not put the price up of tractors purchased from elsewhere. [More…]

• This is very much to the advantage of the farming community which has a strong, vested interest in what the Government does in relation to this Bill. [More…]

• After all, one could say that import duties are borne in certain instances by all members of the community in Australia. [More…]

• The 5 other members of the Commission will be parttime and will be drawn from widely representative sections of the community as a balance to the specialist interests of the full-time members. [More…]

• -One finds it curious that this motion should appear in the name of the Acting Minister for National Resources (Mr Nixon) when previously the Government had nominated the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) as the Minister responsible for the management of the uranium debate within the Parliament. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• On the one hand, uranium mining supporters want to export large quantities or uranium forthwith without first exacting new proliferation safeguard development from the international nuclear community and before any satisfactory resolution of the nuclear waste disposal problem takes place. [More…]

• Put another way, Australia, whilst without a nuclear power generation program itself can have an impact upon the development of the international nuclear community. [More…]

• It will never succeed if Australia falls over itself to supply uranium in the immediate future, conscious as it is that the nuclear community is in no position to deal with waste disposal adequately and has not yet had the time or the inclination to develop a sound system of safeguards against the proliferation of nuclear weapons from access to nuclear materials. [More…]

• It reflects the growing concern of the Australian community towards the nuclear industry and the heavy responsibilties that weigh upon Australia with its abundant uranium reserves. [More…]

• Despite the comments that he made about the need for widespread public debate it would appear that the Australian Labor Party is making decision after decision pre-empting any national debate in the community and thereby forcing the community into a polarisation in its attitudes to this matter. [More…]

• Not only are the Japanese almost completely dependent on sources of oil for continuing industrialisation; they are also dependent on oil for the total wellbeing of their community. [More…]

• The oil crisis of 3 years ago created such a situation in Japan that the Japanese community was faced with a position of continuing decline in its industrial development and way of life. [More…]

• -I welcome the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) as it has given us yet another opportunity to debate whether or not our uranium resources should be developed. [More…]

• It is clear that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is sitting at the table, fall into this category. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development dashed into the media as soon as the Fox report was released with a statement that the report had given the green light to the mining and export of uranium. [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to answer that point some time. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is at the table, when speaking on 1 1 November last in respect of approved sales of uranium said that the handling and disposal of radioactive waste resulting from nuclear power generation lies with the countries concerned, that is, the countries to which Australia exports uranium for electric power generation. [More…]

• -This evening I wish to draw attention to a scandalous and sad situation for those of us who believe that women’s shelters have a valuable role to play in our community. [More…]

• Funds for women’s shelters are provided under community health projects. [More…]

• Commonwealth financial assistance for community health projects in the States take the form of annual block grants covering each State’s total program of projects, including projects conducted by non-government organisations such as the Naomi Women’s Refuge. [More…]

• The South Australian Community Welfare Minister, Mr Payne, said in State Parliament: [More…]

• -Mr Deputy Speaker, I am interested, as are the honourable members, in the community and the services which are available to communities. [More…]

• I have seen published and I have encouraged in my electorate, the issuing of community directories. [More…]

• I think that it is always healthy if people in the community are prepared to put some time into making available to members of the community listings of the services that are available to the community in which they live. [More…]

• Therefore it was with a great degree of interest that I looked through a rather handsome community services directory which I understand had been issued in the Rockhampton district and noted that the cover of the community services directory for Rockhampton boldly displays the symbol of the boy scout movement. [More…]

• The name of Mr Keith Wright, who also happens to be the President of the Rockhampton Community Service Club which published the document, the State Labor member for Rockhampton, and also the President of the District Scouting Association, is mentioned not less than S 1 times in this document. [More…]

• The speech we have just heard about someone who obviously put together a directory was made by an honourable member from New South Wales, not the honourable member for the area mentioned, to try to denigrate some community service and something which is also of some benefit to a particular organisation. [More…]

• My Party is well aware of the anxieties of the business community and sympathetic to them. [More…]

• I think you will find that, whatever our opponents or the press may say my party is well aware of the anxieties of the business community and sympathetic to them. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• That is being done at a time when all heads of governments at one stage and a very large number of people throughout the whole of the community have been embracing the concept of a price-wage halt; a price halt being a fair return for a wage halt and a wage halt being a fair return for a price halt. [More…]

• It is also observing the terms of the Convention under a voluntary scheme administered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in conjunction with the State governments and industry. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister whether he is satisfied with the opposition within the community to his Government’s policies; whether he would like to see that opposition strengthened or coming from some other quarter, or whether he can think of any other way in which opposition, as an important part of the process, can be improved? [More…]

• Nobody imagined that it would be possible for everyone in the community to accept from day one that an effective freeze on prices and a effective freeze on wages would be possible. [More…]

• No, it was a proposition that a large number of people in this country believed could be made to work if all sections of the Australian community were prepared to join in helping to make it work. [More…]

• If there is evidence that all significant sections of the Australian community are prepared to be represented at a conference in order to make this proposition work, we are prepared to join it. [More…]

• So far I think everybody is acutely and starkly aware that there is one significant element of the Australian community which is not prepared to lend its support even in principle to an objective which all the heads of government in Australia, irrespective of their party differences, regarded on 13 April as an important objective. [More…]

• The Prime Minister will not at this point sit down and speak to other people in the community. [More…]

• I might say, however, that given the Government’s recent attempts at managing-perhaps mismanaging is the more correct word- the economy through a number of ad hoc, regulatory and interventionist measures, the free enterprise business community might be forgiven for wondering whatever happened to the Liberal Party’s commitment to the market. [More…]

• The interests of the community as well as the policy holders must be borne in mind. [More…]

• Indeed, still on that other side of the com, we have to take into account that the vital changes necessitated by raging inflation may not be put through at all, at enormous inconvenience to the community, if we are waiting for legislation rather than regulation. [More…]

• I think that one of the most sensible things suggested for the Australian community is national superannuation that would at least cover everybody through life and in retirement. [More…]

• Although it was not my privilege to sit in this House during the 3 years period that he occupied the front bench on this side of the chamber, I must say that between 1972 and 1975, as an ordinary citizen I was constantly amazed at the amount of advertising that was done by the then Labor Government in regard to monopolistic governmental activities in the community. [More…]

• We know what great benefit these investments are to the community right across the board. [More…]

• Other countries, in particular the United States, certain of the countries in the European Economic Community, South Africa and not the least Mexico- I ask the Minister to note this point- have seen fit to legislate to prevent plunder by overseas companies of their own indigenous markets. [More…]

• Technical education applies to everybody in the community in one form or another. [More…]

• But the great wealth of the community with all its talents untapped and untrained have a chance to further their education and to assist this nation by undertaking technical courses which are quite wide and well adapted to a large number of people. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that a sense of elitism arises when we are dealing with skills, who has the most mental intellect and who has the best to offer the community? [More…]

• Of course education is important in playing its role of preparing people for life and of providing the opportunity to learn about self-fulfilment, about a satisfying life style and about how to make an overall contribution to the community. [More…]

• However, the best contribution that can be made by any individual to the community is to be gainfully employed in a productive capacity. [More…]

• Also of course, without a job, their opportunity to enjoy a satisfying life style is considerably diminished, although the deliberate dole bludgers in our community may dispute this assertion. [More…]

• Some of the people in the community who see this advertisement may be aware of people with difficulties in this area. [More…]

• These remarks, often unsubstantiated, will do serious harm to the colleges of advanced education and therefore to the community, which looks to the colleges to provide an alternative form of tertiary education which must not be seen in their eyes as being in any way inferior to a university education. [More…]

• In particular, those people who are unemployed, who are unable to get work, who have families to support face a far more difficult time than other persons in the community. [More…]

• There is no need for the Government and Government back benchers including the oncers to be callous in their approach to the needs of the community. [More…]

• I ask honourable members opposite to have some sort of compassion and some kind of sensitivity for the people in desperate need today who need a government with compassion and concern, not a government that is based on a callous attitude towards its material possessions and gains in the community. [More…]

• I emphasise to the honourable gentleman that the Government, with regard to youth unemployment- a section of our community which is bearing a very substantial part of the unemployment burden- has introduced a range of measures designed to help them. [More…]

• Finally, in addition to those 2 schemes we have introduced, as the honourable gentleman stated, the community youth support scheme which is designed to ensure that young people who have not been able to gain entry into the 2 areas of employment that I have mentioned, or indeed, into other areas of employment, are enabled to maintain a sense of purpose in life. [More…]

• There was a recent visit by a group from the European Economic Community interested in the prospect of purchasing further coal from Australia. [More…]

• What is clear is that one of the most irresponsible and futile strikes of recent times has ended, and it is a good example of the weight of public opinion and resolute action by both State and Federal governments safeguarding the interests of the community. [More…]

• Finally, I ask whether this evidence of below expectation investment levels reveals that this country’s business community has formed an accurate assessment of this Government’s incompetent economic management? [More…]

• The facts are quite contrary to the honourable gentleman’s expectations, because the business community has responded very vigorously to the investment allowance which the Government set down for the quite specific purpose of seeking to encourage a greater output in private capital investment spending. [More…]

• Recent remarks made by the European Economic Community coal mission and the Japanese energy mission are encouraging. [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…]

• The whole process of integrating migrants into society and making them happy, useful and fulfilled members of the community is a different- in fact, a very different- kettle of fish. [More…]

• There is abundant evidence already that migrants are among the most disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• The assisted passage scheme which ultimately benefits the community as well as the migrant will be continued and improved. [More…]

• The Liberal and National Country Parties believe that the acquisition of Australian citizenship is of great importance both to the migrant concerned and to the community at large. [More…]

• A Liberal/National Country Party government will further the potential of ethnic community access radio stations as both a means of language instruction and cultural dissemination. [More…]

• The Migrant in the Community [More…]

• It is therefore imperative that the Australian community be aware of the need of migrant groups to retain and develop their cultural past. [More…]

• I take up the recommendation of the Committee that schools themselves should take the initiative in deciding to what extent and in what ways migrant languages and cultures should be studied, after consultation between school principals, teachers, parents and the community and apply it to my own electorate of Stirling in Western Australia, parts of which have a heavy concentration of migrants, particularly Italians and Yugoslavs, and some Greeks. [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…]

• The serious problems of parental involvement, etc., cannot be viewed in the narrow focus of the school itself, but must be observed in the context of the total community. [More…]

• The Minister knows and I know, and we lie if we stand up and pretend anything else, that the basic assumption in the Australian community is that everybody should be assimilated. [More…]

• Not too far below the surface that is still the attitude of the Australian community. [More…]

• There is now no compunction on anybody of any ethnic group not to feel at home in Australia in his own community and enjoying the life we have to offer in Australia. [More…]

• I think that all honourable members on both sides of the House and indeed those people in the community interested in education will welcome this move, bearing in mind that the 3 existing commissions will be continued in the form of councils to advise the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• In fact, Phillip College is now a learning community which is really operating, I believe, at first year university level. [More…]

• Education has rapidly become a significant issue in our community and in our parliaments. [More…]

• What is important though is that such decisions or the setting of guidelines by a government can be assessed through the medium of public reports and be of long term educational value to this nation’s community. [More…]

• This flexibility has allowed the technical colleges to respond to community needs. [More…]

• Whilst these courses may be at different levels, often they have been meeting the same community demand. [More…]

• The second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) made clear that this is an interim measure. [More…]

• In the coming Budget I hope that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development will be striving for a greater allocation of funds for this purpose. [More…]

• I commend the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) for a temperate and considered proposition that he has put to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• -The Minister sitting at the table- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- is sometimes referred to in this Parliament as the undertaker of things, especially those things associated with housing, since he, more than any other Minister, is involved with this process of devolution, process of jettisoning initiatives taken by the Labor Government. [More…]

• I was surprised to hear the honourable member for Hughes claim that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) had a puzzled look on his face. [More…]

• -As one who has been genuinely committed to the welfare of pensioners and the under-privileged since I first came into Parliament 1 1 years ago, may I say that I support the legislation and I congratulate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on the manner in which he is performing the duties of his portfolio. [More…]

• His sincerity and dedication to helping less privileged members of the community should be a lesson to honourable members opposite and to certain Labor Ministers in the Labor States who seem to delight in denigrating him when he endeavours to do something to uplift a section of the community which took the greatest battering in its history under 3 years of Labor administration from 1972 to 1975. [More…]

• 1 can demonstrate, and would if I were permitted in the debate on this Bill, that the sections of the community which suffered most from the economic ravages of the Whitlam Government between 1972 and 1975 were the pensioners, the poor and the underprivileged. [More…]

• The honourable member for Bass, Mr Holgate, known as I said as Headline Harry, has reacted in a completely improper manner in respect of this legislation and, indeed, in respect of the Government’s housing policy generally by making wild statements which appear in the Press and which put fear and trepidation into the hearts of pensioners and the underprivileged not only doing this Government a disservice but also doing a great disservice to a section of the community for which I feel keenly and which should not be used as political cannon fodder. [More…]

• Those statements can only be described as contemptible and designed to put fear and trepidation into the hearts of the people in a section of the community for whom I have time and for whom I believe my colleagues the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) and the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) also have time. [More…]

• In addition, it tended to become a mutual admiration society between the honourable member and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is sitting at the table. [More…]

• I believe that he placed undue emphasis on reading into the excellent second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) meanings which one certainly could not possibly apply, even with a most imaginative approach. [More…]

• It is pertinent to remark that the present Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has achieved more positively, in a short period of time, than other Ministers for Housing have achieved in 3 years. [More…]

• I believe that it has been a most desirable initiative by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to grant an extension of 12 months, plus $10m, plus greater State freedom. [More…]

• Only the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) was sitting at the table, and it was plain to see that he was very uncomfortable. [More…]

• It is an indictment of this Government that it should make this cruel cutback in funds for such a needy section of our pension community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in his second reading speech pointed out that under the previous legislation 2017 units of accommodation were provided. [More…]

• The demand for accommodation for this section of the community that is so deserving of our help is greater than the supply. [More…]

• The Philistine might object to the spending of money on the aged because there is no apparent return later to the community. [More…]

• I make no bones about saying to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• There is one area in which innovative programs could be introduced by the Government which will enable savings of funds, which will enable community need to be met, which will enable some stimulus to the economy and which will enable voluntary organisations to participate to the full. [More…]

• In passing, I suggest that the Government should look at introducing a scheme for assistance to persons to help them keep their own homes in good repair to avoid the loss of value to the community at large in the lack of home maintenance on the wide scale. [More…]

• If there is any one group in the community which suffers from inflation it is the pensioner group. [More…]

• Those people know that in the far outback of Queensland there exists a water conservation project which is very critical to the economy and to the provision of water to the community of Mount Isa. [More…]

• In case anybody has any illusions as to the contribution made by that community to the nation, it would be well to consider not only the taxes paid to the coffers of this nation by Mount Isa Mines Ltd but also the contribution of many millions of dollars to this nation by the workers at Mount Isa. [More…]

• How can they possibly believe that a temporary prices and wages freeze would not be of benefit to the community? [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) will do what he can to make certain that we will be able to meet solemn undertakings made. [More…]

• I am concerned, as the community would be concerned, when this sort of attack occurs. [More…]

• In the light of that movement and in the light of the statement reported on AM this morning, can the Treasurer give any reassuring comments to the House and the community to dispel the concern which is likely to flow from the statements on AM, reinforced by the knowledge of these movements of overseas gold and foreign exchange holdings? [More…]

• When the honourable member sees those figures he will again seek to distort them, but the general public, the House and community at large will see those figures for what they reveal. [More…]

• I was saying in effect that as migrants become integrated in the community they become a fundamental part of the community in the State in which they live and cannot and should not and would not wish forever and for all things to be subjected to special Commonwealth legislation. [More…]

• 1 received a telephone call from the Marrickville Community Aid Office asking whether I would see a constituent of the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam), who was unavailable at the time. [More…]

• The ACTU has enjoyed the respect of Australian Governments and the Australian people and it is irresponsible for the President of that movement to now try and force upon the Australian community a political attitude towards a sporting group from another nation. [More…]

• The matter that I wish to raise today is a scheme that was instituted by the previous Labor Government, a scheme which involved people in the community in decision making in a way that they had never been involved in before in Australia. [More…]

• One of them, the North West Regional Council for Social Development, over the years has spent a great deal of time and involved the community, as I said, to an extent that it has never been involved before in the making of decisions, recommendations and submissions to governments for funds for projects in its area. [More…]

• The community involvement in the north west of Melbourne has been through the North West Regional Council for Social Development. [More…]

• In the period since the establishment of the Council its staff has acquired expertise and understanding and knows the needs of the community. [More…]

• It has successfully initiated many programs in the fields of health, welfare, child care, education, ethnic affairs, recreation, youth, environment and community information and media access. [More…]

• There is now a community development officer. [More…]

• There are neighbourhood centres, community health centres, municipal welfare committees, a legal service and ethnic culture activity officers have been appointed. [More…]

• Some State and Federal government departments have tried to regionalise their services in an attempt to decentralise and to provide the community with a more meaningful and accessible service. [More…]

• The North West Regional Council for Social Development has informed the community of the activities of the various committees, both standing and ad hoc, as well as the activities of the staff and the Council’s general executive. [More…]

• I am concerned, and so are the people in my electorate, that should funds not be available at the end of June, as stated by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), that a valuable asset in the north west will be lost to the community. [More…]

• The complaint- and the fear- is that under the socalled new federalism of the present Government it will obviously bow out of meeting its financial responsibility to the community of Australia by not making funds available after 30 June. [More…]

• The remainder of the community’s rights are restricted to voting once every 3 years or as often as an election occurs. [More…]

• The community has every right to express its disapproval of government decisions, actions or inactions. [More…]

• Many of those protests were extremely unpopular in the initial stages and politicians did not take up the causes involved for the simple reason that they were afraid of the reaction of the community or the criticism of the Press. [More…]

• Rail services must be provided to meet the needs of the States concerned at the least cost to the community and inquiries such as these undertaken by Dr Joy will assist the Government and the Commission to decide how this is to be achieved. [More…]

• In spite of cries from all sections of the community for the Liberal and National Country Parties to take alternative action, they cling to theories and philosophies which visited the Great Depression upon the world. [More…]

• I believe that there is a basic belief in the Australian community that the economy will come right. [More…]

• The honourable member for Moore spoke about this Government’s generosity in terms of the $2,000m that the Government forgoes or ploughs back into the community. [More…]

• So this $2,000m that is ploughed back into the community cannot have an effect on wages; what it could have an effect on is prices. [More…]

• As I said, there is some doubt as to whether tax indexation would affect the average person in the community. [More…]

• I pointed out that the honourable member for Ryan showed us quite clearly that all of the $2,000m that he claimed the Government was ploughing back into the community was in fact going to one section, namely, business and industry. [More…]

• This represents a saving of $1 lm worth of service to a section of the Australian community which is not going to be delivered. [More…]

• For the first time the Australian Parliament and through it, the Australian community, recognised the need to extend into the trade union area the specialist training that occurs in the community. [More…]

• For the first time trade unionists were to be recognised as a responsible and an integral part of the Australian community and all the things it stands for and the Australian economy. [More…]

• Like doctors, lawyers and architects and any other professional person in Australia, they were to be trained at community expense. [More…]

• It was held by the then Opposition, the present Government, to be something which would certainly be of value to the community. [More…]

• The people involved in trade union training in Australia are among the most respectable and the most responsible people in our whole community. [More…]

• It was told that there would be an inquiry into its activities as if it was a Mafia-like group in the community that had to be inquired into by the police. [More…]

• Those in industry who were providing employment through the satisfying of government contracts for essential works do not see insensate slashing of programs as a good thing, and that produces an attitude of great doubt in the community. [More…]

• I suggest that the way to achieve that type of approach, which is expected to be cooperative and which needs not only the vocal but also the active support of the majority of people in Australia and all sections of the Australian community, is to be honest with people, to tell them what is wanted, to tell them what the problem is and to ask them to assist. [More…]

• This will recentralise activities in social welfare which had been decentralised very effectively into the control and operation of the local community in a number of” areas, especially in my electorate. [More…]

• The reasoning behind them will no longer be available to the Australian community and Government decisions will again take on the cloak of all wisdom because any criticism of an authoritative nature will not be available for the public to examine. [More…]

• In the situation which has occurred in the last 2 weeks it has now been unravelled that the whole truth was not told to the community or the Parliament with respect to the price-wage freeze. [More…]

• The people who work for a living in this community are just as entitled to have their position protected as those people for whom they work. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, if he wanted a voluntary wages-prices freeze, had a serious responsibility to the Australian community to talk to all the parties concerned before he started hitting with brickbats. [More…]

• One cannot continue to seek to divide the nation, to blame a section of the community, which at the moment even the statistics prove is carrying the major portion of the sacrifices of the Government’s economic policy, and expect that section to cooperate when it is not consulted, no discussions are sought or held and it is asked by the leadership of the Government on public forums under threat to give agreement to a plan which the Prime Minister was not able to outline in this [More…]

• They needed that situation for political purposes, to continue their campaign of divisiveness within the Australian community. [More…]

• It is strange that in this community whenever an employer organisation makes demands on the Government- when for instance the Premier of Victoria suggests tax cuts- whilst they are not acceptable to the Government they are at least considered to be responsible suggestions. [More…]

• Your are fooling yourself if you think prices have not been going up in the community this week and last week. [More…]

• He did not accept that advice and more than $ 1 ,000m worth of concessions were granted in the Budget to sections of the Australian community which were, and are still, prosperous and which did not have the need for this assistance that other sections of the community have. [More…]

• These concessions have been paid for by reductions in the welfare area and community expenditures. [More…]

• For the first time it gives guaranteed protection to the community from unlegislated tax increases caused by inflation. [More…]

• The first instance relates to what is called the CYSS, the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Today we are throwing down millions of dollars in unemployment benefits and are receiving nothing in return for the community as a whole. [More…]

• With the introduction of such a scheme, at least we would get benefits in the form of projects of lasting value to the community, yet the Government refuses to do this. [More…]

• It ignores completely the impact upon the personality of the individual who is unemployed and instead brings up ersatz propositions such as the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• That is the decision to provide $850,000 for the Community Youth Support Scheme under which financial aid is given to community groups which provide supportive services and programs for young unemployed people. [More…]

• He has a great deal of community expertise, particularly in Sydney. [More…]

• She has had wide working experience in a variety of occupations as well as some very practical social community involvement. [More…]

• Also on the committee are: Mrs Helen Harding from one of the schools in the area, Mr Ray Cook, and Mr Tony White, who is officerincharge of the Caringbah Community Health Centre, the Secretary of the Committee is Mr Rick Parry of the Commonwealth Employment Service office in Caringbah, and the Treasurer is Mr Graham Salter. [More…]

• With this committee we have already established close contact with all community groups and service organisations and we feel that we have had certain successes already. [More…]

• One of the constant problems of these community centres- this would apply in Hughes as in other areas- is to find ways and means of getting young people to come along to the drop-in centres. [More…]

• Despite the nonsense that is being spoken by certain people, even on my own side of the House, there are unemployed young persons in this community who cannot find jobs. [More…]

• I think it will be a great disappointment if we find in several months ‘ time that there have been honourable members who for political reasons have decided not to proceed to take advantage of this community youth employment scheme. [More…]

• After all, both these forms of assistance contribute directly to efficient business operation and industrial peace and thereby the well-being of the whole community. [More…]

• I am not advocating that all training activities for unionists should be carried out in isolation from the rest of the community. [More…]

• These cuts affect those people in the community who can least protect themselves. [More…]

• Only $120,000 was allocated in the Budget for this financial year for those special investigations into the educational needs of disadvantaged groups in this community. [More…]

• Those are the people we are trying to help, as well as the rest of the Australian community, by our economic policy. [More…]

• That in turn means fewer homes and fewer community facilities in mining towns. [More…]

• That applies not only to politicians; it applies equally to employers, employees and the community at large. [More…]

• We must ensure, first, that adjustment is in the direction that we as a community consider it to be desirable and, secondly, that the rate of adjustment is not so fast as to be excessively disruptive. [More…]

• There are persons and organisations in the community which claim that the No. [More…]

• Confidence is returning to the Australian community and so it should, given the improvements in the economy which have taken place over the past 15 months. [More…]

• We must move away from the ‘government should do it’ attitude which has developed to frightening proportions in the community in recent years and which the Labor Government reinforced in a major way during its period in office. [More…]

• It is a course which has widespread acceptance throughout the community. [More…]

• I conclude where I started, by urging the Opposition to join the Government in tackling the nation’s problems rather than in hindering, obstructing and attempting to confuse the community at every turn of the way. [More…]

• If the Opposition is really serious about helping the Government and the community at large to solve our economic problems, it has a great responsibility to assist. [More…]

• If it does not assist or attempt to assist, the community will judge it for the Party it is. [More…]

• How out of touch is it with the human side of its policies when it is so badly wrong about the amounts of money that are needed to administer basic community services in Australia. [More…]

• In 1973 and 1974 the conservative coalition partners denounced the proposal that a Medibank health insurance membership card would be issued to members of the Australian community. [More…]

• If a member of the community drawing on the benefits of Medibank decided that he or she did not wish to use the card or, through some inconvenience such as leaving it at home or mislaying it, was not able to present it, benefits would still have been payable. [More…]

• They abhorred, they said, the thought that the Australian community was about to be regimented. [More…]

• If it were to be accepted on both sides- this is likely to be finally determined at the hearings of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that have begun this morning- that the freeze should be proceeded with, then the problems that would occur in some areas and in the transition arrangements in the post 3-month period should be examined jointly by the Prices Justification Tribunal and the committee that the Government has suggested should be established, a committee representing the Tribunal, employers and employees on the one hand and the Commission on the other, because it certainly continues to be the Government’s view that there is such widespread community support for this broad approach that the community would not want to lose the benefits of it at the end of a 3-month period. [More…]

• This hardly sets an example to the rest of the community whom the Government is telling to tighten their belts or to live within their capacities. [More…]

• Nevertheless there are sections in the Australian community with an inadequacy rather than a surplus. [More…]

• I listened a few minutes ago to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) introducing a Bill to strengthen the guarantees under the housing loans insurance scheme. [More…]

• In our present circumstances the community, as usual, is asking for more expenditure, on the one hand, and lower taxes, on the other. [More…]

• There are many avenues of expenditure which are desirable and for which strong cases can be made out for continuous expenditure or increased expenditure, but the community cannot pay for everything at once. [More…]

• Surely it ought to be acknowledged in the community today that when we talk about government spending we are talking not merely about money spent in government departments supporting public servants. [More…]

• There seems to be an implication in the community that money spent by the Government is being wasted on lazy public servants. [More…]

• The point I am making is that the way in which the Government has aggressively and austerely cut back on the rate of government spending has in fact been anaesthetical to the best interests of that section of the community to which it claims to be philosophically committed. [More…]

• The Prime Minister would dearly love us all- the whole community in fact- to forget about the ill vaunted, ill considered wage and prices freeze. [More…]

• In my second reading speech on 8 December 1976 I indicated that the Government considered that this extremely technical legislation should be exposed for study by interested parties throughout the community. [More…]

• in fact, closely scrutinised by many sections of the community. [More…]

• A draft amendment Bill on this subject has been prepared by the Government and it is my proposal to expose that draft legislation to the community for the purposes of public discussion of its terms. [More…]

• It attempted to provide the Australian community with services and amenities equivalent to our standard of living. [More…]

• I refer to hospitals, schools, health and community centres, pre-schools and the like. [More…]

• That decision, made by the Cabinet ‘farm boys’ as they were referred to by the Wall Street Journal who dominate economic decision making in this country, has cost and will cost the community millions of dollars. [More…]

• The Bill in the Senate states that not only would that definition include that person but also a person who claims to be such and who is recognised in the community as being such. [More…]

• However, with regard to the question of investigation and what it means, we are talking about what I have said already, that is, the need to maintain a proper balance between protection for the individual rights and liberties on the one hand and the community’s need for practical and effective law enforcement on the other hand. [More…]

• the great failing of the law of criminal procedure hitherto has not so much been its principles or its sentiment;., not the kind of theoretical balance between community and private interests that it has attempted to strike, hut rather the failure of the law on the ground to conform with the law in the books. [More…]

• An examination of the draft Bill reveals a number of provisions which the Government was not prepared to accept but in relation to which I would say from an opposition’s point of view and from the community’s point of view the Commission was right and the Government was wrong. [More…]

• There has always been a conflict inherent in the balancing of different individual rights or group rights in the community. [More…]

• The community has the right to know that detection methods are efficient and free from complications. [More…]

• There are probably very few members of this House or of the community who when confronted by a police officer would not feel some degree of nervous concern. [More…]

• The Bill is designed to assist by providing a balance between the individual and the community as represented by the police officers. [More…]

• I believe the police are entitled to have a simple Bill and I believe that the community is entitled to have a simple Bill. [More…]

• I have been most concerned, as indeed have members of the Australian Meat Board and officers of my Department, at what is seen to be a policy followed by many countries, not peculiarly by Japan but by the European Economic Community and last year by the United States, of restricting the level of permissible imports of Australian beef into their markets. [More…]

• But what measures is the Government taking to see that tax alleviation is passed on through the system for the benefit of the community? [More…]

• However, the Treasurer must explain the Government’s decision in this regard if others in the community are not to feel aggrieved by livestock being included when it was specifically excluded in the expert Committee’s report. [More…]

• The effect was such as to reduce company profitability, expressed as a proportion of total income in the community- taking company profits as a proportion of the total incomes in the community or, strictly, of non-farm gross product- from a norm of the order of 15 per cent to 1 1 per cent in some quarters of 1975. [More…]

• There is an impression in the community that corporations are sufficiently profitable to be able to finance extraordinary, irresponsible wage and condition claims. [More…]

• What has happened is that on the basis of a community expectation about profits, which is based on a lie, not only have there been excessive, unrealistic efforts by the unions to get such high levels of benefit that they have destroyed many corporations but also there was acceptance of that view by the government of the day when it set out to redistribute resources from the private sector to the public sector. [More…]

• That assists not only the company but also the revenue in view of the amount of money which is available to the Government and which finally finds it way back into the community. [More…]

• The income is taxed at the normal general rate which is paid by every other person in the community. [More…]

• I would be the first to admit that they form a long-suffering section of the community. [More…]

• The present Government, which supposedly looks after the interest of farmers and other business sections of the community, has not taken any note of that recommendation of the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]

• It is about time the Australian Taxpayers Association looked at itself and worked out whether it is really looking after the interests of all taxpayers or the interests of only a certain section of the taxpaying community. [More…]

• The section of the taxpaying community to which I refer is, in my view, the one least deserving of any assistance at all. [More…]

• I believe that the greatest barrier to the acceptance by the Australian community of modern accounting principles has been the reluctance of the Taxation Office to recognise certain accounting expenses as being a taxation deduction. [More…]

• I hope that this might in some way be an encouragement for employment and also for those young people in the community who are, I am led to understand, the majority of the unemployed at the moment so that we can give them job opportunities. [More…]

• In addressing myself to this piece of legislation I think the important thing to remember, with regard to the implementation of the Mathews Committee recommendations, is that the proposals contained in the legislation favour a very small section of the community. [More…]

• The facts are that altogether this Government will have given to the business community well over $1,000m-reaching on to $l,300m-by the end of this financial year. [More…]

• The total concessions to the business community given by this Government are in excess of1,000mreaching up to $ 1,300m. [More…]

• As I was saying, in this case the estimated cost to revenue will be $360m; but total concessions to the business community will exceed $ 1,000m and may reach $ 1,300m, which will increase the deficit. [More…]

• If an unemployment relief scheme were to be implemented in that area these young people and the older people could be given employment which would be of lasting benefit to the community. [More…]

• It could give man the dignity to work for his living and enable him to provide something useful to the community rather than merely paying him the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• If the Government were to provide finance of $ 100m to $200m, thereby providing employment for those masses of people who are losing all the dignity of life- the ability to work and the right to work which are fundamental human principles in this country- instead of allowing industry to benefit to the extent of $360m, it would be doing something for the community at large. [More…]

• Instead, the Government keeps on giving out special concessions to the business community. [More…]

• It gave the business community a reduction in company tax in the last Budget. [More…]

• This is a matter of some technical complexity as well as of considerable significance for the business community in Australia, particularly those businesses which are anxious to invest out of real profits and to see that paper profits upon which they are taxed do not take away from them capital reserves and thereby diminish their capacity to invest. [More…]

• Despite all the wonderful talk about trying to prove that they are made at the proper date, the bona fide date, say prior to 2 1 April, by an exchange of cheques, it is enormously difficult to do that proving and to ensure that those who are in the professional business of avoiding taxation which one of my colleagues has pointed out already this evening is to the cost of the rest of the community, are brought within the legislation. [More…]

• I suggest that there is still time to explore further the possibility of moving amendments in the Senate and then in this Chamber which would give the advantages of the old section 36a to genuine people but at the same time not allow the terrible loopholes which have existed and of which advantage has been taken by the charlatans in the community. [More…]

• On the other hand, if this Government were to accept the principle that an Act of today could apply back 5 years for some particular purpose, it could net all sorts of people quite honestly taking action within the community according to law. [More…]

• I think that the principle we have adopted tonight is very important, and I hope that in years to come the honourable member for Adelaide will remember this historic occasion and make quite certain that he uses his influence within his Party to make sure that this dreadful matter of retrospective legislation and its application is never allowed to raise its head within this place to the disadvantage of ordinary members of the community who make perfectly rational decisions according to the law of the time. [More…]

• Returning specifically to clauses 5 and 6 of the Bill, we on this side of the chamber will not have a bar of deliberate manipulation of the law to the disadvantage of other taxpayers or, put in another sense, to the disadvantage of the community in general. [More…]

• If that is done, members of the community who took proper action according to the law will be disadvantaged. [More…]

• I can use no word other than that word because they are thieving from the community. [More…]

• They are thieving from the community and forcing someone else, who is less able to pay his share of tax than they are, to pay that tax. [More…]

• -There are many skilled people in this place who have lived off the mavericks in the community. [More…]

• I say this to the Government quite seriously: Have a little less sympathy for the tax avoiders and the tax evaders and a little more sympathy for the average person in the community who pays his fair share of tax. [More…]

• Frankly, I believe that the members of that section of the community who are prepared to bludge- that is another word I do not normally use- on their fellow taxpayers are worthy of no consideration. [More…]

• That includes the ordinary person in the community. [More…]

• That will force these mavericks in the community, who are trying to get out of paying any tax if it is possible, to pay their fair share of tax. [More…]

• But until this area is scrutinised fully to estimate the total costs, both private and public, of each mode, it is impossible to say whether or not the community’s interest might best be served by subsidising interstate shipping. [More…]

• The cost of this in terms of social and economic disruption is borne by all the community, not just the employees involved in strikes. [More…]

• If the Government has not done something about it or if the report has been completed, again I hope that the Minister will bring forward that report as soon as it is completed for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• Out of the horror of that terrible accident some good may come in that governments, particularly Federal and State governments, and the community will upgrade their priorities for expenditure on railway maintenance. [More…]

• Since the Commonwealth first became involved with railways, with the turning of the sod at Port Augusta in 1912 to the connection with the Western Australian system at Kalgoorlie, it has been the Commonwealth’s role to provide an efficient service for both goods and passengers at the least cost to the community. [More…]

• As a female, migrant school in a low socio-economic area, we have the base aims of equipping students to cope adequately with varied situations in life, to contribute positively to their community- local, ethnic and Australian. [More…]

• Before I begin to spell out the significant contents of this report, I would first stress the point that the valuable work of the committee was done under the sponsorship of the Australian Assistance Plan and that the report represents just one of the many contributions being made to the Australian community by the AAP. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a report on the Australian Broadcasting Commission on Sunday 20 March 1 977, that the Shire of Yarrowlumla, New South Wales, has been unable to obtain any grant of funds for the Youth Community Employment Scheme; if so, is the report accurate. [More…]

• An application from the Yarrowlumla Shire Council for funding under the Community Youth Support Scheme was lodged with my Department in January 1 977. [More…]

• Of course, if there is a shortage of interpreters, this would be a matter of great concern to the Government because the Government is concerned to ensure that the migrant community has interpreter services at all public institutions and facilities. [More…]

• My understanding is that even in the European Economic Community, the draft resolution which led to the establishment of the Bullock Committee in the United Kingdom has now been withdrawn and the EEC does not intend to proceed with the idea of worker directors. [More…]

• That refers to myself as Treasurer- the Minister for Environment Housing and Community. [More…]

• I speak, however, to draw attention to the activities of some individuals within trade unions who bring disrepute on the union movement and whose activities, if they continue, can only adversely affect our community. [More…]

• This is becoming a vital issue because no matter which party is in power, no matter which group has been elected via the political process, there are some groups in our society holding key positions who are determined to make political decisions on behalf of the whole community without reference to and often in defiance of the parliamentary process. [More…]

• This question of political strikes is a vital one for the community and, I believe, will become more urgent if current trends continue. [More…]

• But it is one thing to tender advice and seek to influence government policy; it is quite another to attempt to impose decisions on governments and on the community. [More…]

• The cost to the community of political strikes can be enormous. [More…]

• I do not think it is the role of any group in the community to make decisions of the nature of these loading bans. [More…]

• It is abhorrent that we are confronted with groups not merely expressing their views on some issues but, through their ability to create chaos and to disrupt the community, attempting to impose their views on government. [More…]

• We are told that political strikes are carried out on behalf of the community, because the Parliament does not really represent the people. [More…]

• It is sheer nonsense to claim that the interest of the community in general is best served through a process of extraparliamentary action. [More…]

• Similarly a referendum was held in the United Kingdom on the question of joining the European Economic Community- a matter of great importance. [More…]

• They are constantly being urged to use their union’s potential political leverage even if this disrupts the community. [More…]

• In short, I believe there is good reason to believe that a referendum is of value to the community. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting I pointed out to the House the great dangers to the community represented by political strikes. [More…]

• The first of the 3 reasons that I put forward in favour of the holding of such a referendum is that it would destroy for ever the pretence that these political strikes are conducted in the interests of the community. [More…]

• That is something that the community should be able to decide for itself. [More…]

• Thirdly, it would encourage the industrial courts to take appropriate action against unionists and union leaders who abuse their power to impose political disabilities on the community. [More…]

• That would no doubt strengthen community resolve on this matter before it reaches crisis point. [More…]

• A referendum on this subject would help to strengthen this Parliament and the community. [More…]

• Under those circumstances we will have people in powerful positions, such as magnates of corporations, taking decisions that may not be in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I believe that it is in both Australia’s national interest and in the interest of the international community as a whole, that we should play an active part in the International Fund for Agricultural Development by contributing $8m to the Fund and ratifying the Agreement establishing the Fund. [More…]

• The Australian intelligence community is fragmented, poorly co-ordinated and organised. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Government has decided that there should be a special committee of Ministers comprising the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Treasurer, the Leader of the House, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Defence and the Attorney-General to set overall policy and oversee the work of the intelligence community. [More…]

• The terms of reference of the Ministerial Committee will be ‘to exercise policy control and managerial oversight over the national intelligence community, external and internal, in respect of targets, priorities, activities, organisational requirements, broad allocation of resources, performance and co-ordination and inter-relationships of the various agencies’. [More…]

• These terms of reference will allow Ministers collectively to have the fullest opportunity and the responsibility of maintaining an effective and efficient intelligence community, responsive to the needs of government and the rights of citizens. [More…]

• The Office of National Assessments is to have a major role in the production of intelligence assessments and will be an important part of the intelligence community. [More…]

• As mentioned earlier, the community will be subject to policy control and managerial oversight, through the machinery arrangements at ministerial and permanent head level decided on by the Government. [More…]

• However, the responsibility for existing agencies in the community- for example, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Joint Intelligence Organisation- will remain with the present Ministers. [More…]

• In any event, the Government will encourage the greatest possible contact between the intelligence community and the other arms of government ‘ in order to ensure that the intelligence community and the departments of government are in close touch and accord on matters of concern to the government and the community. [More…]

• This will be achieved in particular by the new ministerial and senior officials’ committees of the intelligence community. [More…]

• The Government remains strongly of the view that the price/wage pause has the overwhelming support of the Australian community. [More…]

• I would like at this stage to record the Government’s gratitude for the swift and generous response of a wide section of the business community so far as price restraint is concerned. [More…]

• In the light of such support from the community the [More…]

• It had een the Government’s intention that if support in principle to the objective of a price-wage pause had been forthcoming from all relevant sections of the community the problems of these companies could have been amongst the areas to be examined by the special committee comprising representatives of employees, employers and the Prices Justification Tribunal which the Government had proposed establishing. [More…]

• I again express the Government’s appreciation of the support which was so readily forthcoming from such a wide spectrum of the community. [More…]

• I also express the hope that it will still be possible to achieve the effective implementation of the price-wage pause which the community demonstrably supports. [More…]

• On Monday of this week, to the disgrace of this Government, we found that in discussing the wage-price freeze behind closed doors employers and manufacturers were agreeing to the freeze at a price which the whole community had to pay. [More…]

• All the European Economic Community works together with Switzerland and Austria. [More…]

• I hope that Hansard is not recording the attempts of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to interject in a prattling manner. [More…]

• With this in mind, the first objective of the housing policy must be to stabilise the availability of home purchase finance for all groups within the community and to encourage the development of various means of increasing access to home ownership where this is prejudiced by terms on which the home purchase finance is available. [More…]

• I think this will be a problem of the community as a whole. [More…]

• The home ownership income threshold cannot be crossed by a significant proportion of the community unless the degree of nsk seen in them by lending institutions can be eliminated. [More…]

• Of course, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) kept jabbering earlier about what the Government will do with the funds. [More…]

• It saw fit to turn its back on that significant proportion of the community which cannot cross the income threshold. [More…]

• Several of the States have submitted comments on the proposals; the insurance industry has formally responded on a number of aspects and is currently preparing further material on other aspects; and numerous comments have been received from individual members of the community. [More…]

• 1) (a) The working party, established to formulate proposals for a natural disaster insurance scheme in consultation with the insurance industry, is chaired by a representative of the Department of the Treasury and includes representatives of the Insurance Commissioner, the Australian Government Actuary, the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Finance, Environment, Housing and Community Development and Primary Industry. [More…]

• The technical committee, established to work on technical aspects of the matter under guidance from the working party, is chaired by the Australian Government Actuary and includes representatives of the Insurance Commissioner, the Departments of the Treasury and Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Insurance Council of Australia- a widely representative body of the general insurance industry- and the State Government Insurance Office, Queensland. [More…]

• The study is taking account of the reactor needs within the community for both scientific research and radioisotope production for medical and industrial purposes. [More…]

• However, I believe the good sense and good taste of the Australian community will prove the effective counter to any move to introduce such unsavoury games into this country. [More…]

• Now that that matter in effect has passed us I still think that it is very necessary for price setters in the community to show the greatest possible degree of restraint in the prices charged for their goods and products just as I believe it is necessary for wage earners to show the greatest possible degree of restraint in the requests they put to the appropriate wage fixing tribunals. [More…]

• The Industrial Relations Bureau in significant measure is designed to protect not only the interests of individuals but also the interests of the community. [More…]

• I hope that the honourable gentleman in his question is not indicating a complete and utter disregard for the Australian community and the people of Tasmania and the harm that was caused to people in Australia and overseas as a result of that dispute. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware that a married couple in the electorate of [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Through these arrangements we have access to and exchange valuable information with the United States on a wide range of international strategic developments as well as security and intelligence matterssuch as espionage and international terrorism to name 2 examples- which contribute in the broadest terms to the protection of Australia and the Australian community. [More…]

• His facts have never been challenged by the United States Government or the intelligence community. [More…]

• That message, which appears in Hansard at page 1520, was a clear example of the attempted deception of the Australian Government by the American intelligence community. [More…]

• It was only 5 months ago that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) said in a statement that the Government welcomes any international initiatives for strengthening the international non-proliferation regime, implying that the Government itself was not going to devote its attention to the development of safeguards. [More…]

• Consequently, so it is argued, it is more in tune with what is going on in New York and within the international community and as a result, so it is said, the delegation in New York is more able than are people in Canberra to make decisions as to what Australia’s position should be. [More…]

• As a result of this hospitality we were given the opportunity to meet a number of significant leaders of the international community whom the Minister of course already knew but whom we did not know. [More…]

• Despite the best efforts of people of good will and of the international community, we must expect that there will continue to be refugees. [More…]

• These steps, taken as an involved member of the international community, must now be complemented by the adoption and application of an ongoing refugee policy and refugee mechanism. [More…]

• If we are to seek to act in the interests of refugees themselves and the Australian community, it is necessary to face up to many practical difficulties. [More…]

• Those who have in the recent past exhorted the Government to accept greater numbers of refugees must take into account the need to coordinate and develop such Government and community resources as will assist not only in the acceptance, but also in the responsible settlement, of refugees. [More…]

• It is the Government’s view that the acceptance and settlement of refugees should be a continuum beginning with a quick and decisive response to international crises and concluding, after what may be a long and difficult path for the refugee, with successful integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• There will be a regular intake of Indo-Chinese refugees from Thailand and nearby areas at a level consistent with our capacity as a community to resettle them. [More…]

• It is in the belief that there is a community willingness to assist the dispossessed and displaced from overseas in a sensible and realistic way to seek sanctuary and a new life in Australia, that I commend this statement to the Parliament and the people of Australia. [More…]

• Membership of this body should be drawn from both government and nongovernment sources- On the non-government side, membership should comprise representatives from the major Australian refugee-receiving and overseas-aid agencies, the Australian representative of the UNHCR (in an observer capacity), Red Cross, other organisations having practical experience in settlement work and post-hostel community support for refugees, and representatives from the academic community. [More…]

• With regard to the Government’s very sorry record in relation to the Lebanese crisis the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) and myself have raised issues repeatedly in this place concerning the Government’s inaction, its deception of the Lebanese community in Australia and its failure to assist the passage of an adequate number of refugees from this sorry nation to Australia. [More…]

• From the outset we set out very clearly our position regarding Public Service ceilings and the capacity of Ministers to go to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and have that position reviewed according to needs and according to complaints which had been received from within the departments and the community generally, including Public Service unions. [More…]

• We also believe that within the community there is support for the policies which we have adopted in the setting of limits to the rate of growth which, if the Opposition had its way, apparently would be boundless. [More…]

• Private enterprise and business and commerce, who should be able to expect prompt responses to a wide range of inquiries for information concerning tariffs and bounties and trade prospects in overseas markets such as the European Economic Community, Scandinavia and Asia, as well as in relation to new technology in manufacturing industries, have not been able to obtain quick responses because the staff ceilings have not enabled the public servants to get on with the job. [More…]

• A major part of the White Paper is devoted to ways of generating a wider and fuller understanding in the community of the significance of the changing environment for Australian manufacturing industry and to means of establishing through consultation a general acceptance of how to respond to these changes. [More…]

• As a longer term objective the community will be best served by a manufacturing industry with a structure which requires minimum levels of government support. [More…]

• The Government recognises that protection policies can affect the rate of change in industry and cannot be determined in isolation from the ability of the community to absorb change or accommodate the social consequences of any prospective change. [More…]

• The problems likely to be faced by manufacturing industry in the future will be properly dealt with only if they are understood and appreciated within the community. [More…]

• This will require a greater degree of consultation between the Commonwealth and the State governments and with the many centres of influence and decision making within the community, including management, the trade unions and consumers. [More…]

• To contribute to an increased awareness in the community of the problems of industry, the Department of Industry and Commerce will prepare an annual review of manufacturing industry to report on major developments in industry. [More…]

• I agree with the statement both here and in the White Paper that at the moment in the economic circumstances in which we live, to talk about the immediate disruption of industries or the immediate lowering of tariffs to any significant extent is, of course, to throw pressures and problems on to a small sector of the Australian community, both the employee and employer, without taking into account the hardships they may have to carry in relation to the rest of the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has taken many fine initiatives that have been of benefit to the home buyers of Australia. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman), who has just concluded his speech, talked about the prowess of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and gave the impression that the Minister was one of the great achievers in the Fraser Ministry. [More…]

• There is the abolition of the Australian Housing Corporation which was the vehicle by which the Australian Government for the first time in its history was to have a capacity to so something effective about the housing needs of this community. [More…]

• The Bill, of course, is exploiting the housing needs of the community because it is being used as a process for deriving government revenue. [More…]

• This is being done at the expense of the home-seeking community. [More…]

• It could be looked upon suspiciously by the community and it could bring about total non-compliance. [More…]

• The phrase ‘benefit to the public’, has been interpreted by the Tribunal as meaning ‘anything of value to the community generally, any contribution to the aims pursued by the society including as one of its principal elements …. the achievement of the economicgoals of efficiency and progress’. [More…]

• The union bully boss comes here tonight and tells us that this law is a bad law and that it will bring the Parliament into disrepute in the community. [More…]

• We recognise that and the community recognises that. [More…]

• I believe that there will be aspects of this legislation that will benefit the community in the short term. [More…]

• Hence there will be no need for a price increase and, accordingly, there will be a benefit for the Australian economy and community at large. [More…]

• Further, I recommend that the old building become the community centre and civic museum. [More…]

• Information available to my Department indicates chat as at 30 March 1977 community committees have been established in the following federal divisions: [More…]

• It should be noted that community committees while desirable are not essential to the implementations of the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Funds have been made available to a number of other local committees and organisations in federal divisions irrespective of whether a community committee has been established by a member of the House or his nominee. [More…]

• and (4) As at 31 March 1977, the following community committees have themselves successfully sponsored applications for funds under the Scheme. [More…]

• The projects are named in each case, and the activities in the voluntary community service component of each project are listed. [More…]

• 1 ) No; annual leave loading was introduced for public servants on the basis that it reflected community standards. [More…]

• The Government’s view is that the form of leave loading which has now been endorsed by the Arbitral authorities, after hearing argument from the parties, reflects community standards and is appropriate for Commonwealth employees. [More…]

• 1 ) There are drug problems amongst various groups in the community and at various institutions including the Australian National University. [More…]

• 1 ) How much was granted to each State for community health services and facilities in 1975-76, and how much will be granted in 1976-77. [More…]

• How much was transferred in 1975-76 and will be transferred in 1976-77 by each State government to (a) community health centres and (b) women’s refuges. [More…]

• Under the Community Health Program the amounts expended by the States on community health services and facilities in 1975-76, and the amounts allocated to the States for this purpose in 1 976-77, are as follows: [More…]

• Did the Government take the opportunity afforded by the recent visit to Australia of a delegation of senior officials from the Commission of the European Economic Community to impress upon these officials Australia’s dissatisfaction with the Community’s restrictive trading policies, particularly in relation to Australian exports of beef and veal and other primary products? [More…]

• Senior officials of the Commission of the European Economic Community met with Government representatives in Canberra in March this year to discuss multilateral and bilateral issues relating to the trade between Australia and the EEC. [More…]

• On the Australian side we naturally wanted to discuss the impact of the Community’s policies in the agricultural sector on Australia’s exports of primary products, particularly beef and veal. [More…]

• Although Australian welcomed the community’s decision in December last year to permit 75 000 tonnes of manufacturing grade beef to be imported under two global quotas between April and December this year, the Government emphasised to the members of the Commission that it was still concerned at the likelihood that the revised variable levy scheme operating from I April would prevent regular and substantial imports of beef and veal into the Community and would restrict access to the EEC beef market to periods of short domesticsupply which could be both relatively brief and infrequent. [More…]

• Australia also expressed its concern at the very high level of EEC export subsidies which had encouraged considerable Community exports of beef and veal. [More…]

• The Commission representatives sought to ensure the Australian delegation that it was not the intention of the EEC to achieve self-sufficiency in beef production, particularly in the area of manufacturing grade beef, where the Community is likely to have a continuing need for imported beef. [More…]

• The Commission believed that the recent surplus situation which existed in the Community was due to very heavy slaughterings attributed in particular to the rising prices of imported feedgrains on which the EEC was dependent. [More…]

• On the question of export subsidies, the Commission said that it was not the intention of the Community to actively seek the expansion of their beef exports in the longer term and that the recent increasing level of exports reflected the short term oversupply situation in the EEC. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of allegations that a large scale fraud has been perpetrated in Sydney, involving illegal payments of unemployment benefits to members of the Turkish community? [More…]

• I have been given preliminary advice that Commonwealth Police believe that they have uncovered a major fraud involving the illegal payment of unemployment benefit to members of the Turkish community in Sydney. [More…]

• So far as additional areas of confidence which obviously will have an impact on the community at large are concerned, the honourable gentleman ought to reflect on the report that I made yesterday in the House as to the very significant success of the May loan reaching some $450m. [More…]

• Australia ranks sixteenth in the world trading community and hence taken as a whole we are not a major world force in trade. [More…]

• Our access to the Japanese markets was eliminated and European Economic Community imports from Australia were reduced to negligible quantities. [More…]

• I pointed out that since 1973 when Britain joined the European Economic Community, access to what was once our largest market for foodstuffs has been progressively closed off. [More…]

• I am pleased to see the interest this has evoked in significant sectors of the Australian business community. [More…]

• A somnolent Rip Van Winkle indifference, not just by members of the community until, of course, something actually happens to them or to a loved one, plus a sort of Alice in Wonderland, dormouse in the teapot attitude by some members of our judiciary and probably by as many of our State and federal parliamentarians, are at least in part responsible for this current reign of terror. [More…]

• Despite many of the provisions to which I have referred and others to which other speakers will refer in Committee, nevertheless there is concern on the part of other sections of the community to the effect that they would like some further changes. [More…]

• On the other hand, there have to be restraints, guidelines, and all the rest of it, if we are to have an effective piece of legislation for protection purposes, but bearing in mind that that protection must be fairly even-handed and must take into account the respective interests of the total community to which I referred earlier. [More…]

• He did not say anything about the severe implications of the legislation that his Party earlier put on the statute book as far as other sections of the community are concerned. [More…]

• Whereas persons who engaged in anti-competitive behaviour in our community once had to go before the Trade Practices Commission and justify why they should be allowed to persist with this sort of behaviour, now the onus is on the other side. [More…]

• I was merely drawing to the attention of the House the complexities of this legislation, the many questions which arise from it and why I believe the whole of Australia, both the business community and consumers- to the extent that one is able to distinguish them, in many ways their interests in this legislation overlap- will benefit if this legislation is referred to a select committee. [More…]

• In this case, in relation to so many of these provisions, every one of us will find members of the community who will come out and say that they have been disadvantaged, just as the small business organisations did in relation to the proposed repeal of section 49. [More…]

• How silly we will look in this House of Representatives, the House which has the most direct contact with people in the community, if we pass up the opportunity to have a better look at this legislation, if we pass up the opportunity to let our constituents come to us and inform our colleagues in a select committee about its likely application. [More…]

• Indeed, by adopting that procedure, the Government afforded to those people, both in this Parliament and in the community, who were interested in this subject, an opportunity beyond the opportunity normally afforded by governments to allow scrutiny and comment of important legislation. [More…]

• We should not get to the situation where a government, having introduced legislation into the House, says that that is the final word on the matter and it will not consult anybody outside in the community who may be affected by that legislation. [More…]

• It has been the subject of scrutiny, consideration and comment by a wide section of the community. [More…]

• It accords with the concept that if a government is heard to assert to the private enterprise community that competition legislation is good for the community generally, then it should be heard to accept that that same competition legislation should, as far as is reasonably practicable, bind the operations of the Government itself. [More…]

• The policy intention of the Government- I believe that policy intention has been effectively translated into the legislation- is very clear and that is to treat in an even-handed fashion the commercial operations and the behaviour of sections of the community in a commercial environment. [More…]

• If competition legislation is regarded- as this Government regards it- as being something quite important and fundamental, then the community ought to be prepared to accept the same restraints as a government where it is operating in a commercial environment. [More…]

• I think it is the essence of even-handed treatment that if we assert that something is good for one section of the community because it serves the public interest, we ought to be prepared to accept that those same rules and restraints apply, as far as is practical, to our own behaviour. [More…]

• He was blaming legalism in the business community for delays at public hearings and before the Commission. [More…]

• The argument used against the hearings by the Government is on very flimsy ground and provokes great suspicion in the community as to why it is occurring. [More…]

• I believe that the creation of the Council as a statutory body will not only enhance its status in the community but will also ensure its continuance as an essential channel for communications in the labour field. [More…]

• I am one of those parliamentarians who believe that Parliament ought to accept all the responsibilities for the decisions that have to be made in relation to the general Australian community. [More…]

• The Minister was kind enough in Hobart last week to spend some time with representatives of the business community of Hobart and the Hobart Chamber of Commerce. [More…]

• I believe that this is a classic example of a secondary boycott which ought not be allowed to continue in the Australian business community. [More…]

• Industrial blackmail cannot be afforded in the Australian community any longer. [More…]

• I suppose that almost any action taken in the community can affect trade practices and could therefore be scooped in. [More…]

• No political party in Australia, be it on our side of politics or on the Australian Labor Party’s side, can gain any profit from deliberately confronting any section of the Australian community, be that the trade union movement, the farmers, the industrialists of Australia or whatever the case may be. [More…]

• We shall do that because we believe it to be demonstrably unfair to the private sector of the Australian community to impose the elaborate paraphenalia of the Trade Practices Act upon the private sector but at the same time to say that the Government is a special case. [More…]

• Having read some of the literature that has been produced about this proposed section and having listened to some of the speeches that have been made tonightsome, if I may say so, were more thoughtful than others- one would imagine that what the Government was about through this legislation was to discriminate in favour of all sections of the community against the trade union movement. [More…]

• It is a mechanism, first, for firms discovering the kinds of goods and services the community wants and the manner in which these may be supplied in the cheapest possible way. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 April 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on notice, on 27 April 1 977: [More…]

• -My question, to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development relates to the AlburyWodonga development area. [More…]

• I have been encouraged by the interest taken in this inquiry by the community throughout Australia. [More…]

• The Government has of course maintained the funding of women’s refuges on a 100 per cent basis in the States through the community health program. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has written to the Premier of Queensland indicating that the Government wishes to continue the funding of 2 women’s refuges in Queensland which the Queensland Government has not been prepared to fund out of the resources of the community health program. [More…]

• The Government believes that a good deal of sensitivity, understanding and concern needs to be shown in the area of service to the public, especially in the circumstance that a significant part of the Australian community was not born ere and sometimes has difficulty with English and in understanding and knowing how to get the necessary information out of government departments. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development would be able to deal with that matter better than I could. [More…]

• Why is his Government so determined to reduce, in real relative terms, the living standards of wage and salary earners in the community? [More…]

• That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent me from debating the lack of understanding on the part of the Treasurer of the situation of wage and salary earners in the community at the moment, the proportion of resources going to wages and salaries and the undesirable effect on economic activity which will arise if the Government persists with these policies. [More…]

• Unemployment to this excessive extent, through its inter-relationship with health, housing, education and community development generally, is severely undermining the progress in Aboriginal affairs made by successive governments at considerable public expense since the 1967 referendum. [More…]

• The initiatives to be undertaken in these communities consist of community development employment projects, or CDEPs as they will be known, which will provide work for all Aboriginals in a particular community who wish to work. [More…]

• Finance for the CDEPs will be provided to individual Aboriginal councils to enable the council to pay for work performed by individual community members, preferably on a cooperative, part-time or contractual basis. [More…]

• The total moneys available to a community would be determined in consultation between the community and departmental officers. [More…]

• In determining the amounts available, the entitlements of individual community members to unemployment benefit would be taken into account. [More…]

• Also, in conjunction with the CDEPs, special training will be provided for Aboriginals who wish to acquire or upgrade their skills to equip them to either take over skilled jobs within their community now undertaken by non-Aboriginals or, if they so desire, leave the community to join the open labour market. [More…]

• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS (CDEPs) BASIC OUTLINE AND GUIDELINES [More…]

• To provide employment opportunities thereby reducing the need for unemployment benefit for unemployed Aboriginals within the community at a cost approximating unemployment benefits. [More…]

• To include in the employment provided, activities directed at combating the social problems referred to, so as to help reduce their deleterious effects and progressively improve community stability. [More…]

• Community Development Employment Grants will be applied to provide employment to unemployed members of an Aboriginal community and will be confined to Aboriginals living in remote areas or as separate communities where there is high unemployment and inadequate job opportunities and where the projects have been specifically requested by a community. [More…]

• Grants will be paid to Aboriginal community councils but where appropriate may be paid direct to clan groups. [More…]

• Each community will be encouraged to establish its own method of remuneration for its members who participate in the project provided that [More…]

• all unemployed community members, eligible to apply for unemployment benefits will be given the opportunity to participate; [More…]

• each participating community member, provided he contributes the required minimum hours or satisfies other minimum criteria determined by the community, will be guaranteed a minimum income approximating his normal unemployment benefit entitlement, [More…]

• It has been agreed that the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations will provide/arrange vocational training to assist Aboriginals to participate in the project or where desired to obtain normal employment outside the community. [More…]

• The community, when required, shall satisfy the Department of Aboriginal Affairs that the project is being implemented in accordance with these guidelines. [More…]

• The community shall assist the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to evaluate and monitor the effectiveness of the project, including its social effectiveness. [More…]

• After the Hay report had been leaked in its entirety to the Press, the Government could not withstand the mounting indignation of the Australian community, the Opposition and the Government’s own back bench. [More…]

• It fails to commit any additional expenditure to finance or support the community development employment projects or an expanded NEAT scheme. [More…]

• I was rather concerned and I think that everybody in the community ought to have been concerned with the collapse of Patrick Partners. [More…]

• So, this great document was a facade in the deception of the community, in particular the migrants, prior to the last election. [More…]

• It supports actions aimed at democratising the workplace, schools, tertiary institutions, community organisations and the organs of the State. [More…]

• I wonder how many Australian university students in the Australian community would be prepared to allow their funds to be put to such purposes. [More…]

• Having raised this matter briefly for the attention of honourable members I should like to suggest that it might be appropriate if this matter were transferred to the authority of the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development rather than have it remain with the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]

• I believe that we would be better served by the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development handling this matter. [More…]

• Many other equally vital sectors within Australia s business community are in deep trouble. [More…]

• It is one industry where the effects of the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community both directly in the loss of sales in the United Kingdom and Europe, and indirectly in price cutting on Third World markets, has been particularly severe. [More…]

• Unfortunately, costs have risen and dairy farmers are still suffering as much from rising costs as any other sector of the community. [More…]

• I might add that there is still a provision for unemployment benefits to be paid to persons in the dairy industry, as is the case for other rural producers who are, as of the change in basic requirements, entitled to receive unemployment benefits on the same basis as everybody else in the community. [More…]

• If that were done I think the community as a whole would benefit. [More…]

• The new federalism policy is the Fraser Government’s means of abrogating its responsibilities for providing community services and forcing the States into introducing State income taxes. [More…]

• With road maintenance and construction authorities as major employers, the Government, through a cut back in road funds, can continue its policy of deliberately expanding unemployment and lowering community living standards. [More…]

• In addition, the normal assistance we would expect to be made available to him to be assimilated into the community by way of educational standards and assisted in learning the English- these are now being denied to him. [More…]

• Most of them were set up originally to serve industry and the community in a much more pragmatic way than the universities. [More…]

• But I believe that we need to examine in some detail the concept of community colleges whereby we can have a real and beneficial rationalisation between what was called the tertiary education sector and what was called the technical education sector. [More…]

• The Labor Government took the initiative in regard to the major commissionsthe Schools Commission and so on- and asked them to report on the basis of needs of the community. [More…]

• At the moment there is in the community a grave concern about the future financing of education and a grave concern that the new federalism lets Federal government off the hook and in turn is used by State governments to get off the hook. [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…]

• Those students who have been active in attempting to achieve reform deserve commendation and support from all of us who are aware of the important role that tertiary education institutions play in our community, in the future development of our community and in our democracy. [More…]

• It can effectively represent students in the genuine needs which they have and not be purely an extremist political organisation concerned with promoting extremist political views in the community to the detriment of the overall community and, of course, to the detriment of students who depend on that body for their welfare. [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…]

• An effort has been made by some honourable members opposite and by some individuals in the community to mislead the people as to what the Federal Government has done. [More…]

• I refer to things like bank accounts, hire purchase agreements and all those little measures that a family man or an individual must be able to complete successfully to have a satisfying existence in our complicated modern community. [More…]

• The funds that are being allocated to tertiary institutions-technical and further education institutions and universities- should be applied in such a way that those institutions look at what they are accomplishing and at the requirements of the community rather than drift so far from those basic requirements that the institutions are no longer effective. [More…]

• I invite the honourable member to look at other sections of the community. [More…]

• I invite him to look at the rural section of our community. [More…]

• One of the very significant findings of the Swanson Committee was that almost universally the Australian business community accepts the need for effective consumer protection legislation. [More…]

• Examples are the actions over the past few years of the governments of the United States of America, Japan, Canada and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In this industry as in the dairy industry, the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community has had a disastrous effect. [More…]

• All sections of the community have urged the Government to change the direction of its economic policies. [More…]

• But it will not be because the Senate, for all the posturing of some, is not a States’ House or a community House but nothing more nor less than a party political House. [More…]

• All sections of the community have urged change upon them. [More…]

• I mentioned earlier that the Government has been urged to change the course of its economic policies by all sections of the community. [More…]

• The social and economic costs of continuing high unemployment threaten to cause permanent damage to the community and the economy. [More…]

• During my visit to Brussels I had discussions with 2 principals of the European Economic Community, one being Mr Brunner who is the Minister for Energy in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I think I should make it clear that yesterday in reply to a question asked by the honourable member for Maribyrnong I mentioned that the funding of women’s refuges under the community health program was at a rate of 100 per cent. [More…]

• It is a place which was set up by the former Government under the terms of the community health program to provide some refuge to women who had been deserted or bashed by their husbands and who had to seek refuge for a short period. [More…]

• For that reason the refuges have an essential purpose and use in the community. [More…]

• The Aboriginal community councils concerned have a uniform policy which ensures that any medical or related activity must be of recognisable benefit to a community and the individuals in it before permission is granted for the activity to proceed. [More…]

• The staff of these offices have performed and will continue to perform a very valuable community service. [More…]

• The provision of that aid requires, in effect, a partnership between the relevant governments, the legal profession including private and salaried lawyers, and the community. [More…]

• Honourable members will be aware of the importance attached by both the Government and the community to the need for restraint on the burgeoning medical benefits expenditure on pathology services. [More…]

• I am confident that the government’s actions, with the support of the profession and the community, will reduce the mounting costs of medical benefits for pathology services within the bounds of the proper practice of medicine. [More…]

• It ought to be quite clear to anybody in this chamber or to anybody in the nation for that matter that we are not isolationists in our community, we engage in community activities. [More…]

• It is suggested that these clauses will destroy the union’s ability to bargain, the ability to exercise power over other people in the community and other organisations, that it will create dissention, that people who are members of the organisation, who would have been entitled to a voice and to more realistic participation, will lose that opportunity. [More…]

• Yet in relation to other people in the community, other organisations and bodies where minority and individual rights are involved, honourable members wish and ask and by past performance legislated for harsh penalties. [More…]

• While I am on my feet, I should like to say to the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) that he acknowledges that one of the fundamental rights in our community today is the protection of the individual, and I am sure he will agree with me that one of the fundamentals of our democratic system is the right of free choice. [More…]

• In my second reading speech I stated the Government’s view that there was a need for time to be given not only for members of Parliament to give the proposed legislation their objective consideration but also for the principal parties to industrial relations- the peak councils of the employer organisations and trade unions, individual trade unions and employers and the community at large- to examine the contents of the Bill and to be able to make their views known to the Government. [More…]

• These propositions are put in the deeply held belief that confrontation and massive economic dislocation, if avoidable whilst still adhering to principle, is against the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• It was, in a sense, the culmination of a whole series of attacks upon both the trade union movement and the employee section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Trade unions today are recognised as organisations in our community with an accepted role to play in industrial affairs and even in national affairs. [More…]

• The first is that because of the growing complexity of the economy, which means that industrial disputes have an impact far beyond their immediate effect, quite often disputes involving small numbers of people will have enormous ramifications throughout the community. [More…]

• In industries such as the power generation industry we find that if a few dozen key maintenance workers go on strike not only can they bring the power station or that power industry to a halt but also their actions have ramifications throughout the community, causing lost production and lay-offs amongst people who have had no direct interest in that dispute. [More…]

• These propositions are put in the deeply held belief that confrontation and massive economic dislocation, if avoidable whilst still adhering to principle, is against the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• We are equally sure that the proposals would recommend themselves to the Australian community. [More…]

• A bad law, I believe, should be treated with contempt by the whole community. [More…]

• Australia is also observing the terms of the Convention under a voluntary scheme administered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in conjunction with the relevant State Governments and industry. [More…]

• 5 ) It is recognised that preventive health measures may in many circumstances offer the most cost-effective means of improving the health of the community, and a number of programs administered by my Department are oriented towards prevention. [More…]

• is monitored by the Capital Territory Health Commission, while in the Northern Territory school health services are incorporated in the family-centred community health service. [More…]

• That is one of the reasons why the new Australian Broadcasting Tribunal is now going around the community asking for community views. [More…]

• In the end, the broadcasting system ought to reflect the standards of the community, and that is what the Tribunal is attempting to discern. [More…]

• The important thing to recognise is that if we have petrol prices or oil prices at artificially low levels this distorts the pattern of use of resources within a community. [More…]

• Is the Minister for National Resources and the Minister for Overseas Trade aware that the European Economic Community has recently imposed a variable levy on buffalo meat in addition to the existing duty? [More…]

• Recently, some changes were made to the import policy of the European Economic Community whereby it included buffalo meat in a new import arrangement for beef and veal. [More…]

• There have been abattoir improvements to conform with the hygiene and veterinary requirements of West Germany, but now all that will be of no avail if the European Economic Community maintains its very rigid policy on buffalo meat. [More…]

• The only Ministers who I am aware obtained an early copy of the report were the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Minister for the Northern Territory and myself. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Housing, Environment and Community Development is well equipped to handle any inquiry on the housing industry. [More…]

• Members will be available to advise organisations and communities in formulating requests for assistance and will take part in consultations on aid programs at Community, Area and Regional level. [More…]

• The Council for Aboriginal Development will be the formal advisory body to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and, through him, to other Ministers or Commonwealth authorities responsible for programs and policies having specific impact on the Aboriginal community in Australia. [More…]

• That colonisation of the Island as a convict community lasted until 1855. [More…]

• They are fearful that families will argue amongst themselves and that the community will argue within itself about whether they should be voting for the Liberal Party, the Australian Labor Party, the National Country Party or perhaps even for Don’s party. [More…]

• I think that a small community of 2000 people should be spared some of the things that go on in Australia. [More…]

• The community itself is well organised. [More…]

• The community looks after its own people when there are problems. [More…]

• The Government and the Prime Minister inflamed and prolonged a dispute that had already wrought a heavy toll on the community in lost time, lost revenue and untold hardship and inconvenience. [More…]

• Last week in this Parliament I asked a question of the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development on this matter. [More…]

• I remind the House that unemployment benefit payments are made by the community to persons who are genuinely seeking work but who are unable to find it. [More…]

• Again, part of the purpose of the exercise was to conceal the true impact on the community and to reduce the amount to be shown in the national accounts. [More…]

• As has properly become known now, the wage-price freeze developed into a wage-price fiasco and the onslaught of pent up price increases is now only starting to be felt in the community as each week several hundred items of household supplies rise in price, some rising substantially. [More…]

• We all have seen the deterioration in the quality of service provided by Government departments to the community and to industry as a result of the staff ceilings that have been implemented by this Government. [More…]

• But nothing has been said by the Government about the disastrous impact this has had upon the quality of service provided to the community. [More…]

• The tremendous dislocation and inconvenience caused to travellers from overseas within Australia as well as to the Australian community is something that should not have occurred and the responsibility for it lies at the feet of this Government. [More…]

• On 27 February in my electorate a dance was conducted at the Charlestown community hall by a group called the Young Socialists. [More…]

• I cannot follow the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) down the fascinating paths he embarked upon, except to comment that I think it is a moot point in a community whether the Budget balances the economy or the economy balances the Budget. [More…]

• We had the Jackson report not very long ago, on which a White Paper has now been prepared by the Government, and apparently there is a conflict in the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• We are getting to the point at which the tolerance of the community is being strained about the amount of unemployment visible, and the amount of under-employment invisible. [More…]

• How many people or bodies in our community want to change the decisions that they have already made? [More…]

• But honourable members on this side of the House recognise that a growing and developing community is dynamic. [More…]

• It is more expensive to build a community infrastructure in the north west of Western Australia than it is in some of the major cities to the south and in the east. [More…]

• The best independent authority, the authority with the standing within the community, the one that has been accepted over a number of years, is the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]

• The arrangement which has been put forward by the Government allows the Government to wriggle its way out of fiscal responsibility in the community. [More…]

• The total effect conceivably would be a far greater total tax burden on the Australian community. [More…]

• This is neither in the best interests of the nation, which needs an adequate development of its social infrastructure-there has been too much neglect in the past of the social capital needs of the Australian community- nor in the best interests of workers, too many of whom are unemployed at present, or of private enterprise, of which a great proportion in the construction sector depends on government spending for the level of activity it is able to maintain for its prosperity and success. [More…]

• More especially, it does not justify the ulterior objective of the Government, namely, to increase the real rate of expenditure it can undertake while reducing the real level of funds it provides for the States by using the devices I have mentioned, thereby not only forcing the States to raise substantial personal tax themselves but also producing a substantial increase in the total tax paid by the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a trap for the community as it is a trap for the States. [More…]

• That is the whole purpose behind what the Government has in mind, to disadvantage the State governments and local government, not through any perversity towards them but because it has this irresponsible attitude towards the role of the central government in funding the adequate functioning of other arms of government in the Australian community. [More…]

• It becomes meaningless to talk as we so often do on all sides of the Parliament and outside in the community, acknowledging in the course of our expressed views that the most important arm of government is local government. [More…]

• I have spoken on quite a number of occasions about the working married mother in the community. [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…]

• I do not know whether it is giving the maximum advantage or the right advantage but it is giving some people an advantage as against the rest of the community. [More…]

• Let us consider the benefits of family allowances of which we have heard so much and as a result of which it is alleged by Government spokesman the average income earner in the community will be much better off. [More…]

• That is a most savage reduction in the living standards of the average income earner in the community. [More…]

• It is little wonder that the average income earner in the community is finding it so extremely difficult to make ends meet. [More…]

• It is just a cheap trick on the community. [More…]

• The community is indisputably much worse off as a result of the fiddling and machinations of the present Government. [More…]

• He recently advised me that a small community in my electorate can have television only if it is prepared to meet the full cost of installation-about $100,000-and the full cost of the operation of the television service thereafter. [More…]

• Can the Minister give any hope to isolated communities without television and radio, particularly in view of the large sums which have been spent in major cities to provide extra television channels, FM radio and community access radio services to people who already have a great deal? [More…]

• This problem of providing facilities for probably 5 per cent of the community is not restricted to rural areas alone. [More…]

• As to the particular policy at the present time, if a rural community or a mining organisation wants to fund the expenditure now, the program can be accelerated. [More…]

• -The application of this Community Development Employment Projects Scheme will allow a work test to be applied in communities where it has been very difficult to apply the general unemployment benefit criteria to Aboriginals. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that this will mean skyrocketing health costs to the community in the long run as private entrepreneurs attempt to cash in on the massive profits from this area of radiology? [More…]

• Neither the Government, the community nor I would like to see, the degree of abuse take place in this part of diagnostic medicine in Australia which we have seen in pathology. [More…]

• I refer to allegations made by me last February, which led to me being investigated by the Commissioner for Community Relations in which I said, simply for identification purposes, that an organised group of Brisbane Aboriginals had been stealing Government originated cheques in Brisbane. [More…]

• We attempt to assist the needy sections of the community. [More…]

• the level of benefits the community should provide to those unable to find work, including new entrants to the work force; [More…]

• The community at large and school leavers in particular will be bearing down on the Minister for Social Security and the Minister for Health in this respect. [More…]

• It was the Labor Party which inflamed inflation in this country and did a great deal to reduce the income of the farming community. [More…]

• The development program of that deposit has been inhibited, especially by the Labor Government when it virtually stopped the project when, as I understand it, the company could have made some export sales and thus recovered some of its setup costs to the benefit of the Australian producer and, of course, the Australian community in general. [More…]

• However, the undertaking in this Bill is of great assistance to the farming community in Australia in that we will not have the threat of the subsidy being on and off as occurred under the previous Labor Government. [More…]

• I believe that in his excellent address he laid at rest once and for all the charge of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) that members of the farming community are nothing more than corporate dole bludgers. [More…]

• Britain’s entry into the Common Market, France’s continuing intransigence with respect to domestic subsidisation, the European Economic Community’s overall policies, the problems faced by New Zealand and the volatility of prices on the world market, given small changes in the volume traded, have all been known for a long while. [More…]

• There is no need for me at this stage to point to the difficulties that Australia has experienced with all trade to the European Economic Community with its insistence on an inward, selfish and artificial internal pricing mechanism that flowed from the Treaty of Rome. [More…]

• I would like to say to the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) that I understand the extreme difficulties that he has had in putting this board together and in endeavouring to look after all sections of the community. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has to contend with the same Treasury as we had when we were in government and that the Minister will have the problem of fighting its efforts to force up the interest rates. [More…]

• I believe that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) covered this subject fairly well in his second reading speech. [More…]

• Of course, those resources are considerable, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) knows. [More…]

• Time is of the essence and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) seems anxious to answer the questions that have been put to him; so, I shall not delay the House. [More…]

• Has his attention also been drawn to previous statements that the basic principle of our income tax system is that income tax should be levied in accordance with capacity to pay and that the granting of privileged treatment to one group in the community on the basis of age and without any regard to need would not be a particularly satisfactory approach. [More…]

• 1 ) On the information available to the Government from Hishamuddin himself and from other sources, Hishamuddin was not eligible for asylum according to the principles which have been widely accepted in the international community and which are reflected in the Draft Convention on Territorial Asylum. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]

• For instance, the Community Relations Section provides transcripts of the major television and radio debates; references to items on uranium in learned journals and other magazines are obtained from the Media Relations Section and the departmental library. [More…]

• However, the Government’s decision in relation to the recommendations of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry will be made in the light of knowledge of the issues of major concern to the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Did he receive a deputation from the Confederation of Australian Sport yesterday? [More…]

• Do these decisions mean that the Government has decided to ignore Mr Bailey’s recommendations and proceed to abandon its responsibility for community health - [More…]

• I ask the Attorney-General: Is he aware that I have been under investigation by the Commissioner for Community Relations because I referred to a group of people within a particular race for identification and apprehension purposes? [More…]

• Will the Minister consider altering the Act in order that a person who genuinely believes that he or she is being wrongly subjected to investigation has some recourse by way of appeal to someone other than the Commissioner for Community [More…]

• -In answer to the honourable member’s speech, may I say that I am after all the Attorney-General and the adviser to the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Under the Racial Discrimination Act as it is presently framed the Commissioner for Community Relations on receipt of a complaint which has, of course, to come from the person aggrieved or affected by the incident complained about, does have the power to refuse to entertain a complaint on certain grounds. [More…]

• In about December of last year a booklet entitled The Little Red Book for Social Change was published and distributed to parts of the community. [More…]

• At the time the Communist newspaper Tribune reported that the booklet had been widely distributed to political and community groups. [More…]

• The places include American bases in Australia and the persons on the list include most American diplomats in Australia and the heads of nearly all the large, prominent corporations as well as many other public figures who are well known in the community. [More…]

• It rejects the strike, it rejects writing to newspapers, it rejects the parliamentary system and it rejects being members of pressure groups as any means of obtaining change in the community. [More…]

• It is important that we should not be complacent about possible threats from within our community. [More…]

• The target list includes the names of a large number of prominent persons in the community, including public servants, journalists and businessmen. [More…]

• To dare to endanger the lives of people and property as this document would- if it were tabled it could then be circulated to the community- to encourage deranged minds and other people to attack the persons and property mentioned in the document is the height of stupidity. [More…]

• There would be every opportunity for other interests in the community to join in the Council ‘s discussions as the need to do so arose. [More…]

• What is needed in a community such as ours is a basic commitment to human rights. [More…]

• If there is no positive commitment, forces in the community inevitably will treat the individual as less than human and without the respect which every true democracy must have for the individual. [More…]

• It is very easy and a great satisfaction to the individual and community conscience to make lofty speeches and engage in spirited demonstrations about human rights. [More…]

• It is a cost factor which must be taken into consideration within the community itself. [More…]

• Every industry which it is necessary to protect in order to maintain employment costs the community money. [More…]

• It is about time that the whole community, and particularly the Government, faced up to the fact that employment created in one industry is always at the expense of employment in other industries. [More…]

• He believes that he is creating employment when all too often the employment gained in one industry is bought at the expense of the economic health of the community in general and in a great many cases in respect of user industries. [More…]

• Japan, United States of America, the European Economic Community, Sweden, Canada and Britain have protection and quotas. [More…]

• America has a ratio of 85/15 and the European Economic Community has 90/10. [More…]

• When people are in a situation of paying taxes, they are making a contribution to the Australian community. [More…]

• These factors relating to the psychology of expenditure by individuals in the community, taken in conjunction with the shape of the demand curve for clothing and footwear, together with the consideration of the other factors referred to earlier, provide the basis for my assessment that the demand for clothing will continue at depressed levels and that there will be no sustained lift in demand for footwear or clothing during the balance of 1977 or the first half of 1978. [More…]

• Generating a wider and fuller understanding in the community of the significance of the changing environment for Australian manufacturing. [More…]

• Nobody denies that no matter what sort of White Paper was produced by the Government on manufacturing industry it would draw criticisms from some quarters because the truth is that it is impossible to prepare such a comprehensive document on such a problem laden sector of Australian industry without pleasing some sections of the community and displeasing others. [More…]

• I suppose the real question on which there are differences of opinion on this issue in this place is to what extent the problems of manufacturing industry in recent years can be attributed to the general economic problems of Australia and to what extent they can be attributed to the inevitability of change that we all accept throughout the community. [More…]

• I think that the people who would refuse the tests on that basis would probably be fairly exceptional people in our community. [More…]

• We have a large number of people in the community- I am not sure of the figure, but it is something approaching SO per cent- who are not covered by funds which provide for bulk billing. [More…]

• I am lucky in that my electorate is possibly the only electorate in Australia in which there is a community health service that, amongst other things, attaches one or two trained community nurses to every primary school in the electorate. [More…]

• I keep fairly close contact with the community nurses in my area because I am interested in their work and I know that some of their work in a sense is unnecessary in that there are other schemes in operation that in effect prevent them from doing the sort of thing that they ought to be doing. [More…]

• So there is a cost to the State Government or the community health scheme of something like $40 to enable the Commonwealth Government to pay $14 a week to somebody. [More…]

• I mention this point because there is a tendency in our community today to label governments as being under the control of bureaucrats. [More…]

• But many who would have the community believe they are of high repute and adopt impeccable medical standards are nothing short of scoundrels. [More…]

• Quite frankly, the Australian community has every reason to be concerned with the extent of the increase in expenditure that is taking place in the health field. [More…]

• One of the pleasing aspects of the whole exercise has been the degree to which the professional bodies in the medical profession have co-operated with the Government and the community in helping to arrive at a rational approach to stemming the degree of abuse in the pathology area. [More…]

• The theory is that because such investment generates costs to be met by the community it is proper for the community to decide where and when such investments should take place. [More…]

• to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of legal aid schemes which seek government finance and to consider proposals from groups, organizations and individuals within the community seeking funds to establish new legal aid services to formulate policies under which students within university law faculties or other educational institutions may be involved in legal aid services; [More…]

• Those commissions ought to be representative of the community and other people as Sackville recommended in his report. [More…]

• Paragraph (e) talks about statistics and paragraph (f) talks about liaison and co-operation not only with States and their commissions but also with other bodies which are interested in providing legal aid; that would pick up the Fitzroy community services. [More…]

• What difference does that make to anybody in the Australian community whose child, who may well not even be of voting age or may be only 18 or so, goes into an office and is told: ‘We would be able to assist you under the State-administered means test but not under the federal test, which has been recommended by the Commission or in relation to which the Attorney-General has given us a direction under the agreement that the State concluded’. [More…]

• In relation to the way in which State commissions which are funded on the recommendations of the Federal Commission go about their business, the proviso contained in proposed paragraph (b) of the amendment moved by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith addresses the problems of community involvement. [More…]

• I think it is about time that the legal profession started to organise itself in some fashion so that it gets the benefit of the service it offers to the community as well as some of the supportive services which back up other professions. [More…]

• That service is using the talents of the profession organised on the basis that they can help the community. [More…]

• We should be establishing a legal aid commission that is representative of the States, the community groups and others. [More…]

• It would guarantee that the community groups also would be funded. [More…]

• The whole purpose of this legislation and the scheme behind it as well as other legislation that this most reforming Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) has brought forward is to provide schemes that will meet the needs of the whole Australian community on a genuine needs basis. [More…]

• It is not fair to deny aid to some people in the community and to make available to other people a greater amount of assistance simply because they are the only ones whom the Commonwealth is able to assist. [More…]

• These people do not make up the bulk of people in our community. [More…]

• The only matter which I feel has caused some concern in the community is that the actual legislation has been available for inspection for only a comparatively short time. [More…]

• There are people in our community who claim that private practice can service all of Australia. [More…]

• Whilst not trying to be over critical of the officers employed by the Australian Legal Aid Office, I stress that if more people were motivated by the fact that they are there to serve the people of the region and build up a relationship within the community they could achieve far more than some officers appear to be achieving right now. [More…]

• Mr Justice Toose, as the Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) who is at the table knows, recommended that lawyers ought to be allowed to appear in appeals. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will take my message back to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to decide whether the Commonwealth Government, especially as it now underwrites State hospitals by SO per cent under the Medibank arrangements might get together with the States and save a considerable amount of money by combining services available in Commonwealth and State hospitals. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) is at the table. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is certainly incapable of being regarded as a radical or a progressive. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is shaking his head. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is again shaking his head, but when the stage is reached where he has to reply he cursorily skates over all this sort of thing. [More…]

• The Minister for Evironment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), who is sitting at the table, represents the Bass electorate. [More…]

• The tax dodgers are getting away with it, and other people in the community are not receiving the benefits to which they should be entitled in respect of social services, education and so on because the revenue is not there. [More…]

• Butter Exports from European Economic Community (Question No. [More…]

• And among those seeking work are many of the best qualified and best trained graduates of our universities and tertiary institutionsmen and women whose valued skills are lost to the community. [More…]

• It is unemployment that takes the real toll- in waste, in lost production, in lost revenues, in direct and indirect costs that the community has to pay. [More…]

• A recent survey of European Economic Community countries, commissioned by the Community’s Directorate of Social Affairs, provided a striking measure of the public sector costs of unemployment. [More…]

• Its community youth support scheme provides no employment opportunities at all for young people. [More…]

• Our structural problems, like the high social costs of our run down and inefficient community services, are in large part the legacy of decades of conservative neglect and the failure to come to grips with problems that have now become urgent. [More…]

• The unemployment rate among juniors is 15 per cent against a national rate of 5.2 per cent- that is, 3 times worse than for the community overall. [More…]

• In other words, competition for jobs among juniors is twice as tough as for the community overall. [More…]

• This is a shocking record of greater sacrifice imposed on the community without achieving any progress in managing the economy. [More…]

• A community employment creation program providing jobs for the unemployed on projects of lasting social benefit ought to be initiated. [More…]

• It is far better to create meaningful employment of real and lasting benefit to the community in this way than to have people living on unemployment benefits and denied the opportunity of productively contributing to the community. [More…]

• In the process, socially and economically valuable output could be provided for the community. [More…]

• For that it deserves the strictest condemnation of this House and of the community. [More…]

• We on this side of the House reject the pessimism, despair, gloom and despondency which the Jeremiahs and knockers of the Australian community are seeking to create at the present time. [More…]

• Because of the human tragedy in Lebanon and its outreach for Australia with its large Lebanese community, priority was given to aspects dealing with Lebanon. [More…]

• “Indications of community well-being: a report to the Department of Social Security, (4 copies). [More…]

• I stress, at the outset, that the legislation I now introduce fulfils a fundamental policy commitment put by the Liberal and National Country Parties to the Australian community and overwhelmingly endorsed at the December 1975 election. [More…]

• These are questions of supreme importance to Australia and to the international community. [More…]

• The responsibility of Australia regarding these resources to the international community is real and clear. [More…]

• Let me repeat the words uttered by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in his first statement to the House on the presentation of the first Fox report. [More…]

• The Government has stolen the spirit of the Labor safeguard policy and tried to twist it so as to suggest that Labor is trying to put the damper on the development of the international nuclear community by withholding Australian reserves when, in fact, what we have been saying is that time has to be devoted to the development of international safeguards for protection against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. [More…]

• The European Economic Community and the Japanese will certainly buy uranium. [More…]

• The European Economic Community will buy cheaply if it can. [More…]

• Let those who want to delay the development of our uranium remember that they are opting for permanent petrol shortages for the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• In no way can recommendation 3 or any of the following recommendations be seen as either unrelated to the first 2 recommendations, or supporting the contention that the first 2 recommendations mean mining and export of uranium by Australia should proceed without a full community debate on all the implications of nuclear power. [More…]

• As the Commissioners pointed out in their introduction, the questions which arise ‘are social and ethical ones’ and so the answers must evolve from discussion in which all sections of the community are involved, not just a small group of self-appointed experts. [More…]

• It is the duty of a government to see to the best interests of its community. [More…]

• Certainly there has been a hue and cry in the community, largely started by the same gang of pro-communist agitators who are doing a splendid job of wrecking the trade union movement and trying while they are at it to destroy this country. [More…]

• Expansion of the mining operations from the Ranger to the Jabiluka and Koongarra deposits in the region and to other parts of Australia, based on experience acquired through cautious beginnings, will reduce the impact on the physical environment and allow for adjustments to be made in time, if need be, in relation with the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The second Fox report contains conclusions which I think it is already agreed throughout the community will enable uranium mining and export to proceed. [More…]

• One should not accuse individuals because they show some consciousness of the necessity for community concern in these areas. [More…]

• Indeed, it really was not a good cover as Morocco is not a member of the European Economic Community and no nuclear material can be shipped outside the Community without a special permit. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in response to questions I asked indicated that the Government’s monitoring of the public debate has been conducted by at least one official. [More…]

• There is too much at stake and there is very little real information in the Australian community about this. [More…]

• A substantial proportion of the community is interested in this debate; a very small minority has any real understanding of what it is all about. [More…]

• There is a very large community and a very large body of workers who depend on that mine. [More…]

• The evidence that I have so far suggests that there is a wide diversity of views held very seriously by a diverse group of people and that any particular view is not limited to any specific section of the Australian community. [More…]

• who complained to me about the activities of the Community Relations Commissioner, the Hon. [More…]

• I do not know who advised this person from Fiji to go to this solicitor, but apparently within the Fijian and Tongan community here in Australia, this solicitor, whose name I will reveal in a few moments, has a name for being able to do something with the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]

• I believe that many people in the community, particularly small businessmen, have been misled by a good deal of publicity about the investment allowance. [More…]

• He appreciated and spoke of the contribution which members of the Dutch community made in this country. [More…]

• This activity is conducted on a broad front and is not directed at any particular segment of the community. [More…]

• Upon receipt of the report of the inter-departmental working party on interpreters and translators the Prime Minister wrote on 2 1 February 1977 to all State Premiers asking them to examine the report and to forward any comments they may have on the best way of meeting the needs of the community for interpreter/translator services. [More…]

• I stressed that Australia favoured the early negotiation of a new IWA and that we would continue to play a constructive role in seeking to achieve a new arrangement in the interests of the world community. [More…]

• Early last year, I wrote to the Prime Minister, Treasurer and Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who are responsible for the provision of funds to the groups referred to by the honourable member, seeking their views on a proposal to use Qantas services wherever practicable. [More…]

• The Government is concerned that environmental and health objectives should be achieved at minimum cost to the community and will continue liaison with the States and the industry to this end. [More…]

• Do the housing programs of the Departments of Social Security, Veterans’ Affairs or Environment, Housing and Community Development, provide any specific allocations for Aboriginal housing. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to reports of increasing concern in some sections of the Australian community at the Government’s protracted delays in reversing some fundamental national changes brought about by the previous socialist Government. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on, 5 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice on 5 May 1 977: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• to (6) The existing program under which women’s refuges are funded by the Commonwealth, under the Community Health Program, is a Commonwealth/State agreementwhich is the responsibility of the Minister for Health. [More…]

• I note here that the question of delivery of health care to the community has been under study by the Hospital and Health Services Commission whose report is being considered by the Government. [More…]

• Have funds for the Community Youth Support Scheme been frozen pending pre-Budget deliberations. [More…]

• As 482 young people are unemployed in the area serviced by the Northcote Commonwealth Employment Service Office, does this cause a problem of dimensions serious enough to warrant a Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• This does cause a problem of dimensions serious enough to warrant a Community Youth Support Scheme program. [More…]

• The late President was the inspiration of the modern state of Cyprus and represented it in the world community with wisdom and distinction. [More…]

• I only hope that there will arise in Cyprus a leader of equal competence, equal brilliance and equal good sense to hold together a community of church and state. [More…]

• There is a long list of authoritative people in the Australian community at the present time who are clearly in general accord with the Government’s policies and with the results of those policies. [More…]

• These people are heedless of the interests of their fellow unionists, those who are looking for work and of the community generally. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development assure the House that Federal funds have not been improperly used to finance Victorian Housing Commission land deals, including those being examined by the Victorian Government’s board of inquiry? [More…]

• Indeed, it is not overstating the position to indicate that the Government has been extremely concerned about the sweetheart agreements entered into by some companies at a cost to the community in two ways: Firstly, the direct cost suffered by consumers; and, secondly, the effect of sweetheart agreements on inflation, which affects everybody in the community. [More…]

• In addition to normal naval operational and training flying, the Naval Air Station meets demands for search and rescue and aid to the civil community. [More…]

• Let us remember, this is a $9m outrage- a public scandal for which the community has to pay. [More…]

• It displays a tenderness for the personal feelings of some people, which is in marked contrast to the total absence of tenderness for other groups in the community who are berated, assaulted and attacked by Government spokesmen from time to time for much less serious matters. [More…]

• There is another factor involved, and that is his own gross failure as a Minister in the eyes of the people he supposedly represents- the rural community. [More…]

• The fact is that the farming community is increasingly impatient with his Government’s failure to improve its lot, and well it may be. [More…]

• The fact that the ex-Federal Director of the National Country Party is disenchanted with the Government regarding its rural policy and regards it as being too concerned with the mining industry at the expense of its traditional supporters gives some idea of the extent of dissatisfaction that exists in the rural community with the Government and in particular with the Minister who is responsible for policy in that areathe Minister for Primary Industry, the man who has been so vocal lately. [More…]

• These comments may well have a decidedly harmful effect on community relations in this country. [More…]

• The cheapest political response to any problem is to blame some section of the community. [More…]

• That is a large section of our community. [More…]

• Of course, the Government is not interested in discussing the point that there are two sides and that if one simply union bashes this may have extraordinary negative reactions and adverse effects on the community. [More…]

• Rather, they are intended to identify some of the problems within the Australian community which need to be corrected if we are again to establish Australia as the sort of country it was pre- 1972, before he and his friends and colleagues made a mess of it. [More…]

• My concern is with the effect that industrial lawlessness has had on the incomes of the Australian community, on the maintenance of industrial harmony and on re-employment in this country. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the few words I spoke in five sentences at Tanunda nearly a fortnight ago have echoed around every town, village and community in Australia. [More…]

• This phoney attempt to shift the blame from the Government is being exposed day after day by people in the community who are demanding that the Government get on with the job. [More…]

• He gathered around him all these elements in the community. [More…]

• In summary, those powers can be invoked only when a person granted permanent entry, not having become a constituent member of the Australian community, has been convicted for crime, or subject to the right of appeal to a commissioner, on grounds of unsatisfactory conduct generally. [More…]

• All he is doing is transferring unemployment within the community. [More…]

• He is making no contribution towards the common welfare of the community. [More…]

• Over the next twelve months the depths of Labor’s recession, and all of the community hardship that went with it, will be put further behind us. [More…]

• This Budget is designed to give a lead to the community by addressing itself directly and realistically to our remaining problems. [More…]

• One way in which it does so, in a decisive and unprecedented manner, is by lifting the yoke of taxation that has sapped the spirit and initiative of the community over recent years. [More…]

• Unlike our predecessors we believe that taxes have taken too much from the community and that people now want greater charge of their own affairs. [More…]

• This Budget charts a course towards lower taxation, towards conservation of the nation’s great energy resources and towards care for those most in need within the community. [More…]

• All sections of the community must work together to harness our abundant natural and human resources, if we are to restore vigour and purpose to our national development. [More…]

• Responsibility for co-ordinating the Commonwealth’s interest in energy matters rests with the Minister for National Resources and his Department, with a supportive role on conservation aspects from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• 1 ) In which Federal electoral divisions, giving the names of Commonwealth Employment Offices, have Community Youth Support projects been (a) initiated and (b) approved. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (l)-(a) The Federal electorates in which Community Youth Support Scheme projects have been initiated as at 30 April 1 977, together with the names of the relevant Offices of the Commonwealth Employment Service are listed below: [More…]

• 1 ) Did he state on 20 May 1 976 that State grants of $8 1 m in 1976-77 for community health services and facilities should enable the projects which had been commenced to be maintained at a viable level of activity. [More…]

• Community Health Program, the practicability of alternative methods of funding are currently under consideration. [More…]

• It is assumed that the honourable member refers to the Clarence Community Health Centre, located in Bayfield Street, Bellerive, Hobart. [More…]

• The out of hours service is financed jointly by the Commonwealth and State Governments through the Community Health Program, which is also the source of funding for the other operational costs of the Centre. [More…]

• Parliamentarians, Press Gallery, Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Commissioners, Witnesses to the Inquiry, Persons and Organisations assisting the Commission, State Government, Media and Principal Public Libraries in the States and Territories. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a supplementary question. [More…]

• The Government is tired and the community is tired of having a few people in Australia prejudicing the interests of the community and the country. [More…]

• How does the Treasurer expect any consumer leading to occur in the economy to encourage a recovery when real disposable income, especially for the middle income groups in the community, is so savagely contracted in this way? [More…]

• It had been generally accepted in the wider community that a Budget deficit of the order of $2,000m, $2,200m or $2,300m would drive home the fight against inflation in a most effective manner. [More…]

• The indexation of pensions to the consumer price index on a twice yearly basis has ensured that pensioners do not fall behind the general standards of living of other people in the community on that income level. [More…]

• They transfer resources from ‘have nots’ to ‘haves’ and increase inequalities in our community at a time when we should be building a fairer, more equitable society. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Adelaide said in respect of the Community Youth Support scheme, all these measures can be said to be small, but each of them helps individual people in need. [More…]

• Everyone in the community, people on both sides of the House, people in the bureaucracy, people in management and the trade unions, and people elsewhere must bear responsibility for failing to see the underlying structural changes that were going on within industry. [More…]

• The Government requires constructive ideas from the community and from the Opposition on the long term matters raised in that paper. [More…]

• The Opposition would do the community much more service by addressing itself to long term matters. [More…]

• We are so conscious these days of removing discrimination in employment that the community, and certainly the trade union movement, should give more attention to this aspect. [More…]

• I want to dissociate myself from some of the unfair comments made about some aspects of the Budget indicating that it does not ignore the plight of the unemployed in the community. [More…]

• The inflationary situation is no better, in spite of the enormous social and economic cost imposed on the community. [More…]

• It is bankrupt of any idea now, as it was at the time it sought to divide this community with its unparalleled conduct to grab office. [More…]

• It is sheer nonsense and poppycock and the Government must think that the community is peopled by fools to suggest, and in so suggesting to believe that the public will accept it, that the unemployment situation will show any improvement at all. [More…]

• The most depressing aspect of the unemployment situation is the way in which it so discriminately prejudices the position of groups in the community. [More…]

• It is better to do that than to do nothing at all, but it is nowhere near enough in terms of what is needed in the community. [More…]

• This inflation was fired by the spendthrift policies of the former Labor Government, which in turn led to unrealistic expectation in many parts of the Australian community, including the wage earning community. [More…]

• But when we look at the provision of jobs in our community, in our work places and in the economy as a whole we must look at the price that it raises in the economy. [More…]

• Finally, the Community Youth Support scheme has supported more than 200 programs involving about 20,000 young people. [More…]

• The matter of assistance to developing countries is an area of massive long term concern to Australia as a member of the international community of nations. [More…]

• I also emphasised that ASEAN trade opportunities in the Australian market were heavily dependent on Australia’s access to other markets, particularly the European Economic Community, for Australia’s agricultural products. [More…]

• Many of our agricultural products have been utterly excluded from the European Economic Community by huge import levies and by the Common Agricultural Policy. [More…]

• In 1 960 our exports to members of that Community accounted for 40 per cent of our total exports. [More…]

• Now that proportion has been reduced to under 1 5 per cent, to a significant extent because of the restrictive policies of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• To make matters worse, artificially stimulated domestic surpluses in the European Economic Community are being exported subject to subsidies which frequently change and which are often quite exorbitant disrupting other traditional markets around the world. [More…]

• A recent example is the Community’s subsidy or ‘restitution’- that is the polite name they use- on malt. [More…]

• It is envisaged that this will be a major seminar based on the experience of one which was held most successfully earlier this year between the European Community and ASEAN. [More…]

• So far as meat is concerned, it ought to be possibleit is possible- to devise a system which both affords protection to the Japanese beef industry and gives more predictable and stable access to the Japanese market, just as it is possible for the European Community with adjustments to the Common Agricultural Policy to devise a program which will support and protect their farm producers but which at the same time will allow the prospects of some trade to Europe. [More…]

• It ought to be possible also for the European Community to adopt a different policy in relation to restitutions, as they call it- that is, the subsidised export of their products to other countries. [More…]

• It is also gambling with the livelihood of the people who live off the income poured into this community as a result of those people being able to find employment. [More…]

• The report of the Committee deals with this matter in a number of places and then talks about the need for Australia’s efforts regarding our Lebanese community to be devoted to the integration of the Lebanese who arrived in Australia during the Lebanon crisis. [More…]

• The topic could be broadened beyond the Lebanese community because there are other communities in the same circumstances. [More…]

• The major problem to be faced with regard to the Palestinians is that they are a racial entity and are recognised as such by the world community, and of course by the United Nations, which has given them the status of observers. [More…]

• They have raised several points which I think are of critical importance to us as an important member of the international community and as a nation which is striving with other nations to produce a more just and more peaceful world. [More…]

• It is an immense problem but we will be abrogating our responsibility as an important member of the international community if we do not play our part. [More…]

• We often think that because of the amount of oil produced there and the importance of oil in the international community the Middle East as a whole is a very wealthy area. [More…]

• This is so for a variety of reasons but largely because of considerable cooperation between the international financial community and the International Monetary Fund to ensure that the sudden upsurge in wealth in the oil producing countries was distributed and disbursed throughout the world in a way that was not destructive of financial markets. [More…]

• The attitude of successive Australian governments over the last three or four years has perhaps not been fully conducive to the encouragement of foreign investment in Australia as I and some others would have liked and I hope that this is a problem which we will sort out in the not too distant future because there is no doubt that our nation will require large and continuing amounts of foreign investment for many years to come if we are to develop our potential for economic growth and if we are to meet the needs and aspirations of the people in our community. [More…]

• After years of struggle against marauding Arab bandits and disease, against the Turks and the British, against the indifference and prejudice of the rest of the world, we finally established a viable Jewish community in Palestine. [More…]

• ‘If Israel, a small, relatively poor country, could absorb almost 2 million people in 30 years, many of them from Arab countries, why could not the 100 million strong Arab nations, many of them amongst the richest in the world, absorb less than half a million people into their community? [More…]

• On behalf of the people of St George I place on record my utter contempt and disgust for those persons who would use the underprivileged in our community, the pensioners and other worthy citizens, as political pawns for their own purpose, that being to try in desperation to discredit this Government by any low means available to them. [More…]

• I look forward to his support for those unions that are taking action in respect of questions that affect their members and all people in the community generally. [More…]

• I ) The following community health centres, which are located in States and which are funded by the Commonwealth under the Community Health Program, provide medical services by salaried or sessionally paid general practitioners, at no direct cost to the patient: [More…]

• Benevolent Society of New South Wales Community [More…]

• Victoria- Kensington Community Health Centre Deer Park Community Health Centre Eaglehawk/Long Gully Community Health Centre De Paul Community Health Centre, Fitzroy West Heidelberg Community Health Centre Richmond Community Health Centre Singleton Community Health Centre, Collingwood [More…]

• Inala Community Health Centre [More…]

• South AustraliaWomen’s Community Health Centre, Hindmarsh [More…]

• It is impracticable to accurately separate the costs of services by salaried or sessionally paid general practitioners in community health centres from the overall costs of operating the centres, including costs of services by other staff. [More…]

• However, the estimated total annual cost of- salaries payable to 45 full-time and part-time practitioners (equivalent to 37 full-time practitioners); and sessional payments to 18 practitioners, in such centres is approximately $1,113,750, of which the Commonwealth has been meeting 90 per cent under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• It is because of the feeling and concern that this Government has for individuals who live in Australia and seek to work in Australia that the Government has taken firm action and indicated that it will continue to take firm action to inject confidence into all sections of the community. [More…]

• I do not subscribe to a policy designed to play one section of the community against another. [More…]

• Several major building projects were got underway again and essential community facilities were constructed. [More…]

• Very large amounts of money are to be spent in an area which gradually is being changed from a veritable desert of community facilities to a thriving centre. [More…]

• Currently we are enjoying the slower growth rate so that overpasses can be built, so mat we can catch up with health centres, so that community centres and schools can be developed before they are needed rather than many years later, and so that shops can be constructed when needed rather than years afterwards. [More…]

• I am also informed that members of this community attending the Serbian Orthodox Church were told that continued membership of this church might have adverse consequences for their relatives in Yugoslavia. [More…]

• The delegation sought some information as to how matters were progressing but up till the present time there has been a lamentable absence of information available to the community. [More…]

• To bring them to this country and not give them a chance immediately to participate in the community, particularly at the work level, is to impose a penalty on them. [More…]

• The Committee believes that the Northern Territory legislation should contain the following provisions: Power to delegate by the Land Councils,* permits to include conditions approved by traditional owners; conditions to include that a person should leave the land if requested by the traditional owners; power to revoke a permit with penalty for non-compliance; the right for a community occupying land not occupied by the traditional owners to issue permits to allow visits to that community; the traditional owner to have power to delegate; the traditional owner to give permission to enter his land in circumstances where it is not practicable to obtain permits from a Land Council; and that officials, politicians- I would prefer to use the word parliamentarians’- and police should notify in advance their intention to enter Aboriginal land. [More…]

• In respect of entry to seas adjacent to Aboriginal Land, the strong views expressed to the Committee give credence to the suggestion that control of the seas by Aboriginals could give rise to ill feelings between the Aboriginal and nonAboriginal community. [More…]

• These expectations were raised in the Aboriginal community following recommendations by the Woodward Commission. [More…]

• The Committee has endeavoured to formulate a proposal which takes account of the various points of view presented to it and the needs of the whole community. [More…]

• The fundamental issue is the advancement of the Aboriginal people of Australia to an equal place in this society with the rest of the community. [More…]

• Perhaps we should actually purchase from the Queensland Government such areas as the Torres Strait Islands, Palm Island and so on, and deed that land in trust to the Aboriginal community in the same way as we are talking of land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• May I add that members of the Opposition have said that there is tremendous evidence in support of the 2 kilometres off-shore provision, but there was also strong evidence that it should not be closed to one section of the community. [More…]

• We are most concerned about the general effect of the disruption on a number of public utilities and, insofar as the legislation is necessary to ensure that the mails can flow and that services can be provided to the community, we see the only way by which that result can be achieved as being the moving of the guillotine. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill I am introducing to the House today is to enable Commonwealth Government employing authorities, in the public interest to suspend from duty, or in appropriate circumstances dismiss, government employees who take industrial action which disrupts the provisions of services to the Australian community; and stand down, without pay, government employees who cannot be usefully employed as a result of industrial action taken by fellow government employees or by workers in private industry, or who are engaged on functions the performance of which is seriously disrupted. [More…]

• The feature that distinguishes government employees is their responsibility for providing the wide range of services essential to the well-being of a modern day community. [More…]

• I do not need to remind honourable members that the Australian community has been subjected to great inconvenience and hardship through the industrial actions of some government employees and their trade unions. [More…]

• One need only point to the current disruption to community mail services. [More…]

• There has been an enormous amount of disruption, particularly in the past year or two, and certain sections of the community have been distressed and disadvantaged beyond an acceptable level. [More…]

• The Government is sick and tired of this situation, the Commission is sick and tired of it, as is the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Gellibrand and his colleagues ought to remember that the community is sick and tired of it. [More…]

• These problems have been disadvantaging the Australian community for far too long. [More…]

• In short, one of the significant criteria is that the implementation should be at negligible cost; in other words, that there should be no additional cost to the community if people are going to work shorter hours. [More…]

• So the community is being disadvantaged.’ [More…]

• Too often in Australia recently in too many ways we have seen a few people disadvantage by prejudicial and intransigent attitudes the welfare of the entire community. [More…]

• This type of approach by any section of the Australian community becomes intolerable. [More…]

• It becomes intolerable for the authorities, it becomes intolerable for the Government, and it is intolerable for the community. [More…]

• It is the interests of the community mixed with an overwhelming measure of public support. [More…]

• I suggest that the Minister spoke briefly because the need for this legislation is obvious to the community and can be encapsulated in a few words. [More…]

• I suggest that some Commonwealth employees have been attempting to bring on a confrontation with the community. [More…]

• In that sort of confrontation the Government has a duty and an obligation to take the side of the community. [More…]

• The community is fed up with disruption in vital services. [More…]

• The feature that distinguishes Government employees is their responsibility for providing the wide range of services essential to the well-being of a modern day community. [More…]

• Strikes, bans and go-slows affect private industry and also the community generally. [More…]

• Strikes, bans and go-slows in the Public Service cause disruption throughout the community. [More…]

• It gives the Commonwealth powers to ensure that government services are provided in the way that the community expects. [More…]

• They are employed to carry out the policies of the government of the day in the service of the community. [More…]

• They are not entitled to continually frustrate the normal services of government to the community by go-slows, bans and limitations on work. [More…]

• This Bill recognises that government employees have responsibilities to the community and to the government of the day. [More…]

• This Bill is needed to fill a major gap in the powers of the Commonwealth to ensure that the normal services of government are supplied to the community. [More…]

• The Bill deserves the support of the House and of the community. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite would rather rely on the political gimmick that they- the few of them- are members of the one chosen group in this community that can dictate industrial conditions and that can dictate whether the people at the Redfern Mail Exchange in particular will have a job. [More…]

• Some employees have, or should have, a greater responsibility because of the critical nature of their work to the community and/or the form of their employment which gives them greater job security or other advantages. [More…]

• In return they have security of employment and other work advantages that are not available to others in the community. [More…]

• They have no vision of responsibility to the community. [More…]

• Members of the Labor Party, in taking the stance that they have taken, have forgotten their responsibility to the general community in Australia. [More…]

• I am sure that the Australian community will not forget this stance taken by the Labor Party today, because it shows complete disregard for the community of interest in this country. [More…]

• These unionists have shown disregard not only for this community of interest but also for their fellow unionists in the postal service as well as in other industries and Australians generally who suffer because of their actions. [More…]

• What about some of the other people who have forgotten their responsibility to the community in the pursuit of their selfish ends? [More…]

• Mr Hawke, in a panic move to prevent the community reaction which would follow continuation of the air traffic situation, tried to do his best to calm down the people concerned and to see that the inevitable community reaction would not come about, but it was the firm resolve of this Government that ended that air traffic controllers dispute. [More…]

• In presenting this legislation the Government has acted moderately on behalf of the community of interest. [More…]

• The action of the Redfern postal workers today confirms this confrontation approach- the demand by them for selfish rights over and above the responsibility they have to the community and to the community of interest. [More…]

• suspend from duty, or in appropriate circumstances dismiss, government employees who take industrial action which disrupts the provision of services to the Australian community . [More…]

• Before the dinner break I was commenting on some of the disruptions that had been caused to our community by the militant minority section of the air traffic controllers. [More…]

• During his speech the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) mentioned that all sections of society have both rights and responsinilities The air traffic controllers’ strike, and perhaps the mail strike at the Redfern exchange, are illustrations of the way in which a minority section within the trade union movement is prepared to demand its rights within society, while failing to respond to its responsibilities to the rest of the people in the community. [More…]

• You are part of this community and you will accept your responsibilities in the way that the Austraiian public demands.’ [More…]

• It is these same trade unionists, who are too greedy, and because they know that they are in a powerful position they want to grind the last cent out of the community, regardless of the consequences. [More…]

• If that is the standard of this Government, if we are to be treated to a display of schoolboy tricks, then the community will judge the sort of people with whom we are dealing. [More…]

• They breach the ordinary common law principle of ‘no work, no f>ay ‘ and they have given public servants particularly a privileged position in the community and an easy free ride. [More…]

• They know full well that in our community tremendous pressure is building up for action to be taken to interfere with the right to strike. [More…]

• I do not agree with that idea but community pressures are building up. [More…]

• The whole problem has arisen because the unions are getting too strong comparative to other sections of the community. [More…]

• There is no way in a democratic community that a democratically elected government can bring about confrontation which is a much vaunted word used by members of the Labor Party. [More…]

• They are prepared to put the whole community at ransom for $20 a week. [More…]

• The National Country Party members represent not just the rural community, but the total community in the country, including trade unionists. [More…]

• The whole community is totally in favour of this legislation. [More…]

• 1 ) Both the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Curriculum Development Centre have been actively encouraging the development of environmental education in Australian schools. [More…]

• The conference will bring together education and environmental specialists and community groups from all over Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) My department has developed a range of mechanisms to assess attitudes on environmental, urban and community development issues. [More…]

• My Department also arranges community forums such as the recent ‘National Housing Conference- Housing and the Community’, and the proposed national conference on environmental education which provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas on such issues. [More…]

• My department has a variety of programs covering contact with the media, publication and distribution of information, film production, education activities and conferences which contribute to public awareness of environmental, urban and community development issues. [More…]

• My department will continue to issue regular publications, such as Environs and the Building Industry Quarterly, which are distributed widely throughout the community and assist in maintaining public awareness. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]

• , (3) and (4) I am aware of these recommendations and have examined them in the light of community needs and submissions put to me. [More…]

• My department continues to monitor the development of environment (field) study centres, and liaise with State government agencies and community groups responsible for such centres. [More…]

• The Departments represented on the committee are as follows: Prime Minister and Cabinet; National Resources; Treasury; Finance; Industry and Commerce; Transport; Business and Consumer Affairs; Northern Territory; and Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 1 June 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 June 1977: [More…]

• Estimates prepared by the United Nations for its Water Conference indicate that of the population of developing countries in 1975 (excluding the population of China), 38 per cent had reasonably adequate community water supplies and 33 per cent had reasonably adequate sanitation. [More…]

• Whether or not one agrees with the sentiment which underlies that term, it is a mark of the impact that Rex Connor had on this House and on the wider international community. [More…]

• He believed passionately in a free and independent place for Australia in the world community; he believed in Australia as a great and growing power, a land of unlimited promise whose riches would serve mankind. [More…]

• That is the real message of this Budget- increased unemployment, reduced living standards, increased inflation, reduced confidence, increased tax burdens for families, reduced services for the whole community. [More…]

• Up until 1976, no limit had ever been placed on the total payments to organisations, churches and community groups which qualified for Federal subsidies in any one financial year. [More…]

• For governments and individuals alike the only choice in these matters is whether these taxes shall be shared fairly by the whole community or whether the burden will fall unfairly on individuals. [More…]

• The purpose of such spending is to provide for the community services that the individual and the individual family cannot provide for themselves or, if forced to provide them themselves, can only do so unfairly and inadequately. [More…]

• These proposals would, on the official estimates tabled in October 1975, have saved the community between $325m and $375m in 1 975-76- $ 1 m a day. [More…]

• Every word has been fully borne out and the proof is in the deepening recession, deepening unemployment, deepening despair and, worst of all, the deepening division in the community. [More…]

• But above all the Budget will increase division within the community. [More…]

• We have also said, quite firmly and avowedly, that until a financial incentive can be provided to the Australian worker the opportunities of encouraging fuller employment in this community are not likely to be realised. [More…]

• There have been cuts, but they have been in areas in which we believe that the community advantage of having more money in the taxpayer’s pocket outweighs the disadvantage of having Big Brother in Canberra determining where the money should be spent on the taxpayer’s behalf. [More…]

• Our intention remains to ensure that the public’s dollar is well spent and that the private citizen’s dollar is not taken from him other than in circumstances in which the community’s need genuinely outweighs that of the citizen himself. [More…]

• Despite all the confusion that the Labor Party has sought to bring to consideration of the radically modified tax scales, there is no gainsaying that the application of a flat rate of tax to 90 per cent of Australia’s taxpayers is of tremendous advantage to this community. [More…]

• That increase was a significant contribution to the higher deficit position and to all the flow-on in inflation that affected our community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the radically revised tax scale will be of tremendous advantage to this community. [More…]

• It is a Budget whether for the rural sector, or for the community at large that I believe will reduce inflation and will stimulate the capacity of individuals to spend more money because if puts more money into their pockets. [More…]

• We can do that but it might not be the best means of usefully utilising the total resources of the community. [More…]

• What can be more devastating to the foundations of a community when a large part of its people have never worked and potentially will never work? [More…]

• I believe there are groups in the community who think that those sums are inadequate for the needs that have to be encompassed, but at least this does highlight the rigidity that is built into budgets by the inheritance of the past- the things we have contracted to do which limit our ability to move very fast in the future, at least in respect of budgets. [More…]

• Housing and community development has also been considered seriously in the Budget. [More…]

• Of course, there are many people in our community who for various reasons are unable to do this of their own volition. [More…]

• It is obvious that a community of some 14 million people cannot be expected to support such a welfare state indefinitely. [More…]

• As part of its support measures the Government has introduced the most effective Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• It is obviously fundamentally important, that governments should have policies which include programs such as the community youth support scheme and CRAFT programs which are directed specifically to assisting those young people who do not have adequate opportunities for employment. [More…]

• Time and again we have raised the issue of the nearly $800m paid by way of unemployment benefit for which the general community gets no return. [More…]

• Until we are prepared to pay award wages, until we are prepared to give people employment opportunities, to build the necessary community facilities, unemployment will continue to grow. [More…]

• With regard to youth employment, the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly) mentioned the community youth support scheme. [More…]

• It is giving very little benefit to the community. [More…]

• It improves the position of lower income groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• I am conscious of the increased cost to the community and particularly of the increased cost to the farming community and to those in outlying areas. [More…]

• Surely what has not been acknowledged here is that the changes are structural and that they are not being grappled with as far as this community is concerned. [More…]

• But surely what has to be underlined is that wages are also the principal source of consumer demand in the community. [More…]

• I bring that matter before the Parliament because it is the subject of much debate in the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• Until such time as government and the aviation industry in this country open up these sacred chambers of discussion to the community, the community is not going to be best served. [More…]

• As a Parliament we do not provide any means by which the community can express those views or justify the views that they put. [More…]

• On the information available to me at this stage- and I would be interested to hear the Minister’s comments because I think this is important to the Australian community-I do not believe that, if we are to drop air fares substantially the incoming traffic that Mr Laker assures us there will be will more than offset an increase in outgoing traffic. [More…]

• We have some very large ethnic groups in our community and naturally they want to visit their homelands. [More…]

• The confluence of our history and geography- our origins as Europeans, our location on the edge of South East Asiagive us a unique opportunity to demonstrate to the international community that countries with very different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds can evolve intimate and lasting relationships. [More…]

• It is offensive to ASEAN and counter-productive for Australia if the Australian Government seeks to use ASEAN as a stalking horse in its trade and economic relations with our other trading partners, the European Economic Community, Japan or the United States. [More…]

• Perhaps the most revealing and most offensive part of the Prime Minister’s statement was his reference to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has appointed a special minister to deal with the European Economic Community, a distant market with which we are basically competitive and a market of secondary importance to our major trading partner, Japan. [More…]

• In addition to job retraining, relocation and compensation for displaced members of the workforce, job opportunities must be developed in new areas in response to community needs. [More…]

• This potential has been recognised by the EEC and is embodied in the Lome Convention, which was mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) and which sets up concessional trading conditions between the European community and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, and by the United States, which has special trading relations with the Latin American countries. [More…]

• We have appointed a Minister for Special Trade Negotiations to tackle the problems in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• One of the things that concern me in looking at the Budget is the confusion that the wording of the Budget Speech can cause in the mind of the ordinary member of the community. [More…]

• One cannot help but feel that these controversial tax changes which give so little real benefit to the ordinary people in the community will further dampen any possibility of economic recovery and are possibly there with an eye to an early election. [More…]

• I have not seen much benefit for the young people in my community from these programs, although we have co-operated in trying to set them up. [More…]

• I have no doubt that this conservative Government is most cynically using this Budget and other measures further to divide the Australian community, leading to a great many more problems in the end. [More…]

• The cost to the community would be so great that the whole strategy would fail. [More…]

• There has been a continuing move towards tax reform in a realistic way to lighten the burden of taxation on the Australian community. [More…]

• The farming community is in diabolical trouble, which will not be cured by nice words, sweet phrases or complaints about what happened three, four, five or six years ago. [More…]

• The House and the community is entitled to know what will come later in the year, how long it will take to arrive and how much it will cost because we have before this Parliament now estimates of expenditure and receipts for the next financial year. [More…]

• The previous scheme assisted relatively few, although badly disadvantaged, sections of the rural community. [More…]

• Do not let anybody be fooled; this new tax scale, both directly for farmers who are paying tax and indirectly for those who are going to work in the farming sector, will be of benefit to the Australian farming community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman does not realise that in the three major primary industries which concern me and on which I want to say more in a moment- the beef industry, the dairy industry and the horticultural industry- the valuation of trading stock provisions made available a significant concession which, whilst it was not introduced peculiarly for the farming community, was of significant benefit to them. [More…]

• This is a dramatic illustration of how this Government supports the rural community and how it recognises the contribution, socially and economically, of that industry which is so important to this country. [More…]

• The category of measures taken by this Government is such that the Australian farming community is significantly better off today than it was under Labor and it is once more significantly moving to the time when the family farmer will be able to expect again to receive a reasonable return, not just for his labour but also for his management expertise and the capital he has invested. [More…]

• What hopes are there on the horizon for our agricultural industry in view of this gloomy forecast and with no help, only hinderance, in the form of terminating even tax averaging for the farming community? [More…]

• This Government has given nothing and has caused more and more hardship together with the denial of life’s amenities that are enjoyed by more favoured sections of our community. [More…]

• This decision has been motivated by a high sense of moral responsibility to all Australians and to the community of nations. [More…]

• They have had to make recommendations on a complex set of problems on which there are diverse and strongly held opinions in the community. [More…]

• The Supervising Scientist, who will exercise a supervisory and integrating role, will be responsible to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Director of National Parks and Wildlife, a statutory officer responsible to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, will have extensive powers over the Region as a whole. [More…]

• In that area to be declared in the subsequent stage of the National Park, exploration will be permitted in the meantime under strictly controlled conditions to be supervised by the Departments of National Resources, Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Territory and Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The decision to proceed with further uranium development will bring with it significant economic benefits for the Australian community. [More…]

• We will proceed to develop the rest of the Park as quickly as possible; in the meantime its protection will be ensured through special control exercised jointly by the Departments of Environment, Housing and Community Development, National Resources, Northern Territory and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• As recommended by the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry the Supervising Scientist will be responsible to myself as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and I hope to announce an appointment in the near future. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has in addition outlined the environmental controls to be adopted by the Government and he briefly referred to some of the health aspects of these. [More…]

• This Code deals with radiation protection aspects only and is not concerned with the other potential hazards or with the broader environmental issues already elaborated on by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Government has accepted and indeed gone further than this recommendation of the Ranger Inquiry and, as already indicated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Code Will be included in the Uniform National Code of Practice which will be established by the Commonwealth, with the States, by appropriate legislation. [More…]

• It is considered that the consistent and rigorous application of the Code of Practice will ensure radiation safety for employees engaged in mining and milling operations and for members of the community in the neighbourhood of the mines or mills. [More…]

• Unfortunately, since I announced the improved arrangements proposed by the Government, certain people in the community have seized the opportunity, presented by the winter parliamentary recess, to launch a reprehensible scare campaign. [More…]

• This created a great deal of uncertainty among nursing home patients and the community in general as to the financial assistance nursing home patients would receive in the future. [More…]

• I think it is time that some system was devised to destroy the control that the media has over the community today and the way in which it can frame people’s minds with its programs. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) could only point to processes which have only- in his words, ‘proved to be technically feasible at pilot plant’. [More…]

• Negotiations to this effect have continued for a decade- they have taken much longer than anybody expected 10 years ago- and resulted, only a few months ago, in the entry into force of a framework agreement between IAEA, Euratom and the seven non-nuclear states in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The international community is now at the early stage of agreement on a program of evaluation of the nuclear fuel cycle. [More…]

• This provides the ideal time in which Australia can use the influence that flows from her possession of so much uranium to ensure that the world community establishes an effective and verifiable safeguards regime. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development gave mutually contradictory statements on this subject today. [More…]

• The Government’s irresponsibility was laid bare in the statement of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development when he said: [More…]

• But, as far as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is concerned, other countries, other generations, must solve the problems by which we profit here and now. [More…]

• The time factor is crucial and the Labor Party’s policy decision recognised that essential work is now about to be undertaken by the world community to achieve safety and that new supplies of Australian uranium will not be needed until the middle 1980s. [More…]

• It shows a contempt for the Fox Commission, a contempt for Australian public opinion, a contempt for Australia’s national and international responsibilities, a contempt for the safety of the world community, a contempt for future generations of mankind. [More…]

• Both the Prime Minister and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) have taken a particularly offhand attitude to this issue. [More…]

• The cynicism of the government on this matter is best illustrated in the statement by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, when he states: [More…]

• We are very impressed with the statements today made by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs ( Mr Viner). [More…]

• It would be unwise for any group in the community not to recognise the clear and substantial economic advantages which can be achieved from the development of uranium mining and the export of uranium. [More…]

• If the Government had prepared and presented an overall policy first into which this commitment to uranium mining and export was slotted I am sure that the community would have been better served and more wisely informed, not only on what the Government was intending but also on how what was being proposed fitted into the international energy crisis scene. [More…]

• The problems associated with alcohol (disorderly behaviour, violence, noise et cetera) have upset the community over which there is an air of despondency. [More…]

• Some of these spindly legged people would be wiped out like flies if a white community were able to penetrate that area without proper safeguards being exercised. [More…]

• On the one hand, great benefits are to be gained by the world community of nations and by Australia. [More…]

• Of course, these essentially economic advantages for the world community of nations as well as Australia have to be balanced against the noneconomic problems and risks associated with the nuclear power industry. [More…]

• It is for this reason that the decisions we are debating today have been taken only after long and exhaustive examination of all aspects of the matter and with a high sense of moral responsibility to Australia and to the whole world community of nations. [More…]

• I have been amazed in the 18 months or so that I have been in this Parliament that the Timor issue has never become a real issue in the community. [More…]

• It has not become an issue in the community but it is high time that it did because the Australian people are deeply concerned with what is occurring in East Timor. [More…]

• His resignation and the manner of his resignation most certainly have not reduced his standing in the eyes of his colleagues and of the wider Australian community. [More…]

• As well, the Government now is going out of its way by introducing a measure that will foist expensive Broken Hill South Ltd Queensland rock phosphate on Australia’s rural community. [More…]

• Again the National Country Party has shown its preoccupation with looking after the oil and mining industries to the exclusion of the people it claims to represent- the farming community and the people who live in rural Australia. [More…]

• Even official government statistics indicate that the expectations for inflation over the next 12 months are such that inflation will remain at the present high level thus cutting the heart out of any real increase in the earnings or living standards of Australia’s rural community. [More…]

• This Government has failed dismally to do anything for the rural community. [More…]

• Since the return of this Government we have endeavoured progressively to restore and stimulate the rural sector to a position of equality in the community. [More…]

• There is no group in the community more dependent on the availability of crude oil supplies than the farmers. [More…]

• These resources will be developed or explored so that we will be in a position to maintain the availability of crude oil to the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• We seek to maximise exploration and to ensure the availability of crude oil to Australia is such that everybody “i the Australian community will be able to continue to rely to the maximum on a crude oil resource that is not going to have its price level determined by a variant set by a group of oil exploring countries at prices which caused all the consequences of the 1973 impact of the then Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries group, the problems in Japan, Europe, the United States of America and so on. [More…]

• Not then, today, or for the future has the Labor Party demonstrated any sympathy for farmers as a productive sector of this community. [More…]

• This is one way to reduce by weight consumption of tobacco in the community. [More…]

• There has to be a redistribution within the community for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• The House now has been treated to a matter of public importance concerning the rural community from each of them. [More…]

• The Budget presented by the honourable member for Oxley changed the tax scales and drastically altered the provisions of the tax laws and in the process robbed members of the farming community of no less than $50m. [More…]

• I hope that it will be matched by a responsible attitude on the part of the community to see that militancy and the use of pressure to gain higher wages do not offset any of the necessary approaches to try to restore viability to primary industry. [More…]

• There are still those Jeremiahs in the community who say that the Government ‘s approach is not necessary. [More…]

• I urge the community to support this Government in respect of this Budget which is a responsible approach to the needs of Australia at this time. [More…]

• There is total stagnation in the economy and very grave fears in the community about the economic future. [More…]

• This Budget will hasten the process of the community’s disillusionment with the Government’s ability to manage the economy and to generate economic activity. [More…]

• I would like to incorporate in Hansard a table setting out the real cuts m the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development over the last two years. [More…]

• Government persists in its attitude it will do irreparable damage to the social fabric of the Australian community. [More…]

• However, the greatest deficiency in the scheme is the fact that despite some value in providing employment absolutely nothing of value is left to the community after the six months training period is complete. [More…]

• Regrettably, it is not getting the support in the community that it deserves because it could provide some activities for young people who must become bored after long periods of unemployment. [More…]

• After the unemployment was over and the grass had grown again there was nothing of value left to the community. [More…]

• The most important recommendations we made were that a permanent local committee of community involved citizens should be set up on a regional basis to examine and list in order of priority important community projects with a high labour content so that in the event of that region having an unacceptably high level of unemployment a wide choice of projects would be ready to commence once the Government had gazetted that region as eligible for unemployment funds. [More…]

• This would maintain the important aspect of community involvement and would remove the unfair but persistent criticism of the RED scheme that the Government had its priorities wrong. [More…]

• Under the previous scheme, because projects were initiated by the community- that is, the local government body or local non-profit making organisations- and because projects were approved or rejected in the order in which they were submitted, the situation often arose that a surf club project submitted in January was approved before a water reticulation scheme or a nursing home submitted in April. [More…]

• By having a long list of projects designed, costed and approved by council and listed in order of the local community’s evaluation of its social priority, the Government would be assured of total community support when it decided that an area should receive, say, $2m for 15 projects for 600 workers for 26 weeks. [More…]

• Such projects are geared towards providing employment that will contribute to the continuing self-sufficiency of participants as well as to community development. [More…]

• Papers were presented by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony), the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• The Prime Minister has said that this Government has a high sense of moral responsibility to all Australians and to the community of nations in the development of our uranium under strictly controlled conditions. [More…]

• The Government decided that the Prime Minister, the Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony), the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) should make statements, and those statements were printed. [More…]

• It is obvious that certain cancers, leukaemias and mutations exist in the community at the present time without the people concerned being exposed to excess radiation. [More…]

• It is not the proposition which everybody in the community accepts and it is not the proposition which all doctors accept. [More…]

• When there is low exposure, a very small proportion of the community will be adversely affected. [More…]

• I think those are the sorts of worries which many in the Australian community have or have thought about. [More…]

• I believe we are in the hands of a government of social and environmental vandals who have not a care at all for the rest of humanity for Australia’s advantage as long as they can make some more dollars or as long as they can divide the community for their own political advantage. [More…]

• I believe that the community of Australia ought to take a very serious view of the failure of the Government to have a real debate on this matter. [More…]

• Therefore what the people of Australia have to decide is whether they will allow this proposal to be inflicted upon the Australian community and the rest of the world. [More…]

• The money will not even start to bring many of the facilities of their community up to the ordinary Australian standard for many years. [More…]

• This will have a significant impact on our ability to sustain an acceptable level of economic growth necessary to cater for the multitude of demands from the Australian community for improved living standards, particularly for those most in need in our community. [More…]

• I have in front of me a statement made last July about the European Economic Community council of ministers. [More…]

• They do not see in their societies segments of the community, even miniscule ones, taking to the streets and making other forms of public protest, because in those societies protest is not allowed. [More…]

• The expectations of the scientific community demonstrate the fact that it is highly unlikely that any large quantities of fossilised fuel will be developed in this country or elsewhere to meet the increasing world demands in the foreseeable future. [More…]

• The advantages to the Australian community and to the development of our industry are quite clear. [More…]

• After we had made those decisions, following upon the decisions made by the previous Liberal Government to allow the mining and export of uranium, we were activated by the growing concern expressed in many parts of the world and not just by the Australian community. [More…]

• The letter continued: … a government could try to avert this threat by instituting a tough policy of security, for example, infiltration of politically active community opposition groups, inspection of mail, and mass media censorship. [More…]

• Apparently by innuendo the Minister for National Resources and Minister for Overseas Trade (Mr Anthony) is incompetent to deal with matters concerning the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I have been approached by the Finnish community in my electorate. [More…]

• Indeed, Madrid also comes into this category and, of course, we have a very large Spanish community in Australia. [More…]

• It would seem that the Australian national airline and the Department of Transport are not particularly interested at the moment in coming to some arrangement whereby Qantas could carry the Finnish community between Sydney and, say, Bangkok and then give them that excursion fare on Fin-Air from Bangkok through to Helsinki or to other points. [More…]

• This is obviously causing a great deal of distress and concern, particularly amongst the Finnish community and the communities which represent the other Scandinavian countries. [More…]

• It could be very advantageous especially in an area like Mount Isa where we have a large Scandinavian community and a fledgling tourist industry which would like to see things get under way. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development announce on 12 August 1976 that the Government had decided that the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act will not be applied to the Australian Capital Territory; if so, and in view of the inadequacy of the existing Public Parks Ordinance 1933 of the Australian Capital Territory, what steps does he intend to take to ensure the protection for the benefit of future generations of Australians of areas of national importance such as the Mount Ainslie-Majura foothills. [More…]

• Continuing change will be taking place throughout our community and within our industries. [More…]

• I am sorry to say that the abuses came from the middle class sections of the community, the more affluent people to whom the honourable member for Kingston referred. [More…]

• For this reason, and also because of the demanding and arduous nature of at least some of the disputes- notably, defended custody disputes- there seems to be good reason for requiring judges of the Family Court to retire at least by the age recognised as the maximum retiring age for most other occupations in the community. [More…]

• The Government’s policies that I have outlined today are based on the recognition of the economic and strategic importance of uranium and our obligations to the owners of the uranium, the Australian people, as well as to those members of the world community with limited access to energy resources. [More…]

• This former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs said that the spindly legged people would be wiped out like flies if the white community was able to penetrate the area of the uranium province near Jabiru and Oenpelli. [More…]

• We are not influencing the German community. [More…]

• Why is fear being expressed by that level of the community, not by the uneducated but by those who are articulate and have access to education and access to information? [More…]

• I have no doubt that the majority of the community would have liked to have known much more about the dangers of uranium before the Government made a decision. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• Like the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Prime Minister emphasised that Australia would not store nuclear waste. [More…]

• In announcing its decisions to proceed with the mining and export of uranium, the Government was motivated by a high sense of moral responsibility towards all Australians as well as to the world community at large. [More…]

• It is in the interest of the world community that the present oil-based energy mix give way to an energy mix based on more permanent and renewable sources of energy and that this situation precede the depletion of oil resources. [More…]

• During this transition period, the world community should expand, develop and diversify its energy resources and implement adequate conservation policies for oil and gas, while ensuring that sufficient supplies of energy are available to meet demand. [More…]

• Only the Opposition seems unaware of the international community’s concern that energyrich countries play their full part in co-operating to avoid the impending energy supply problems. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the world energy situation and Australia’s role as an energy-rich nation, is it responsible to talk, as the Opposition does, of Australia withholding its uranium supplies from the world community? [More…]

• I think it is important that the Government’s nuclear safeguards policy be restated, not only for the benefit of a confused Opposition but also for the benefit of those in the community who have not yet grasped the comprehensive nature of our safeguards policy. [More…]

• It would be left to the rest of the international community to determine safeguards. [More…]

• One of the unfortunate things about this debate which, of necessity, in the community must be charged with high emotion because of the consequences of the mining, enriching and using of uranium is that the matter has been brought into this Parliament with rather indecent haste. [More…]

• It has brought forward this matter with indecent haste to try to provoke the community into committing violence, as it has done on one occasion, to ensure that there is an issue on which the Government can go to the people at the appropriate time. [More…]

• It was felt by the Opposition, it was certainly said by the Government, it was recommended in the report and it was believed by the community that a considerable time would elapse to allow proper and informed debate in the community on this whole question. [More…]

• So we find that there is not just a double-barrelled shotgun pointed at the heads of the community on this one; it is a triple-barrelled shotgun, and it is loaded with buckshot. [More…]

• There is no doubt that he wants to bring about a confrontation in the community. [More…]

• That man, supported by those who sit behind him on the other side of the chamber, is quite content to tear in half the fabric of the Australian community and Australian society generally to serve his own nefarious ends. [More…]

• A section of the Australian community- I deign to predict it will be a large section of the Australian community-will take great offence on this issue. [More…]

• The legislation which this Government has been bringing into this Parliament, having it passed through this place and the other place, and having it receive assent, has been enacted with one purpose in mind, namely, to divide the Australian community. [More…]

• In the early stages this war did not receive much opposition from the Australian people, but as the story began to be told, and as the dangers of that situation unfolded and became apparent to the people in the Australian community, their voices grew and grew to the point where the Government had to take some action. [More…]

• There is a danger, a threat and a risk not just to the Australian community but to the whole world community in the use of this nuclear material. [More…]

• The debate in the community has been extensive over a period of 12 or 18 months. [More…]

• I believe that this decision has been made primarily in order to satisfy Australia’s duty to the world community, bearing in mind the serious energy shortages that the world now faces. [More…]

• I know that people in the community worry about these matters. [More…]

• We are thinking today more of the profit and the jobs that uranium mining will bring than of the effect that it will have on cur community as a whole. [More…]

• Leaving that to one side, one must admit that there is concern in the community about this matter of nuclear energy, where we are going as a nation and where the world is going in relation to energy sources. [More…]

• It takes not only the aspects I have canvassed into consideration but it also considers the wider aspects of conservation, the wider aspects of alternative fuel sources and the wider aspects of the wellbeing of the Australian community. [More…]

• There would be the advent of community areas, not just those associated with the mining of uranium- not for a moment. [More…]

• We have seen the individuals sitting opposite trying to legislate to provide the wherewithal for the people who run them, that is, the mining interests in this community. [More…]

• He comes from a mining community. [More…]

• It is impossible in the Australian community, judging by the professional surveys which are being taken in this country, for 91 people to agree on this subject. [More…]

• There is a risk, and I want to stress this risk, in our decision and the way in which it was madeThere is a risk that an oppressive and overwhelming bureaucracy will emerge because of the degree of safeguards and the degree of governmental involvement which this Government has been forced to accept as a result of its recognition of the concern of the community. [More…]

• If the tailings are suitably dealt with there is no risk to the community. [More…]

• I submit that the decision whether to use nuclear power is a local decision, to be made by the local community based on its assessment of the risk and the advantages to that community. [More…]

• That is true for that community if it does not affect the rest of the world. [More…]

• I recognise that there is a demand in the community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government in this year’s Budget is making available this financial year 14.8 per cent more funds than it did last financial year to assist the States with the community health program. [More…]

• The former Government introduced the community health program and tried to involve the community in the program. [More…]

• I am very much aware of the notices to which he referred and also of the activities of at least one other fund which has been indulging itself in an extravagant scare campaign that has been causing great anxiety and suffering amongst those people in the community who are sick and in need. [More…]

• We would expect funds to use their reserves and resources for legitimate exercises rather than for trying to scare the people of the community with a lot of ill-founded rumours. [More…]

• The Commission’s approach to industry assistance has the aim of improving the well-being of the community as a whole. [More…]

• I hope that the Industries Assistance Commission in its wisdom will view Queenstown and Mount Lyell as an exceptional case and will give proper recognition to the need to protect for a reasonable period- perhaps a year, two years or three years- the very hard working mining community of Queenstown. [More…]

• -Today I wish to raise a matter of importance, not just to people in my electorate, but to every ethnic group in our community. [More…]

• He is doing it at the behest of a few members of the Italian community who are highly placed in the Liberal Party of Australia. [More…]

• I have presented several petitions to this House relating to Mr Salemi- petitions which contained some 20,000, 30,000 or 40,000 signatures of Italians in the community. [More…]

• I want to do that so the ethnic groups of the community can see what this Government is prepared to do. [More…]

• He is the real communicator between the migrant community in that area and their rights in the Australian community. [More…]

• Through it all the Italian community has begged him to stay. [More…]

• This matter has caused enormous concern amongst the Italian community, not simply in Melbourne but right throughout Australia because of the very selective way not only the Minister but also his departmental officials appear to have acted. [More…]

• So there is a firm belief in the community that the mining company was legally and properly engaged in an activity which brought with it an expectation for all involved of a continuation of operations over a period of 15 to 18 years. [More…]

• When Clyde Cameron was the Minister responsible for this area he would have said: ‘Yes, I welcome Mr Salemi coming here; I approved of his coming here; I knew for what purpose he was coming- to assist the Italian community in the furtherance of its endeavours’. [More…]

• He has sought, by appealing to my discretion, by seeking through the High Court to restrain me from applying the law to him, by misrepresenting his activities in Australia to people of goodwill in the community and by orchestrating appeals from members of parliament of a certain persuasion and by enlisting representatives of the community and of left-wing trade unions to sign petitions on his behalf, to restrain me from applying to him the rules that apply to many thousands of other prohibited immigrants. [More…]

• We see one another around the street, I want to make it quite clear that Mr Salemi at every point in time since he came to this country has acted as a responsible, common-sense resident, and is fulfilling a very important function in the Italian community in the Brunswick and Coburg area, which has one of the greatest concentrations of Italian people in Australia. [More…]

• He has lived successfully in the community. [More…]

• The common-sense decision for the benefit of a community which has invited hundreds of thousands of Italians to this country is to leave Mr Salemi here. [More…]

• However, I believe it is in the interests of Australians, the interests of Italians of the Brunswick and Coburg areas and in the interests of the general Italian community of Australia that Mr Salemi stay here. [More…]

• The facts are that Mr Salemi is employed by an organisation which is doing a very effective and useful job in this country to the great advantage of the Italian community and Mr Salemi is here at their invitation. [More…]

• It is not a question of clemency or humanitarianism; it is a question of sensitivity to the needs of the community. [More…]

• It is time for the Minister to show common sense and do a service for the community. [More…]

• These are legitimate costs which the community had to bear. [More…]

• They are costs which the community has to bear as a result of government actions. [More…]

• How can anyone in this community have confidence in a Treasurer who on every score has established beyond any doubt that his key assumptions were wrong? [More…]

• The report from which I have just quoted shows that with the exception of a few professions like the medical profession, dentistry, speech pathology and dietitians there are no encouraging job prospects for the young in the community. [More…]

• It is a most depressing outlook for the whole community. [More…]

• Secondly, it can be financed by printing more money, thus watering down and debasing the worth of all money in the community. [More…]

• I would especially like to see more things being done for the beef producer, who has been through and is still suffering difficulties which are quite beyond the comprehension of many people in the community. [More…]

• It seems to me that there is a need for a much wider understanding of the difficulties of primary producers and the consequences which flow to those who suffer in the community as a result of the difficulties of primary producers. [More…]

• Those effects are felt not only by individual producers and their families but also by communities, districts, regions, and in fact the whole community. [More…]

• A strong and prosperous rural sector brings tremendous benefits to the whole Australian community. [More…]

• A rural sector in difficulties creates problems for many other people in the community. [More…]

• I hope the community as a whole understands that the Government has a responsibility to take action to alleviate rural problems in the general interest of the community. [More…]

• But I must remind the rural community, as I remind everyone else, that its basic problem is inflation. [More…]

• So much for the pious determination of this socalled Government to look at the needs of the under-privileged in the community. [More…]

• I refer to reports such as that on social policy and problems of the work force prepared under a social security research grant by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and reports to the Government from the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby. [More…]

• Apart from the specific migrant programs cut back to give more profits to private industry, general cuts m the broad social security program and in areas such as health will hit the migrant community savagely. [More…]

• For instance, the cruel restrictions on payments to the States for hospital and community health service development will deny migrants equality of access to medical treatment. [More…]

• Having done absolutely nothing for migrants in the Budget the Government now intends, for Christ’s sake, to conduct an inquiry at taxpayers’ expense into the needs of migrants in the community. [More…]

• At all times this Government has ensured that although tough decisions must be taken to reduce the rate of inflation the burden of such decisions would not be borne by disadvantaged sections of the community. [More…]

• The fact is that this Budget is nothing more than a continuation of last year’s Budget strategy- a Budget which increased the number of unemployed by 90,000, prolonged high inflation rates, obliterated business confidence, savagely reduced personal incomes with the result of stifling any chance of a consumer led recovery, fanatically hacked away at public spending without any regard for its immediate effects on the poorer members of our community or its long term social and economic costs, and worst of all, a Budget which totally rejected the goals of reducing inequality and social injustice and of enhancing the quality of life of aU Australians in fact it actively sought a widening of the gap between the rich and the poor. [More…]

• At the same time as the Government was pruning back community services, welfare payments and wages, it was doling out money to big business. [More…]

• Once again in the Lynch Budget the Government has cut back spending on essential community services, a policy which will only guarantee further deterioration of the Australian quality of life and will place unbreakable financial barriers in front of those who are most in need of these services. [More…]

• But, overlooking Government inconsistency as one often has to do when speaking about its policies, I shall use this opportunity to comment on the Government’s line of reasoning with regard to Budget cutbacks on community services. [More…]

• Firstly, in many cases Government saving on community services is a false economy. [More…]

• Secondly, prolonged government neglect of essential community services often involves more considerable and less obvious costs to the deprived individual and to the nation as a whole. [More…]

• Without adequate government intervention many essential community services will become the preserve of the wealthy. [More…]

• Education, aged persons’ accommodation, social security pensions, benefits and programs, growth centres, community health services, migrant services, Aboriginal affairs, urban rehabilitation and housing are some of the vitally important areas of government responsibility which have also gone wanting in this Budget. [More…]

• If we look at the capacity within the community to go out, to explore, to find new challenges, we see that company profits are up by 23 per cent in 12 months. [More…]

• They are spread through the community. [More…]

• We should not fail to recognise that for many people in the community decreased taxation means- if one looks at the scales prepared by the Taxation Office- that people with dependants or with a dependent spouse will receive tax cuts of something like 18 per cent or 19 per cent after 1 February. [More…]

• Decreasing wage demands have been one of the reasons why there is a greater stability in the Australian community today. [More…]

• They are fine things but the community must recognise that the employer is up for a far bigger bill than employees take home in their pockets. [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…]

• Another real advantage of the new tax scales is that anyone in the community with the capacity to do so can go out and earn more money without being taxed so heavily. [More…]

• But by the end of 1977-78 taxpayers and the education community will see that the Government, as it did last year, has honoured its word and will retain a capacity for a real stability in education. [More…]

• The total community in fact is starting to support in a significant way local authorities throughout Australia. [More…]

• Nowhere in the Budget Speech did the Treasurer disclose the real effects of this Budget- higher unemployment, stagnant economic growth, continuing double digit inflation and the redistribution of wealth to the most privileged groups in our community. [More…]

• The belief that government expenditure is evil or wrong or has an insidious effect upon the community’s welfare is totally wrong. [More…]

• This Government’s theory that the community is gullible enough to swallow anything is not shared by me or the community. [More…]

• The Government’s attitude is that the individuals in our community should decide separately how their income will be spent. [More…]

• Construction work is done by contractors in the community who tender for the work. [More…]

• For the term contractors in the community’ one should read the term ‘free enterprise’. [More…]

• It would be most unhelpful to the community to do as the Leader of the Opposition suggests and to increase public spending so as to employ a handful of people if, at the same time, it delays a reduction in interest rates which would result in the employment of many more. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the unscrambling of what the Whitlam Government did is taking longer than we had hoped or that the community had wished. [More…]

• All the rumours of dramatic cuts in community services which were sedulously disseminated by the Opposition during the winter have been proved to be false rumours, but this does not undo the worry and distress that was caused to many people. [More…]

• I think that what the community is looking for now is not more spending on education but rather more effective use of the money we are already spending. [More…]

• I mention these things because the path to improved education, which is of great importance to the whole community, lies primarily not in the spending of money but in the motivation and dedication of the teachers. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the overwhelming proportion of the community have felt that the income tax scales need reforming. [More…]

• I think that the appropriate level is 50 per cent purely on the basis that it seems to me that one dollar for oneself and one dollar for the community is a fair thing and what we should be aiming at throughout our tax structure is something that can be genuinely accepted as a fair thing. [More…]

• The first is that it lures a substantial proportion of our cleverest people into the field of finding loopholes for high income earners to avoid tax This is an awful waste of their scarce talents, in community terms. [More…]

• It indicates the development of something progressive, some new move that brings benefit to the community. [More…]

• How any Government supporter, particularly the honourable member for Isaacs, could genuinely claim that the Government is aware and sensitive of the needs and hardship that it is creating in the community is beyond belief. [More…]

• In addressing my remarks to this debate on the 1977-78 Budget, the second Budget of this Government, I want to emphasise that never in recent political memory has a Budget been so quickly exposed for the sham and fraud that this one is and so quickly repudiated by the Australian community. [More…]

• Let me recall the words of a member of this House who at one time was concerned about the division in the community and the need for unity and national outlook and consensus. [More…]

• We will give the rural community the confidence and certainty it so desperately needs. [More…]

• The fact is that, if anything, the Government is continuing to be intrusive into the total level of activity within the community. [More…]

• The Tory parties do not pretend that they believe in the provision of community services. [More…]

• If the Treasurer and the Prime Minister cannot agree on the cost of the tax cuts, is it any wonder that the Australian community is confused? [More…]

• Intelligent self-interest is not going to allow persons on low or middle incomes to permit the Government to get away with this deception, just as people in the Australian community still have a conscience and will not allow the Government to get away with its proposed scheme for the payment of unemployment benefit. [More…]

• There would not be too many supporters in this place or in the community for a proposition such as that. [More…]

• An announcement was made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, that the regulatory powers in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 197S should not be used in the Australian Capital and Jervis Bay Territories, but this decision was made on the understanding that legislation of similar breadth would be introduced for these Territories. [More…]

• I am informed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that any significant future proposals for the foothills or other areas of the Australian Capital Territory will be subject to the scrutiny of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]

• Within the context of paragraph I the Committee may direct investigations into housing costs and into other related matters as are agreed to or directed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• This Government has a very real concern for the problems of the small business community, unlike the Opposition in this House. [More…]

• The Opposition ought to remember that as a direct consequence of the investment allowance and the stock valuation provisions the effective rate of tax on many small businesses in the community was reduced by between 8 per cent and 10 per cent. [More…]

• The problems within the community are quite severe. [More…]

• I hope that that organisation, in its vocal opposition apparently at the moment to actions by the Government, recognises the dire cost that has flowed from actions of some other sections of the community. [More…]

• I hope, in the making of representations to the community, that there is a recognition that many responsible organisations are working in the interests and on behalf of cattlemen and that members of parliament are certainly doing that. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for the Capital Territory been drawn to a statement I made on 18 August calling on the Government to explain the full ramifications of its proposals for moves towards constitutional development for the Australian Capital Territory and to ensure, following such explanation, that a suitable period will be dedicated to allow debate on those proposals by the community? [More…]

• I can assure the honourable member that the community will be consulted most closely about this matter. [More…]

• -This motion was moved by a party which in government imposed an intolerable tax burden on the Australian community, a burden that has been lifted by the reforms which have been brought down by the present Government. [More…]

• Thus the new system is a significant social reform that improves the position of lower income groups in the Australian community [More…]

• The basic purpose of a resources tax is to ensure that the community receives a proper return where its highly valuable mineral resources are used in the course of rnining operations. [More…]

• He was referring to the decisions to progressively increase the price of domestic crude oil to world import parity- should remain with the producers, and that the community should obtain a return from the exploitation of these resources which adequately reflects their value. [More…]

• The fact that the recendy increased value of crude oil stems essentially from action by a cartel of foreign oil producers makes the community interest in that enhanced value all the more obvious. [More…]

• Despite the fact that unemployment is at a record high level and is at least 30 per cent above the level of two years ago when the Labor Government left power, the Government has refused to take any initiatives which would stimulate employment in our community. [More…]

• Those local government areas in which pockets of unemployment run in excess of 10 per cent of the work force would find such a scheme of great community benefit. [More…]

• But there is a challenge before the community at large and before local government in particular. [More…]

• Australia has never wholly performed the role of local community self-government? [More…]

• It is important that local government indicate its desire to fulfil the role of community self government and not to be merely an administrative arm of State government. [More…]

• Our second aim was to inject human values into the conduct of government at the grass roots level which comes in contact with a wide section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Our people- I am talking about our public servantsgot out of Canberra and worked closely with State and local government representatives and community organisations and the people themselves at the grass roots level. [More…]

• The policy effort was based on co-operation between the three levels of government, with a fourth tier made up of community groups. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has washed its hands of the basic community programs built up by the Labor Government. [More…]

• I said when I was Minister for Urban and Regional Development, and I say it now in Opposition, that the only way the federal system will work is with a real spirit of co-operation between the Australian Government, State governments and local government, working together with community groups. [More…]

• Labor’s program was based on local government bodies and community groups deciding what services and facilities they needed. [More…]

• This is evidenced by a growing number of personnel on municipal staffs concerned with community development and planning, recreation, youth, elderly citizens and areas that are other than the historic property service area. [More…]

• Will local government facilities be made available to the community to ensure maximum use of expensive buildings and recreation areas, or will those facilities be jealously controlled by and confined within the local government structure? [More…]

• Local government authorities proposed to that inquiry that school community libraries ought to be established for the use of the community at large rather than for one sector to the exclusion of another sector. [More…]

• Ratepayers and citizens will demand, hopefully, quality and civic leadership in areas of responsibility which can generally be described as community development. [More…]

• Local Government is now involved with planning for welfare of the whole community. [More…]

• The Yes case campaigners contended that local councils were unable to provide sewerage, roads, community health services, child care facilities and facilities for sport and recreation without huge rate increases. [More…]

• We on this side of the House all know that to be the case and, of course, everyone in the community knows it. [More…]

• The need for tax reform was a major issue in the community right across the range of incomes and income earners, whether businessmen, employees, pensioners or superannuants. [More…]

• The expansion of the Special Youth Employment Training Program along with the National Employment and Training scheme, apprenticeship training subsidies and the Community Youth Support scheme particularly show this. [More…]

• This Budget already has received its share of praise, criticism and comment from various sectors of the community. [More…]

• I know that the honourable member for Griffith is always a reliable lap dog for business interests in the community and rarely defends the interests of people like my constituents who have been grievously disadvantaged by this sort of experience. [More…]

• In our approach to this matter we will be guided by the principle that the essence of responsible self-government is that a community should be free to make its own decisions in the full knowledge that it will be required to live with and be responsible for all the consequences of those decisions. [More…]

• It can be seen from the statement that the transfer covers a wide range of important functions such as primary industry, child, family and community welfare, payroll tax and stamp duties. [More…]

• In our approach to this matter we will be guided by the principle that the essence of responsible self-government is that a community should be free to make its own decisions in the full knowledge that it will be required to live with and pay for all the consequences of those decisions. [More…]

• I think it would be fair to state that over the last two years nursing home fees should have risen at approximately the general inflation rate in the community although in fact the fees have risen at a higher rate. [More…]

• The categories would be the well, the frail and the sick, and it is terribly important from the point of view of the aged people affected and from the point of view of the community which has to bear a significant proportion of the cost to make quite sure that these different categories of patients are in the most appropriate accommodation for them, whether that be their own homes, hostels, nursing homes or hospitals. [More…]

• This will need co-operation between the Department of Health and other government departments such as the Department of Social Security, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and Treasury. [More…]

• It is a question of trying to provide accommodation for aged people at an appropriate cost so that such accommodation is available to the aged in our community to prevent their health deteriorating and then being admitted unnecessarily to either hospitals or nursing homes. [More…]

• The total cost to the community will not go down; it will go up. [More…]

• It is not reducing the total cost to the community. [More…]

• If anything it will increase the total cost to the community. [More…]

• That is what this move is forcing on members of the community. [More…]

• So the burden is increased on the poorer section of the community relative to the richer. [More…]

• But the Government is reversing that situation so that, in fact, the poorer sections of the community will carry more of the burden. [More…]

• In sum total that is not relieving the community of anything. [More…]

• The point I make is that health insurance does not necessarily solve the health problems of the community. [More…]

• They need it because if they do not accept it the whole community will be in revolt. [More…]

• In other words, the Holmes committee has cottoned on to what the Labor Party has been talking about for some years now- the need to establish community health centres with comprehensive health care teams, general practitioners, the ready availability of specialists and all the other ancillary medical personnel. [More…]

• What does the community do for you when you are helpless? [More…]

• What I like about this is the way in which the Government is able to dissociate itself from membership of the community of which it is a part. [More…]

• It is to ensure that anybody in this community who is in need of help has adequate help delivered at the time of need to the place where it is needed. [More…]

• The facts are that the rest of the community accepts continuing responsibility to people. [More…]

• Recently I was a recipient of the medical and health services of this community. [More…]

• I cannot understand why anybody would resist having that sort of service readily available to every person in this community? [More…]

• I cannot understand why anybody would resist such a service being provided for everybody in the community. [More…]

• I support those in our community who honestly earn their entitlement I believe that there are many medical practitioners in this community who honestly earn that and who are entitled to it, but to those who see fit to exploit the scheme I would extend no mercy. [More…]

• So the Government is compassionate and does not treat lightly such matters as ill health, old age and disadvantaged groups in our community. [More…]

• Whilst it might be logically very nice for the Government to line everything up so that everything looks neat from the point of view of its health insurance arrangements, we ought to bear in mind that nursing home care is fundamentally different, and serves a quite different purpose in the community, from ordinary hospital care which is covered under the so-called Medibank arrangements. [More…]

• There is a great deal of confusion in the community already about this matter. [More…]

• Subject to those reservations, and I believe that the Government has to assume a great deal of responsibility for the concern that has been allowed to arise in the community, one of the most hopeful contributions in this debate was that made by the honourable member for Maribyrnong who talked about what might be the ideal system. [More…]

• It is generally accepted by most sections of the community as being legislation of that nature. [More…]

• I think it is fallacious to say that this system imposes a burden upon the poorer sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The community debate on uranium has in many respects been finalised. [More…]

• Since the publication and issue of the first Fox report in November 1976 the volume of information and expression of opinion from all sectors of the community has risen to a crescendo. [More…]

• Community groups have conducted further debates, and the Parliament has devoted a great deal of time in this House and through the committee system to the subject. [More…]

• We have a typical example by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• Firstly, the closure of overseas markets, particularly the European Economic Community, the United States of America and Japan, resulting largely from domestic beef surpluses in those and other importing countries, has created tremendous difficulties for the industry, which is 60 per cent reliant upon exports. [More…]

• I have had many representations, in fact I have had thousands of representations, from people throughout the community, objecting to being party to paying benefits for such procedures unless the mother has had an abortion because of the state of her health. [More…]

• However, there are also people in the community who would not like to see my Department or the health insurance funds engage in a witch hunt to ascertain why abortions were carried out. [More…]

• -The honourable gentleman is well known in this House and in his electorate for the particular interest that he takes in social welfare matters generally and I welcome the interest which he has again expressed in the taxation position of elderly citizens, particularly age pensioners, throughout the Australian community and especially in the electorate of La Trobe. [More…]

• I might say generally that the reform will make some 225,000 people free from tax for the first time and is therefore a very significant social reform in the interests of elderly people throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• This is in very sharp contrast with the policies of the former Administration which imposed an intolerable tax burden upon the community generally and upon aged persons particularly. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Health seen an article in the Community Health Bulletin No. [More…]

• 5 by Dr Kenneth Mitchell in which Dr Mitchell suggested the formation of centres for development and training, with research facilities, to identify community needs and plan and develop the implementation of preventive psycho-educational programs? [More…]

• As regards the element of sovereignty and title to which the honourable member refers, it is evident from the Law of the Sea Conference and the demands being made by a number of nations, based on the concept of the common heritage of mankind, that this principle will be applied by many in the international community to claims made and held in the Antarctic. [More…]

• The Government also proposes to amend existing guideline (a) in section 22(1) of the Industries Assistance Commission Act to ensure that it expresses the Government’s objective that any measure to achieve changes in the structure of industry aimed at improving the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used, are related to the capacity of the economy and the work force to absorb the changes involved. [More…]

• The monopoly in banking given to Australia’s handful of private and public banks has produced the most conservative banking community in the world. [More…]

• The issues involve matters of signifiance and complexity and, in accordance with the best principles governing legislative policy development of such a nature, it is proper that they should be placed before the public so that they can be adequately examined and, if need be, reassessed in the light of Assembly and community views. [More…]

• Because of this the National Capital Development Commission would not be brought under Assembly control although procedures would be devised for greater community and Assembly involvement m the planning and development of Canberra. [More…]

• In a community such as this the cost of a legislative assembly is a relatively marginal one compared with the total cost of the city. [More…]

• The Minister having brought the matter here and having initiated discussion, the time has come for us to try to get the community to think a little more constructively about it. [More…]

• This is a clear indication of the value the community attaches to the improvements in comfort and ride provided by the rolling stock funded under the Urban Public Transport Agreement. [More…]

• The new equipment should enable the Commission to restrain increasing costs below those experienced by the community in general. [More…]

• The consumption of oil for heating instead of the use of electricity; the use of diesel in our railways instead of steam or electrification; the use of private transport mainly carrying solo passengers in preference to community transport are all examples of the contempt with which all Australians, not only Canberrans, treat this critical subject. [More…]

• As indicated earlier, there are good reasons to believe that this method will not work and, even if it did, the costs to the community are too high to pay. [More…]

• Whilst the two income family contributes to increased national productivity it also adds to the community costs in some important respects. [More…]

• The family allowance system introduced last year was a significant social reform but many of the social welfare activists in our community have not given sufficient credit to the Government for that reform. [More…]

• I do not think it is the role of any group in the community to make decisions of the nature of this loading ban. [More…]

• But apart from a Budget which was brought down by a Government, we must also have a community attitude which places an emphasis on personal incentive and on the sort of cost consciousness that we need to make ourselves competitive once again in world markets. [More…]

• The rural community is ignored. [More…]

• We must ensure that different forms of education pay full regard to future vocational prospects and that we as a community obtain the best value we can for the money- our money as taxpayers- spent on education. [More…]

• But the reason I place top of my list is that we as individuals over many years now have come to rely on government far too much, in a way which has made it quite impossible for any government to live up to community expectations. [More…]

• It has a basic responsibility to determine the parameters within which our economy and our community function. [More…]

• It has a basic responsibility to assist those in our community who are most in need. [More…]

• It also has a responsibility to give a lead to community thinking and community attitudes. [More…]

• It has a responsibility to reflect and to react to community attitudes, if in fact these can be determined. [More…]

• But we can do this only if all sections of our community are genuinely prepared to co-operate. [More…]

• Without real sincerity in this regard, attempts at co-operation will lead only to appeasement and, to a victory for industrial or economic muscle over the less organised and weaker sections of the community. [More…]

• I believe that as a community we need to be prepared to see government play a smaller role in the total scheme of things. [More…]

• Postal and telephone facilities are to my mind a service to the community. [More…]

• What the Government has failed to do in its new scheme is consider the other imposts it has placed upon the Australian community in the form of the Medibank levy and the move towards world parity prices for crude oil. [More…]

• There are very few people in our community, a handful representing five per cent or 10 per cent perhaps, earning more than $15,000 a year. [More…]

• Earlier this year I expressed the view that Mr Grassby was a most unsuitable person to hold down the position of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I sincerely hope that the Minister in charge of the Commissioner’s responsibilities will set about urgently to settle once and for all the suspicions surrounding the background and the activities of the man who holds down the very important position of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• Unfortunately, a lot of fears have been created in the community that this will mean that those people who are currently receiving a benefit will have a fortnight’s payment wiped off and will have to wait a whole month for their next cheque. [More…]

• There are more complaints from all sections of the community than there were during the whole of the Labor Government’s reign. [More…]

• There is more violent complaint in the community today from workers and unionists, employers organisations, manufacturers, farmers, small business men, educationists, environmentalists, State governments, local governments, migrants and recipients of social security benefits than there ever was during the three years of Labor Government. [More…]

• We are heading into the halcyon days of 1965 to 1972, with laissez-faire capitalism again taking over, with the pressure groups in the community- the Pitt and Collins Street farmers- forcing the Government within a matter of days to introduce a new fiscal measure, when there is a clear statement in the Budget Papers that there would be no new fiscal measures during 1977-78. [More…]

• The Melbourne Age has reported him as saying that the Federal Government had unilaterally cut its share of the costs of community health centres and the school dental program and that the State had without warning been forced to carry a greater share of the burden than it had previously. [More…]

• The level of capital works programs is one of the most important factors in determining the level of employment in the community. [More…]

• We all know that the hospital that will really provide a service to the community will not be built by an individual because it is too expensive to do so. [More…]

• I hope to see an expansion of investment in enterprises which will provide employment and generally increase the welfare of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is much better for the community at large to have this money flowing through private enterprise investment. [More…]

• For too long too many of them have been telling the community loud and long about all they would do if only they could get more money from the Federal Government. [More…]

• We must bring back into the Australian political community some blunt, straight forward honesty in assessing what can and what cannot be done. [More…]

• It has been said on this side of the House by quite a number of speakers that one of the difficulties is matching the demands that are still in the community for labour resources against the skills or lack of skills that are currently available. [More…]

• One way by which the public sector could increase real expenditure in the community is for it to be provided with greater sums of money. [More…]

• I believe that in the very near future as elections occur at various levels around this country- not just local government elections but, for example, the South Australian State election- people in the community who are starting to feel the accumulated effect of this Government’s ill-advised policies will react. [More…]

• Indeed it might well be that through the utilisation of other energy sources we can contain future cost increases not just to the rural community but to the whole Australian community. [More…]

• I am certain that before too long, I will be able to make a statement to the Parliament which will give even greater encouragement to people and help them to understand that this Government is committed to improving communication, in whatever medium, throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• We believe that it is a prime responsibility of government to see that the taxpayers’ money- after all, it is the taxpayers who foot the bill for Public Service salaries- is looked after properly, consistent with providing adequate services to the community. [More…]

• It is a fact of life that in situations of limited resources more attention has to be paid to planning, organisation of work and priority setting and we strongly believe that it is in the interests of the community that resource management of this kind is achieved in the Public Service. [More…]

• The issue of staff ceilings is one which has not been resolved in the Australian community and the concern felt at all levels about the effect of staff ceilings on the delivery of public services is very real, as the honorable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) said. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations ought not to be too blase about the situation because the subject of single greatest concern to the Australian community at the moment is unemployment. [More…]

• There is very little evidence of any fall in the delivery of community services. [More…]

• The lower income groups of the community have been looked after in a way in which they have never been looked after before. [More…]

• I am sure that we all are aware of the stress that existed in the community previously, especially amongst our pensioner groups, when taxation time came around. [More…]

• Yesterday I had some very real evidence of the relief that is being felt by the pensioners in our community when I attended a meeting of a pensioner group at Wynnum in my electorate. [More…]

• For months there were demands from all sections of the community for tax relief. [More…]

• There are responsible employers in the community who are prepared to play their part in providing these apprenticeships. [More…]

• It has now become a full time national program which should be welcomed throughout the community. [More…]

• Governments are increasingly concerned about promoting at community level the increased physical activity which so many people in our community should enjoy. [More…]

• The tax reforms have been widely welcomed right throughout the community. [More…]

• He said that his Government would guarantee equity to the rural community because this section of the community desperately needs help. [More…]

• There is a crisis in the rural community at present which could lead to the annihilation of the Government in rural electorates. [More…]

• I believe that what I say would be supported by many people who believe in such organisations as the International Red Cross, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, Catholic Relief, Community Aid Abroad and a large number of members of the Returned Services League who served alongside the East Timorese in World War II when 50,000 East Timorese out of a total population of Timor of only 500,000 fell. [More…]

• Can we and the Australian nation ignore reports of mass executions including 2,000 at Lamaknan; 27 women both Chinese and Timorese on the wharf at Dili; 59 men on that same wharf in front of a crowd of 500 which was ordered to count; the murders at the Catholic Church of San Antonio in Dili; the execution of Chinese community leaders in the shop Toko Lay; the murder of a group of Timorese who dared to display an Australian flag from the third floor of a Dili building; the mass murders in the Taibesse area; the slaughter of 500 Chinese at Villaverde; reports of looting of Catholic churches; rounding up truckloads of young girls who were then subjected to mass rape; the desecration of the grave of Father Martins in Maliana; and last but not least, the vile and brutal murder on Thursday 16 October 1975 of five Australian newsmen, three of them shot in cold blood by an officer whose real name or war name was Lieutenant Markos. [More…]

• Tell it to the parents of this year’s school leavers- the best educated generation we have so far produced, a generation in which the community and families have invested so much and whose expectations were correspondingly and properly higher than those of any previous generation. [More…]

• It has the worse unemployment since the Great Depression; inflation was higher last year than in 1975-76; it has reduced living standards; community services are declining rapidly; the dollar is vulnerable; and farm incomes are lower. [More…]

• The community health program budget has been increased. [More…]

• In a number of community health grants the special requirements of country people can be met by this program whereas they cannot be met by the more inflexible general health grants. [More…]

• That is the total amount of pay as you earn taxation divided by the number of individuals in the community. [More…]

• I emphasise this- unilaterally cut its share of the costs of community health centres and the school dental program. [More…]

• The cost to the community will be much greater because the cost to patients admitted to hospitals will be $ 140 or more a day. [More…]

• The community health program has been quite significantly cut by the Government not providing for any increase. [More…]

• The Government continues to misallocate resources in its provision of health services by failing to increase funds in areas which put the emphasis on health maintenance; for example, the community health program, drug education, the school dental scheme, family planning and so on. [More…]

• However the July loan issue, which was pre-subscribed, heavily subscribed in the issue, and subsequent pre.subscriptions totalling about $ 1,200m, has brought about a tight liquidity situation within the community. [More…]

• Investment patterns in the future will have a significant bearing on raising funds in this community for the development projects which must take place. [More…]

• There has been no incentive to the community to provide people with employment. [More…]

• Once again we have seen substantial increases which indicate the hard core of people who are unemployed in the community today. [More…]

• It is sticking its head in the sand and following policies which of themselves must bring greater unemployment, with its attendant misery for the whole community. [More…]

• The average person in the community has no incentive to set up tax avoidance trusts or bogus partnerships. [More…]

• The wage earner cannot escape paying tax, and that applies right throughout the community. [More…]

• Nothing could be more inflationary or devastating for the Australian community. [More…]

• Despite the views of the Opposition, there is great consensus in the Australian community on one thing- inflation is the fundamental cause of Australia’s problems. [More…]

• I might say generally that the reform will make some 223,000 people free from tax for the first time and is therefore a very significant social reform in the interests of elderly people throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• This is in very sharp contrast with the policies of the former Administration which imposed an intolerable tax burden upon the community generally and upon aged persons particularly. [More…]

• It had come to my notice that very large numbers of pension cheques were allegedly issued to these gentlemen as warrantors for some of the desperate elderly in our community. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs will be meeting with various State Ministers including Mr Ron Payne, the South Australian Minister for Community Welfare, in Sydney this Friday to discuss matters pertaining to the Australian Aboriginal Affairs Council. [More…]

• Many disputes have little effect on statistics although they cause very serious dislocation to business and disruption to the community. [More…]

• Neither of them would have had a significant effect on statistics as printed but they caused enormous disruption to the community. [More…]

• By engaging in these sorts of disputes unionists show a total lack of concern for the effects on the community and on fellow workers. [More…]

• The Government will continue to condemn irresponsible and unwarranted action of this kind as an attack on the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister: Did the Australian Ambassador to the European Economic Community, Dr J. W. C. Cumes as reported in the Age, send a report to the Government stating that any attempts to sell uranium oxide in Europe before 1985 would be counterproductive? [More…]

• These have been framed to create in the first instance a community consciousness of the uncertainties of our energy future and a common will to exercise restraint in energy consumption, especially oil. [More…]

• The ensuing changes in community habits and practices will, of course, take time. [More…]

• These are complex matters which impinge on various economic and social aspects of community life and require further close study. [More…]

• I think you will find that whatever our opponents or the Press may say, my Party is well aware of the business community and sympathetic to them. [More…]

• After three years in government they had the gall to say that they had respect for the business community. [More…]

• Just today mention was made at question time about your own representative to the European Economic Community saying that the demand of the European Economic Community for uranium had fallen. [More…]

• The report stated that these proposals had been framed to create in the first instance a community consciousness of the uncertainties of our energy future and a common will to exercise restraint in energy consumption, especially of oil. [More…]

• The ensuing changes in community habits and practices will, of course, take time. [More…]

• Those figures, I believe, show that the costs of road construction and road maintenance rose at a much higher degree than costs in any other section of the community. [More…]

• I challenge the Government to identify for the community the excessive use of petroleum products in this country. [More…]

• It denies knowledge that many people in the Australian community use motor vehicles because they have to use them, because there is no alternative. [More…]

• I would encourage my State to take a more positive attitude to the significant and increasingly important role that local government is playing in the community. [More…]

• All honourable members and all representatives of the community need to be aware of the definition of roads in this legislation. [More…]

• Roads form one part of the total resources of our community. [More…]

• Whenever we discuss a Bill concerned with roads I think that that sort of information should be brought clearly to the attention of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is telling the rest of the community to conserve energy while it is purchasing cars consuming 1 1 to 12 miles per gallon. [More…]

• -I am particularly indebted to the honourable gentleman and the other rural members on this side of the House who have worked with us over the last three months in trying to devise practical, acceptable and worthwhile means of improving some of the circumstances of those people who are amongst the most disadvantaged members of the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• It has been only after a great deal of scrutiny by the Government Members Rural Committee and by individual members of this House, and as a result of representations I have received from throughout Australia, that we have been able to devise something which we hope will put cattle producers in particular back into a position of something like equity with other members of the Australian community. [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to tell me whether the current Press reports regarding renegotiations of arrangements for the Albury-Wodonga growth centre are accurate? [More…]

• I speak here not just of the European Economic Community but also at various times of the actions of Japan, the United States of America, Canada and Sweden. [More…]

• Against the background of those statements we can well see why the Prime Minister is determined to provide an exercise in extravagance at the cost of the taxpayers, to the advantage of himself and his Ministers, and to ensure that hardship is directed onto the young people in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is misleading the community. [More…]

• So we have in the developing parts of the world a simple principle: If you have an adequate airport you have the facilities for development; if you stultify an airport you can stultify and stunt development of that community. [More…]

• My final point is that airports have an important relationship to the economic development of the community. [More…]

• That should not mean that those areas should be deprived of that service, because telecommunications generally has to be looked at from the point of view of both economic operation and service to the community. [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that Senator Colston, a Labor senator from Queensland, reported me to the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby. [More…]

• He says, very sensibly, that in a civilised community politics ought to be a substitute for violence. [More…]

• Developments since then which have been closely watched by our intelligence community and by our senior Service and civilian advisers do not call for change in our basic assessment, however, we must keep developments under continuous, close review and maintain insurance against changes that might be adverse to our interests. [More…]

• Throughout the community these delays have led to widespread disquiet, discontent and frustration. [More…]

• I am not saying that these problems necessarily can be avoided but a sense of hardship and injustice is being bred in the community in relation to the Family Law Act. [More…]

• It is essential to put into context the assistance that the Government is prepared to give to this particularly disadvantaged sector of the community. [More…]

• One former major market, the United Kingdom, now a member of the European Economic Community, has been of particular concern. [More…]

• Nonetheless, we have maintained constant pressure on the Community for a liberalisation of its beef import regime. [More…]

• This afternoon the Minister for Special Trade Negotiations (Mr Howard) leaves Australia for a series of high level negotiations with the nine member states of the Community and the European Economic Community Commission in Brussels. [More…]

• Among the problems which he will be canvassing is the access of Australian beef to the European Economic Community [More…]

• The Government believes the last three years of disastrously low prices aggravated by difficulties in achieving market access through political embargoes imposed in a number of our principal markets and aggravated by increasing costs within Australia nas placed cattlemen among the least fortunate income earners in the Australian community. [More…]

• I now turn to what the Minister describes as the measures to assist beef producers, and I recommend that every producer should read very carefully page 8 of the Minister’s statement because, in the first place, it makes the extraordinary claim by implication that the newly appointed Minister for Special Trade Negotiations (Mr Howard) is likely to obtain some concessions for Australian primary products in his negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• One would have expected that the Minister for Overseas Trade would have been empowered and have had the capability to negotiate with the European Economic Community for access for our primary products. [More…]

• Why could it npt have been tabled tonight with the statement so that aU honourable members and the community as a whole would have been able to assess its relative merits? [More…]

• I would have hoped that Australia was a sensible and rational economic community and that we might have acknowledged that with nuclear energy there was arospect and a hope of redressing the balanceetween the haves and the have nots. [More…]

• I do not think that there are the divisions within the community in relation to this matter which it is said there are; but the community is asking questions, questions which increasingly it will ask in relation to many other matters. [More…]

• The Government took a decision before this House or the community had had an opportunity to debate the topic thoroughly. [More…]

• The only thing that we have done during the whole of the debate on nuclear energy in Australia has been to insist that environmental safeguards and normal safety procedures should be well and truly established- that the waste, the rubbish that lasts for years and years, should be disposed of with safety to the community. [More…]

• Because of the reluctance of the Government in 1969-70 to provide the community with information about nuclear technology at Jervis Bay I moved, during consideration of the estimates for the Department of National Development on 1 October 1970, the following amendment: [More…]

• To use his own words I say yes, our decision must be motivated by a high sense of moral responsibility, not only to all Australians but also to the community of nations. [More…]

• I do not think that any group of people, any community, any party, any union or any other body can contribute to a better society unless the people in it have been substantially de-alienated. [More…]

• They are not prepared to call a strike now, because they have found that the community is not prepared to accept strikes any more. [More…]

• No longer is the community prepared to put up with those people who want to hide behind the umbrella of genuine organisations such as trade unions which have been established for many years for quite genuine reasons- to represent the working people of Australia. [More…]

• It is an organisation which exists within the community. [More…]

• He agrees that, somehow or other, trade unionists are different from the rest of the community. [More…]

• He is unsure that the institution that he supports, or professes to support,, most stronglythat is, the Parliament- is the best body to manage the affairs of the country; or, alternatively, he takes the authoritarian point of view that only the Parliament has the right to put a point of view in the community. [More…]

• He would say that no other point of view in the community can be correct. [More…]

• He is prepared to put down organised labour in the community, the trade unions in the community which have leaders who are democratically elected, irrespective of their political views. [More…]

• I want to raise tonight the matter of the increasing reports in the community of a conspiracy between wealthy foreign owned mineral development companies, especially in Queensland, and the National Country Party. [More…]

• The National Country Party has allowed itself to be bought lock, stock and barrel, presumably, according to these reports, as the mouthpiece for the wealthy mineral interests in the community. [More…]

• Discussions with the Aboriginal community to determine these questions are continuing. [More…]

• Community member governments. [More…]

• So we are talking about a very small group of people in the community who have to be informed otherwise, as a matter of business responsibility, they can face, through lack of attention, considerable capital losses in a situation of possible devaluation as a result of not observing what is happening with the exchange rate. [More…]

• It represents the very powerful elements in our community. [More…]

• The private sector is only a very small section of the Australian community. [More…]

• He has polarised the Australian community to such an extent that foreign investors fear investing in this country. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) seeks to confront not only the trade union movement but also those sections of the community which dare to criticise him in any way. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and other honourable members on the Government side are seeking a polarisation of the Australian community. [More…]

• But I believe that parliamentarians have, in the first instance, to convince themselves that this is what is warranted and justified and, in the second instance, to have the courage to proceed from that point and to sell to the community the proposition that those people whom the community expects to manage the affairs of this country should be able to do so in accommodation that is of no greater or lesser standard than the accommodation that is used by other people who are engaged in very large enterprises. [More…]

• That being the case, surely the opposition must have access to facilities if not equal to at least somewhere near the facilities that are available to the Government Executive to enable the Opposition to perform the task the community expects it to perform. [More…]

• He has the business community upset. [More…]

• To my disappointment I notice in the community today an increasing disillusionment with Parliament and its politicians. [More…]

• I believe that the community should know, on the other hand, of the many instances when members and senators work together on specific matters in the total interests of the nation, a matter already referred to by the honourable member for Darling. [More…]

• I feel that Parliament no longer is fulfilling what should be its real role in the community. [More…]

• I think that if more consideration were given to the televising, not of the whole of the proceedings- I do not think that that should be inflicted on any section of the community- but of a selected portion of the parliamentary proceedings the role of the Parliament in moulding public opinion would become much greater. [More…]

• The standing of the member of Parliament in the community has been denigrated- and I say this quite advisedly- by the media which wants to take over the role of the Parliament to become the moulder of public opinion and the decision maker. [More…]

• Despite the jibes of the community and the cartoonists and what is written by members of the Press who sit up in the Press Gallery looking down on us- and I use the term ‘looking down on us’ advisedly also- I have never seen in the eight or nine years I have spent in this Parliament a more sincere, dedicated, hard working and capable group of people, and that comment applies to members of both sides of the Parliament. [More…]

• But the community as a whole does things year by year. [More…]

• If a government is building schools year by year, if it is building hospitals year by year, if it is building all sorts of other capital undertakings year by year and if all of those transactions are entered into an account and some kind of amortisation, some kind of interest rate, is worked out, that may be interesting from an accounting point of view, but I do not think that is the reality of capital as against annual consumption in a community. [More…]

• Surely everyone of us here knows that we would be a pretty primitive community if we relied on man power instead of horse power? [More…]

• If this levy had been going full blast it could have yielded some $200m for the coffers of the Australian Government for purposes associated with the needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• But out of sheer compassion I decided, as a fellow Queenslander, that I would give him an opportunity to apologise to the Australian community for the things he has been saying. [More…]

• I have asked that the issuing of licences be expedited as much as possible so as to reduce any inconvenience to the community. [More…]

• This matter is of concern, particularly in Queensland and to that financial sector throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Discussions and negotiations are now going on between the Government, the liquidator, other permanent building societies and the trading banks, and some discussion is also taking place with the Reserve Bank of Australia, for the purpose of seeing that a nervousness and concern does not spread throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations: Is it a fact that all funds granted to emergency unemployment committees for Community Youth Support Scheme programs have been frozen? [More…]

• -No, it is not true that all funds to Community Youth Support Scheme projects have been frozen, although I understand that telegrams relating to, from memory, five projects and indicating that funds would be frozen or suspended were sent out. [More…]

• With regard to the community health program, is the Minister able to advise whether he recently met State Health Ministers? [More…]

• Does he agree that a legislative base for the community health program is necessary to ensure continuity of the Commonwealth Government’s commitment and to encourage State governments to treat the program as one which is essential to contain the nation’s health costs because of the program’s preventative health bias? [More…]

• The second item on the agenda was the long-term funding arrangements for the school dental program and the community health program. [More…]

• The States also have sought a commitment from the Commonwealth to ensure that the present funding levels of the school dental program and the community health program are maintained, the commitment to be embodied in two separate Acts to give the States a guarantee that Commonwealth funding will continue. [More…]

• The Government places great importance on the school dental program and the community health program as means of maintaining an active preventative health policy with the co-operation of the States. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Health aware that certain organisations in Tasmania have been informed by the State Government that their projects cannot be funded because the Commonwealth Government has not agreed to the release of funds under the Community Health Program? [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has increased its contribution to the Community Health Program by 14.8 per cent. [More…]

• It will be receiving its share under the Community Health Program of the $lm additional money that was set aside for the funding of women’s refuges in that State. [More…]

• It is receiving also a very fair share of funds under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• A point that needs to be emphasised is that some extreme elements in the union movement are becoming more skilful in exerting a thoroughly disruptive effect on large sections of the Australian community by pulling a relatively few people out on strike. [More…]

• This compares with an estimated increase of about 9 to 10 per cent in the average weekly earnings in the community, which can largely be attributed to wage indexation increases over the year. [More…]

• This has created a great deal of uncertainty in the economic community, especially amongst businessmen. [More…]

• Furthermore, in a situation such as that which we are experiencing with the national economy at the moment and with the predictions which have been published as coming from the authoritative economic advisers of the Government who have indicated a much tougher year ahead, suggestions of an early election create the gravest uncertainty imaginable, especially amongst the business community. [More…]

• That is why there is unease in the community. [More…]

• Proportionately, the greatest burden of unemployment will be imposed on the young and on the migrants in the community. [More…]

• For all the enormous cost and dislocation imposed on the community, very little will be achieved in terms of conquering this key problem. [More…]

• That is what it cost the Australian community. [More…]

• Again today we had from him not only his quite immature suggestion regarding interest rates; he also wants to instil a sense of fear and despondency in the Australian community by talking about a credit squeeze. [More…]

• Now everybody in the community is concerned that the Government is seeking to run away from that responsibility by bringing on an election to distract attention from its miserable performance. [More…]

• The Opposition has charged both the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) and the honourable member for Oxley with the responsibility to go out into the community and to argue about the economic administration of this country. [More…]

• If anybody has sown the seeds of uncertainty within the Australian economy and the community it certainly has been the Opposition, both when in government and in the two years since. [More…]

• Certainly there is uncertainty about the Opposition in the minds of the community. [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that at a recent seminar on urban management processes two officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development produced a paper in which they claimed that the lack of relative price effect was a major reason for the apparent increase in the size of the public sector. [More…]

• I take the opportunity to draw attention to some work being done at the Australian National University at the present time on this matter of relative shares of our gross domestic product going to the public and private sector over a longer period than the period which was the subject of assessment by the two officers from the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• They are not likely to get grants on more favourable terms from the banking community; such money is only obtained on commercial terms. [More…]

• No community can long remain healthy and productive that does not set great store by the personal dignity, authority and responsibility of all its members. [More…]

• It is for those reasons and the fact that there is an increase in crime in the community, particularly the crime of breaking and entering, directly related to getting funds to buy narcotics that I think the terms of reference should be extended to cover the matters I have mentioned. [More…]

• From the statement of the Opposition it is clear that the whole Parliament believes that this is a matter of great importance to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government has come in for severe criticism from different sectors of the community for breaking its promise in connection with education funding. [More…]

• I am a little surprised that the honourable member for Maranoa has tried to resurrect that issue tonight, to open up an old sore and to divide the Australian community. [More…]

• To try to divide the Australian community is no way to operate in regard to a matter that concerns the well-being of young Australians. [More…]

• The Opposition does not seem to think that any restraint, any restriction, any bureaucratic red tape which will make the Commonwealth government less able to give guarantee assistance to a much needed sector of the community is bad. [More…]

• The Norfolk Island community is a special community. [More…]

• The community lives on a knife’s edge of insecurity as far as its economy is concerned. [More…]

• In fact, most of the Norfolk Islanders would be better off if they were brought under our tax system and had available to them the general services available to the Australian community. [More…]

• The restructuring of the Australia Council to make it more efficient and more economical and the establishment of the Community Arts School to involve the community in what is going on in the arts have both been important advances. [More…]

• I raised with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) earlier this year the statutory scheme which had been instituted for the appointment of permanent heads and how it might best be monitored by the community at large and especially by members of Parliament. [More…]

• I think honourable members on both sides of the chamber hope that this institution will soon take hold and attract real support in the community. [More…]

• I believe that those two points which I picked up tonight- the system of appointing permanent heads and the new institution of the Ombudsman- deal with things which go to the very confidence of the whole of the Australian community in our public administration. [More…]

• It was set up to inquire into the role and effectiveness of State, regional and municipal libraries in servicing the information and recreation needs of the community. [More…]

• I was somewhat surprised, I must say, that the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam), who claimed that the Opposition would treat all people in the community as being adequately and equally represented, did not quite appear to recognise this fact in his unwarranted attack, to my mind, on the recent remarks of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony). [More…]

• In particular, I welcome the recent decision to establish a community arts board within the Australia Council. [More…]

• The purpose of this decision was to achieve a wider participation in the arts throughout the community at large. [More…]

• The new Board will aim to reach those in the community who are not involved in or do not have association with major and traditional arts organisations. [More…]

• The work of the Community Arts Board will extend to outlying country areas, a very important facet of its work, I hope. [More…]

• I also take the opportunity to compliment my colleague, the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer), and his Government members’ committee, for the work the committee has put into the examination of new initiatives such as the Community Arts Board. [More…]

• Where taxpayers’ funds are concerned, in particular, art should reach as wide a range of people, young and old, in the community as possible. [More…]

• Every time that the Labor Government was unable to accede to a request for money from some section of the community, or whenever it was forced to impose a tax, the aggrieved person or organisation would make a sneering reference to Blue Poles. [More…]

• One of the joys of tonight’s debate is that I think it is suggestive of a developing consensus, at least in the Parliament if not in the broader community, and if not necessarily always throughout our parties at least in this Parliament among articulate and interested members, about the desirability of moving our policy with respect to acquisitions in the direction where at the end of the road the Council of the Gallery will make decisions about the purchases of works of art. [More…]

• For instance, I did not hear any criticism of the recent appointment of the Community Arts Board from any side of politics. [More…]

• I rise tonight to discuss some of the relevant and pertinent facts about one of Australia’s most disruptive unions, which is filled with officials who have a high degree of expertise in telling lies to the Australian community. [More…]

• The Utah Company of America, which has been assisting the Australian community by paying huge taxes, has been maliciously criticised and unfairly castigated by a group of people who have as their main concern their own ends and as their last concern the future of Australia. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, announced on 9 August 1 977 that a scientific study under the guidance of the Australian Ionizing Radiation Advisory Council had commenced on the possible dispersal of radioactive material in the Maralinga area. [More…]

• In the case of research, whilst there is no obligation on the research worker to publish his results, it is obviously in his interests to make these known to the scientific community. [More…]

• However, under the Committee ‘s terms of reference it is to inform and consult with, as appropriate other Commonwealth and State departments and organisations; the airlines and unions; and local government authorities, community organisations and other interested parties. [More…]

• This is due to perceived differences in the work performed and its value in relation to broadly similar groups m the community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 August 1977: [More…]

• 95 1 (Hansard, 8 September 1977, page 983) that there had been an expenditure of $1,085,874 in the electoral division of Parramatta for a Community Nursing Program- Parramatta during 1975-76. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• This also applies to the community youth support schemes. [More…]

• La Trobe mean that the Government proposes to change the policy under which, as the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Depvelopment told me yesterday in a prepared answer, ‘no new grants were made under the program of capital assistance for leisure facilities m 1976-77 and no new grants will be made for projects under this program in 1 977-78 ‘? [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs seen recent reports critical of the Government’s community development employment project scheme which has been introduced for Aboriginals? [More…]

• Coming directly to the question asked by the honourable gentleman, I am glad of the opportunity to correct the errors- I should perhaps say the malicious errors- put forth by the shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the other place about the community development employment project scheme. [More…]

• We believe in CDEP and whole community supports. [More…]

• For example, I was discussing certain matters with one migrant community in Melbourne a few days ago. [More…]

• One of the notable improvements which the present Government has made to this is the introduction of the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• I have already mentioned the Community Youth Support scheme, which is a very substantial improvement along the lines of rectifying unemployment and of improving the opportunities available to the unemployed to find employment. [More…]

• No doubt when that scheme was first thought up it was a very desirable initiative, but at that stage when I was not in this House but was an ordinary member of the community it seemed to me that a large number of people at public expense were learning macrame work, attending pottery classes and social welfare courses and a few other things which no doubt in an ideal society might be desirable things for them to pursue. [More…]

• If we wanted to selectively go through these statistics and look for excuses we could find them, but the fact is that in this House and in the debates that ought to be going on in the community we should be looking at the causes of unemployment rather than making the pious statements of the sort we hear often when honourable members express with righteous indignation their concern at the level of unemployment. [More…]

• We have the very special program, the community youth support scheme. [More…]

• The community youth support scheme provides a mechanism in electorates such as mine in which we have three schemes under way. [More…]

• We have the Community Development Employment Projects scheme for Aboriginals. [More…]

• If one looks at the problems of that great community one sees that there was a need for the Chinese to own their land and to exercise political control over it. [More…]

• What we want in boards which are dealing with national assessments or economic assessments are not only well meaning, devoted, intelligent public servants, but also people from the community. [More…]

• If the key jobs in the intelligence community are open to all departments, of course Department of Foreign Affairs officers will sometimes be the most suitable, but for the reasons I have advanced I believe this will be the exception rather than the rule. [More…]

• Nonetheless, this is one of the debates at which we look with more than usual interest at the advisers’ benches in order to see some of our intelligence community unmasked. [More…]

• But one does not have to look too far to see that Mr Justice Hope’s report is a very strong critique of the role played in the intelligence community in Australia over the last couple of decades by the Joint Intelligence Organisation. [More…]

• The Australian intelligence community is fragmented, poorly co-ordinated and organised. [More…]

• At the present time I know of only two people from outside the public sector who are making any substantial contribution to the taxation debate in our community. [More…]

• Let me read out what the 8 September 1977 edition of Church Scene, a Victorian Anglican newspaper, had to say in its editorial about the new tax scales: a community which passively allows a maximum benefit to the very rich is being callous not tough. [More…]

• I cannot believe that, if there were a proper research foundation in the community, such slovenly tax changes would have been introduced. [More…]

• I remind the people in the community that the situation in 1977 is far different from the situation which existed in 1927 or 1937. [More…]

• I would sooner see the market forces determine the flow of resources in the community. [More…]

• Initially, in the shorter term might it not be possible to look at tertiary education, which is available to an elite few, and recognise that this is provided by the majority of people in the community, who do not have access to it; that it is paid for by the truck driver and the shearer? [More…]

• If we do so, and continue to do so, two things will happen: We will never provide sufficient assistance to those who genuinely are needy and we will destroy the spine of the whole community. [More…]

• He has recently returned from this overseas visit during which he consulted more than 200 people representing overseas agencies and individual interests in various countries, amongst others the European Economic Community, Sweden, Austria, Brazil, the United States, Canada and Japan, regarding safeguards against nuclear weapons proliferation and has reported to me on those discussions. [More…]

• Mr Justice Fox, with his background and experience in this field- so well demonstrated by the breadth and quality of the reports of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry- has indicated that he is prepared to accept this task, a task which is most important for Australia and I venture to say for the wider international community. [More…]

• August I sought to have published letters and cables which His Honour had sent to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• Australia could not be better represented at these important international meetings than by Mr Justice Fox, who, I believe, already has secured the respect, indeed the admiration, of all sections of the Australian community and of many people overseas for the way that he conducted the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• The Australian conservatives have approached Australia’s obligations to the United Nations and the world community on southern Africa with manifest reluctance. [More…]

• The marked increase in multilateral diplomacy in particular and in the institutions serving it has played an important part in Australia becoming a fully participating member of the world community. [More…]

• I believe that the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition himself- in fact all members of the Senate and of the House of Representativesought to be profoundly affected by the appalling circumstances that exist in the rural community today and ought to be prepared to have a policy which is bipartisan, a policy which will lead to the rehabilitation and the re-establishment of the rural economy of Australia. [More…]

• What is significant is that in each case a distorted image of the world situation was presented to the Australian community as a realistic presentation of what international relations were supposed to be. [More…]

• As the Government of Australia we will stand up in the world community. [More…]

• In the community health program grants for capital costs have been decreased from 75 per cent to 50 per cent and grants for operating costs from 90 per cent to 75 per cent. [More…]

• He emphasised the word ‘unilaterally’- cut its share of the costs of community health centres and the school dental program. [More…]

• I think it is important to emphasise what is happening with community health programs. [More…]

• In examining a number of its patients who would otherwise have been in hospital or under nursing home care, it has been able to show that these patients have been maintained successfully and in a satisfying way in the community at a cost of $5 a week which is, of course, very much less than the cost of the alternative forms of care. [More…]

• There are still many good, honest, decent doctors in our community. [More…]

• -In past years there has been a continuing growth in Federal legislation aimed at providing an ever widening range of community facilities in health, welfare, sport, cultural and recreational areas. [More…]

• Tonight I want to talk about a program that the Australian Labor Party has developed, which we call our community development program, which loosely brings in a number of pieces of legislation which now cover this area. [More…]

• I will name just a few of them: The States Grants (Home Care) Act, the sport and recreation grants, the area improvement program, child care and preschool services, hospital and health services, community arts, the Regional Employment Development scheme and the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]

• However, they are relevant because they were covered in the Bailey report, particularly under that section of the report relating to community assistance and recreation programs, or what is known as CARP. [More…]

• In fact, it has caused a number of people in the community considerable concern. [More…]

• Our basic aim is to ensure that there is greater flexibility in the provision of community amenities and that maximum value is obtained for the taxpayers’ dollar. [More…]

• For example, if a community decides that it requires a health centre, a senior citizens centre and perhaps a pre-school kindergarten, which can easily be built in the one complex, administrative problems make such a proposition difficult, if not impossible, despite the obvious advantages of having that section of the community most in need of health care within easy access of health facilities. [More…]

• There is obviously a limit to the number of community facilities and services that can be provided in one complex. [More…]

• The solution was the Schools Commission, which offers a model for determining priority areas of need in a community development program. [More…]

• What is happening in our community is that the most articulate groups are able to find out quickly about existing legislation, take advantage of it and get in and avail themsleves of the grants. [More…]

• Those areas are not able to provide such facilities as sport and recreation facilities, libraries, community arts programs and health centres because they are still building their basic infrastructure. [More…]

• That is what we outlined in the community development program which Senator Don Grimes and I announced yesterday. [More…]

• I have found that when a community wanted to build, say, a health centre, a pre-school, a kindergarten or a youth centre and went to the Government for funds usually they engaged the services of a local inexperienced architect and he designed what was probably the first building he had ever designed for that area. [More…]

• I could give some horrible examples of where a sum of $100,000 was wasted because something was built 18 inches too narrow, or it was found after it had been built that it did not have the right fire excapes because the architect had never built a community hall like that before, and the whole thing had to be done again. [More…]

• -One respect of health expenditure upon which I should like to dwell tonight is the community health program. [More…]

• At a time of general economic restraint it is pleasing to see the Government’s commitment to the community health program in accordance with its 1975 pre-election promises. [More…]

• We then stated that we believed in a concept of total health care with the responsibility essentially at the community level. [More…]

• Our policy further stated that we would provide a variety of accessible ways in which to meet these needs as far as possible in the community setting and that we would stress prevention, education, rehabilitation and home care in preference to institutional care. [More…]

• Of that sum the expenditure on the community health program represented less than one per cent. [More…]

• I believe that our commitment to the preventive and educational aspects of the community health program can go a considerable way towards constraining our health expenditure. [More…]

• There have been many initiatives to improve health care in the community in the past four years, originating from various State agencies and from Canberra. [More…]

• However, it is my view that the community health program can be the basis for a national health program with a strong bias towards the preventive and educational aspects of community well-being. [More…]

• Currently over 700 projects are funded under the community health progam. [More…]

• These projects range from community health centres to day hospitals, day care centres, geriatric services, health education services, maternal and child care services, drug and rehabilitation facilities, funding for community nursing and so on. [More…]

• It is a wide-ranging program of considerable benefit to community well-being and in many cases it gives health services to communities that previously have been deprived in that area. [More…]

• In the short time available to me I would like to refer to one particular area; that is, the role of the community nurse. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that the work of the community nurse is more important than that of others working in the program, but I believe that it is a good example of the development of a new category of health worker. [More…]

• The community nurse is a generalist. [More…]

• In country areas the community nurse also provides therapeutic services. [More…]

• As at July 1976 over 1,100 community nurses were operating throughout Australia and being funded under the community health program. [More…]

• There is another area that I believe should be developed within the framework of the community health program. [More…]

• Community recreation, fitness and use of leisure time are a vital part of any national health program. [More…]

• They are basic to the preventive aspect of the community’s health. [More…]

• The health of the community has a direct relationship to the manner in which members of the community utilise thenleisure time and perform their daily tasks. [More…]

• I think that is flying in the face of the facts of life and of the social needs of the community. [More…]

• I think it is very necessary that every member of the Australian community recognise the Labor Party ‘s point of view. [More…]

• Now the community of Australia is fighting an historic battle for its right to exert the supremacy of the Parliament, the supremacy of the elected representatives of the people. [More…]

• It is monstrous that half a million fellow wage earners, not to mention the providers of employment and the rest of the community, should suffer grievously to satisfy the selfish demands and bloody-minded stubbornness of a comparatively well paid group of key workers in an essential industry. [More…]

• The Government is hell bent on dividing the community. [More…]

• The Government will not break the back of the trade union movement by its daily exercise in abuse, by its use of the Parliament in attempting to divide the community. [More…]

• All it will do is lose the support of the community, as is being shown in every poll that is being taken throughout Australia. [More…]

• If one adds to that the increased allocation for the Community Health Program, with the variety of more flexible services that this offers, one can say ‘Well done’ to the Minister. [More…]

• It is just another piece of governmental and administrative nonsense, confusing the people who are now the object of what one might call the community’s and the Government’s fading vision. [More…]

• Anybody in this country is happy to front up for repatriation health services, to use salaried services from doctors and all the rest of it without complaint I do not know why there should be any argument about supplying it to everybody in the community. [More…]

• Finally, I deal with the question of funds for the community health program. [More…]

• The polyclinic at Mount Druitt is the biggest and one of the finest community health centres in the country and one of the best examples of preventive medicine in the true sense of the word, particularly in respect of paediatric services. [More…]

• Electoral boundaries are so vital to the operation of the Parliament and to the fair representation of the community that there should be procedures in the Electoral Act whereby the reports of the distribution commissioners become final, possibly with provision for reference back by the Parliament on one occasion. [More…]

• The Parliament has a vested interest in this matter and is not necessarily capable of making an objective judgment- certainly not a judgment that is necessarily in the best interests of the community in general or the proper operation of electoral representation under the system by which we operate. [More…]

• -I know the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development would not be happy to hear me continue because the point I am making is that it is improper for Ministers of the Government to continue to attack the provisions of the Commonwealth Electoral Act and the tolerances provided for in that Act. [More…]

• These are the sorts of issues in the community today to which we need to find answers. [More…]

• I want to make a few comments on the overall question of the cost of health to the community. [More…]

• I do not want to pick a bone about any particular aspect of the estimates but I want to comment on the general problem facing the whole community in terms of the cost of health care. [More…]

• I have given figures before which show that in the United States of America, for example, in the same country, the same States, the same general community and with equivalent sorts of populations there is always a much higher utilisation rate of hospital services by patients treated by doctors paid by the alternative fee for service systemfor operations and so on-than by patients treated by doctors on a salaried basis. [More…]

• I have read enough to feel what we will find is confirmation of the fact that we would dramatically reduce the cost of our health services if we placed more emphasis on community health care and if, instead of worrying about constraining hospital costs, we provided an alternative system which treated people in the community out of hospital in their homes. [More…]

• Although institutions deal only with the smallest portion of the total health problems of the community, they constitute the bulk of the health cost. [More…]

• The American figures compare hospitalisation rates in different metropolitan areas of the country with hospitalisation rates where there are health maintenance organisations or, in our jargon, community health centres. [More…]

• In other words, the hospitalisation rate when patients were looked after in essence in community health centres was only about 38 per cent of the rate for patients cared for in the fee for service area, metropolitan and elsewhere. [More…]

• This is a fantastic reduction in a total cost to the community. [More…]

• We have complaints all the time in this community that we do not have enough hospital beds. [More…]

• The honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) referred to his concern about the defrauding doctors in our community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Maribyrnong placed emphasis on the importance of the community health program. [More…]

• There has been a grizzle from the States because they will be asked to contribute much more to the community health programs projects in their States, but I emphasise again that the States are $63 lm better off this financial year than they were last financial year- indeed, 17 per cent better off- and therefore should be putting extra money into such a worthwhile program. [More…]

• The Government’s response to the problem has been to slash expenditure, to throw at least 4,000 Aborigines out of work, and then to offer employment opportunities to approximately 500 Aboriginal men and women through its inadequate community development employment program. [More…]

• One of the important initiatives taken to deal with those problems in the remote areas of Australia was the community development employment project. [More…]

• The program has made finance available to enable Aboriginal councils to pay for work performed by individual community members, preferably on a co-operative, part time or contractual basis. [More…]

• In determining the amount of money to be made available to an individual community, the entitlement of individual community members to unemployment benefit was to be taken into account. [More…]

• The important aspect of this program is that it enables or encourages Aboriginals in a community to manage their own affairs. [More…]

• The Aboriginal council is encouraged to determine projects which would be beneficial to the community and which would be able to deal with the allocation of labour in the community and to provide through this program work for people in those communities. [More…]

• Already the program is under way in the community of Bamyili in the Northern Territory, at Fregon and Ernabella in South Australia and at Wiluna in Western Australia. [More…]

• At Wiluna, a community in Western Australia which I had the opportunity to visit and where many people were unfortunately housed until fairly recently in tents and the like in a village outside the town, Aboriginals are being trained to construct their own housing, making use of local materials. [More…]

• While I was there I had an opportunity to taste some of the products of that community. [More…]

• We must remember that following the 1967 referendum which decided that Aborigines would be counted in a census it was considered by most Australians that Aborigines would take their place on an equal basis with the rest of the community in the social structure of our society. [More…]

• As the Parliament will be aware, we have had established under the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• The Department of Employment and Industrial Relations has agreed to the employment of a full-time field officer to assist in the organisation of the expansion of the existing Griffith Community Youth Support Scheme to cater for the large number of unemployed Aboriginal youth in the city of Brisbane and, in particular, in my Federal electorate of Griffith. [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…]

• Earlier this year a symposium on the problem of juvenile misbehaviour in the Aboriginal community was held in Sydney. [More…]

• I believe that society has an obligation to continue with many of the programs which have been developed and to introduce new programs in the future to ensure that we continue to produce more Aboriginals who can take the part or play the part of leaders in their own community. [More…]

• In the last five years- due credit should be given to the Labor Government and to the present Government which is continuing many of these programs- we have seen more and more Aboriginals standing on their own feet and providing leadership within their own community. [More…]

• The Ranger inquiry concluded at page 233: … the rapid development of a European community within, or adjacent to, an Aboriginal traditional society has in the past always caused the breakdown of the traditional culture and the generation of intense social and psychological stresses . [More…]

• We were not to assimilate Aborigines into the white community; we were to integrate them. [More…]

• As the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) noted in his speech a little earlier, only recently the last known traditional tribal Aborigines were brought from the desert into a community which has come under the influence of Western ways. [More…]

• The other major factor is, of course, the significant benefit to the business community which will result from a truly uniform system of corporate law and administration. [More…]

• In the interests of the community, traders and the Commonwealth it was considered essential that the operator of the first commercial controlled parking area in Canberra be in a position to provide an efficient service and have the expertise to properly manage the operation. [More…]

• One would have thought that honourable gentlemen opposite were not only enemies of the Australian farming community but also enemies of manufacturing industry and enemies of employment in Australia because it was their policies which did so much to undermine the strength of the Australian economy. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he disputes and repudiates table 6 in statement 2 of the Budget Papers which shows that the standard of living of the Australian community had in fact fallen during 1976-77? [More…]

• They are, in increasing numbers, young people from all groups and classes and regions and sections of our community who are being deprived of work and hope and self-respect at the very threshold of their working lives. [More…]

• Mr Gilchrist is just one example of what the business community thinks about present policies. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian community at large welcomes reports put out by the Industries Assistance Commission in relation to industries. [More…]

• The cost to the Australian community of building a ship here, by comparison with the cost of importation of a ship, was such that the Government felt that it was too high a price to pay and that we should look at some other avenues to see whether the cost to the Australian community of giving employment to people generally throughout this country could be reduced to some extent. [More…]

• There is a very strong feeling in rural areas in particular that exporters as a section of the Australian community are carrying an unduly high burden of the cost of protection provided to Australian industries. [More…]

• The Government has to decide- I agree that this is a very difficult problem- the relative merits of the arguments from various sections of the community. [More…]

• It developed a wide range of proposals for public transport, community development, public participation and land use control. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) would like us to believe that the Government is maintaining the level of spending on welfare housing. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, is little in stature and little in authority and that is the measure of his influence in the Fraser Government. [More…]

• There is no reason why poorer families who are being looked after under welfare housing should be forced to pay more for their shelter than is paid by the rest of the community. [More…]

• The Agreement provides a great flexibility and opportunity for State governments to provide services at a level at which the community is most in need. [More…]

• The House will see that those people who received loans in early years and have spent some time repaying these commitments are now paying at a very low rate compared with the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that when the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) first announced some of the details which he wished to discuss with State Premiers the Labor States were most reluctant to join in with what should be an objective for all political parties, that is, the provision of housing for those people genuinely in need rather than a continuance of support for some individuals who should not be receiving the very great benefits which are obvious under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in fact acknowledged in his second reading speech, and would acknowledge at any time, that this agreement has had a great impact on housing in Australia. [More…]

• It is a backward step, and it will cause very grave concern throughout the community. [More…]

• Agreement and, as indicated in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), policies and objectives for future housing. [More…]

• What do we do to avoid housing which is dear, of monotonous design, small and generally not meeting the requirements and aspirations of the community? [More…]

• If the Commonwealth does not develop in association with the States a housing resources policy we could end up with a commune or caravan type community on the outskirts of our cities and towns. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that all sections of the Australian community- the purchaser, the builder and the provider of services- will give evidence to the inquiry so that answers to the affordable house are readily forthcoming. [More…]

• State governments can allocate finance to local government if local government expresses a willingness to enter the housing field for community group purposes. [More…]

• After some consideration I decided that the best thing to do was to convene a conference of Aboriginal people representative, as far as I could make it so, of all sections of the Aboriginal community- people from the Northern Territory tribal situations, people from the urban situation and prominent Aboriginal people. [More…]

• We see in the Bill that the allocation for town management and public utilities this financial year is $4.3m higher than it was last financial year and includes the Community Development Employment Projects, which are very well meaning and well thought out. [More…]

• If a person in our community satisfies the criteria for eligibility for unemployment benefit he gets paid that benefit. [More…]

• It was out of our consideration of the problems facing Aboriginals in remote communities, in particular, where the ordinary labour market is not readily available to them that we devised the Community Development Employment Project scheme. [More…]

• I was interested to hear him speak from his own studies and experience of the need to have health programs geared to the community level. [More…]

• In the speech to the National Press Club from which I have already quoted I referred to the initiative which is being taken by my Department in this area- something that we have called the community based health program. [More…]

• The Council in these disastrous circumstances, has given a lead to the community and our governments and this remission of rates will not only be of considerable assistance to the affected ratepayers but will also encourage government and semi-government authorities to offer similar assistance. [More…]

• It is an immense support to the growers and it shows a commendable appreciation of the psychological effects of the disaster upon the people of the whole community. [More…]

• The effects of this disaster will be felt throughout the Sunraysia community. [More…]

• It must be stressed that the problem will remain with this community for the whole of 1978. [More…]

• I refer to the responsibility which government has towards the homeless men and women of our community. [More…]

• However, the very nature of the Act implies a moral commitment by the Government to do all it can to help those people in our community who, because of their unfortunate circumstances, cannot help themselves. [More…]

• All governments have a moral responsibility to ensure that the pensions paid to those people get to those people and are not siphoned off by others in the community who are out to make a fast buck. [More…]

• One of the things that have concerned me for a long time about homeless people is the way in which it is possible for the bureaucracy, in some cases, to become bogged down in its own paper work at the expense of the unfortunate people in our community. [More…]

• I raise these matters merely because I believe that in the area of homeless people there is a great deal more that we can do for that unfortunate sector of the community about which nobody seems to care and nobody wants to know. [More…]

• I also believe it would be a very effective means for the Department of Social Security to employ in order to communicate with many of the outlying areas and the new suburban developments which so often are the source of so many of the social problems in our community today. [More…]

• I believe that Tasmania has a mobile office and that Western Australia has a caravan which is shared by the Department’s social workers and its community liaison officers. [More…]

• So bitter was the clash over the apple and pear subsidy scheme that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) threatened to resign and the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) was told that he was behaving like a grub and should go back to Tasmania and bury himself in an apple- to use the precise words. [More…]

• At least people in the community now have hope and justified faith that the government of Australia is in the hands of those who attack the job with a sense of responsibility and that when the hardship is over Australia will be well and truly back on the road to stability. [More…]

• I want to make a brief reference to the difficulties that I encountered earlier this year after Senator Colston reported me to the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, following a certain statement I made in Queensland on approximately 9 February this year. [More…]

• It will be recalled that I countered by reporting to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), under whose control the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, comes, the way that a Queensland lady felt following the claim of the Commissioner that in Japan the Japanese are taught that all Australians are racist. [More…]

• There is no provision for the Minister administering the Act to inquire into complaints against the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• It would seem that the Commissioner for Community Relations is in the privileged position of being the only man in Australia who can go around making racist utterances. [More…]

• I hope that when the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is reorganised the Commissioner no longer will be in that privileged position. [More…]

• In each case the report of the inquiry will be privy to the Government and to the bureaucracy, not to the community whom it affects. [More…]

• These are the documents being used as the basis for major government decisions which affect not only the aviation industry but the entire community and vet they are being denied even parliamentary scrutiny and debate. [More…]

• The Government and Minister are depriving the Parliament and the community of the essential information that they need to consider the kinds of services which we should have in this country. [More…]

• I hope the Government will respond to my request to open up civil aviation in this country for proper examination and let the facts be known to the community. [More…]

• For instance, the migrant services outreach program has been taken from a competent migrant welfare officer and placed in the hands of a woman with no casework or community work experience with migrants. [More…]

• This womanthe fault does not lie with her- has no linguistic skills, no experience of working directly or indirectly with migrants and no direct knowledge of the politics and problems associated with ethnic community work. [More…]

• Professor Encel was to carry out a similar inquiry early in 1976 at a very low cost to the community, but the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs sacked him. [More…]

• I hope that when I say this I will not be misrepresented and that what I say will not be taken as demonstrating that I do not have any concern to ensure that migrants are treated fairly and equally with all other members of the Australian community or that I am not anxious to see everyone employed in as congenial a condition as possible. [More…]

• It certainly does not help the migrant’s perception of himself as being an important and valued part of the Australian community, nor does it assist the process of acceptance by the host community. [More…]

• He is making it much harder for those people to feel that they are a wanted and valued part of the Australian community. [More…]

• These are just some of the initiatives that this Government has taken in the field of assistance to migrants in the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) began by telling us how he was delighted to see migrants become wanted and valued members of the Australian community. [More…]

• Of course they cannot all be taken into the Australian community. [More…]

• Any of us who have had dealings with non-English speaking persons in our community have had to deal with the bureaucracy and know how difficult the migrants’ problems are. [More…]

• This is at a time when huge numbers of very disadvantaged Lebanese are coming into the Australian work force and community. [More…]

• Secondly, we have a Community Youth Support scheme for the unemployed youth in the Lebanese community, particularly to help them to learn English. [More…]

• In relation to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Auditor-General had reported that amounts totalling $6,048,024 were paid under the States Grants (Dwellings for Pensioners) Act 1974 although no warrant of the Governor-General had been obtained for the expenditure. [More…]

• The European Economic Community, although represented, did not play a prominent part in the negotiations because it did not receive a mandate to do so until the eleventh hour of the Conference. [More…]

• Furthermore, the European Economic Community, the world’s largest producer of sugar, is now seriously considering negotiating to join the new International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• The international market for sugar does not include agreements which exist between the European Economic Community, French Caribbean and Pacific countries under the Home Convention, Cuba and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• This is because the expected sugar beet crop plus 1.3 million tonnes of cane sugar imports will produce nearly three million tonnes surplus to likely demands in the Community. [More…]

• However the strength of that floor would be considerably helped by the European Economic Community becoming a signatory to the International Sugar Agreement. [More…]

• Until the final document has been seen and the European Economic Community has become a signatory, the Opposition remains very cautious about the value of the new Agreement. [More…]

• I think that the rest of the community too is becoming increasingly aware of the importance of a strong, dynamic small business sector. [More…]

• Its voice is being heard more and more as small business seeks to establish itself as a recognisable, distinct identity within the Australian community. [More…]

• Earlier this year the Government detected a growing concern in the business community that funds flowing from the financing organisations appeared inadequate for the growth and development of small business. [More…]

• In addition, the Government has decided that the activities of the Australian Industry Development Corporation , in respect of small business will be extended, possibly by way of forming joint ventures with State and private sector institutions for the provision of finance to the small business community. [More…]

• The Government also will be taking other initiatives within its own areas of responsibility to ensure that all elements in the Commonwealth Government machinery are fully aware of small business requirements and that the possible impact of various government measures upon the small business community is taken very much into account. [More…]

• These booklets have been very well received by the small business community so much so that some titles are having to be reprinted within months of being released. [More…]

• The Labor Government followed what had happened in the United States of America where for some years they have had a small business administration department, and it set up one here because it recognised the great value of small business to our community. [More…]

• It is getting a Budget which is doing nothing more than taking activity out of the community and creating more unemployment. [More…]

• I also bring to the attention of the House the fact that the personal tax indexation and also more recently the standard rate taxation which were brought down are aimed at the community at large but they also specifically benefit small business. [More…]

• Our general taxation reforms flow through to small businessmen as much as they flow through to the community at large. [More…]

• These need to be understood by everyone in Parliament and in the business community. [More…]

• Accordingly, the planning and administration of broadcasting should be designed in a manner which will enable it to be responsive to the needs of the community. [More…]

• The Government has been conscious of a need for the Australian broadcasting system to provide basic broadcasting services to the whole community and not just to parts of the community. [More…]

• The Bill also provides for the licensing of community television aerial systems. [More…]

• In line with the Government’s desire to establish an administrative structure for broadcasting which is responsive to industry and public needs and which efficiently and fairly operates for the benefit of the whole community, the Government has undertaken quite extensive consultation in the preparation of this legislation. [More…]

• I state here and now that I am not denigrating the role that this new and most useful court must play in our community. [More…]

• Once again I want to talk about the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• -The last three matters I put to the Committee, with due respect, relate to division 342 which refers directly to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• There is a need not just to maintain the status quo but to increase the translation services because they are required by the community. [More…]

• I would like to offer the Minister my congratulations for the many positive initiatives that he has undertaken on behalf of the migrant community in Australia. [More…]

• Immigration did not have a ministerial hand who was able to devote himself fully to attending to the needs of the migrant community. [More…]

• In fact, I think that every honourable member ought to be grateful that groups are going out into the community and providing this service for people who wish to become citizens. [More…]

• It concerns the matter on which the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) touched- the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• As I understand it, the Human Rights Commission is designed to have five commissioners; yet the annual amount involved is only about double the amount available already for the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• That office has done a splendid job in encouraging a sense of dignity among people who have come to this country to make their lives, to even out discrimination against them and to alert the Australian community to shortcomings in the present set-up. [More…]

• I really think the total approach of the Labor Party is beneath the dignity of the migrant community. [More…]

• I point out also that the latest figures show that a small percentage of breadwinners in the Australian community are unemployed. [More…]

• -There is no doubt that in times of economic recession such as the present time the migrant community is amongst the hardest hit section of the Australian community. [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…]

• But of the men, the major breadwinners in the family, the migrants are the least secure employees in the community. [More…]

• Of course, at the same time with this difficulty with employment there is an increased need throughout the whole community for community services of all sorts. [More…]

• Again, because the migrants constitute the largest group in the sense that, in relation to the proportion of migrants in the general community, the number of people needing these sorts of support services comprises a high proportion of migrants, so they are more dependent on services which ironically at this time are cut back and are least able to cater for the increasing demand. [More…]

• This particular office was established by a committee of migrant groups in my electorate, including the Croatian and Yugoslav community, the Italian community and a number of other migrant communities in the area. [More…]

• Unemployment is also a greater problem for migrants than it is for the majority of the community. [More…]

• If the breweries do it there is a howl of wrath and vengeance through the whole community. [More…]

• We would not tolerate anybody else in the community receiving that kind of return. [More…]

• In the recreation, cultural and community services areas the funds are down marginally. [More…]

• In spite of what the honourable member for Wills said, there is a government housing policy which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has announced and discussed recently with State Housing Ministers. [More…]

• Most people have come here from other places and when they have personal problems they have to fall back on the community and not on their famines. [More…]

• Another area which I think needs assistance in a new city is that of community development officers. [More…]

• Most municipalities have community development officers financed through the municipal rate or State governments. [More…]

• The city of Queanbeyan, which is only a few kilometres from here, has community development officers. [More…]

• Tn Canberra there are some community development officers but not enough. [More…]

• For an expenditure of some $60,000 or $70,000 we could have four community development officers in Canberra, one for the south side, one for the north side, one for Belconnen and one for Woden and Tuggeranong. [More…]

• -I imagine that some members from Western Australia do get a little lonely here and perhaps they could get some succour from a community development officer, if that was necessary. [More…]

• 1 ), is the Department of Community and Social Development. [More…]

• If we look at the statistics we will see that drinking is the first or second major health problem for the Australian community. [More…]

• It lends itself to the disgusting rumours that took place earlier this year when people in this community, for political purposes, put fear and dread into people in nursing homes and other disadvantaged people in the community by peddling lies about proposed cuts. [More…]

• They are not concerned at all with the massive problems confronting the Australian community. [More…]

• -At the moment a series of consultations is taking place between the Ranger joint venturers, the Northern Land Council which is looking after Aboriginal interests, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the special advisory scientist regarding the standards of any mine that might be developed in the area. [More…]

• The real debate never got off the ground; the spurious debate divided the community and retarded the cause of education. [More…]

• Just as serious in terms of the wellbeing and unity of the Australian community is the revival of the old disputes, the old bitterness, the old division, which the Schools Commission laid to rest. [More…]

• That it should be required to make a report within the range that a government feels it can finance, within the range that a government feels is appropriate for reasons of social management or community standards, is irrelevant to that right and that obligation to make its own judgment and that judgment has been made by the Schools Commission. [More…]

• It will be of great value to the industry and consequently to the gross domestic product of this country which in turn of course will reflect in value to the whole of the community. [More…]

• So the contribution made by the Government in this area, although it directly affects the oilseed producers, will, through the producers and through their increase in production, advantage the whole community. [More…]

• So if we can build up production through this research scheme we will be saving the Australian community the cost of importing these oilseeds. [More…]

• The only intervention by the Government in recent times in terms of trade policy has been the appointment of the Minister for Special Trade Negotiations for the European Economic Community, the honourable member for Bennelong, the Honourable John Howard. [More…]

• The common agricultural policy of the EEC is the result of the very complex political relationships that have developed within the Community. [More…]

• Why has the Special Trade Negotiator been appointed for the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Nor will the honourable member for Bennelong have much success if he thinks he can break through the European Economic Community’s common agricultural policy. [More…]

• The European Economic Community’s agricultural protectionism is appalling, but we are too late to do anything worth while about it. [More…]

• For my part I believe that encouragement with tax deductions should be given to Australian companies to encourage the small investor in this community to spend his money on companies that are prepared to carry out appropriate programs and to seek the relevant licences and leases to do that. [More…]

• European Economic Community. [More…]

• I know, as he and I both representing this country at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1975, that his experience, like mine, has been that the protectionism within the European Economic Community in relation to agriculture and other forms of industry has to be seen to be believed. [More…]

• Those people in the United Kingdom who have been in conflict with the people within the European Economic Community for so many years will well know the truth of what I have just said. [More…]

• Those rich minerals were put in the ground for the community to use, for the development of our nation and to improve the standard of living of the community in general. [More…]

• I assert that there just is not the medium and long term thinking going on in our community which focuses on these great problems. [More…]

• The Council would be made up of people from the business community, from the world of trade unions, both employers and employees, as well as from government, State as well as Federal, and also from scholars from universities. [More…]

• We would not be able to achieve those objectives in a mixed economy such as this one unless there was a general consensus view on these objectives and unless the business community agreed with the objectives. [More…]

• So the business community must have a hand in establishing the objectives. [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that it is not just a government of the sort of philosophy of a Labor government that has come to the conclusions that we have come to of the need for planning in our community. [More…]

• There is agreement in the business community of the need for the kind of concept that we are talking about, namely, the need for the establishment of these national objectives. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) has returned to the chamber, and I am pleased to follow the honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Thomson), because each of them represents isolated areas in a national community. [More…]

• He is from a community in which apples cannot be sold internally. [More…]

• The fact that they have not received much publicity so far is again an indication of the concentration of our public debate and our media coverage on short term sensational matters which distort the picture of what is going on in the Australian community and in government programs. [More…]

• -In recent years the community has grown accustomed to the inconvenience caused by the breakdown of computers or by errors in computer calculations. [More…]

• The community service work of Mr Smith as a justice of the peace and as a member of the Brighton Rotary Club will be detrimentally affected by this omission. [More…]

• The rest of his family is also extensively involved in community activities. [More…]

• It is a poor service to the community. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has secured for Tasmania the establishment of the maritime college in his electorate. [More…]

• I support very strongly the moves of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development for the establishment of a Regular Army battalion in Tasmania. [More…]

• The Government, I think, has to make a decision on whether this project should go ahead immediately or whether the Government is prepared to gamble with that sort of money and with the livelihoods of substantial sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• In responding to the honourable member for Henty, I might take the opportunity of recognising in this House, as certainly all honourable members on this side would recognise, the very significant contribution that the honourable member for Henty has made in the interests of the small business community throughout Australia as chairman of the Government Members Small Business Committee. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable gentleman that I have discussed with the Commissioner of Taxation the problems posed for the small business community whose financial stability has been affected by the Victorian power strike. [More…]

• The conclusion is that whilst the National Health and Medical Research Council has correctly drawn the community’s attention to the necessity to reduce iodine levels in milk, this is a point that has already been accepted by State departments of agriculture and primary industry. [More…]

• During his period as Minister for Education the present Prime Minister played very heavily on the disputes and divisions in the community which derived from the State aid arguments which were a deep seated area of community concern. [More…]

• It was a deliberate act to divide the community. [More…]

• The major area in which the Government has sought to divide the Australian community i in the area of industrial relations, of wage fixation and conditions. [More…]

• Indexation has been altered in a number of ways by initiatives of this Government which have seriously disadvantaged sections of the wage earning community who have to approach the court to seek payments that ought to be automatic following a change in their financial status in line with movements in the cost of living. [More…]

• It is being used ruthlessly to divide Australia and turn sections of the community against one another in the interests of the political advancement of the Prime Minister and his Party. [More…]

• Confronting Australia are serious problems which cannot be solved by this type of divisiveness or by the daily abuse by Government Ministers, for political purposes alone, of significant sections of the Australian community We need and require a government which is prepared to seek and which is capable of utilising the national unity which is available in Australia if the proper approach is made. [More…]

• No sections of the Australian community are entitled to expect the continuing and almost unmitigated abuse of the Government of the day. [More…]

• Every person is entitled to expect equal rights and that the Government of the day will treat him as an Australian, not as someone belonging to a sub-standard section of the community, as is presently the case under this Government. [More…]

• These people are being abused merely because the intonation of their voices makes them readily recognisable from other sections of the community. [More…]

• We see the deliberate and continuing attempts of Government Ministers to turn one segment of* the community against another. [More…]

• Not without note are the efforts to create and multiply the divisions in the trade union movement about which we hear from Government Ministers every day of the week, and in the rural community. [More…]

• He feels that by some magic means this will solve problems which have been created by the uncertainty which grows in a community in which hope is taken away from the people by an insensitive and unresponsive government. [More…]

• How dare the Australian Labor Party accuse the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of being the author of divisive policies and statements, when the Australian Labor Party earned for itself the reputation of being the most divisive political force in this country since Federation, a party which callously and shamelessly sought to divide the Australian community in every conceivable way. [More…]

• By 1975, when the Whitlam Government was thrown out of office by the Australian people, Australia was stricken by more divisions within our national community than ever before. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party did not restrict its divisive policies to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is the party which is endeavouring once again to build up division and disunity within the Australian community. [More…]

• The only way in which they think they can crawl back to power is by producing further division and disruption in the Australian community. [More…]

• Its purpose is to have a disunited community so that it can distract public attention from its abysmal failures in economic management. [More…]

• This Bill is proof positive that we are not prepared to have rural Australia driven into subjectionthe subjection of poverty through being made the one section of the Australian community being denied some assistance in alleviating a suffocating cost burden and a pressure from a society which demands all and wants to give little or nothing in return. [More…]

• I submit that this is good government in actionnot biased government seeking to destroy free enterprise, but a government sensitive to the needs and priorities of a section of the community discriminated against. [More…]

• This matter is one of justice by the community to a section of primary industry, namely sugar, grain growing, fruit, dairying and tobacco which do not use, or have limited use for, superphosphate and in which because of their soil structures and climatic conditions legumes are unable to contribute to a build up of nitrogen which is the most essential plant nutrient. [More…]

• Farmers have no wage indexation processes, no international PJT, no protection as the European Economic Community gives its farmers in the world market place. [More…]

• The European Economic Community, for instance, has taken actions in recent years which have changed dramatically the terms of trade of Australian primary producers and taken away the capacity to dispose of surpluses in markets where they could be sold at reasonable prices to the advantage of the people who live in that area. [More…]

• The subsidisation of primary products in the EEC area and the protection at the level at which it is being granted is acting to the very serious disadvantage of Australian farmers and also the general community in agricultural areas. [More…]

• If primary producers are to be commercial operations receiving a price for thenproduct in the same way as manufacturers and other sections of the community, there must be changes. [More…]

• I suggest that it should have the sorts of organisations which exist in the trade union movement, whereby pressure can be applied to obtain the conditions to which trade unionists believe they are entitled, whether or not the community agrees. [More…]

• But I recognise, and of course the Government realises, that very much more must be done to ensure that farmers get a fair deal from the rest of the community and receive a reasonable income for their work and their effort. [More…]

• It is vital to note that assistance given by this Government is not in fact handouts to some specially well-off sections of the community, which is the Labor Party argument when it attacks assistance to the rural industry. [More…]

• This policy reflects a fundamental review of the rights and responsibilities of the parties engaged in industrial relations and the demands of the contemporary community. [More…]

• In my second reading speech on that Bill I said that, because of the fundamental importance of the legislation, the Government intended members of this Parliament, the principal parties to industrial relations, and the community at large, to be given time to consider objectively the contents of the Bill and to make their views known to the Government. [More…]

• However, at the end of the day it is for the Government to act, having regard not only to the views put to it, but also to the demands of the public interest, the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• One of the fundamental tenets of the Government’s industrial relations policy is that each member of the community has both rights and obligations. [More…]

• Unions have grown greatly in size and are in a position to influence powerfully, by concerted action, the economic wellbeing of the community. [More…]

• No responsible Government can ignore this, or refuse to take steps to prevent such power being exercised contrary to the best interests of the community. [More…]

• A very real danger arises where a union, in pursuit of some limited or self-interested goal, is able to impose economic hardship and dislocation on the entire community. [More…]

• We have seen, and are witnessing, the frightening capacity of a relatively small group of unionists in the Victorian power industry to wreak havoc on an entire community. [More…]

• It is paramount that unions recognise their obligations and the legitimate interests of the Austraiian community. [More…]

• Thirdly, the Bill proposes to enhance the means by which the rights of members of organisations and the interests of the community can be better protected through the functioning of the Commission, the Industrial Relations Bureau and the Federal Court. [More…]

• Honourable members are only too well aware that disputes affecting trade and commerce or essential services have imposed profound economic dislocation on the community. [More…]

• Events of recent months and, most particularly, the events of the last few days have emphasised this is essential in the interests of our community. [More…]

• It is well known to the seafaring community, to those people who are dependent for safety reasons upon the proper and efficient operation of navigational aidslighthouses, buoys and markers- that the Government has decided to cut back on the servicing and maintenance of these aids. [More…]

• It sickens me that judges of the Arbitration Commission should sit there in their smug satisfaction, on their $44,000 a year, and be telling useful people- people who are useful to the community and without whom we cannot exist- that they are not entitled to an increase in their salaries. [More…]

• There is no question of doubt that there is sufficient liquidity in the community to enable people to fulfil their ambitions in the acquisition of material objects, including motor vehicles, but we need something to break the nexus, to encourage people to take the step. [More…]

• The purpose of the libraries is to provide a specialised collection of world trade data for the Department of Overseas Trade and Department of the Special Trade Negotiator, in particular, and for other departments as necessary, and also for members of the business community. [More…]

• I should say with respect to the Australian wheat industry, however, that the whole Australian wheat community is very indebted to the retiring Chairman of the Board, Mr Jack Cass, and to the Board for the efforts that they have made on behalf of the wheat industry. [More…]

• -These figures certainly will have a very real impact on business confidence throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Health and relates to the announcement that the New South Wales Health Commission has a surplus of cars under the funding program from the Commonwealth for the community health program. [More…]

• About half a million dollars worth of those cars have been purchased under the community health program. [More…]

• I have also made sure that in this financial year proceeds from the sale of surplus cars purchased under the community health program granting arrangement will in fact be reinvested within the community health program block grant allocation for 1 977-78. [More…]

• I must say that this matter adds great weight to the decision that the Government took to involve the States to a greater extent in the contributions that they make towards this very valuable community health program. [More…]

• I shall be watching the matter very closely to make sure that the proceeds from the sale of surplus cars are directed to the right and proper place under the community health program grant for 1977-78. [More…]

• Has he noticed in the latest annual report of the IAC that several industries enjoying high protection rates have used the protection rates to increase prices and profits, thereby aggravating cost problems in the community, and have used increased profits to invest to a greater degree in capital equipment, accordingly reducing the numbers in the work force? [More…]

• Such delays reduce the practical use of the Series to that of an archival research tool rather than offering a Series which provides the community with current and up-to-date information on the affairs of Parliament and government. [More…]

• One of the rights of the Opposition is to have sufficient time to examine legislation, to consider it at a party level and to discuss it with those sections of the community which have an interest in the legislation or will be affected by the legislation. [More…]

• These propositions are put in the deeply held belief that confrontation and massive dislocation, if avoidable whilst still adhering to principle, is against the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is likewise right and proper and fair that there should be a ground of deregistration if the organisation is involved in an interference with the provision of a public service to the community of Australia. [More…]

• These people are being paid with public moneys, are employed to provide a public service to the commumty, yet on their own say so they can just withdraw their labour and deny that public service being provided to the community. [More…]

• Accordingly it is only fair and proper that that should be a ground- it is not an automatic ground, as the honourable member for Gellibrand seems to think- for going to the Federal court and saying that that organisation should be deregistered completely or in part because it has withheld an essential public service to the community of Australia. [More…]

• While the Government says that these useful men who are doing something for the community are not entitled to $40 a week it gives the equivalent of a $400 a week taxable income to some person like the Governor-General who has no useful purpose at all. [More…]

• He does not care, and neither does the Labor Party care, if the community is wrecked in the process. [More…]

• The community is comprised of individuals. [More…]

• If we are to maintain co-operation in this community, if we are to save this community from being wrecked by the activities of just a few people- as all honourable members know, it takes only a few power workers, as we have seen in the Latrobe Valley, to tie up almost a whole State- this sort of legislation has to be introduced. [More…]

• I believe that the community will be torn apart unless this Government legislates to protect the individuals in it. [More…]

• But how can that happen when we have industrial anarchy and industrial disorder right throughout the community? [More…]

• In conclusion let me say also that anyone who has any doubts about the sort of extortion, thuggery and difficulty that has been brought to trade unionism by this dreadful element in the community should read the two Sweeney reports of 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• Yet this Government, since it assumed office in December 1975 has introduced Draconian legislation such as this and has imposed all sorts of horrendous penalties upon the working people, the people who are employees, the people who are least able individually to defend their position in the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Swan kept talking about the decent unions in the community. [More…]

• Is it the honourable member for Swan, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) or the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who is to decide who are the decent unions in the community? [More…]

• In his view the business community can raise their prices while the rest of the community has no rights at all to raise their voices in opposition or indeed to organise themselves against the rises. [More…]

• It is not the bloodyminded hawks who sit behind the Minister, because they do not care as long as the legislation destroys the unions and gives them a free hand to use their own organisations to exploit the community without let or hindrance. [More…]

• However, the paranoic desire of the Prime Minister to divide the community and establish grounds for an election keep coming to the fore. [More…]

• He started to talk about there being no room in our community for scabs and free loaders and that people ought to pay if they receive benefit from the actions of others. [More…]

• One of the fundamental tenets of the Government’s industrial relations policy is that each member of the community has both rights and obligations: Those rights must be protected and the obligations must be met. [More…]

• This Government finds nothing nicer when it believes an election is looming than to stir up the community, to divide it and to raise this specious law and order issue. [More…]

• It is paramount that unions recognise their obligations and the legitimate interest of the Australian community. [More…]

• When we talk about responsibility, lo and behold the speakers on the other side of the House say that people who undertake responsible positions such as the people with a finger on the switch of the electricity supply, have a responsibility to the community. [More…]

• I put it to the Minister that the community has a responsibility to them. [More…]

• The Council’s objectives will be to provide a forum for discussion and an opportunity for communication between governments, the industry parties and other community interests. [More…]

• The way has also been opened for the many other interests in the community who are concerned with developments on the waterfront to exercise an influence on the course of events. [More…]

• Having said that it must be acknowledged that some of the restraints responsibly applied have caused apprehension in various quarters in the Australian community. [More…]

• Understandably, the Bundaberg community is not enthused at the prospect of an aircraft being required at any time to overfly and not maintain schedules. [More…]

• The Scandinavian community in my electorate is most upset about the fares to and from their home countries at the moment. [More…]

• The new standard rate system removes, once and for all, the unjust and crippling regime of personal income tax imposed on the community by the former Government. [More…]

• This feature of the new system is a social reform that significantly improves the position of lower income groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• Like many another industry throughout the years it has outstripped its resources and like many a social industry it has been so successful in promoting its wares to the general community that it has led the community to a level of sophistication in their educational expectations that the crash when it comes, when the industry boom bursts, is all the more painful and hard. [More…]

• So there is now throughout our community at official and suburban level, as it were at provincial level, an enormous questioning of the advantages of education viewed in relation to the costs of providing the education. [More…]

• I think it a great cause for regret that the Government’s actions have caused a stifling of the debate on the quality of education which had been growing in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that one must pay a tribute to the great stimulus he gave to educational thought in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is a self-help program, returning initiative to teachers, parents and the community. [More…]

• Much of the determining in an inexpensive way of what innovation can be used to improve the quality of education in our schools has disappeared in the community. [More…]

• We find that there is no effective program for government primary schools in any of the States for the proper provision of primary school libraries and that much of the necessary action is really left to the parents in the community. [More…]

• What is there reflects the lack of ability of the community to afford the proper sort of library setup that gives all those aids which are needed to allow the pupil to make his investigations and discover how to learn. [More…]

• Ill, even in respect of race and sex, has given rise to questions of jurisdiction, to demarcation disputes, as well as to problems of duplication, overlap and uncertainty, as well as to confusion among the Australian community, and very real difficulties from the point of view of the Employment Discrimination Committees. [More…]

• That this House censures the Prime Minister because of the instability and divisiveness he is causing in the community by promoting speculation on a premature election for both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]

• The CPI figure represents a very significant advance and I believe it is hailed throughout the Australian community in that light. [More…]

• In answer to the honourable member’s maiden question- I almost said maiden speech- yes, the Government is very much aware of the need for migrants to have an adequate knowledge of English as being a significant factor in their successful integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• The community health program has suffered a reduction of $ 15.3m. [More…]

• It slashed the funds granted to the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• The business community and the whole Australian community will have long to remember the resounding promises of the Prime Minister. [More…]

• It seeks power, not to give leadership to the Australian community, not to raise the level of the community or its aspirations and horizons in Uving standards but merely to put forward a series of promises in the hope that the majority of people will believe them. [More…]

• Any transfers that are made will be tabled in both Houses of the Parliament so there will be ample opportunity for members of parliament and, through the Parliament, for the community to know exactly what is taking place in that area. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it is in the secondary school that we should be putting forward the opportunities and involving these people within the community and involving the community with the schools. [More…]

• Yet, in this time of budgetary restraint, the Government has forced cutbacks in expenditure for government schools in order to hand over an extra $2m to nongovernment level 1 and level 2 schools- the best off in the community. [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…]

• There must be funds made available through such projects as the innovations program which allow experimentation with radical alternatives for raising the level of skills and knowledge among the community. [More…]

• The better educated a community, the better equipped it is to adapt to the constantly changing circumstances of our modern technological society. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• That the proposed expenditure for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development be reduced by $10. [More…]

• The spending on programs in the broadly defined urban sector- which includes the interconnected functions of housing, sewerage, transport, urban land, water supply, the national estate and other essential community services- has been cut by 1 6 per cent in real terms from the levels of the 1976-77 Budget. [More…]

• For that reason, I believe that this Government stands condemned for withdrawing from activity in the urban community and for not looking after the people who live in those communities. [More…]

• -In speaking in the debate on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction, I mention first the positive move taken by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) in introducing a proposal to provide funds for the setting up of a decentralisation advisory board. [More…]

• This is the type of action the Government is taking to ensure that the Australian community in regional areas as well as in metropolitan areas can be involved. [More…]

• -In the very short time I have left in this debate on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction, thanks to my friend the Opposition Whip, I wish to draw attention to the home ownership scheme that was announced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN- The question now is: ‘That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to’. [More…]

• The question before the Committee now is: ‘That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Housing, Environment and Community [More…]

• The question now is: That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to’. [More…]

• The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN- The question now is: ‘That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to’. [More…]

• That the proposed expenditures for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Department of Construction be agreed to. [More…]

• -The estimates for the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations which are before the Committee are indicative of the totally inadequate response of the Fraser Government to the crisis situation that exists in our community in respect of unemployment. [More…]

• I refer also to the Community Youth Support scheme, another scheme that this Government has undertaken to help those young people find a place in society, to help community needs, while they are looking for their rightful places in the work force. [More…]

• We hear so often from heartless people in the community that young people who have just left school are not fitted to go into the work force, that they do not care about others in society. [More…]

• But this scheme is proving the he to that theory because it has proved to be invaluable in allowing young people to undertake community work to show their worth in the community, to allow them to find their place and be mindful of others, the old people and those less fortunate in the community. [More…]

• It was one of the most disgraceful performances by any group in the community that any fair minded person could see. [More…]

• One of the fundamental tenets of the Government’s industrial relations policy is that each member of the community has both rights and obligations. [More…]

• We have been, and are, witnessing the frightening capacity of a relatively small group of unionists in the Victorian power industry to wreak havoc on the entire community. [More…]

• It is paramount that unions recognise their obligations to and the legitimate interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• Honourable members are only too well aware that disputes affecting trade and commerce or essential services have imposed profound economic dislocation on the community. [More…]

• They did not have such effects on statistics but they caused serious dislocation in the community. [More…]

• They may have poor parental motivation or poor motivation from that section of the community in which they live. [More…]

• Kids who were unemployed indicated that they would welcome the opportunity to do something for their benefit and to make some contribution towards their community in return for the unemployment benefit payment that they receive. [More…]

• I am talking about a true national service established in the spirit of serving the community and the nation. [More…]

• The honourable member conceded finally an anti-conscription mentality in the Australian community and that International Labour Organisation conventions to which Australia is a signatory forbid the sort of civil conscription which he advocated. [More…]

• The Department of Science covers a multitude of fields, as can be imagined by the community, even by those who sit opposite. [More…]

• Just to explain that terminology, a Green Paper is a discussion paper, a paper brought forward for discussion by the Parliament, by the Government and by the community. [More…]

• I refer, of course, to the Community Youth Support Scheme, which is being implemented with great success. [More…]

• The CYSS scheme is a very practical exercise in Government support for the registered unemployed youth in the community, and it should be receiving the support of each and every member of this chamber on both sides. [More…]

• Of course, it is not the full answer, but it has developed a new system and that is the use of community committees in industrial problems. [More…]

• I think it does us well to remember that the unemployment problem amongst the registered unemployed youth in this community is as much a social problem at present as it is an unemployment problem. [More…]

• They have divided the Australian community. [More…]

• To talk about the Community Youth Support Scheme as doing something for unemployed youth is an absolute insult to the young people of this country. [More…]

• Under the community youth support scheme 12,000 young people were assisted in 1976-77 and we expect 30,000 young people to be assisted in 1977-78. [More…]

• The Australian community knows that this Government is winning that fight against inflation and I look forward very optimistically, as do my colleagues on this side of the House, to the continuing results which will flow from a further sustainable winding-down of inflationary pressures during the course of this financial year. [More…]

• More and more people in the financial markets and in the community - [More…]

• More and more people, both in the financial markets and in the community at large, know that inflation is being beaten. [More…]

• Let me conclude by saying, in summary, that the low consumer price index figure and the change of structure of interest rates in recent days and weeks should be a major encouragement to the business community, and small business in particular, and much to the chagrin of so many honourable gentlemen on the other side of this House it is a further reflection that this Government’s policies are working and working well. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has pointed out on a number of occasions that there is a growing tactic of using a few people in isolated cases, but in cases of importance, to disrupt very large sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Federal Government should have responded to this situation by taking steps immediately to increase the security of building societies and the community’s confidence in the societies. [More…]

• Several people have suggested to me that scientific interests in the community generally, and members of Parliament in particular, may be well served by a Parliamentary Scientific Committee. [More…]

• The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science has been wiped and this has happened at a time when more and more people think it is important to have better communication between scientists and the community. [More…]

• -Why did you gag the debate last night on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development? [More…]

• Obviously citizen band radio is one of the greatest potential forms of communication for every member of our community. [More…]

• We have unleashed a monster on the community. [More…]

• Already it would seem to me that citizen band radio is so deeply ingrained into the community at this stage that it will be very hard indeed to overcome the problem. [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…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) has brought in a decentralisation scheme. [More…]

• The community generally thought that it was a most incompetent organisation losing a lot of money. [More…]

• The result of the Commission of Inquiry into the Australian Post Office and the moves to create separate authorities for postal and telecommunications services was to show what really is the cost of these services to the community. [More…]

• It has been shown that a lot of the apparent loss was due not to the inefficiency of the Post Office, as it was, but was in fact due to the hidden subsidies that the Government of the day insisted that the Post Office carry and provide to the community. [More…]

• All the Labor Government did was establish a technique whereby one could see where the subsidies were going and how much they cost the community. [More…]

• The claim being made by the Liberals was based on the ground that I was behind a massive multi-million dollar enterprise to hoodwink the Australian community. [More…]

• My only regret is that expenditure has not been increased enough in some areas to maintain the services that the community obviously requires. [More…]

• But let us at least be fair and not criticise the ABC when it puts on a program which clearly is for a minority tastesomething that the community expects it to do. [More…]

• If one finds that the potential audience for that particular program in the community is only 4 per cent and the ABC is getting a rating of 2 per cent, in fact in its potential audience it is getting a rating of SO per cent. [More…]

• This is a scandal in a modern community. [More…]

• If the Government is cutting into programs which make demands on our external account, that has particular significance which is beyond the general nature of economic discussion in the community. [More…]

• It is part of the furphyism in the community arising out of the continual denigration of Labor’s efforts by honourable members opposite to say that we neglected defence. [More…]

• We now have a highly skilled community in which enormous talents are lying around unused in the spare time of the young men and the young women of Australia. [More…]

• At the same time, because of the more open situation that operates in the community, the Reserve is capable of passing on many new ideas from the community and also of providing many professional services that may exist in the community but which are not available often in the Regular services themselves. [More…]

• That such a Reserve is only possible and effectual if the Government of the day, the community, the Regular Army and the Reserve believe it has a role which gives it present significance, which provides for effective action in the future, and which it is known the Government will implement if necessary. [More…]

• Yet they have within their ranks the traditions which are valued by the total community. [More…]

• In many cases, corporate criminals tend to be the most respectable and powerful men in the community. [More…]

• These people who should be setting an example of honesty for the rest of the community are instead often stealing the life savings of those less fortunate. [More…]

• That we should have debated the estimates of the Department of Defence for so short a period is a serious indictment of the community’s attitude, as reflected in this Parliament, towards the security of this country. [More…]

• In my view this Parliament should encourage the maximum amount of community comment upon the legal profession and upon its roles. [More…]

• I want to say something about the cowardice of the Tasmanian Government in the face of procommunist left wing victimisation of a young apprentice named Chris Symons who works for the tasmanian Railways at the Launceston railway workshops in the electorate of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• Assistance for capital projects is currently being provided through the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, which operates a scheme of capital assistance for leisure facilities (CALF Scheme). [More…]

• Community Health Program [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 September: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 October 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a submission for funding under the Community Youth Support Scheme lodged with his Department in Melbourne in the name of the Northcote Youth Employment Support Scheme. [More…]

• A fundamental requirement for their success is an atmosphere of certainty and confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• It was a game played not against his political opponents; he was playing cat and mouse with the Australian community, not least with his Party’s traditional supporters in the business community. [More…]

• His childish charade has damaged the Australian community; it has not damaged the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• In all the discussions that the Government has had with senior business groups in the course of recent months- they have been very comprehensive and quite extensive discussions- one solid point has been put consistently to the Government and that is that the Government must stick to its economic policies because there is widespread recognition throughout the Australian community that those policies are now working and that their success is a matter of very clear and incontrovertible record. [More…]

• As the Australian Financial Review said after the Leader of the Opposition had brought down his reply to the Budget, it is more of the same old bungling and the Australian community will be very much aware of that. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman and his colleagues have always made strong attacks on the profit motive in the Australian community because it is a fact of life that Opposition members in this chamber are utterly opposed to free enterprise, to the concept of incentive and the concept of reward for effort and initiative. [More…]

• We must draw on the same dedication to freedom today to resist the growth of oppression and abuse of power in our community. [More…]

• People who oppose uranium mining and export are people of peace and of community. [More…]

• Those legal aid commissions will, we believe, add considerably to the amount of legal aid funds available to the community. [More…]

• As regards the honourable member’s reference to the form of the legal aid commission, I remind honourable members that the legal aid ordinance that was prepared for the Australian Capital Territory, and is now in operation, provides for a broad span of community interest. [More…]

• The legal aid commissions which the Government is seeking to impose upon the States are to be dominated by the profession; community groups and representatives of organisations which deal with recipients of legal aid on a daytoday basis are not to be represented. [More…]

• With the support of government nominees, many people in the profession, in my view, will endeavour to avoid law reform and community development work. [More…]

• I am happy to say that it has now found acceptance within the Australian community. [More…]

• I am wondering whether it would not be better to extend a little the schedule of our capital works in order to cut down the unemployment and particularly youth unemployment which is having such a corrosive effect in our community. [More…]

• Last July, the Government took a major initiative in the international trade sphere with the appointment of a Minister for Special Trade Negotiations to be responsible for high level trade negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, even though the two-airline system has served Australia well, we should from time to time review and test that policy to ensure it still meets the community’s needs to the fullest. [More…]

• Further, this study of the international situation will assist the Government in making a proper contribution to the work of the International Civil Aviation Organisation which will be preparing studies over the next three years to help the world aeronautical community to find solutions to the problems affecting the industry. [More…]

• The Committee placed considerable importance on conducting its inquiries on the spot and sought to obtain the widest possible range of comment and opinion from all sections of the community. [More…]

• During the drafting of the Darwin Community College Ordinance 1973, it became apparent that provisions for the payment of budget appropriations, which are normally included in Acts constituting Commonwealth authorities, were beyond the power of a Territory ordinance. [More…]

• Under section 19 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, the matters to be taken into consideration by the Distribution Commissioners include community of interest, including economics, social and regional interests. [More…]

• There is no transport, there are no schools and there is no community of interest’? [More…]

• Where is the affiliation in the normal community of interest, from the point of view of schools, shopping centres and the like? [More…]

• For example, the electorate of Riverina, which was a compact electorate and which had a community of interest, under the terms and conditions of the redistribution now takes in the borders of four States- Victoria, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. [More…]

• The Commissioners have disposed of their change of mind in these terms: ‘We have made certain changes to our published proposals’ and now there is ‘a more equitable adjustment of community interest among the electors involved’. [More…]

• I want to hark back to the point that the distribution commissioners say that they have more equitably adjusted community of interest. [More…]

• That is the criterion addressed in section 19 (2), paragraph (a)- ‘community of interests within the Division, including economic, social and regional interests’. [More…]

• He went on to say that there was a lack of community of interest, in that those 5 miles brought in a new suburb. [More…]

• The representatives of the people must face up directly to the great forces which direct the community, the media, the great and powerful commercial and industrial institutions and so on. [More…]

• The drawing of the boundaries in that State has meant that a significant rural seat which could have been designed on a community of interest basis is now lost to that Party. [More…]

• I believe it is not a good redistribution either in terms of reflecting the will of the electorate of Western Australia or of taking into account community of interest. [More…]

• I am not certain exactly what way he would have had the boundaries drawn to preserve this so-called community of interests, particularly bearing in mind that the existing boundaries were also a requirement that the commissioners ought to take into consideration. [More…]

• I admit that those references appear to be only small portions of the publication, but they have caused real concern to persons who worry about the values of our community. [More…]

• We have fully shared the serious concern expressed by the international community at this most recent turn of events in that country. [More…]

• Of major concern to the Committee is the devastation caused by alcohol in some traditional communities where the whole community is vulnerable. [More…]

• Evidence was given that in some communities more than half the total expenditure by the community is on alcohol compared with about 6 per cent for Australia as a whole. [More…]

• The Committee found that in metropolitan areas and country towns drinking patterns of Aboriginals are related to those of non-Aboriginals of similar socio-economic groups or where they have been integrated into the general community. [More…]

• The Committee believes that if an Aboriginal community decides to allow alcohol there should be only one liquor outlet within that community, conducted as a licensed club or beer canteen with strict guidelines and conditions specified in licensing legislation. [More…]

• The Committee firmly believes that if a community decides to limit or prohibit alcohol that decision should be supported by all resources of Commonwealth and State laws. [More…]

• concern that the problem of alcoholism is much more acute among Aboriginals than in the rest of the community. [More…]

• Unless urgent action is taken part of our original Australian community may be wiped out by this epidemic. [More…]

• In redistributing that profit back into this country we provided benefits for people in a myriad of areas where we took up responsibility, such as school dental services, community health services, better roads and improvements in urban environment, Aboriginal welfare and education. [More…]

• This Government believes that it is better to redistribute away from the mass of people in this community to the advantage of influential and wealthy organisations like the Utah organisation- an organisation which is exporting as rapidly as it can its earnings in this country. [More…]

• In the last two years-last year and this yearthe effects of the progressive reduction of the coal export levy mean a reduction of $60m in income otherwise available for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• It means, in terms of the Utah organisation, a windfall gain and an addition to profits not being earned in any way by any additional exertion or contribution to the Australian community of $25m. [More…]

• It received a $25m reward from the Government for a contribution to the community marginally more than half a million dollars. [More…]

• While the Government refuses to accept its responsibilities in ensuring that a more reasonable amount of the massive profits reaped from this country’s natural resources are being redistributed, to the advantage of this community, I think it not surprising that industrial organisations like the Seamen’s Union will react and will seek to claim that at least their members should enjoy some of that profit which they believe rightfully belongs not only to this country but also to posterity. [More…]

• It is not operating in the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• They illustrate the extent to which the products and policies of the European Economic Community prejudice our opportunities and illustrate how the fruit industry, in common with other industries in Australia, is disadvantaged under the present access arrangement within the European Economic Community and, of course, in that old, traditional market of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It should have a licence to rip off the Australian community as and how it wishes. [More…]

• The community pays in disruption, the primary producers pay in delays in getting their product to market and we as a nation pay in terms of foreign exchange in that we are not getting our goods overseas. [More…]

• It will draw into the affairs of the industry other parties concerned with stevedoring, such as the Australian Shippers’ Council, port authorities and even wider community interests. [More…]

• The Parliament and the community will have the opportunity to see how the new arrangements work because, as I have indicated already to the Parliament, a review will take place within about 12 months. [More…]

• The way has been opened up for the industry parties to show the community that the approach that they wholeheartedly endorse is the right one. [More…]

• We will not hesitate to take any action to ensure that the objectives of the new arrangements are faithfully pursued and that the community benefits from what is now proposed. [More…]

• The newspaper of the Anglican Church, Church Scene, went so far as to condemn the community at large because the community had passively allowed ‘a government to change the tax scales to give maximum benefit to the very rich ‘. [More…]

• There is no way of determining conclusively, on available evidence, which of these two effects will predominate in a given country or community. [More…]

• There is no need to raise improper reasons or unproven reasons, which are probably false, particularly when those unproven reasons lead to the relatively better-off getting the benefits at the expense of the more needy in our community. [More…]

• The rationale has been that we must give the better-off people in our community the will and the incentive to work. [More…]

• It was quickly apparent that the dubious claim by the Treasurer that the Budget brought tax gains to all could by no stretch of the imaginaton be applied to the farming community. [More…]

• It remains to be seen whether alterations to the averaging scheme, which will have little immediate effect on those who have had several low income years, is the most appropriate measure for doing just that- aiding the more hardpressed rural community. [More…]

• It was designed originally to promote capital expenditure by organisations, businesses and people in the community. [More…]

• I think they are important words for the Australian community, important because many people in business are not taking advantage of the scheme. [More…]

• Who is there in the Australian community at the moment - [More…]

• In-so-far as there is still income splitting in the Australian community the Government is really exempting incomes in some cases in a single entity of $7,500 which may not be quite as equitable as it thinks. [More…]

• I say this in sorrow but what sort of a situation do we have when people with certain skills- skills that we are supposedly we are short of- combine and conspire to defraud the rest of the community? [More…]

• This seems to me to be an appalling reflection upon the intellectual integrity of people in the community who have had the advantage- again, mainly at public expense- of better education than the rest of the community. [More…]

• As Mr Justice Mansfield said, it is the right of any section in the community to so arrange their affairs that they pay the least taxation possible. [More…]

• It costs everybody in the community a minimum sum of money to sustain himself and that part of his income ought not to be taxed at all. [More…]

• One must take into account also deductions, the total income structure of a community, indirect as well as direct taxes, and the fact that in Australia we have three levels of government raising taxes. [More…]

• We get this pretence by this Government that some new group of people has been added to those in the community who are exempt from taxation. [More…]

• By changing the way in which personal income tax is calculated, the Government has gone a long way to restoring incentive to a section of the community which traditionally has been the most creative and productive. [More…]

• I believe that this in itself has been of great assistance to the pensioners in the community. [More…]

• There must be an acceptance by the community at large that if we are to have reductions in taxes we must at the same time reduce our expectation of handouts from government. [More…]

• Whatever it gets and whatever it provides comes from the community. [More…]

• The same community which expects and demands government services also must pay for those services. [More…]

• In 1 976 the Government said that it would change the method of income tax rebates and family allowances so as to help the people in the community who were worse off. [More…]

• Let us see whether there is some kind of conspiracy between the two main parties to do injustice and to try to exploit, for political purposes, those people who are perhaps least fortunate in our community. [More…]

• It is no wonder that we have moral trouble throughout the community and it is no wonder that our birthrate is falling and so on. [More…]

• The community will not have a bar of an industrial policy so conceived and so fostered. [More…]

• I am aware of the significance and the importance of these sorts of newspapers in the community. [More…]

• In regard to existing contracts, the Government’s permission for shipments to proceed continues to be on the basis of the factors, including the safeguards, which I recall were spelt out by the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development in November of last year and, I think, reiterated by him in June of this year. [More…]

• As to hospital development, a commitment to restoring the 60 per cent reduction in this year’s Budget in the real expenditure on hospitals and community health centres for which the priorities had been jointly agreed with all six State governments would also aid the flagging construction industry, reduce unemployment and, incidentally, ensure equality of access to health services. [More…]

• Our program is supported by the business community, and the same community rejects the Budget as a recipe for economic recovery. [More…]

• The business community of Australia clearly discerns the damage the Fraser Government has done to the private sector through its obsessive hostility to the public sector. [More…]

• Our program includes these initiatives: A local employment advancement program to provide funds for local authorities and non-private organisations, particularly in regions of the highest unemployment, to enable them to undertake worthwhile projects of lasting value to the community; a project bank to establish priorities and to assess the employment potential of nationally advantageous projects planned by Federal, State and local governments; special group employment incentives to encourage and assist private employers to employ persons, especially disadvantaged sections of the community, including school leavers; and urgent upgrading of the apprenticeship system. [More…]

• I think that is a very good example of the social impact that the unemployment is having upon our community. [More…]

• There have been a number of other schemes, such as the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprenticeship Fulltime Training scheme which has been welcomed by employers as a very successful initiative, and the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• One Bill to be introduced later today is the Australian Rural Bank Bill, which will have major repercussions on the financial institutions of the country as well as on a large section of the community. [More…]

• Legislation is not the property of the Cabinet or the legislative committee only; it is also the property of the community at large. [More…]

• If Bills have a wide effect and do not necessarily apply specific monetary policies of the Government but change avenues within our way of life, then the community is entitled to see the legislation and determine whether it carries out what has been promised. [More…]

• The community at large will suffer from the mistakes that are made through this type of practice and the Parliament will become completely redundant in the process of passing legislation. [More…]

• Some of these Bills should lie on the table for some time so that the community can see them. [More…]

• A number of responsible organisations, including churches, have asked that this Bill not be passed until they and other elements in the community have had a chance to see the nature of the Bill, which will have a great impact upon the social life of Australians. [More…]

• What I said earlier today is in fact happening in the community. [More…]

• The mishandling of this institution is a very good way of making the community fed up with the government and with us too. [More…]

• It is for this reason that the report, on which the motion suggesting expediency is based, does not raise in any great way the need for the CSIRO to become a body of extensionists- people who carry out research and then propagate it throughout the community. [More…]

• Irrespective of what anyone might say, if there is an outbreak of an exotic disease in Australia the cost to the rural community and the country itself will be $50m a month while we prove eradication. [More…]

• In simple truth, since 1901 the international situation has become so varied and complex that it would defy the best intentions of any Minister for Overseas Trade to give the time necessary to contend with those barriers, both literary and figurative, that the European Economic Community has constructed with such severe impact on Australia’s exporting industries. [More…]

• There is a tendency for many people in Queensland to believe that we lead the Commonwealth in the provision of community health, hospital and welfare services. [More…]

• Labor governments in the 1940s and 1950s gave primacy to the development of community health and hospital services and displayed a great concern about welfare services. [More…]

• There is a lingering belief that, because a system of free hospitalisation was preserved in Queensland, that State still leads in the provision of community health, hospital and welfare services. [More…]

• That is the level by which standards in that important area of community health, hospital and welfare services have fallen short of those provided in States like South Australia [More…]

• We have a government which is certainly committed to preserving the interests of foreign multinationals, which are extracting and exporting enormous profits from the State, but which is not committed or concerned enough to ensure that some of that wealth that rightly belongs to the people of this country is redistributed to the community to benefit at least the people of Queensland. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) indicated that the magnitude of the Commonwealth’s contribution would be of the order of $5m over the period mentioned. [More…]

• Lyell company and the apprehension of the community that depends upon it. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that, although this legislation is the preserve of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) or the Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony), in fact it was introduced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Therefore, it is appropriate that in these times of very serious and real need in Queenstown governments are prepared to recognise the contribution made by the Queenstown people not only to the town itself and to its community but to the wealth of Australia and redirect some of the money back to the town in the form of this special assistance. [More…]

• Similarly our own Minister from Tasmania, Mr Kevin Newman, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, has done much work on this issue and is very concerned for the people of Queenstown. [More…]

• The Tasmania Grant (The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited) Bill 1977 has many shortcomings which the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) sought to hide in his second reading speech. [More…]

• and (2) For the purpose of answering this question, a community health centre ‘is defined as a community located facility which has the characteristics of a general health service as distinct from a specialised service (e.g. [More…]

• What rights do members of a community have in appealing against the closure of an unofficial Post Office and what form should this appeal take. [More…]

• 1 ) The decision to close a Post Office is made only after a study of the volume of business handled, the likely future business that may eventuate, the general trend of development in the area and the ability of the postal network in the area to meet the postal needs of the community. [More…]

• Also the shadow Minister for immigration and community relations, the honourable member for Melbourne, committed Labor to a dramatic increase in education spending. [More…]

• I believe that this action will be hailed throughout the Australian community as a measure of social justice. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Transport assure the House, the community surrounding Bankstown airport in New South Wales and those who use the airport that no regular public transport or freight airline operations, including commuter services, will be moved to Bankstown as a result of a proposal for new flight separation procedures at Mascot? [More…]

• Tourism also makes a significant contribution to Australia’s balance of payments as well as increasing the community’s knowledge of Australia and the Australian heritage. [More…]

• There is no hard evidence available as to the benefits of holidays to community health and welfare. [More…]

• It recommends that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development identify those areas requiring long term management plans to protect them. [More…]

• It would be left to the rest of the international community to determine the safeguards. [More…]

• Do not let anyone tell me that by opting out of the international community, which is what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition seeks to do, we would be able to display and execute our undertakings. [More…]

• I sent it to conservation and community groups throughout the nation. [More…]

• This legislation has been criticised by representatives of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, by public broadcasters, by the commercial sector of the industry and by community interest groups concerned with broadcasting. [More…]

• Because of community concern they should be spelt out. [More…]

• Give financial, technical and administrative support to the establishment of community radio stations in circumstances in which there is a demonstrated need; [More…]

• ensure that community stations are autonomous in their operations, have sufficient freedom to develop new and innovative forms of programming and reflect the social, political or cultural interests of geographical areas, ethnic groups or non-profit institutions such as co-operative societies, trade unions or educational bodies; [More…]

• 5 ) arrange for .community stations to receive advice and assistance from the various federal departments involved in social welfare and community or regional development. [More…]

• The standard of Australian television and radio programs is of concern to a vast number in the Australian community. [More…]

• The original Bill set out to get people who were interested in broadcasting and television and in community affairs but who did not have any financial interest whatsoever either directly or through their families so that they could carry on as was intended under the Act. [More…]

• The Government has made its commitment to the ethnic groups in our community, a very real commitment, to establish a full and viable ethnic broadcasting service. [More…]

• The SBS is a very real commitment to the ethnic groups in our community. [More…]

• Labor also licensed radio station 3CR, a limited commercial station, a community broadcasting station. [More…]

• It could, of course, refer to ordinary mortals in the community, who after all are interested. [More…]

• He is not concerned about the community interest at all. [More…]

• There are to be no public hearings about where the need should be, as we have postulated in our program, which points out that we would establish a broadcasting advisory council composed of representatives from the national, commercial and public broadcasting sectors and community interest groups. [More…]

• As I have just mentioned, it should be the prerogative of national, commercial and public broadcasting sectors and community interest groups. [More…]

• That is the group that should assess the community needs and propose plans. [More…]

• I admit that we cannot overcome that hurdle, because ultimately the Government has to provide the funding; but at least there should be an input from a diverse community group such as that representing the industry and interested sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government has been driven to it because it objected to the moves we made to license the ethnic radio stations and the various community radio stations, namely, the music broadcasting stations. [More…]

• These licences have been accepted in the community and they are proving to be popular. [More…]

• The Government did not have the guts to deal with the matter in the way in which we did by continuing to make some assessments of community need and to issue the licences. [More…]

• The ethnic community started building up in the 1950s, not in the 1960s or the 1970s. [More…]

• The Government had a hell of a long time to consider the ethnic community’s needs but it did nothing at all about it [More…]

• That station was our attempt to set up a community access station under the unbrella of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• What is more, it was proving to be popular with the various interest groups in the community who felt that they never had access to the radio waves and also to the ethnic communities. [More…]

• All the Government will have to do to muzzle any adventure by the ABC that may prove to be embarrassing because it is too open to the diverse points of view in the community- views that may be threatening the Government’s establishment concepts- will be to direct the Special Broadcasting Service to institute, say, a talk-back program or a public affairs program. [More…]

• What we discerned when we were in power was that there was an awakening in the community to the importance of communications. [More…]

• We were aware of the fact that the commercial sector and the national sector do not necessarily cater for all the divergent needs of the community. [More…]

• In other words, particular interest groups, small groups in the community, need something other than the commercial sector or the national sector which we now have. [More…]

• We were advocating the establishment of a community radio area to license small stations that would not be interesting from the advertiser’s point of view. [More…]

• We are aware of the fact that there are lots of television programs made by small interest groups in the community that would be of interest to the whole community but which never get to air. [More…]

• The latter suggests that the ethnic element must be a permanent feature of this land and this pre-supposes that immigration will be a continuing thing at the levels we have seen previously and that we will have a continuing quantum of new Australians within our community. [More…]

• How often do we find within our society, even in a small rural community or city, that in any association or organisation it always falls back to the hard workers or to the few who have a particular interest or attitude to undertake the burden. [More…]

• It is important that there should be some kind of regulation not just in the interests of the community, although that is the overriding thing, but also in the interests of the companies themselves. [More…]

• I hope that there will be in the House sufficient people of goodwill who realise the extreme dangers which are being pressed on the whole of our community by reason of this inevitable competition in pornography which we are forcing on the broadcasting and television stations because we do not give any rules to the game. [More…]

• That will remove the competition in pornography, but much more importantly- I will speak more about this when we come to a later amendment which I propose to move to the Bill- we should hot destroy the community. [More…]

• We have to realise our responsibility for what we are doing to the community by our failure to act. [More…]

• -This Government is well understood by the community as being the laziest and most incompetent Government Australia has ever had. [More…]

• To my way of thinking we are now in the position where we should protect the community from the kinds of things that can be done and will be done because of the pressure of the competition of pornography. [More…]

• The Parliament should not give away to some tribunal the power to determine the morals of the community. [More…]

• Here we are talking about something which is of great consequence to the whole future of the community. [More…]

• These things are largely responsible for quite disastrous changes which are taking place at present within the community. [More…]

• The time for the industry and the community to respond to that report expired at the end of October. [More…]

• A number of community leaders from all walks of life made contributions to it. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Melbourne Ports has a point It is understood by me and I am certain by members of the community and by the Parliament that the Tribunal W111 act impartially. [More…]

• It means that the Committee is not interested in protecting the community from pornography at all. [More…]

• We deem that to be not only a pecuniary interest but also any interest at all whether it be interest from the point of view of the community, a local organisation or even public interest, from the point of view of individual interest. [More…]

• They have a community of interest themselves. [More…]

• That is the point we want clearly defined because in our view a person with an interest means any person who feels that in the interests of the community or any organisation- not merely a pecuniary or proprietary interest- he or she should have the right to appear and should be entitled to appear. [More…]

• It frightens me that this Government will have in its hand this weapon to use against the community, to brainwash the community and to use to determine what sorts of programs will go to air. [More…]

• My respectful submission therefore is that the two honourable members opposite have contradicted each other and destroyed their arguments, which in any event were put up as straws in the wind and would have no validity and no support in the Australian community. [More…]

• Under this Bill the Special Broadcasting Service, which is aimed at specific sections of the community, can be directed by regulations which are prescribed by a Minister. [More…]

• We are giving to the ethnic community for the first time a permanent structure for ethnic broadcasting. [More…]

• It will be applauded by every ethnic community and group throughout this nation. [More…]

• They have destroyed the very basis upon which it was developed by various groups in the Australian community from 1972 to 1975.I heard honourable members say that there was great disquiet in the community at what developed. [More…]

• There was disquiet among our political opponents and there was disquiet among various extreme groups in the community, some of which reside in the Liberal Party, some in the National Country Party and some in other areas. [More…]

• It was an advantage for any group in the community for the purpose of expressing its own wishes in the way it so desired. [More…]

• Other people, such as community interest groups or people who felt that a public interest was involved, might feel that they should pursue a matter by way of appeal. [More…]

• I do not want at this stage of the evening to get involved in the more general question of refuges and as to whether they ought to be subsidised under this Act or from the Community Health Centre grant or other grants which are administered by the Department of Health, as most of the refuges are at this time, and as the Minister at the table would know. [More…]

• It was alleged by community groups that there were large numbers of homeless people in this city. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 March 1977: [More…]

• Are the present trading opportunities between Australia and the European Economic Community satisfactory? [More…]

• -I think it would be clear to all honourable gentlemen in this House, particularly those who sit on the Government side, that the balance of trading opportunities between Australia and the European Economic Community is totally unsatisfactory and totally inequitable to the efficient and competitive primary producers in Australia. [More…]

• I believe that as a result of my visit to the nine governments of the European Economic Community there is now a much better understanding, both of the depth of feeling throughout Australia and the fact that this Government will not be easily dissuaded in its efforts to improve our access to those markets. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development satisfied that the Government’s policy on sport and recreation can be implemented having regard to restraints on public spending? [More…]

• An announcement yet to be made in the other place by Senator Cotton will very shortly be made in this House by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• For the information of honourable members I present the annual report for 1977 of the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It has portrayed itself to everyone as God and has said that everyone who opposes it or suggests that it is wrong is guilty of a mortal sin and should be excommunicated from the community. [More…]

• Of course Mr Whitlam has never had any particular regard for the farming community. [More…]

• The Government likes to imply that there is enormous disruption and cost to the Australian community because of industrial disruption. [More…]

• The Treasury does not believe the false state- ‘ ments, the untruthful statements, the dishonest statements, which are being circulated in die community by Government spokesmen, especially the Treasurer. [More…]

• He would create once again the levels of unemployment, the levels of inflation, the lack of business confidence, the feeling of division between country and city, and the feeling of isolation in sectors of the Australian community that was so evident between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• As well as providing a source of information to Parliament about the planning of the national capital, the reports also provide a useful source of information for the local community. [More…]

• The Australian Capital Territory Committee’s conclusions and recommendations on the role that the National Parliament should play, the future role and structure of the NCDC and its relation with the Legislative Assembly and the community, as well as relations between the various bodies involved in the planning process and their various relationships with the community should be available for consideration by those involved in that debate. [More…]

• I personally, and I believe this Government, have a vision of an Australia where social justice shall prevail and the needs of all underprivileged members of our community will sympathetically and effectively be cared for. [More…]

• I believe that it can be fairly said that the present Federal Liberal-National Country Party Government has done more to bring social justice to the Australian community than any preceding government. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the House to these figures to indicate the enormity of the burden of the cost of social welfare to the community. [More…]

• I wish some of these people would get onto the schemes that we have going, such as the Community Youth Support scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training scheme, the Commonwealth Rebate Apprenticeship Full-Time scheme and all those other things, instead of using unemployment and one particular girl for political purposes. [More…]

• It has taken a long while for the community to become accustomed to it. [More…]

• I refer to those people who write for the Press and others but I think it is time we started to adopt an attitude’ which has been expressed for a long while in legislation passed by this place, namely, that there are people in the community who are entitled to a certain degree of support from the community. [More…]

• Whenever we are talking about these things we should remember that a very large proportion of the Australian work force goes into retirement on community-supported meanstestfree income. [More…]

• We should be applying ourselves continuously to the idea that the community should be able to provide that sort of benefit for the remainder of the work force, no matter how much it costs. [More…]

• That is the reason for high rates of taxation in the community- this is one of the fundamental errors of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch)- and for the delay in the implementation of reforms such as the abolition of the means test, which is one of the Government’s planks for which a commitment was given in the last policy speech. [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 was an idea in the mind of one person originally has been taken, hammered and chiselled into shape so that in the final analysis justice will be done a most deserving sector of the community. [More…]

• When a wife and mother is deserted or widowed and left without maintenance, the community, through welfare benefits, makes provision to take over the breadwinner’s role. [More…]

• It can thus be argued that if the community is prepared to take the responsibility of breadwinner for a single mother then it should also take the responsibility for the provision of a substitute mother when a father is prepared, at all costs, to keep his family together. [More…]

• -I put to the Minister earlier that this is exactly the sort of contempt that rich graziers have for the people in the community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 May 1977: [More…]

• Guidelines for Community Contacts (R. 93)- The need for guidelines is being considered by the Board in the light of comments by Ministers on related recommendations 91 and 92 dealing with contacts between community groups and departments. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman should know that the promises made so far by Labor in relation to expenditure on the hospital development program, the sewerage program, growth centres, area improvement programs, die Australian Assistance Plan, tourist development, community assistance for leisure facilities, the program to reduce unemployment, national compensation, aged persons’ accommodation, Medibank, the reintroduction of petrol price equalisationabolished by the Labor Government- extra government funds for the beef industry, expansion of migrant education services, ethnic radio and television stations, expansion of telecommunications research, the establishment of overseas agricultural services, together with the substantial additional funds promised in relation to education, total about $3 billion. [More…]

• In contrast, our Government, recognising the difficulties facing the industry as a result of the stockpiling of skim milk powder, for example, and other dairy products generated in the European Economic Community, not only introduced and followed through a plan for marketing change as a result of a report of an Industries Assistance Commission inquiry chaired by Professor Sir John Crawford, but also provided a level of underwriting assistance to ensure stability in the market place. [More…]

• The Government has introduced experimental programs for unemployed youth, such as the Special Youth Employment Training scheme and the community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• If honourable gentlemen on the opposite side of the House are really concerned for jobs in the Australian community they will reverse the influence that the union movement has over them and try to place some influence over the union movement for a change and suggest to it that strikes should not take place, so that jobs can be created throughout Australia. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the circumstances of the farming community have suffered very seriously because of inflation and because of changes in government policy that were implemented during the 1972-75 period. [More…]

• If so, does this demonstrate a growing community feeling that Australia should make its uranium available - [More…]

• Many groups in the community have recently been expressing the view that there is a need for the Commonwealth Government to develop and implement a comprehensive energy policy, covering all forms of energy, because of the dangers and uncertainties that lie ahead in the energy field and the benefits that are thought to be likely to flow from far-sighted and resolute Government action. [More…]

• In practice, what this means in the Australian context at the present time is that policy measures will need to be taken to move the overall energy price level toward international parity levels, which have, other things being equal, a particular status as a measure of the relative values to the community of tradeable commodities. [More…]

• The aim of the policy is a long-term sustainable energy economy, in which energy resources and technologies are appropriate to the needs and goals of the Australian community. [More…]

• Further, capital works involve directly improving the infrastructure and the quality of services available to the community. [More…]

• The Australian Housing Corporation was set up by the last Labor Government with the primary function of providing finance to a wide range of individuals within the Australian community for the acquisition of land and dwellings. [More…]

• Our policies in this critical area of government management are aimed at, firstly, providing a sound economic basis for stable growth in the housing and construction industry; secondly, providing for adequate urban community infrastructure; thirdly, reducing the real cost of housing to the consumer; and, finally, ensuring that those Australians who cannot readily satisfy their housing needs in the market are assisted by the Government funding suitable housing in the most efficient and equitable way. [More…]

• To meet the needs of these different groups in the community, we provide a comprehensive range of programs. [More…]

• Our housing policies reflect the great significance we attach to the economic and community role of the housing industry in Australia. [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…]

• As Minister he made special efforts to foster quality of education by establishing the Curriculum Development Centre, promoting research and financing an enormous number of special innovatory projects in Australian schools and the community at large. [More…]

• Surely neither the Australian Labor Party nor anyone else in our community is suggesting that government must accept and implement necessarily in total all recommendations or appropriations made by government advisory bodies. [More…]

• But the whole problem that is being highlighted in the community today is one of technological needs and persons to be trained in this area. [More…]

• I hope that would not be undertaken as it would constitute what I would think was a short sighted policy, as was the policy in the early 1960s when people in Victoria and elsewhere were encouraged to plant pear trees at a time when it was fairly obvious to most people that Britain would ultimately be going into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• -I am pleased to hear so many defenders of the ratio of $45 m to $3 billion, particularly from a Government that at the moment is indulging in a credit squeeze for the rest of the community. [More…]

• But what is it in relation to the total indebtedness of the farming community at the moment of $3 billion? [More…]

• The prosperity of the rural community in Australia depends upon two things, namely, that part of the product which one sells internally and that part of the product which one sells externally. [More…]

• However, the extension to the Development Bank of a capacity to finance under this Bill will, I am sure, also ensure that the Development Bank can extend the facilities that it will provide to the rural community. [More…]

• -I am aware of the concern of many members of the Baltic community about the attitude of the Labor Party on this matter. [More…]

• In a letter dated 22 August of this year he wrote to a prominent member of the Baltic community in a manner which shows that the Labor Party has learnt nothing from its irresponsible action in recognising incorporation in 1974. [More…]

• Members of the Baltic community know who was responsible for the decision of the then Government. [More…]

• The members of the Baltic community in Australia were treated rudely and with utter contempt. [More…]

• What has not been recognised by members of this House and indeed by the community at large is the substantial number of initiatives which Telecom Australia is taking to improve services throughout the country. [More…]

• I believe that a greater acknowledgment by members of this Parliament and by the community as a whole of the immense contribution Telecom makes would be helpful. [More…]

• The Australian community owns Telecom and any surplus that is made is of course used for the benefit of increased communications. [More…]

• We ensured that there would be a return of many of the incentives and benefits to the rural community, and they have been returned. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman doubts that let me quote but one of the many authoritative spokesmen in the economic area throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• The issue is the safety of the consumer and the welfare of the community. [More…]

• It is quite wrong that the small business community in Australia has been so deprived of normal protection. [More…]

• I have clearly outlined to the Minister the concern of the small business community. [More…]

• We have to get a solution and it can be done but it does need involvement with the community. [More…]

• The community is divided. [More…]

• The Act was aimed at encouraging and ensuring that Australia’s transport is developed to take account of the technical and social changes taking place in the Australian community. [More…]

• I refer to several projects conducted in South Australia which indicate the benefits flowing to the community from this allocation of Federal Government funds. [More…]

• This study is supposed to have been based on the principle that much of the information which is relevant to any decision is not held by experts but by ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• It is local people who understand local problems, their own specific needs and how their own community works. [More…]

• Hence NEAPTR has been condemned as a mere public relations operations, with the results of the inquiry a foregone conclusion and private consultants having been engaged to present the inquiry to the community. [More…]

• Whatever initiatives occur in the expansion of public transport faculties, the motor car will remain the preferred means of transport for the great bulk of the community. [More…]

• In view of the fact that two-thirds of the funds for this project-that is, some $356,462 out of a total cost of $534,754- since its inception have been provided by the Commonwealth Government, I believe that the Commonwealth Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) should investigate these criticisms to ensure that these significant sums of Commonwealth money are being spent wisely for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• How do we achieve that result and how do we at the same time meet the community’s needs in terms of services? [More…]

• The lady said that all of us- I agree with her- as members of parliament have a responsibility to set an example by our behaviour to the law and our services to and requirements in the community, particularly in relation to security checks at airports. [More…]

• The area represented by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) probably has one of the Government’s lowest priorities. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development did not make all the recommendations; they were made by the Minister for National Resources. [More…]

• I think that this understanding that we have to work together if we want to preserve our national heritage is starting to grow in the community. [More…]

• In this year’s Budget, due to the efforts of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) $2.55m was allocated for the National Estate. [More…]

• 1 know that the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development will use his considerable persuasive powers to get the Cabinet and the State governments to agree to a massive onslaught on the problem. [More…]

• I want to spend a few moments this afternoon in supporting the Environment (Financial Assistance) Bill which was presented to the House by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• Although I do not regard the Bill as a major controversy for the House, I must say that quite consistent with the inability of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) to sustain expenditure in other areas for which he is responsible, there has been this heavy decline in funding of environmental activities. [More…]

• 1 think a matter of concern is that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has allowed his Department to be whittled away. [More…]

• If I look back over my 32 years, I think that the Australian community has got a very high quality of representation. [More…]

• The Labor movement has going through it all the tides of conflict that develop in the community. [More…]

• I wish him every success in the election on 10 December so that our policies and our legislative program may continue to have community acceptance. [More…]

• As has been demonstrated tonight, there is much more in common between us than perhaps the community realises. [More…]

• It is my hope that future governments, Federal and State, will make use of his great talents, because he is too young to retire from active duty on behalf of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Advisory Board will comprise members from the Government and the business and financial community and will have responsibility for recommending to me on the merits of projects submitted to the Advisory Board which are seeking Commonwealth decentralisation assistance. [More…]

• The Commonwealth will also pay particular attention to those non-metropolitan centres in which the local community has made clear efforts to promote their own rate of development. [More…]

• Assistance under this new initiative will be of a capital nature and will be available for community development projects which will encourage the re-location or expansion of stable employment generating activities and also for tertiary and manufacturing industries wishing to expand or re-locate. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 October 1977: [More…]

• Turkish children also are able to learn Turkish in ethnic schools established by the ethnic community. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• How many nuclear facilities are in operation in each member-country of the European Community? [More…]

• In respect of how many of those facilities in each country has a subsidiary agreement been made providing for the attachment of safeguards to those facilities under the Safeguards Agreement between Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, the European Atomic Energy Community and the International Atomic Energy Agency? [More…]

• European Communities Information Research and Development pamphlet 9/77 states that in 1976 there were the following numbers of nuclear installations in the civil nuclear industries of the nine member States of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM): 35 preparation and frabrication plants 71 power reactors 117 research reactors 13 reprocessing plants 211 research centres, laboratories, stores, enrichment plants and others. [More…]

• European Atomic Energy Community in relation to the nuclear industries in the nine member States. [More…]

• The subsidiary arrangements, including facility attachments, to be concluded under the Safeguards Agreement, define the technical procedures for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to implement its safeguards on a permanent basis in the seven non-nuclear-weapon States of the European Atomic Energy Community. [More…]

• Pending finalisation of the subsidiary arrangements, the IAEA is applying safeguards to nuclear facilities in the seven non-nuclear-weapon States of the European Atomic Energy Community by means of ad hoc safeguards inspections under the terms of the Safeguards Agreement [More…]

• As I said on 22 July, the Government wants to see early resolution of the subsidiary arrangements between the European Atomic Energy Community authorities, the national Governments of the seven non-nuclear-weapon States that are members of the Community and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [More…]

• Has the Australia Council made its recommendations to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development on the list of Australian Government building projects where an arts component could be included in the costs; if so, when will the list be published (Hansard, 15 February 1977, page 83). [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development upon notice, on 13 October 1977: [More…]

• 1) The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development undertakes no direct capital works expenditure in the States. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 October 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 October 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) On what date did the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development receive the final report of the Fraser Island Environmental Inquiry. [More…]

• 1 ) On 2 1 October 1976, Dr John Hookey, the Presiding Commissioner, forwarded four copies of the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry to my colleague, the Minister for Environment Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• Grant made under the Commonwealth Government’s program of Grants to Community Welfare Agencies (Special Assistance Scheme) in 1976-77 in the Federal Electorate of Banks. [More…]

• Assistance to Aboriginal Community at Lockridge, Western Australia (Question No. [More…]

• In what circumstances can members of the Aboriginal community now living at Lockridge near Guildford in Western Australia be helped by: [More…]

• However, I am advised by the Northern Territory Executive Member for Community and Social Development that- [More…]

• Flinders Island Community Association Inc. [More…]

• Flinders Island Community Association Inc. (FICA). [More…]

• Flinders Island Community Association Inc., Flinders Island. [More…]

• The Department of Aboriginal Affairs is currently in the process of compiling community profiles. [More…]

• I regret that the right honourable member for Bruce in fact has undertaken certain actions which would tend to polarise attitudes in the community. [More…]

• Problems are being faced in regard to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I opposed from the very beginning the move by the United Kingdom to enter the European Economic Community. [More…]

• He established wide respect in the community in his capacity as a member of the Commonwealth Industrial Court and he established that respect not least with people in the community who may have been expected to have been critical and perhaps even antagonistic towards him. [More…]

• The community is better for having had such men prepared to contribute that sort of service on behalf of the community and on behalf of the democratic institutions which we all seek to serve. [More…]

• In particular, I remember Ian because of his associations in the rural community and in the field of primary industry. [More…]

• May I at the outset pay a tribute to the work of the honourable gentleman in relation to exposing, in this House and outside it, the needs of the small business community. [More…]

• In addition, the manner in which the activities of the Australian Industries Development Corporation might be extended in relation to the small business community is under examination. [More…]

• Apart from that the general question of the provision of adequate finance for the small business community is very much understood and appreciated by the Government. [More…]

• Of course, we have indicated to the private banks through the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia the need for adequate funds to be made available to the small business community. [More…]

• As that movement continues it will advantage very greatly the whole Australian community and small business and the rural community in particular. [More…]

• I think it is worth saying in passing that if other individuals, groups or organisations in the community wish to contribute, that would add to the resources of the trust. [More…]

• It is now the task of Government, the Parliament and the community to do everything possible to ensure that yesterday ‘s scar does not permanently damage the fabric of our society. [More…]

• May I also say that I appreciate the debate which is now taking place in the community. [More…]

• I agree with you that there is an inference in this advertisement that I condone racism, neo-fascism and anti-Zionism and I note your assurance that most members of the Victorian Jewish community would wish to disassociate themselves from such an inference. [More…]

• It was authorised by individual members of the Jewish community who support the Labor Party. [More…]

• This has been a long-standing practice of individual members of this community. [More…]

• If the Deputy Prime Minister looked at past advertisements as they have appeared in this paper he would find that various citizens of that community at their own volition from time to time have placed advertisements supporting political parties and individuals of their choice. [More…]

• These social costs are borne primarily by the unemployed and their families while less directly, but certainly as importantly, the whole community incurs costs to correct social disorders. [More…]

• These points illustrate the widespread uncertainty and loss of confidence that exist in the business community and its unrealised expectations in the Government’s ability to ‘restore prosperity and provide jobs for all ‘. [More…]

• He criticises them as being inequitable; he criticises them as being of enormous benefit to the wealthy in the community; he criticises them as being socially unfair. [More…]

• But to categorise that as being some kind of selective fiddle for the benefit of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other people in the community is, I think, doing less than justice to the office which the honourable gentleman now occupies. [More…]

• So in terms of the total burden of taxation borne by the high income earners in Australia- the so-called wealthy people in Australia- there has in reality been no significant lightening of that burden in relation to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I make one point quite clear on behalf of the Labor Party and honourable members on this side of the Parliament: Under no circumstances do we accept that the Government, in spite of its majority, has a mandate to extend proverty, has a mandate to extend unemployment, has a mandate to extend family breakups, or has a mandate to promote greater drug dependence in the community. [More…]

• Other initiatives directed towards young people include the Community Youth Support scheme which aims to encourage community action for the provision of programs and services to the young unemployed; the educational program for unemployed youth to assist those whose educational qualifications are low or inadequate in the labour market; and the establishment of tripartite youth employment task forces in each State to encourage employers to make a special effort to take on additional young people- particularly, at this time of the year, school leavers. [More…]

• There is also the Community Youth Support Scheme under which some 350 projects have been approved. [More…]

• There was no recognition from Opposition speakers in the debate of the contribution which has been made to unemployment by people over whom the Government and indeed the Australian community has no control. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that 10 or 15 years ago there was not such a community acceptance of a person who was unemployed immediately registering as being unemployed. [More…]

• But when we are trying to compare figures produced in respective years we must consider the changed circumstances and changed community attitudes. [More…]

• He stated that unless it was treated as an absolute first priority it could become a cancer within the American community even more damaging than that of Vietnam. [More…]

• One senses it in the community, in the air almost. [More…]

• As I heard his words, he said in effect that if the tourist industry in this country is to prosper, it will prosper by being able to use employees at a lower rate of pay than is generally acceptable in the community or with lesser benefits than are acceptable to the community. [More…]

• Is this Government completely unaware that the biggest single purchaser in the Australian community is the Australian Government itself? [More…]

• Perhaps the psychological effect on the community of the Government ‘s tight-fisted policy should be explained to it. [More…]

• I have just returned from New Zealand again where I attended a seminar on agricultural trade between Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and access to the European Economic Community, Japan and North America on the other. [More…]

• Three primary industries- the dairy industry, the export industry for fresh apples and pears and the canned fruit industry- have suffered the most from Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community five years ago. [More…]

• As never before, levels of taxation are discussed everywhere in the community. [More…]

• But today they are discussed by every person who works in the community. [More…]

• We know that the possession by government of the power over the economic and the financial resources of a community ultimately reflects the extent to which governments will allow their people to be independent and the households of the nation to make their own decisions. [More…]

• After making some motherhood statements about Aboriginals, which if matched by the same inaction or actual withdrawal of support for Aboriginals as we have witnessed in the last two years can only confirm in the mind of the whole community the utter hypocrisy of the Liberal Government, the Governor-General returned to the migrant question. [More…]

• One of the advantages of our moves to decentralise this power, to take it out of Canberra, to get it into the local areas where the migrants live, was that it allowed more direct community responsibility, particularly on the part of the migrants themselves. [More…]

• Italian community of any one of our major cities is not large enough to justify any advertiser spending much money on that station, and so it will not survive economically. [More…]

• The area which we were discussing related to the real problems facing the Australian community, namely, the difficulty of creating sufficient jobs for Australians, new and old- those already in the country and those coming here in the foreseeable future. [More…]

• I think there is a great feeling in this Parliament, as there is in the community itself, that it is time that something were done about straightening out the way in which we run this part of the system. [More…]

• The point is, of course, that while the system is idiotic the Australian community will, if provided with a fair measure of understanding, front up to taxation and regard it as a payment for something which is to their advantage. [More…]

• I think that we have to begin to re-educate the community and perhaps to re-educate ourselves on the whole taxation system. [More…]

• Of course, it is a fact of life that the production capacity of the community has overrun the consumer needs of the community. [More…]

• The CES is the major operational organisation which promotes the National Employment and Training scheme, the Community Youth Support scheme and the Special Youth Employment Training Program. [More…]

• All they are doing is causing great concern in the community. [More…]

• Those proposals have been the subject of debate and consideration by the local community and by the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• This will not save the community any money whatsoever. [More…]

• Many of us accept that the community is responsible for health costs and these are shared broadly on the basis of ability to pay. [More…]

• Instead of less than 80 per cent of the public being covered, 100 per cent of the community would be covered under Medibank. [More…]

• Let us analyse the increased use per capita of medical services and see from what sections of the community the increase has come. [More…]

• In that sort of way and by proper refocussing on the nature of the problem we could respond to the situation, but we cannot do so with empty rhetoric which is designed to divide the community and camouflage the Government’s intentions. [More…]

• There are many doctors in our community today who were violently opposed to the introduction of Medibank but who are now exploiting the scheme. [More…]

• Doctors in our community are in a position of trust that is, I believe, afforded to very few others. [More…]

• I want to take a few moments to raise one question which is before the community consistently and to examine it in perhaps a different way. [More…]

• I refer to the relative level of profits and wages in the community and the relative rights of industry to the measure of profit which should be returned to it. [More…]

• Such persons should understand that this Parliament is the fundamental institution and one of the most important traditions of our democratic community in Australia. [More…]

• The real cost has to be looked at in resources and in what is taken from the civilian community and also in what is expended in the defence budget that contributes to the production and the civilian community itself. [More…]

• I hope, Mr Deputy Speaker, as I am sure you do, that under their chairmanship this Parliament will achieve a greater respect in the Australian community than it now enjoys or, should I say, suffers. [More…]

• In theory, we are supposed to be a cross-section of the community. [More…]

• People outside in the wider community do not suggest that they do not have warts. [More…]

• I believe this should be more widely understood in the community outside this place. [More…]

• The Government’s policies seem to us to give to people of material resources, of some substance- the richer people of the community- these choices, these powers and these freedoms. [More…]

• ls there anyone who will deny that the meddling with Medibank added to the costs of the Australian community- 3.2 per cent in one quarter? [More…]

• In the modern world so often we need the government spending in order to stimulate the longer term expansion in all sectors of the community, public and private, which we want so badly for an increased level of activity and full employment. [More…]

• If our educated people are to have jobs which are satisfying, then we must have a variety of jobs to offer the community. [More…]

• The whole community requires urgently a policy of general expansion, a stimulus from government to provide that demand which is so essential for greater production and development. [More…]

• His is not, as has been put by some honourable members opposite, the character of a man who has at heart the interests of only one group of the community. [More…]

• I am particularly pleased that these organisations, particularly Karonga, will be eligible to apply for assistance for the hostel that I know Karonga plans in the likelihood that money will be available for that particular project and for other important projects to tend the handicapped people in our community. [More…]

• It is now the task of the Government, the Parliament, and the community to do everything possible to ensure that yesterday’s scar does not permanently damage the fabric of our society. [More…]

• Furthermore, if that were to happen, polarising influences could be injected into the Australian community. [More…]

• All of these things need to be clarified, but in clarifying them we should be guided by a basic concern about democratic rights and about civil liberties in our community. [More…]

• It is to be sincerely trusted that the Prime Minister does not preoccupy himself, and seek to pre-occupy and distract the community, with this topic at the expense of other important matters. [More…]

• Even now many groups in our community still think that money grows on trees and that the Government can continue to spend more and more on their causes without apparently having to raise more in taxes out of possibly the same pockets. [More…]

• In terms of economic growth, I am very pleased to see at last in the Australian community some realisation that we are looking now to the possibility of a proper restructuring of some of our industry. [More…]

• Given that we can progress with our increase in our real gross national product, we will be able to afford more and more to help our neighbours under our type of government- under a coalition governmentwhich is getting back to helping people to create incentives in the community. [More…]

• Tertiary Sector (General Economic Services): The essential element of this sector is that it involves the processing of matter and /or energy and includes the wholesale and retail trade, transport and storage, some community services, provision of public utilities, repair and maintenance, and some personal services. [More…]

• It is important that the community understands not only all the issues but also the need for more community responsibility and involvement in this debate. [More…]

• If, on the other hand, there were a regional unemployment relief scheme in areas of mass unemployment- and in some it is as high as 1 3 per cent of the work force- and award rates, let us be quite clear, were paid and people given a job to do, the Government could undertake the great amount of work which needs to be done, for example, the community facilities which have to be established, in the western suburbs of Sydney particularly. [More…]

• It gave people a job to do, and it meant that the community got something for the money that it expended. [More…]

• Today we are seeing almost a thousand million dollars going straight down the drain and the community getting nothing in return. [More…]

• We face a period in which economic prosperity is possible but it will be realised only by the hard work and dedication of every person in the community who earnestly desires prosperity. [More…]

• The goal of economic prosperity will not be realised until the disruptive elements in the trade union movement are prepared to accept what the community demands and will work in a lawful society and abide by the self-discipline which the society demands. [More…]

• We recognise that fact but I earnestly believe that a number of the disruptive elements within the trade union movement are not concerned about the interests of their members, the Australian community or economic prosperity in this country. [More…]

• Criticism has been coming from the community about the control and power that are being exercised jointly by the Executive and the Public Service and I believe that there is some justification for this criticism. [More…]

• A power structure that could not be said to be in the best interests of the Australian community has been established in Canberra over an evolutionary period. [More…]

• What we urgently need in order to build up the stature and acceptance of the parliamentary institution in Australia is an acceptance by the community that this Parliament can offer itself as an institution to advance the well-being of the Australian people. [More…]

• The people who are elected to this Parliament must move out into the community and make themselves available to it both individually and collectively so that it can obtain information. [More…]

• They must be available for consultation and discussion with various community groups throughout Australia. [More…]

• Having had those discussions they can then feed that information back to the Government in Canberra with the firm conviction that the views that are being put by the community will be listened to in Canberra. [More…]

• The Government would be very wise to look at establishing authoritative committees which have a purposeful and functional role to play in the parliamentary process and which can liaise actively with various community groups. [More…]

• I thought that D-notices had gone into oblivion after the Vietnam war, but apparently before Christman D-notices were served on the media by the Fraser Government requiring the media to refrain from publication of certain controversial matters which could have divided the Australian community to a greater extent than was already the case. [More…]

• A number of people are waiting for positions and we are being helped through the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• I think it would be churlish of Government supporters not to admit that the Labor Party raised the aspirations of people in the community during its years in government. [More…]

• Many years ago under a conservative government we lost our opportunity to trade with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The health insurance scheme which has been introduced by the present Government has degraded the Medibank scheme which was introduced and which benefited all in the community. [More…]

• It is hogwash and humbug to suggest that the Fretilin forces were some sort of unaligned group which merely wanted to settle in East Timor and establish a nice and happy community. [More…]

• The tighten-the-belt philosophy applies only to wage and salary earners in this community. [More…]

• The English-speaking people in our community support them. [More…]

• Once again I should like to appeal to the new Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) and to officers of his Department to act, and act swiftly, in saving what can be a very valuable form of communications in our community. [More…]

• Already in recent weeks we have seen indications that violence is starting to flare up between different factions of the citizen band radio community. [More…]

• Over the last couple of years, by the preference of the community itself, a considerable sum of money has been provided for the maintenance and renovation of existing houses. [More…]

• In November last year my colleague Senator John Knight discussed with me the problems of the Wreck Bay community. [More…]

• Senator Knight did so and reported to me that the people were desirous of having new houses built now rather than a continuation of the previous program of carrying out renovations with labour from the Wreck Bay community. [More…]

• The matter of Sir John Kerr’s actions in November 1975 has been an issue of the most divisive political debate in the Australian community. [More…]

• The anger felt by the community as a whole is reflected in the Letters to the Editor’ columns. [More…]

• The measure of that austerity, self-denial and sacrifice is awfully inciting to a great deal of the community. [More…]

• In short, I am suggesting that there needs to be a proper monitoring and accounting of Sir John Kerr’s role and the way in which he fulfils his task because of the widespread concern and disillusionment in the community about the way in which this appointment was made, and the way in which political jobbery was resorted to by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• They certainly except the present incumbent, Sir Zelman Cowen, who enjoys a very high regard in the community. [More…]

• This situation represents a development which gives cause for the gravest concern in the community. [More…]

• No one now will believe in the light of that statement and the behaviour of the Prime Minister, almost a conspiracy in the view of so many people in the community, in conjunction with that of the former Governor-General in late 1977 and early 1978, that the then GovernorGeneral did not change his mind because of some sort of encouragement- vulgar minds would say some sort of inducement. [More…]

• If anything has been established as a dire need in the community by the conjoint behaviour of the Prime Minister and the Governor-General it is that we need a careful definition of what the limitations should be to the authority of the Governor-General in the operation of his high office. [More…]

• What we are dealing with today is why the Prime Minister has appointed this symbol of division and derision in the community to a major Government post. [More…]

• We will see more and more division in the community throughout the life of his Prime Ministership. [More…]

• The way in which government can assist these industries in a general sense- this has been done over the past 2 years by this Government- is to look at their cost factors and to assist them in overcoming increasing costs which result from inflation, high interest rates and factors of a general nature which affect the whole community. [More…]

• Primary producers, as individuals, their families and the whole community suffer from such unfortunate movements or sudden decisions. [More…]

• We could establish a decentralisation program which would provide opportunities for employment, which in turn would diversify the Australian community and would also provide markets of a different type for primary producers. [More…]

• Both the American market and the European Economic Community are open to approach, not by direct routes but by indirect routes. [More…]

• In Australia there needs to be a return to some sort of pride in workmanship and the Australian community needs to be encouraged to buy Australian goods. [More…]

• That sort of confidence can be encouraged in the Australian community by a greater examination of the benefits of mutual cooperation in the work place. [More…]

• It would seem that offering awards to various industries would also assist in directing the attention of the community to the need for greater productivity. [More…]

• Improvements were made in education, community health centres were established, research was made into social and environmental problems and possibilities were opened up via the area improvement program. [More…]

• Migrants received assistance via welfare rights programs and were able to establish more effective communication through ethnic and community radio. [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…]

• Bad enough as that is, what worries all diligent and conscientious honourable members who are concerned about the housing needs of the Australian community is the fact that there are no initiatives in sight under the Fraser administration to redress this highly unsatisfactory situation. [More…]

• Surely the Government must be wondering whether the attack on the purchasing power of this community might be resulting in a fall in the production of motor cars. [More…]

• Real wages are down and living standards have been reduced by the cutting of funds in real terms for community programs- for health and welfare, transport, road, sewerage, housing, migrant services, education programs and the like. [More…]

• As I heard his words, he said in effect that if the tourist industry of this country is to prosper, it will prosper by being able to use employees at a lower rate of pay than is generally acceptable in the community or with lesser benefits than are acceptable to the community. [More…]

• I hope that in the coming years we may together continue to improve our part of society and in particular to assist those persons in our community, who because of reasons beyond their direct control may find themselves in need of assistance and understanding. [More…]

• There are many people in our community whose life to them must seem to be only an endurance. [More…]

• There are people in our community who find it a never ending struggle just to feed and to clothe themselves. [More…]

• There is no greater shame to man than inhumanity and we as representatives of our community must ensure that those misfortunes which fall upon others are rectified with a sense of compassion, urgency and understanding. [More…]

• The Government has been returned with a large majority but that does not mean that we should be complacent about our responsibilities and duties to the community. [More…]

• There are some people in the community who say that we should be content with six per cent or seven per cent of our workforce being unemployed. [More…]

• Nevertheless we are faced with a problem which is testing the whole fabric of our community. [More…]

• It is indeed unfortunate that we have these people in our community. [More…]

• Although we have high unemployment we do not have a lack of work in our community. [More…]

• There is a shortage of paid employment but there are no shortages of jobs at a community level which need to be done. [More…]

• Community improvement projects are around us everyday. [More…]

• What is wrong with initiating such projects which will not only rekindle the incentive to work for some of our unemployed, but will also result in a direct benefit to the community and ultimately to the taxpayer. [More…]

• We need community betterment projects which will put our chronic unemployed to work rehabilitating public facilities, making neighbourhood improvements, and even undertaking some repairs and maintenance in low income housing areas. [More…]

• Although the Government has introduced a Community Youth Support Scheme, commonly called the CYSS, to boost young people’s morale, not all areas of major unemployment have these programs in operation. [More…]

• There are plenty of charitable organisations and non-profit associations which undertake many worthwhile projects in our community which could well do with another pair of hands. [More…]

• It would cost the Government nothing, but the value to the community could be immense. [More…]

• I detect a growing feeling in our community that unemployment benefits are not utilised in the wisest manner. [More…]

• There is a growing body of opinion in the community that the unemployment benefit payment scheme should be split up into a subsistence- basic level of payment, and a secondary works tested payment. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian community, on both sides of the political fence, wants to see unemployment benefits paid in a more responsible manner. [More…]

• Whilst we should have a basic subsistence level of payment, I believe that an additional benefit should only be paid upon the completion of some sort of work, in the form of community betterment projects, putting our young people to work rehabilitating public facilities, undertaking some charitable work or, as was mentioned by the honourable member for Bonython, some work in the environmental sphere. [More…]

• Whatever it be, I think the community expects us to introduce some form of work payment scheme for extra employment benefits. [More…]

• I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development who is responsible for youth affairs for initiating the research project into youth unemployment. [More…]

• There is a growing disenchantment with our profession in the community. [More…]

• While there will always be sections of the community who disagree with their parliamentarians, or who are cynical as to their purpose, I detect a growing swell of opinion that people believe that politicians are incapable of concentrating on and solving the important problems of our community. [More…]

• Although we are called upon to represent our constituents in the Parliament, we also have a responsibility to represent them at functions within our own community. [More…]

• It is just as important that we undertake our community responsibilities as we do our parliamentary responsibilities. [More…]

• Although at times these community responsibilities may require us to fulfil many roles such as a social worker, marriage guidance counsellor, father confessor, committee worker for many of our constituent organisations, or lobbyist for important community projects. [More…]

• I assure the House that the ideals and philosophy which motivated the Whitlam Labor Government have not been abandoned by large sections of the Australian community and, more importantly, have not been abandoned by the Labor movement in Australia. [More…]

• It is highly productive in terms of wheat, wool, fat lambs, cattle, fruit and other things which are important in the agricultural community. [More…]

• So I suppose that every two and a half adults in the community who are working- and certainly not all adults are working because there are a lot of wives at home who do not work- are supporting somebody on a social security or repatriation or unemployment-type benefit. [More…]

• The sad part about it is that in all areas where there is some form of community benefit, be it pensioner benefit, taxation benefit, depreciation allowance, car allowance or any kind of benefit that comes from the taxpayer, there is always the element that does not have a genuine entitlement. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has made constant references to terrorists yet no evidence of terrorist involvement has been placed before the community or the Parliament. [More…]

• I do not believe that any other section of the community is more vulnerable than members of Parliament. [More…]

• I want to identify to the House tonight a significant and large group of people in the Australian community whom I believe are in need. [More…]

• They are in extreme need at the present time and there is an urgent requirement that governments should look at the needs of families to give them support so that they can fulfil the role that has traditionally been theirs and that I believe the Australian community wants them to continue to perform. [More…]

• I was most encouraged that those of us in the community and in the Parliament who have been urging that something be done in this direction were able to read today in Volume 4 of the report of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships that the Commission is of the view that the Government should initiate a national family policy. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) points to bandaid schemes such as the special youth employment training program, the community youth support scheme and the educational program for unemployed youth. [More…]

• Four per cent of those exports go to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In regard to steel, the honourable gentleman would be very much aware of the strong action which the Government is taking in the negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Given that background, as stressed and brought to my attention and the attention of the House by the honourable gentleman, in view of those market circumstances and the recent protectionist measures which have been taken by the United States and also by the European Economic Community, the Government certainly is reviewing the industry situation, particularly at the present time, to ascertain whether there is trade diversion from the United States and also from the European Economic Community to the Australian market which could be detrimental to the local industry. [More…]

• I call upon all the doctors in Australia to show some moderation in the way in which they charge patients at a time when the community generally is very concerned about escalating costs in Australia. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of recent Press reports that the traditional Australian team colours may be changed for the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton? [More…]

• Such centralisation smacks of bureaucratic belt tightening at the expense of the migrant community. [More…]

• For example, the community interpreter service was given only $71,537 extra, or a total of $465,000, in 1977-78. [More…]

• The hostile climate is effectively inhibiting the full use of ethnic radio as a community service to migrants at a time when it could be vital. [More…]

• Here again I believe that the figures show that after a period of time refugees are finding work and are settling well into the Australian community. [More…]

• As to migrant access to community services and social assistance programs, this Government has taken the initiative in developing the role of the ethnic media- a point mentioned by the honourable member- in informing non-English speaking migrants of the services that are available. [More…]

• The advertisements set out in some detail the services which are available to migrants throughout the Australian community, and provide advice as to how migrants can contact the relevant government departments which will assist them. [More…]

• I suggest that those centres- one of them associated with a community voluntary agency and the other totally staffed by government employees- represent a marked initiative in the provision of additional services to migrants, individually and in organisations, in the form of a contact and reference point with which people can develop some affinity and to which they can go for assistance and additional information. [More…]

• We have established close and effective consultation with the States because, in marked contrast to the previous Labor Administration, we recognise the very real part played by State governments in providing services to the community, including the migrant component of the community. [More…]

• The Government has provided a great number of other services to assist in the successful integration of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]

• To create a decentralised urban community water is required. [More…]

• the encouragement of an active interest and involvement of the community in the planning and management of water resources. [More…]

• The only reason why the community builds them is that there is no profit to be made. [More…]

• I make one point quite clear on behalf of the Labor Party and honourable members on this side of the Parliament: Under no circumstances do we accept that the Government in spite of its majority, has a mandate to extend poverty, has a mandate to extend unemployment, has a mandate to extend family breakups, or has a mandate to promote greater drug dependence in the community. [More…]

• In respect of all federal programs affecting Australia’s migrant community the Government must reverse the policies of neglect which have been in force since it came to office. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of every section of the community. [More…]

• He also has an important portfolio which relates to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I will make one comment about the rural community. [More…]

• I want to link it with my comments on the European Economic Community. [More…]

• My Government believes that it is of vital importance to Australia’s interests that its rural community be strong and viable. [More…]

• Community. [More…]

• I said that a number of years ago in Malaysia I battled against Britain’s entering the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I believe that the stupidity of the European Economic Community will destroy Europe itself unless some of the present leaders in the European Community wake up to the reality of the situation. [More…]

• Community attitudes are difficult to change. [More…]

• We cannot have any better member parliament than the person in the community. [More…]

• People have moved from the country districts in which they have traditionally worked and this has had an effect in small country towns on small businesses and shopkeepers who have depended heavily on a viable farming community for their existence. [More…]

• Pastoral stations- not regarded as part of the normal farming community- throughout the vast area of Western Australia are in an even worse state. [More…]

• I put it to the Treasurer that an increase in the level of tax deductibility for water conservation items to at least 50 per cent and preferably to the old level of 100 per cent in the year of expenditure would do a great service to the rural community of Australia. [More…]

• It is the result of considerable efforts by members of the Geelong community. [More…]

• On Friday the Premier of Victoria will say all sorts of nice things about how his Government, the Federal Government and everyone else are concerned about the handicapped, what a great thing it is that the committee has gone to this effort and has established this sheltered workshop and what a great benefit it will be to the community. [More…]

• I think it is quite callous that a community organisation, in the full knowledge that subsidies are available, should be prevented from utilising facilities to provide employment for the handicapped because of a regulation which has nothing to do with the Act. [More…]

• I take up the theme that I heard this morning- I think it was the Treasurer (Mr Howard) who raised it- of the effect of wages upon inflation and the very desirable characteristics that would flow to the rest of the community if one could keep reducing wages to the point at which they vanished. [More…]

• I think that everybody in this community is entitled to a fair return for the work that they undertake. [More…]

• We are living in a community in which productivity is continually increasing. [More…]

• I only hope that the community will realise what is happening. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) might well lead a team from the Parliament. [More…]

• if the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) could see fit to lend his support to the proposal, I believe it would be an excellent opportunity for the defence forces to foster relationships and cooperation between themselves and the community. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• There were people in this community who were determined that this should not be so. [More…]

• by leave- Just as the appointment of Sir John Kerr as Australian Ambassador to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation was not greeted with relish in the community, his resignation is not greeted with sorrow. [More…]

• He has brought that office into the gravest disregard in the community. [More…]

• Much more than 40 per cent of the Australian community is irrevocably alienated from holding any regard or respect at all for that office. [More…]

• The crux of my concern is the way in which the role of GovernorGeneralship has been lowered in its esteem in the community by the Prime Minister, has become the focus of mistrust generally by the public and apparently has been made by him in the crudest and most vulgar sense as nothing more than an extension of the political patronage system. [More…]

• It is the Prime Minister who has done irreparable damage in the community to the office of Governor-General. [More…]

• There are so many qualities about the Prime Minister which, when taken in conjunction with his record in this House as a person who walks clumsily and destructively over conventions which are necessary to make this system function properly, not only leave us uneasy but also leave a great proportion of the Australian community uneasy and mistrustful of his presence. [More…]

• For dividing society, for embittering the people, and for fostering suspicion and mistrust in the community? [More…]

• I repeat what I said earlier: The appointment of Sir John Kerr to UNESCO was certainly not greeted with relish by the Australian community. [More…]

• Our own steel exports have already been hit by dumping duties imposed by the European Economic Community. [More…]

• There would be merit in conducting a concurrent inquiry, so that if a committee lands in a certain community it can look at problems apart from those of, say, alcohol. [More…]

• It is very difficult to get them to have the courage to stand up and say to the community: ‘Yes, this building possibly will cost us $100m when it is built - [More…]

• In this area, which generally is considered to be a trendy area in the community, Ministers, over the years of the Committee’s existence, whether they were Ministers in a Labor government or a Liberal government, have always been most cooperative with the Committee. [More…]

• I trust that the new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- I will have grace enough to congratulate him on his appointment- will find some pleasure in his association with the Committee. [More…]

• Whilst the Minister may say that that is not likely to happen, I think the experience in this Parliament in the last two years has been that where circumstances have arisen where the Government has taken action, subsequently to find that it was either improper or actually illegal, this Parliament and the community have been totally ignored and their rights ignored. [More…]

• provide disinterested advice in an area of government activity which will always be subjected to conflicting pressures from special interest groups within the community. [More…]

• As we all know, the granting of protection, assistance, to industries has very important effects on different sectors of the community and it bears on the situation of Australia as a major trading nation. [More…]

• Thus section 22 of the present Act enjoins the IAC in the performance of its functions to have regard to the desire of the Government to ‘improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used’, and then it lists other matters to be taken into account. [More…]

• Then follows proposed new section 22 (aa): ‘improve the efficiency with which the community’s productive resources are used . [More…]

• It has to be recognised that when you advocate a big tariff cut you do so because you believe that the whole economy- the Australian community as a whole and other countries, our trading partners- will gain. [More…]

• He has ignored the support for the IAC which has come from various sources, particularly the rural community, the retail community and consumers and has led an assault on it. [More…]

• Thirdly, this legislation represents a further confirmation of the Prime Minister’s determination to inflict compulsorily on the community the madness of his individual economic policy. [More…]

• That is to say, so long as assistance for industry does not show up in Government accounts and so long as it is disguised in other ways, but nevertheless borne by the community, it may be ignored by Government. [More…]

• He will resist any attempt to transfer that necessary assistance from the general community, including consumers and export industries, on to the Government as a whole and to provide that assistance via budgetary measures. [More…]

• Also, the Government adopts an attitude which ignores the cost of protection- that is, protection by way of tariffs, quotas and so on- to the community. [More…]

• The fistful of $5 notes in the well-known advertisement goes only towards the wealthy sections of the community. [More…]

• The great difference between the Labor Party and the conservative parties rests on the Labor Party’s attitude towards the utility of government involvement in the community. [More…]

• The more we care for the deprived, the more we think about the problems confronting Australian manufacturing industry, the more we confront the hardships faced by the rural community, the more we grapple with the major issues concerning the environment the more we realise the need for increased government intervention on behalf of the community. [More…]

• Owing to the mountainous terrain of Indi there are many pockets of the community receiving a poor to impossible television signal. [More…]

• Problems exist in all sectors of the community and it is our responsibility as members of parliament to endeavour to find solutions and, if possible, to prevent them. [More…]

• Based on the mistakes we have made in the past, together with the mistakes this Government is making in its relationship with the Australian community, it is our intention that the Labor Party shall sit on the Government benches in 1980 with Bill Hayden as the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]

• It said that not only is it proper that there should be State aid for political parties, but that the democracy we know is very much dependent on the role of political parties and that if the role of political parties and those people in them can be enhanced by State aid to political parties, such action is of benefit to the community. [More…]

• The overall level of economic activity in the community is probably the most important factor. [More…]

• They also ignore the simple economics of development and the fact that much of the community is not directly part either of the rural sector or the manufacturing sector. [More…]

• Furthermore, there is the simple fact that if we as a nation are to develop our full potential and to generate the goods and services needed to accommodate the community’s rising and diversified material and other aspirations, we must utilise our resources in the most efficient manner compatible with our other policy objectives. [More…]

• The Government of the day adopted a different plan, not necessarily a satisfactory solution, but a compromise between what people would like to do and what the community can afford to have. [More…]

• There is a clash of interest in the Australian community. [More…]

• One could spend a lot of time on this matter, but the time allocated does not permit me to explain what other assistance is rendered by other Western nations, including those in the European Economic Community and the United States of America. [More…]

• I want to deal with what seems to me to be a set of underlying presumptions not merely in this Parliament but in the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• I believe its time will come and that a greater realisation of the need to adjust to change will emerge in the community. [More…]

• It is not publicity for the sake of publicity or publicity for the members of those particular committees but publicity for the actual work carried out in the hope that the media will take up the work of those committees and engender discussion in the community. [More…]

• The committees are not sensational; in many cases they are not provocative; but the work they do has enormous impact on the community at large, and the more public discussion we can have on their work the better. [More…]

• I have been approached by the Federal Council of Polish Associations in Australia, supported by the Polish branch of the RAAF Association, the RSL Polish Branch, the Polish Club Ltd, the ExServicemen’s Association of the Polish Home Army, the Polish Association in New South Wales and the Polish Educational Society in New South Wales about the welfare problems facing the Polish community in Australia. [More…]

• Now they are an aging community within Australia. [More…]

• Because of their refugee status and the problems in Poland during the Second World War and thereafter, there are great psychiatric problems in the Polish community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and also the Minister for Social Security to have a close and compassionate look at the problems of the Polish community within Australia. [More…]

• But, at the same time as they are looking at the problems of the Polish people within Australia, they might as well look at the welfare problems of the whole of the ethnic communities because most ethnic communities here face problems similar to those faced by the Polish community. [More…]

• On behalf of the Polish community, I make this plea to the House. [More…]

• That aim was to assert to the greatest possible extent their ego over Sydney, over the Bar, over the judges they appeared before and over the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government is well aware of the activities in recent years of tax planners who, increasingly, are promoting tax avoidance schemes and arrangements throughout the business and professional community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman might also recall the additional initiatives that were taken in English language training, not only the expansion of existing programs but the proposal to use facilities in universities or colleges where arrangements could be made over the summer period for members of the migrant community. [More…]

• There has been, on the part of the Government, a conspiracy to depress real spending power for wage and salary earners in the community quite markedly. [More…]

• It would appear from the effects of Government policy that the Government strategy is to strive for economic uplift by increasing the immiseration of the community ‘Salvation by prolonged stagnation’, as the former honourable member for MacKellar was wont to claim in this Parliament up until the last election. [More…]

• But I also believe that because of the way in which the Government has presented this proposition there has been a blurred focusing on what has been occurring in the community and a misunderstanding of the reasons why total resources going to profits as a proportion of gross domestic product have been declining dramatically quite recently while those resources, as a proportion of gross domestic product going to wages, have increased. [More…]

• Yet it is a determination of the Government- in my view it is wrongly supported by Syntec- that the answer is to turn upon the innocent wage and salary earners in the community and to seek to reduce dramatically the level of real wages in the community. [More…]

• What this simply means is that the Government is forcing wage and salary earners in the community to bear the cost of its own decisions. [More…]

• Because these costs not only increase inflation but also lead to the Government making before the Arbitration Commission the claims I mentioned, there is a two-way squeeze on the real living standards of wage and salary earners in the community. [More…]

• As recently as the weekend, as I mentioned a few seconds ago, the Prime Minister asserted that these tax adjustments would result in an increase in economic activity in the community and that consumer demand would pick up. [More…]

• It argued quite forcibly that there should be a most substantial reduction in the real income of wage and salary earners in the community as part of this generally unwise, excessive tactic that it has been putting forward about the need to depress the spending power of the people; in other words, the need to depress the economy further as part of its tactic to bring the economy back into control. [More…]

• The tax per adult person in the community increased by 14.3 per cent. [More…]

• Its action is contrary to the purposes it espouses in the community, namely the desire to get the economy moving again. [More…]

• It ill behoves the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) and the honourable member for Cunningham to endeavour to pull the wool over the eyes of many Australians particularly those in the hard working section of the community by suggesting that the facts are otherwise. [More…]

• The facts are that no wage adjustment should be awarded on equity grounds since the union argument to maintain the value of real wages ignores the wider equity considerations of the Australian community. [More…]

• In this way a competitive public enterprise can provide substantial benefits to the community, quite apart from its business role. [More…]

• -In speaking to the Territory Authorities (Financial Provisions) Bill 1978, we are aware that the original Act was passed in 1 973 and made provision for the Darwin Community College which was established under a Northern Territory ordinance. [More…]

• Two other Acts were passed at the same time to cover the principal and staff of the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• The three Acts were designed originally to cover the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• The 1973 Act referred solely to the Darwin Community College, but since then other authorities have come into being, as was mentioned by the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) and as was envisaged by the former Labor Treasurer, Mr Frank Crean. [More…]

• The other two Bills which were passed cognately on 9 October 1973 will, I take it, stand because their provisions are very relevant to the people in the Northern Territory and to the staff at the Darwin Community College in relation to which the original legislation was passed. [More…]

• I am aware that the only Northern Territory authority currently affected by this Bill is the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• The Darwin Community College is still the responsibility of the Commonwealth Department of Education, but it is to be passed over to the Northern Territory in July 1979. [More…]

• The community is small and the Territory has limited natural resources for future commercial exploitation. [More…]

• This merely means that half of the profit which normally would have been invested in community facilities will go back to the Government and the Government will be under pressure to provide those facilities. [More…]

• The whole idea of this Authority is that the net profit from the operations of the landlord and the developer should go back into the community. [More…]

• During these discussions Ministers expressed concern about the possibility that Mr Harragan ‘s actions would lead members of the public and the commercial community to believe that the integrity of the tendering process had been compromised. [More…]

• It is only by developing our resources- our resources include our primary products, our services and our manufactured goods- that we can provide more for the community and a higher standard of living for all Australians. [More…]

• We must recognise and provide for the growing demands of individuals and community groups to be heard and to participate meaningfully in the democratic process. [More…]

• Adequate facilities for only part of this disadvantaged section of our community were provided only last year. [More…]

• Until last year this very needy section of the community throughout Queensland had to make do with less than proper and adequate facilities. [More…]

• I ask honourable members opposite, when they think of the rising unemployment figures, to think for a moment how it affects the handicapped people in our community. [More…]

• Churches are concerned with the judgmental and even punitive approach taken towards the unemployed, whether it be by the Government and the policies it sets for the Public Service or whether it be in community attitudes which are fostered. [More…]

• It is the duty and responsibility of the community, and particularly those more fortunately placed, to see that our less fortunate fellow-citizens are protected from those shafts of fate which leave them helpless and without hope. [More…]

• I was dismayed to read of the reasons that the Queensland Minister for Main Roads, Mr Hinze, gave for his decision to get the money for road development costs from an extra slug on only a section of the community. [More…]

• I have mentioned in this House previously that we live under an economic system that is totally unsuitable and totally corrupt because the people on the other side of the House see the views of only one section of the community. [More…]

• Nobody, either in this House or in the community of the Australian nation, can accuse me of having made fish of one and fowl of another. [More…]

• Throughout Australia it was said at the time that we in the community did not acknowledge sufficiently Australia Day. [More…]

• After that, I returned to Sydney to attend an excellent community activity put on by the Rockdale Shire Council which has a most admirable way of getting communities together. [More…]

• Now this man has taken it upon himself, with a little community support, to try really to show to the Australian public what it was all about, and to bring to Australian young people in particular and migrants a very worthwhile project which will present a magnificent spectacle. [More…]

• It will need some government support and the support of the whole community. [More…]

• It seems to me that perhaps honourable members on the Government side of the House are having themselves on when they think that they are in fact so relevant that there might be someone in the community who would want to shoot them or blow them up. [More…]

• That community, far more used to living with terrorist activity than fortunately we in Australia have ever had to contemplate, simply works on the basis that as soon as the attack is over the situation is returned to normal as quickly as possible. [More…]

• Does Sir Frederick Catherwood ‘s statement accurately reflect the relative degrees of protection in Australia and the European Economic Community? [More…]

• The home building industry is at least one sector of the Australian economy where there is a potential for growth, and that growth could have a multiplying effect on other industries if the Australian Government acted in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• But this Government is not concerned about the community as a whole. [More…]

• When one realises that last year only 11,400 dwellings were constructed by the State housing commissions one can understand the tragedies in our community due in a great part to inadequate shelter. [More…]

• It is only when the community knows that the inflationary spiral which so crippled our economy has been brought to a satisfactory level that we can expect business confidence to return in this country and we can expect confidence to return to the home building industry. [More…]

• It is important to note that the Government has been consistent in pursuing three essential objectives within the housing area: Encouragement of home ownership, concentration on areas of greatest need within the community and ensuring economic conditions conducive to a stable and adequate building industry. [More…]

• Welfare housing policies of the previous Labor Government ignored those within the community who were in greatest need. [More…]

• Although the time in which to prepare for this debate was very limited one would not need a great deal of practice to demolish the attitude of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• The new agreement will also encourage the States to give additional attention to the environmental aspects of public housing, such as urban renewal, provision of open space, landscaping and community facilities. [More…]

• I refer Opposition members to a statement made in the middle of last year by the previous Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the present Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• It would seem that the present Government has adopted- I am convinced that that is the case under our new and dynamic Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- an innovative program. [More…]

• The United States of America has an 85 per cent market share, the European Economic Community has a 90 per cent market share and Japan, of all places, in the garment area has a 100 per cent market share. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that the Bounty (Polyester-Cotton Yarn) Bill 1978 will show the Australian community that the Government understands the problem [More…]

• It is very difficult to find any firm evidence to suggest that the existence of the Tribunal has in any way led to lower prices throughout the community than would otherwise have been the case. [More…]

• It must be permitted to get on with the job of producing, making profits, investing those profits in further developments and providing employment and creating new jobs in a manner compatible with the private sector’s overall responsibility to act responsibly in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• If there were any faltering in our surge towards the new boom, it was the fault of the Labor Party, the trade unions, the dole bludgers, women who wanted to work, importers, the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States, the lavatory attendant at Parliament House and the Easter Bunny- everyone, it seems, but the Prime Minister and the Liberal-National Country Party coalition. [More…]

• The less affluent section of the community will be clearly worse off after the proposed rises in health fund premiums come into effect. [More…]

• At the same time, the Prime Minister has the gall to attack the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States for doing the same thing to protect their own producers. [More…]

• In technical terms, tourism, by creating new opportunities to spend, can provide a stimulus to the community’s marginal prosperity to consume, rather than save. [More…]

• I am also concerned about the impact of the decision of the European Economic Community to take a very strong line about imports of Australian steel. [More…]

• Very few in the community apart from those engaged in the tourist industry appreciate the tangible and intangible benefits of the tourist industry. [More…]

• The report is now a public document and I challenge anybody in the community, particularly the Treasurer (Mr Howard) and the Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson), to prove the estimates by Pigram and Cooper incorrect. [More…]

• Tourism also makes a significant contribution to Australia’s balance of payments as well as increasing the community’s knowledge of Australia and the Australian heritage. [More…]

• All short-term visitors into an area for any purpose- other than to commute to work, or for purely local travel within the home community, or as travellers in transit. [More…]

• The report lists some of those industries under these groups: Finance, entertainment, retail, community services and transport. [More…]

• Many people in the community do not realise the potential benefits of tourism coming under those headings. [More…]

• Tourism makes a contribution to our balance of payments position, to our general economic development, to employment opportunities, to decentralised development, to the community wellbeing and to the extension of the education process and other social benefits. [More…]

• It is certainly something that is necessary if we expect the best results from the people who represent the Australian community in this House. [More…]

• Those of us who represent those people have to take the opportunity when speaking in debates to draw attention to the problems that exist in those areas, whilst not neglecting the needs, and difficulties of, and the progressive measures that are needed for, the community as a whole. [More…]

• Whilst we recognise the need for the economic operation of government departments and commissions, such as the Postal Commission and the Telecommunications Commission, it must be remembered that the Postal Commission should provide a minimum service even if that service has to be provided at some cost to the community. [More…]

• I repeat that there is a need to spread the burden of local authority expenditure amongst those people in the community who are best able to bear that burden. [More…]

• The gratitude of the Australian community is surely due to those people who are prepared to accept that responsibility in areas where conditions of life are not easy and where there are no medical, educational or cultural advantages available to them. [More…]

• Quite recently a public meeting was called in Whyalla by the local Community Council for Social Development. [More…]

• The terrorists accuse, incorrectly I believe, the West German Government of being a totalitarian government and then say to people in the community: ‘What is the difference? [More…]

• To include those people in a universal scheme guarantees an enormous bureaucracy, unlimited expenditure and very little, if any, public benefit for them or for the community at large. [More…]

• All of that is good, but the really productive people in the community- the tradesmen, the professional people, the business people and their employees- are still being wrung dry, and that feeling is encouraged when they see how a lot of their money is being spent. [More…]

• Surely they owe something to the community at large which has paid for them to obtain a qualification which almost guarantees them a higher earning ability and a higher standard of living than those of the community at large. [More…]

• There are compelling reasons why we must adopt a needs approach and direct our social welfare of all kinds to those who need the succour of the community. [More…]

• A second reason why it is necessary to provide the benefits of the community to those who need them and those people alone is that the additional taxes have a very damaging effect on the needy. [More…]

• Is it reasonable to tax those people in order to provide benefits for a section of the community that is already among the strongest? [More…]

• Instead of knocking, whingeing, fear mongering and scaremongering, honourable members opposite should speak during the next few weeks in praise and support of the community youth support scheme, the special youth employment training program and the fact that apprentice training allowances were increased three weeks ago. [More…]

• I want to extend the argument I put to the House in the adjournment debate last night in terms of the political hysteria that is being whipped up in this community. [More…]

• More important than that, having led with this sort of palpable political nonsense, the Speaker- a man who is supposed to be above the politics of this place- then enjoins the community to accept the argument that because of the incidents that took place at the Hilton Hotel we as a community ought to accept the fact that the security service of this nation- the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation- is entitled ‘to gather intelligence knowledge about any person who may become a threat’. [More…]

• I am bound to say that some real progress might have been made in apprehending the culprits in respect of the Hilton Hotel outrage if our security organisations had been doing their job instead of acting as professional snoopers on people who are concerned to express their rights as citizens in the community and take political positions and attitudes which do not necessarily agree with those of the government of the day or the people who adopt the standards that apply in ASIO. [More…]

• That is why this House welcomes the opportunity to hear the Leader of the Opposition stand up, place his credibility fairandsquare on the line and explain to this House in terms which everybody in this House, everybody listening to this debate and everybody in the Australian community who is paying taxes can understand. [More…]

• What is important is that the Prime Minister, if his hands are clean in this matter, should be prepared to allow the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) and me to go through those documents, not only to assure ourselves that proper conduct was followed in this matter but also so that we can establish to the community that it appears to have been followed. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) and I ought to be allowed access to all files in this matter otherwise the suspicion in the community that something crooked has happened will mount and the reputation not only of the Prime Minister and the Government but also of the Parliament will be brought into serious question. [More…]

• I take no pleasure from the large numbers of people who are unemployed in this community today or from the way that Australia is stagnating as the result of the Fraser Government’s economic policies. [More…]

• The fact accepted today by the Commission, the business community and the trade union movement is that the fellow receiving something less than average weekly earnings- roughly a tradesman’s rate of pay of $ 1 80 a week, give or take $5 to $ 10 a week above or below that figure- is about $ 10 a week worse off as a result of the policies of this Government. [More…]

• I have no objection to a company making a reasonable profit, but it is obvious from the table that those companies are making huge and unnecessary profits and are raping the community. [More…]

• Just how important is small business to our community and to the economics of Australia? [More…]

• Unquestionably, the situation that developed during the period 1973-75 constituted the most serious and complex set of economic problems to confront national governments and the international community since the end of World War II. [More…]

• All of these collections need greater financial support than they now receive not only to meet the cost of their operations but also to provide a service to the community while at the same time making relatively low charges for admission. [More…]

• The problems specifically related to work experience are compounded further by the limited socialisation experiences of disabled people who are frequently institutionalised in residential care or isolated from the general community when placed in special schools. [More…]

• Able bodied employers in the community frequently are frightened of the unknown. [More…]

• It is now increasingly obvious that this Prime Minister rules only for the sake of power and for the privileged in our community. [More…]

• The worst unemployment in 40 years is the price the community has been forced to pay, and will go on paying, for the reduction in inflation that we freely acknowledge the Government’s policies of attrition have achieved. [More…]

• Both are necessary and both would be applauded by the business community as well as being stimulatory to investment. [More…]

• The scheme represents a substantial commitment by the Australian community in forgone taxation revenue. [More…]

• The Government should stop the hypocrisy of its assault on European Economic Community trade barriers and exploit the opportunities which exist for rural sales to expanding markets like China, Vietnam and the Middle East. [More…]

• But the thing that really concerns me and which I think should concern all Australians is the growing body of information which is available- much of it is based on professional research and professional opinion- that day after day throughout Australia, hundreds of unnecessary operations are being carried out at a tremendous cost to the community. [More…]

• Who in the community is carrying the greatest share of the income tax burden? [More…]

• At present, tax avoidance is rife in the business community. [More…]

• But it is better to die a thousand deaths than be unable to live in one’s own community without an armed guard. [More…]

• While it is important to attempt to maintain our traditional markets, including the European Economic Community for Australian goods, renewed growth in the economy requires that we turn our face to Asia. [More…]

• This occurs simply because the Liberal Party is more successful in reflecting existing community attitudes than the ALP which is concerned to effect political change and to bring about a different type of community. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Labor Party, while it certainly attracts many traditional voters, is rejected by many apolitical voters because they dislike the fact that the Labor Party is committed to political changes which are in conflict with existing community attitudes. [More…]

• If this Parliament is to have a keen sense of reality and to identify itself with the community it needs to keep its doors open and not closed. [More…]

• The Governor-General also spoke of the need to provide effective assistance to the disadvantaged within the community in ways that promote their independence and their self-respect. [More…]

• Another influence is the change in community attitudes towards general working conditions and pollution controls. [More…]

• We are ahead of the European Economic Community, Canada, the United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• In my electorate I have four Community Youth Support schemes in operation and I am deeply grateful to the chairman, Mr Murray Gill, for what he has done to combine all four schemes to help the young unemployed. [More…]

• The third Community Youth Support scheme, the Dandenong Youth Employment project, for office procedures and job opportunities, is run by Councillor Jan Wilson. [More…]

• I feel that the time has arrived when we should start a proper youth community service cadet scheme for the young unemployed who can serve the community here and then, having been trained, can serve the community abroad. [More…]

• I honestly believe that it is in the national interest that we should assist them to find fulfilment in life by training them in the community youth service and then by allowing them to assist this nation in community service abroad. [More…]

• In all, I consider that the Community Youth Support scheme arranged by this Government has done a great deal to help the nation, and I am deeply grateful for what the Government has done for the young people. [More…]

• I am pleased that my very good friend the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Groom), the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development within whose portfolio this matter falls, is in the House tonight. [More…]

• They are substantially accepted in the Geelong community and they have contributed as well as any other citizen. [More…]

• They are of that section of the community which, at one time, was accepted in South Africa as not being coloured but subsequently, as the laws were tightened up, they were declared to be coloured. [More…]

• Council and community not consulted on Government take-over. [More…]

• Support for the small business community of Australia is a very important part of this Government’s philosophy and economic program. [More…]

• I noted the article in the Australian Financial Review some days ago asserting that the Government had decided that the Australian Industry Development Corporation would not form part of the Government’s program designed to provide additional lending to the small business community. [More…]

• Apart from lending through the Commonwealth Development Bank a number of other initiatives are under consideration by the Government and they should certainly assist the improved availability of finance for the small business community. [More…]

• If it was his decision, when will he carry out his promise made to the Australian community on 18 November last year to provide full details of his family business interests? [More…]

• It was a great community and a great agricultural area. [More…]

• We have a number of unemployment schemes operating, such as the Community Youth Support Scheme and the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprenticeship Full-time Training scheme. [More…]

• I wonder a little when on the one hand we are paying people a reasonable unemployment benefit, because they have nothing to do and we cannot find jobs for them, while on the other hand we have the Community Youth Support scheme operating. [More…]

• All this means that there would be a lot more jobs in the community if wages were not so high. [More…]

• I know one employer who employed five youngsters over the Christmas period under the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• I know there is deepseated feeling in the community about wages and I too will raise a few points about that as I go along. [More…]

• I think that a number of issues will cause a great deal of social disarray in the community. [More…]

• One of the lessons we have learned in recent years is that our community is an integrated community. [More…]

• If the garbage men stop work it is not long before the community suffers a great deal of hardship. [More…]

• We have to produce an economic structure which gives access to the products of modern society to all the people in the community. [More…]

• It is possible for everybody, rich or poor, to have that facility as long as we adjust the relative salaries and wages in the community. [More…]

• Our objective ought to be to bring these advantages to everybody in the community. [More…]

• I think there are something like 25,000 or 26,000 miles of railway track in Australia, extending from the far north of Queensland to north of Perth in Western Australia; it runs through every community. [More…]

• But we have to find a way by which people can find satisfactory work in the community. [More…]

• We have heard a good deal about the rural sector of the community. [More…]

• -This is done deliberately by the National Country Party whose members make all the noises here but deliver nothing which would be of benefit to the rural community. [More…]

• He was referring to the proposition that the Western Australian Government is now trying to edge its way into Aboriginal lands in Western Australia against the wishes of the local Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Without consulting the land rights body in Western Australia and without consulting the Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning, the Western Australian Government intends to hand over to the Minister for Health and Community Welfare the absolute control of entry by diamond prospectors, including the De Beer group from South Africa. [More…]

• The Minister for Health and Community Welfare would be one of the most racist people in any government in Australia. [More…]

• The case of the Aurukun people in Queensland was decided by the Privy Council in favour of the Queensland Government, against the wishes of the local Aboriginal community and against the wishes of the mission authorities who have the confidence of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs claims that he is ever so much more enlightened than his benighted Queensland Government which keeps Aboriginals in a feudal and dependent state, frightened to make any decisions for themselves; which keeps them bound by regulations which were exposed in the second annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby; which keeps them bound to ask permission before they can even ring for a doctor and sometimes forbidden to do so even in cases where serious medical and obstetric complications have arisen; which keeps them bound to get permission before they send a telegram, which is censored; which keeps them bound to get permission before they bring a visitor into a Government settlement or to go out of a settlement and come back in again; which threatens that they will not be able to draw out their money even to pay hire purchase payments if they do not toe the line of some of the racist administrators. [More…]

• He said that he was doing this in Maningrida but he sacked the very people the Aboriginal community wanted kept there. [More…]

• Young people have an enormous expectation that jobs will be available in the community. [More…]

• We as a community have properly led them to that expectation yet society itself is not rewarding them with jobs that are available. [More…]

• This is a real problem for the community. [More…]

• But the European Economic Community is looking more inward and the world trade pattern seems to be slowing down. [More…]

• All I can say, and the point I am trying to make, is that a large number of people in this community are now becoming very suspicious of the members of the Government, about their behaviour, about the reasons for their behaviour. [More…]

• It is important for us to remember that health care costs to the community have been increasing at a very great rate. [More…]

• The number of unemployed young people registered and the hidden numbers of unregistered juniors in the community represent a major social catastrophe. [More…]

• Yet the greatest need these people saw for homeless girls and women was flats or community houses where they could establish personal or general relationships. [More…]

• If that is not discrimination against a section of the community, I do not know what it is. [More…]

• I want to talk briefly about the problems being faced by the Community Youth Support Scheme conducted by the Fremantle City Council. [More…]

• So in order to consult with the community of Willagee we held a public meeting which 33 people representing 10 organisations attended. [More…]

• Officers of the City of Fremantle who are not being supported by the Community Youth Support Scheme, are spending most of their time preparing and repreparing submissions for the scheme. [More…]

• As I have mentioned previously, this Government attaches great importance to the small business community and has already, both in its early period of government and in recent months, taken a number of steps which will be helpful to the development of the small business community. [More…]

• In addition the Government, being conscious of the problem of finance for the small business community, has as part of a program to meet this problem announced that it will be introducing legislation to extend the charter of the Commonwealth Development Bank. [More…]

• Apart from the financial and taxation assistance which has already been provided the Government has embarked on a wide-ranging program to boost this very important sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• With reference to the establishment of a committee, subject to further discussions with the Prime Minister it is my intention to establish a small business advisory council which will be advisory to the Minister in matters concerning the small business community. [More…]

• In any government-sponsored health scheme there is the inherent danger of developing a psychology of dependence and a lack of personal and community responsibility. [More…]

• While ever they were buried in Consolidated Revenue both the providers of health care and the community at large tended to ignore the problem. [More…]

• However, the community at large will not escape the bill. [More…]

• There is therefore a great responsibility on the health providers and the community to ensure that we obtain the best value for the dollar spent. [More…]

• It will stimulate discussion among all those directly involved in the health care industry and among the community as a whole. [More…]

• In this way I believe a better system will be developed which will not only provide the high level of health care for which this country is renowned but also do so at a cost which the community can afford. [More…]

• Medical care is of such vital importance to so many in the community that it must be financed on a basis which removes financial barriers that could impede access to essential care. [More…]

• He referred to personal responsibility being essential to a free enterprise society, the danger of developing a psychology of dependence, and the lack of personal and community responsibility. [More…]

• The community as a whole has not gained. [More…]

• By that I meant that people had been uprooted from their traditional land, from their traditional culture, from their traditional way of survival and existence and had been thrown into a parasitic existence on the white community. [More…]

• Council and community not consulted on government takeover. [More…]

• We, the undersigned members of the Aurukun Community Council, have, after exhaustive talks with the members of the community of Aurukun, found that it is the people’s wish to remain under the Administration of the Uniting Church of Australia. [More…]

• I ask the Minister Why did this Government not support the Aboriginal people in their case earlier this year before the Privy Council when they sought an order restraining the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement from entering into an agreement without consulting members of the Aboriginal community in respect of Aurukun? [More…]

• I believe that it is a well administered community. [More…]

• At Aurukun there are about 750 people- 400 to 500 people living in the central community and 250 to 270 people living in eight decentralised communities. [More…]

• An old friend of mine, Bob Massey, who is the leader of the community at a place called Ti Tree, earlier this year flew to Weipa and opened an account at the Weipa store. [More…]

• Now he has supplies flown in to his decentralised community whenever necessary, at a much cheaper price than they are available at the main Aurukun store. [More…]

• The people of Aurukun, particularly those in the decentralised communities, are very afraid that if the State Government takes over they will be moved back into the main community. [More…]

• Just before I visited Aurukun a survey was taken- I think it was in November 1977- and the community council wrote to the Church stating very firmly, as the Minister quoted, that it wished the Church to remain in control. [More…]

• I found some support for a State takeover amongst the people in the main Aurukun community; but the great majority of the people, particularly those in the decentralised communities, wanted the Church to remain in control. [More…]

• The Uniting Church in Australia would abide by the expressed will of the Aurukun community determined by a means yet to be devised but which can be seen to guarantee free expression by the community. [More…]

• I believe that these people must be given the time and the opportunity to make their own decision, free from external pressure and that, as the Church stated in its communication to the Minister on 30 December from which I just quoted, it should be ‘determined by a means yet to be devised but which can be seen to guarantee free expression by the community’. [More…]

• As honourable gentlemen would be aware, the Commonwealth is concerned that there should have been adequate consultation with the Aborigines of the Aurukun community concerning the proposal and the arrangements between the Queensland Government and the consortium in question. [More…]

• The Committee accepts that decisions to decentralise are for individual communities to make and recommends that the movement to outstations be supported where such movement is a considered decision by the community concerned. [More…]

• Governments, industry and the community are once again acknowledging the importance of railways as the most economical and efficient means of transporting goods and passengers. [More…]

• If that occurs, an assessment has to be made of the cost incurred by the nation of, firstly, the relocation of people, secondly, the community disruption which occurs, thirdly, the loss of employment and, fourthly, the considerable loss to other government bodies of revenue which is generated by the continued operation of the railway and the utilisation of that area by the community. [More…]

• It emphasised that the levels of assistance implied by the recommendations imposed a high cost on the community. [More…]

• Bounties deserve a great deal of support from the Australian community, as they are a preferable method of assistance to other methods of assistance, for a number of reasons. [More…]

• It represented a total rejection of the Labor Party and the policies of that Party, a total rejection by the Australian community of policies which were profligate policies based upon the theory that government expenditure could be virtually unlimited. [More…]

• It requires a continuing balance between the requirements and the needs of all sectors of the community. [More…]

• This was summed up very well recently by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) when he said that it should be acknowledged that unemployment was a matter of common concern in the community. [More…]

• The advice I give is that they must at least show some real interest in seeking work and that they will never be of any use to themselves or to the rest of the community if they are slack and lax in that respect. [More…]

• That action is designed particularly to help arrest costs and to even out the burden on the total community. [More…]

• In other words, we need to preserve effective free enterprise but at the same time to remove all undue burdens from those sections of the community which need relief. [More…]

• I conclude my remarks by referring briefly to the very great problems still confronting the rural community. [More…]

• The Government’s decision not to proceed with the building of the proposed community centre in Parramatta is in line with the type of financial thinking I have just mentioned. [More…]

• This sort of doctor should not be fined: He should be de-registered and not allowed to practise again unless he does so on a salaried system in order to contribute something to the community for what he took away. [More…]

• But his activities as a one-man government do not release him from his responsibilities to answer promptly and courteously representations made by members of this House on behalf of respected and long established community organisations. [More…]

• But it is time we started also to remember that there are people in this community who are being seriously disadvantaged by the continuing failures of this Government to take up the challenge of the plight of the Aboriginal people of Australia. [More…]

• The things which the Opposition has been saying are being echoed in the community- and echoed powerfully. [More…]

• If only the community bodies in this great country, the small businessmen, mayors and chairmen in our cities and towns, Aboriginals, education and welfare bodies, and so on- the little people- could galvanise such a response from the Prime Minister with one simple uncomplicated letter, as IBM cares to describe it. [More…]

• Our suspicions rise and the doubts in the community are fed by the evasiveness and the prevarication of the Prime Minister on this very important matter. [More…]

• The decline in Australia’s access to the Community’s domestic market for food products is well illustrated by the following figures. [More…]

• In Brussels I had fruitful discussions with the President of the Commission, Mr Jenkins, the VicePresident concerned with external relations, Mr Haferkamp, the commissioner concerned with agriculture, Mr Gundelach, the commissioner concerned with energy, Dr Brunner, the commissioner concerned with industry, Viscount Davignon, and the commissioner concerned with the Community budget, Mr Tugendhat. [More…]

• We know there are forces within the Community working against the excesses of the Common Agricultural Policy. [More…]

• Our approach has been confirmed by the support expressed by wide sections of rural industry, most harmed by Community action, and now by the steel industry. [More…]

• The only reliable access arrangement under which Australian beef producers are allowed to compete on normal commercial terms in the EEC market is limited to less than one per cent of total Community consumption. [More…]

• On a whole range of commodities, Australian producers of food products are virtually excluded from the Community market. [More…]

• Australia’s Trade Relations with the European Economic Community, Ministerial Statement, 16 March 1978. [More…]

• When on 15 September 1976 the honourable member for Werriwa asked the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony)- he was then Minister for Overseas Trade- what progress his Government had made in concluding a framework agreement between the European Economic Community and Australia, such as Canada had been able to consummate, he replied: [More…]

• We have strengthened our political relationships with the European Economic Community and if it seems appropriate to have a unilateral trading arrangement with the EEC we will proceed to have one; but at the moment we have not seen the advantage to Australia in such an agreement. [More…]

• During my visit to Brussels I had discussions with 2 principals of the European Economic Community . [More…]

• Quite clearly the Government knows that the rural community is in dire straits. [More…]

• Why does the Government remain married to the philosophy that perhaps one day we will be able to sell to Great Britain because it might come out of the European Economic Community? [More…]

• Then if it wanted to act in a manner which was equitable for the rural community it would probably introduce something like zone allowances and things which are equated to taxable income through the taxation system and not a move such as this proposal which of course could provide for a subsidy going to the largest consumers of petrol in rural Australia- the large companies like Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd and Comalco Ltd which could be beneficiaries under this scheme. [More…]

• The Government has taken money from rural producers and people in the rural community by way of massive increases in the price of crude oil. [More…]

• It is the efforts of people such as the honourable member for Kalgoorlie to divide the Australian community into ‘us’ and ‘them’ that causes many of the problems we as a society have. [More…]

• Sir Gregory said in his report that the Minister was the watchdog for the community and the Treasurer relied upon him to act as such. [More…]

• 1 ) How many women’s refuges are now receiving funding through the Community Health Program. [More…]

• and (2) To date, a total of 59 women’s refuges have been approved for funding under the Community Health Program in 1977-78. [More…]

• For some time this Government has been concerned to make sure that Australia is doing everything that it can to promote proper courses of action throughout the international community to the advantage of all countries. [More…]

• He will be aware of the considerable interest of veterans in the wider use by the community of veterans’ hospitals and in particular the wish of returned men to be located in wards where they can share their earlier experiences with people who have served in war theatres similar to those in which they served. [More…]

• A significant percentage of non-entitled veterans known as ‘community patients’ is admitted. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman may have in mind the Concord Repatriation General Hospital which is in an area of Sydney many miles from any other general hospital and which the Government believes can offer a particular community service. [More…]

• The Government sees a need to keep a spread and to admit some members of the community to repatriation hospitals. [More…]

• It is important for the Australian community to realise that the Australian primary producer has gone through two very dry seasons. [More…]

• Of course, it is a matter of significance not only to Australia but also to the rest of the international trading community when movements of this order in the value of the American dollar against other major currencies occur. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Community Youth Support scheme projects are financed on a sixmonthly basis? [More…]

• -The Community Youth Support scheme, which was an initiative of this Government, now involves- from memorysome 220-odd projects throughout Australia. [More…]

• In preparing its report, the Council received submissions from a wide range of people in the community and was assisted by a number of other recent reports on energy research and development. [More…]

• That is the way the force would be established and it would then become a public relations exercise in the Australian community to build up that empire further. [More…]

• In recent years, dating back to the time of the previous Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, there has been an increasing community interest in drugs which have been dropped off our coast and in refugees who have arrived in small boats. [More…]

• These are direct payments by the patient at the time of receiving the service, payment by contribution to insurance schemes which basically spread the risk over a larger number of people in the community or over the whole community and, finally, through taxation by which some patients pay more and some patients pay less, depending on their incomes. [More…]

• A3.2 We do not have any comprehensive data to tell us what is the ‘best’ type of health insurance system, and the best’ possible method of paying doctors, and the ‘best’ method of financing hospitals and other community health services. [More…]

• There are limits to how much such schemes can take care of the problem because if any great relief of public funds is to be derived the bulk of the cost must be taken from the higher income segment of the community. [More…]

• We are moving now to things such as community health centre committees and the various community welfare organisations which have an interest in a particular kind of disability and an interest in setting up a service for persons with particular diseases and handicaps. [More…]

• It is not just peer review or just a system review; it is a community review. [More…]

• It will tie in better with the community involvement I spoke of such as in the health centre committees. [More…]

• The discussion paper recognises that the community cannot afford to let the health professionals name their own price. [More…]

• Who in the community could resist the temptation to boost his income, particularly when over servicing can be so easily represented as commendable diligence on behalf of one’s patients? [More…]

• Such clinics are already operating in Sydney and probably in Melbourne and are of doubtful value in helping to maintain the health of the community. [More…]

• Most of them are associated with large community hospitals. [More…]

• I am convinced that if a proper controlled experiment were run we would discover the answer to the runaway costs of health services in this community. [More…]

• It is a theme which has been taken up more and more by ordinary people around this nation who are coming to see that the people to whom in the past they were prepared to give the highest status and rewards are the same people who, with all too few exceptions, have fought, through their professional associations and with the support of other sections of the health industry, notably the insurance funds, to work against all proposals for change and reform and especially against any change which would result in community control over health costs. [More…]

• The cost structure associated with the living and decisions of even a single doctor in the report is underlined by figures which are cited from a Canadian report which suggest that each new Canadian doctor entering the system costs the community $150,000 a year-$70,000 a year for salary and $80,000 in secondary costs associated with the process which I have just described. [More…]

• Through this whole process of spending public money, whether in the community or in the hospital situation, there appears to have developed little in the way of proper checks on the power of doctors to determine costs and prices. [More…]

• That means that one cannot work out what it costs to deal with a particular class of patient and one cannot evaluate the medicine that is being practised in the community. [More…]

• Dr Brand, the executive director of the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital, which is a large public hospital in my electorate, recently pointed out that there are great variations in the cost structures of the principal hospitals in Melbourne but there is no basis on which to make effective comparisons. [More…]

• If there is an area of the report which justifies some criticism it is the neglect of the significance of the broader area of prevention and particularly societal determinants of the community’s health. [More…]

• A significant proportion of the costs which are generated in the form of health services flow, for example, from the way in which the transport system is organised, with high levels of individual accidents and side effects, such as heavy pollution levels, which have enormous impact on the overall standards of community health. [More…]

• It is one thing to criticise the obsession of the current profession with sophisticated technologies; it is possibly even more important to spell out an alternative framework which might be adopted by the health profession in its search for improved standards of community health. [More…]

• I feel that the honourable member’s introduction of that argument really detracts from the matter about which we are talking tonight, that is, the discussion paper on the business of health care in this community. [More…]

• One of the more important areas when we talk about limiting hospital expenditure concerns bed availability throughout the community. [More…]

• If that happens those people who can afford to pay more will be paying more of the overall cost of health care in this community. [More…]

• The whole community has to recognise that medical care is not some higher form of activity beyond and above checks and controls. [More…]

• The community, the medical profession and the hospital system must recognise and accept that fact. [More…]

• I believe that the concern in the community arises from the level of contributions being paid yearly by individuals- that is, the family- at a base of $300 for contributors to Medibank and, of course, some $400 to $550 for contributors to private health insurance funds. [More…]

• We must abolish bulk billing except in respect of the disadvantaged people in our community, such as pensioners and the repatriation patients. [More…]

• Under the original Medibank arrangement the administration costs were about $50m, covering the whole of the community. [More…]

• A year later the costs had gone up to $54m, covering only 45 per cent of the community. [More…]

• If we add to that the very significant total costs involved in the administration of all the private funds, we get an insight into the enormous increase in administration costs which have been created and which have to be borne by the community as a result of the changes introduced by the Government. [More…]

• The central computer system which we established in the Health Insurance Commission was, among other things, programmed to provide the sort of information which would allow government, at very short notice, to acquire utilisation rates for various medical practitioners in the community. [More…]

• For instance, in 1973-74 the proportion of expenditure on health costs in this community was 5.9 per cent of the gross domestic product. [More…]

• We are not going to make any real progress in the subject of controlling health costs in this community until there is some sane and informed discussion. [More…]

• All of those things were necessary and, to the extent that they had not been provided before, the system and the community had been imposing unfairly on those people. [More…]

• One can well recall the heated controversy that the then Opposition, now the Government, generated about the distribution of membership cards to all members of the community for the Medibank program. [More…]

• That is good because it gives the community at large the opportunity to present its view to the Government, to be taken into account when decisions come to be made. [More…]

• The problem affects each and every member of the community and each and every taxpayer. [More…]

• The simple fact is that the cost of health care in Australia has escalated to a point where it is absorbing so much of our gross domestic product that it is imposing an onerous burden on each member of the community, either through private contributions or through taxes. [More…]

• His proposals for possible solutions, of course, will be the centre of keen discussion, but no specific solutions can really be forthcoming until there is a general community awareness of the size and nature of the problem. [More…]

• Decisions in these areas are important and will not attract full community acceptance. [More…]

• The real issue in the end is that the community must bear the full cost of health care. [More…]

• In this context I particularly have in mind the increasing problem in our community of alcoholism and drug dependence. [More…]

• These growing diseases in our community are causing increasing social, health and economic problems. [More…]

• I believe it forms a vital basis for community discussion on the vital issues involved and for government consideration in formulating the ongoing future decisions that obviously are required if we are to obtain the best value for our health dollar and a reduction over time in the proportion of our resources going into health. [More…]

• I welcomed even more some of the programs that went with it, such as the introduction of community health centres. [More…]

• One of the best steps that was taken in the national health scheme was the development of community health centres. [More…]

• If they had been allowed to operate as was originally intended when they were introduced, if they had been allowed to operate with salaried staff in the communities where they were needed, where there was no need for fee-for-service to attract finance, they would have continued to play the real role they started to play in preventive medicine in the community, with doctors and paramedical workers able to go out into the areas they served to look at so many of the problems that arise in those communities and so many things that could be done in a preventive fashion. [More…]

• He mentioned the work of Dr Ian Brand, at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital, where I am a member of the board of management, and referred to his attempt to use Hospower. [More…]

• It has provoked discussion in the community generally. [More…]

• I want to hear from the individuals in the community and a great number of people have taken the opportunity to discuss the issue with me personally and to write to me. [More…]

• After all, health costs affect everyone in the community. [More…]

• I think that in itself will have an effect upon the providers of health care who, after all, are members of the community, as indeed are the consumers. [More…]

• We all live within the community and we all ultimately accept a responsibility for trends that occur once we realise there is a problem. [More…]

• The changes that we made to health insurance on 1 October 1 976 quite deliberately transferred a considerable portion of health costs from the taxation pool- the pool to which taxpayers contributeto individuals, to the community. [More…]

• Therefore I do not suppose that it is unreal to expect that a community such as ours would have a growing amount of its gross domestic product spent on health care. [More…]

• The fact of the matter was that so many of the women who were employed in these areas were underpaid compared with other people in the community and adjustments had to be made. [More…]

• We have taken measures to overcome the very heavy costs of the diagnostic services to the community in the areas of pathology and CAT scanning and in the other high technology diagnostic areas of medicine. [More…]

• So for that reason alone it is essential that we adopt a responsible position as a government and it is essential that we try to give some leadership to the community, to the doctors, to the hospital administrators and to all those people who are associated with health care delivery in this country. [More…]

• -At Question Time today I asked the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) a question about the funding of Community Youth Support Scheme projects. [More…]

• -The Australian community should work out a national information policy as a matter of very high priority, and there are 10 brief points that I want to make. [More…]

• Three: The Australian community is divided between the information rich and the information poor. [More…]

• Recommendation 1 which proposed the establishment of a community interpreter service has not been approved by the Government, but may be re-considered in an improved budgetary situation and in the light of whatever recommendations are made by the review of post-arrival programs and services for migrants which Mr Galbally is at present conducting. [More…]

• Expenditure in Australia under 1 (d) above was from an allocation under the Ethnic Community Assistance Vote (863-0-01 ). [More…]

• In Australia: $154,500 ($100,000 from Ethnic Community Assistance Vote). [More…]

• In addition it provides loans to primary producers to get them producing again, rail rebates to primary producers with food and clothing being carried free of any cost at all, subsidies on road transport for stock and fodder, loans to small businesses at concessional terms- all loans are at concessional terms- and loans to churches, and community and sporting organisations. [More…]

• Altogether the Government takes a very generous approach when disasters affect the Australian community. [More…]

• I think it is important that the community realises that if there were to be a change in the basis on which live sheep are exported the cost would be very severe, as I mentioned yesterday, not only to the Australian sheep industry and the employment opportunities of members of the AMIEU but also to the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• In circumstances in which the Australian farmer is not receiving the benefit of indexation but those who are maintaining the bans are receiving that advantage within our conciliation and arbitration system, there is no basis by which they should enforce such a reduction in the living standards of the farming community when they are seeking continued increases in their own benefits, wages, salaries and emoluments. [More…]

• In those circumstances, quite obviously the maintenance of the bans is very seriously affecting the livelihood of a number of members of the Australian community, and the Australian Government is quite determined that the trade should be resumed as soon as possible. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• In furtherance of this function the Council may: establish and maintain effective communication with women and women’s organisations and other interested groups and individuals; explore means of overcoming language and other communication barriers; raise awareness within the community of the situation of women and of their varied and changing roles and aspirations; encourage and assist effective liaison with the communications media in ensuring that the individuality and achievements of women are given due recognition; actively promote a policy of equality of opportunity for all women; review and report to the Minister on legislation specifically relating to its powers and functions; convene forums, seminars and conferences throughout Australia; report annually through the Minister to Parliament and the public, and regularly produce publications and other material in several major languages to disseminate information; establish and maintain cooperation with other advisory bodies and relevant machinery at State and Commonwealth levels and internationally, with a view to guarding against unnecessary duplication; and in collaboration with Departments and agencies and through the Depanment of Foreign Affairs establish and maintain liaison with international and regional agencies in relation to implementation of the World Plan of Action for the UN Decade for Women. [More…]

• On a number of occasions, in response to questions and also through statement, I have provided to this House and to the community generally, a description and explanation of the current management of the Australian exchange rate. [More…]

• The Government cannot therefore view with indifference an attempt to establish and maintain on Australian territory any organisation which not only is openly dedicated to the destruction of a state in friendly relations with Australia but which also arrogates to itself an unacceptable title and status which could in turn disrupt the orderly conduct of Australia’s relations with another universally recognised member of the international community. [More…]

• At this stage let me make it quite clear that it is not in any way the Government’s wish to discriminate against the Croatian community or to stop, or hinder, members of that community forming their own groups and clubs where these are not aimed at a state and government with which Australia has normal diplomatic relations. [More…]

• The overwhelming majority of the Croatian community in Australia has shown, by its contribution to the development of Australian society and culture, a strong loyalty and commitment to its new homeland. [More…]

• The Government does not believe that the Australian community would support the establishment of organisations so obviously to the detriment of this nation. [More…]

• This acceptance is signified by the Government’s intention to give every opportunity for those community interests and needs to be articulated during planning processes. [More…]

• Category C Licences: Will be issued to community groups intending to provide programs serving a particular community e.g. [More…]

• Category C Licences (community groups): [More…]

• Category C licences will be issued to community groups intending to program for the interests of a community, or communities, in a specific geographical location. [More…]

• The Government has accepted the Green report attitude that public broadcasting is an activity which should spring from local, community initiatives. [More…]

• The Minister’s discussion of the guidelines with the Public Broadcasting Association is an example of how the Government and the Parliament can co-operate constructively with community organisations. [More…]

• Ethnic community organisations ought to avail themselves and do avail themselves of the procedures outlined by the Minister. [More…]

• The Opposition is convinced that it will be in the interest of all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• As it is, they merely see Government Ministers, including the Prime Minister, threatening the Japanese and the European Economic Community with retaliatory action unless they buy more beef, wool, iron ore or coal. [More…]

• With the United Kingdom going into the European Economic Community, Japan now has become the alternative market to the United Kingdom. [More…]

• We have a classic example of that in the effects that have flowed from the creation of the European Economic Community and in the restrictive trade policies that have been followed by that trade group in the last few years. [More…]

• Omit the definition of ‘Aboriginal Community’, substitute the following definition: ‘Aboriginal Community’ means a community of persons that, on 3 1 March 1 978, was a community for Aborigines for the purposes of the Aborigines Act; ‘. [More…]

• Omit the definition of ‘Islander Community’, substitute the following definition: ‘ “Islander Community” means a community of persons that, on 31 March 1978, was a community for Islanders for the purposes of the Torres Strait Islanders Act; ‘. [More…]

• Although I am a new member of the Parliament I have had some experience in another parliament, and I am completely appalled at a process which introduces into the House a Bill that the Government has said pays regard to the wishes, the desires and the aspirations of the Aboriginal community to make their own decisions and to be involved in the important process of decision-making as citizens of that great Commonwealth. [More…]

• I am bound to say that the Aboriginal community and the members of the National Aboriginal Conference who have sat in the Parliament throughout the debate have indicated the degree of their interest and concern in this matter. [More…]

• If communities now managed and controlled by government officials consider that they are ready for self-management and are prepared to take responsibility for community affairs as reserve communities elsewhere in Australia have done, they may apply to have the legislation cover their reserves. [More…]

• The possibility of a Queensland Government takeover at Aurukun had been discussed with the Church last year and representatives of the Church had then discussed the matter at length with the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The consensus view of the community was that the Church should remain at Aurukun. [More…]

• The Church accordingly informed the Queensland Minister at the end of December that it could enter into negotiations about the transfer of responsibility only on the basis that it would abide by the expressed will of the Aurukun community, and that it would need to be assured that the Queensland Government accepted responsibility to maintain essential services to those groups wishing to live and work in their tribal lands on the reserve and that the continuing role of the Church within the community would be defined to the satisfaction of the Church. [More…]

• The Queensland Government had not discussed with the Church a possible takeover of responsibility for the Mornington Island community. [More…]

• There had been rumours that such a takeover was being considered and, because I was advised that the rumours were causing uncertainty within the community, I wrote to the Queensland Minister, Mr Porter, inquiring about these rumours on 10 February. [More…]

• They indicated that the Church staff understand and support their aspirations and in particular their wishes to manage community affairs themselves and to be free to live where they choose on the reserve and to develop their own outstation communities. [More…]

• Speakers at meetings in both places expressed their appreciation of Commonwealth Government support for community initiatives and their strong wish that they be permitted to continue to develop their communities in their own style, with the advice and help of the Church and the financial support of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• In introducing this legislation, the Government seeks only to extend Aboriginal management of their own community affairs. [More…]

• Under the Acts, the Governor-in-Council may appoint a manager of a reserve and may establish a community on a reserve and appoint ‘such officers, resident or visiting, as he thinks necessary for the wellbeing of the persons within the community’. [More…]

• Regulation 7 provides that a community on a reserve is ‘under the control of the Manager and Council of such a community’, but regulation 19, in making councils responsible to managers, clearly established that the dual control system is not a partnership of equals: The manager is in charge. [More…]

• The means by which the legislation achieves its purpose of ensuring that if communities wish it, their councils control community affairs without being subject to the overriding power of Government officials is as follows: [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs may declare that the legislation applies to a reserve or community on request by a council established under the Queensland law or if he is satisfied that a substantial majority of the adults resident on the reserve or community wish it; an existing council established under Queensland law or a body declared to be a council for the purposes of the Act, will have the function of managing community affairs and the necessary powers to carry out that function; any declared body established under the regulations will be an elected council or otherwise a properly incorporated body; councils will have power to make by-laws and to authorise entry to reserves; by express provision, councils and individual Aboriginals and Islanders will not be bound to obey directions given by officials under the Queensland legislation; councils will be responsible only to their communities; the Commonwealth may, if it becomes necessary in order to give effect to the purposes of the legislation, make available to councils land acquired by or otherwise vested in the Commonwealth; and in the case of acquisition, the provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act will apply. [More…]

• The legislation will not apply to any community unless the community, through its council or directly, asks the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to make a declaration that the Act apply to the particular reserve or community. [More…]

• No such declaration will be made without full consultation with the community and without a clear expression of community opinion in favour of such a declaration. [More…]

• Thus it will be by an act of choice rather than by imposition by the Commonwealth that the legislation applies to any particular community. [More…]

• At the local community level, we have been seeking to encourage and help Aboriginal people throughout Australia to take full responsibility for decisionmaking in the management of community affairs. [More…]

• The full resources of the Commonwealth are made available in support of community self-management. [More…]

• In many communities in the States and the Territory where the churches, including the Uniting Church, have previously managed mission communities for many years, they continue to provide advice and support and especially help in the recruitment of resource staff and in the training of Aboriginals to perform administrative and technical duties as directed by the community councils. [More…]

• State government departments in these situations continue to provide the ordinary community services available to other Australians. [More…]

• In all the States, education, health and community welfare departments, for example, provide services to Aboriginal communities in the same way as they do to other citizens. [More…]

• They spoke to me of their wish to have their councils control expenditure on community services in the islands which are at present provided by the Queensland Department, as one step towards independence in the management of their own affairs. [More…]

• I stress that no community will be pressed to make a decision on these matters and no change will be forced on any community. [More…]

• I am informed by my colleagues that 12 months ago the same sort of procedure was adopted, with major Bills being rushed through the Parliament in 24 hours, not to aid the parliamentary process, not to aid mature deliberation and discussion by the community or the Parliament, but for the Government’s own purposes. [More…]

• I look to this Conference … to articulate the needs of those whose voices may not otherwise be heard We wish to see Aboriginals exercising an increasing influence at national, regional and community levels in the determination of these priorities. [More…]

• I went to the Aurukun community on Monday of this week, rather later than the Minister and the other Government supporters to whom he referred. [More…]

• I believed that it would be very profitable and constructive to go after 31 March to see what effect the State takeover had on that community. [More…]

• Most of the characteristics of apartheid which are enforced on those persons in an inferior position in South Africa also are enforced on Aboriginal people in the Queensland reserves under State administration where, for example, they are offered training which will never qualify them for teaching, trades, nursing or nursing aide positions in the general Australian community but will qualify them only for an inferior standard of work in those fields on Aboriginal settlements only. [More…]

• There is a proper way to go about integrating two cultures as diverse as ours in the white community and that of the ancient culture of the Aboriginal and Island people. [More…]

• There is no compulsion; each community will be able to make a choice. [More…]

• They differ in history, racial composition, their degree of integration into the European community and in language. [More…]

• The reserve is not on tribal land but is on land purchased by the Church for the purpose of the community. [More…]

• Alan Hockey told me that, in all the years that he had been dealing with the State, he felt that the Queensland Government had dealt with him and his community- his words were-‘with compassion and justice’. [More…]

• Until the last few years most of the people spent their time living in a small village community crowded together. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the health of the people on these outstations is much better than the health of the people in the main community. [More…]

• The Bill is giving the community a freedom of choice. [More…]

• While the Prime Minister was giving those assurances his representative in Aboriginal welfare matters, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), was going about the community conveying the impression that he was an unyielding, dedicated defender of the rights of the Aboriginal people in the community. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Queensland Government resents movements to provide more independence and influence for the Aboriginal people in the community to give more strength to their cultural form of expression. [More…]

• The report by the Commissioner for Community Relations on the situation in Queensland had this to say: [More…]

• Aboriginals probably have the highest birth rate, the highest death rate, the worst health and housing, and the lowest educational, occupational, economic, social and legal status of any identifiable section of the Australian community. [More…]

• As the Bill acknowledges, there is a role for the Queensland Government to play in providing these services, unless honourable members opposite believe that we can have in any one State a situation of one set of laws in relation to education, for example, for one group of people- the Aboriginal peopleand another set of laws for the rest of the community. [More…]

• Whilst it may be fine to acquire the reserves, what effect will that have on the programs and the balance of programs for Aboriginals in our community? [More…]

• The suggestion of” the Opposition that the Minister ought to act in a mandatory way when he makes a decision on a request from an Aboriginal community would put at risk the very legislation we are debating tonight and its effectiveness. [More…]

• One of the important facets of this legislation is the discretion that has been given to the Minister to enable him to satisfy himself as to whether the council genuinely reflects the views of the Aboriginal people in the community. [More…]

• Is the repatriation system which operates separately throughout the whole of our community for a separate group of people an example of apartheid or a state within a state? [More…]

• I heard the call go out from a senior member of the Uniting Church to the people of Mornington Island: ‘If you want us to leave this community we will go ‘. [More…]

• Repeatedly the people of that community and the people of Aurukun stated that they wanted the Church to remain and that they wanted the Federal Government to be involved and not the State Government of Queensland. [More…]

• At no stage did we find a dissenter from the general view put at ordinary meetings or from the view put by the community councils. [More…]

• Yet the Queensland Government had attempted to impose on those people a system whereby they were being asked to return to the central community of Aurukun. [More…]

• Indeed I do not doubt their loyalty because over a period a great deal of guidance has been given to them and a great deal of money has been spent in their community, but one could hardly compare Cherbourg, a Europeanised community five kilometres from the sizable township of Murgon, nestling amongst a number of communities with some farmers and graziers- a community in which I found it impossible to distinguish any full-blood Aborigines- with Aurukun and Mornington Island with 80 per cent or more of their populations being full-blood Aborigines. [More…]

• The Church has requested repeatedly that a European policeman be provided for the Mornington Island community. [More…]

• The influence of the Christian Churches has in the past been an immense power for good within the Aboriginal community as a whole. [More…]

• This Bill is purely about those people and their community. [More…]

• the Council for an Aboriginal Community requests the Minister to make a declaration under this subsection; or [More…]

• the Minister is satisfied that a substantial majority of the adult Aboriginals who are the members of an Aboriginal Community wish to manage and control their own affairs in the manner provided for by this Act, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare the Community to be an Aboriginal Community to which this Act applies. [More…]

• the Council for an Islander Community requests the Minister to make a declaration under this sub-section; or [More…]

• the Minister is satisfied that a substantial majority of the adult Islanders who are the members of an Islander Community wish to manage and control their own affairs in the manner provided for by this Act, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare the Community to be an Islander Community to which this Act applies. [More…]

• The Council for a Community to which this Act applies has such other functions as are conferred on it by the regulations, being functions in relation to Aboriginals or Islanders who are members of that Community or are on that part of the Reserve on which the Community is established that is appropriated for the use of the Community. [More…]

• Sub-section (1) shall not be construed as preventing any body, authority or person other than the Council for a Reserve to which this Act applies, or for a Communtiy to which this Act applies, from providing or making available for the Aboriginals or Islanders who reside on the Reserve or who are members of that Community, as the case may be, any services, including services relating to all or any of the matters specified in sub-section ( 1 ). [More…]

• the Council for the Reserve is satisfied that it would be for the benefit of the Aboriginal community or the Islander community, as the case may be, residing on the Reserve to permit the person to reside on, or visit, the Reserve. [More…]

• the Council for a Community to which this Act applies, being a Community which is established on the Reserve, is satisfied that it would be for the benefit of that Community to permit the person to reside on, or visit, that part of the Reserve appropriated for the use of that Community, the Council may authorize the person to reside on, or visit, that part of the Reserve. [More…]

• 1 ) The Commonwealth may make available to the Council for a Reserve to which this Act applies, or for a Community to which this Act applies, for the purpose of enabling the Council to perform its functions, any land acquired by or otherwise vested in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• In clause 7 (4), omit ‘that is appropriated for the use of the Community’. [More…]

• Omit clause 12 and insert the following clause- 12 ( 1 ) no person not being an Aboriginal or Islander shall reside on or visit a reserve or community without the permission of the Council or by the consent of the Minister. [More…]

• no person being an Aboriginal or Islander will be prevented from residing on or visiting a reserve or community except by the decision of the Council and with the consent of the Minister. ‘ [More…]

• Where premises situated on a Reserve to which this Act applies, or on which there is established a Community to which this Act applies, are occupied by an Aboriginal or Islander, a person is not entitled, without the consent of the Aboriginal or Islander, to enter those premises unless, if the Reserve on which those premises are situated were not a Reserve, the entry would not be unlawful. [More…]

• Under those regulations it is possible for the Minister- in this case the State Minister for Community Welfare- to amend regulations of the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act to allow for all classes of people to go on to reserves with or without the consent of the local Aboriginal community. [More…]

• This is not done in response to any intransigent attitude by the local Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The local Aboriginal community has said that it is quite happy for a subsidiary of Conzinc Rio-Tinto of Australia Ltd to enter into that reserve and prospect for diamonds. [More…]

• The local community has been happy to negotiate with CRA. [More…]

• The people have been happy with the assurances that CRA has been able to give them in relation to safeguarding the physical and social environment of that community. [More…]

• They are saying that if there is to be any mining on their reserve it will be under conditions and terms which are acceptable to that community. [More…]

• Just because the Commissioner for Aboriginal Planning in Western Australia has taken the attitude that he, in issuing entry permits to reserves, ought to have regard for the view of the local people, just because the Commissioner does have regard for the local Aboriginal community, the State Government is moving to amend those regulations to over-ride not only the Commissioner for Aboriginal planning but also the local Aboriginal people. [More…]

• What sort of a situation are we in if, on the one hand, we give an Aboriginal community the power to provide services for that community and then, on the other hand, turn around and say that this will prevent the Queensland Government or a mining company coming into that reserve and providing those self-same services? [More…]

• It is simply that the Federal Government as well as, of course, the Aboriginal community should be happy that what is being done is what is required to be done in the fashion in which the Aborigines want it to be done. [More…]

• No person being an Aboriginal or Islander will be prevented from residing on or visiting a reserve or community except by the decision of the Council and with the consent of the Minister. [More…]

• No person not being an Aboriginal or Islander shall reside on or visit a reserve or community without the permission of the Council or by the consent of the Minister. [More…]

• Rather it identifies and comments on particular issues associated with the provision of health services to the rural community. [More…]

• Under the Community Health Program, financial assistance has been made available to Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland for travel and accommodation of medical students who undertake part of their training in rural areas. [More…]

• Funds have also been made available under the Community Health Program to employ other health students during vacation periods. [More…]

• The integration of community health services with those of institutional services in rural areas is being encouraged through the Community Health Program, as are a number of other projects aimed at improving rural community health services within the limits of available funds. [More…]

• These projects include nursing posts and mobile staff to establish basic community health services in very remote areas and to serve small centres and outlying settlements and properties. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) As at 28 February 1978 the organisations listed below had received grants to fund projects under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Queensland Premier write to him on or about 2 1 December 1 977 urging the withdrawal of grants to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Community Health Service. [More…]

• What progress has been made in implementing recommendations contained in reports of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, in particular (a) the encouragement of discussion by their organisations of interrelationships among professionals and their disciplines, their registration standards, and delegation of functions to purpose-trained aides and other support staff, (b) the provision of specific grants for initiating training for ail members of health teams, study leave and community health training, (c) the involvement of States, academic and professional organisations in discussion of interdisciplinary training, (d) the exploration of the concept of multi-purpose ‘ health aides, (e ) the definition of limits of responsibility of different health workers in varying situations and geographic settings, (f) a greater community involvement in identifying and meeting needs, (g) encouragement to applicants for community health funds, (h) the maintenance of the Federal share of 75 percent capital and 90 percent running costs pending review of Federal/ State relations, up to 100 per cent funding for approved national projects, and providing legislation as a formal basis for the Community Health Program, (i) the development with the States of standard evaluation procedures and administrative details of devolved responsibilities (j) the priority of projects indicating evaluation and feedback procedures when applying for funding, (k) the transfer of paramedical and home nursing funding to the Community Health Program, co-ordination of this program with home care and handicapped persons assistance and family planning funding, and inclusion in the program of services operating before 1 July 1973, (1) family planning training for community health workers, (m) hospital management links with community services, (n) the placement of more emphasis on health hostels, health education, promotion and training under the community health program, (o ) the implementation of the report on Health Transport Policies for Australia, and (p) funding rural health training, location incentives and continuing education for isolated professionals. [More…]

• I assume the honourable member is referring to the Hospitals and Health Services Commission’s Report ‘Review of the Community Health Program’ which was tabled in Parliament on 2 June 1976. [More…]

• The Community Health Program already makes significant provision for in-service training courses, seminars and workshops in all States to better equip community health workers to adapt to the demands of community-based health service delivery. [More…]

• Vocational training for general medical practice, the cornerstone of personalised health care delivery in the community, is provided throughout Australia by the Family Medicine Program which operates and is funded as a national project. [More…]

• Much is already being done under the Community Health Program to foster inter-disciplinary training. [More…]

• Students in various health disciplines throughout Australia actively participate in multi-disciplinary community health projects co-ordinated by ‘Students Initiatives m Community Health’ a project sponsored by the Australian Medical Students’ Association and funded by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• At the University of Adelaide, the development of inter-disciplinary training for medicine, social work, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, with a view to providing multi-disciplinary basic training in community health practice, has been funded under the Program. [More…]

• Much has been achieved already under the Community Health Program with many community health projects, particularly in Victoria, involving community groups in the form of management or advisory committees. [More…]

• Many community health projects have developed into community activity focal points extending beyond the primary function of providing health services. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has encouraged the States to submit proposals from voluntary/community groups for funding under the Community Health Program and is continuing to fund a number of voluntary agencies on a national basis. [More…]

• With the joint support of both employers and unions at the top policy level, an Alcoholism in Industry Program, co-ordinated by the Australian Foundation on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence has been funded under the Program and is an excellent example of the Government s response to community group initiatives in identifying and meeting a particular need. [More…]

• The Commonwealth, during its bi-annual discussions with the States in the Standing Committee Meetings on Health Expenditures, at which State Community Health Programs are endorsed, encourages the States to be responsive to initiatives of non-government agencies in sponsoring community health projects. [More…]

• The Government’s federalism policies put the States in a better financial position to accept a greater share of the costs of providing community health services than was the case formerly. [More…]

• Thus, with the major devolution of administrative and financial responsibilities to the States, the Commonwealth, in 1977-78, reduced its proportional share of community health service costs from 75 per cent of capital and 90 per cent of operating costs to 50 per cent and 75 per cent respectively. [More…]

• Notwithstanding these reductions in the Commonwealth’s proportion of costs, the Commonwealth in 1977-78 has provided $79.05m for the Community Health Program, an increase of $ 10.2m or 14.8 per cent over the Commonwealth expenditure in the previous financial year. [More…]

• With the additional State contributions the increased level of expenditure on community health services is considerable. [More…]

• Concerning the provision of legislation as a formal basis for the Community Health Program, I assured State Health Ministers at a special meeting in September 1977, that the Government would give serious consideration to the provision of appropriate legislation. [More…]

• and (j) All Community Health Program projects are expected to have some form of in-built evaluation mechanism. [More…]

• The funding of paramedical and home nursing services has been accommodated within the Community Health Program wherever it has been possible to incorporate these services within an integrated and comprehensive service. [More…]

• 1 ) Family planning services in one form or another are already being provided from most general community health centres, and family planning training for community health workers is an integral part of in-service training in such cases. [More…]

• Apart from the Commonwealth’s contribution under the Community Health Program a substantial contribution is also made by the Commonwealth and States to voluntary organisations operating in this field. [More…]

• A substantial number of projects funded under the Community Health Program are, in fact, closely associated with or based at hospitals, particularly in rural areas, and are providing balanced links between hospitals and community health services. [More…]

• Increasing support has been given in recent times under the Community Health Program for women’s refuges (59 funded in 1977-7S), detoxification units and other health hostel/halfway house projects offering shortterm rehabilitative and /or support services. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is prepared to consider applications from the States for inclusion of projects under the Community Health Program aimed at providing assistance towards the cost of health related services of such hostels. [More…]

• The current eligibility criteria of the Community Health Program are sufficiently wide to encompass many of the proposals contained in the Hospitals and Health Services Commission’s Report ‘Health Transport Policies for Australia’ (tabled on 19 October 1976), but implementation depends on State priorities and available funds. [More…]

• Under the Community Health Program, the Commonwealth is providing financial support for a number of community-based health facilities which, as an integral part of their services, provide some transport for patients. [More…]

• One of the basic objectives of the Family Medicine Program, a major national project funded under the Community Health Program, is the encouragement of improved general practitioner services in rural areas. [More…]

• Other Commonwealth-funded initiatives aimed at alleviating health problems of isolated communities included the provision of a network of community nursing posts covering many isolated low-population communities, the establishment of small community health centres in country towns, and the provision of mobile community health and specialist services visiting isolated areas. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1 978: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) What is the number of Commonwealth Community Youth Support Scheme programs currently operating in Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) As at 28 February 1978, 250 Community Youth Support Scheme projects were operating throughout Australia. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs been drawn to the fact that certain agricultural products, such as cheese and sugar-based processed foods, including brandy, are exported to Australia from European Economic Community countries under the benefit of heavy subsidies, and that such unfairly priced imports are creating problems for Australian producers of competitive goods? [More…]

• I am acutely aware of the problem that has been mentioned by the honourable member for McMillan concerning the difficulties facing food processors in Australia in having to compete with heavily subsidised imports from member states of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The community and the court were fed up with drug offences and that going to Western Australia was a good move because his time had run out in New South Wales. [More…]

• We have done a very great deal to advance the cause of individual liberty and at the same time to alleviate poverty and hardship within the Australian community. [More…]

• The payment of family allowances as opposed to the old system of tax deductions, which helped the wealthy as opposed to the poor, was one of the most significant social advances in alleviating poverty in the less well-off sections of the Australian community that this country has seen in all the years since Federation. [More…]

• As a result of that, the Commonwealth Government decided, pending the receipt of the report of the industries Assistance Commission later this year and because of the importance of that community, in spite of the lack of concern by the Tasmanian Government, to pick up the total bill to carry the mine forward and to support the people of Queenstown. [More…]

• Public support for local community projects outside traditional public structures. [More…]

• The survival of the industry depends on maintaining high- even excessive- levels of demand; accepting the concept of ‘built in obsolescence’ so that the turnover of vehicles is somewhat higher than is strictly necessary to meet community needs- as opposed to the needs of the motor industry. [More…]

• Yet the implications of shifting from a ‘scarcity’ economy to a ‘post scarcity’ economy are not adequately recognised by the community at large and, I venture to suggest, not fully appreciated by the Parliament either. [More…]

• The community must plan new policies for resource use, land use and recreational facilities, all of which will change the relationship between man and work. [More…]

• What is needed now is the support of the community at large, including the Opposition, for the measures and programs initiated by this Government. [More…]

• Together these countries account for about 84 per cent of free market sugar trade, the major non-participant being the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The EEC stands alone at this time in the world sugar community as one entity which is not yet prepared to accept an international discipline for the greater good of the world sugar community. [More…]

• The Government has responded to the increasing concern in the business community about the adequacy of funds for small business growth and development. [More…]

• An answer to this apparent dilemma, I believe, lies in the implementation of an effective and rational planning scheme for the Marine Park which is based on a consideration of the interests of individuals, community groups and organisations as well as the known biological and physical features of the Reef. [More…]

• But in common with most of us who are single-minded in some sort of occupationI was nearly going to say we often cannot see the wood for the trees, but that would be almost a Freudian slip in this context- they lose the awareness of the concern that the environmental hazards can cause in the community. [More…]

• We should seek to make certain that at all steps the environmental concerns that are held in the community are observed. [More…]

• The smarties, the white collar criminals in our community, will undoubtedly try to twist this legislation to their own ends. [More…]

• It means that, reading that definition in the context of clause 7, there could be the absurd situation where somebody could set up an organisation called ‘Stockpiles for Portugal’, collect all the bombs, weapons, armoury, poisons, munitions and explosives that he wanted in order to make use of them for Portuguese purposes, which, I suggest, is perhaps fairly remote from the purposes of the Australian community, and would commit no offence at all. [More…]

• The point of the legislation is to proscribe activities which we as a nation within the international community are obliged to proscribe if we are to have any proper system of good government in the world today. [More…]

• The tradition in this community is a tradition of social and political change by rational exchange and argument. [More…]

• I think that we have to approach this problem in terms of the history of what has occurred in our community. [More…]

• Apart from not sharing the views of those people who supported the Croatian Liberation Movement, I as a local member in another parliament saw the tremendous problems which were created in the Yugoslav community by the existence of paramilitary organisations. [More…]

• It is perfectly legitimate for there to be differences between members of the Yugoslav community, as there are differences between members of the Australian community. [More…]

• But the minute any group within any ethnic community in Australia sees the operation of paramilitary organisations as a means to pursue its political objectives by force, I claim that there is no way that that development does not reach over into our own community. [More…]

• For a period of, I suppose, just 10 to 15 years, members of the Yugoslav community who were going about their normal business and their normal social function to celebrate the National Day of Yugoslavia would be subjected to the most severe outrages. [More…]

• What I say is that the minute groups in Australian society have paramilitary organisations and believe it is completely legitimate to pursue their objectives not merely overseas by military exercises, that development extends into our own community in a way which is completely contrary to the traditions and practices of the Australian people. [More…]

• Let me make it perfectly clear that they are all Austraiian citizens and are all law abiding citizens with a commitment to this community and this country. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the activities in my community during the period of the Yom Kippur war were such that all those young people who were involved publicly and openly as Australian citizens in signing forms on television, making it perfectly clear that they were recruiting for the armed forces of Israel, would have come within that provision. [More…]

• Because there are in Australia members of the Lebanese community and members of the Arab community they can say to the Minister: ‘Look, you cannot tolerate that sort of thing; it is a breach of the law’. [More…]

• It was a matter of public knowledge which arose, certainly in Sydney and Melbourne and I suppose in other communities, where there are substantial numbers of people belonging to the Jewish community. [More…]

• Having regard to the fact that we are a multicultural community, what will he do when members of the Arab or Lebanese community say: ‘There is the law. [More…]

• You cannot let that occur in the community’. [More…]

• The honourable member for Denison and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) were among those who asked: ‘Why pull out the apple trees in Tasmania?’ [More…]

• I wish tonight to speak in support of the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• Firstly, from those statistics it is clearly evident that the scheme has been highly successful in involving community groups in the problems of unemployed youth and in attracting that youth freely and voluntarily to take part in programs designed to assist them. [More…]

• Thirdly, the value of the Community Youth Support scheme is equally apparent in other less tangible ways. [More…]

• I believe the Community Youth Support scheme to be extremely valuable. [More…]

• It is disgraceful that the unctuous Ministers for Environment, Housing and Community Development have sat on this report for nearly two years without bothering to act on the proposals for flood mitigation. [More…]

• My good friend, the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage), wrote to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development on 4 February 1977 requesting information on what action the Minister intended to take on this matter. [More…]

• He, along with other members of the House, has a large community of Greek origin living in his electorate. [More…]

• I think we should make it absolutely clear that naturally enough all members of the Australian community are subject to the law. [More…]

• But, having said that, again I make it absolutely clear that these people who have been charged in relation to alleged frauds with respect to social security payments have been charged as individuals , not as members of any community or as people of any ethnic community background. [More…]

• I would hope that all areas of the media in reporting instances of this nature would keep in mind the effect that their reports can have on the successful integration of people into the broader Australian community. [More…]

• There is no need for the members of the large Greek community in Australia to feel ashamed of their efforts in relation to the development of Australia as a nation. [More…]

• I finish my answer by saying that members of the Greek community in Sydney have distinguished themselves by their efforts to assist the investigation because they, like all other Australians, feel that, if fraud is being perpetrated, they as individuals need to assist the authorities to bring the perpetrators of that fraud to justice, no matter what their ethnic background may be. [More…]

• Opposition and from other parts of the community that this country is in some kind of economic recession are absolute nonsense and counterproductive to our future economic interests. [More…]

• I recognise the great agony that is occurring in the community because of the confusion on the whole subject. [More…]

• What has to be assessed, against the strategic situation of the country, is the standard and quantity of aircraft that we need to acquire, how quickly we need to acquire them, and the cost which the community should bear while satisfying other defence needs as well. [More…]

• For instance, the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations has reported scathingly about the racist attitudes permeating the Queensland Government’s Aboriginal welfare policy. [More…]

• In February 1977, scarcely 2 months later he was giving encouragement and hope in the Parliament to Aboriginal people and to the community who share concern for Aboriginals. [More…]

• I know that the Land Fund Commission considered its legal position then because some statements were made which indicated that the reason why consent would not be given to that transfer was because it was going to an Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman said that there was some evidence to the effect that I had prevented action being taken under the Racial Discrimination Act arising out of the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations on Queensland. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman ought to know what is provided for in the Racial Discrimination Act by way of inquiry and report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• On the basis of the relevant documents I have available and from which I quoted today and which he prevented me from having introduced into the record of the House, it is quite clear that the Minister has been misleading the Aboriginal people, the Australian community and this Parliament, and that he did that again today. [More…]

• There may be no absolute community standards by which particular forms of tax avoidance may be judged. [More…]

• I do, however, assert that some of the schemes which have been practised, and are the subject of this Bill, are clearly at odds with the general welfare of the community. [More…]

• 1 ) What formal procedures must be adopted to enable Regular forces to be called out in cases of (a) aid to the civil community for anti-terrorist activities and (b) natural disasters. [More…]

• I think the honourable member would be in the minority as far as an understanding of that strategy is concerned because I think most people in this House, certainly on the Government side, and a very significant majority of people in the Australian community understand very clearly what is the Government’s economic strategy. [More…]

• Members of the Australian community demonstrated very dramatically last December that they thought the economic strategy of this Government which was outlined very clearly by my predecessor in the Budget Speech last year, was an immensely preferable economic strategy to that offered by the alternative government at that time. [More…]

• If the honourable member reads that Press statement he will find in it a reaffirmation of the principal elements of the Government’s economic strategy which are well known to him and other members of the Opposition and which are well known and well accepted throughout the Austraiian community. [More…]

• I do not think there is any confusion in the minds of the Australian community or in the minds of honourable members on this side of the House about the Government’s economic strategy. [More…]

• In the wages area we have followed a policy which from the very word go has recognised that this country cannot afford full wage indexation and which has recognised that until real wages in the Australian community more adequately reflect levels of profitability business confidence will not permanently revive. [More…]

• Professor Morris, professor of community health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was speaking on the ABC’s Science Show, broadcast on Saturday. [More…]

• Honourable members will be pleased to know that under the direction of Mr Robert Fry, who has been seconded from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to undertake preliminary functions of the proposed Supervising Scientist, steps have already been taken to establish monitoring of base-line environmental conditions in the region. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has already indicated that the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act will be amended to provide for the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service to have appropriate rights of inspection and information. [More…]

• I am sure honourable members agree that this legislation should command the support of all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Initial drafting by the appropriate Commonwealth department, for example, Department of Health for health codes, Department of Transport for transport codes, Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for general environment protection codes; consultation on the proposed draft code with relevant State and Territory Ministers; the release, where appropriate, of the draft code for public comment, particularly by industry and trade unions; consideration of the draft code by relevant advisory councils such as the Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council; final consideration within the Government and submission to the Governor-General; the provision of an order in writing by the Governor-General approving the code; tabling of the order approving the code of practice in both Houses of Parliament. [More…]

• It was a comprehensive and lengthy public inquiry and its findings have been the subject of extensive public debate both in the Parliament and in the community at large. [More…]

• The actual individuals to be members of the Uranium Advisory Council have not yet been settled, but the Government has agreed that the Council should include representation from the following groups: The Austraiian religious community; the Aboriginal community; a national voluntary environmental organisation; the Northern Territory community; the Australian Council of Trade Unions; a person with experience in energy matters; the [More…]

• Honourable members will recall that last August the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development stated that strict environmental controls and standards in relation to uranium mining would be adopted. [More…]

• As indicated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), provision is being made in the Bill to amend the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act to protect wildlife and natural features in the stage 2 area. [More…]

• The successful and prompt implementation of our policy is a challenge for all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• If one goes through the list one sees mentioned the Australian religious community, the Aboriginal community, a national voluntary environmental organisation, the Northern Territory community, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a person with experience in energy matters, the Australian uranium industry, a nuclear scientist, a medical practitioner or health physicist, an environmentalist with experience in natural resource development, an economist with experience in natural resource development, an expert in national and international affairs or law. [More…]

• Only just a few months ago Australia’s Ambassador to the European Economic Community communicated to the Government his belief that uranium demand in the EEC had fallen dramatically. [More…]

• The third category is Category C licences, which will be issued to community groups intending to provide programs serving a particular community. [More…]

• Category C licences especially, which are to be encouraged in relation to community groups, could cause severe problems in some of the country areas if they were issued in a willynilly fashion. [More…]

• If they are to be the primary local participation station they will have to make sure that they are providing a service which the local community needs. [More…]

• I am sure that we do not want to see that trend encouraged to the detriment of some provocative programming, programming that will discuss issues in the local community and programming that will provide service to the local community. [More…]

• If they do not I suppose there will be a lot of organisations and individuals in the community who will be very disappointed. [More…]

• Those stations caused a lot of concern in the community. [More…]

• Adult education and continuing education are very great things and are needed in the community. [More…]

• Certainly the community participation stations- those that provide for their own local community- will provide a lot of challenge for a great number of communities in Australia because, at this stage, there is really no restriction on how many of these low powered stations will be able to operate in the market place in this completely new field of the broadcasting spectrum. [More…]

• One cannot assume that giving licences to the commercial stations, as was the case until the Labor Party came to power, was enough to guarantee that there would be the diversity or freedom of expression which is inherent in the whole concept of broadcasting and the needs of the community and the fact that broadcasting has to be controlled in some way, because otherwise we get mayhem on the air waves and no one hears anything. [More…]

• To put it another way, like any biological function, if we were to graph the interests of the community we would get what is called a frequency distribution curve. [More…]

• So we have almost got a spectrum, a particular distribution curve for any particular interest in the community. [More…]

• So when the ABC provides a particular type of program which appeals to those on one side of the spectrum, and that includes a relatively few people in the total community, complaints are heard to the effect that really no one is very interested in the ABC. [More…]

• When a survey is carried out in the community it is found that only 6 per cent of the community were likely to be ever interested in it. [More…]

• It is a desire for the whole community to have available to it programs covering all interests that can appeal hopefully to absolutely anybody in the community. [More…]

• When I issued those licences my view was that anything which increased the understanding and the tolerance of the community- anything at all- was education. [More…]

• So I welcome this move now to provide a wide range of programs for everybody in the community. [More…]

• I sound this note of hesitation because I believe that we as a government, and the Minister with the responsibilities of his portfolio, must ensure that the regulating authorities in fact abide by the demands and expectations of the community; that the minority groups which will have access to this medium do not in fact saturate it solely for the sake of those groups. [More…]

• If one looks at the suggestions of the community groups that might be eligible for licences, such as shire councils, schools, student organisations and resident groups, designed for a specific location, and where also the suggested areas included places like Bathurst and Manly- Warringah, again it would seem that there will be a potential for a very large number of these licences to be granted. [More…]

• It seems to me exactly the kind of area that could be well served by the issue of a category E or educational licence, a category S or special interest licence or a category C or community licence. [More…]

• By equating the mass media audience with the market, our community runs the grave risk of confusing breadth of response with intensity of response and of confusing short-term and long-term factors. [More…]

• July 1977- The Western Australian State Departments for Community Welfare and Mental Health Services; [More…]

• of the 1976 report by the Western Australian Department for Community Welfare, on 18 November 1976. [More…]

• of the 1977 report by the Office for Community Relations on the difficulties encountered by Aboriginals in finding accommodation in the Guildford area, on 20 March 1 978, when a copy was obtained on request. [More…]

• The conduct of these tests and the evaluation of the results obtained are matters on which questions might more properly be addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I do not think an issue confronting the Australian rural community has united farmers, graziers and pastoralists throughout the country to a greater degree than has the present sheep export dispute in South Australia and Western Australia. [More…]

• I believe that the very strong stand the Government has taken behind the livestock producers in seeking to have the bans Lifted and to restore the free movement of livestock to countries around the world is the sort of action that has in contrast, far wider support amongst not only the rural community by also all Australians. [More…]

• This has been compounded by reduced butter sales in Australia and the competition that the European Economic Community, through its Common Agricultural Policy, has applied in Third World markets. [More…]

• -The Opposition has raised this matter of public importance because it believes that the Australian community as a whole has been lulled into a false sense of security by the discussion paper on paying for health care which was presented in this House on, I think, 15 March. [More…]

• In particular, no change should be made in health insurance arrangements which would discourage access to general practitioners, who provide the least costly, most widely used health services to the community. [More…]

• Basically, health care costs are shared in three ways by the community. [More…]

• I put it to the Minister for Health, who is at the table and who I think is aware of the difficulties associated with proposing any worthwhile changes to the present system, that because of a lack of statistical information we do not know what would happen, what effect certain changes would have, who would be affected, what the effect would be on different groups in the community and by how much the cost would be reduced if in fact we asked people to pay the first $50 or the first $100.I draw the Minister’s attention to paragraphs 142, 148, 149 and 150 of the paper presented by his Department. [More…]

• It is a responsibility that I as the Minister for Health in the Fraser Government accept with some degree of satisfaction because I know that if we come to grips with it there will be further resources for more important areas of expenditure in the community. [More…]

• I can assure him that there is no way that this Government will penalise the poorer section of the Australian community. [More…]

• medical care is of such vital importance to so many in the community that it should be financed on a basis which removes financial barriers that could impede access to essential care. [More…]

• If the Government is going to introduce- as we believe it may well be going to introduce- a front-end deductible scheme, people in the community would have to pay a much larger sum- perhaps $50, $100 or $150-before they move into the area in which they are insured. [More…]

• I think of the services that are provided in my electorate by community health centres. [More…]

• This money belongs to a large number of taxpayers in the community who are earning low incomes and who, by paying taxes, are investing in the government purse, which is now to be used to prop up something which probably should never have been formed, which was no doubt formed with a great deal of optimism and which has now failed. [More…]

• I wonder what cane growers will think now because this Agreement will mislead the Australian cane growing community and all those associated with Australian sugar production. [More…]

• That is the first weakness and we are not able to understand why the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister responsible for the Agreement, would so mislead the Australian community and the Australian sugar growers as to suggest that there is a guaranteed minimum price. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has a stockpile of sugar estimated to be at least 600,000 tonnes. [More…]

• I want to defend the question that the European Economic Community has increased its production. [More…]

• Defending that attitude, he said that he doubted whether the Community would enter into the International Sugar Agreement even if it was agreed to by some other countries. [More…]

• Of course what he did not talk about is the refusal of the European Economic Community to sign the Agreement, thus creating a very real threat to its effectiveness. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister himself concedes that the European Economic Community is the world’s largest trading bloc and the world’s largest producer of sugar. [More…]

• He admits that the European Economic Community is currently in the process of dumping some three million tonnes of sugar on world markets. [More…]

• As long as the European Economic Community is determined to go its own way the International Sugar Agreement can never guarantee a minimum price. [More…]

• The absence of the European Economic Community from the list of signatories is particularly disappointing in view of the close attention, time, energy and expense that the Government has devoted to wooing that market. [More…]

• I have already quoted to the House the statement by the European Economic Community Market spokesman, as recently as February this year, that the European Economic Community would not sign the Agreement. [More…]

• In summary, we have two weak links: The failure of the European Economic Community to become a member of the Agreement and the Government’s non-recognition of the problems that cane growers are facing. [More…]

• The Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) has been criticised because the European Economic Community was not included in the Agreement. [More…]

• This industry in Queensland, as with any rural industry, finds that a restriction on it means a restriction on the community and the people who live in that community which is there basically because of that industry. [More…]

• What he did not point out and what he should have pointed out, and what is much more pertinent, is the fact that the free sugar market, which excludes the European Economic Community, comprises less than 20 per cent of the total world trade in sugar. [More…]

• We believe that ‘audience’ ought to equal ‘community’. [More…]

• Firstly, there is the category E licence for educational bodies; secondly, the category S licence for special interest groups; and, thirdly, the category C licence for community groups in particular geographical areas. [More…]

• I shall concentrate particularly on the need for that third category of licence- the category C licence- for community groups in various geographical areas. [More…]

• They do not want to pick up community news or information about community groups in any particular part of the Melbourne metropolitan area which may not have very broad appeal for the total listening audience. [More…]

• One gets complaints about particular groups controlling the licence or, in the case of ethnic radio programs, a particular faction in an ethnic community getting control of the hour’s time slot for that particular ethnic community and putting over propaganda which is divisive in its nature and which produces tensions within that ethnic community. [More…]

• Any local community radio station will be dependent very much on local community groups, municipal councils and local sponsors. [More…]

• What I am saying is that there is that natural contact with the local community and, indeed, there is reliance on the local community to provide it with information and news that it can publish. [More…]

• It can maintain its programing capacity only if it has the goodwill of the local community, and it can maintain the goodwill of the local community only if it is broadly producing material which is representative of the local community, its interests and its aspirations and, in fact, if it gives everybody a fair go. [More…]

• Therefore, many of these groups which are on a community or voluntary basis often do not appreciate the real effort needed to keep the show rolling, to get the material on air and keep it going. [More…]

• I think that firstly the Minister is to be congratulated on the sensible, functional categories into which public broadcasting has been divided- educational, special interest and community groups. [More…]

• Self-styled embassies which trespass on the sovereignty of recognised members of the international community constitute a provocation to the State whose sovereignty is challenged. [More…]

• I assume that the Government was aware of indications that other groups in the community might seek to repeat this activity. [More…]

• Most, if not all, of the well known ethnic groups in Australia have, in the past few years, developed very significantly within the Australian community. [More…]

• The Embassy could only confuse and do a disservice to the Croatian community, which is a community that I have previously praised and will continue to praise. [More…]

• It has a policy of ensuring that decisions are made at a lower level of the community. [More…]

• It is not aimed at any specific ethnic or community group; it is aimed generally at ensuring that no false representations are made by various groups. [More…]

• I call upon those persons who are running this Croatian Embassy to realise that they have now gone as far as they can go with their public display, that the game is over and that they should peaceably and sensibly close their Embassy and continue to go about their business of assisting, if they wish, the Australian Croatian community by the ordinary activities and ordinary means by which they look after the welfare and the problems of their members in Australia. [More…]

• I also appeal to the persons concerned to give away the potential divisive action that their activities could have within the Croatian community in Australia and within those communities that have come from Yugoslavia. [More…]

• Finally, I make it perfectly plain once again that the Croatian community in Australia is amongst the finest of the communities that have contributed to our national welfare. [More…]

• But we call upon the specific persons running this Embassy to take heed of Australia’s obligations, to close its activities and to allow members of the Croatian community in this country to continue to develop and contribute to the welfare of Australia as a whole. [More…]

• I asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to come into the chamber tonight. [More…]

• Only one week ago we saw in the electorate of Braddon, which is so ably represented by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), the closure of a timber business employing some 60 persons. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]

• He gave long, distinguished and most valuable service to Australian governments and to the Australian community. [More…]

• The community is diminished by his departure in these unfortunate circumstances. [More…]

• Firstly, we sought to ensure that there was adequate consultation with the Aurukun community, where it was evident that there had not been that consultation before. [More…]

• Let me also point out to the honourable gentleman that, through funding by the Commonwealth, the Aurukun community was able to litigate the question of the validity of the agreement entered into by the Queensland Director of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, as trustee of the reserved land. [More…]

• The community won before the Supreme Court of Queensland but was taken on appeal by the Queensland Government to the Privy Council. [More…]

• Obviously the great explosion in health costs was causing a great deal of concern to the Australian community and was crowding out the opportunities for expenditures in other essential areas. [More…]

• I am sure that the public generally would appreciate that, in the public interest and in the interest of the community, we have started to grab hold of the very serious cost escalation that has been plaguing this country and most Western nations throughout the world. [More…]

• There is not the slightest doubt that from a major confrontation on the Australian waterfront the total Australian community would be the loser. [More…]

• The second fundamental point which the statement made was that the Community Council, as it is now known, in each case will be the Council for the purposes of the local government of those two authorities. [More…]

• It will not be a creature of statute; it will not have any executive authority or power to control the elected Community Council. [More…]

• It is not unlike bodies of a similar kind which operate in other States for the purposes of rationalising and harmonising the delivery of services that are needed by the community. [More…]

• But a Treasurer who engages in such tax avoidance exercises invites nothing but cynicism when he imposes further tax burdens on the rest of the community. [More…]

• This country and its army of unemployed cannot withstand the insidious erosion of confidence and hope that both continue to generate in the community. [More…]

• In moving this censure motion, the Opposition seeks to jolt the Government into developing for 1978-79 a Budget which may well represent for some time Australia’s last opportunity to obtain a broad community consensus on both the economic goals that are reasonably obtainable, and the policies by which those goals are to be achieved. [More…]

• Yet what this Government sees as objectives are, in fact, economic policy options available to be balanced in their application to achieve the broader social objectives of the entire community. [More…]

• What Fraser Federalism means is simply that there will be a greater total tax burden for all taxpayers in this community; that the smaller States, population-wise, will bear a great cost burden and, accordingly, a greater economic disadvantage. [More…]

• Instead of a substantive and urgent program of government financing and market development for exports of manufactured goods and food products we are witnessing a Blue Hills story of the attempts of the Department of Special Trade Representations to sell butter, beef and steel to the European Economic Community when warehouses in those countries are already full of these products. [More…]

• Under this Government however it is apparent that high levels of unemployment are now accepted as a convenient political tool, as an excuse for not developing a workable industrial relations and manpower planning policy, and as a means of seeking political advantage by creating and emphasising division within the Australian community. [More…]

• There is despair in the Australian community and confusion overseas- despair at the mounting unemployment and the implications of this for our young people and confusion at policy switches which fluctuate between massive devaluation to massive foreign borrowings. [More…]

• It is not something which should be attributable solely to the male wage earning sector of the community. [More…]

• In addition, Australia, as an active member of the international community, has with a number of individual foreign countries and institutions particular shared interests which can require specialised representation. [More…]

• Due to the energy and initiative of the Commission, the building contractors and the local people, and the splendid support of the Australian community as a whole, the rebuilding of [More…]

• Some $54m was expended on the provision of health facilities including the reconstruction of the Darwin Hospital, community health centres, dental clinics and the construction of the new Casuarina hospital complex. [More…]

• The intention behind the proposal for local government within the two communities is that through that the communities will achieve self-management so that their own community councils will be the managing authorities for the communities and thereby they will be selfmanaging. [More…]

• I have been at pains not to cause divisions in the Australian domestic community in regard to the most critical flashpoint in the world. [More…]

• -I shall investigate the actual international community statements on Timor. [More…]

• It is my view that notwithstanding the response of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan the Government was correct in this instance to join with some other responsible members of the internatioal community to seek clemency on behalf of the former Prime Minister. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman has raised a very interesting question indeed because if these two communities are to obtain selfmanagement by being created local government shires so that the community councils become local government councils, then under the full force of the Queensland local government laws they would be fully-fledged shires. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of the Iwasaki proposals for a mammoth tourist development at Yeppoon? [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such preventive measures as immunisation, fluoridation, the role of the community health program, the work of the Anti-Cancer Council and the National Heart Foundation and programs like the ‘Life be in it’ campaign make a considerable impact on the containment of health costs? [More…]

• The community health program, of course, has a tremendous potential for going to the grass roots of the community in respect of health education plans. [More…]

• Obviously lifestyle and the environment in which people live have a tremendous influence on the state of health of people in the community. [More…]

• Canberra this week with members of the Australian intelligence community? [More…]

• Yet the Premier at the same time was saying that the church could stay solely for the purpose of pursuing its pastoral duties but would have no role in assisting the community to manage its own affairs. [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…]

• Everyone who can read knows and understands that the health of the Aboriginal people is of a lower order than that of the rest of the community. [More…]

• For some mysterious reason the passions of honourable members opposite and the conservative element in the community are aroused because people who have allegedly broken the law are being assisted. [More…]

• We are all aware of the great difficulties of carrying out an effective housing program for any part of the community. [More…]

• What that body was supposed to be and what I hope it will become is the principal advocate of the Aboriginal people’s causes- the principal line of communication between every community in Australia to the Minister. [More…]

• There are many in this community who might readily accept that that situation was a fait accompli if it happened to them. [More…]

• Their payrolls are spent in the community and no doubt some of the money finds its way into the coffers of some of the honourable member’s many private enterprises in Canberra. [More…]

• All the residences are trying to do is to make ends meet so that there will not be a burden on the community and on the taxpayer at large. [More…]

• I am sure that a large section of the community will be delighted to see the end of this impost, which for a long time has been causing serious problems in relation to family arrangements, particularly on the death of a member of a family conducting a small business. [More…]

• This Bill is of major significance to the Australian community. [More…]

• Among these are the United States of America, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, New Zealand, Canada and the European Economic Community countries- in short, both major fishing nations and nations with fisheries resources. [More…]

• This Bill significantly extends an area of major commercial interest to the Australian community. [More…]

• The difficulty is that the Parliament, because of present attitudes and developing attitudes in the community and in the Parliament, has no methods at its disposal which it would readily use to enforce its authority. [More…]

• All Parliaments have their problems, especially when they do not do what the daily Press or some community spokesman suggests they ought to do and in those cases when they are not able to meet, for various reasons, the expectations which are placed upon them. [More…]

• It is there to serve the community and its services and facilities ought to be designed with that purpose uppermost in the mind of the Government. [More…]

• Even at this late stage I again ask the Minister to make the reports of those committees available so that we can then have in the Australian community an informed discussion of aviation policy. [More…]

• As much information as possible should be distributed to the community so that the true facts can be made known and people can understand what is involved. [More…]

• I believe this is a clear indication of the value the community attaches to the improvements in comfort and ride provided by the rolling stock funded under the urban public transport. [More…]

• There is a community and political commitment to concentrate on and improve public transportation. [More…]

• Therefore, I believe there are very good reasons why we should at this stage adopt a paper which can be debated in the community on the question of public urban transport in this country. [More…]

• They recognise the need for mobility of people in the community and the way to do it with the least expense, least inconvenience and least frustration in a very involved and complex world. [More…]

• I commend the Bill to the House and implore the Minister to take up those two points- firstly, to declare the Latrobe Valley an urban area, pursuant to the powers given to the Minister under section 4 of the Act, and also to prepare a White Paper on transportation policy for debate in the community. [More…]

• An additional $14m is included for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development for payments under the Home Savings Grants Scheme. [More…]

• 7m for the Australian National University for cost supplementation, $5.7m for the Community Health Program, $2.1m for the Community Youth Support Program, $3.7m for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and $8.6m for the Australian National Railways. [More…]

• There is provision for prosecutions by a land council upon the request of the people in the community affected for breaches of the Act. [More…]

• The Mooraridgi Community Advancement Cooperative Society Ltd was established in 1974- 75. [More…]

• This was a clear undermining of the intention of Federal governments of both political colours to hand over responsibility to the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• I believe that the Mooraridgi Community Advancement Co-operative Society Ltd established for this purpose is the appropriate body to set up self-management. [More…]

• It can deal with matters relating to housing, health, sewerage, water supply, electricity supply, communications, educational training, relief work for unemployed persons, roads and associated works, garbage collection and disposal, and welfare and community amenities. [More…]

• In some country towns in Western Australia or New South Wales, 500 or 600 Aboriginal people might live in a community and perhaps 250 to 300 of them might live in what could be termed a reserve on the edge of the town. [More…]

• They are a community in their own right. [More…]

• The object of the Labor Government legislation was to give them an opportunity to work as a community- supply amongst themselves services which they considered desirable- to make themselves free of the State and local governments. [More…]

• Honourable members would know, especially as a number of them have been members of committees which have travelled around Australia looking at this situation, that one of the great difficulties all through the two centuries of European settlement in this country, has been to ensure that government authorities- State, municipal or Federal- carry out their duties to the Aboriginal people with the same verve and the same energy as they adopt towards the rest of the community. [More…]

• I put it to the Committee, to the Minister and to the Government, and I hope that the Senate will consider it, that it is fundamental to the operations of the Aboriginal community that in many respects the people be released from dependence upon the State governments and upon municipal governments. [More…]

• For instance, my friend the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) would be well aware of the situation in various parts of his electorate where Aboriginal communities need to be able to work amongst themselves, regardless of what the rest of the community does. [More…]

• It is no news to many honourable members that recently in Queenstown a new community college has been built, and a hospital and a lot of other social infrastructures could not be left rotting in the event of closure of this mine. [More…]

• I think the greatest tribute that I can pay tonight is to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• Limited medical rehabilitation facilities are available, at this time, at the Darwin and Alice Springs Hospitals and through Community Health Centres in Darwin. [More…]

• The establishment of meaningful priorities by the Special Session would act as a catalyst in promoting negotiations in specific areas of concern to the international community. [More…]

• -Is the Prime Minister aware of the extreme confusion generated in the community generally as to where he stands in relation to the expansion of the world economy and the growth of world trade? [More…]

• That represents a very marked improvement and has been widely acclaimed throughout the community. [More…]

• If the wrong decisions are taken at the Multilateral Trade Negotiations and if there is no progress on north-south issues in relation to the common fund, there will be increasing bitterness and increasing concern towards the end of the year which could lead to a much slower growth in world markets and to a much greater move towards protectionism, especially from the European Economic Community and maybe also from the United States of America. [More…]

• We must exclude all the intra-European Economic Community trade. [More…]

• Futhermore, in view of his criticisms of the European Economic Community for not accepting Australian primary produce exports, can we expect that the same sort of barriers which exist against the importation of New Zealand dairy products and meats will be dramatically reduced and that a cause for complaint from countries such as Fiji about total prohibitions against the importation of sugar will be considered sympathetically? [More…]

• It is utterly intolerable that people should wilfully defraud the system at the expense of other taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• One thing that is certain is that the Government is not prepared to stand by and allow fraud and abuse to take place in the areas of social service benefits, health insurance arrangements and education allowances at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• If the honourable gentlemen had tried to find a section of the Australian community where support for the Australian Labor Party was strong they would have had a blank piece of paper in front of them. [More…]

• Fine contributions have been made by the Maltese community in this country. [More…]

• I would be surprised if the members of that community thought that that ought to be the criterion for the determination of Australia’s aid programs. [More…]

• These policies, widely known and well supported in the community, need only brief summary in today’s debate. [More…]

• Should I fail to do that I fail in my responsibility not only to my party but also to the Australian community. [More…]

• I was somewhat flattered to hear all of the credit extended to me by Government spokesmen as to how much power I have over the community when I make a comment on economic matters. [More…]

• I would have thought that the reports this morning of the International Monetary Fund would have a rather sobering influence on any thinking group in the community. [More…]

• I indicated that the wages-prices freeze taken on so impulsively by the Prime Minister in that conventional style of his that unnerves so many thinking people in the community, and even the few of them among his own Ministers, would be aborted in a very short time, and it was aborted in six weeks. [More…]

• It was the grudging and the unsure way in which the Government approached this matter which led to uncertainty in the community generally. [More…]

• Chrysler, as he is generally known in the community, the honourable member for Kingston, who raised this matter today. [More…]

• I quote these sources to indicate that it is not me alone who has all this power over the thinking of the community. [More…]

• In the last statement he made this afternoon, when he suggested that a solution to the problem would be a reduction in the rate of sales tax imposed on motor cars, he was again creating mischief because as a result of that statement speculation will run through the community. [More…]

• It is important that the people of South Australia realise that their past prosperity is being destroyed by the Dunstan Government and that the destruction by that Government of the economic viability of a community of 800,000 to 1,000,000 people is being promoted by the gloom and doom of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• I suppose the consequence of that, as all of us must realise, is that this legislation now will not get much publicity in the community. [More…]

• It is pleasing for those of us who believe that the traditional sources in the banking system in this country are too conservative and look too much to security rather than competence and administrative ability that perhaps an additional source of finance will be available not only to the innovators in the community who come to such an enormous extent from small businesses but also to the battlers who can no doubt prove that they are viable and competent and who provide such a splendid service to the Australian community in their particular forms of endeavour. [More…]

• It is claimed by the Minister that this widening of the charter of the Development Bank represents a further step in a series of initiatives’ which are in response to the Government’s awareness of increasing concern in the business community about the adequacy of funds for small business growth and development. [More…]

• I believe that probably that task force recommended many other ways for small business- that vital and important sector in this community- to be assisted than the method we have before us. [More…]

• They would have helped enormously beyond the extent we are able to help the small business community under the legislation which we are debating tonight and which is related to the Commonwealth Development Bank. [More…]

• But on every possible occasion I reserve for myself the right to needle the Government into making more efforts for this important sector, that is the small business sector of our community. [More…]

• Multinational companies have their use in our community with the technology that they bring to us. [More…]

• We in the Australian Labor Party believe that it will be in their interests, as well as in the interests of the Australian community generally, if we lay down codes of conduct and limitations within which multinational companies can work. [More…]

• That is only one of the matters that has resulted in an imbalance, and has meant that the Government has hit the small businessman to leg compared with his big brother in the larger business community. [More…]

• We want the Commonwealth Development Bank to help more people in the community, more small businesses, with development funds. [More…]

• Of course there can be no doubting that this is a most unfortunate section of the community. [More…]

• It is a section of the community that everybody has overlooked, except, if I may say so, the socialists of this country. [More…]

• The honourable member for Cook and the honourable member for Henty (Mr Aldred) are all of a sudden spokesmen for the small business community. [More…]

• In my book no bank manager is a member of the small business community- ask anyone who is involved in small business. [More…]

• I think Bob Hawke put it nicely when he said: ‘It is about time you came clean with the Australian community and perhaps then you will get some co-operation’. [More…]

• It will be of great benefit to the community. [More…]

• It would be a temporary loss because the Government would receive an immediate rebate in the form of increased profits or increased employment in the community. [More…]

• It will be able to satisfy these needs and aspirations only if its representatives come from a wide crosssection of the community. [More…]

• We must all continue to re-evaluate our ideas and to ensure that governments at every level are aware of the needs and views of Australians and that the community has the best possible representatives. [More…]

• Was he consulted on the decision to withhold the funds which the Commission sought in order to employ 12 specially trained people fluent in the major migrant languages to make detailed reports on matters coming within its terms of reference, thus, the Commission found, denying the migrant community fair and equal access to it [More…]

• The Prime Minister indicated that the views of the States on the report were being sought and that the Government would wish to be in a position to take full account of these and of the views of the community as a whole before coming to firm decisions on specific aspects of the report. [More…]

• However, the computer type-setting process results in an extremely valuable by-product in that the text of the Acts will be available in machine-readable form for the legal information retrieval system which my Department is developing and which will be of benefit to the Parliament, the Government and the community generally when fully developed. [More…]

• -Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to serious concern within the Greek community over the treatment of people involved in inquiries into alleged social security frauds? [More…]

• -The overwhelming majority of the Greek community and, indeed, of all ethnic communities, have added enormously to the value of Australian life. [More…]

• I believe that the fact that certain events have occurred within one community should not for one moment cause this House or Australia to alter its very firm conviction that ethnic communities, including the Greek community, have added greatly and overwhelmingly to the value of Australian life. [More…]

• Like other honourable members, I am jealous to protect the reputation I have in the community for honesty and integrity. [More…]

• There is a whole series of Bills seeking to protect the environment and the Australian community. [More…]

• In the first place it recognises the importance of fulfilling contracts and supplying energy; secondly, it protects the Australian community; thirdly, it protects the Aboriginal community and its sacred lands and other lands which need protection; and fourthly, it covers the need to protect and safeguard the environment in the area where the mining will take place. [More…]

• In the development of this legislation one must take note of the way in which the Government has sought to make provision for safeguards and protection for the Australian community. [More…]

• There should be proper protection for the Australian community and for international communities so that unforeseen circumstances do not occur. [More…]

• It should be ensured that there is no intervention by people who would seek for their own purposes or even for military purposes to subvert the Australian community. [More…]

• This Government will see that it is done properly and in a fair way for the community. [More…]

• It is responsible for us to talk of Australia’s development and careful handling of uranium and not to talk as the Opposition does about Australia withholding its uranium supplies from the world community. [More…]

• Unless the members of the Australian community and this Government are prepared to accept this challenge we will be held responsible by many nations for not getting into the kitchen. [More…]

• If things are hot and difficult and the Australian community can play a role, the Australian Government must take up that challenge and see that we have the will, the forbearance, the understanding and the wish for peace that are expressed so often in the Austraiian community and expressed internationally. [More…]

• The OECD ‘s world energy outlook gives four reasons for the international community’s diminishing enthusiasm for nuclear power. [More…]

• I deplore one of the developments that seems to be taking place in this community. [More…]

• Departmental social workers are encouraged to assist their migrant clients to use general community services and have developed expertise in doing this. [More…]

• The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 provides, inter alia, that an Aboriginal or Islander on a reserve is not required to comply with any direction to perform work on the reserve unless the direction is given in relation to the performance of reasonable community obligations or unless the work is in relation to an obligation that the Aboriginal would be obliged to perform if the direction were given outside the reserve. [More…]

• These schemes are the States Grants (Paramedical Services) Act and the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Under the Community Health Program, a wide variety of projects is funded in each State and many of those projects provide physiotherapy services. [More…]

• Commonwealth assistance under the Community Health Program takes the form of an annual block grant to each State for the State’s total program of projects which have been jointly approved by the State and the Commonwealth for funding in the year concerned. [More…]

• The availability of Commonwealth funds for new projects under the States Grants (Paramedical Services) Act and the Community Health Program is a matter for consideration by the Government in the Budget context. [More…]

• But in so doing, I think it has to be borne in mind that there are certain things from which no amount of legislation can protect the community. [More…]

• As the honourable gentleman would know, the Minister for Special Trade Representations has a particular task in relation to negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The bilateral discussions, which have been planned from the time of my last visit to Europe and the European Economic Community commissioners in June of last year, are now scheduled to take place in the early part of June. [More…]

• Quite obviously, those tax cuts, as inflation comes further under control, are providing additional purchasing power throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• The Real Estate Institute of Australia and a major project builder have been asked to assist in the review of scales and standards of housing for servicemen so that Service housing is more closely aligned with that in the general community. [More…]

• Servicemen are regularly transferred- far more regularly than people from most sectors of the community. [More…]

• Any significant shift from supplied accommodation to private accommodation, especially subsidised private accommodation, can have an effect on rental and housing values in an area which is to the disadvantage of the community concerned. [More…]

• I understand that this happened some years ago at Ipswich when a sudden influx of servicemen into the community forced up rental and housing values to levels which were to the disadvantage of the local community. [More…]

• The Premier told Mr Davey that he could check with community leaders in some of the areas in which these two accused men were engaged in the Aboriginal eye care project who had seen bundles of electoral enrolment cards. [More…]

• When talking about the fact that many Aboriginal people, like most people in the community, have an incomplete understanding of the political process, it is worth pointing out that in traditional Aboriginal society there was a very sophisticated decisionmaking process. [More…]

• They have a feeling that they are making decisions in relation to their own welfare and community. [More…]

• At the moment these people are attempting to remove themselves from the pressure that our community puts on them. [More…]

• Unless members of the Opposition are suggesting that we ought to make voting compulsory for Aboriginals and assimilate them entirely into our community and abandon the policy of selfdetermination I do not think that is what they are suggesting- what are they seeking to achieve? [More…]

• What we are after is that the political activity of the Aboriginal people and their political rights be guaranteed by a program of education, enrolment, and so on, to ensure that when elections are held, the Aboriginal people take their place in the community as such. [More…]

• I suggest that in respect of the Aboriginal community we should be doing what was done in 1 973 at the inauguration of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, as it was then called. [More…]

• They visited every Aboriginal community in Australia and they enrolled, I think, 30,000 Aboriginal people. [More…]

• At the last N AC election several members were elected whom the overall Aboriginal community did not want, and that happened because of the optional voting system. [More…]

• One settlement had more inhabitants than another and one candidate got all the votes in the larger settlement whilst the man who would probably have done a far better job for the Aborigines- certainly the Aboriginal community considered that he would have- was not elected because he came from a settlement that did not have the same number of inhabitants. [More…]

• That is a quote from the Fox report, but the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) was equally laudatory. [More…]

• As I mentioned during the cognate debate at the second reading stage, the Supervising Scientist will not be able to let the members of the public know, through the Parliament, of his communications with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development during the period prior to the tabling of his report. [More…]

• When I was Minister, they made the valid point to me that the whole community should be able to know of and should be acquainted with the recommendations in these sorts of areas. [More…]

• It must be given back to the community at a public hearing. [More…]

• In those circumstances at least the community will know that nothing has been hidden. [More…]

• If the Government conscientiously thinks that the Supervising Scientist has made unnecessary and ridiculous recommendations, it is as well that the whole community should know about it. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) mentioned that the Northern Land Council will be represented on the Committee, and I have no doubt that that commitment will be honoured. [More…]

• This would provide a balance between those people who are committed to uranium mining and those people in the Austraiian community who have a concern for and interest in the future of the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

• However, in his second reading speech the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) mentioned particularly the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, the Northern Territory Administration and the Northern Land Council. [More…]

• I do not understand the Government’s resistance to a very innocuous amendment which, if it were to be accepted, might have the effect of making the Government look better in the eyes of the Australian community. [More…]

• So community based organisations such as those proposed could be included on the Advisory Council. [More…]

• It is only through economic development that we as a community can improve the lot of the disadvantaged persons among usthose who through no fault of their own live in poverty, those who are ill and those who are aged. [More…]

• Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to discuss these matters with representatives of the Aboriginal community, and I accept that some of my considerations of the issues may have suffered as a result. [More…]

• Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) commented that the Bill will enable governments to ensure that the nuclear industry in Australia is so regulated as to afford the utmost protection to the people and the environment. [More…]

• This was understood by the Majority Leader from an agreement between the then Majority Leader, Dr Goff Letts, and the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood. [More…]

• I am certain the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has received numerous representations from those people. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to consider accepting our proposed amendment in that spirit. [More…]

• -It seems to me that this is an occasion on which it would be appropriate for the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to inform honourable members of the Government’s position, which seems to have changed since this Bill was introduced as a result of the reactions of the Premiers of the various States as communicated to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• Many people in the community feel that there are threats to civil liberties. [More…]

• I would have thought that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), as a distinguished lawyer, would be fully aware of that point. [More…]

• I agree with the view expressed first by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman), and more or less reiterated in part by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), that ideally there ought to be uniform codes. [More…]

• I join issue with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) in terms of his view that it is an appropriate form of consultation for the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to make a general statement in the House, then for legislation of this sort to be introduced in the way in which it has been introduced, with copies being supplied for the States, and then for the Government to move from that position. [More…]

• The honourable member for Mitchell may laugh, but that is the viewpoint of a significant section of this community. [More…]

• It has also been pointed out to me that when it comes to the implementation of programs to fund community health centres, Aboriginal welfare programs and the like, the Labor Government had full consultation with the States. [More…]

• The Opposition would like to see the various codes published for public comment and an open public inquiry into them held with a wide range of people in the community having an opportunity to make a contribution towards the drafting of the final codes. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom): What will happen if there is a dispute as to the interpretation of those regulations? [More…]

• In the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) we were told how necessary it was that this legislation be enacted but we are told now that we will have only part of the legislation; the rest is to be delayed. [More…]

• I believe that for this Government to proceed with this son of sloppy legislation in spite of the fact that a very large component of the Australian community is gravely concerned about the whole question of uranium mining is, in itself, quite reprehensible. [More…]

• I have been silenced by the Government Whip each time despite the historic nature of the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill which was alluded to by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) when he introduced it. [More…]

• If such suits are not allowed, an intolerable burden will be placed on the Northern Land Council, says that Land Council, because it has to defend the interests not only of Aboriginals but also of all others in the community at large. [More…]

• For example, the Community Youth Support Scheme, an experimental program for unemployed youth, helps young people who may never have had anyone concerned for them before that program began. [More…]

• I am quite sure that that group of people has always been present in the Australian community but only now are programs being specifically designed to assist it. [More…]

• In addition, the Minister is negotiating with the States to appoint an inquiry into teacher training because what happens in the final years at school is very important to the capacity of young men and women to take a useful and productive place within the Australian community. [More…]

• I am quite certain that, in addition to the measures that are being undertaken and that are under examination, the Government would certainly be receptive to any constructive suggestions from members on either side of the House or from the community generally. [More…]

• From the point of view of the primary producing countries it is necessary that our point of view be expressed in that we have in many ways a community of interest with the developing world which is not always recognised by the major industrial economies. [More…]

• I will refer quickly to the abuses of the VIP flight: The wine flight; the strawberry flight; Fraser’s delight, the Opera House flight as the Sydney Sun described it; the Press conference flight for $3,000 for the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development to hold a Press conference; the trips to the tailor; and now the Government’s refusal to provide any information at all on the cost of overseas travel by Ministers of this Government. [More…]

• Hardship and difficulty were created for the community unknown since the days of the Great Depression. [More…]

• Of particular importance in the detailed list of functions specified for the CES, is the responsibility to ‘promote and implement approved manpower programs and other measures designed to ensure a high level of employment in the community’. [More…]

• The changing nature of the labour market in Australia, particularly the emergence of structural imbalances, has required successive governments to introduce manpower programs such as the National Employment and Training scheme- NEAT- aimed at overcoming labour market problems suffered by particular groups within the community. [More…]

• If such tax avoidance is being practised by the nation’s leaders, is it any wonder that this lucrative pastime has become so popular in the community generally? [More…]

• Rather, they seem to have ignored the effect of their’ decisions on the community as a whole and thereby dealt a severe blow to social justice in our community. [More…]

• This is the continuation of this Government’s thrust to make sure that taxation is fairly accepted by all members of the Australian community. [More…]

• A few people have suggested to me that there will be a loss of confidence in the business community as a result of the uncertainty of retrospective legislation. [More…]

• The majority of taxpayers in Australia who are meeting their obligations fairly and rightly, people from all walks of life including the business community, will welcome the Government’s action in its attempt to cut out the tax loopholes. [More…]

• I think that this legislation and the thrust of this Government’s policies will create much confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• On previous occasions I have used harsh words about tax avoiders and have said that they are bludging on the rest of the community. [More…]

• While ever we have this attitude in the judiciary it does not lend a serious example to the rest of the community as to where obligations should lie. [More…]

• The measure will counter the exploitation of the primary producer averaging provisions, a device used quite widely in the community. [More…]

• I often wonder whether people in the legal profession acknowledge the fact that they have a responsibility to the community as well as to their clients. [More…]

• We are the community and we, as members of the community, are responsible to pay for the upkeep of government. [More…]

• That is ironic because we are moving most definitely in this regard, although belatedly, and the people who represent these schemes in the community must be regarded as the Establishment. [More…]

• I am happy that at least the Government has taken some positive steps to discourage tax dodging by the wealthy which is endemic throughout the community. [More…]

• At the moment the Government is taking strong action against a section of the migrant community which is accused of defrauding- that is the word used- the sickness benefits and invalid pension provisions of the Social Services Act. [More…]

• We know that, whilst the law needs to be upheld by the Government, the sense of the law is often not upheld by people who enter into such schemes knowing very well that, as citizens of the community, they are due to pay a reasonable amount of tax. [More…]

• It would seem to me that the Curran scheme is one particular example, as the Treasurer (Mr Howard) stated, of a blatant and contrived scheme to get out of paying tax, which most people in the community would reasonably reckon should be paid. [More…]

• We were obliged to take the decision only because of the presence of an even greater principle, and that is the principle that the tax laws and taxation generally must be applied fairly over the whole community. [More…]

• I would think that there is a risk of some uncertainty occurring in the business community, particularly in respect of genuine transactions, if such a wide range of discretion exists. [More…]

• On behalf of the Government I say that the Australian community can no longer afford a situation where, through schemes which are totally devoid of commercial merit, schemes which amount to nothing other than a series of clever and contrived paper entries, massive amounts of tax are evaded and avoided. [More…]

• The greater its success in eliminating tax avoidance the greater will be the level of relief that it can give to the entire community of Australian taxpayers. [More…]

• Unless the Government is prepared to do this and to attack tax avoidance in a major way it will be failing not only in its duty to low income earners in this community who do not have access to these types of avoidance schemes but also it will be failing in its duty to a large number of high income earners who had both the opportunity and the financial incentive to enter into these schemes but who have consciously chosen not to do so. [More…]

• If that is the case, we have the sobering thought that the amount of revenue at stake if this action had not been taken by the Government in fact would have exceeded by almost $ 100m the total value of the February tax cuts to the entire Australian community in this financial year. [More…]

• The decision regarding this legislation was not taken lightly and was not taken without due regard to the genuine views of some people in this community who do not have a financial interest in Curran schemes but are nonetheless disturbed about the possible breach of principle involved. [More…]

• I simply do not accept the argument that if a future government were to pass legislation having retrospective effect regarding a normal commercial transaction that government could persuade me or the overwhelming majority of the Australian community that what this Government is doing now and what it is determined to do on this occasion could be invoked as a suitable precedent. [More…]

• We believe that in this Bill we have struck a blow not only for the low income earners in our community but also for the many high income earners in our community who detest the level of tax avoidance which is practised by many people. [More…]

• -This Government has done something about lightening the tax burden on the whole community. [More…]

• 1 would like to tell the House and those people in the community generally who are interested in this matter that since the legislation was introduced the question has been raised by a number of honourable members on this side of the House and by other people as to whether taxpayers who, between 16 August 1977 and 7 April 1978, entered in a Curran scheme and who prior to the latter date applied for a reduction in 1977-78 provisional tax in reliance on the scheme, will be penalised for making the application in circumstances in which they might have anticipated when lodging the application that their Curran scheme would be effective for this purpose. [More…]

• The ordinary man in the street and the ordinary reasonable man in the community on reading that statement would come to the false conclusion that Mr Eric Robinson, the Minister for Finance, was up to his elbows in the till into which the supposed windfall found itself. [More…]

• Such cruel damage to farmers affects the whole rural community. [More…]

• It is of some regret to me that the enormity of the damage and the tragedy caused by cyclone Alby has not been recognised throughout the community at large, especially the community in the eastern States. [More…]

• What has been his response to representations made to him on 28 October 1977 by the NSW Local Government Community Workers’ Association in which concern and dismay was expressed about the drastic curtailment of funding for the following Government responsibilities: (a) welfare workers under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, (b) Family Law Court Counselling Service, (c) education programs, including after school care, child care and other family care programs, and migrant classes for adults, (d) health care services including community health centres, domiciliary care services and women’s health centres, (e) unemployment and unemployment relief schemes, (0 housing, in particular housing for the aged and invalid people, (g) pension and benefit reductions in real values and proposed transfers of responsibility for these, (h) 470 community programs funded under the Australian Assistance Plan, (i) programs for the handicapped, (j) the Legal Aid Commission Bill, (k) Aboriginal affairs, (1) grant in aid services for migrants and interpreter services, (m) Australian Government printing services, (n) national co-ordinating bodies for youth affairs, (o) women ‘s refuges subsidies reductions and (p) Australian Bureau of Statistics processing. [More…]

• Mr D. R. Efraemson President, NSW Local Government Community Workers’ Association wrote to me on 28 October 1977 conveying a resolution passed at a conference of his Association held on 9-10 October 1977. [More…]

• AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH GAMES TEAM Mr STEWART- I direct my question to the Minister for Invironment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence will be aware of the great concern in the community about the Prime Minister’s decision to spend $26m on the purchase of two aircraft for his own purposes to travel internationally. [More…]

• There are some in the community who would argue that in some areas the investment allowance has aided rather than retarded the process of labour-shedding. [More…]

• I do not accept that overall the investment allowance has been an adverse factor so far as unemployment is concerned, but I think one must bear in mind that there are some in the community who would argue that the investment allowance has not been as effective in the job creation area as some may have thought. [More…]

• Last Thursday night the Prime Minister and I met with councillors from the Aurukun community for some two hours in the Cabinet room. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development: Has his attention been drawn to statements in the Press that there is likely to be a go ahead on oil drilling on the Great Barrier Reef? [More…]

• In any event, I think the honourable member should understand that the Council only makes recommendations relating to poisonous substances or substances that could have a harmful effect on the community and it is then up to the States and the Territories to pass legislation, if they think fit, to accommodate the recommendations of the Council. [More…]

• It is time that the Government insisted that community responsibility must take precedence over the financial aspirations of the large multinational corporations which dominate the automobile industry in this country. [More…]

• They have a responsibility to the community as a whole. [More…]

• We did it because we believe strongly that unless some retrospectivity or backdating applies to the closure of tax avoidance schemes the advantage will always be with the tax avoiders, the people who are generally reasonably wealthy and certainly at the upper end of the wealth scale in the community and who are avoiding tax at an enormous rate at present. [More…]

• During the second reading debate we proposed the principle that in every case where the Taxation Office found a tax avoidance measure being utilised by the wealthy people in the community an announcement should be made forthwith that legislation against that scheme would be introduced and backdated to the beginning of the financial year. [More…]

• My view, the Party’s view and, I think, the general community’s view, is that people should pay according to their income. [More…]

• We believe that the time is long overdue for a stand to be taken against the tax bludgers in this community. [More…]

• I want to repeat to the Committee and to the people generally that from 1 December 1974 there should have been no one in this community who entered into this scheme who did not know he was taking a risk in doing so. [More…]

• It is very sad for this Parliament that there are a few Government supporters- a very few- who are standing up in this place and taking the path of those few immoral advisers by supporting tax bludgers at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]

• What the Government has to determine is whether this deals with a general rule or a regrettable exception, whether or not this will create precedent for future action one way or the other, the degree of notice that the persons affected might have had, the effect on the revenue, the degree of abuse of the scheme, the effect on the community at large and the effect on public confidence, the balance between the effect on one side of some people saying the rule of law may be brought into disrepute and on the other side people saying ‘We can have no confidence in a government that will not take appropriate actions and will encourage people to welch on the revenue’. [More…]

• I believe it must be conceded that although morality is important in our community, other factors have to be considered. [More…]

• 1 want to refer the House to 1 December 1974 on the question of degree of notice because I think all honourable members would agree that the amount of prejudice to the community and to the revenue and the degree of loss of public confidence if these schemes are not dealt with give the Government a very strong argument on public interest. [More…]

• Honourable members on the Government side have made a number of remarks about what an Australian Labor Party Government would or would not do but they are quite prepared to sit by silent whilst the aged people in the community are being pursued upon the direction of a Minister last Friday, in respect of income which may be 12 months old but in respect of which inquiries have not been undertaken because the Department was short of staff. [More…]

• That may or may not be nonsense, but certainly the privileged people in our community are not entitled to that benefit, while this Government pursues people on a maximum income of $49 a week for one or two dollars that it wants to collect because these people may have put in incorrect income returns or, in ignorance, may not have assessed or set out their incomes correctly. [More…]

• It would save the Treasury millions of dollars; it would return equity to taxation and it would have the effect of diverting skilled persons into the productive areas within our community. [More…]

• These principles are the ones that hold our community together. [More…]

• The principles of this community will be upheld by those citizens who decide for themselves what is right and who do not examine legislation in a way which seeks to find the loopholes, who do not examine legislation which has a clear intent to us, the citizens of this country, to give their fair share of the costs of this country or who examine it in a way which will enable them to get away from paying that share. [More…]

• It is a simple analysis of the case that exists before us at the moment where a certain section of the community has seen fit to absolve itself from contributing to the national purse. [More…]

• -I am using the argument to show that the same people are now terrified about the use of some other power to make sure that a privileged section of the community pays its share of the tax bill. [More…]

• Like it or not, there is no doubt that basically they are supporting those wealthy groups in the community who believe that as they are born to rule they have a special right to be able to avoid tax. [More…]

• The Government is well aware of the activities in recent years of tax planners who, increasingly, are promoting tax avoidance schemes and arrangements throughout the business and professional community. [More…]

• If we analyse some of the other cases we find, without any reservation, that they cost the community just as much as, if not more than, the Curran scheme. [More…]

• I remind the Committee of what I said on this subject on Friday, that is, that ultimately when any government, be it a Liberal government or a Labor government, seeks to justify an action it is about to undertake by resort to precedent it is not sufficient to invoke the precedent in order to satisfy the community that it is justified in taking that action. [More…]

• It must also first persuade the community that the merits of the action which it seeks to undertake are on the side of what it proposes to do. [More…]

• It must go the very vital step further of satisfying the community that the merits of the proposal it intends to put onto the statute book can be justified on the grounds of public interest. [More…]

• It is unusual for anybody who holds Liberal principles dear to his heart to advocate the application of retrospective legislation but on this occasion I believe that the merits of the situation and our duty to the overwhelming majority of the Australian community require that the principle of the equity of the tax system take precedence over the question of nonretrospectivity. [More…]

• There will be people in the community who may disagree with that. [More…]

• There will be others in the community and in the professions who will very strongly agree with that. [More…]

• Grants to the States for the expansion and development of community health centres have been cut by $9.7m or 12 per cent. [More…]

• The European Economic Community is not going to buy more goods from us if the level of activity does not pick up. [More…]

• An article in the Australian Financial Review reported that for the first time, the European Community lodged a formal complaint with the Australian Ambassador in Brussels. [More…]

• Again, according to a report in the Australian Financial Review of 22 March, while our Minister spoke of cracking nuts, the Japanese moved quietly to the negotiating table to conclude an export deal with the European steel community. [More…]

• In respect of trading relations with Japan, again I find the Opposition’s claims rather paradoxical and amusing because it has said this afternoon that it is not the function of the Government to try to bully our various trading partners, whether it is Japan, the Soviet Union, the European Economic Community or whatever. [More…]

• The Opposition has commented this afternoon on the stand the Government has taken in its relationships with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• They suggest the Community should be treated with kid gloves and that we should use a feather duster. [More…]

• I refer in particular to many of the countries of western Europe, particularly those which are members of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is at the table is listening to the words of wisdom I have for him. [More…]

• Any resort to short term expediency at this stage would constitute a grave threat to long term employment revival, a revival which is now confidently expected by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Australian business community. [More…]

• We need confidence in this country in the economy and I would ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, to draw the attention of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) to a report which appeared last week in the Australian Financial Review that persons associated with both VAM Ltd and the so-called militant wing of the New South Wales Liberal Party are trying to take over the New South Wales Permanent Building Society, which has assets of $700m. [More…]

• When one looks at the size of the deficit, which amounts to $4,522m at the end of April, one can see the strains that must be placed around the money market and on the financial community in having to meet that sort of deficit in Australia. [More…]

• No community can go on funding those sorts of deficits without reflecting some strain. [More…]

• Many millions of dollars are tied up in these areas and that money is not totally utilised within the community. [More…]

• The Minister also said that an extra $2.1m was needed for the Community Youth Support Program. [More…]

• I think that is the answer to allegations of dole bludging and it gives a fair example of what we are doing to the young people in the community by depressing the economy. [More…]

• One is the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Above all it is good to see that the community responds to them and indicates an interest in their various undertakings. [More…]

• It is depressing and upsetting to realise that these young people who come along full of enthusiasm, backed by the cadet corp arrangements now which see a great community involvement, find that they cannot get a place. [More…]

• I mentioned the other day the wine carriage flight, the strawberry flight, the search and collect mission for cleaning cloths a few weeks ago, the $3,000 Press conference dash by the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The abolition of these taxes and their non-replacement by any other tax on capital, which is what is contemplated by this Government, will thus accentuate wealth inequalities in our community which, as I have shown, are already very considerable. [More…]

• There is in the community a general dislike of all taxes and a general feeling among people that they do not like their estates being taxed when they die. [More…]

• That being the case, the fear in the community of this tax is extraordinarily ill-based in our view. [More…]

• Perhaps he could be invited to open the new Community Welfare Centre, one suggested. [More…]

• He states that there is a strain of academic teaching that is providing people with such depression about our community by telling them that the community is so oppressive- although Mr Fairbairn does not see that- that they are convinced that something must be done. [More…]

• It seems it is being accepted in Germany that these academics, who often drive Mercedes Benz vehicles, who live in very nice homes and who go home at night time to all the comforts of Western society, are inflicting upon young well-educated people from middle and upper class families, in an almost systematic fashion, such a degree of hatred and desperation about, and such an attitude of decadence towards the community that these people are actively pursuing terrorist activity. [More…]

• I hope that the academic community will engage in a debate on this question, that the community generally will be prepared to consider the whole question and the universities and their students will consider this matter in great detail. [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…]

• Whereas the Naval Reserve Cadets and the Air Training Corps mainly consist of ‘open’ or community sponsored units, the Australian Cadet Corps (Army Cadets) consists of ‘closed ‘ or school affiliated units with the exception of one experimental ‘open ‘ unit in South Australia. [More…]

• A National Committee of Non-Government Organisations is being established to assist voluntary organisations and community groups to plan and co-ordinate activities related to the celebration of the Year. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]

• I recall him as an energetic member of the Parliament, a Minister with long and distinguished service to the community, and one who made a most valuable contribution to it during the years of his service as Minister of the Crown in the Australian Government. [More…]

• The community is the worse for his passing and the Opposition joins the Government in expressing its sympathy to the members of his family. [More…]

• He played a very prominent part in that community and many will mourn his passing. [More…]

• What is of the greatest concern is that a society can become fragmented in such a way that these sorts of senseless acts can occur and that the lawful authorities responsible for seeking to locate and bring to trial the perpetrators receive so little support from people in the community. [More…]

• It is the year in which, as the United States has told us on many occasions, it will not be content with progress in multinational trade negotiations on industrial goods alone; it wants progress in argicultural goods, particularly from the European Economic Community. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Health: Is it a fact that the Government has received very many representations from members of the community expressing great concern at the cost of abortions being covered by medical benefit funds? [More…]

• Yes, the Government has received a great number of representations from people throughout the community who have been concerned about the increasing number of abortions that are being carried out in the community and, as a result, the high cost of benefits that are being paid for those procedures. [More…]

• The facts are that where human rights are concerned, where fundamental respect of the civil liberties of people is at issue and where proper standards normally accepted by the community in these matters are concerned the Queensland Government cannot be trusted. [More…]

• The strong support which the principles of the Agreement have received throughout the community results from early and continuing discussion and co-operation between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]

• I believe they will lead to increased availability of flexible mortgage conditions for home purchasers generally in our community. [More…]

• Finally, the alleged sectional impact of death duties on the rural community which has arisen, at least in the immediate past, partly from the overvaluation of rural land, requires attention. [More…]

• The effects will be widely welcomed by the Australian community. [More…]

• Not only is there a financial burden on a family but, as many in the community will know to their cost, the unexpected death of a small businessman can often mean that the business is severely disrupted. [More…]

• We are committed to lower taxation, putting more money back in the pockets of the mass of individual hard working people while at the same time recognising a government and community responsibility to provide for those less able to look after themselves. [More…]

• We are committed to a reduction of gross, bureaucratic elephantitis and to creating an environment in which free individual citizens can run their own lives for the benefit of themselves and their families in accordance with the good of the general community. [More…]

• The gains at the upper end of the property scale will be great and an opportunity will be lost to collect, over the next few years, what will amount to hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue, while the Government presses down on those people in the community who have no asset backing, no security and who for that reason live in fear of sickness and potential unemployment or any kind of major crisis. [More…]

• However, it must be emphasised that this is not a government interested in reform but rather a government which is primarily dedicated to reinforcing the divisions which exist between men of property and the rest of the community. [More…]

• There are vast inequities and inequalities within the community and the measures before the House are designed to increase the distances between people. [More…]

• It seems to me that it is a very dangerous thing for a democratic community to move in the direction in which this Government is taking us. [More…]

• It is clearly related to the quality of services that the community wants to see provided by governments; in other words the standards of community health, education and welfare. [More…]

• It could be argued that those countries within the OECD group that have higher percentages of their gross domestic product absorbed in taxation very often have higher standards of community and welfare services. [More…]

• If the consensus within the Australian community is that people want lower levels of taxation, for God’s sake let us achieve it in a way which protects the interests of the lower income earners. [More…]

• What they did was shift the burden of community and welfare services in this community from the people who can damned well afford to pay for them to the backs of the people who cannot, to the people who need and ought to live in a community which is able to provide the full range and quality of services. [More…]

• That is not true of every community in Australia. [More…]

• If those differences are to be reduced and if there is to be some equity between town and country, some equity between inner city and outer city and some equity between people in various occupations, taxation will continue to be important and it will be of basic importance that any restructuring or change in the taxation system be designed to protect the interest not of a few but of all in the community. [More…]

• We have seen divisions in the community widen and we now have a government which is committed to widening those divisions still further. [More…]

• It is a symbol of class government, of property government, and it ought not to be acceptable within a democratic community. [More…]

• This afternoon the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) spoke about this Government being interested in the propertied sections of the community and the entrenched sections of the community. [More…]

• By depriving itself of revenue, which would otherwise have been available if certain reforms had not been introduced, this Government is reducing the amount of spending, the growth rate of the Public Service and the way in which governments provide and offer services to the Australian community. [More…]

• I understand that the Australian rural community represents about 6 per cent of the population in terms of taxpayers. [More…]

• It is sometimes asserted that the incidence of death duties falls far too heavily on the farming community. [More…]

• It was the contention of the honourable member for Batman that as a community we are not over taxed. [More…]

• Honourable members on the Government side of the House contended that as a community we are over taxed. [More…]

• If so, honourable members and the community are entitled to know in what form. [More…]

• I realise that this is only transitional legislation, but what I am asking is whether the machinery is adequate to ensure that the ordinary citizens in the community are made aware of the intention to hold an inquiry and are given the opportunity to present their views. [More…]

• I genuinely believe, along with a considerable proportion of the Australian community, that the standards of all our radio and television stations- I include the Australian Broadcasting Commission in certain respects which I think tends to be better than the rest- are not as good as they ought to be and all will benefit from public scrutiny. [More…]

• It may simply be that advertising provisions laid down in the legislation are in fact wide enough and will not require further amendment to ensure that the new procedures are made known throughout the community. [More…]

• The next point I want to make is that in line with this feeling is that these public hearings should appear in the eyes of the community to be genuine inquiries into the adequacy or otherwise of the particular station managers or proprietors and that there is adequate justification for the renewal of licences. [More…]

• Regulation is not only necessary to ensure the orderly use of the airwaves but also is vitally important to ensure that standards are maintained and that the needs of the community are satisfied. [More…]

• Of course, some people, particularly the commercial broadcasters, have maintained that it is not necessary to have regulation in order to ensure that the needs of the community are satisfied as the market forces of broadcasting ought to be able to ensure that. [More…]

• It clearly indicates that the Tribunal is not prepared to accept the argument that market forces alone are sufficient to ensure that broadcasters satisfy the needs of the community. [More…]

• I maintain that the way in which the needs of the community can best be satisfied, is via some form of public participation in broadcasting. [More…]

• I do not think that this is in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• As a consequence of this tendency towards mediocrity and the tendency to compete for the same sort of market, the opportunities for audiences and the community as a whole to express their preferences via the rating system is a highly qualified option. [More…]

• It is only in this way that the holders of broadcasting licences can realistically come under the scrutiny of the community as a whole. [More…]

• The community might then be able to express its preferences to require some sort of change in the way in which broadcasters use their licences. [More…]

• Because the air waves are being opened up to the public by providing community, educational and special licences, it could be argued that this will take the pressure off the holders of existing licences to satisfy the total needs of the community. [More…]

• Certainly there is a great deal of interest in the community at large in the forthcoming issuing of licences in the field of public broadcasting. [More…]

• I trust that the members of the Broadcasting Tribunal will look carefully at the qualifications and the nature of those people in the community who are looking to operate a licence. [More…]

• We ought to think of the audience as being equivalent with the community and recognise that every majority is made up of groups which are themselves minoritiesyoung women, old women, girls, young men, old men, boys, Anglicans, Catholics, agnostics, rich, middle income, poor, under-educated and over-educated. [More…]

• We know that our community is in a constant state of movement. [More…]

• If it does so, how will it equate the ultimate loss and cost to the community because of this program in future years with the savings in expenditure now? [More…]

• The feedback I get on the ground on these sorts of programs is that under the guidelines set by this Government and the attitude it takes there is a lack of confidence within the community and within the educational field itself that this continuance will occur. [More…]

• Their main focus is on more effective learning in basic curriculum areas, but they also include organisational changes in schools, radical departures from traditional learning patterns such as cross age tutoring, the extension of the learning environment through outdoor education, field stations and work experience, improved community/school liaison and adventurous extensions of the drama, music, dance and art experience of students. [More…]

• I have had discussions with the principal of that college and I have been impressed by the general desire of those who are involved in technical education to make certain that the courses they offer are not confined to apprentices and the young people who undertake normal training and who attend normal classes but are available to all people in the community. [More…]

• I do not wish to cause any offence, but a group of young people involved in a Community Youth Support Scheme were given an ordinary spelling test involving ordinary words that they would be required to use if they went out to get a job anywhere. [More…]

• There is a vital community use of schools. [More…]

• In most of our States and Territories it is now the policy to encourage the use of school facilities by community groups. [More…]

• An amount of $4.24m was allocated specifically to allow country schools to involve themselves in community programs that would in some way advantage the immediate needs of their areas. [More…]

• It has involved parents and teachers and the community outside the school as they have never been involved in education and it is proving, as I said, a great program. [More…]

• The economic policies of our Government are today allowing the money that is spent in education to be effectively used to the benefit of students, their parents and ultimately to the benefit of our community. [More…]

• I am fairly certain that the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Fisher) is sensitive to what education is all about but is in danger of becoming complacent under the barrage of propaganda which is supporting the Government’s failure to do anything effective in the community. [More…]

• It is not facing up to the facts of life as they are developing in this community. [More…]

• There ought to be something inside the education system which gives them satisfaction and is relevant to the needs of the community. [More…]

• It is obviously of great concern to us as it is to all honourable members and to the community to know the amount of funds going into the salaries vote as pan of the whole education process. [More…]

• If it is possible for any government to provide benefits to that section of the community it should do so because these people justly deserve help. [More…]

• These areas were neglected completely year by year by consecutive conservative governments with the result that they were completely without the necessary community facilities to protect and uplift the quality of life in those regions. [More…]

• When it comes to the outer western suburbs of Sydney it is essential that they receive Federal Government assistance to overcome the backlag in community facilities brought about as a result of continuous conservative governments refusing to give us that assistance. [More…]

• Unfortunately there are still a few, not many, in the community and on the Government benches who apparently do not accept the reality of that step. [More…]

• Will the Minister use his influence to help to redress the imbalance seen by country people whereby telephone subscribers in large cities enjoy much greater opportunity to make local calls within zones of community interest and whereby those city subscribers enjoy continuous automatic service, which is a situation that certainly is not shared by many of their country cousins? [More…]

• In view of the statement by the Secretary of the Department of National Development in an address last week to an American Conference in Sydney that ‘No in-principle decision to apply such a tax has yet been taken’, can the Treasurer give an assurance that a resources tax will be introduced so that part of the windfall profits of $109m to Esso-BHP and $41m to other oil producers in Australia is returned to the Australian community? [More…]

• The implication of the chart that the honourable member for Port Adelaide has been kind enough to allow me to incorporate in Hansard is that it deals with production in the three major wheat exporting countries- the United States of America, the European Economic Community and Canadawhere production is down, as will be seen from the table. [More…]

• I make it plain- I have made it clear in this House beforethat terrorists should not be glamourised by the community. [More…]

• What is the community to expect? [More…]

• It is not only offensive to all reasonable ideas of protection of the community, but also it is offensive to sensible proposals for prison reform itself. [More…]

• I call on the community at large to write letters and to contact their State representatives because it is the State Government that has power over this prison. [More…]

• Without intelligence the community is blind. [More…]

• The State committees will provide grass roots contact with industry, centres of education and the community generally. [More…]

• Amending legislation which will be introduced in the Budget sittings will make it clear that the main role for CSIRO will be scientific and technological research in support of Australian industry, community interests and other perceived national objectives and obligations. [More…]

• CSIRO research will support such community interests as the better protection of our environment, flora and fauna, and consumer interests. [More…]

• The types of research to be undertaken will be longer term research for the community’s benefit which industry and other research organisations are unable to carry out, and fundamental and short-term problem-oriented research if it is related to the role of the organisation. [More…]

• It has also been agreed that CSIRO should present, at appropriate intervals, the main thrusts of its broad policies and more detailed objectives for government, parliamentary and community scrutiny. [More…]

• A much healthier, critical attitude has developed, including an acknowledgement that community and environmental needs must be considered directly. [More…]

• I hope that the academic and scientific community in such institutions as the CSIRO will be able to work out some method which will allow persons who have good qualifications and who were active researchers still to contribute to the academic community and yet will not prevent young people getting into the main stream. [More…]

• These inquiries on the variations are becoming increasingly important to the Australian Capital Territory community. [More…]

• The Committee sees it as essential therefore that it consult the community and obtain views on proposals put forward by the authorities. [More…]

• The Committee will continue to seek to involve the community further in its examination of such proposals. [More…]

• The Bill now before the House represents in a very real sense, a continuation of the endeavours of honourable members on both sides of the Parliament to meet the legitimate constitutional aspirations of the Northern Territory community, indeed, although it has proved necessary for presentational reasons to repeal the Northern Territory (Administration) Act, this Bill seeks the re-enactment, in largely the same form, of a large number of the existing provisions of that Act. [More…]

• The Government cannot stand aside and let these organisations arrange affairs to achieve results satisfactory to them but unsatisfactory to the community generally. [More…]

• It is also in the interests of the community, which provides financial assistance in proceedings under the Act. [More…]

• For some of the elder people in our community it brings fears of another depression. [More…]

• For some of the very young people in our community it brings frustration before undreamed of. [More…]

• I draw attention to a further quote of Mr Bowes when he said: ‘These current labour market imbalances are likely to proceed into the future as long as either the international economic situation, the education system and community values all remain unchanged or government and employers insist upon relying on those policy actions which seemed sufficient during the previous decade’. [More…]

• It is rather amazing still to hear in the late 1970s debate over the right to work of some sections of our community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Employment Service obviously will be successful only if its schemes receive support from the community in general and the State and Federal governments specifically. [More…]

• Any agency that is providing a service of the level indicated by the figures given by the Minister in his second reading speechthat is, in 1977 the Commonwealth Employment Service made over 1,200,000 referrals to vacancies and effected over 400,000 placements- is in a position to develop an expertise that would inevitably give it a position that I would regard as being beneficial to the community. [More…]

• As a matter of preference, the Review would not wish to have the CES issue, receive or check Department of Social Security benefit claim forms, but recognises that the CES ought, as a community service, have the necessary forms available. [More…]

• There are many people in our community who believe that an early retirement plan would help to overcome the high rate of unemployment amongst the young people. [More…]

• to assist persons seeking employment or a change of employment to obtain suitable positions having regard to any experience, abilities, training or qualifications they possess and to the economic and other needs of the Australian community . [More…]

• The Bill then goes on to spell out the next function of the CES, namely: to promote and implement approved manpower programs and other measures designed to ensure a high level of employment in the community. [More…]

• Only the areas of retail trade, community services, and entertainment in the tertiary sector show any real expansion. [More…]

• That is clause 6 (c), which, it is said, will encourage the CES to ‘promote and implement approved manpower programs and other measures designed to ensure a high level of employment in the community’. [More…]

• An effective and efficient Commonwealth Employment Service is required if we are to deal with some aspects of unemployment in our community. [More…]

• Government Ministers, speaking on the sorts of programs that the Government is pursuing in this area, have made it clear that they regard the upgrading of the Commonwealth Employment Service as an initial and an integral part of the Government’s program to overcome some of the problems that we have in our community as a result of massive unemployment. [More…]

• It cannot be forgotten that it was the policies and initiatives of honourable members opposite that brought about the great bulk of unemployment in this community. [More…]

• The Bill is a significant indication of the Government’s commitment to overcome the high levels of unemployment that we have in this community, because we regard low levels of unemployment as essential. [More…]

• It is certainly a Bill which acknowledges the width of the Service that we have seen grow in response to demands from the community over the last 20 years or so. [More…]

• If that is the case, I cannot understand the basis of the honourable member’s criticism of the fine Public Service that we have in this community. [More…]

• I refer not just to the wider community but to the attitudes of the Aboriginals themselves who are not in a traditional situation and have not lived in a traditional way. [More…]

• I link those activities particularly to the Government’s initiatives in relation to the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• I have already mentioned the Community Youth Support scheme which was also an initiative of this Government. [More…]

• I believe that members of the Australian Labor Party who now are so critical of this system might at least have found the time within the framework of their legislative timetable when they were in office to introduce legislation which might have been of advantage to the community at large. [More…]

• It called for a report and has introduced legislation which the Government and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations believe will go a long way towards making the Commonwealth Employment Service a modern type of structure which will serve the community and help to alleviate the problems of unemployment. [More…]

• Despite the criticism of too much stress being placed on our counter inflationary measures, the fact is that under the present system we are moving into a position where more confidence will be instilled into the business community. [More…]

• The Government has set up a Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• In some Aboriginal communities the Federal Government has established a scheme known as the Community Employment Development Project which the community administers. [More…]

• Basically, amounts paid under the scheme roughly equate with the amount which is paid to eligible members of the community in unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I venture to say that in the electorate of Melbourne about 90 per cent or more of the Aboriginal community would be unemployed. [More…]

• There was no Community Youth Support scheme when we came to government and at the moment there are 31,500 young people participating in it. [More…]

• This has been indicated in recent years by the fact that a number of major countries- including the United States, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, New Zealand, Canada and the member countries of the European Economic Community- have extended their fishing jurisdiction to this extent. [More…]

• This practice was not stopped, regrettably, and only a British ban in the United Kingdom 200-mile limit forced the European Economic Community herring fishers to follow. [More…]

• We must also remember the position in relation to our negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I can understand the resentment of workers who suddenly find that they have lost their jobs or are in danger of losing their jobs because another section of the community, which is not directly affected financially, demands that an industry be closed down. [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…]

• I give the following advice to members of the community who find themselves being requested to submit to a search at an airport or shipping terminal: Demand to be taken before a justice; and demand in the presence of the justice that he require the officer to nominate the source of his reasonable cause for suspicion. [More…]

• This type of smuggling activity must be stamped out for the protection of the whole community. [More…]

• In this, I believe, he displayed a respect for the parliamentary system since lost but which could well be rescued with advantage to its reputation and influence in the community. [More…]

• It should be remembered that in the great tumult of the early 1950s and the confrontation in the community over civil rights, and in particular over the Communist Party Dissolution Bill and so on, he locked horns with another very great Australian in Dr Evatt. [More…]

• On Tuesday, 16 May, the councillors and staff of the Dimboola Shire meeting that day in Jeparit adjourned to the Menzies memorial erected in 1966 by the community to honour this small town’s famous son. [More…]

• In a short ceremony the community of today recognised a man of stature who became a great national figure and a world statesman. [More…]

• He sought to serve the whole community- as the fund now in mind will do and in fact must do. [More…]

• As a result, the Ambassador to France cannot without prejudice to his principal functions give to UNESCO the attention that its importance in the international community and its significance to Australia deserve. [More…]

• to assess the economic and local characteristics of the Islanders and to decide if they are in any way disadvantaged as a group, relatively to other groups in the Australian community; and [More…]

• I believe it would be beneficial to the community however, if the institutions participating in the scheme of Tax Incentives for the Arts were to set aside suitable material from their collections which would be available for display in parks, squares or buildings open to the public. [More…]

• Experienced officers check documentation for New Zealand goods covered by the scheme for community protection aspects which include prohibited imports. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 1 March 1 978: [More…]

• The Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare has communicated with me about proposals to amend the Regulations made under the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act in relation to the authorisation of entry to Aboriginal reserves in Western Australia. [More…]

• The CRS has long recognised the advantages to its handicapped clients of establishing close working relationships between the staffs of its rehabilitation facilities and those of major hospitals in the region, as well as, for example, community health centres, special schools, local governmental and voluntary agencies for the handicapped, etc. [More…]

• There needs to be an acceptance of that in the broad cross-section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Despite this very rapidly rising financial burden on the community, there is no evidence available to show a decline in illness. [More…]

• While Medibank had achieved universal insurance, it had done so at high cost to the community. [More…]

• It was just as clear to the Government that unless action was taken to arrest the rate of health costs inflation, it would crowd out opportunities for income tax reductions and government spending on other essential programs to give relief to the needy sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government has considered a large number of options available to it to generate the necessary sense of community responsibility in both the provision and the usage of health services. [More…]

• Large-scale acrosstheboard Government subsidy is wasteful of resources and reduces the Government’s capacity to assist the needy sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government believes this to be the most responsible approach to the objective of constraining the rising costs of health care to the taxpayer and to the community generally. [More…]

• He is not so completely convinced now that medical practitioners and the representatives of private funds are doing things in the interests of the community only. [More…]

• Those people who are sick and those people who are not well off in the community will be quite significantly worse off [More…]

• The people who will be hurt most will be those in the poorest sections of the community. [More…]

• The Minister emphasises in his statement the fact that the Government is interested in the poor sections of the community. [More…]

• The European Economic Community is producing at 70 per cent of capacity, Japan at 70 per cent and Australia at 80 per cent. [More…]

• They would see the necessary community facilities and public works- both State and Commonwealthimmediately come to fruition. [More…]

• The number of unemployed young people registered, and the number of unregistered juniors hidden in the community, represents a major social catastrophe. [More…]

• -This debate on Supply Bills (Nos 1 and 2) 1978-79 provides an opportunity for the Parliament to make some examination of the magnitude of the funds being provided by way of interim appropriations for the period 1 July 1978 to 30 November 1978 and of the quality of services provided by the Government to the community in the current financial year. [More…]

• I support the amendment that has been moved by the Opposition, because I believe it properly reflects the attitude of this Government to the community. [More…]

• The formation of the European Economic Community is a very hopeful sign. [More…]

• Those barriers have now fallen down and the countries have formed a community among themselves. [More…]

• It is absolute nonsense to reduce public expenditure and government activity at a time when there are great social and other constructive needs in the community, and when the only customer- that is the Government- is getting out of the business. [More…]

• Many people in our community contended that there was dubious constitutional validity for that action. [More…]

• Costs to the trading community and shipping industry have been estimated to be in the order of $ I m per day. [More…]

• It is within the context of that sort of recommendation that the present Government has created these groups which have a capacity for economic input to allow forward planning of the economy, not to be done in an authoritarian and dictatorial way by the Government but in consultation with the people who will be affected by it, that is the business community and the unions. [More…]

• Indicative planning would be the only framework which would ensure that the costs of change are shared equitably across the community as a whole, as well as by future generations. [More…]

• I challenge that statement, and I think that the majority of people in the community also disagree with it. [More…]

• The economy is stimulated only by a restoration of faith in the future of all Australian people, in particular the business community. [More…]

• We have restored faith in the Australian dollar, and this has led to increasing investment confidence in the community. [More…]

• Surely the task force should not be permitted to bring down a report on which the Government will act without consulting every section of the community. [More…]

• The interests of the whole of the community must be considered, and that philosophy ought to flow through the decisions taken by this Parliament as a result of the report of the task force. [More…]

• I made a few investigations and found that in fact 156 submissions were forwarded from computer organisations, industry, community groups, the general public, academics, the Government and trade union groups. [More…]

• I am not closing the debate, of course, because the motion was moved by my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• It certainly does not guarantee the fundamental rights of the citizens of this community, and where it does guarantee rights it tends to guarantee them as a conservative instrument would- that is, it fails to protect broadly rights in the community, but rather entrenches privileged position. [More…]

• The point I am making without labouring the unconstitutionality of this matter and the fact that the unconstitutionality is tolerated is that it is quite wrong that these sorts of deceptive practices should be resorted to in an effort to have implemented programs which are necessary in the community, which are sought by the community but which are not being properly provided by the responsible level of authority. [More…]

• There is no accounting system which can be effectively brought to bear against the incumbent of that office as we discovered- we the community; not just the Labor Party- in 1975. [More…]

• It must rock the confidence of the people of this community. [More…]

• It is absolutely necessary that the enormous range of powers that are available to the viceregal representative in this country are clearly denned and adequately circumscribed not only so that the democratic system can function but so that the confidence of the people in this community can be re-established. [More…]

• The approach recognises that trained trade unionists, no less than trained management, are of critical importance to the community and that without public support for trade union training little progress is likely. [More…]

• Equally, trade union training, provided through a statutory authority and funded by the taxpayer, must have regard to community interests, and the Government believes that the balanced membership of the Executive Board recognises that need. [More…]

• May I first remind honourable members of the important place the defence service homes scheme holds in the array of Commonwealth programs of assistance to various sections of the community. [More…]

• Whilst the Law of the Sea Conference is not moving with any great haste, a substantial measure of agreement has been reached on the question of the 200-mile economic zones, and this Bill will bring us into line with the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Japan, Canada, New Zealand and the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• However, it is my belief that we will never effectively be able to encourage sensible conservation policies unless those policies have the total support of the community. [More…]

• I think the fact that we have instituted that inquiry shows the seriousness with which the Government has approached the opposition by the Australian and international community to excessive whaling. [More…]

• Liberal-Country Party governments have always sought science policy advice from two sources- the established elite of the Australian academic scientific community and big business. [More…]

• If one of ASTEC’s tasks is to keep the Government, Parliament and community informed on latest scientific and technological developments it should include active scientists. [More…]

• Also, minutes and agenda papers, and an invitation to be represented at council meetings when items of interest are on the agenda, are sent to the following group of departments and agencies: Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Department of Finance, Department of Productivity, Department of Transport, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Telecommunications Commission, and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• We had gained the confidence of the Australian community by consulting with it. [More…]

• Similarly, whilst the senior members of Australia ‘s technical community have useful contributions to add to science policy considerations, if ASTEC or the Government wanted to know what is happening at the frontiers of research, who better to ask than the young, active, vigorous scientists and technologists of our nation? [More…]

• It is these people who should, by their involvement in advising Government and the community, be encouraged to develop their social consciences as well. [More…]

• the implications for the community, for the environment, for industry and for Government policy of developments in science and technology; [More…]

• I doubt very much that, in the overall context of the community’s need, the sort of research in which I was involved, namely, heart transplants, was worth anything at all. [More…]

• I do not think we have faced up to the great problems of science in relation to the community. [More…]

• One of the oddities of our community at the present moment is that we are very careful of the environment. [More…]

• There was no sociologist, no philosopher, no economist and no one representing the consumer organisations or consumer interests in the broader community sense. [More…]

• That is a realistic assessment of the fact that if a prospective member is actively involved in research at the height of his career he will not want to give up six, eight or ten years of his life, but he may be prepared to put aside three years in order to work on a council such as this and hence give the community the very latest and best advice in his area. [More…]

• For instance, I do not want to offend my friend the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) but I think it is fair to say that the great proportion of people in this Parliament, when they are facing up to the ordinary community gatherings, when they sit on community deliberations, when they go to meetings of other bodies to which they belong or of which they have membership, are probably the most free spirits in it. [More…]

• The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) recently announced that national health expenditure has risen from $2,232m in 1 97 1-72 to $6,254m in the current year- a matter which has been recognised in the Government’s community health program. [More…]

• Unfortunately only approximately one per cent of the national health bill is spent on the community health program and on preventive medicine in this country. [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…]

• What assistance is made available by his Department by way of capital or maintenance costs for airstrips providing an air service to communities such as Andamooka and Coober Pedy, S.A., where the airstrips are owned by community organisations and, as no local government operates, are outside the provisions of the local ownership plan. [More…]

• In view of the deepening national concern over youth employment, including that expressed by the trade union movement, what steps do the Minister, the Minister for Education and the Cabinet propose to take concerning the introduction of a national community youth cadet scheme both at home and overseas? [More…]

• We have been concentrating on strengthening the opportunities for young people to gain work experience, particularly under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• We already know that the European Economic Community is concerned about access into its markets of commodities other than agricultural ones. [More…]

• The Australian Government, as a significant trading nation, has an obligation to its own citizens and also to the international community, to try to make sure that the decisions made through the course of this year not only at the multinational trade negotiations but also at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in relation to the Common Fund in which Australia has taken a leading position and a leading role are as sensible and constructive as can possibly be devised. [More…]

• All the intraEuropean Community trade, for example, has to be exempted because it is not affected by the proposal. [More…]

• It is only through administrative convenience that the Commissioner has adopted the practice of assessing various groups in various parts of the community. [More…]

• I have already advised the Queensland Ministers, Mr Porter and Mr Hinze, that in the Commonwealth ‘s view the first step should be the appointment of the advisory committees for each community, for those committees are intended to assist the communities in their role of self-management. [More…]

• It is of the utmost importance that both governments keep in the closest contact and communication with each community so that they are fully informed of the intentions of both governments. [More…]

• There is a real distinction between those unauthorised arrivals and people within the community who do not hold valid entry permits. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of the problems being created for Community Youth Support Scheme administrators by the long delay in the introduction of the 12-month approval period, first announced by the Minister on 23 March this year? [More…]

• I am aware that the delay in issuing the new guidelines for the Community Youth Support Scheme has created some uncertainty in the minds of those people who are involved in the scheme. [More…]

• Even though the detailed guidelines have not yet been issued, the State committees have power to approve the continuation of projects for up to 12 months, provided of course that the requisite information is available and the committee is satisfied that the situation in the community concerned and the success of the scheme in helping unemployed young people warrant this extension. [More…]

• In relation to submissions made by local Community Youth Support Scheme committees for 12 months funding starting from 1 July, I can say that provided the required information is made available and the submissions are received at the Victorian regional office of my Department before Friday, 2 June, such submissions can be considered by the State Community Youth Support Scheme committee which will be meeting later in the month. [More…]

• For example, I am told that in the European Economic Community countries hospital bed costs amount to $140 a day. [More…]

• This affects the health of the community. [More…]

• It would significantly strengthen the infrastructure of the wider Aboriginal community. [More…]

• John Avery has called it, the position of women in the community would deteriorate, and the assimilation of local Aborigines to the position of wage labourers would be advanced at the cost of a breakdown of community life. [More…]

• Our own claim that the Government is shifting the cost burden on to the sick and the poor is shared by many people in the community who normally do not support us. [More…]

• It was the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party which caused the fundamental problems to the Australian economy, which generated unemployment, which let loose the worst inflation in history, and which has hurt the poor and the needy more than any other section in the Australian community. [More…]

• -That is assisting those who can afford to help themselves by meeting bills that they should be meeting and by misdirecting resources to other than the needy sections of the community. [More…]

• During that time despite very rapidly rising financial burdens of the community, no real evidence was available to indicate that there was a decline in illness. [More…]

• I like to think with some generosity towards a very important profession in the Australian community. [More…]

• It was the honourable member for Prospect and his Government- when the Opposition was in Government- that quite clearly destroyed a lot of the goodwill that was available to the Australian community from the medical profession. [More…]

• If the Government can do anything to restore that goodwill for the medical profession to the Australian community, we will endeavour to do so. [More…]

• The honourable member is quite deliberately trying to terrify people in the community by making them believe that they must have cash in the pocket before they go to the doctor. [More…]

• We have more than halved inflation- inflation which hurts the poorer sections of the community more than the richer sections of it. [More…]

• Does it want to see the opportunity provided to the health insurance funds to devise systems that are acceptable to the community? [More…]

• Yes, spreading panic in the community. [More…]

• One of the difficulties therefore is that it is almost impossible for the Opposition to make any overall assessment of what is being done to Medibank mark 2.I do not suppose that worries the Government very much but the community is in exactly the same position. [More…]

• Let it be clearly said that it is the Minister who is creating panic in the community by the inept and clumsy methods with which all the announcements have been handled. [More…]

• It is amazing that the Labor Party should seek to create in our community the impression that it is the champion of the underdog, the little person, the disadvantaged or the underprivileged. [More…]

• That provision will create a great deal of hardship within the community. [More…]

• Without exception, people who have been interviewed regarding their family’s requirements and the requirements of the community for housing listed certain matters as of importance. [More…]

• There must be more involvement in a community if home ownership is to be achieved. [More…]

• At this point one must feel that the Government must be congratulated, as must be the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• The Housing Industry Association talks about the factors involved in affordable houses and mentions factors that comprise the cost of housing to the community. [More…]

• Mr Newman, when he was Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, made the original announcements. [More…]

• After all, we are talking about subsidised housing funds, and the Labor Government was concerned to ensure that those funds went to the most deserving people in our community. [More…]

• There is one standard for the Government and its sectional interests and another for the rest of the community. [More…]

• When confronted with the evidence of these double standards, with the wilful damage he is causing the Australian community, the Prime Minister simply dismisses them, denies them. [More…]

• He is now the chief instrument of the Prime Minister’s campaign of harassment against the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The mass media and community spokesmen needed no prompting to arrive at a near-unanimous denunciation of the Prime Minister’s high-handed dismissal of clear public sentiment. [More…]

• As we have said in the Parliament, the Prime Minister’s announcement from Nareen or somewhere else as to what he thinks has happened in the European Economic Community has embarrassed the special trade negotiators. [More…]

• I want an undertaking from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) that in tabling that report he will make a statement which will allow the House to debate the housing situation. [More…]

• 1 believe also that the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development should give us the right under clause 15 to debate this issue every year so that we can illustrate the shortcomings that exist in welfare housing. [More…]

• The point of this legislation which the Opposition has refused to acknowledge, and which during the course of this debate, it has consistently contested, is that the legislation introduced by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) in this session provides for the most flexible, the most logical and the most innovative approach to welfare housing that this Parliament has ever seen. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is not responsible for housing in the Australian Capital Territory, but in Canberra last Sunday there was a strong protest meeting held against government rentals being increased. [More…]

• -I would not disagree with a lot that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has said. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has worked out some different schemes. [More…]

• I should like to make two comments on clause 20 for the benefit of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• We have heard Opposition spokesmen reply to the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) on this Bill. [More…]

• It is not the view oh this side of the House that home ownership ought not to be supported within the Australian community as one of the goals of a national housing policy. [More…]

• However, among the objectives set out in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- a trivial speech which did not go into the policy objectives of the Government ip any detail whatsoever- there is not a single reference to. [More…]

• Paragraphs (ii) and (iii) of the preamble set out the Government’s aims, which are to provide adequate rental housing for those in the community who are deemed to be in need of Government assistance at a price which is within their capacity to pay. [More…]

• We on our side of the House believe that society does benefit by having a strong community based on a sense and a purpose of belonging; that there is a confidence in existence through owning one’s own home rather than being treated merely as a tenant. [More…]

• Under the rental policy branch of the legislation the main aim is to provide adequate rental housing for those in the community deemed by the Government to be most in need of assistance, and to provide rental accommodation within their capacity to pay. [More…]

• All areas of the community, therefore, are involved. [More…]

• He served as chairman of the Australian Housing Corporation and was highly respected by senior staff of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• He claimed that this would create a great deal of hardship within our community, and moved an amendment which would result in the Commonwealth Government meeting, to a minimum uniform level, the cost of rental rebates. [More…]

• Clearly, the aim of the proposed 1978 Housing Agreement is to provide adequate rental housing for those members of the community who are deemed to be in need of government assistance, at a price that will be within their capacity to pay. [More…]

• However, how far do this Government’s economic policy and the housing policy of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) go towards achieving those objectives? [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has emphasised that he was being responsible. [More…]

• As the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is sitting at the table, knows only too well people in that Commission have the experience and the ability to handle parks and wildlife. [More…]

• I shall deal with the views of the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) and also of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), that now these Bills have come back amended from the Senate, somehow everything will be all right. [More…]

• I point out to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is sitting at the table, that he had an opportunity to explain and to enlarge upon these amendments. [More…]

• We know that there has been a struggle within the bureaucracy; that the Department for Environment, Housing and Community Development in many cases lost out to those under the administration of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), the growth sector. [More…]

• My remarks are more by way of a question to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• A great deal of understanding has been built up between those two sectors of our community. [More…]

• I would not say that of the shadow Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen). [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has come into the House without any proper exposition. [More…]

• I remind the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) that when the original Bill was brought into the House it was passed with less than one and a half hours debate. [More…]

• In 1975 the sorts of arguments that now exist in this community dealing with the preservation of Aboriginal sites and the development of areas for national parks did not loom as large in the community as they do now. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is one of the very junior Ministers. [More…]

• At least, if the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is going to tell the Committee the meaning of these provisions he ought to get it right. [More…]

• Reading sub-section 10 in the context of the object there, if the Territory or the State have reserved or dedicated land for those purposes, I respectfully agree with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) that it is npt unreasonable for the Commonwealth to say that it will not acquire land without first consulting the State or Territory and that it will acquire land only after it has the consent of the State or Territory. [More…]

• Is he able to say whether (a) in 1968, the Canadian Council on Animal Care was constituted as an independent body at the Federal level, financed by the National Research Council and the Medical Research Council, (b) the scientific community in Canada was totally in support of the establishment of this body, (c) 12 leading scientific organisations, including the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada and also the Federation of Humane Societies are represented on that Council, (d) the Canadian Council on Animal Care had, by 1972, assessed laboratory animal care and facilities in all universities, colleges and government departments in Canada, making recommendations for improvements where these seemed advisable, and that this work was subsequently extended to commercial firms at thenrequest, (e) members of local or regional humane societies are invited to join each assessment panel thus assuring these bodies, and through them the general public, that their valid interests are protected and (0 scientific papers submitted for publication in Canadian journals must state clearly that all work was performed in compliance with the Canadian Council on Animal Care Guide. [More…]

• A feasibility study conducted in 1 966-67 verified that there was widespread support for the Council’s establishment among the scientific community. [More…]

• Promote an attitude which will encourage the efficient and considerate treatment of the experimental animal so that any degree of stress or discomfort is acceptable by community standards; [More…]

• What I said before about this matter related to the generality of the position of North America and the European Economic Community where average industrial tariffs are about 10 per cent. [More…]

• It depends on the end of the spectrum at which one stands how one judges the decision that has been taken by the Government on this issue because there are two very clear schools of thought in the community on the issue of abortion. [More…]

• I must say that I have come to the conclusion that they do not really understand the extent of the problems because they speak as though one can make a valid and equal comparison between the nontariff barriers that the European Economic Community puts up against Australia’s agricultural products on the one side, and Australia’s tariff barriers on the other side. [More…]

• That has come about in recent years because of the virtual exclusion from the Community’s market of Australia’s efficiently produced agricultural products. [More…]

• He had some comments to make in a speech in the House not long ago which were contradictory and indicated that the Government would never get any steel into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We asked the Review to have regard to our federalism policy and our objective of supporting the enterprise and dedication of community groups who provide programs and services to migrants. [More…]

• It pointed to the large and growing numbers of ethnic groups in our community, and to the changing roles of governments. [More…]

• Against that general background, it conducted its own examination of programs and services, it received many submissions and held many discussions in the community over the past few months. [More…]

• needs of migrants should, in general, be met by programs and services available to the whole community, but special services and programs are necessary at present to ensure equality of access for migrants; [More…]

• The Review draws attention to the fact that the bulk of Commonwealth Government expenditure is through general programs designed for the whole Australian community. [More…]

• It points out that, since about 20 per cent of our community are currently ‘migrants’, a similar proportion of the Commonwealth’s general expenditure on education, health, social security and welfare and other areas should be for the benefit of migrants. [More…]

• Careful consideration was given to finding an appropriate balance between services and programs directed at the newly arrived- which can be costly at the time but can save significantly in the longer term- and those services directed at the backlog of needs in the established migrant community. [More…]

• The program will be available to all migrants either in residential hostels or by attendance at new community centres. [More…]

• But there will also be a continuing need for special programs for certain groups and for the ‘backlog’ of migrants in the community whose English is not adequate. [More…]

• In spite of this increasing emphasis on the teaching of English to migrants, there will always be a substantial number in the community who do not understand English, and who therefore face difficulties in communication. [More…]

• Accordingly the Government will reduce its own direct service delivery role and strengthen instead its capacity to provide a consultancy, community development and co-ordination service. [More…]

• Nevertheless it accepts the assessment of the Review and their recommendation that funds previously allocated to Good Neighbour Councils be redirected over two years to other community programs. [More…]

• It will also assist with development of more appropriate community child-care and preschool services for migrants. [More…]

• We agree that schools are the key element in achieving such a goal and we will allocate $5m over the next three years to develop multicultural and community language education programs. [More…]

• As the Review recommended, we will establish a small group of experts in cultural and racial differences to advise on how these funds can be most effectively used to develop multicultural and community language courses in the schools, and I would expect that that group would liaise with the migrant ethnic communities in pursuit of that objective. [More…]

• We have accepted a commitment to additional expenditure in this case because, after thorough examination and consideration, we are convinced that the Review has responsibly identified areas of particular need where many members of our community are at a disadvantage. [More…]

• It’s members will include the Japan Committee members and representatives from academic, business, cultural, trade union and other interested community groups. [More…]

• The aim of the Consultative Committee is to achieve a high degree of collaboration and consensus in the Australian community about the relationship. [More…]

• It is a recognition by the Government of the vital role that can be played by members of the Australian community in the formulation of a genuinely national approach to our relations with Japan. [More…]

• Part of the co-operative effort must involve consultation between various groups in the community, industry and labour- generally dialogue with the community. [More…]

• In order to make available to the international community technical studies of problems of disarmament an International Institute for Research on Disarmament should be established. [More…]

• The establishment of meaningful priorities by the Special Session would act as a catalyst in promoting negotiations in specific areas of concern to the international community. [More…]

• He will also emphasise the areas in which Australia will continue to contribute to the committees, the various working groups and the general motivation of the international community towards seeking an appropriate set of solutions. [More…]

• The collapse of the barriers of Europe as a result of the development of the European Economic Community, threatening as it is to our trade, is a hopeful sign for humanity. [More…]

• Training scheme and the Community Youth Employment Training programs, but also, importantly, to a big rise in social security and welfare payments. [More…]

• The Government is determined to reduce the rate of government spending and to see, as a result, that there is a further return of confidence to the private sector, to industry, to business and to people in the community. [More…]

• I have been a member of a State parliament for many years and perhaps I understand a bit more about the operations of State parliaments than the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development and members on the Government side. [More…]

• I can understand why the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is sitting at the table, did not choose to speak in bringing down these amendments because if one looks at his speech on 10 April, which is reported at page 1297 of Hansard - [More…]

• I listened respectfully to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• It may be that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has greater concepts than this Committee had about this matter. [More…]

• It seems that the Commonwealth Parliament has insufficient legislative power to make proper provision for the protection of the health and welfare of the community as a whole from dangers which can arise from the use of radioactive materials and isotopes. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) said, in answering a previous question- and I assume he will use exactly the same argument here- that under the Constitution extra powers are available. [More…]

• There seems to be no valid reason for opposing the proposition that has been put by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) because under the amendments the legislation will allow the State governments a proper exercise of some of their capacities for the protection of the Australian community. [More…]

• If they cannot indicate to the Australian community that they are responsible and that they will seek to protect the members of their communities then it would seem to me that the reserve powers that the Commonwealth quite clearly has should be applied. [More…]

• The Government is creating a rod with which the community can beat its back. [More…]

• However, every supporter of the Government, including the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), voted for the legislation in its original form which was one of the most centralist pieces of legislation ever to come through this Parliament. [More…]

• I ) and (2) With the exception of the Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS) the information is not available because the relevant statistics are compiled on the basis of Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) Office areas or regions, which do not correspond with electoral divisions. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Health whether he is aware that community health centres, in carrying out their task of providing primary medical care, have depended heavily upon the ability to bulk bill their patients and doctors being prepared to accept as full payment for their services 85 per cent of the scale fee. [More…]

• Is he able to inform the House whether he believes the continuation of this level of service, especially to low income groups, is of importance, and, if so, what alternative arrangements does he propose to make to enable community health services to continue to provide this very important facility? [More…]

• I thank the honourable member for his question, which I know would have been inspired by the dilemma confronting the North Richmond Community Health Centre which has a very high clientele- I think is the term used- of refugees and ethnic groups. [More…]

• In respect of ethnic people having difficulty in filling out forms, and so on, I am endeavouring to enter into an arrangement whereby, when the patient receives the doctor’s account at the community health centre, the centre will assist the patient to fill out the form and despatch it to Medibank- it will be Medibank standard in many cases- and the cheque drawn in favor of the doctor can be sent, care of the patient, to the community health centre. [More…]

• With respect to the benefit level, that has yet to be worked out with the Australian Medical Association in respect of pensioners; but in regard to the gap, I would expect that in community health centres, where doctors have chosen to serve the community, doctors would accept 75 per cent of the benefit as payment in full for their services. [More…]

• We can go back as far as May 1963 when Sir Garfield Barwick, then Minister for External Affairs, in introducing the United States Naval Communication Station Agreement Bill, spoke of ‘mutuality of confidence and of community of interest and purpose’. [More…]

• Australia has obligations under international law and as a responsible member of the international community to ensure that the functions of duly accredited diplomatic or consular missions are not interfered with and that the dignity of those missions is not impaired. [More…]

• Indeed, I should say that the Government is quite intent on preserving the opportunity for minority groups in our community to voice their attitudes and views but we say that this should take place within the law and within international obligations, not outside them. [More…]

• One of the consequences of these claims is that the socalled ‘Croatian embassy’ serves to confuse and does a disservice to many members of the Croatian community in this country who consider that the officially established Yugoslav missions in Australia are the only ones entitled to represent or capable of representing their interests in diplomatic and consular matters affecting Austraha and Yugoslavia. [More…]

• With the passage of this Bill Australia will be able to fulfil, as a responsible member of the international community, its international obligations in diplomatic or consular matters by restraining persons from making false claims to diplomatic or consular status in relation to a country or a people already lawfully represented in a diplomatic or consular capacity in Australia. [More…]

• The Bill completes the legislative framework of the tax sharing arrangements which are a central element of the Government’s federalism policy- a policy aimed at restoring a proper distribution of powers and functions between the federal, State and local spheres of government, with governments more responsive to the needs and preferences of the community. [More…]

• The escalation in the anticipated cost of the structure was not brought about by any escalation of costs in the Australian community; in fact it was brought about by the fact that in the original proposition the Cocos-Malay peoplethe inhabitants of the islands- were to be used in the construction of the building. [More…]

• I am a little surprised that our agricultural community has not made its voice louder on these two projects. [More…]

• That action was recommended by a committee of some of the most experienced people in our community as one of the ways to dampen down demand, that is, by increasing the supply of goods. [More…]

• The costs associated with change and improved international competitiveness would ultimately be borne by labour and would not be shared by the community as a whole. [More…]

• When we bring about change, we have to devise ways in which to bring about adaptation in industry to see that the community generally bears the cost, not just those in the particular industry affected. [More…]

• That is why I personally have been initiating the particular proposals within the community for having the proper machinery to ensure that the Government does more to see that the restructuring is not down but up, and to ensure that where we have some research and development we then have the know-how, the energy, the imagination and the entrepreneurship to build an industry on that research and development. [More…]

• Many people do not understand the importance of tariffs and how they can affect large sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Taken to their logical and extreme end, they can affect every single person within the Australian community. [More…]

• It should be clearly recognised that the service sector has only a limited capacity to earn export income- certainly not in the volumes generated by the other sectors of our community. [More…]

• When we consider the balance in the trading arrangements that we have with the European Economic Community- in the vicinity of $2 billion to the advantage of the EEC- we realise that we could do exactly what it has donecreate such high tariff walls that its products would be excluded and that $2 billion surplus would no longer exist. [More…]

• If we look just briefly at employment in the private sector of the community we find that it is now lower than it was six year ago. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has lectured everyone within earshot all this year about the need for the European Economic Community, in particular, to reduce its trade barriers to our exports and has more latterly expanded that into a demand for reduced protection in all countries. [More…]

• We have far too little scope for such debates and as a result we tend to ignore and neglect the fact that what happens in the world around us and in the international economic community is of fundamental importance to the health of the domestic economy. [More…]

• It is a flexibility which has very grave potential dangers unless members of the international community act responsibly and co-operatively in maintaining as much as possible exchange rate stability, lack of competitive devaluations and so on. [More…]

• This practical support from public and private employers is the most concrete indication of TUTA’s status in the industrial community. [More…]

• We present our argument honestly and sincerely for the purpose of maintaining TUTA’s present success and to maintain its broad acceptability throughout the industrial community. [More…]

• As part of our national education budget, $3m is not a substantial sum of money and in terms of the achievements of the trade unionists who have been through the college the Australian community has had good value for every dollar that has been spent. [More…]

• I have heard some unkind people say that the community puts in money to train these people and then gives them a licence so that they can go out and rob the workers. [More…]

• So already we have deep community involvement in the training of people and apparently this is accepted by the honourable member for Franklin except for when it comes to training people in one particular profession or calling which happens to be related to trade unions. [More…]

• We do not want any more Gallaghers- mutilators of the Australian community and assassins of freedom. [More…]

• Courses should provide trade unionists with an understanding of the organisation and operation of commerce, industry and the various employer organisations and the manner in which they relate, not only to each other, but also to Governments and the community. [More…]

• If it is all right for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to be pro-Aborigine, if it is all right for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to be pro-environmentalists, if it is all right for the Department of Industry and Commerce to be in favour of industry and commerce, if it is all right for the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs to be pro-business and consumer affairs and for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to be pro-veteran what is wrong with the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations being pro-labour? [More…]

• It is one that I think could encompass the destruction of an institution which has already proved its worth, not merely to the trade union movement, but to the Australian people, the Australian community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Darling Downs did make an interesting suggestion regarding the desirability of having greater understanding between the farming community and the trade union movement. [More…]

• We consider the Trade Union Training Authority to be of extreme importance to the community. [More…]

• I submit to the Committee that that is not the case, that perhaps education is a broad term but it has a real meaning in the general sense in the community. [More…]

• For reasons best known to himself, which the Minister has not made clear to me, to the peak councils, to the trade union movement generally, to TUTA or to the community, for some reason or other he has decided to exclude the word education. [More…]

• They are placing a heavy additional burden upon the community, both in terms of cost of their hospitalisation and of their after care, and upon the social security system. [More…]

• Why did the advertisement for the position of commissioner omit any reference to the rural sector and, to use the words in the advertisement refer only to ‘the business sector, the Public Service, the academic community and the trade union movement’? [More…]

• Mr Dahlson is a widely respected solicitor in the business community of Melbourne. [More…]

• I regard that information as confidential and consider it a responsibility of all trustees to maintain the confidentiality of members who are parties to a fund which, like many other similar funds in the community, was contributory. [More…]

• It is a policy based on the totality of the national interest and our obligations as a responsible member of the international community. [More…]

• I asked in this House on Monday and Tuesday whether, when the Government cannot sell its uranium overseas with its so-called stringent safeguards, it will cave in to countries like Iran, the Philippines and the European Atomic Energy Community, which will not stand by and lose their sovereignty in a bilateral agreement to a small country like Australia. [More…]

• This second and last report of the Task Force covers those terms of reference not reported on in the First Report and makes recommendations in these major areas: Firstly, it recommends a new approach to consultative arrangements across the fields of health, welfare and community development involving the establishment of a new national consultative council; secondly, better co-ordination of social policy development through a small social policy unit for a separate department under a senior Minister and a Cabinet committee with a supporting officials committee; and finally, the need for a review of co-ordination of health, welfare and community development services in the mainland Territories. [More…]

• The political and social earnings from such films, though apparently intangible, may in the long run be the better for our acceptance in the international community than immediate money in the bank. [More…]

• The Committee took evidence from 132 witnesses representing Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, local government authorities, regional planning bodies, private companies, community groups and private individuals. [More…]

• As most of the officers who were formerly in the Department of Urban and Regional Development are now in the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Affairs, I am pleased that the latter Department will be studying this report. [More…]

• On the question of population growth, especially in relation to the urban environment, one could argue that it should not be under a special population department but should be part of either the Department of the Environment, Housing and Community Development or a department with a similar influence. [More…]

• I shall be brief, because I know the House has urgent business to attend to, in dealing with my last point, which concerns what we call rational development of the urban community. [More…]

• On the one hand it can spend money on luxury aircraft for the Prime Minister and his Ministers, but on the other hand it could do something of credit, value and assistance for the community. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some are injured in such a way that they create many burdens to the community in respect of hospital costs et cetera. [More…]

• Road safety is too important for information to be banned or held back from the community. [More…]

• I am not a wowser and I do not deny the right of other people to consume alcohol, but if they want to consume alcohol they have a responsibility to the community and to other road users to consume it in a manner, and to make their way home or to wherever they are going in a manner that does not endanger other members of the community. [More…]

• It is quite dangerous to the community and to me it is immoral. [More…]

• If the community is to accept public revenue from the sale of alcohol and if the private sector is to obtain revenue from the sale and advertising of alcohol, then we all have a responsibility not to endanger the lives of young people by promoting their consumption of alcohol. [More…]

• Currently 90,000 people are injured and 3,700 killed on Australian roads each year, imposing an intolerable burden on families and the community. [More…]

• As these increases are in no way linked to the cost of production there is a clear obligation on the part of the Government to see that the financial rewards reaped from the mining of a national asset are divided equitably between business and the community. [More…]

• However, the price rise which has already been granted facilitates more exploration but the increases which the Government is now giving which in no way place an additional cost on the company mean massive cash flows at a time when other groups in the community are suffering the deprivation of serious cutbacks in government outlays. [More…]

• Available in the community today there are many hundreds of preparations which allegedly have value in providing screening from the sun but so many of them are purely useless cosmetics which serve no real purpose. [More…]

• The farming community is sensible because it protects itself from over-exposure by its clothing, such as large-brimmed hats. [More…]

• Later in my remarks I shall refer to the statistics relating to the incidence of cancer in the community generally, particularly in Queensland, which is my home State. [More…]

• So in addition to this legislation being introduced to provide an exemption from sales tax on these protective creams, I hope that those people who have the opportunity to dispense news might take advantage of demonstrating to the community at large- and they will be serving a very useful purpose in doing so- the figures that are available in relation to the amount of skin cancer that is incurred. [More…]

• If we were not sure that the virus was already here and we were testing potentially infected specimens either from within Australia or from the forthcoming off-shore quarantine station, we would require very high security measures to prevent the spread of the virus into the rest of the community. [More…]

• Having served for a number of years in that sphere of government, I know the problems that are faced in relation to services that are being demanded by the community. [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• I am very concerned about the North Richmond Community Health Centre. [More…]

• It is performing a very important role amongst an important ethnic community in Melbourne. [More…]

• I refer to the town of Bourke in my own electorate where there is a very high percentage of Aboriginals in the community. [More…]

• This does not apply to all doctors in the community but it applies to the doctors who work in those types of communities. [More…]

• Will the Minister give me an assurance that the Government will look long and hard before committing the farming community to another increase in input costs? [More…]

• I do not think anybody wants to see the cost of superphosphate or any fertiliser go up when the Australian community has been in such difficult circumstances in meeting the cost increases that have occurred over recent years. [More…]

• We have to work out a scheme whereby a minimum impost is put on the farming community during the period in which the rock from our own deposits is being integrated into the Australian system. [More…]

• Are there any steps which the Minister can take to overcome the State Government ‘s incompetence whereby it is again showing its contempt of the South Australian rural community? [More…]

• During the course of the inquiry, the estimated total cost to the Australian community of the forestry programs grew and grew from the Department’s initial figure of $10m to the Committee’s estimate of at least $30m. [More…]

• It is nowhere because the increased health charges and other imposts on the less well off in the community have resulted in wealth being transferred from those who have less to those who have a little more. [More…]

• The options which the suspended Minister for Finance raised are a further denial of justice to those who are less well off in the community and they should be denied. [More…]

• We have to seek out new investment opportunities on behalf of the community. [More…]

• Another program which is completely innovative is the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I am very appreciative that the Committee on Youth Affairs- I see the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and Minister Assisting the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Groom) is at the table- is looking forward to ensuring that we have young people who, because of policies of the previous Labor Government which we are slowly but surely eliminating, thereby creating confidence in the business community that we did not have previously, will be ably looked after and who will be confident in the future of a country which we can govern properly to ensure that those people will share in our total wealth. [More…]

• The Senate Committee were concerned to ensure that the policy and co-ordinating bodies consulted and participated with the voluntary and other community groups involved in the reception and resettlement of refugees. [More…]

• The first thing I would like to say is that to the extent that members of the Opposition, or indeed anybody in the community, comment upon what they see to be the comparative modesty of the additional tax indexation benefits, they are acknowledging the success of the Government’s economic policies. [More…]

• I invite his attention and the attention of sceptics on the other side of the House and in the community generally to the terms of the second reading speech at the time of the introduction of that legislation last week. [More…]

• So, for Mr Wran to revive once again the bogy of double taxation is, I believe, stretching the credulity of the New South Wales community beyond bounds. [More…]

• I am advised that at a meeting of 57 adult community members the decision of the council of the community to dismiss the ICA was unanimously endorsed. [More…]

• However, I am advised also that on Friday 2 June, the Aboriginal community held a meeting at which it was decided to invite the ICA to return to Oombulgurri subject to its meeting certain conditions. [More…]

• It will be seen that my Department, as I said, certainly did not eject the ICA but was acting in support of the community in whatever decisions it made. [More…]

• It will be replaced by new arrangements which expand the opportunites for community involvement in the development and management of migrant assistance programs. [More…]

• In the new arrangements there will be important roles for all people within the community who have the welfare of migrants at heart. [More…]

• My belief that the project is not working as it shouldthere is no job orientation or community work component and the group has become largely, a ‘drop-in’ recreation program. [More…]

• The Opposition says that it is no wonder that concern exists within the community, that there is increasing concern from the business sector about what this Government is doing and that demands are being made on the Government to start to do something to stimulate the economy. [More…]

• If we look at the state of the economy now, we can see why the business sector and other sectors of the community are so concerned about what has happened already under this Government. [More…]

• Indeed, last week the suspended Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson) made a speech, through the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community [More…]

• One of the persistent mistakes which the Opposition has made over the past three or four months- indeed, it is a mistake which is repeated by people in sections of the community who have the habit of commenting regularly on political matters- is to use simplistic labels in describing this Government’s approach to the handling of the Australian economy. [More…]

• Another reason is that the rate of increase in real wages in the Australian community has not been as great as was forecast at the time of the Budget. [More…]

• It is about time that it listened not only to the Opposition but also to other people in the community who are urging change. [More…]

• Its introduction now will give the trading community concrete evidence that the Government is determined to fulfil its promise to bring in the new export incentives scheme and at the same time give Parliament adequate opportunity of seeking how the Government intends the new scheme to operate. [More…]

• This situation is largely attributable to the effects of the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community through its price support policy which has led to the overproduction of dairy products and their subsequent disposal on overseas markets at heavily subsidised prices to the detriment of the Australian dairy industry. [More…]

• It may be invidious to pick on three but I would mention particularly the community health program, the report on rural health, and the health services research and evaluation activities. [More…]

• The Government, through its financial assistance to the Royal Flying Doctor Service; the community health program; the Mobile Dental Clinic under the school dental program; the encouragement to graduate doctors to practise in rural areas under the family medicine program, is endeavouring to improve the access of health services to people in remote areas. [More…]

• I pay a tribute to those employed by the Flying Doctor Service, the nurses, other health and social workers in the community health services, the dentists and therapists in the mobile dental clinics and the doctors who provide services to the people living in these disadvantaged communities. [More…]

• The isolated patients travel and accommodation scheme will add a new dimension to the efforts being made to help bring people in isolated areas within reach of services that others in the community take for granted. [More…]

• The viability and scope of existing services in isolated areas will not be undermined, nor will services available through the community health program and other support programs be constrained by any travel and accommodation subsidy scheme. [More…]

• More than that, the Commonwealth, through the Queensland Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, funded litigation by the community first of all to the Queensland Supreme Court and then, when the judgment of that Court in favour of the Aurukun community was under challenge by the Queensland Government in the Privy Council, the Commonwealth funded the defence by the community. [More…]

• The fact is that it is pretty clear throughout the community and to Australians generally that unless we strengthen this land rights legislation almost everything we do for the Aboriginal people will be brought into disarray. [More…]

• any Aboriginal community or group that may be affected by the proposed direction has been consulted and has had adequate opportunity to express its view to the Land Council. [More…]

• the resumption of Crown land held under a lease that is required for Aboriginal community purposes; [More…]

• the reservation by planning authorities of land for Aboriginal community purposes in towns; [More…]

• In the time remaining to me in this debate, I should like to deal quickly with one of the major pressures which is being exercised in the community by the Australian mining industry which recently has attacked the operation of the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. [More…]

• It appears that on several occasions there have been disturbances among the Yugoslav community in Australia. [More…]

• We make it clear also that this Bill does not discriminate against any part of the Australian community. [More…]

• I say, without any unkindness to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, that I take the strongest view that whether he intended it or not he smeared every single member of the Croatian community in Australia in his speech tonight. [More…]

• I, for one, am not ashamed to stand in this Parliament, even if somebody might later come along and say ‘Oh, you support Ustasha’, and say that there are people in this community who have come to our country from Croatia, and Australia is the better for their coming and not the worse for it. [More…]

• If it is agreed to by this House it will be fair warning to any group in the Australian community that does not happen to agree with the views of the Australian Labor Party that when it gets back into power it will close them down. [More…]

• The Labor Party, I am sad to say, has treated this Bill as yet another opportunity to denigrate a significant section of the Australian ethnic community. [More…]

• Whilst we have our obligations as a nation under the Vienna Treaty, whilst this Bill has received the most careful consideration from at least two Government back bench committees, and I think it is fair to say it has received considerable consideration from the Ministry itself over a period not of weeks but of months, because it is important legislation, I deplore the fact that the Labor Party has used it as a vehicle for scandalising and defaming a section of the community that I do not believe should be so scandalised and defamed. [More…]

• It is an open hearing in a court of the land into which any member of the community can walk and to which any member of the community can listen. [More…]

• For the Commission in current circumstances to have awarded what is 100 per cent wage indexation means that the Commission has paid no regard whatever to the clear link that exists between the level and the rate of wage increases in the Australian community and the level of unemployment in the Australian community. [More…]

• This decision will do nothing towards creating fresh job opportunities in the Australian community. [More…]

• But I put it to the honourable gentleman that the clearest empirical evidence possible is the fact that at precisely the time that the Government of which he was a member allowed wages in the community to go through the roof this country moved to a higher threshold of unemployment. [More…]

• It is the Government’s view that if our submissions before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission had been given greater weight by the Commission over the past 2V* years the level of unemployment in the Australian community would not be as high as it is now. [More…]

• There has been a good deal of speculation around the community about a change of direction in government policy. [More…]

• I have had a number of discussions with selected groups in the Australian business community to identify for them, in a clearer fashion than has been possible by way of the Press release, opportunities that certainly are available. [More…]

• A community consultation program has provided individuals and groups with the opportunity of presenting and discussing their views in seminars and with a task force of departmental officers. [More…]

• But in this area, discussion has gone on for so long about its being a major restructuring and involving very deep questions that require a lot of community debate. [More…]

• Two and a half years of Liberal and National Country Party Government have left the rural community of this country desperate and disillusioned. [More…]

• We will give the rural community the confidence and certainty it so desperately needs. [More…]

• Instead of posturing before the European Economic Community, the Government should be pushing Australian agricultural products in the Middle East and in South and South-East Asia where there is real growth potential. [More…]

• We said from the beginning that the only way in which we will be able to make the rural community profitable is by reversing those ridiculous policies of the Labor Government. [More…]

• I do not want this afternoon to go through chapter and verse all the things that we have done for the rural community. [More…]

• What we have done consistently, commodity by commodity, is underpin the producer to try to create circumstances which will give him a reasonable chance to get back onto his feet and to operate as profitably and as equitably as anyone else in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that the Bank will provide a significant long term avenue for advances to the rural community. [More…]

• The whole of the barb of the Labor Party’s policy when in government and demonstrably now in opposition is, firstly, to try to see to what degree it can provide amenities outside the area of the producing community for those people who are in need, although I do not know whether it really worries about those people who are in need. [More…]

• We are worried about trying to get a balance in the economy to help those in the community who need assistance. [More…]

• But, as far as the community is concerned, we believe that the producing sector must be allowed to operate profitably if it is to survive. [More…]

• We are still concerned about sectors of each one of the rural producing areas but we are quite determined to assist them and to put people in the rural community again into that position in which they would have been if the Australian Labor Party and the Leader of the Opposition had not destroyed so many of their incentives in that period during which they were in government. [More…]

• One of the sad features of his speech was that he talked mainly about primary producers and rural producers and said very little about the rural community. [More…]

• Of course, the Opposition is talking not just about the crisis amongst primary producers but about the crisis in the whole of the rural community. [More…]

• Those people now have the dubious privilege of becoming the new poor, or the poverty stricken sector, in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is not just the rural producers but the whole rural community that is affected. [More…]

• That is why, as was pointed out to us quite correctly from the other side of the House, there is a disproportionate amount of poverty among the rural community. [More…]

• The rural community is dependent for its livelihood on two markets, and I include the livelihood of those people who service farmers, as well as farmers themselves. [More…]

• I remind the honourable member for Fraser (Mr Fry) that I am speaking of the whole rural community dependent on the export market. [More…]

• Until we manage to get the whole economy going again in a manner that will enable every Australian to prosper, the rural community must inevitably bear some of the cost of the follies of the past. [More…]

• The rural community, more than most communities, is dependent upon the opportunity to make continuing investment. [More…]

• The load that has been thrust upon the rural community is very much the result of foolish actions of the past. [More…]

• The rural community will find that its prosperity will increase, as the Bureau of Agricultural Economics has forecast, because of the sound economic management of the present Government. [More…]

• Nothing can be done which will improve the lot of rural people more than those measures that will benefit the economy as a whole, which will result in economic health for the entire community and which will provide the opportunity for Australia to grow again. [More…]

• Markets have been lost to the Australian community because trade unions have refused us access to markets which otherwise would have been ours. [More…]

• European Economic Community, particularly the subsidisation of uneconomic production which has been stockpiled. [More…]

• In fact, what the Minister is saying is that the dairy bounty encouraged this kind of activity and production when it was known that there was no guarantee of continued access to the world markets for manufactured milk products, particularly in view of the fact that the policy of subsidisation in France, which is the cornerstone of the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community, will not change. [More…]

• Despite the fact that we have an efficient dairy industry, it appears that we cannot deliver milk and milk products to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This situation is largely attributable to the effects of the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community through its price support policy which has led to the over-production of dairy products and their subsequent disposal on overseas markets at heavily subsidised prices to the detriment of the Australian dairy industry. [More…]

• They do not help people at all if they do not pay tax and yet the people who do not pay tax are obviously the poorest people in the community in many cases, apart from those who have taken advantage of the Curran scheme and similar schemes and they need these sorts of allowances. [More…]

• We must remember that the Australian Council of Social Services is an organisation of welfare people who are involved with the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• It should really be eligible pensioners- and the increased gap between fee and benefit will cause considerable hardship to low income earners in the community. [More…]

• ACOSS continues that it is totally opposed to the principle of front end deductibles which serve only to assist the younger and healthier section of the community and will inevitably result in additional costs to those in most need of service, unless all the health funds are to become insolvent. [More…]

• The same discussion paper, referring to deductibles, points out that in a community where there is health insurance, especially universal health insurance, premiums must be calculated on the basis of community rating. [More…]

• While risk rating would be cheaper for the single, young and healthy than community rating, it has usually been held to be unfair to discriminate on grounds beyond the individual ‘s control. [More…]

• The other point that I have raised before and which I consider to be quite unjust and unfair is that persons who opt out are generally the healthier people in the community and the healthier people are often the wealthier people. [More…]

• There are people in this community who are not well off and do not have anybody to speak for them, even though we on this side of the House do try to speak for them. [More…]

• It ignores the sorts of problems and hardships that it will be imposing on those people in the community who are least able to deal with them. [More…]

• I hope that, before the Minister gets himself involved in transferring money from expenditure on straight health care to pay for extra people to work- to look at claims, to handle claims and to put things in envelopes- and to pay chemists who have a pharmacy close to a medical practice the extra 60c for filling in claim forms, he will have another look at the matter, talk to people who generally speaking do not support us politically, people such as medical practitioners, and those who work with some of the disadvantaged people in the community, and think about it again. [More…]

• The chemist provides an essential service to the community far in excess of that for which the honourable member for Prospect gives him credit. [More…]

• I believe that the pharmacist, in the provision of the service to the community for which he will receive 60c a time for filling in a form, provides a great deal of value. [More…]

• Firstly, in relation to the general pharmaceutical benefits patient increase from $2 to $2.50, 1 believe that there could be some hardship for some people in our community. [More…]

• A second cause of the cost escalation has been much greater community expectations about access to the latest medical technology and no doubt financial incentives to doctors to recommend the use of such technology. [More…]

• Another point I want to make is that it should never be forgotten that a responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the whole of the Australian community to utilise the productive capacity of all the areas of this nation. [More…]

• The Government has given financial assistance to the Service as well as to the community health program and the mobile dental clinic conducted under the school dental program. [More…]

• The financial assistance given by the Government to those areas that I have mentioned is something for which it should be commended and something which is helping to provide a better health service and to maintain the health of the community in those areas. [More…]

• They are supplying apples and other fruit to the community. [More…]

• The position to which I strongly hold is that corporate operations ought to be monitored and to some extent regulated to protect the individual and the community. [More…]

• I am telling the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom)- I am glad he has now come into the House- that amongst those 500 people great fear and lack of security prevails. [More…]

• In particular: two solicitors are now employed in the Cairns’ office of the Service; an office of the Service has been opened on Thursday Island and a field officer is based at that location; and the number of people appearing before Aboriginal community courts is diminishing, because prosecutions are now usually being made before Magistrates’ Courts. [More…]

• The Service advises that this situation directly results from a magistrate’s judgment in 1977 which determined that members of the Police Force were not empowered to enforce Aboriginal community council by-laws. [More…]

• They have been urged in particular to give attention to ensuring that Aboriginals, especially juveniles, obtain appropriate legal representation in criminal matters; to meet the needs of rural and remote area Aboriginals; to improving Aboriginal /Police relations; and to the possibility of using the services and resources of other agencies, where these are appropriate and accessible including those of Aboriginal and community welfare organisations, the Australian Legal Aid Office, the Law Society and the Public Solicitor. [More…]

• What are the comparable costs of tapes and films translated into Aboriginal languages for general community use, in projects funded by the Government for teaching (a) manual, domestic or trade skills, (b) literacy or numeracy, (c) hygiene, (d) nutrition and (e) Aboriginal culture, history or language. [More…]

• The statement should also contain information about the Aboriginal corporation involved, in sufficient detail to enable the Minister to satisfy himself as to whether the members are members of a Community of Aboriginals; the Commission be in receipt of the views of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, before taking a decision to purchase a property. [More…]

• My Department has made a grant to the Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Community Health Service to purchase premises for an alcoholic rehabilitation centre. [More…]

• When does the Government expect to establish selfmanagement for the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Aboriginal Affairs: Consultation with Oombulgurri Community (Question No. [More…]

• My Department is in constant consultation with the Oombulgurri community in relation to the provision of funds for the support of the community and in relation to other matters. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 May 1978: [More…]

• Indeed, my colleague, the Minister for Special Trade Representations, has been endeavouring in his discussions with the European Economic Community to see whether we might be able to reopen access to that market. [More…]

• One aspect is of concern: I would hope that those people who are involved in the industry right through to the point of shipment co-operate in order to ensure maximum returns to the Australian community. [More…]

• I want to emphasise while I am on my feet that the Goverment is extremely concerned about the level of unemployment and it is taking positive steps in this area to recreate the conditions in the community generally and the confidence in the business community that will lift the level of employment. [More…]

• Is he further aware that the parliaments of the United States of America, the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom all have policy committees to monitor and report upon their fuel and energy needs? [More…]

• I think it is also a part of the pattern of thinking in the community which is making the Parliament appear irrelevant to the people. [More…]

• In arriving at this decision the Government has been mindful of the fact that the present policy has achieved widespread acceptance from the business sector, including both Australian and overseas companies, and from the Australian community at large. [More…]

• That I believe is what the Government wants to achieve, but I do not believe that it is tight enough for the community to feel any satisfaction about the proposals. [More…]

• On the other hand, I am quite impressed by CSR Ltd as an Australian enterprise which gives every sign of being an efficient organisation, well conducted, expanding to the benefit of the community within this country. [More…]

• Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. [More…]

• Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. [More…]

• Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. [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…]

• The abolition of bulk billing and the reduction of rebate from 85 per cent to 75 per cent will have the effect of placing community health centres without salaried doctors in an almost untenable position to provide effective primary health care. [More…]

• Labor’s program of community health services was a highly effective one where we were able to implement it. [More…]

• r think this debate on health care costs reflects the contradictory attitude of the community generally and the general nature of the debate that is taking place in the community. [More…]

• It means they would effectively prevent those people in our community who do not believe in the payment of medical benefits for the termination of pregnancy from being given the freedom of choice to opt out of it or to gain membership of a scheme that gives them that option, which I believe they have every right to expect. [More…]

• I return to my original point: The community in Australia cannot have it both ways. [More…]

• The mere acknowledgement by all political parties in this Parliament that the majority of the load of health care costs ought to be carried by the community or ought to be under a scheme of national insurance surely is an acknowledgement that it is far better to run the risk of over use by subsidising the majority of these costs than to run the risk of under use that will occur if they are not subsidised. [More…]

• It was my privilege as Minister for Health, after appointing that Commission, to work closely with Dr Sax and his colleagues on schemes such as the community health program which has given a new dimension to public health concern and involvement in Australia. [More…]

• If there was one sector of the Australian community which was underpaid and overworked for more years and more scandalously than any other sector when Labor came to power it was that of the nurses and nurse trainees. [More…]

• In the Whitlam years we introduced a measure which was a radical departure from this by promoting the community health program and other programs of its kind, such as the school dental scheme, family planning grants and so on. [More…]

• Physiotherapists and other types of health aids and professional people ought to be out in the community where the general practitioner is. [More…]

• The community itself is the key factor, not the professionals. [More…]

• There ought to be community health care committees and regional administration should be made the responsibility of the representatives of that community. [More…]

• Much has been said about the role of doctors as part of the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that the changes that have been made- they are not basic changes; they are changes of degree- will impose additional responsibility on doctors as members of the community. [More…]

• The changes made by the Government on 1 October 1976 quite clearly have resulted in a greater appreciation of the health cost problem in the community. [More…]

• It is clear that both the Commonwealth and State governments have recognised the dilemma and the need to constrain costs where possible without reducing the level of effective services to the Australian community. [More…]

• There is a great challenge facing this Government and the community. [More…]

• There are those in the community who have said that the proposals do not go far enough. [More…]

• I hope that no pensioner in Victoria or anywhere else will be deluded by scare tactics designed to promote the cause of individual people in the community or for political motivation. [More…]

• I should have thought that this Government, because it often talks about helping only the very needy, concentrating whatever resources the community can spare by way of taxation on the very needy, would have taken the opposite point of view. [More…]

• It is quite clear that there are two groups in the community who, on the whole, can take a risk with deductibles. [More…]

• The ultimate result of that, if it were carried to absurdity, would be to destroy universality and the community rating principle in health insurance. [More…]

• So quite clearly one has to be very careful not to allow guidelines to be such that they could in fact distort community rating and also the principle of universality of cover. [More…]

• It will be a shame if this happens because confidence has been built up in the provision of attention by the doctors at the community health centre in this area. [More…]

• They feel that if the local people do not come into the community centre it will lose half of its effectiveness. [More…]

• 1 think it is important that members of the Australian community be aware of this and do not blame the chemists for what will happen. [More…]

• We also have a responsibility, as a member of the international community with a special opportunity to understand the interests of both industrialised and developing countries, to do all that is within our power to make the negotiations a success. [More…]

• America, Japan and the European Economic Community have already decided to adopt a formula approach to the reduction of tariffs on industrial products. [More…]

• When we went to the European Economic Community in 1975 to plead a case for our beef producres, all that members of the EEC could say was that they were sorry, they admitted they had done wrong, but they had no intention of rectifying that wrong because they were going to look after their own producers. [More…]

• Countervailing forces in the community, both in Australia and abroad, are in continuous .array against us. [More…]

• Anything that we can do to make the system more effective or to make honourable members feel that they are being more effective and to make the members of the community believe that the Parliament is the effective government of the country will be to the advantage of our democracy. [More…]

• They are clever enough to stay away from shows like the recent yachting show because clubs and other community type organisations are involved. [More…]

• It was always intended that the Committee’s Report would be of use and guidance to State and non-government education authorities, to individual schools and to the community generally, as well as to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• The Report emphasises (in recommendation 8, page 120) that schools themselves should decide whether, to what extent, and in what ways, migrant (community) languages and cultures should be studied and that there should be consultation in this respect with parents and the local community. [More…]

• The report of the review group, which is an internal working document and therefore not intended for publication, will provide the basis on which further action can be taken in consultation with the other authorities concerned in influencing the greater development of community language teaching which the Commonwealth Government supports as a matter of policy. [More…]

• Its recommendations, including those on multicultural education and the teaching of community languages, have been accepted by the Government and will be implemented expeditiously. [More…]

• What (a) Aboriginal controlled and (b) community controlled groups have received Aboriginal health funds from governments for disposal at their discretion, and what evaluation has been made of the results and by whom. [More…]

• Other measures to give effect to Mr Justice Woodward ‘s recommendations include: the purchase by the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission of land for Aboriginals, including several cattle stations; the provision of village areas for communities on pastoral properties; the provision of land in towns for Aboriginal community housing, hostels and camping places; the provision of grants and advice to help Aboriginal groups to make good use of their land. [More…]

• and (3) Following the Privy Council decision in this matter, it is my intention to seek further discussions with the parties to the Aurukun Associates Agreement and with the Aurukun Community- [More…]

• 1 ) Between what dates has the Commissioner for Community Relations been consulted by the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission concerning possible breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, by the Premier of Queensland. [More…]

• The Commissioner for Community Relations has advised that, in the course of an inquiry under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in relation to an action of the Queensland Government, he sought assistance from several persons including the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission. [More…]

• On my own behalf and as a member of the Catholic community in this country I want to join with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) in expressing my deepest regret at the death of His Holiness Pope Paul VI. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations will be aware of the substantial reduction in telephone services, particularly for subscriber trunk dialling and people in country areas such as in the electorate of Macarthur as a result of the current dispute between the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association and Telecom Australia, and the very great effect that this is having on the community. [More…]

• The main reason that the price has not responded has been the delay in the United States ratifying the International Sugar Agreement and the European Economic Community not becoming associated with that Agreement and restraining its exports to the world market. [More…]

• His concern for his constituents is a by-word amongst Government members, and I reiterate that we share the concern for not only his constituents but also people in the wider community who have suffered grievously and tragically in Lebanon. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• The central issue for this Parliament and for the community at large is the conduct of the Prime Minister, not of Senator Withers. [More…]

• On top of that, if one is well off in the community one gets a 33 per cent tax rebate on one’s medical and hospital expenses. [More…]

• I think it is an unfair aspect that the 10 per cent or so of the community who are able to exceed the automatic tax deduction of about $1,600 a year will be able to get from now on a 33Vi per cent discount on whatever medical fees they are paying above the 40 per cent and that others will not be able to do so. [More…]

• Then the Minister about three weeks ago announced that in fact bulk billing will still continue for certain groups in the community, depending on doctors being prepared to accept 75 per cent of the schedule fee. [More…]

• If we pull out from the pool the people who collect relatively little in health insurance, the net result will be that the people who are left in the pool are the people who are more likely to collect money, the higher risk group in the community, and obviously the contribution rates will have to be increased by the funds. [More…]

• I think in the end one has the philosophical attitude- I certainly have it- that the whole community should contribute towards the health costs of those who have larger families and sicker families- some members of the family are chronically ill- and who therefore have to take out extra insurance. [More…]

• It distorts the pool and it removes the concept that the better off and the healthier in the community ought to be contributing towards the health and hospital costs of those who are sicker. [More…]

• The Government’s proposals are unfair to some of the lower income groups in the community such as those families who will need to insure themselves because they require a lot of medical attention. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March, 1987: [More…]

• am asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 15 March 1978: [More…]

• Tribunals associated with the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development (Question No. [More…]

• wn asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 April 1 978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 5 April 1 978: [More…]

• 1) Is it a fact that Community Youth Support Schemes (CYSS) groups in South Australia are purchasing material and equipment for their programs through local government bodies to avoid paying sales tax, hence ensuring that their financial resources are used to maximum efficiency. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice on 2 May 1 978: [More…]

• (a) The percentage of Aboriginal income spent on alcohol varies from community to community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 29 May 1978 : [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 30 May 1978: [More…]

• Demands from all sectors of the community are increasing for the programs, which are conducted by Federal and State Health authorities. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 1 June 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• Also, with the further projections of the movement down in inflation which comes out of the nature of this Budget, the prospects for further, sustained and increasingly significant reductions in interest rates which will flow right across the whole community obviously are coming much nearer than they would otherwise be. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Health aware of some confusion in the community regarding the newly announced subsidy covering personal medical care? [More…]

• Let us put aside this humbug about denigrating and insulting people, something which the Minister has accused other people in the community of doing. [More…]

• In the hotel suite the Prime Minister had discussions with Prime Minister Barre, the OECD Secretary-General, Mr Van Lennop, the European Community’s Commission President, Mr Jenkins, the United States Secretary of State, Mr Vance, the United States Treasury Secretary, Mr Blumenthal, the Danish Finance Minister, Mr Heinesen, the UNCTAD Secretary-General, Mr Corea, the GATT Director-General, Mr Long, and so on. [More…]

• Complementary to the assistance that has been provided under this program, 76 women’s refuges have been approved for funding, at an estimated cost of some $3m this financial year, through the community health program. [More…]

• Of course also we state that we must ensure growth of new industries in our community based on our research and development, on the upvaluing of our minerals and on areas where we have a natural protection, such as perhaps high transport costs to this country. [More…]

• I do not, and 1 certainly do not believe that most informed people in the community would do so. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that there are some new members in the Opposition who have an appreciation of the importance of this particular manufacturing sector in the Australian community and that they are starting to bring a little pressure to bear on the individuals who are at the present time in the Opposition shadow ministry. [More…]

• Apparently he is mesmerised by these things, like most bookkeepers, and is not prepared to look at the consequences for the Australian community and for the Australian consumer. [More…]

• The measure is intended to divert to the community, through the tax system, part of the additional profits which accrue to import entitlement holders. [More…]

• It does, it has and I have no doubt that the European Economic Community as well as the Japanese would object to this approach. [More…]

• The Minister at the table- the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland)- has been pursuing our interests in the very difficult forum of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• He has recently criticised the determination of the Fraser Government to gain access to European Economic Community markets. [More…]

• He has claimed that Australia has no hope of increasing exports of steel and agricultural products to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Government will not close its eyes to the domestic market of the world’s largest trading block; it will not close its eyes to the European Economic Community’s selling practices on third markets. [More…]

• Noticeably, the Labor Party has no coherent alternative policy to present to the Parliament or to the Australian community. [More…]

• As I demonstrated earlier, the Government’s attention has been directed not only to the European Economic Community but also to markets in the United States, Japan, the Middle East and South East Asia. [More…]

• Deputy Leader of the Opposition has proposed a framework agreement between Australia and the European Economic Community. [More…]

• A framework agreement currently exists between Canada and the European Economic Community but no one in either of those countries can point to any positive results from that agreement. [More…]

• It is now up to private businesses to use the assistance provided and get on with the job of developing export opportunities to their individual benefit and to the benefit of the whole Australian economy and hence the Australian community. [More…]

• When did (a) his Department first become aware of Aboriginal interest in the leased land, (b) the Borroloola Community’s representatives approach the Land Fund Commission requesting acquisition of the lease, (c) Mount Isa Mines or a subsidiary company (i) seek authority from the Foreign Investment Review Board to buy the lease and (ii) notify his Department of plans to purchase, (d) the Board ask his Department for advice on Aboriginal claims in the area, (e) his Department seek information from the Commission about this interest or these claims and (f) the Commission notify his Department of such an interest. [More…]

• purchase, (b) to ensure inalienable title to the land for the traditional owners or their community’s representatives and (c) to remedy any dereliction by his Department or the Commission. [More…]

• Has he replied to a letter of 4 May 1978, from the Western Australian Minister for Community Welfare indicating an intention of the State Government to remove from the Commission under the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority Act, the final authority to approve Aboriginal reserve entry permits and to confer this authority by regulation on the Minister. [More…]

• We are making special provisions- they have been announced already- in respect of bulk billing arrangements for pensioners with health benefit cards and for those people in the community who are socially disadvantaged. [More…]

• -I ask the Prime Minister: Has he seen suggestions that the 12 te per cent additional customs duty on import quotas is being regarded as increased protection and is in conflict with his position taken at the Multilateral Trade Negotiations and representations to the European Economic Community? [More…]

• The Government believes that the community should share in that degree of monopoly profit, a profit which is induced quite directly as a result of a government decision following an Industries Assistance Commission report and designed to protect the industry concerned. [More…]

• It is not for the European Economic Community or any element of it to criticise the openness of Australia’s market in comparison with its own. [More…]

• I think that again shows that in many aspects the European Economic Community is a thoroughly restrictive market. [More…]

• It ought to be noted that we purchase goods to the value of $3 per head whereas in the United States it is about 60c; in the European Economic Community it is 50c and in Japan it is about 25c. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development aware of a Government committee recommendation in 1976 that consideration should be given to Commonwealth Government funding of sport and recreation, including the raising of revenue by means of a national lottery? [More…]

• -(Braddon-Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development)- Pursuant to section 6 of the Environment (Financial Assistance) Art 1977 I present an agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and South Australia made under the provisions of that Act. [More…]

• My objective is to put it to the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) that this Parliament is of the view that there ought to be some qualification to the appointment of civil marriage celebrants, that there ought to be some more definite view of the role that they carry out in the community and the wider roles that they may assume for themselves, and that those persons appointed ought to be appointed only for a limited period rather than for life, as now appears to be the case. [More…]

• He is a gentleman who, in my view, has set about to produce a series of pagan ceremonies to plagiarise what people regard as legitimate values in our community. [More…]

• I believe that those sorts of people who have evidence on the public record that they are in it purely for the purpose of making money through the sort of services that they are prepared to conduct, not for any of those values that they publicly expressed in the newspapers and articles that I have referred to, ought to be looked at more closely and that some limit ought to be put on the time of their appointment so that we can review the very nature of the sort of role they are carrying out in the community and the wider functions that they are taking onto themselves through the statutory authorisation they have received. [More…]

• This is an inaccurate and crude attempt to promote racial hatred and community tension. [More…]

• For example, we have had Indo-Chinese refugees coming through the Eastbridge hostel in Nunawading and the people from that hostel have spread out into the rest of the community. [More…]

• I am sure you will be aware of the extent to which those people are accepted in the local community. [More…]

• But to try to base an attitude towards immigration on the sort of puerile propaganda contained in this type of leaflet does not do any good for the Australian community. [More…]

• I appeal to members of the House to make sure that the tactic of the ‘big lie’ involved in the content of this publication is not successful and has no impact on the Australian community. [More…]

• Moreover, it is interesting to note that Sir Robert Mark himself indicated clearly that in Britain the very information I requested is made publicly available so that there can be an informed discussion in the Parliament and in the community. [More…]

• The Government has made the point that if we are to see the return of a stable economy providing sound economic growth and prospects for future development, the burden must be shared by all sections of the community. [More…]

• We cannot have a responsible government working with the business sector to bring about an economic recovery while there is another significant section of the community determined to subvert that recovery. [More…]

• and help Aboriginal people … to take full responsibility for decisionmaking in the management of community affairs. [More…]

• People who live in shires, cities or municipalities know that good local government will allow a community to do just that. [More…]

• Every white community has had a miserable record in this regard. [More…]

• In reaching its decision, the Government felt strongly that it should set an example of restraint to the community. [More…]

• But when it is put in the context of being an example by which the rest of the community is expected to abide, the Opposition strongly objects to it. [More…]

• Other people in the community do not have the income that Ministers have both from their present salary as Ministers of the Crown and from independent sources. [More…]

• It is wrong in principle to suggest to the rest of the Australian community that because the higher echelons of government, namely the Ministers, are prepared to forgo their increases the rest of the community should make a sacrifice. [More…]

• The Government is trying to suggest that because its select group of Ministers are going to forgo some token increase, the rest of the Australian community should follow suit. [More…]

• I suggest that the reason is as given by the Prime Minister and as published in the Press- so that the rest of the Australian community will follow this example and not seek wage increases. [More…]

• Ministers should be adequately staffed but, just as they have to compete with great resources and forces in the community, so do the rest of us. [More…]

• When people in our community mindlessly join tax revolts they ought to remember that one of the results of such revolts is that this country is more badly governed because we do not have satisfactory statistics on which to base proper decisions. [More…]

• The cost of the bounty does not fall on a particular sector of the community. [More…]

• He is back from beating his fists on the closed doors of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We need to realise that times have changed and the European Economic Community countries will not dance the tune just when our Prime Minister chooses to clap his hands. [More…]

• Why is the Australian community or the public sector to be denied representation on the board of this great Corporation? [More…]

• The world into which the Minister is trying to venture- the European Economic Community- is a closed shop and the Japanese rural scene has definite protective barriers, but other markets exist for our primary products. [More…]

• We have failed because governments in this country, unlike the European Economic Community, the Koreans and America have not, given full co-operation and support to the private sector. [More…]

• So it is of equal importance to him that he has access to the various testing facilities as other sections of the community. [More…]

• In the mid-1950s there was a time when the Commonwealth Government made sufficient money available to the States in order to allow them to build 22 per cent of all houses in the community. [More…]

• If the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is sitting on the front bench, cares to read it I will give him a copy of a submission made to Cabinet by his predecessor, now the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman). [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, seems to think that this is some sort of joke, but if he lives long enough, and I trust that he will, to read the views of historians who will write about this time then he will know the impact that this gentleman had on our country, a country of which I am terribly proud. [More…]

• The community demands that these illegal and improper practices stop. [More…]

• I am glad that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is in the chamber and I am glad that you are in the chair, Mr Deputy Speaker, because what I have to say concerns a place within your electorate. [More…]

• It is a demonstration of the spontaneous feeling of resentment, alienation, disaffection within the community. [More…]

• The business community and all Australians who have hardearned savings invested in productive enterprise will know how to judge the attack on the Sydney Stock Exchange. [More…]

• It is undoubtedly a magnificent result for both the Government and the Australian community. [More…]

• It is an illustration of the confidence of a broad spectrum of the investing community of Australia in the objectives of the Government insofar as inflation and interest rates are concerned. [More…]

• It cannot be other than extremely good news not only for the cause of lower inflation but also the cause of lower interest rates in the Australian community. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I refer the Prime Minister to a Cabinet submission dated 31 October 1977 in which the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development claimed that, without a period of waiting time, the appropriation for the home savings grant for 1 978-79 would be $76m. [More…]

• Whether they are pensioners, whether they are people who are going to build or buy a home; whether it is in small business or in large business, people will be advantaged by low rates of inflation and low interest rates within the Australian community. [More…]

• We know about the way in which it was orchestrated- of resentment, alienation, disaffection within the community. [More…]

• Women, as well as other members of the community, are having their say outside this House in rallies. [More…]

• Perhaps the most cynical and provocative statement of all was that of the Treasurer, who, in his own words, said ‘in framing our decisions we have been guided by a desire to share fairly the burdens of reducing inflation throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• It is recognised by servicemen and the community as being an important benefit to those who have served. [More…]

• Civil servants in Australia, and the community at large, often look with envy on the condition of service that apply to Australian men serving in the forces. [More…]

• It is not obvious to people who consider the type of work and the involvement of servicemen in our community that they may be called on to pay the supreme sacrifice of giving their lives in the service of the nation. [More…]

• It is considered that a regular serviceman is at a disadvantage compared to other members of the community. [More…]

• One of the reasons for the malaise from which the building industry now suffers is that it is unable to produce at a reasonable costing level by comparison with the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• That simply makes it clear that members of ex-servicemen’s organisations, like the rest of the community, have, in the words of the old Labor Party chieftain, a highly sensitive hip pocket nerve and therefore will react. [More…]

• The present aims and objectives of the scheme appear to be to reward those who served their country in time of war, to attract and retain regular servicemen in peacetime, to recognise the significant contribution made to national defence by servicemen who undertake full time service of a substantial duration and to compensate regular service men and women for the considerable disadvantages they suffer in acquiring a permanent home when compared with other members of the community. [More…]

• It refuses to acknowledge that it has social, as well as economic, responsibilities to the Australian community. [More…]

• The higher tax creates a severe cost disadvantage for all farmers- those members of the community who produce 40 per cent of our exports and are supposed to be more competitive as a result of this Budget. [More…]

• The Labor alternative would see $450m injected into housing and capital works where there is such a catalogue of pressing need- for example, public rental housing to reduce the waiting list of more than 90,000 families; construction in the Macarthur development centre; Aboriginal hostels in remote areas; community health centres, and aged persons accommodation. [More…]

• The response already apparent from the financial community, including the international investment community, indicates that the Budget already is producing results. [More…]

• We will return to the situation of having to raise most of the money for any day care or pre-school program, and there is no hope of a community health centre being established in such an area. [More…]

• They influence the thinking and deeply materialist value systems of the whole community, partly by their total control of the newspapers, radio and television and their domination of the great range of hierarchies which determine the shape of Australian society. [More…]

• I refer to the National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Fulltime Training, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Relocation Assistance Scheme, the Education Program for Unemployed Youth and training for industry and commerce. [More…]

• I wish to refer to some remarks which were made by my friend and colleague the honourable member for Dundas (Mr Ruddock) last Thursday in the grievance debate when he spoke about the role of civil marriage celebrants in our community. [More…]

• I have noted comments from time to time from clergy who have made the point that they find it useful to have civil celebrants to fill this need in our community. [More…]

• However, there are a number of other people in the community who offer their services. [More…]

• Its officers and members are continually engaged in community services. [More…]

• They sit on committees- more often than not they are unpaid for this- which deal with employeremployee relations and on countless other organisations in the community that are interested in the social and economic welfare of our society. [More…]

• The trade union movement will not and cannot accept restrictions upon its right to involve itself in the political life of the community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 May 1 978: [More…]

• What action has been taken on the recommendations of the report to him entitled ‘The Greater Involvement of Aboriginals in the Economy of the Pilbara and Kimberley Regions’, and, in particular, the provision of (a) planning for training for specified industries and irrigation-based development expected, (b) adequate staff for duties, with facilities and accommodation comparable with those provided for other departments and mining staffs, (c) ternary and continuing education facilities and investigation and development of existing facilities, (d) co-ordination and detailed legislative policy planning of facilities, (e) offices of his Department in each major town, (f) cultural and work exchange programs, (g) training teams, films and media promotion of community understanding and (h) a demographic survey. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The Government intends that the community store facilities at Woomera should continue to be carried on as required to meet the needs of the local population. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 June 1 978: [More…]

• On the basis of this report and taking into account the provisions of the Queensland International Tourist Centre Agreement Act and other Queensland Government legislation, which provide for continuing environmental management of the tourist resort project, the Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development provided environmental clearance for the proposal on 25 July 1978. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that, because the Government reneged on its promise at the last election to reduce personal taxes and, in consequence, has substantially increased them, it is not unreasonable for an Opposition to propose in an alternative Budget at this stage some alternative source of revenue which would avoid the imposition of substantial increases in personal tax on income earners in the community and that, accordingly, the introduction of a capital gains tax is entirely appropriate? [More…]

• It would lead to higher inflation, to problems in funding the deficit and to higher interest rates for home owners, small businesses, farmers- for all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• The way the Budget has been received and very largely accepted by wide sections of the Australian community indicates that they recognise that the Budget is needed and is necessary in the circumstances of Australia. [More…]

• I think, without putting too strong a word on it, that all honourable members in this House know full well that significant amounts of tax are avoided in this community through the use of cash payments. [More…]

• It occurs in a wide variety of circumstances and to a very significant degree in some sections of the community. [More…]

• The Opposition insists that it wants more information but it does not want to be told of the Government’s decision until this House has had an opportunity to discuss matters which are of concern to us and to the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• What is happening under the Liberals and their country cousins is not only wasteful and unnecessary, it is also unjust and unfair and is leading to growing inequalities in our community. [More…]

• The benefit of those tax cuts, in the greatest possible measure, went to the haves’, thus increasing the inequalities in our community. [More…]

• The fourth example I wish to give the House relates to the reduction of community services. [More…]

• The provision of these services in a welfare state through public spending is motivated by a desire to reduce inequalities in our community. [More…]

• A characteristic of this Government is its slashing of government spending in order to reduce these community services. [More…]

• That is a scandalous amount in view of the great needs that exist in this community. [More…]

• Many people in our community are accumulating wealth which is not taxed by any means whatsoever. [More…]

• If we in this Parliament care about equity and care about ensuring that the lesser privileged people in our community are to be looked after we should be far more resolute about ensuring that there is a proper capital gains tax. [More…]

• Lastly, I would like to mention the lack of Government action to tackle the severe problem of technological change in our community. [More…]

• We are not a government of any particular sector of the community. [More…]

• They would destroy the confidence of the Australian community. [More…]

• An assertion has been made that the level of unemployment- I am speaking of unemployment in all sectors of the community, including rural unemployment- is a major problem. [More…]

• The other implied references in this debate have related to those sections of the community that have experienced very great difficulty in this time of economic disaster. [More…]

• The Opposition has moved this amendment to highlight the misinformation in the community on the deficit, to highlight the fact that the figures relating to the deficit in the last Budget have been fiddled with and to highlight how the same thing is happening on this occasion. [More…]

• I am not referring just to the fact that the outlays in this Budget have increased by 7.7 per cent, whereas the receipts from the community add up to an 1 1 per cent increase. [More…]

• I am grateful to the honourable member for telling me how about another two people might be employed in the community. [More…]

• We do not need to consider only the contractionary effect of collecting 11 per cent more from the community and spending only 7.7 per cent more in the community. [More…]

• This is only half the rate at which the Government expects average weekly earnings in the community generally to grow. [More…]

• Its significance is that the inflationary expectations in the Australian community are clearly receding. [More…]

• I believe that indexed bonds would provide the way to a non-inflationary expanded deficit and would enable that deficit to be used for productive purposes within the Australian community. [More…]

• For instance, as the honourable member for Adelaide has said, the Budget estimate is that there will be a 4 per cent growth rate in the nonfarm sector of the community. [More…]

• The sooner he, the rest of the Government and the rest of the community recognise that fact, the better. [More…]

• The continued criticism of various aspects of the Act has as much as anything persuaded the Attorney-General and the Government that the community will be satisfied with nothing less than a review such as is proposed in this resolution. [More…]

• I do not think that such a body can fairly be expected to know the feelings of the community at large about the Act to the same extent as a committee of parliamentary representatives. [More…]

• Many matters of this sort are exercising the minds of people in the wider community. [More…]

• I hope that in dealing with those that an all party parliamentary committee will work on the basis that we live in a plural democratic community in which there are some sections that hold, as a result of deeply ingrained religious belief, that no divorce in any circumstances is permissible; others believe that divorce on certain limited grounds is permissible, and there are those citizens who have no religious belief at all. [More…]

• Posed in those simplistic terms- with all respect to those who have drafted the foreshadowed amendment- I do not know how one with the wisdom of Solomon could make a finding on that matter in view of the pressures on family life in this community. [More…]

• In my view divorce primarily is a symptom of the disease of marriage breakdown which itself is also a symptom of other pressures on the whole institution of marriage and the family which exist in the community. [More…]

• There are many pressures which contribute to the cause of family break-ups but to attach the responsibility of ascertaining the cause of family break-ups to a parliamentary committee that has the responsibility of trying to make more effective what has been an important piece of social legislation, of ironing out the very specific references that have already been referred to the Attorney-General and of producing a piece of legislation which will be relevant to a plural democratic community so that the problems of divorce, maintenance and custody can be resolved in a way which is sensible and rational is to confuse the issue. [More…]

• It is our ultimate duty to look at this Act and to see the ways in which it is operating and to look at its effects on the happiness and the goodwill of the people in the community and of the community itself, both for the present and for the future. [More…]

• It has been put to me that it would be of much greater benefit to the community if, instead of there being a $ 100 filing fee there were some system- the committee might wish to consider this- of penalties in cases of interminable delay or continued refusal on the part of one of the partners of the former marriage to come to some reasonable property settlement. [More…]

• I regard marriage and family life as one of the very important aspects of community life in this country. [More…]

• As I said, I hope that the committee that is to be appointed for this purpose- to examine a very real and important aspect of community lifewill have the success that it deserves. [More…]

• The Government has a self-image, even if it does not have such an image in the community, of being a government which reduces personal income tax. [More…]

• In this House we hear a lot of rhetoric about all kinds of groups in the community, such as pensioners and so on. [More…]

• Indicative of how confidence can be restored is the answer given recently by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) to a question without notice in which he indicated that the impulses of confidence are getting through to the Australian community in that the August loan subscriptions were a record. [More…]

• I refer to members of the various police forces all over Australia; one section of the community which knows not the meaning of the word ‘strike’. [More…]

• The Government rails at the European Economic Community because there is a trade imbalance, in the main caused by invisibles. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) says that this cut will be counteracted by State income from sales and rents and by a reduction of 5 per cent in the proportion of savings bank deposits required to be held by the Reserve Bank. [More…]

• The Government proposes in substitution a 40 per cent payment of schedule fees for all members of the community with a $20 limit being the patient’s responsibility. [More…]

• A government that wanted to cover up something in relation to these matters would not refer anything to the Attorney-General and to the Solicitor-General, an independent statutory officer appointed originally by a Labor administration and a man of great honour in this community. [More…]

• Labor Party members cynically hoped to whip up a climate of mistrust in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think he has made it now to soften the blow, but it represents a continuing deterioration of the conditions of service of Service personnel and a Government attempt to cash in on the employment and economic difficulties in the community by reducing the standards of those persons who are employed in government service. [More…]

• The principal objection of the Opposition is that the shift to immediate import parity for indigenous crude oil is a needless cost imposition on the Australian community. [More…]

• But we also believe that even gradual increments in price towards import parity should be permitted only when a secondary taxing mechanism has been established to divide the windfall revenues between the producers and the community. [More…]

• While most segments of the community are hard hit by the Budget, the Government’s corporate friends are dispensed largesse on a massive scale. [More…]

• Primary producer organisations and the farming community, particularly those whose output is closely allied to export markets, will be looking to see that the Government honours that promise in as short a time as possible. [More…]

• I think all rural producers will realiseprobably more so than any other people in the community- that this will depend on the revenue position of the Government. [More…]

• All sections of the community will have to trim their sails in some way or other because of the budgetary difficulties we have inherited from other administrations. [More…]

• These services prevent elderly people from being admitted to or having to remain in institutional care at considerably greater community cost. [More…]

• That is part of the same problem which is occurring with the community health services: There is a cutting back on the provision of those services. [More…]

• The welfare officers employed by local government under the grants play an important role in preventive medicine by assisting the elderly to remain socially active and in touch with community health facilities. [More…]

• I think it is just as indefensible from the point of view of the long term cost to the community. [More…]

• Valuable services for the most vulnerable of our community will inevitably suffer. [More…]

• In repeating the fact that the Opposition is opposing this Bill, the first of the two cognate measures, I reiterate that the Government is not only attacking the weakest members of our community but is also, from a purely financial point of view, going about it the wrong way. [More…]

• The Department of Health is also involved, through the community health program and women’s refuges, in the provision of temporary accommodation. [More…]

• I think that one could quite justifiably argue insofar as government cutbacks in those support services that enable people to live within the home unit and to remain within the community are concerned that those people are not by any definition homeless and that if a government were to reduce the level of support it provides to people to enable them to live in their own homes perhaps those people who receive a pension and have what is necessary will be able to obtain institutional care. [More…]

• It is going to make a lot of people who until now have been able to make it and to survive within the community a part of what has been referred to historically as Skid Row, both in this country and throughout the world. [More…]

• These are people who in a real sense are not able to support themselves and who require support from the community. [More…]

• He argued that it cannot be seen in any real sense as an attack on, for example, the aged people in the community. [More…]

• They are protesting and writing letters and they will have influence within the community. [More…]

• They know damned well that the Northcote City Council, with all the demands that are placed on it, servicing as it does a very low income community, will find it extremely difficult to pick up the matching money that will be required. [More…]

• They have never been given a guaranteed income and have been the least understood of any group of people within the Australian community. [More…]

• One could, if one had time, cite particular examples to show that homeless people are not getting the same kind of deal from health services as the rest of the community. [More…]

• In my view, however, this kind of community problem also requires a response from more localised levels of government. [More…]

• Other surveys have shown that the percentage of epilepsy and venereal diseases was ten times as high as that for the community at large. [More…]

• What does this comment on the nature of the problem mean in terms of the appropriate response from the community and from governments? [More…]

• The nature of the problem, as outlined in this report, requires a compassionate response from the community at large, quite apart from the official governmental response I referred to earlier. [More…]

• Also, the community, through its elected representatives, should accept that governments must pursue welfare policies directed towards areas of real need, such as homeless persons. [More…]

• This service is one which prevents such people being admitted to or having to remain in institutional care, at considerably greater community cost. [More…]

• Aged people should be assisted to remain in their own homes and community if they wish. [More…]

• Welfare officers employed by local government under these grants play an important role in preventive medicine by assisting the elderly to remain socially active and in touch with community health facilities. [More…]

• Thirdly, among industry groupings, manufacturing and community services recorded the major changes over the year, the former declining and the latter increasing. [More…]

• I make the point also that the companies provide fantastic recreational and sporting facilities for their work forces and, in many instances, for the whole community. [More…]

• That view is not acceptable to the Australian community; it is not acceptable to this Government. [More…]

• The Australian community interest must be and will be protected. [More…]

• It will not hesitate to use those powers if members of this union do not accept their responsibility to the total Australian community. [More…]

• They are prepared to continue to be stood down in an effort to have the people of the community, especially the Government of this country, look at the problems concerning the introduction of this new technology. [More…]

• The immense number of job opportunities in Telecom lost to the community by the introduction of new technology in telecommunications should be the cause of national concern. [More…]

• The sub-committee’s task is to review existing arrangements for the introduction of new technology in Telecom and to recommend new procedures which have regard to the interests of the staff affected and staff relations generally, as well as Telecom’s customer and community responsibilities. [More…]

• The responsibility for this dispute and the inconvenience being caused to the community rests fairly and squarely on the federal executive of the ATEA, as Commissioner Clarkson has pointed out. [More…]

• The responsibility of government employees is the provision of a wide range of services essential to the well-being of a modern day community. [More…]

• The Austraiian community is being subjected to major inconvenience and hardship through the industrial actions of a relatively small group of government employees and their union. [More…]

• The community is being deprived of services to which it is entitled. [More…]

• Ordinary needs of the community are not being met and this is touching all elements of the community and all business affairs. [More…]

• In matters of major industrial concern, I see it as my responsibility to acquaint the employers and union leaders in the community of the approaches that the Government is contemplating. [More…]

• But it will not hesitate to take what action is required to ensure that industrial blackmail by a minority does not succeed against the Australian community. [More…]

• What is at stake is the way in which we develop this community in the future- not just in respect of Telecom but in respect of our whole approach to the economy in the future, particularly in regard to the importance we place on efficiency as compared with employment. [More…]

• I suggest that, if necessary, we go without telephones for weeks or even months in order to assert that community interests will be protected, to protect our livelihood and our freedom to do what we want to do, to conduct our businesses without the fear of a complete closedown in our communications systems. [More…]

• Minister- he is ably abetted by some of his cohorts on the back benches- to secure cheap headlines by declaring war on an isolated section of the work force, saying that Telecom workers are the enemy and all the rest of the community is being disadvantaged by what is happening in Telecom. [More…]

• It is important that we do not try to bring about this sense of confrontation by inviting the whole community to gang up against the minority. [More…]

• Despite the fact that some difficult, unpopular and disappointing decisions have been necessary on this occasion, the Australian community generally has accepted these decisions as necessary. [More…]

• To describe them, as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) did, as a spontaneous feeling of disaffection within the community is sheer nonsense. [More…]

• The simple fact is that the changes to the health fund arrangements will benefit every person in the community who has been paying contributions or the levy in recent years. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory, both the Education Division of my Department and the Darwin Community College re-use waste paper as far as possible, although there are no current arrangements for recycling. [More…]

• and (2) The Government recognises that producers living in the more remote and isolated pastoral zone suffer from both social and economic difficulties which place them at a considerable disadvantage when compared with other members of the community. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government will enforce the required standard of broadcasting as laid down for all other stations, on community radio 3CR call on Federal Government to legislate against incitement to racial hatred and violence. [More…]

• One of the most significant incentives which the Government has provided to the business community in recent years has, of course, been the investment allowance to which the honourable gentleman referred. [More…]

• This Government believes that there is ample evidence, not only from the official advice tendered to it but also from the judgment of bodies such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the experience of the Australian work force over the past few years and the experience, both statistical and anecdotal, of Australian employers over the past few years, to support the attitude that this Government takes towards the importance of the level of real wages in the community. [More…]

• The Telecom Australia dispute acted like a hydrogen bomb as far as the community was concerned, in awakening it to the threat of technology, what it means and how it has to be handled. [More…]

• We have introduced the Community Youth Support scheme which has had about 570 projects in operation since its inception a couple of years ago and nearly 45,000 young people have been helped. [More…]

• I strongly advise members of the Opposition to use their good offices with their friends in the trade union movement to bring some responsibility into those organisations and then they will be far more prosperous and they will be of far more value to the Australian community at large. [More…]

• We can feel it in the community and I am darned certain that members of the Opposition feel that same confidence. [More…]

• It is the price that capitalism pays, through the Government, to alleviate a little of the dreadful human cost it is exerting on a growing proportion of the Australian community. [More…]

• This Budget also challenges the broad mass of the Australian people by so blatantly taking from the majority- by that I mean the poor up to those earning around the average wage, which group makes up 75 per cent to 80 per cent of the community- to make resources available to the rich, the wealthy and also the corporate sector. [More…]

• In its rush to override the wishes of the Aboriginal people and to sweep aside the large and growing opposition in the Australian community to uranium mining and export, the Government is desperately trying to lock Australia into the world nuclear fuel cycle. [More…]

• Many of the more enlightened in their ranks see the dangers that this Government poses to the fabric of Australian society by its harsh attacks on the weaker sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government’s mentality and priority in relation to welfare housing demonstrate clearly that it has set out not only to create great problems within the housing sector but also to aggravate severely the enormous suffering and social problems within the Australian community. [More…]

• I want it to be clearly understood by all who can hear me that people who are suffering from active pulmonary tuberculosis, irrespective of whether they are servicemen, are got out of the community and put away because they represent a public health risk. [More…]

• The Australian community would not accept in the achievement of that aim the proposition of a higher rate of taxation. [More…]

• Whatever one says, it will not be acceptable to the Australian community that, in order to get on to an equilibrium path of development without inflation and with full employment, there should be policies which will promote either higher inflation or permanently higher rates of taxation. [More…]

• I suggest that long sight may be an eye affliction for many Australians but there is some evidence right before our noses which can be grasped and turned to the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• Unless the benefits of very high productivity which that industry is able to pursue are spread over the whole community full employment opportunities will not operate again around Australia. [More…]

• But the benefits of production and productivity have to be spread over the whole community. [More…]

• That is the great confidence that is needed in the Australian community. [More…]

• -Such policies are not acceptable and they will not be acceptable to the Australian community. [More…]

• Now in relation to Bass Strait oil; it was never a question of a resources tax or no tax; it was a question of a resources tax or levy and it is the community that gets the benefit of the levy, not the companies. [More…]

• I ask the question rhetorically whether Australia is now mature enough, whether we have sufficient forward thinkers in government and the community, to bring down two-year Budgets. [More…]

• It is my belief that there is a lot to be said for the proposition that the Australian community should know for a period of two years in advance what is the planning of government. [More…]

• I believe we should face up to the challenge and plan not just to the tip of our nose 12 months hence but to budget two years in advance and give the community, particularly the business community which shapes the economy of this country and its dynamic forward drive, a clear idea of where government is going. [More…]

• They should get involved in the Community Youth Support scheme, get the Special Youth Employment Training Program going, get on radio and promote apprentice training. [More…]

• Of course, the general view of the Budget is that it will have a disastrous impact upon the Australian community. [More…]

• In other words, we must find some way of tapping the immense savings in the Austraiian community. [More…]

• Such overseas companies are milking the Australian community of the profits and wealth that belong rightly to Australia. [More…]

• Yes, and I think responsibility from each person in this community to all the rest of the community. [More…]

• There is nothing so disheartening to the community and nothing so divisive to the community as what is happening to the young people of Australia and those people who work in some of the threatened manufacturing industries. [More…]

• They talk with some assumption of reduced wages increasing the economic health of the community. [More…]

• The Budget has also renewed the confidence of the overseas business community in the Australian economy. [More…]

• It is clear that the Leader of the Opposition is wrong in his statement about the Budget’s impact on the business community. [More…]

• During a period of financial stringency that is a solid record together with other social reforms of concern for the less well off in the Australian community. [More…]

• The alternative Budget is a rehash of the same old recipe for economic disaster that Labor cooked up in its three years in office; that is, more public spending, bigger deficits and the imposition of penal and retrospective taxes on the business community. [More…]

• When the Government made decisions in relation to the Budget it knew full well that some of the decisions would not meet with full approval from all sections of this community. [More…]

• The initial objective is to save on the huge power bill, but it is also wonderful to see this great university as a community leader in what is a national campaign. [More…]

• The poorest, the neediest, the most deprived sections of this community have been the hardest hit. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has come into this House time and again and talked all the rubbish about the place in respect of teaching young people under the Community Youth Support scheme, which is referred to as CYSS. [More…]

• The business community itself will soon seek to draw into line any member who steps outside certain broad guidelines and whose actions, if pursued, may diminish the conditions under which business flourishes. [More…]

• Trade unionism has evolved not because it was forced on the community but because gradually ordinary working people recognised that it was necessary. [More…]

• If the honourable member is honest with himself he will admit surely that much of the progress in modern, Western industrial society, which has led ultimately to advances for all of us, including those who own the means of production, has resulted from the action of trade unionists working in concert to improve their conditions which have in turn flowed on to the rest of the community. [More…]

• I think that all unions recognise that there are people in the community who hold very deep religious beliefs about not joining trade unions. [More…]

• These subsidies are essentially designed to increase training, including skilled training opportunities available in the community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 4 May 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 6 June 1978: [More…]

• What attitude has the Government expressed to the Canadian Government regarding Canada’s decision to supply uranium to the European Economic Community without Canadian consent being required for reprocessing. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 June 1 978: [More…]

• Over recent years progress has been made, against considerable resistance from the community in general and from those with a commercial interest in particular, towards general acknowledgment of the unitary nature of drug use and misuse in society. [More…]

• If no approval has been given, (a) does he have the matter under consideration and (b) has he discussed with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development the necessity for an environmental impact statement on the Alwest bauxite mining proposal. [More…]

• (b) I understand that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development has directed an environmental impact statement on the Worsley project. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s examination of the environmental aspects will proceed in conjunction with that of the Western Australian Government under the agreed arrangements on cooperation in environmental assessment made between the Commonwealth Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Western Australian Minister for Conservation and Environment. [More…]

• My Department is conscious of the current emphasis on the need to recycle waste material and the trend for community involvement in such projects. [More…]

• In particular has consideration been given to the use of adverse publicity and community service orders as sanctions. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]

• Is it a fact that on 21 July 1978 the Queensland Government ordered four white community advisers, namely Mr T. Morris, Reverend J. Adams, a community counsellor, MrS. Lee, a plumber, and Mr P. Kaufman, of the Federal Department of Aboriginal Affairs, out of their homes at Aurukun. [More…]

• Secondly, I wanted to elicit response from those in the community who might be affected by the proposal. [More…]

• At the same time I think that the whole implications of the IAC report need to be assessed, considering the alternative points of view that there are in the wheat growing community. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development whether his attention has been drawn to the announcement by the Queensland State Government Insurance Office Building Society of a reduction of one half of one per cent on interest rates for new homes. [More…]

• I certainly hope, as I would imagine the whole Australian community hopes, that this unnecessary and crippling strike has ended. [More…]

• Section 19 makes it clear that matters which the commissioners are to consider are virtually community of interest, population changes, et cetera. [More…]

• The consequence of that situation is that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) has circulated a letter to the unfortunate applicants who have been advised of the delay, suggesting that they could make arrangements with banks to use their letter of advice to get bridging finance. [More…]

• It also makes valuable social contributions to our community. [More…]

• -The question that should be asked of the House and of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is this: Does the building industry need a stimulus? [More…]

• -Nearly 100,000 families are waiting for homes from the Housing Commission and at least half a million people are living in sub-standard housing, and this Government has not only increased the social problems of those elements in the community which need housing and reneged with regard to welfare housing, but it has also reneged on the home savings grant scheme. [More…]

• This Government is a class government that represents wealthy people and the corporate sector and not the battlers in the community. [More…]

• There is the organisation from which the Leader of the Opposition has plucked some ideas which are before the Government and the community for consideration, and he said ‘Here is my plan’. [More…]

• These objections can be broadly stated as: Firstly, that the proposal was inappropriate for a zoned residential area; secondly, that it would alienate an area of open space- some 3.44 hectares- from community use; and, thirdly, that there would be adverse effects on surrounding residents from increased traffic movements and building activity. [More…]

• I should also mention that the environmental clearance for the proposal was given by the then Acting Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in June 1 976. [More…]

• One of the problems that we are now facing in our community is that many of the migrant groups which came to Australia in large numbers in the late 1940s and early 1950s have a great proportion of their population moving into retirement age. [More…]

• So a need has developed in our community to pay some particular attention to the requirements of the elderly members of various ethnic communities because some of them are missing out on accommodation for which other members of the Australian community qualify. [More…]

• I attended a fund raising function of this organisation on behalf of the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr MacKellar, where the need for this type of facility for elderly members of the Greek community in Victoria was pointed out to me. [More…]

• I think most honourable members will appreciate that the members of the Latvian community in Australia, by and large, came to Australia in the late 1940s and early 1950s in rather large numbers. [More…]

• Therefore a very substantial proportion of that community would now be in their retirement years. [More…]

• Whilst this increase is sufficient to keep pace with inflation and to provide for some new capital equipment I believe that as a community we are becoming more aware of Australia’s position in the world and the greater need we have to attend to our own defence needs. [More…]

• A number of incidents over the last two or three years has drawn the Australian community’s attention to the defence needs of this country. [More…]

• On the other hand, the emphasis of the training which members of police forces receive is directed towards using minimum force and usually great patience to achieve an objective with minimum injury to both the accused and the community as a whole. [More…]

• At that time we were faced with the job of renewing and restoring confidence in the Australian economy and the Australian community after the disastrous events seen during the Labor Government’s term in office. [More…]

• Those policies are aimed at restoring the confidence of the community and putting the economy back on its feet. [More…]

• We on this side of the House know, and the Australian community knows, that to follow such a disgraceful policy would do nothing more than simply add people to the dole queues, It would put people out on the streets because they would not be able to get a job. [More…]

• I think that they should be exposed to the Australian community for putting forward such propositions. [More…]

• We can set a strategy but it must have the support of the Australian community. [More…]

• Criticising the power of the executive over the House of Representatives, he added: ‘There is increasing evidence that members and supporters of the Parliament in the community are beginning to question the executive’s increasing dominance over the legislature and that there is a groundswell of opinion favouring reform. ‘ [More…]

• To do this it has had to introduce some measures which are distasteful to it and indeed to the public at large, but an indication of the courage of the Government is that it is pursuing those measures which ultimately will be of real benefit to the whole of the community although they are unpopular at present and although the Opposition in this Parliament tries to take advantage of the situation. [More…]

• I find that this attitude is held by responsible representatives of the community not only in my State of Queensland but also in other States. [More…]

• It could well be that the Liberal Government is being supremely cynical and is fully conscious of what it is doing, taking a gamble on the community’s tolerance and, hopefully, short memory. [More…]

• Then, with a slightly more relaxed Budget in 1980- relaxed in terms of welfare provisionsthe Liberal Government will go to the polls at the end of that year hoping that the false start in the economic recovery and a little more money in the pockets of the poor, before the added availability of funds induces a rise in inflation, may fool many people in the community to vote again for the Liberals. [More…]

• It will be a cynical exercise easily achieved on the backs of the vast majority of people in the community struggling to fulfil their lives, not just exist, on less than average weekly earnings or on very much less for the growing number of willing workers unable to find jobs. [More…]

• It is for this reason, in this area, that I think the policies of the present Government are letting the whole Australian community down and the Government is deluding itself. [More…]

• In framing this Budget the Government has been forced to take measures which will not please all members of the community in the short term. [More…]

• I am concerned because these people are hard working and, as I have said, lawabiding members of our community. [More…]

• It looks at the convenience and the comfort of the white administrators as being far more important than the needs of the community they are allegedly serving. [More…]

• The Federal Government’s record in care for the old people, the disabled and the disadvantaged is well demonstrated by the funds it has supplied for the building of Walara, for sheltered workshops and for the new community centre which it has financed at Keysborough. [More…]

• At St Marys, a vast community centre has been built in the middle of Dandenong. [More…]

• The four Community Youth Support Scheme programs to help with youth employment have been fully funded in the Holt electorate for this year. [More…]

• I should like to refer to the energy crisis, the problem of the Aboriginal settlement at Mornington Island and, finally, the urgent need for a national youth community cadet scheme to assist in the evergrowing problem of youth employment which simply will not go away. [More…]

• Therefore, with the help of the more sensible honourable members on the other side of the House, I am endeavouring to formulate a national youth community cadet scheme which I will give to the Government so that everybody can look at it. [More…]

• The 1978-79 Budget reflects an unmitigated deterioration of the position of the poorest and most disadvantaged groups in our community. [More…]

• I refer to, firstly, the Government’s complete incapacity for honesty; secondly, its insensitivity to the point of inhumanity in its dealings with the less fortunate sectors of the community; and, thirdly, its complete incompetence in handling the nation’s affairs, particularly the nation ‘s economic affairs. [More…]

• Then they will discover that they have been seduced like the rest of the community only to be abandoned by this congenitally dishonest Government. [More…]

• Yet the sections of the community most likely to spend their incomes are the sections which are most deprived by the Budget of the necessary spending ammunition, and that is some money. [More…]

• Any attempt by people to defraud the government by using the fuel that is available to the agricultural section of the community, and those dependent on that section, could result in them being in serious trouble. [More…]

• I say again, having moved among all sections of the community, in a great part of this country, that the people are proud of this Budget. [More…]

• The responsible people of this nation and the international community have acclaimed this Budget as one of the most courageous and one of the greatest Budgets of our era. [More…]

• This visit seems to have caused some concern amongst sections of the community and various stories have circulated. [More…]

• I believe that we were perfectly entitled to bring to the notice of the Tasmanian public things occurring in the community that we do not believe in. [More…]

• But at this particular time there are many women within the Australian community who, no matter how happy their home is and so on, have independent assets and believe that they have an independent status. [More…]

• I am only putting the view that the re-establishing of the kind of trust that is necessary not only within this Parliament but also between this Parliament and the Australian community is not necessarily or easily achieved by the simple statement that there will be disclosure in one sense, shape or form. [More…]

• If the honourable gentleman analyses the particular questions involved he will ultimately get back to a situation in which there has to be some degree of trust between this Parliament and the community. [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition also castigated the Government for wanting to be interested and involved in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It has clearly embarked on a campaign to convey otherwise to the Australian community. [More…]

• With cuts in specific programs, such as hospitals, community health services, dental health services, roads and a myriad of other specific capital works programs, it is quite clear that in total the States’ fiscal position is being undermined. [More…]

• The Government, for its part, will welcome views put seriously and constructively by the Opposition or by any other section of the community. [More…]

• For too long the people of South Australia, and indeed the people of Australia, have been in that dream and have failed to understand what is happening to the prosperity of a once happy, successful, industrious community. [More…]

• They have moved to make air travel as accessible as possible to as wide a range of the community as possible commensurate with the viability of their aviation industries. [More…]

• They do not exist to maintain industry advantage and the industry should be there to serve the community. [More…]

• That the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, and the State Ministers responsible for youth, sport and recreation, appeal to sportsmen and sportswomen throughout Australia not to lend their names and prestige to the promotion of tobacco products. [More…]

• In March 1976, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) stated that discussions at Aurukun had ‘helped form views on the needs of the situation at Aurukun and in particular the need for the Commonwealth Government to ensure that the Aurukun community is involved in negotiations about the terms of, and arrangements for, any mining development on the reserve’. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, and Department of Construction, together. [More…]

• I hope that in future it will be sensitive enough to act quickly as a basis of establishing confidence amongst the banks and the business community. [More…]

• We need a determined effort by the community as a whole to ensure that those young people have the opportunity of being placed in employment and are not treated as economic statistics for the benefit of achieving theoretical Budget success. [More…]

• will increase the degree of economic hardship for the poorest and most disadvantaged groups in our community; [More…]

• Need I say more than to remind the House that outlays, government expenditures, are planned to increase by only 7.7 per cent at a time when receipts, that amount which is being taken by the Government from the community, are planned to increase by 1 1 per cent. [More…]

• That net loss to the community of 3.3 per cent is not the only evidence of contraction; it is also important to note the nature of the areas where government funds are being spent and from where they are being collected. [More…]

• There would be more of an employment creating effect if $ 10m was spent in the area of the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is responsible for the building and construction industry, than if that same $10m was spent to buy another piece of defence equipment from overseas. [More…]

• Let me read from a document from the Australian Industries Development Association, the heart of big business in this community, which reached me yesterday. [More…]

• Enormous promises were made about taxation prior to the last election less than a year ago, which tended to persuade the Australian community to vote for the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]

• As I have stated, the Budget is also inequitable and inhumane because, as I will illustrate during the course of my speech, it forces the middle and lower income earners to bear unnecessarily the burdens of this wasteful economic policy which the Government is perpetrating on the Australian community. [More…]

• The Opposition believes- this has been pointed out in the past- that this strategy will mean not only a direct increase in unemployment because of less employment in the public sector but also a lack of confidence in the community and a lack of the necessary desire to spend on the part of Australians which would bring this country back to economic health. [More…]

• The Government’s strategy will create many costs to the community, such as the costs of the enormous increase in unemployment measured in terms of the broken lives of the unemployed, particularly the young unemployed. [More…]

• We believe clearly from all the evidence that because of the insecurity created by increased unemployment in our community, people are timid at the present time. [More…]

• While we have this attitude in the community we shall not have a return to economic health. [More…]

• The editorial, referring to the statistics that relate to retail sales and also to the rate of saving in this community, stated: [More…]

• The Opposition shares the desire to reduce the rate of inflation but believes that there is another way to obtain that result without the great cost that is being inflicted on the community through the present methods of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• We are prepared to go out and sell to the community the idea that an increased deficit can be justified at this time in the interests of the community. [More…]

• We believe that if there is a proper education campaign in the community- recognising that these are the policies for economic health, recognising that there is no reason why an increased borrowing requirement brought about by the deficit that we have in mind should add to interest rates- these things can be achieved without any adverse effects. [More…]

• If we had such a government we would have a lowering of the savings ratio; we would have a return to confidence and spending on the part of the Australian community- spending which would restore economic health in Australia. [More…]

• Criticisms of the adequacy of the present unemployment benefit levels are also matched by concern at the increasing cost of benefit payments, which in 1977-78 were already in excess of $700m, and the feeling that these funds should be capable of being used more constructively in the interests of the unemployed and the community. [More…]

• In a very real sense the community is now paying the price for the excesses of those years. [More…]

• If we can acknowledge that we have a real and substantial problem of unemployment in our community, and begin to understand the reasons why, then we as a community are more likely to adopt a cohesive approach. [More…]

• The Community recognises wage increases as a primary source of inflation. [More…]

• In addition, support has been provided for the unemployed young through the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Employing the unemployed at the minimum wage, which presumably is what the community would expect, with all the overheads associated with employment- workers’ compensation, accommodation, tools, materials, supervision, administration of such matters as wages, recordkeeping, et cetera- would far exceed the savings which might be made in unemployment benefit payments and increases in taxation. [More…]

• A major contribution should continue to be expected to come from community services, an area which has seen a strong growth in jobs throughout the last 30 years, but of course in order to expand these services we must have a strong economy with a high rate of growth. [More…]

• In these circumstances, the attractiveness of Australia as a place to live and as an investment prospect- indeed, its credibility as a stable community- would be weakened. [More…]

• Unemployment and its attendant consequences concern the whole community. [More…]

• Despite all these shortcomings of the Budget being pointed out from the back bench and from traditional supporters of the Government, the Prime Minister still claims that the people of Australia support his Budget and that the divisive elements within the Australian community are less apparent now than they were two years ago. [More…]

• We can only hope that the Government will also rethink its decision to allow doctors to play God in determining who in our community is socially disadvantaged. [More…]

• Such policies are a cheap way for governments to buy popularity, but they are a very costly way for the community in the end. [More…]

• -The Budget which is before us and to which an amendment has been moved by the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) illustrates the fact that the policies of the Budget are not aimed at spreading the resources of this community more equitably. [More…]

• -The community as a whole pays for it. [More…]

• In my own electorate, in the heartland of St Albans- an area covered by the St Albans Community Health Centre- we find that 34 per cent of the population is Yugoslav, 32 per cent Maltese, 12 per cent Greek, 10 per cent Italian, 2 per cent German, one per cent Polish, one per cent Russian, one per cent Ukrainian, 0.75 per cent Czechoslovakian and 6.25 per cent British and other nationalities. [More…]

• Let me connect this legislation with the similar abandonment by this Government and by the same Minister of the school dental health program and the community health centre program. [More…]

• In total, what it amounts to is an abandonment of assistance by the Federal Government of those programs that deal specifically with people who are ill and aged and dependent upon the community for assistance and proper health care. [More…]

• In short, clause 3 entails a direct attack on the aged people in the community. [More…]

• We expect both the State governments and, to a lesser extent, local governments, to play their responsible roles in assisting in the provision of services for people, such as the aged and the infirm, who require assistance from the community. [More…]

• We are trying to make sure, under the new federalism arrangement, that both the Commonwealth and the State governments, and to a lesser extent the local government authorities, will live up to their responsibilities at the grass roots level in assisting those people in the community who are not capable of caring for themselves. [More…]

• What we need more than anything else is community cooperation. [More…]

• That co-operation should flow through to the Commonwealth, State and local government representatives so that we get a total community and co-operative approach to make sure that the resources which are available in a community are spent upon those who most need support. [More…]

• Those arrangements provided that the Commonwealth would meet certain costs if certain services were developed within the community, under conditions laid down by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• We have to decide whether services such as home help are important in the community. [More…]

• But a lot of people in the Australian community do not have that opportunity. [More…]

• The alternative is that this type of service will be reduced within the community in areas where local government bodies do not have the funding available to meet the difference in the costs of providing those services. [More…]

• In fact, the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay) and the Minister for Health, who are both at the table, were present at the opening of a community centre in Hobart at which they impressed the ordinary, average person with their complete sincerity and their understanding of the problems. [More…]

• We live in a fairly commonsense, fairly mature and reasonably thoughtful community. [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…]

• One of the most depressing features in the last few years of course has been the increase in the number of young people who are floating in the community. [More…]

• I would say from my experience and observation that there is now an increasing awareness of this problem throughout the community. [More…]

• I would think that many of the houses that I see around here that were built in the 1930s by the Government were of a much higher standard than the general housing of the rest of the community. [More…]

• I think there is nothing wrong with the philosophy of trying to get Commonwealth, State and local government at the grass roots level to try to assist the needy people of the Australian community. [More…]

• This is a total community responsibility reflected through the actions and activities of Commonwealth, State and local government. [More…]

• God help the State governments that are going to run away from meeting a reasonable share of their responsibility for assisting the needy sections of the community who live within those States. [More…]

• I think that it reflects the general community support for this measure and for the steps that the Government has taken in ensuring that both State and local governments play their parts in looking after the needs of people in the housing area. [More…]

• But this nitrogenous fertiliser bountry, which most likely affects far fewer members of the community, is being gradually eroded away. [More…]

• This is particularly so now for, as inevitable as the fuel price rise is to reach world parity prices, this unavoidable cost will fall harder on the rural producers than on any other sector of our community. [More…]

• When one considers the massive subsidisation afforded to Japanese and New Zealand primary producers, or, if we take the worst example, those producers within the European Economic Community, one wonders how Australian farmers remain in business or remain competitive on foreign markets. [More…]

• They will have a better take-off base than any other section of the Australian community. [More…]

• But when it gets to that point the local council has to make the decision as to whether, in all due honesty, it can abandon the community. [More…]

• That is another excellent example of what can happen when the Government permits the community to go forward, to go out into the open market and raise money to build things for other people in Canberra. [More…]

• I believe that once a Cabinet decision is made on an issue on which there is a substantial amount of controversy in a community information on it should be given to the people through the news media as soon as possible. [More…]

• I think most people are aware that this is the only community in Australia that does not have a degree of self government. [More…]

• It is about to become the only community in Australia that will be given the opportunity to reject the idea of self government by a referendum. [More…]

• I have already taken up this matter with the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is right behind the move to get the Olympic Games for Australia in our bicentennial year of 1 988. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]

• Is the Minister for Trade and Resources aware that the European Economic Community is now dumping large volumes of sugar in Papua New Guinea, literally on Australia’s doorstep? [More…]

• I am aware that sugar from the European Economic Community is now being landed in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• I have made speeches on this matter and described the community’s actions as nothing more than economic vandalism. [More…]

• The representations made by the Minister for Special Trade Representations and me have, to this point of dme, had little impact upon the Community’s trading policies. [More…]

• These difficulties, which affected the Government’s ability to determine the domestic sugar price, prejudiced our ability to give due recognition to the very long time since the sugar industry requested an increase in the domestic price and to the implications for the rest of the community of granting the industry the fairly significant increase that it requested. [More…]

• Its establishment arose out of the Government ‘s concern that the rapid increase in housing costs had been a major factor in limiting the community’s access to housing. [More…]

• We will welcome comment from members of the industry and the community before considering what action we at the Commonwealth level might be able to take. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) said that the Government was on the right road. [More…]

• What about the Ministers who have been involved in deceiving the Australian community in that three year period? [More…]

• Of course the Government and the community are rightly concerned about the problem. [More…]

• We have further programs which are operating very effectively, including the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• Area School Council, the Nhulunbuy Corporation and Town Board, the Gove Peninsula branch of the CLP, Nabalco Pty Ltd, Messrs Graham and the Honourable Jim Robertson, Northern Territory Minister for Community Development and Minister for Education, and Mr Ballantyne, the local member of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• Another fact of life with which the apple and pear grower has to live is the European Economic Community or, I suggest, the lack of it so far as Australia is concerned. [More…]

• Of course this all arises from the change in the basis of exports to the European Economic Community in 1971 when the door was closed firmly in the face of the present Leader of the National Country Party when he was a Minister involved in the EEC discussions. [More…]

• He agreed that the Labor Government should remove that particular form of production assistance for the uptake of that industry at a most critical time, that is, when the first effect of the increased external tariff applied by the European Economic Community was being felt. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the reality of this reduction in the level of assistance is a reminder to us of the very painful adjustment that has been necessary in these industries because of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and the introduction of the common external tariff against these fruits. [More…]

• It is very good to see the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is the fine honourable member for Braddon, come into the House. [More…]

• He said that the position was that the community should trust members of parliament. [More…]

• In the run-up to the last Budget we were informed in no uncertain terms that the business community of this country wanted drastic cuts made in social security payments, health and welfare. [More…]

• This is not the only privileged institution in the community. [More…]

• We have a very fine arbitration system that has served the community well for many years. [More…]

• The right to strike is a very important right in a democracy, but the principle of no pay for no work is the counterbalance that ensures that there is a fair and reasonable division of responsibility in our community. [More…]

• There are differing views in the community as to what should be the basis of taxation and what should be the basis of assisting people who, by reason of a particular disability or disadvantage, ought to receive some kind of additional assistance. [More…]

• On the surface, of course, because of the unfortunate disabilities of some in our community, it is easy to construct an attack upon a government which imposes taxation upon recipients of particular benefits. [More…]

• I say to the honourable gentleman, secondly, that if indeed the community believes that some amongst its number, by reason of their disabilities, should be deserving of additional assistance, the right method of doing that is by direct support and social welfare payments. [More…]

• Our taxation system pays regard to capacity to pay according to the level of income, and it is for that reason that governments constantly get requests from all sections of the community asking them whether a tax exemption should be granted by reason of a particular situation. [More…]

• In answer to a question yesterday concerning the dumping of sugar in Papua New Guinea by the European Economic Community, he indicated that his Department would be consulting the industry on what measures Australia will be taking against the EEC under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade arrangements. [More…]

• Any Australian placed in that situation, let alone the representatives of a minority group in our community forced into the ruthless game of mining industry politics without the chance to master the rules, would feel under pressure. [More…]

• It is basic to Aboriginal culture that long, informed and organised discussions must take place between the traditional leaders and the whole of the community they represent before a decision can be reached. [More…]

• Dr Coombs has rightly said in his letter that the Government will destroy one of the most promising young leaders of the Aboriginal community in Australia if it persists with this highly destructive approach to all Aboriginal values. [More…]

• If a minority community is to be destroyed in the process that is just too bad. [More…]

• All these eyes are on Australia and they can and will see the despicable way in which this Government treats the Aboriginal community of Australia. [More…]

• Long after the mining companies are gone Australia will still have to live down, in the eyes of the world community, the awful reputation that this Government is gaining for the nation. [More…]

• He has restricted the flow of information to the Aboriginal community and has specifically refused information to some communities. [More…]

• The Government has only itself to blame for the dissension and the bitterness which today exists amongst the Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. [More…]

• The Christian Church provides the community in which it should be possible to do things. [More…]

• The Opposition recognises that governments have to get their revenue from somewhere and that at least the section of the community which will be affected by this legislation probably is better able to pay such a tax. [More…]

• In actual fact $10 was decided upon, I think, by most people in the community inasmuch as it was a substantial amount that would help revenue but was certainly not an amount of money that would stop Australians going overseas. [More…]

• As the honourable member for Robertson said, those jobs are available to women, to many unskilled workers and to many young people in the community, which is something we should be looking at. [More…]

• If anybody in the community is worried that the $ 1 0 departure tax will be a burden on them at the airport, although it might be considered to be a little dishonest the tax could be included in the price of the ticket. [More…]

• I think that the Government is foisting onto the Australian community a terrible monstrosity. [More…]

• I make the charge that much of the subject matter of criticism was due directly not to the diligence of public servants in this community but to the Government’s parsimonious and heavy handed attitude to the public sector. [More…]

• I assert that the Labor Party is as keen and as concerned about efficiency in the public sector as is any other group in this community, but we believe that this should be brought about in a proper way, such as by applying the recommendations of the Coombs Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration rather than these blunt ways of applying staff ceilings as the Fraser Government has done in the last Vh years. [More…]

• In Mount Isa is a mining community. [More…]

• It is important that Commonwealth government decisions and details of government policies and programs are widely understood in the community. [More…]

• I believe that the Property Section should not be in the Department of Administrative Services but should be in the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• We need such a weight, such a punch, in influencing the development of our urban communities in such a body as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I urge the Government to reassess its administrative arrangements and to transfer the Property Section to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I wish to talk, firstly, about two small matters that appear in the estimates- small in terms of expenditure but important in community terms- and then to move on to a third point. [More…]

• In my opinion there is too little regard held in the broad community at large for this Parliament. [More…]

• I simply draw attention to it as I believe that it is important for the community at large to have its attention drawn to the fact that our bicentenary celebrations will be upon us soon, in fact in 1988. [More…]

• I point out to the community at large that no doubt it will take the full eight to ten years to plan properly fitting celebrations for the bi-centenary of this country. [More…]

• This will give an excellent example of how we can slightly change the direction of this rent to the betterment of the community and the good of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I think that the people who are urging and who have urged the citizens of this nation to maintain their rage, to maintain their anger or who have made other sorts of curious admonitions relating to violent action will inevitably encourage and have inevitably encouraged the exercise of brutal power and brutal force in our community. [More…]

• -The honourable member for McMillan (Mr Simon) made a speech during the Grievance Day debate last Thursday on the effects that smoking has on the health of our community. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]

• This is one example of the sort of debate that is going on in the community. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Special Trade Representations, relates to the disruptive effect of European Economic Community policies on international trade. [More…]

• As the house will recall, my predecessor, the present Treasurer, left with the EEC a note of some 25 representations which were the result of Australia’s having lost exports to the Community of over 80 per cent of its agricultural products. [More…]

• That loss was brought about by the method of the common agricultural policy and the use of a variable price levy, which effectively denies most access to the Community and, in addition, results in highly subsidised exports which are dumped on third markets around the world that otherwise would be ours, if only commercial considerations applied. [More…]

• Of course, while this is happening our balance of payments position with the Community is worsening. [More…]

• The Community is subsidising exports to the tune of $4 billion in this current year. [More…]

• For instance, the Community has held out the prospect of some marginal benefits by an agreement on prefixation of levies for frozen beef and the amelioration of some of the difficulties in respect of veterinary matters. [More…]

• But agreement on the main issues- in respect of export subsidies, in which of course the United States of America is also particularly interested, binding access commitments for beef, dairy products and fruit and the Community’s participation in the International Sugar Agreement- is outstanding and the Community’s response to our industrial tariff offer has been so far insignificant. [More…]

• Some 4 million tonnes of sugar are being dumped by the Community on world markets and most of this is being subsidised at the rate of two to three times the world price. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received representations from groups in Western Australia who are concerned at the proposal by Alcoa of Australia Ltd to mine bauxite at Wagerup and who are seeking a public inquiry? [More…]

• I condemn them because I believe that there is nothing more loathsome than a group of people in a privileged position who are using the health of people to make their millions at the expense of the community. [More…]

• Traditional sources for our military equipment have been the European Community (EC) and the USA. [More…]

• I think that this House and the community are fed up to the back teeth with the running smear in which the honourable member for Lalor has participated today under the guise of having disdain and disgust for raising matters of this nature. [More…]

• Let me say that I can hope only that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) can put paid to those rumours. [More…]

• Nothing would delight me more than to have an unequivocal statement from the Government or the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) or the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development saying that the Government will never permit drilling on the Barrier Reef. [More…]

• To begin with it is the largest marine coral ecosystem in the world, a ‘stable mature marine community’ of a very special kind. [More…]

• Now that the border issue is about to be resolved, I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to investigate this area and see whether the region should be extended so that all the Reef can be protected. [More…]

• I sincerely hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) takes note of his remarks and is aware of the importance of the [More…]

• In regard to the qualifications of the Chairman, I see nothing wrong with the amendment which has been proposed by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• I welcome industry, commerce and other sections of the community involved in areas like this taking the initiative in getting in touch with me as the Opposition spokesman opening the debate in this area: In this case there has been very little response from the community which, I suppose, following the old principle of letting sleeping dogs lie, means that industry and commerce are happy that this legislation should be passed. [More…]

• These two measures which we are discussing this afternoon are a further step to impress upon the community the benefits which can be obtained from exercising property rights. [More…]

• Other examples are education, entertainment and all sorts of miscellaneous services which are available in the community, including the accommodation industry, hire services, beauty salons and computer services. [More…]

• But apart from that there is no real protection or relief and this legislation does a mighty service to the community by providing that greater degree of protection and at the same time, as I have said, by providing a ready identification of the services which are being offered. [More…]

• The first of these studies occurred in the forging industry and there has been widespread publication of the results of that study given to the community. [More…]

• All in all, these two establishments are designed to make the community and manufacturing industry in particular better aware of technology- that technology which is available already in this community and available for adaptation so as to improve productivity. [More…]

• There is already considerable contact and work being done with industry and with unions to implement and to take advantage of technological change which is available in the community. [More…]

• One of the groups in the community hardest hit by the ravages of inflation are retirees on fixed incomes. [More…]

• The Department of Environment Housing and Community Development asked that we extend the present collection of information relating to construction activity. [More…]

• The situation also is bad, of course, with regard to the European Economic Community, with a deficit of $2,500m which is virtually more than the total deficit for all Australian trade. [More…]

• Inflation obviously is of vital importance to all Australians no matter what sector of the community they are a part of, no matter what occupation people follow, whether they are in business, whether they work, whether they own homes or whatever. [More…]

• What this Government is doing in applying a very firm hand on the economy in bringing down the inflation rate is helping everybody in the community. [More…]

• Everybody in the community will benefit from the fact that inflation is coming down. [More…]

• I just make the point generally that public servants hold a very privileged and very distinguished position within the community. [More…]

• Immigration also can improve expectations of the business community regarding future markets, thereby influencing its output and investment decisions, and it can, of course, create economies of scale. [More…]

• Often there is a feeling in the Australian community- certainly this applies in my electorate too- that a low level of immigration is a means of cutting back on unemployment. [More…]

• Indeed, a successful migration policy really depends not on the support of particular parties or sections of the community but on a degree of concensus about what are the goals of the migration policy and what is the basis of that policy. [More…]

• But, having said that, one ought to recognise that migrant welfare cannot be separated from the whole question of the welfare of the community in general. [More…]

• It is nearly 200 years since Australia received its first immigrants and because of the nature of our first colonisation, Australia became less of an Aboriginal community and more of a British or European community over those 200 years. [More…]

• Also, the Kanaka slave trade of the late 19th century left within our Australian community, particularly in the north of the nation, the distinctive characteristic of the South Pacific Islander, a person of whom we can be very proud. [More…]

• Personally, I believe that if the crisis comes to a head from the Rhodesian quarter those people, black or white, would add something to our Australian character and community. [More…]

• The best value migrant will expand our culture and enrich our community. [More…]

• Eight hundred people on Galiwinku community marched today in full support to the traditional land owners to stop uranium mining agreement this day we march and fly the NT flag at half mast to express our sorrow in digging up the real incoming of our life our blood our mother who gave us birth. [More…]

• There ought to be a standard means of recording every artefact which presently exists in historical societies or local museums on a national register and that those people who are so surely amateurs and who would concede that they are amateurs have some body of expertise to whom they can turn to ensure that the artefacts which are presented to them usually by old families in the community, will be preserved for the future benefit of Australian citizens. [More…]

• I think that that particular aspect of an historical museum within every community throughout Australia should be recognised by this Government and should be part of a national museums policy. [More…]

• I believe that we should adopt one and do so very shortly, and publicise it to make sure that everybody in the community is well aware of the aspects of that policy. [More…]

• any Aboriginal community or group that may be affected by the proposed action has been consulted and has had adequate opportunity to express its views to the Land Council. [More…]

• Parliament House Canberra 800 people on Galiwinku community marched today in full support to the traditional land owners to stop uranium ruining agreement this day we march and fly the NT flag at half mast to express our sorrow in digging up the real incoming of our life our blood our mother who gave us birth. [More…]

• to allow the beneficial effects of change to proceed at a rate and in ways that benefit the whole community. [More…]

• The House is further of the opinion that the Government should enter immediately into broadly-based continuing consultations with organised labour, employers and community groups with a dear and special interest in labour changes so that public opinion may be better informed and the Government more adequately advised in the subsequent formulation of policy responses to this crucial process of change. [More…]

• There are obvious administrative anomalies and very strongly held views throughout the community that the application of this decision would bring with it a number of anomalous and inequitable situations. [More…]

• Obviously we will not set up an organisation ourselves, but we are making every opportunity available for responsible organisations in the community to come forward with plans and we would welcome the opportunity to assist them. [More…]

• Will the Government legislate to close this loophole in the Act and will the Prime Minister require members of his Ministry to set, and will he himself set, an example to the community by ceasing to use this loophole for tax avoidance purposes? [More…]

• -There are many people throughout this community, and I suspect that there are many in this Parliament, quite apart from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and others who have indicated that they have family trusts of one form or another, who believe that a family trust is necessary for the best discharge of their own family responsibilities, and the Government will not move away from that position. [More…]

• It has been indicated that a significant number of people in the community certainly will be involved when the reports of these inquiries are available. [More…]

• They will be involved in government discussions and the Government expects to receive the co-operation of the States and other people in the community. [More…]

• There is also the flow-back into the total community, into the total economy of Australia. [More…]

• The dried fruits industry has gone through more than its share of traumas in recent years, not the least of which was caused by the changes in market access which occurred because of the exclusion of Australian produce from the European Economic Community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the implementation of the recommendation of the Industries Assistance Commission would have caused widespread family and community hardship had it been fully adopted by the Government. [More…]

• We are not being very successful with the sort of diplomacy we are using to try to sell our goods in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Our main markets are in Japan, but in this area we expect strong competition from New Zealand and possibly the European Economic Community through some of its dumping practices. [More…]

• I believe that there is a lesson for the Government and the community in this shared financial arrangement, that is, the sharing of the cost of research. [More…]

• Many sectors in our community claim that their area of interest should receive research grants from the Government or additional research grants from the Government. [More…]

• I believe that the farmers of this country have shown the way to the rest of the community. [More…]

• The net incomes of people in other sectors of the community, whether they be doctors, people in industry or social welfare workers, are higher than those of the farmers. [More…]

• I would like to see that practice extended beyond the farming community to others who say that more should be spent on research. [More…]

• The question of recreation which is seen as a right by the rest of the community is not seen as a right to farmers. [More…]

• I hope that in the development of increasing productivity through this research system farmers will be able to take their fair share of recreation along with others in this community. [More…]

• The greatest problem confronting women at the moment- they share this problem with the community at large- is unemployment. [More…]

• Instead, funds now are made available to the States through the community health programs to be allocated as the States see fit. [More…]

• 2) is nearly $172m, bringing proposed total expenditure for the forthcoming financial year through the Department of the Capital Territory to $252m with which to look after a community of about 230,000 people. [More…]

• It seems to me that it is useful from the point of view of both Canberra itself and the Australian community at large to draw some general conclusions from those figures. [More…]

• The rest of the community must recognise that it is worth spending additional money on keeping this place beautiful as the national capital. [More…]

• The third conclusion that ought to be drawn from all this is that the rest of the community is entitled to be certain that Australia is getting value for money. [More…]

• When one sees the provision being made for the loss on the bus service$7m the amount of money provided to look after open spaces and in sheer money terms the amount of money being spent on a community in which 230,000 people live, it is worth asking ourselves seriously whether we are getting value for money. [More…]

• It does not mean that Aborigines should become part of the white community. [More…]

• Recreation, cultural and community services have been allocated a little more money. [More…]

• I fully appreciate that the closure of Narrabundah subbranch will provide a measure of inconvenience to the local community. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite guffaw when I say that, but women in the community do not have the opportunity to go to places or offices where there is a concentration on matters relating to women ‘s affairs. [More…]

• Some people have called it a Pacific community. [More…]

• We should be linking Australia, the Association of South East Asian Nations, Japan and its economic subsidiary States instead of screaming hard trade at the European Economic Community and swallowing equally mistaken doses of Third World ideology. [More…]

• Through this I had the opportunity to talk with a broad cross-section of the community- white, coloured, Indian and black ethnic groups, ranging from strong supporters of the present Nationalist Party Government and its policies to its equally strong opponents. [More…]

• Certainly, non-whites are becoming better educated and more affluent, and hence better equipped to take part in everyday life of the South African community. [More…]

• One thing which history clearly shows is that as people become better educated, more affluent and more able to participate in the economic life of the community, they will inevitably demand the right to participate in its political life. [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…]

• A successful housing program demands full consultation with the people if the individual and community needs are to be considered adequately. [More…]

• Whilst this can be good decentralisation in some cases, there are instances in New South Wales where firms act as trustees for community organisations and control the community’s funds. [More…]

• The purchase was welcomed, as part of the Government’s policies for the advancement of the Territory, by Cocos’ first elected Advisory Council, which was established last March, and also by the Cocos Malay Community in a group meeting. [More…]

• The village area on Home Island will be transferred to the Council acting on behalf of the Community. [More…]

• The Council will possess the necessary powers for local government activities in the village area, and will advise the Government on a broad range of matters affecting the community for example education, health and immigration. [More…]

• A proportion of the profits made by the Co-operative will be made available to the Council to be used for the benefit of the local community generally. [More…]

• The Government has in mind that the revenue should be placed in a special fund to be used for the purposes of the local community in consultation with the local Council. [More…]

• With the approval of the Cocos Malay Interim Advisory Council the average wage for members of the Community workforce has been substantially increased. [More…]

• Quite plainly, when those reports are to hand not only the Commonwealth Government but also widespread groups within the community, and certainly the States, will be involved in the examination and, I would hope, the implementation of measures which might be recommended in the reports. [More…]

• If they persist in this technique of personal abuse they will be judged accordingly by the Australian community. [More…]

• I will ensure that detailed consideration is given to all relevant policy issues and community needs before any decisions are taken in this particular area. [More…]

• On the subject of meeting community needs, the Task Force also highlights the possible value to isolated communities in health care, education and general welfare from improved communications which could be facilitated by satellite. [More…]

• I recognise, however, that the Minister is giving no firm commitments as a response to any of the recommendations in the report and in fact is indicating to the House and to the community that this dramatic concept of a communications satellite is something that requires more consideration by government and more reflection by the community. [More…]

• There is a tendency for something as dramatically at the front of modern technology as a communications satellite to cause excitement in the community and the thought that Australia deserves to be there right at the frontier with the rest of the advanced countries of the world. [More…]

• Of course the Minister made other points in relation to the sorts of services which can be contributed to the community in health, welfare and a range of other areas. [More…]

• The second phenomenon is the technological changes that are going on in our community. [More…]

• I venture to say that if we had pending another inquiry such as has been suggested we would find a general tendency in the community and in the Parliament to hold off action until the report of the inquiry had been received. [More…]

• I do not think that there is any quarrel in the community about that. [More…]

• The thing that we find rather difficult to understand is why such a scheme could not be expanded to encompass larger sections of the community than, as is the case now, exservicemen and ex-servicewomen. [More…]

• Not only has the general community a lack of confidence in this Government to do things right- I pointed out that it cannot even draft a Bill properly- but also it knows that the Government is having another side swipe at military personnel who last Saturday in a byelection indicated quite clearly that they are fed up to the back teeth with this Government. [More…]

• He sits up all night going through his books, with his little pocket calculator, trying to find out where he can lop another shilling off the boys who sell newspapers on street corners or where he can tax the incomes of handicapped people at 66 per cent, which is an even higher rate of taxation than I pay- and I am not a highly paid member of the community. [More…]

• It was one of the measures that came from the undertaking which Prime Minister Hughes gave to the ex-servicemen of Australia and the community at large that exservicemen would have an advantage after the war to compensate them for the terrible hardships and the great sacrifices which they had made. [More…]

• He has continued the work of his predecessors in establishing the League as a force in the community for the benefit of ex-servicemen and a highly respected organisation. [More…]

• It was not really in pursuit to the original objectives which were to help re-establish ex-servicemen in the community and to give them some advantage because of the loss of place on the rungs of the ladders of life that they had endured during their service. [More…]

• It is a matter that has been canvassed in the community. [More…]

• I believe that if there are any people in this community who are prepared to stand up and be counted on the issue of human rights, they should now be prepared to stand up and be counted on the basic and fundamental question whether or not Moscow is entitled to hold the 1980 Olympic Games. [More…]

• The Australian Lebanese Association, which organised the demonstration, no way represents the majority of the Lebanese community. [More…]

• This is nothing more than an attempt to incite racial hatred within the Lebanese section of the Australian community. [More…]

• They are broadcasts designed to inspire racial hatred in the Australian community. [More…]

• Secondly, quite apart from the finances of the station, surely the Australian community can do without incitement to racial hatred of this nature. [More…]

• Are any steps being taken by the Department of Health for research into and the monitoring of the effects of such chemicals when introduced into common use in the community? [More…]

• I should like to recite to the House some facts that are of some interest even to the business community, which seems unaware of some of these areas of significant success. [More…]

• The fact is that a number of areas of the business community are not aware of the significant breakthroughs that are taking place. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development received a copy of the report of the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority Review Committee regarding Alcoa’s draft environmental impact statement for the Wagerup project? [More…]

• Is the Minister’s Department doing anything to widen understanding of the expanding opportunities for women in the community? [More…]

• When we introduced Medibank, the AMA was continually saying that we could not have an efficient or effective health insurance scheme if persons in the community did not have to contribute anything towards the cost of the services they received. [More…]

• Very few people in the community will want to take out insurance, for which they will probably have to pay $3 a week, to cover them for a maximum of $20. [More…]

• Strangely enough, despite the fact that there has been a significant growth in Federal funding, members of this House have continually been told by State Ministers in New South Wales, parents and citizens federations and other groups in the community that the Commonwealth apparently is not carrying out its responsibilities in regard to education. [More…]

• The cutback in funds made available to the New South Wales Housing Commission- I stress this and I hope that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) will listen to this with some compassion- will mean a reduction of 1,100 dwellings in the number of commencements this year by the New South Wales Housing Commission. [More…]

• That disqualifies a large section of our community. [More…]

• The money is provided by the taxpayers of this country for those people who are in need; therefore it should not go to the well-to-do in the community. [More…]

• This indicates the concern we have that people on low incomes should have the opportunity that other people in the community have to purchase their own homes. [More…]

• -The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community ——-….. 0 - j [More…]

• In his speech, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) destroyed the arguments of the Opposition so much so that, as a person of independent view who likes to make up his own mind after listening to the arguments, I would say that he has proved once and for all that there is, unfortunately, no effective parliamentary Federal Opposition at the present time. [More…]

• As I said in my Budget Speech ‘the time is long since past when governments or the community should tolerate the blatant, artificial and contrived means whereby certain sections of the community seek to pay little or no tax to the detriment of the general body of taxpayers and the equity of the tax system’. [More…]

• The Government believes there is widespread community support for action to curb tax avoidance. [More…]

• The Government believes that, by broadening the class of organisations permitted to make these nominations, repatriation determining authorities will more accurately reflect the composition of persons in the community whose lives are affected by the repatriation system. [More…]

• Representations have been received from organisations and individuals in the community objecting to the requirement that medical benefits be offered for all services, particularly procedures involving abortions. [More…]

• The care of the sick and the aged, and the protection of the welfare of the needy in the community, is becoming a difficult and extremely complex task. [More…]

• I suppose that we will have to live with it, because, unfortunately, everybody is not fair, everybody does not care for his neighbour, everybody does not care for the needy, and it is up to politicians to do a tremendous amount more than merely give lip service, to fight on a political level to endeavour to ensure that some of those who are receiving assistance at the expense of others are sought out in the community and shown for what they really are. [More…]

• My friend, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, and the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), who also is in the chamber, are aware of this situation. [More…]

• In fact, when a member of parliament does this he might be able to change his Party’s attitude and, hopefully, get it in tune with what is happening in the community. [More…]

• In other words, a section of the community will be underprivileged. [More…]

• But others will adopt the sort of dole-bludging slogan that this Government has promoted in the community. [More…]

• They will be unnecessarily hard on the disadvantaged in the community and not give them the assistance that they need. [More…]

• I serve on the Board of a very large community hospital in Victoria, the Preston and Northcote Community Hospital. [More…]

• The other excellent program that has been allowed to run down is the program for the community health centres. [More…]

• What is the situation with even the more simple forms of community health centres such as the one that was set up at Whittlesea? [More…]

• In relation to its situation at 3 1 July the Whittlesea Community Health Centre stated: [More…]

• They are giving of their very best without the encouragement and support all concerned were led to expect from your Organisation when we initiated this much needed community service. [More…]

• We do not care how community health services are delivered to these people ‘. [More…]

• The changes to Medibank to be introduced on 1 November will affect various groups in the community in the following way: For the 60 per cent of the population who are currently insured with private health funds for both medical and hospital benefits there will be little change although their medical insurance payments should be lower from 1 November. [More…]

• Savings achieved from reductions in hospital utilisation could permit resources to be channelled into less expensive alternatives to institutional care, such as domiciliary care and other community based facilities. [More…]

• A study in the United Kingdom indicated that the available number of acute hospital beds could be reduced to 2 per 1,000 population with no detrimental effect on the quality of care, provided the less expensive community health services were available. [More…]

• Leading on from that, the next point- the attempt to control the quality of medical carerelates to the expenditure on the community health program. [More…]

• I only hope that some day soon he can get back on it and reassert himself because the community health program would set priorities for the establishment of alternative techniques of health care including, perhaps, a group of doctors and ancillary medical personnel and a range of people and expertise better to provide comprehensive care for patients outside hospitals. [More…]

• I believe that the Government has received credit in the community for having had the courage to admit that in a number of circumstances its decisions were not completely wise. [More…]

• I think the Government has obtained considerable credit in the community. [More…]

• It is a good thing that this whole debate in the community is now coming to an end, that the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Cabinet have been able to produce a comprehensive scheme that I believe will work well for many years. [More…]

• I shall just summarise the decisions affecting the disadvantaged people in our community. [More…]

• Family planning services, in real terms, are to be cut back, as are the community health programs which are so important to women as they support women’s health centres and refuges. [More…]

• This seems to me to represent an attack on the migrant community. [More…]

• I think it is clear that within the Department there is a genuine fear that effective research, particularly if it is publicised, will reveal the extent of need and want in this community and that, therefore, increasing demands and pressures will be brought upon the Department. [More…]

• In order to deal with the kinds of growing problems which this society is facing, particularly because the problems are changing rather dramatically I refer, for instance, to the demographic change affecting age patterns in this community- radically different policies will be needed in the social security field in the coming years. [More…]

• I acknowledge that there are particularly needy groups of people in the community- Dr Podder referred to them- such as Aborigines and the unemployable as distinct from the unemployed who need to be looked at as unique groups in the community. [More…]

• I think that this is the important factor in relation to the total wealth concept and the people who are poor in our community. [More…]

• Yet the same man never seems to express any concern about the illegal tax evasion- the legal crookedness- that exists within our community. [More…]

• The Government is stealing from the needy of our community. [More…]

• The Government could make a real contribution to the community not only by giving the exservicemen what they are entitled to but also by stimulating the building industry thereby getting rid of unemployment so that we can wipe away this scar in which the honourable member for Dundas seems to revel. [More…]

• We should develop a family policy so that at least in an explicit way government actions strengthen the role that the community wants the family to perform rather than, by design or inadvertence, weaken its capacity to fulfil the role. [More…]

• All too often we look at the effect of policies and programs on the community at large and on the individual but we often forget that they have an effect upon that small group with whom the great majority of Australians relate most; that is, their family. [More…]

• I am not seeking in this debate tonight to define the very wide range of differing family configurations that might exist within the community. [More…]

• Unfortunately, in the distribution of sums of that magnitude it is not infrequently that we find that we do not quite reach the corners of need in the community. [More…]

• One of our great difficulties- and it is a great difficulty that emerges in all Western countries which have universal health insurance- is that in financial terms the providers of health care have probably benefited more than most people in the community from the scheme. [More…]

• The honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) mentioned the community health program. [More…]

• He accused the Government of having deserted the concept of community health. [More…]

• I am sure he was not smiling when the New South Wales Minister for Health was indicating that the New South Wales Government would not match our expenditure in respect of the community health program. [More…]

• Far from abandoning the principles of the community health program the Government has achieved the full co-operation of the State governments on a $ 1 for $ 1 basis. [More…]

• I accept his invitation and I will discuss the issues with him and local community people to see whether we can persuade the State people and those advising us on the number of beds that should be available in any region that it would be wise to make more beds available in that area. [More…]

• It is a rarely published fact that under the Community Development Employment Project scheme of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Aborigines in remote areas are actually working for the bare unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I mentioned in the general comments that I made in that area the different needs of Aboriginals and the fact that one cannot apply the normal sorts of criteria for determining the way in which welfare requirements and community development needs of Aboriginal communities can be accommodated. [More…]

• I was very disappointed in the criticism by the honourable member for Capricornia of the Community Development Employment program. [More…]

• Those members of this Parliament who have had the opportunity to visit remote Aboriginal communities where unemployment benefits are simply paid to the community, and there are no job opportunities- as there can never be, in view of the nature of the community- have found that to do that without a corresponding form of community development function has been destructive of the morale of the people and of their ability to develop and maintain their community. [More…]

• They have recognised that to have people working in their own community, performing the services and functions that the community needs and using their spare time in a constructive way, can produce benefits that are very worth while and that fulfil an important community role. [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…]

• At this point in time it comprises 10 municipal councils- it will comprise 1 1 councils and after that more will be joining- and what we might call community organisations which have been set up specifically to oppose the siting of a second international airport anywhere in the western suburbs of Sydney, be it the north-west, the west or the south-west. [More…]

• The community organisations are SWAAG, the Galston Action Group, the Northern Action Group and the Rossmore Progress Group. [More…]

• funding opportunities for Australia’s farmers to enable them to operate normally in the community. [More…]

• The Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council, which is administered by my friend and colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, reported on the need for scientific inquiry in 1976. [More…]

• That matter comes under the jurisdiction of my honourable friend, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I understand that this has caused considerable concern in the migrant community in this country. [More…]

• The honourable member talked in terms of the benefits available to some classes of the community as opposed to others. [More…]

• I believe that we have to weld together the social aspects of our revenue spending and try to provide some basic comparison in respect of the manner in which we raise that revenue from the other sector of the community. [More…]

• We have to relate the amount of money that is spent on people in the community who are disadvantaged and in need to the amount of income that is collected through taxation. [More…]

• Worse still, many people in the community during those years sought the security of a salaried job in preference to the uncertainty of private enterprise or businesses that were going bankrupt in great numbers. [More…]

• Members of Parliament are not the only people in the community in receipt of high salaries. [More…]

• We do this in the knowledge that there is justifiable public outrage at the way in which the Government has destroyed those firm undertakings to the community. [More…]

• It was quite clear that essentially the Australian community, as represented by the people of Werriwa, was repudiating the dishonesty and the injustice which are rampant in the way in which the Government administers the affairs of this country and, more essentially, in the way in which it applies economic policy. [More…]

• The vast mass of people in this community- the wage and salary earners- is expected to bear a burden of additional cost to support the Government. [More…]

• The Government no doubt would suggest that this represents an easing of the tax burden for income earners in the community. [More…]

• The total revenue burden imposed by the Government has to be borne by the whole community and, in the final analysis, income earners as consumers have to meet the cost of it. [More…]

• The bigger the disadvantage for people on modest and low incomes, the greater the difficulties for those unfortunate people who are described as living in relative poverty in the community. [More…]

• So the sum result of this sort of situation and of the strategy that the Government is seeking to establish in the distribution of the revenue burden in the community is that the losers will be losing twice. [More…]

• Let us see how these taxes fall among the various income groups in the community. [More…]

• Those are the sorts of redistributional effects which the Government is seeking to bring about in this community. [More…]

• We will continue to oppose them and will take every reasonable measure that we can properly take to urge the community to vent its outrage at such an injustice being imposed on it. [More…]

• But not even the Treasurer (Mr Howard) is prepared to go all of the way with the deception that the Prime Minister is seeking to introduce into the community in discussion on that matter by suggesting that it is just a simple matter of choice. [More…]

• Accordingly, that is the whole tactic behind the thrust of Government fiscal thinking at present, a shift of the burden of fiscal responsibility away from the wealthy, away from the high income earners like the Prime Minister who in any case pays very little tax because of the tax avoidance devices he has been able to establish like his family trust- and on to the shoulders of the middle and modest income earners and especially on to the low income earners in the community. [More…]

• All of the community would remember the firm promises of the Government in 1975 to introduce full tax indexation. [More…]

• 1 per cent; that is, the community is paying 1.3 per cent of GDP more in various forms of taxes both direct and indirect as a result of the consciously imposed measures of this Government. [More…]

• Government that it would reduce the total burden of revenue raisings imposed on the community. [More…]

• It means that the community is paying $ 1,300m more in revenue on average this year than was the case on average for the three years of the Labor Government. [More…]

• How do we make certain that the burden of the attack against inflation is carried fairly throughout the community? [More…]

• There is a widespread view in the community, which has no doubt been fostered by the sort of hysterical nonsense being spoken opposite, that people’s back entitlements are suddenly to be unfairly and unreasonably taxed at a new rate. [More…]

• The measures introduced further burden those members of the community least able to pay and least organised to resist the further reduction in their standard of living. [More…]

• The injustice that is involved with these alterations to the tax laws is causing very great concern throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• Yet we find this Government putting a deterrent into home building and, worst of all, committing this breach of faith with the home building industry and the young people in this community who have been finding it so difficult in these days of rapid inflation to enter into an arrangement to purchase a home. [More…]

• The Government has closed off so many other options for deriving income tax in terms of resource taxes and matters of that kind- taking additional taxes from industry which, in some instances, is fleecing the Australian community unreasonably. [More…]

• In drawing attention to these tax avoidance schemes which are very rampant in the community at the present time, I think it would be true to say that there is something radically wrong with a society which seeks to avoid by any means within its power its taxation liability. [More…]

• I say that having in mind that a certain section of the community is seeking, by fair means or foul, to pass its taxation responsibilities on to another section of the community which is in a worse position to bear those responsibilities. [More…]

• They are encouraging parasites in the community. [More…]

• This Government, State governments and governments of comparable countries cannot continue with this continuous exaction from the efforts and the incentive of the citizens who produce the real wealth in the community. [More…]

• Who does Community Aid Abroad have to bring to Australia in order to get its extremely valued work outside Australia accepted as tax deductible. [More…]

• After about10 minutes on the Island, Mr Yunupingu was told by the community to get back into his aircraft and leave. [More…]

• I believe it is a very disturbing situation that an Aboriginal community should hold so much hostility and ill feeling towards a chairman of the land council which is supposed to represent its interests and carry out its wishes. [More…]

• Its hope is that it can snow what is a particularly frightened and repressed community. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a letter from an Aboriginal community representative which appeared in the Northern Territory News on 2 October. [More…]

• Sir, I was one of the Aboriginal people who came to Darwin on behalf of my community to stop the Ranger Agreement being signed. [More…]

• Community Representative [More…]

• There is a need in many Aboriginal communities to re-establish confidence and self-respect in relation to their own identity and their own ability to make decisions and to occupy an equal place and take an equal part in the Australian community. [More…]

• One can refer specifically to the Community Development Employment Scheme, which last year began as a pilot project and which this year will be continued and expanded to include a new project at Papunya. [More…]

• Only when it is discovered that some value is attaching to that land does anyone else in the community have designs on it. [More…]

• Government both at the Department of Health and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development levels cannot wipe its hands of these matters. [More…]

• The grouping of exchanges into zones and districts broadly follows the National Switching Plan which in turn has been based on an analysis of traffic flows between exchanges which indicated the direction of the main community of interest. [More…]

• The direction and extent of community of interest between centres is taken into account but other factors, including the geography of an area, population density and distribution and availability of reasonable community services within the existing local call area are important considerations. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The honourable member’s attention is drawn to the following statement made by my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on 2 1 August 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Ray Groom, said today that Pancontinental had given an assurance that no work had begun on the Arnhem Highway extension. [More…]

• Bible, a family photograph and camera which she hid behind a log and recovered later; (i) the Manager and or Sergeant refused Mrs Ray, who had travelled all night from Townsville for the funeral, a lift into Woorbinda ‘to hear the singing for her brother’ but offered to hold up the funeral until another vehicle picked her up; (j ) the funeral service in fact finished before she arrived; (k) a crowd gathered outside the office to demonstrate their anger, causing the Sergeant to send for police reinforcements; (1) the Manager requested a number of Woorabinda people, Mr Ray and a Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs liaison officer, who has since left the settlement, to sign a statement exonerating him; (m) Mr Dooley signed such a statement which he did not fully understand; (n) others signed and some refused to sign these statements; (o) the Woorabinda community is so oppressed by the Queensland laws and settlement regulations, which have been condemned by the Commissioner for Community Relations as contrary to international human rights, that they fear for their homes, jobs and safety to the extent that they are unwilling to testify to the oppression while the Sergeant remains in authority there, and (p) several complaints have been made to police, to the Aboriginal and Islander Legal Service and to Mr N. Blair, National Aboriginal Congress representative, about Sergeant O’Shea exploiting financially, intimidating, illtreating and procuring wrongful convictions of Woorabinda residents. [More…]

• Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Department of Administrative Services; Attorney-General’s Department; Australian Bureau of Statistics; Australian Electoral Office; Australian Taxation Office; Department of Business and Consumer Affairs; Department of the Capital Territory; Department of Construction; Department of Defence; Department of Education; Department of Employment and Industrial Relations; Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development; Department of Finance; Department of Foreign Affairs; Department of Health; Department of Home Affairs; Department of Industry and Commerce; National Capital Development Commission; Department of National Development; Department of the Northern Territory; Postal and Telecommunications Department; Department of Primary Industry; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Department of Productivity; Public Service Board; Department of Science; Department of Social Security; Department of Special Trade Representations; Department of Trade and Resources; Department of Transport; the Treasury; Departmentof Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]

• If doctors could distinguish such people in those times without any onerous conditions attaching, I would certainly believe and hope that they could distinguish such citizens in the present circumstances in which the Commonwealth, through its approach to medical care for disadvantaged people in the Australian community, will make sure that such people get full medical cover without unreasonable burden being placed upon them. [More…]

• I only hope that with Australia having such rich deposits of uranium the whole community might soon be able to gain the benefit of the development of this commodity. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Trade and Resources aware that European Economic Community fruit processors are being paid subsidies which will enable them to compete on better terms with imported canned fruit? [More…]

• I am aware that from 1 July this year the European Economic Community introduced a canned fruit production subsidy. [More…]

• The Tribunal has been examining those complaints, and as a first step it has arranged today discussions with 3CR about the complaints which have been made in particular by the Jewish community about the treatment of news relating to Israel and Jews here and overseas. [More…]

• In order to put at rest this Press speculation and to overcome some of the uncertainty it has caused in the travel industry and within the Australian community, I have agreed, in consultations with the British Government, to outline today the indicative fare levels I am hopeful of achieving on the United Kingdom-Australia route. [More…]

• At the same time the Government is trying to negotiate better trading terms with the European Economic Community and UTA happens to be the airline of France, a principal in the EEC. [More…]

• These proposals were accepted by the responsible minister- the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development- who authorised the new survey in May 1977. [More…]

• With the agreement of my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) I inform the House of the present position, which is that the radiological and chemical analysis of the large number of soil, water and biological samples collected in 1977 is now substantially complete. [More…]

• On 9 August 1977 the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, in a statement announcing a scientific study of the Maralinga site, said: [More…]

• On 9 August last year the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development announced a scientific study into the Maralinga wastes. [More…]

• The survey of as early as August 1972 demonstrates quite clearly the total sense of responsibility of this Administration in terms of the wellbeing of the Aboriginal community and the personnel involved in these projects. [More…]

• Those honourable members opposite who are being cowered by the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) and by the Ministry are closing their mouths rather than speaking on issues which are of the utmost importance to a wide range of people in the community. [More…]

• It affects literally millions of Australians- Australians who are amongst the most dependent, deprived and vulnerable in the community and who, in common with the great bulk of serious minded citizens in this community, genuinely believe that members of the Government would regard a debate on pensions and associated matters with the greatest earnestness. [More…]

• They would have been disabused for all time if they ever believed that there was any genuine concern resting in the ranks of the Government towards the position of pensioners and people in this community who are dependent on social security benefits. [More…]

• The outrageous behaviour of Government members and their insensitivity towards the most dependent and the most needy groups in the community who are covered by the matters we are going to discuss tonight were displayed in a way that brought no credit to the Government. [More…]

• Supporting mothers have sacrifices imposed on them at the expense of their infants to keep intact the Prime Minister’s strange notions of the rights of the better off and the privileged in our community. [More…]

• The oldest people in the community, those over 70 years of age, henceforth will pay a $45 m penalty in a full year to assist wealthy mineral development corporations. [More…]

• Migrants and dependants will have benefits withdrawn so that the top income earners in the community can avoid a more equitable revenue contribution. [More…]

• By their behaviour tonight Government members have shown that there is no concern about this rampant injustice which is going to be imposed upon the community as a consequence of the Bill now before the Parliament. [More…]

• Any government which proposes either explicity or implicity, as this Governmnt does on both scores, that the most needy in the community must be neglected and their deprivation accentuated whilst it concentrates in a narrowminded and ill-informed way on a particular aspect of economic management is not worth the great honour of being in office and administering the affairs of this country. [More…]

• It is not worth the confidence of the people of the community. [More…]

• Some generosity, some display of concern for the aged people of the community! [More…]

• Yet we find that because of the tight means testing arrangements and because of the changes to the arrangements for the payment of family allowances people in receipt of TEAS allowances- that is, very simply stated, people among the least well off in the community- will find that they will be deprived of the family allowance. [More…]

• I repeat that the people who are being deprived, denied and disadvantaged by these measures are amongst the most needy, the most dependent and the most vulnerable in our community. [More…]

• I repeat that the miserableness of these measures which in a full year will raise much less than $200m and much less than $100m in the course of this fiscal year pales into insignificance against what is available to be raised in the community if the Government raised revenue according to a sense of proper social equity. [More…]

• If the windfall addition to the profits of crude oil producers derived directly by the adjustment in crude oil pricing imposed by the Government were to be eliminated by redistributing through revenue means back into the community, there would be another $340m available to the Government. [More…]

• If that were done, there would be no need for such mean and penny-pinching discrimination to be imposed upon the more needy and the more deprived people in the community- the most trusting people in the community. [More…]

• I recall that when I first mentioned the matter in this House in the course of this session, although it was certainly not the first time I have mentioned it in the House by far, honourable members on the Government side, including the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), were muttering that the Opposition was seeking to discourage initiative and resourcefulness among enterprising sections of the community. [More…]

• There can be no sense of compassion, no display of caring, no evidence of concern in the ranks of a government which is prepared to preserve intact all of the advantages which I have outlined for privileged groups in the community, which are wealthy, and which are best able to afford a little more sacrifice, and to do that at the expense of people least able to bear additional disadvantage. [More…]

• Nonetheless, this Government must be wary of measures which involve the saving of relatively small amounts of expenditure for the loss of a great deal of support from the community. [More…]

• The words ‘automatic’ and ‘instantaneous’ could have left no misimpression in the minds of the community. [More…]

• In general, the Government is expending large sums of money on welfare and it to be supported for the massive outlays that it has undertaken in very difficult economic times as part of its overall humanitarian program in assisting the underprivileged in our community. [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…]

• There must have been a concentration on a particular grouping in the community to obtain evidence against them. [More…]

• We have little or no capacity to experiment with change and our sense of what represents a high standard of community facilities is abysmally low. [More…]

• I have indicated earlier this year that I intend to have further discussions with the companies concerned and with the Aurukun community. [More…]

• Several unfortunate instances seem to be before the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• When I spoke of some Labor people possibly putting other interests ahead of Aboriginal interests, I was not implying that Labor people were more inclined to do that than are any other people in the community. [More…]

• The location of this hostel is totally unsuitable for such use, for environmental reasons, for safety reasons, for social reasons and, furthermore, it will undoubtedly place substantial additional strain on the local community facilities without any apparent additional assistance from the Commonwealth to offset it. [More…]

• In addition to being in the middle of this petrochemical complex, it is two kilometres from the nearest residential area so it is totally isolated from the rest of the community. [More…]

• The only transport is an extremely infrequent bus service so that people who are going to be put there will be totally isolated from the rest of the community and put in the most aesthetically unsuitable environment imaginable. [More…]

• Constant representations about the need for the area to be turned over to the local community for very necessary use as parkland and open space, and perhaps for residential purposes, have not been acceded to so far by the Government. [More…]

• We have to explain our philosophy to the community, particularly to the young who are gullible and who are taken in often by apparently idealistic notions. [More…]

• The dead hand of socialism would lead us to stagnation and depression in the community. [More…]

• I welcome the presence in the chamber of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is a great fighter for the electorate of Braddon and the people of the west coast of Tasmania. [More…]

• That result is to put the burden on those people in this community who are least able to protect themselves and who, in an inflationary situation, are most deserving of the protection and the sympathy of this Government. [More…]

• Yearly indexation represents a significant loss of income for a group in the community that can ill afford it. [More…]

• I reiterate what I said in my speech at the second reading stage, I certainly do not consider it fair, nor does the Opposition, that that burden should be placed on that particular group in the community. [More…]

• I would hope to see inflation come down to far less than 5 per cent, to 2 per cent or 3 per cent; but in an inflationary situation it is the people on the lowest income level, the pensioners and people on fixed incomes, who are the greatest sufferers in the community. [More…]

• They are the people who suffered more than any other people in the Australian community during the Whitlam Government’s term of office. [More…]

• It is perfectly fair for the Government to say that indexation should take place only every 12 months- it could even make it every two years or three years- if it is looking at those groups in the community who are on high incomes. [More…]

• We all know that there are other sections of the community in respect of which the Government would be quite reasonably justified in abolishing the family allowance. [More…]

• However, I want to say in fairness to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) who is at the table and who has shown himself to be remarkably sensitive and responsive to the needs of the community, that I believe he more than perhaps any other Minister would watch closely the impact of the alteration with respect to the family allowance scheme on young persons who are qualifying for assistance under education schemes. [More…]

• I take the opportunity in the same spirit as did the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) to debate this matter calmly and rationally and to say that I believe the Minister will monitor this and other amendments to the social security structure of this nation over the next few months to ensure that unwitting hardship is not caused to sections of the community. [More…]

• We have been told by the Henderson survey on poverty that those groups most desperately in need of real assistance in this community are not so much the unemployed or the age pensioners but the young families where perhaps the breadwinner is in receipt of a low award wage. [More…]

• I know that from the social height which the honourable member thinks he commands it would not occur to him that there are people in the community who actually live below the poverty Une. [More…]

• We say that particularly having regard to the fact that the whole question of health benefits and the full flow of those benefits has yet to be worked out in terms of the impact that it will have on the general living standards of young families in this community. [More…]

• I hope that between now and when this Bill is considered in the Senate- even at that late stage- the Minister and the Government will consider the very substantial arguments advanced in respect of this group of people in the community. [More…]

• -Members on this side of the House are very anxious to hear an explanation from the Minister or anybody opposite as to why the groups that are listed in clause 45 are to be denied the proper rates of unemployment benefits that will be due to other people in the community. [More…]

• It denies a certain and very important section of our community their rights as citizens. [More…]

• It ignores completely the further price burdens that have been placed on the community as a result of its own economic policies enunciated in the Budget. [More…]

• The Government’s treatment of the unemployed is seen by responsible people within the community, by responsible leaders of the community, to be quite scandalous. [More…]

• Brown) may smile, but I think members of this Committee ought to be concerned when a section of the community has to struggle for those basic necessities. [More…]

• They cannot face up to the fact that the Government in this piece of legislation is singling out sections of the community - [More…]

• I can remember very vividly the question of taxing the aged blind, those 65 years and over, who were in the greatest need perhaps of any group in our community. [More…]

• -I enter this debate to take up some of the points made by the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) and to say that, given the nature and the dimension of the problem of unemployment as it is in Australia today, nothing will justify to the young people of this community or to those who are unemployed the sorts of specious arguments that have just been advanced by the honourable member for Murray, although I believe that he was well motivated. [More…]

• I commend the approach of my colleagues, who have taken a very proper and legitimate point- a point that I commend to all honourable members in this place- that it ill-behoves this nation at this time to create a separate category for the unemployed in terms of social welfare payments because, as has been pointed out, of all the groups in this community the unemployed are in many cases, through no fault of then- own, in quite desperate economic circumstances. [More…]

• The expenses and the problems that are involved in having to find transport and postal expenses and clothing costs in connection with their work mean that as a social group within the community the unemployed are very much at the bottom of the economic scale. [More…]

• Whatever view one takes of the great resources and the great riches of this Commonwealth one is entitled to say that, whatever our capacities or incapacities at government level, that there is no justification for any citizen in this community being forced to live below the poverty level. [More…]

• None of us ever thought it likely that any Government, of whatever political party, would take away rights and privileges that had been promised by a previous Government in the days when the community realised that it did have responsibilities towards those whose disabilities were the direct result of war service. [More…]

• For a long time tuberculosis sufferers were treated as outcasts in the community. [More…]

• This is a classic example of the hypocrisy of the Government not only in relation to our returned servicemen but also in relation to the community generally. [More…]

• They were introduced at a time when tuberculosis was a serious community health problem with limited prospects of effective control. [More…]

• For the rest of the community there will be a 40 per cent refund, again without a levy. [More…]

• The cost containment debate rages on in the absence of any explicit agreement on how much the community wants to spend on health services, whether the present level is too high or too low, or whether the rise in health costs is too fast or not. [More…]

• The debate is catalysed by irregular but frequent changes to health financing arrangements by the Commonwealth Government of the time, sometimes for reasons of community health and welfare and sometimes to help balance the books. [More…]

• The average so-called community-based pool of health insurance will be destroyed. [More…]

• This was a method of not only averaging our costs over the community at a given time, but also averaging costs for each family over a lifetime rather than paying most at a time when it has least resources to call upon. [More…]

• I realise that a significant number of people in the community feel that this is a terribly important point. [More…]

• When one looks at the number of times that the Labor Party has incited anarchy and lawlessness in our community- I am sure it has incited people to exploit our unemployment benefit scheme- and when one hears a shadow Minister for Health, a man who aspires to be Minister for Health in this country, telling people to look for doctors who are prepared to bulk bill, one wonders what the motives of the honourable member for Prospect are, especially when he stoops to those levels to urge people to seek handouts to which they are not entitled. [More…]

• I want to take to task those doctors in every sizeable community who are known as compo’ doctors. [More…]

• Word soon gets around in any community that you can go to doctor so-and-so and he will put you on compo for a few days. [More…]

• I think the Minister understands and there are probably a few people in this House who do, but believe me, there are not many people in the community that can understand it. [More…]

• We should resuscitate, not wind down, the concept of preventive community health centres. [More…]

• The honourable member opposite knows better than any other honourable member in this House that there is a great deal of evidence to show that the fact that it was known that a general practitioner bulk billed meant that many socio-economic groups who are seriously deprived in this community and who would not otherwise have sought medical assistance and advice chose bulk billing and received it. [More…]

• It seems to me to be absolutely extraordinary that Government members have constantly refused, for all sorts of reasons, to adopt a principle whereby members of this Parliament will fully disclose their means and assets on a public register, but are perfectly happy to say to the lower income groups of this community: ‘In order to receive the most basic medical treatment you have to go along and disclose - [More…]

• It provided the basis of many community health services. [More…]

• It became the view of the Labor Party that we could not afford this sort of health insurance coverage, that we could not afford to continue to see so many of the people in the community who were already classsified as disadvantaged not having any insurance and subsequently denying themselves proper health care. [More…]

• There are a number of people in the community who, because of the income they receive, can afford to carry their own insurance. [More…]

• During a recent meeting with the AMA executive it was made abundantly clear to me and to those present that the complete opposition of the AMA to bulk billing for the general community was due wholly to its fear that general bulk billing to a central paying authority such as the Health Insurance Commission would mean general acceptance of 75 per cent or 85 per cent of the standard fee and that this would indirectly impose a de facto control of medical fees. [More…]

• Persons who consider they have been discriminated against in their employment on grounds of race or national or ethnic origin may, alternatively or additionally, lodge a complaint with the Commissioner for Community Relations under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]

• We see ASEAN as being a constructive and forward-linking grouping of nations, all intent on pursuing measures of self help and on attempting to establish their own role in a community which is quite obviously plagued by economic problems and problems of other dimensions which quite often would be beyond the resources of developing countries if forced to face them on their own. [More…]

• Is the Government concerned to reinstate Australia’s position in the South Pacific to ensure that all states and territories are aware of our commitment to the Canberra Agreement and our desire to join in the economic, social, community and cultural development of the peoples of the South Pacific? [More…]

• It implements regressive taxation policies and then amends the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to ferment industrial unrest and division in the community. [More…]

• Do honourable members opposite want me to treat ACTU Jetset differently from other members of this community? [More…]

• To represent a reduction in air fares as a threat to democracy and to paint the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions as being dishonest and hypocritcal are issues for which he will have to answer to the community. [More…]

• It is a blatant use of force by the union movement to get its own way against reasonable people who are proposing reasonable action on behalf of the Australian community. [More…]

• The effort is worth while in the interests of better administration of public sector acitivities with the consequential effect of better service to the community. [More…]

• Prior to giving way for the Minister to make his statement I indicated that changes are taking place all the time in the community which require changes in legislation to bring it up to date. [More…]

• It is worth while noting that the intentions of this Bill and the 1977 amendment Bill went much further than the recommendations of the Swanson committee, the Committee, the Committee set up by the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs in the Fraser Government to look at the Trade Practices Act brought in by the Whitlam Government and advise the present Government whether it was too harsh in its effect upon the business community. [More…]

• The Government places high priority on encouraging a climate in which business can compete on an efficient basis to the ultimate benefit of the community and is particularly concerned to ensure that its regulatory activities do not add unnecessarily to the costs of industry. [More…]

• In the first place, the danger is that this sort of legislation will increasingly place impossible standards on manufacturers, on businessmen, on people in the supply section of the community. [More…]

• Is the community really getting value for money in imposing those higher standards? [More…]

• There is a very real danger that the community is not. [More…]

• Quite simply, the small business community in Australia is being deprived of the protection afforded by the original Act. [More…]

• The Government has decided to sell out the small business community and to support the dictates of computer companies like IBM - [More…]

• I do not think that the small business community does. [More…]

• We on this side of the House remember it vividly and I am sure the general public, which recently has been registering great disapproval of the Government’s credibility in the community, thinks likewise. [More…]

• The result of acceptance of the amendment under discussion might well be to harm the small business community in Australia and to limit the damages which may have had to be paid by the computer manufacturers. [More…]

• I think it is important to realise in regard to this aspect of over-regulation that, apart from the large manufacturers, retailers and importers that this legislation seeks to deal with, there are small businesses which have a vital part to play within the Austraiian community, not only in relation to the economy but also in relation to the aspect of employment, and which we cannot over-regulate. [More…]

• A lot of things are important to the Australian community. [More…]

• The community development employment projects scheme, which is designed especially for remote communities, operates as pilot projects in 10 centres in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In how many places in Australia can that be said of the white community. [More…]

• What did not have our support was the fact that the windfall returns were going to producers instead of being shared equitably with the public, the community or the Government, as the case may be. [More…]

• Having difficultues in negotiating effective trade arrangements with the European Economic Community in no way justifies abusive terms because it does not do us any good. [More…]

• The European Economic Community whilst it does not represent the whole of Europe is looking after that segment which belongs to the Community. [More…]

• It is true, of course, that the Treasurer (Mr Howard) said that this is only a budgetary measure but our ASEAN friends, the people with whom we live in this region, are very concerned that on the one hand this Parliament is threatening to take the European Economic Community to task for a breach of article 16 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in dumping sugar in New Guinea but that on the other hand it is imposing customs duty on goods the subject of tariff quotas which could be deemed to be a protective device. [More…]

• Finally, I repeat, the development of the mining industry has greatly benefited the Australian community. [More…]

• It is also important that such projects obtain total community and government support and that basically they are not calculated by means of short term considerations, whether these be financial or political, in regard to the overall problems of the Murray River Basin. [More…]

• I wish to take up a number of items of the Budget under the appropriations for the Department of National Development and the Department of Trade and Resources and to allude to several items under the appropriations for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development because they are relevant to the first items. [More…]

• Two items under the appropriation for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development are in keeping with the recommendations of the Fox report and the Government’s commitment to preservation of the environment adjacent to mines. [More…]

• Cuts’ and which concerned the impact on the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development of staff cuts which have been brought about as a result of this year’s Budget. [More…]

• It is also quite clear that the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has tried with commendable concern to rationalise its staff, through a period of savage cuts, in such a way as would allow it to maintain intact those functions which it has been given to perform. [More…]

• It is clearly a misnomer to describe the Department as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development because the environmental and community development responsibilities of the Department, while remaining on paper, cannot possibly be performed on the scale and at the depth originally envisaged. [More…]

• I believe that the dismantling of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development - [More…]

• Without indictment or trial, one of the most responsible and respected persons in this community, Mr Bob Hawke, has been vilified in a way which would warrant successful legal action if the words were spoken outside the umbrella of privilege that this House provides. [More…]

• -It is terrible, as the honourable member for Griffith says, that people in this community who are trying to do the right thing by those they represent, who are providing leadership and initiative and establishing enterprises in the community, should be subjected to such vilification without any substance whatsoever. [More…]

• A very responsible member of the community has been vilified and held up to ridicule. [More…]

• Sometimes one hears in the community the sheer hypocrisy of people- I am not referring to the honourable member for Griffith, because he is not a bad fellow- saying that money is being used and abused whilst on the other side of the coin they are saying that people are in need. [More…]

• I will not delay the House for any great length of time, but I do want to respond to the very brief remarks made earlier by the honourable member for Batman (Mr Howe) about the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• costs of ethnic health workers, the employment of whom under the Community Health Program has to be worked out in consultations with the States. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

• Departments represented on the Task Group are Environment, Housing and Community Development (Chair), Aboriginal Affairs, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Finance, Health, Home Affairs (Office of Women’s Affairs), Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Social Security. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 20 September 1 978: [More…]

• A country when setting maximum permitted levels for additives in particular foods must take account of the dietary intakes within the community to ensure that the acceptable daily intake is not exceeded. [More…]

• Can he state whether the same advice was sent by the auditors of the Aurukun Community Company, Brisbane Chartered Accountants, to the Queensland Minister for Mines on 3 December 197S. [More…]

• As the honourable member has previously been advised the Government intends that the community store facilities at Woomera should continue to be carried on as required to meet the needs of the local population. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that any Aboriginal community that may be affected by the signing of the agreement has been consulted and has had an opportunity to express its views to the Land Council before the Council decides whether to sign the agreement? [More…]

• I think the Government’s continuing response in relation to situations of this nature would provide not only the Lebanese community butother Australian residents with confidence that we would react positively and humanely to situations which may occur. [More…]

• I think anybody who read the newspaper reports of what occurred at the wharves in Brisbane yesterday would be appalled that there are elements in the community who think that they can determine what other people do with their produce. [More…]

• I would hate to think that some elements in the community intend to try to determine what our trading policy will be, simply for the purpose of looking after their own vested interests. [More…]

• The Government believes that, taking all of those things into account, and particularly the fact that the Bank will meet a longheld desire on the part of the rural community to consolidate indebtedness and obtain longer term loans, the Bank will make a major contribution to improving the financial facilities that are available to Australia’s primary producers. [More…]

• As pan of that review, I have held consultations with a broad cross-section of the community, including the trade unions and business, and have examined submissions made to me by interested persons and organisations including consumer groups. [More…]

• In view of this, further changes will be made to the PJT’s operations in the interest of freeing the business community from unnecessary regulation. [More…]

• There is no exhortation even to other income earners in the community. [More…]

• In particular, and we see it from this statement by the Minister, there is the emasculation- indeed, the de facto abolition- of the only body in our community which has scrutiny over prices. [More…]

• We need it to survive so that a Labor Government, when taking it over, can reform it and make it a worthwhile institution in our community. [More…]

• Who in this House or in the community believes that there will be many hearings after all those sorts of pressures have been put on the Minister? [More…]

• No independent tribunal will exist in the way it should in this community to look after his interests against the interests of those who have the power to put up prices. [More…]

• On behalf of Mr Speaker I expressed the Parliament’s thanks to the parliaments and governments of the host countries and to the various authorities, community organisations and commercial interests involved with our visit. [More…]

• -by leave-As a member of the delegation I second the thanks of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to our hosts and, of course, to the Australian high commissions and embassies whose members contributed very much to the success of the tour. [More…]

• Next month a year will have elapsed since the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) gave a firm undertaking to the Australian community that interest rates would be reduced by 2 per cent over the ensuing 12 months as a result of government policies. [More…]

• How does it sum up as a cost, the cost of another broken promise to the community? [More…]

• The conservative cost of this dishonesty to the community, to home mortgagees, is $300m. [More…]

• The real rate of interest is the crucial factor in determining so much of the business behaviour in the community. [More…]

• That represents the squeeze on real money supply requirements in the community as against what the community would need to sustain its established level of activity. [More…]

• It was undertaken cynically; it was undertaken to deceive the public; and it was undertaken to abuse the trust of the Australian community. [More…]

• This is a dishonest government; it is a government that lacks credibility; and it is a government that does not deserve the trust and confidence of the Australian community. [More…]

• If ever there was a party, both in government and more latterly in opposition, which demonstrated a disinterest in the level of interest rates in the Australian community it is the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party, in its policy formation, is indifferent to the level of interest rates and the cost of money in the Australian community. [More…]

• While the Government was trying to jawbone down the banking community and the permanent building societies all responsible commentators at that time were saying that it was economic nonsense. [More…]

• I think we can wipe out that explanation because the Government has access to advice by the Treasury, the Reserve Bank and all the other people that we have access to in the wider community. [More…]

• What we need is an Opposition which can assist the Government and the rest of the community in getting Australia back on the rails. [More…]

• I would like to be as confident as the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Carlton), who has just resumed his seat, that the Government is in fact dealing with technological change and that it is approaching a position where the effect of that change on the community is capable of being managed. [More…]

• He indicated quite clearly in public statements that it was his opinion- his opinion not as Prime Minister but as a member of the Opposition and spokesman on labour at that stage, I think- that the persons who were displaced by long-term economic downturns of technological change should not be asked by the community to bear alone the costs and responsibilities that arose from a change in their circumstances. [More…]

• He actually said that he believed that the community should be responsible for paying those persons at least 80 per cent of the minimum wage. [More…]

• I might add that a very large section of our community works in this way. [More…]

• It would certainly stimulate a very large section of the community. [More…]

• Productivity improvement is a concept not generally understood by employers, employees, the unions or the community. [More…]

• He says that employers do not understand it, the employees do not understand it, the unions do not understand it and the community does not understand it. [More…]

• In fact, one would find that members of the trade union movement, more than anyone else in this community want technology to advance quickly. [More…]

• Whether the work is done by men or machines, there is a need for that wealth to be distributed equitably in the community. [More…]

• They will accumulate all of the funds and leave the rest of the community to struggle along on social welfare. [More…]

• Town planning for businesses and services to provide a community invariably leads to too many businesses competing for too little, or for a limited market, so no one earns a profit and many go bankrupt. [More…]

• Rates, fees, licences and other taxes should be charged bearing in mind their reasonableness and fairness to the businesses that provide the main arteries of community life. [More…]

• One of the problems faced by politicians in regard to tourism is that every community sees itself as the potential tourist Utopia, the potential tourist haven of the world. [More…]

• The increases in the cost of domestic crude oil, and therefore fuel, are intended to establish realistic attitudes in the community regarding fuel usage. [More…]

• The importance of petroleum products as a cost to the rural community has been examined by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. [More…]

• This is very important information because it shows the inflexibility of fuel use in the rural community. [More…]

• I do not put that as a political point; I put it on behalf of the community. [More…]

• It would seem to be fairly common knowledge in the community at the moment that all international airlines, including Qantas, operating in and out of Australia are in fact paying some sort of overriding commission. [More…]

• The Government has made a policy decision which has imposed upon the motorist and the community as a whole an extra fuel cost of 3.5c a litre. [More…]

• To my knowledge, there is still no word about whether the New South Wales Government wishes to have an allocation of some $77.5m for its roads program, and I think that that is a situation that needs to be noted by the community and by members of this House. [More…]

• In other words, there is evidence which is provided in this report of what could only be described as a transport poor society, people who are deprived proper access to community facilities because they are earless. [More…]

• The program itself was specially aimed at preparing people who have been disadvantaged or disabled by educational, social, economic or physical circumstances to live productively and independently in the community. [More…]

• Proposals for alternative arrangements for the operation of the community facilities at Woomera are still being developed. [More…]

• Guidelines- It is essential that the objective of any proposed housing project be set by the Aboriginal community and that its terms be discussed and agreed with the community concerned. [More…]

• In particular, the community should control decisions on the planning and design of houses and in the implementation and management of the project. [More…]

• Government’s response to the Indo-Chinese refugee situation but also the assistance that has been given by voluntary agencies and the Australian community generally. [More…]

• Very few people in this community are likely to come into those categories. [More…]

• I think the honourable member for Prospect should be condemned for inciting this sort of attitude in this House and thereby in the community. [More…]

• This is particularly so in the United States of America, Canada and the European Economic Community, where most farm inputs are cheaper and the various assistance measures are designed to support prices and so maintain their farmers’ incomes. [More…]

• The application of further concessions to essential industry and production would be of benefit to the total Australian community. [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…]

• It is a pity that the State colleges have each worked on volume, rather than thinking out the needs of the community and training accordingly. [More…]

• That is a totally misguided figure and it completely distorts the cost of study leave to the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that information will be forthcoming very soon and that people will consider it very seriously indeed and not reject the opportunity of giving the people of Canberra the degree of selfgovernment that is enjoyed by every other community in Australia. [More…]

• The Queensland branch of the ALP not only is dominated by a small clique of left wing trade unions but also those people are unrepresentative of the rank and file Labor members in the Australian community in general. [More…]

• It is the only way the Party can feel sure that it is in touch with what is happening in the community. [More…]

• The misguided nature of the Government’s economic policies is now widely recognised in the community. [More…]

• The inappropriateness of its economic policies is now widely recognised in the community. [More…]

• The National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Education Program for Unemployed Youth and the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Fulltime Training represent the mainstay of Government measures to overcome the labour market difficulties. [More…]

• There has even been Press speculation about the introduction of community service schemes to aid the young unemployed. [More…]

• These stories reflect the growing concern within the community over the plight of our jobless. [More…]

• Among the problems increasingly referred to are the growing alienation of the young to the community and its institutions, increases in vandalism and more serious forms of anti-social behaviour, loss of incentive and work motivation, increasing incidence of personal psychological problems, pressures on welfare services and the loss of skilled manpower resources. [More…]

• In July this year the Cabinet established an interdepartmental committee which was to report to Cabinet before the end of August on the options for the development of a community service scheme in Australia. [More…]

• These statements of the Minister are particularly relevant when we consider the deliberations of the interdepartmental committee on community service. [More…]

• The main thrust of any scheme should be directed towards young unemployed people; that consideration should be given to options which combine work experience and service to the community. [More…]

• A Labor Government would establish a permanent community service scheme to involve unemployed young people in constructive, imaginative activities which would enhance individual motivation and develop social and work skills. [More…]

• Employing the unemployed at the minimum wage, which presumably is what the community would expect, with all the overheads associated with employment- workers’ compensation, accommodation, tools, materials, supervision, administration of such matters as wages, record-keeping et cetera- would far exceed the savings which might be made in unemployment benefit payments and increases in taxation. [More…]

• Another program is the Community Youth Support scheme, the appropriation for which has been increased, from $5.7m last year by more than 50 per cent, to $9m. [More…]

• This examination has now been undertaken and has also taken account of the relevant International Labour Organisation convention, community practice, particularly the situation in State Public Services, and the application of the present provisions to the particular circumstances of individual employees- for example, persons on leave without pay. [More…]

• It is, furthermore, ahead of community standards. [More…]

• Following consideration of comments from the export community and further study by departments, the Government intends to move a number of amendments to the Bill which are essentially of a technical nature. [More…]

• We cannot expect to pick up the old trade links we had in the past, particularly prior to the Second World War, when we know very well that the world scene has changed and that the European Economic Community will not open up to us because we are very keen to castigate it and say that it is schizophrenic and deliquent. [More…]

• Australia has lost virtually all her ground in traditional markets such as the United Kingdom and Western Europe as a result of the protective barriers thrown up by the European Economic Community. [More…]

• It is a tragic irony of our times that a number of the nations in Western Europe now locked into the incestuous and darkening economic prison that is the European Economic Community were once apostles of a free-flowing world trade. [More…]

• There was a genuine consciousness, engendered by an active export action campaign abroad in the community. [More…]

• If honourable members take the trouble to go into the community, into the wider world, and talk to the manufacturers, they will learn that manufacturers are again beginning to think ‘export’. [More…]

• I believe that the doubling of exports in 10 years, as was aimed at by the Department of Trade and Industry through the Export Development Council in 1968, has been well and truly achieved and I hope that this Government, over the coming 12 months or so, will get down to the work of getting export consciousness going again right throughout the whole of the community so that we can aim at doubling exports again in the coming decade. [More…]

• The Australian community is uninformed as to what happens on the waterfront. [More…]

• The arbitrator shall in his deliberations take into account, amongst other things, economic, social and community factors. [More…]

• One of the areas of agreement appears to be the need for more emphasis on the teaching of community or ethnic languages in our schools. [More…]

• Community language programs should be available not just for ethnic minorities but as an option for every child, regardless of ethnic background, in order to develop communication skills in a language of the society. [More…]

• Having dealt with the specific issue of migrant education, I would now like to turn to the general question of education, to the needs in the school community and the way the Government has allocated its funds. [More…]

• On the basis of the estimates that have appeared over the years of the educational needs in the community, there is no doubt that we need increases far larger than that if we are going to catch up in the areas of greatest need which exist in far too many of the Government schools and far too many of the non-government schoolssadly, usually the parochial Catholic schools. [More…]

• It is going mainly to the most prosperous private schools in the community. [More…]

• I do not think that they have any place in a plural community. [More…]

• I am stating that the skills currently available to young people are not those which are required by the community to a large extent. [More…]

• That in itself means that the number of basic skills necessary to conduct oneself with dignity in our community has risen quite markedly. [More…]

• I realise that in saying this I am treading somewhat on the corns of educationists because education has become a holy cow and anybody who speaks against it is looked upon as almost a pariah in the community. [More…]

• The ordinary employer in private industry is finding it so financially difficult that, despite inducements offered by various governments, he is not taking his fair share of the number of apprenticeships that should be made available to the community. [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…]

• 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…]

• Australian scholars are geographically cut off from the international community of scholars. [More…]

• Simply to argue, as does the Prime Minister, that we have got good Australian universities, which no one denies, and therefore Australian academics should spend their study leave in other Australian universities is to encourage parochialism and provincialism in our scholarly community which, I believe, will be ultimately paralysing to Australian scholarships and fateful to its international contribution. [More…]

• But there are very few schools in Australia- the number, mercifully, is increasing- where languages of the Asian region are taught and very few schools where the languages of the people of our migrant community are taught. [More…]

• Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• The Minister for Enviroment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is responsible for this area. [More…]

• Plenty of evidence from overseas- from West Germany, East Germany and a whole range of countriessuggests that as countries increase funding to sport and provide widespread sports programs for community participation the standard of community health improves. [More…]

• On a recent visit to Western Australia I was told by the director of the community sports program, Mr Graham, that, from information gathered in a survey, only 15 per cent of Western Australians participate regularly in any sport. [More…]

• We are light years behind the European communist countries, the United States and Canada in the provision of community facilities. [More…]

• We need a national sports institute to train coaches, to provide training camps and to ensure that quality sportsmen are available in all our institutions, schools and universities and in our community so that people are learning how to prepare themselves in sport. [More…]

• I refer to the appropriation for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the allocation of $350,000 to unspecified conservation organisations. [More…]

• -The estimates being debated are for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The sad situation is that it has a very low priority from this Government, and I am not casting any reflection on the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) when 1 say that he is one of the junior Ministers in a Ministry of 27. [More…]

• The area improvement programs have been eliminated completely and the expenditure on land commissions has been cut by nearly 80 per cent, on other urban development by nearly 80 per cent, on the development of Aboriginal community amenities by 9 1 per cent, on protection of the environment by nearly 40 per cent, and on sewerage and garbage assistance by 8 1 per cent. [More…]

• Again, this is an area that needs money because it will be spent in labour-intensive industries and will provide an immediate stimulus to the unemployment sector of our community. [More…]

• As far as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development is concerned, if the Government involved itself right across the board in the problems of local government and in the problems of the States, particularly in the public works sector, it would have an enormous influence. [More…]

• I assure the honourable member for Reid that the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who is at the table, also has that attitude. [More…]

• The new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is sitting at the table. [More…]

• In addressing myself to division 296, subdivision 3, item 03 of the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, it is appropriate to build on the remarks of the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) who discussed in his speech sport and the aims and aspirations of sport. [More…]

• I hope that in the next 12 months the Minister at the table, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), will be able to persuade the State governments to participate in a national sports lottery. [More…]

• I would like to thank all honourable members who have contributed to the debate on the estimates for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I think we should have due regard to the fact that the money we spend as governments is not our own money; it is money earned through toil and effort by ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• -In the few minutes available I want to pay some specific attention to the Government’s manpower programs, so-called- the National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Community Youth Support scheme, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training scheme and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• Australia needs an integrated and systematic plan that offers the unemployed the choice of employment, job training, education or community service. [More…]

• It is totally dependent upon the level of employment opportunities within the private sector and therefore it does not add to the overall stock of jobs in the community. [More…]

• The budget for the Community Youth Support Scheme rose from $5.7m last year to $9m this year. [More…]

• The purpose of the scheme is to fund community based organisations to run activities and work orientation programs for local young people without jobs. [More…]

• Given the fact that 29 young people are unemployed for every CES vacancy, these guidelines effectively prevent the Community Youth Support Scheme’s ability to operate a socalled ‘employment related scheme’. [More…]

• I think it is totally wrong for the honourable member for Port Adelaide or any member on the other side of the chamber to say that all the various schemes such as the National Employment and Training Scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Scheme and the Community Youth Support Scheme that the Government is operating have no effect at all in training young people to get into the work force. [More…]

• The other aspect that disappointed me about the honourable member’s speech was that he seemed to assume that the only people in the community who have a responsibility for unemployment are members of the Federal Government. [More…]

• Because it is a social problem responsibility must be accepted by all sections of the community and not just by people in this place. [More…]

• What consideration have any honourable members in this chamber, and for that matter members of the general community, given to the impact on unemployment of that factor? [More…]

• We have to have long term, solutions to unemployment and they have to involve every section of society, every group and organisation in the community. [More…]

• Surely that operation is pretty basic I think that everybody in the community, perhaps with the exception of the honourable member for Wilmot, would have sufficient intelligence to understand that that is exactly what happens from day to day in all the factories in Australia and around the world. [More…]

• This Community Youth Support Scheme that the Government put to us, is a charade. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) should know that the Community Youth Support Scheme in the city of Broadmeadows, which is a very prominent city in my electorate, is a charade. [More…]

• Above all, the Government, I would maintain, has every right to ensure that government employees and employees of semigovernment instrumentalities, who after all have permanent employment, who are in a monopoly position in industry and who are paid from public money, are not able to hold the rest of the community at ransom merely at their own whim. [More…]

• The breakdown of wealth in Australia is as follows: The top 5 per cent owns over 20 per cent of the wealth of this community; the middle 45 per cent owns 60 per cent of the wealth and the lowest 50 per centthat is one half of Australia’s society- owns less than 15 per cent of the wealth. [More…]

• Whenever honourable gentlemen opposite talk about the crisis in the economic system all the burden, responsibility and blame is always put on the lower 50 per cent of the community. [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable gentleman that he said very clearly- he was a clear advocate of this in the Parliament tonight, although he might try to move away from itthat increases in wages are related to the level of unemployment in this community. [More…]

• I venture to suggest that he has never forgone any increase in his professional fees, but he is prepared to say that if those people in the Australian community who comprise the 50 per cent who own the least would only forgo increases in their wages, then the problems would be solved. [More…]

• So long as this Government continues with the sort of perpetual political handouts which are made on an almost daily basis by the Prime Minister and by his Ministers, so long as a disproportionate amount of blame is placed upon the work force of this community and upon the trade union movement, so long as the Government is engaged on an almost daily basis in attacks upon the trade union movement, I do not believe that there is any way at all that what is contained in these estimates will go anywhere near solving the problem. [More…]

• Perhaps at some stage we as a community will have to face up to the very real problem that economic systems have to meet the needs of people who live in a society and that people do not have to be made to conform to the prevailing economic system by way of the creation of huge dole queues. [More…]

• But we cannot create a miracle overnight and what we had during that time, combined with the international realities, such as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ decision to raise oil prices by some hundreds of per cent, a major fall in consumer demand by the main European Economic Community markets, had a considerable impact on Australia’s capacity to produce and capacity to sell. [More…]

• The experience of the organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development- we are now in the fortunate position of being able to learn from its four years of experience if we wish to do so- has demonstrated that of programs directed at supporting young people and, for that matter, all sections of the community, must be directed at two levels. [More…]

• To date the Government has introduced the Community Youth Support scheme which, in a sense, has been very successful. [More…]

• If the OECD experience is to be followed- I recommend that it should be followed- what we will need and will see over the next year or so is an increased number of community-based schemes which would have incorporated in them a close affinity with community groups, social welfare organisations, local government, et cetera. [More…]

• Instead, we have in the chamber one of the most junior Ministers, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), dealing with one of the most important issues facing this country, that of unemployment. [More…]

• We often have quiet, personal chats and I am surprised to hear tonight that the honourable member for Bradfield would back up the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• I am surprised that he stands up for the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• If we are to introduce a real unemployment relief or job creation program, instead of throwing all those hunderds of millions of dollars- getting up towards $ 1,000m- down the drain in unemployment relief, in order to provide some worthwhile community facilities we should be talking about the Federal Government providing between $300m and $500m. [More…]

• Instead of that the Government is continuing to play around with these patchwork proposals, such as the Community Youth Support Scheme and the Special Youth Employment Training Program. [More…]

• Would you believe, Mr Deputy Speaker, that this organisation which could not survive without Federal Government fundingtaxpayers ‘ money- has the audacity to take out a writ in the High Court of Australia against the Treasurer (Mr Howard) and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) with regard to the tourist development at Yeppoon in Queensland. [More…]

• local government is better able to assess community needs than Canberra bureaucrats . [More…]

• If this Parliament is to inquire into anything relative to a major public service or community activity it must have backup research and staff facilities. [More…]

• In addition, for some time he has had an invitation from the United Kingdom Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries for discussions in the United Kingdom on agricultural matters relating to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I believe that ought to be a pointer for further action, and I am quite certain that all honourable gentlemen in this House will be awaiting eagerly the time when the trading banks join with those responsible for other rates in the community and move the rates down. [More…]

• It eventually broke down because the Maronites, by far the largest Christian group, were not prepared to accept the fact that the Christian community had become a minority and that the ‘National Covenant’ no longer reflected political realities in Lebanon. [More…]

• But, with a large and very concerned Lebanese community in Australia, and in the face of a most serious situation of conflict, it is the right and responsibility of any government concerned with humanitarian issues and those of international peace and security to make its views known. [More…]

• At this time, I make clear the Australian Government’s support for any future role which the Secretary-General will find an opportunity to play and our view that this would constitute the most constructive point of departure which appears to be presently available to the international community. [More…]

• It does so in the context of events which took place last Wednesday when the Opposition received a deputation from a very responsible group representing the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]

• We make the point that the Lebanese community has made a very valuable contribution to the Australian way of life. [More…]

• In my discussions with leaders of the Lebanese community I obtained the view that there was no alternative to the basic framework of the present Constitution. [More…]

• More than the number of members required by the Standing Orders having risen in their placesMr CONNOLLY (Bradfield) (8.1)-This matter of public importance is being debated in Parliament tonight because of the vital needs of the Australian community to have ready access at all times to adequate quantities of fuel. [More…]

• However, the impact of unnecessary strikes for relatively minor matters in key and strategic industries can and does have a catastrophic effect on the business community, especially small business. [More…]

• Confidence is a very fragile plant in this community. [More…]

• Slowly but surely we are regaining the confidence of the business community, but confidence needs to be fertilised with stability based on the community working together and accepting responsibilities as a nation, and being prepared to take second place on occasions if the nation’s interests are in the balance. [More…]

• Throughout the community manual workers are being replaced by technology. [More…]

• The community is sick and tired of minority groups of this type, small numbers of employees, which refuse to recognise the improved channels of conciliation and arbitration, which refuse to recognise the proper processes of law and refuse to settle their disputes in the proper place with the proper people. [More…]

• Practically the whole community, though, is affected by the shortage of fuel. [More…]

• There must be some effort on the part of the New South Wales Government because the community is sick and tired of people who stand still on these matters; unions which abuse their position; employers who do not play ball with their employees; and governments which ignore dramatic and serious circumstances that affect the economic recovery of this nation. [More…]

• I mention also the Community Youth Support Scheme which has been criticised by honourable members opposite and others as being a mickey mouse scheme. [More…]

• I believe that it has considerable merit in that it provides for a great degree of community involvement, awareness and cooperation. [More…]

• However, often we have found when looking for community co-operation that the people opposed to the scheme were the unionists and the trades and labour councils who are particularly concerned that young people in work experience programs within factories or on the shop floor might jeopardise the jobs and employment of some of their members. [More…]

• People who undertake the care of the aged in their homes- a problem which will grow in an increasingly geriatric community- ought to be paid not less than the Government subsidy to old people ‘s homes for each inmate. [More…]

• Further education and the encouragement of arts and craft work ought to be seen as good things, per se, which this community can well afford, quite apart from any role they have as employment generators. [More…]

• This would be a firm and welcome step in the direction of expanding the activities of CSIRO on behalf of community interests. [More…]

• Again, cuts in the Australian Government Analytical Laboratories and in the National Measurement Laboratories will prevent the further use of Australia’s scientific capabilities on behalf of community well being. [More…]

• A number of functions have gone to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, whilst a number of other functions are in the more technical area. [More…]

• But there is another aspect which is of great interest and value to the community generally, and that is the Bureau of Meteorology. [More…]

• I hope they lose audiences and they deserve to lose audiences because they have failed the Australian community. [More…]

• There are some people in the community, indeed in this House, who would advocate that the United Nations and its various agencies be dismantled. [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…]

• There are different standards in our community. [More…]

• Of course, we want the law to have persons who represent high standards in the community regardless of their background, family, race, colour or creed. [More…]

• Would we not have less divorce and less trouble in our community if many of the people in the community adopted some of the extended family type activities of migrants? [More…]

• In any case, what about the clan loyalties in our own community? [More…]

• There is a real clan attitude in our community which is not inconsistent with the application of proper individual integrity at the right time. [More…]

• I propose to read briefly a letter from Mr A. C. Morris, the community adviser. [More…]

• In my present position of administering the Aurukun Community for the Queensland Department of Local Government, I request that you would make known the total injustice of the present situation. [More…]

• The local community company, Aurukun Community Incorporated Pty Ltd, through which the DAA fund the community, has or is being starved for funds. [More…]

• This community has lost all faith in the Federal Government to support them as promised in the early stages of the struggle. [More…]

• The community refused Queensland Government monies, demanding they should first see the lease which will cover their land. [More…]

• Submission for Application for additional funds for Aurukun Community Inc. for period 1st November 1978 to 3 1st June 1979 to enable the Company to take responsibility for areas previously funded through the Uniting Church Administration. [More…]

• Market for produce- local community store. [More…]

• Grant given to Aurukun Community Inc. from which loans will be allocated to original home owners to be repaid in regular weekly repayments. [More…]

• Total funds required maintain employment level in community-$32,888.64. [More…]

• The current move to decentralise mail handling in NSW forms part of a national plan aimed at phasing out large Central Mail Exchanges and replacing them with several smaller facilities which are: more appropriately located to provide a speedy and reliable mail service; capable of ready adaptation to meet changing community needs in the mail service over the next decade and beyond and considered to offer potential for improvement of working conditions and management/staff relationships. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]

• Shops, storage, community purposes, craft centres and child care services. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• At the same time Telecom is examining the question of access to service or community centres on a local call basis with a view to providing the best possible local call access for all people throughout Australia. [More…]

• This is in marked contrast to that great Labor year when farm costs went up by 30 per cent due not only to the 16 per cent or 1 7 per cent rate of inflation but also to the quite deliberate policies of the Labor Government of the day which were designed to cut the throats of the Australian farming community. [More…]

• A broad agenda for arms control and disarmament negotiations has been established and the international community will be increasingly involved in discussions and negotiations aimed at achieving substantive measures. [More…]

• This is a recognition by the international community of the positive and constructive contribution which Australia has made on disarmament questions over a number of years. [More…]

• We urge the Minister and other ministers, particularly the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), with responsibility for strategy and disarmament and arms control, to begin to take part in the debate in the Australian community on these issues. [More…]

• The Government is failing in the following matters: It has taken no educative or other action to foster disarmament or arms control objectives within the Australian community. [More…]

• Yesterday we had an experience at a luncheon here where we were able to indicate in some way all the problems of the European Economic Community, as far as we were concerned, with agricultural produce. [More…]

• We received a very quick, clever reply on the basis that the European Community would look after its own affairs when it came to food production. [More…]

• I reminded the Prime Minister of remarks he made in the Parliament as far back as 1 96 1 when he was talking about the problems that would arise for Australia’s agricultural policies when Great Britain entered the European Community. [More…]

• All we have done in recent months has been to batter on the doors of the European Economic Community pleading for admission in an area where no permit will be given, instead of concentrating our efforts in areas such as ASEAN. [More…]

• Now that members opposite have joined the low protection school- I welcome them, it is a battle that I have been fighting for some time- I welcome a debate that will lead to the son of understanding in the Australian community that will admit a free flow of goods between ASEAN and Australia and between Australia and other countries that would trade with Australia. [More…]

• The main role of CSIRO is to carry out scientific and technological research for the purpose of assisting all sectors of Australian industry, furthering the interests of the Australian community and contributing to the achievement of Australian national objectives and to the performance of the national and international responsibilities of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Organisation will be required to establish and maintain standards of measurement of physical quantities beyond the present legal requirements placed on it, and to promote and participate in the development of calibration and other arrangements of benefit to Australian industry and the community at large. [More…]

• The functions of the Advisory Council will be to advise the Executive on the objectives of the Organisation and the priorities to be followed to achieve those objectives; industrial and economic matters that bear on the Organisation’s work; and the identification of the interests of the Australian community that may be furthered by the Organisation. [More…]

• It is intended that the Council would normally include persons associated with primary, secondary and tertiary industry, as well as persons drawn from relevant community interest groups including organised labour. [More…]

• The State committees will provide a link with industry, centres of education, and the community generally at a grass roots level. [More…]

• It is to the credit of the Minister that he has raised the morale of the Services very considerably and, I think, he has raised very considerably the interest in the community in defence. [More…]

• Since my announcement, the Government has received a large number of submissions from a significant spectrum of the Australian business community. [More…]

• One thing is certain and that is that the Australian community is entitled to value for money. [More…]

• Members of Parliament are elected to scrutinise and to ensure protection of the community at large, to ensure that proper procedures take place and that the process of expenditure is both effective and to the public benefit. [More…]

• This is something of which I believe the community unassociated with government has been in search for a long time. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of members of this place and of the Public Service to reassure the community at large and in fact to justify and account in detail for their activities and their roles on behalf of the community. [More…]

• The Parliament through its agent, the AuditorGeneral, conducts audits and carries out a scrutiny on behalf of the community. [More…]

• He could, as in the House of Commons, present his case to the Parliament at large, and, through the activities of the Public Accounts Committee be recognised as an officer and an agent of the Parliament and, therefore, of the community and the Australian nation. [More…]

• Every technique that can be undertaken to encourage greater confidence and a greater awareness of the dedication, particularly of the Public Service, will benefit the nation and bolster the confidence of the community. [More…]

• It does not reflect what is good of bad and it does not reflect the quality of life in the community. [More…]

• Productivity in fact is the area in which all the resources that are necessary are brought together so that the community, the employees and those responsible gain the ultimate benefit of remuneration, greater satisfaction or a better delivery of the services that they are offering or a combination of all for the least cost. [More…]

• The way in which regulations or money interact and react with the community is the ultimate test of efficiency and also productivity. [More…]

• Therefore, it would seem that there is a responsibility on everyone involved to justify and effectively measure for the community exactly what they are doing and the effectiveness of what they are doing. [More…]

• We see people employed in post offices throughout Australia when, in my view, unofficial post offices provide in most areas a far more effective, efficient and productive service to the community at large. [More…]

• Government needs to draw back from these areas and pass on its various roles to those people who have the incentive and who will ultimately seek to serve the community most effectively. [More…]

• What we are looking for is a drawing back of government from some areas but the retention by government of the way in which it makes its arrangements by contract or legislation or regulation to protect the community. [More…]

• But at the same time let us not shrink from taking some of the hard decisions whereby we remove difficulties that are obvious in the Public Service; the difficulties of permanency of employment, Supperannuation programs that apply acrosstheboard and the capacity to flex on or flex off- all sorts of benefits that are not available elsewhere and which the community at large does not enjoy. [More…]

• It is part of the responsibility of this House and of members of the Public Service at large to convince the Australian community that they are thoughtful, diligent and careful in their activity. [More…]

• Mr Anderson is a very active man within his own community- that is, the deaf community in Victoria- and he brought to my attention the fact that there are devices available, not yet in Australia but overseas, whereby people who are completely deaf and those who are deaf and mute can communicate with one another via a telephone using a teletype system. [More…]

• Any effort that can be made by government employees or by Telecom to bring this equipment to the point where it can be used as quickly as possible must be encouraged by the Government, by this House and by the whole community. [More…]

• Is the Treasurer aware of expressions of concern within the community about the possible introduction of a broadly based indirect tax? [More…]

• Then, if the Government decides in the light of that inquiry to take the matter further, a discussion paper will be produced in order to provoke further community response and comment. [More…]

• I think it would be unfortunate if consideration of such a fundamental issue- that is whether there should be a shift in the mix of taxation in our community- were prejudiced by too vehement a criticism in reaction from those who hold views strongly on one side or other of the argument. [More…]

• I know some in the community view a retail turnover tax with a great deal of trepidation. [More…]

• Equally, there are others in the community who see a situation where personal taxation is lower and indirect taxation is higher as a very desirable state of affairs. [More…]

• I hope that the current inquiry produces a fair and representative response from the community, thus enabling the Government to take an informed decision after a balanced consideration of competing points of view. [More…]

• I refer to recent answers to questions in the House about European Economic Community subsidised sugar exports and Australia’s reaction to them. [More…]

• In respect of sugar the Government believes it is quite clear that the European Economic Community has committed a breach of its contractual obligations under GATT. [More…]

• The facts are simply stated: The Community is expected to export some 3.6 million tonnes of sugar this year at a subsidised expenditure of approximately $US830m. [More…]

• The Community’s share of the world free sugar market has gone up from about 7.8 per cent in 1975 to not less than 22.4 per cent this year. [More…]

• The reasons for our overseas borrowings are well known by this House and understood by the international business community. [More…]

• The facts are that members of the Lebanese community in Australia were concerned that facilities could not have been provided in Cyprus. [More…]

• If the honourable member had been expressing the concerns of members of the Lebanese community in Australia that would be one thing. [More…]

• This decision flows from the 1975 policy statement of the Liberal and National Country parties which recognised ‘the problems flowing from the past dispossession and dispersal of the Aboriginal people and the community’s resulting responsibility’. [More…]

• The new agency will provide a means through which Aboriginals may determine their own needs and priorities and participate in decision making affecting their economic, and thus social place in the community at large. [More…]

• We hope that the present system will be phased out rapidly in favour of this Aboriginal-controlled exercise and in line with the concepts of commission which the Labor Party in office used very widely to achieve progress, community participation and feedback from the grass roots level. [More…]

• How can honourable members say that that is fair and reasonable and that the Government is helping people in the community? [More…]

• One of the achievements of the Committee has been to create greater awareness of tourism in the community. [More…]

• While tourism is unlikely to have a dramatic effect on community health and welfare, it is in a unique position to foster and develop the community’s knowledge of Australia and the Australian heritage. [More…]

• The Committee does not, however, consider that an accommodation tax is not an equitable method of spreading the costs of tourism across the community. [More…]

• They could give the tourists an understanding of the community they are visiting. [More…]

• -My friend the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, mentioned the north-west coast. [More…]

• I will not take up the time of the House any longer other than to say that I hope that the Committee’s recommendations and the content of its report will increase government and community awareness of the significance and value of tourism to Australia. [More…]

• We have a responsibility as a community and as a government to encourage that. [More…]

• This is simply because of the extraordinary cost associated with penalty rates which have to be paid to maintain service in respect of these facilities which are absolutely essential if tourism is to continue to expand and if service is to be provided for those who are taking advantage of the more liberal leave provision that is available these days in industry, in the Public Service and, for that matter, in all sections of the community. [More…]

• The Committee took evidence from 93 witnesses representing Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, local government bodies, private industry, community groups, marine biologists and private individuals. [More…]

• That eventuality is, in a sense, associated with the acceptance within the community of the need for large-scale oil tankers, The advent of the super tankers does not mean that that danger is diminished; rather it means that the possibility of a major catastrophe becomes ever so much greater or, at least, that the scale of a catastrophe involving a super tanker is so much greater. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) to recommendation 12 of the report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in relation to oil spills. [More…]

• His performance was pathetic enough as he watched his Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development being dismantled before his very eyes. [More…]

• Another Tasmanian had to be appointed to the Ministry and, faced with the unpalatable option of Senator Rae, who has a lot of ability but is disliked by the Prime Minister, and the ratbag rump of dissidents who make up the rest of Tasmania’s representatives, the Prime Minister chose the affable but ineffectual member for Braddon (Mr Groom) as Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development has suffered the most severe cutbacks of all departments. [More…]

• Details were sought from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development by the New South Wales Government. [More…]

• Fifthly, the lack of consultation with local and community and conservation groups both now and in the future. [More…]

• Both government and non-government schools will benefit from the program which, in 1979, will focus on the teaching of community languages. [More…]

• Similarly, the costs to business and to the Australian community of a hindering or prevention of interstate trade or commerce are enormous. [More…]

• During the Menzies era the Parliament was told very little about defence and the Australian community was told even less. [More…]

• It is not generally realised in the community that there has been a very significantly increased effort in surveillance around this country, not just military but civilian as well. [More…]

• Developments in the telecommunications field, culminating recently in a new building to house up to $185mworth of important equipment, underline the commitment of Telecom Australia to the development of telecommunications services and all that they can mean in the thriving community of Western Australia. [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…]

• These decisions are for commercial and independent bodies to make, but I believe that there is a community interest in the great sporting events of this country and some of those on the international scene which we traditionally enjoy watching being carried throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]

• I am interested in getting comments from interested members of the community and the Parliament about this matter because it seems to me that there might be a great deal to be said for providing for licensing at the point of sale in order that the many people who have been able to escape licensing will find it rather more difficult to escape. [More…]

• We are still in the process of appointing a number of new inspectors, again to aid in the management of this important new area of community life. [More…]

• I am told that in the United States of America it is not uncommon for practitioners in big firms to take leave for a couple of years and go out into the community to assist legal aid through neighbourhood legal aid schemes. [More…]

• I urge them to take a year off to go into the Fitzroy Legal Aid Service or any of these worthwhile organisations in order to give the community the benefit of their training. [More…]

• These changes in the guidelines for the Australian Legal Aid Office will disadvantage a lot of people in our community. [More…]

• The reason why Lionel Murphy, now His Honour Mr Justice Murphy, a judge of the High Court of Australia, introduced this set-up when he was Attorney-General- it was opposed by the conservatives and Tories who sat opposite us- was that he knew as well as we in the Labor Party knew that there were people in our community who were being denied justice because they had no shekels in their pockets just as there were people in our community who were being denied health care because they could not afford it. [More…]

• The honourable member for Denison stands condemned in the eyes of the community for supporting the Government in its actions. [More…]

• The Commission will continue to experiment with new methods of public consultation to ensure that its proposals are thoroughly aired in the Australian community before the Commission reports. [More…]

• It means that many thousands of low income earners in the community will be taken to the cleaners by unscrupulous operators. [More…]

• Its diminution, which now has almost reached the stage of destruction, places the law back where it was before legal aid became an important Commonwealth operation; that is, those who can afford the law can exploit those who cannot purely by the use of the courts and by raising the cost of litigation to levels at which most members of the community cannot afford the risk. [More…]

• I now turn to the community health program. [More…]

• Grants for community health programs total $5 1.3m. [More…]

• In my electorate, which is very close to the electorate of the honourable member for Hughes, a marvellous community health establishment at Peakhurst is funded by this Federal Government. [More…]

• Research grants are given to various people at universities in the community. [More…]

• The not insignificant sum of $3 16m is to be allocated for direct advances for housing to the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• History cannot be reversed, but the Australian community which enjoys the fruits of economic development founded on the misappropriation of land cannot remain impervious to shame, nor uncommitted to the just demands for restitution and compensation. [More…]

• The document goes on to suggest that the whole question of Aboriginal land rights has to be put over and against the tendency of the Australian community to put economic interest- mining interests- over and against the interests of a particular people. [More…]

• I fear if they are made non-commercial that the very good community service which is provided by radio station 2CT in Campbelltown would not be able to be proceeded with because the station would have no money. [More…]

• There is no doubt that there is a requirement for funds for such a station providing such an outstanding community service and I commend the board and the former staff members of 2CT upon the job that they have done in providing that service to sections of my electorate. [More…]

• in reply- In the adjournment debate on 24 October, the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) read to the House a letter which was sent to him from Mr A. C. Morris of the Aurukun Aboriginal community. [More…]

• That money was provided on the basis that if and when the Queensland Government reimbursed the Church for its expenditure in administering the needs of the community, the Church would reimburse the Commonwealth the $240,000 it had provided. [More…]

• I understand from the Queensland Minister that his Department will be taking over that responsibility, with the agreement of the community and the community council, but that as yet no date has been fixed for the handover. [More…]

• Mr Morris says that the Commonwealth Government is sitting back and forgetting about Aurukun and starving the local community company of funds. [More…]

• That company is an incorporated body which the Commonwealth has been funding for a number of years in order to support a policy of Aboriginal self-sufficiency in a number of projects within the community. [More…]

• The bulk of my Department’s grants are being paid to the Aurukun community company. [More…]

• Quite obviously this work will provide substantial employment opportunities for the Aurukun people, as will the housing and other projects supported through the community company. [More…]

• The House will see that funding for the Aurukun community is provided through two avenues; firstly, through the Community Council or the Uniting Church, as I have indicated and, secondly, through the Aboriginal people’s own company. [More…]

• It is certainly not true to say that the Aurukun community is being starved of funds by the Commonwealth, as the figures I have mentioned to the House clearly indicate; or is it true to say that there is no allocation for Aboriginal wages in the grants to the company. [More…]

• I know from my own discussions with the Administrator and from advice given to me by my Department that the Administrator, together with the Community Council, is actively having the rolls completed to enable the election to be held as early as possible. [More…]

• If they read the special local government Act for these two communities they will see that it contains a most important provision which gives to the community shire councils the power which was previously vested in the Queensland Director of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement, as trustee, to deal with mining within that community. [More…]

• Those people in the community who have endeavoured to categorise the attitude taken by the Commonwealth Government at the Loan Council meeting in Melbourne as a weakening of resolve to fight inflation and as a change of economic strategy are wrong. [More…]

• This decision removes the uncertainty of the tax law in its application to revenues received by Aboriginal bodies from mining operations on Aboriginal land and applies a reasonable rate in light of the community and social purposes to which the revenue will be applied. [More…]

• any Aboriginal community or group that may be affected by the proposed action has been consulted and has had adequate opportunity to express its view to the Land Council. [More…]

• While some features of the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) have some attractions, we said in great detail what we had to say when the various Bills, including the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill, were debated in May this year. [More…]

• The community for whom we are legislating will then have clear and definite laws under which people can operate, make their business transactions and anticipate the results without having to go to some tribunal to determine whether on vague facts and contradictory definitions their particular applications for grants fall within the legislation or outside it. [More…]

• Indeed, over the last few years there has been a renewal of public infrastructure and community colleges, hospitals and the like have been constructed there; so much so that the collapse of the copper mine would have meant a scaling down of the activities of the town and enormous losses being inflicted upon persons who had put their life’s work into the town- all because of a fall in the price of copper, because of a down turn in the world economy. [More…]

• This happens to be the seat of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Groom). [More…]

• I am disappointed that the honourable member for Adelaide should have entered on that same cart and tried to do exactly the same thing, namely, to discredit the good Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), who has worked so hard for this legislation, nicely and quietly behind the scenes, trying to do the right thing for Tasmania. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, because he is a Minister, has been unable to defend what he realises is in the best interests of the people of Queenstown, but he has won through by adopting a nice calm attitude- quite different from me, but that is good- and he will be admired for that in his electorate. [More…]

• The Queenstown community is almost wholly dependent on the Mount Lyell mine for its livelihood. [More…]

• Apart from the 65 per cent of the population directly employed by the mining company, the retail trade and community services in Queenstown are all dependent on expenditure by the company and its work force. [More…]

• Although the assistance is for an area in the electorate of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), we do not consider it to be pork barrelling. [More…]

• Mount Lyell on a dollar for dollar basis with Tasmania because of the serious consequences which would be suffered by thelong-established but isolated Queenstown community and region should the mine close. [More…]

• The government was aware of the level of private ownership of community facilities such as housing in Queenstown, which is unusually high for mining towns. [More…]

• -I suggest to the right honourable gentleman that the House is considering a major social issue which affects the moral attitudes of most of the community of Australia. [More…]

• Our view is that the international community obviously should have access to the widest possible range of opinions and news on national and international developments. [More…]

• No amount of extreme rhetoric from other elements of the international community will force me to change my view on what is, after all, a basic bulwark of liberty. [More…]

• I think in fairness to the taxation officers I should state that I do not have any knowledge of any such complaints having been made by the Australian business community. [More…]

• If we decide to take the matter any further, we will issue a discussion paper for further community response and comment. [More…]

• It is an important matter; we ought to be a rational enough community to have a debate on the mix of taxation without those on one side or the other who hold strong views trying by emotional argument to intimidate the decision making process. [More…]

• In that regard I have to refer to an obvious form letter, the source of which I do not know, which is circulating in the community and which contains two quite incorrect statements. [More…]

• Secondly, the letter implies that the Government has kept the community in the dark about this proposal. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to adequately and equitably provide for the health insurance needs of the community. [More…]

• I reject completely the assertion by the honourable member for Prospect that the Government has failed adequately and equitably to provide for the health insurance needs of the community. [More…]

• A few months ago the Australian Medical Association, to its credit, announced that it would co-operate with the Government and with the community and would make its contribution towards restraint by agreeing to a freeze on fees until 1 November 1979. [More…]

• That should not be forgotten because so many people in the community are ready to abuse the medical profession and to blame it for the great problems that have occurred. [More…]

• That is the only professional group in the communityundoubtedly it can afford to do so because of the way in which the former Government bloated its members’ incomes- that has made the gesture of freezing its fees until 1 November 1 979. [More…]

• Whom did that hurt most in the community? [More…]

• It did not hurt the wealthy members of the community, the investors and those people with capital which enabled them to achieve capital gain; it hurt people in the poorer sections of the community more than anybody else. [More…]

• Under the universal system that existed then, an 85 per cent benefit, with a $5 gap, was available to every person in the community no matter how wealthy he was. [More…]

• I think that right through the community there is a growing desire to return to simpler, more equitable and, I believe, ultimately more efficient schemes. [More…]

• This scheme was not designed primarily in the interests of the health care of the community nor was it designed to provide an adequate or equal health service for Australians. [More…]

• The Minister talks about the cost of health schemes to the community. [More…]

• Does he ever try to estimate the costs which are now being imposed and will continue to be imposed on the community simply because of the huxterism of the advertising market which has been brought back into the health scheme to a greater extent than anything else over the past six or seven years. [More…]

• I believe that the introduction of deductibles- both the major deductibles and the deductibles offered by the private agencies- ultimately will add to the total cost burden to the community of health care. [More…]

• Secondly, deductibles produce a problem of equity, lt is quite clear that there are two groups in the community who, on the whole, can take a risk with deductibles. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to adequately and equitably provide for the health insurance needs of the community. [More…]

• health insurance needs of the community’. [More…]

• If he would like to reconsider his position, as he was forced to during the most recent health debate that we had in this place- the Labor Party amendment would have provided an open season or an open Sesame situation for doctors to increase their incomes at the expense of the community- perhaps we could adjourn this House to let him think more about the position he has got himself into. [More…]

• Last night, when consideration was interrupted, I was speaking about the concern of the Government with regard to the private ownership of community facilities, such as housing, in Queenstown. [More…]

• This mining community was established just after the turn of the century. [More…]

• This is a time when you want a bit of confidence in the community. [More…]

• Many benefits which otherwise would accrue to this community will be lost, and not just while this Government remains in office. [More…]

• It will have a permanent scarring effect on the well being of the Australian community. [More…]

• The community health programs allocation has been reduced from $69.4m to $52.6m. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) might shake his head, but people who are looking for community health programs in various electorates are shaking their heads in wonderment. [More…]

• If we look at the total receipts from the community and compare them with expenditure in the community we have to come to the conclusion that at least the Government has been consistent in pursuing what Mr W. C. Wentworth, a former member for Mackellar, dubbed as this stagnation strategy. [More…]

• Levels of assistance in this Bill impose a cost on the community. [More…]

• It should save jobs, but at a cost to the community. [More…]

• Lastly, from early December this year the Commission will finance through ADPACT a self-care residential community centre in an old Canberra homestead. [More…]

• This community centre will operate on a selfcaring basis to fortify people who have successfully gone through withdrawal. [More…]

• In this respect I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a copy of the minute paper of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development on youth crisis accommodation in Brisbane. [More…]

• DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [More…]

• Women ‘s Community Aid. [More…]

• longer-term, supportive accommodation in a supervised community. [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…]

• Kalinga Lodge aims to provide both short and longer-term accommodation in a therapeutic, supportive community atmosphere. [More…]

• Sundry others in community. [More…]

• Women’s Community Aid- [More…]

• At least $200,000 should be made available this year to meet the needs of community organisations engaged in this sphere of activity in Queensland. [More…]

• This matter has become the subject of increasing concern in the community. [More…]

• The same issues- should we align ourselves with the Western world: should we support collectivism or freedom; should be take an active part in the international community or shut ourselves off as a nation unto ourselves- are there. [More…]

• Does he believe that it is a government whose policies in terms of the administration of public funds and the distribution of the wealth of the community are policies that are admirable and that he can support? [More…]

• In other words, the honourable member for Gellibrand, the Opposition spokesman on economic affairs who has come into this House shedding crocodile tears on the cause of lower taxation, as recently as 30 June was contemplating as a direct instrument of Labor Party economic policy an increase in the level of tax in our community. [More…]

• It is simply that the Government’s priorities are out of kilter with the feeling of the rest of the community. [More…]

• It is simply that the Government’s priorities lend it to squandering massive amounts of money, in many ways on personal extravagances and in many ways on priorities that do not really meet community needs. [More…]

• I believe that a number of groups in the community are beginning to think about how we can begin to redesign our road systems so that we achieve a more effective transport system, so that we make journeys possible for people in a corporate way whether it is by bus, taxi or by car pooling arrangements. [More…]

• Many concerned groups in the community believe that it is in the area of roads that a stimulus to employment could be given, with beneficial community effects right across the countryside, not only in the urban areas but in the rural areas as well. [More…]

• Thirdly, the environmental and aesthetic aspects of road planning are generally taken into account although I fear that many transport planners do not take account of the social and community factors in road works and planning, particularly in the laying of major roads and freeways through communities. [More…]

• It is widely recognised in the Australian community that the legislation introduced by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) as Minister for Labour and Immigration in 1973 was a significant breakthrough in the quest of working women to achieve equality of opportunity. [More…]

• So many Labor members foster the view in the community that sick leave is something that should be taken at any time if a person has not already taken it. [More…]

• Is the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister aware that there exists in the community much argument and animosity about the degree of generosity extended to Commonwealth public servants because of their superannuation scheme? [More…]

• I explained to them that I asked for a study to be made because there is so much comment without real knowledge in the community about the superannuation available to Commonwealth public servants. [More…]

• I would like the Minister to take great note of the fact that contrary to the comments he made in response to my question on 1 9 October there is a lot of feeling within the community. [More…]

• I believe that the whole nation would be more enlightened and have a better understanding of exactly what is being given to different sections of the community if such a study were made. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister (Mr Viner) stated that the provisions of Labour’s original Bill which became the Maternity Leave (Australian Government Employees) Act was still ahead of community standards. [More…]

• The needs of women in the Australian community are too important to be treated in isolation. [More…]

• What the Opposition seems to ignore is the fact that one cannot move interest rates for any one sector of the community in isolation from the total interest rate structure applying throughout the community. [More…]

• Therefore, producers are not in control of their prices and they suffer very greatly indeedprobably more than any other sector of the community- when their costs increase at the savage rate at which they increased under Labor policies. [More…]

• Not only rural producers but also thousands and thousands of people throughout the community, particularly small businessmen- rural or otherwisehave benefited through the abolition of estate duty. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to assertions in that document that (a) the economic downturn has been used to justify the cutting of expenditure and the breaking of election promises, (b) land rights are an urgent issue of national justice, (c) mining in Arnhem Land could be as destructive of societies and produce the same long-term effects as the dispossession in the rest of the continent, (d) even more threatened are communities in Western Australia and Queensland who have neither land rights nor the Northern Territory Act’s protection, (e) if contracting parties are too unequal, consent does not guarantee justice and the rule of free agreement remains subservient to natural law, (f) traditional owners are opposed to Ranger mining but feel oppositon is futile, (g) many government institutions apply assimilationist pressures, and (h) predators grant liquor licences against the objections of community leaders and Councils. [More…]

• 1 ) Has he received a request from the Yarrabah Community Council or a significant number of residents of Yarrabah Reserve for a referendum to decide whether he should declare the reserve under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities SelfManagement) Act. [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…]

• Little River- a small rural community which is located at the southern end of the electorate. [More…]

• I inform the House that the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) left Australia last Sunday for Europe to have discussions concerning the multilaterial trade negotiations and for other talks with representatives of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The community rightly demand a high standard from Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• It is a asserting a principle, the principle that the Prime Minister has declared so firmly so often, namely, that the standards expected of us in public life are much more demanding and much harsher than those standards that are generally expected in the community. [More…]

• For example, the Cities Commission Report fell due at a time when the department concerned, now the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, was undergoing extensive reorganisation; and the preparation of the report was overshadowed by tasks of greater priority. [More…]

• -There is a serious threat to the Australian community from the strike in the fuel industry. [More…]

• So the matter involves the rights of the small businessmen of the community to carry out their normal activities. [More…]

• It is a matter concerning the rights of other people in the community- people who have to observe industrial awards- to carry out their business in the way in which they see fit but within the law. [More…]

• Matters involving individual citizens in our community having recourse to the law to obtain redress should be decided in the courts without that sort of intimidation. [More…]

• The members of the Labor Opposition are not sticking up for the rights of all members of the Australian community to have the economy improve and to have it continue on its upswing. [More…]

• Responsible people in the community are engaged in a conference at the present time. [More…]

• That committee acted on the basis that it would be in the best interests of the business community in respect of trade practices legislation. [More…]

• Those problems will be solved despite the Government because the intelligence of the business community can do without the Government. [More…]

• The business community is fed up with the damage the Government is causing to business interests at the present time. [More…]

• It is for that reason that we urge the Government to have a look at the terms of its own motion and the serious threat it causes to the whole community. [More…]

• -This is a debate about a threat to the Australian community. [More…]

• We want to take away the immunity to do things that are against the best interests of the community, things that go outside the processes of the law, things that try to put a few people above the processes of law. [More…]

• This is a debate about a threat to our community. [More…]

• It is a debate about the fact that the transport industry affects the whole of the community because productivity flows from it. [More…]

• He has the same obligations as every other citizen in the community. [More…]

• There are people in this community who cannot wait - [More…]

• There are people in this community who are almost as unintelligent as the honourable member for Hotham. [More…]

• I am for every working man, every citizen in this community, having the same right as the honourable gentleman opposite to defend his working conditions. [More…]

• We were told that the Primary Industry Bank can be of such service within the rural community that the Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia has indicated that it would like to become a participant and that insurance companies and pastoral houses have expressed interest. [More…]

• Accordingly, it is essential that a community which already views domestic air fares as being unnecessarily high and riddled with anomalies should have the opportunity publicly to scrutinise proposed fare levels. [More…]

• Clearly, the Government’s policy is to price air travel so high that it is beyond the reach of the vast majority of Australians and will be confined to the privileged sectors of the Australian community. [More…]

• In contrast, the Opposition is committed to the objective of making air travel as accessible as possible to as wide a range of the Australian community as possible. [More…]

• The Opposition believes there is a substantial capacity for reductions in international air fares, that those reductions will be to the overall benefit of the community and that they could have and would have been available earlier if the issues involved had been handled by the Government in a more proper and responsible manner. [More…]

• One of the recommendations contained in the report from the Select Committee on Tourism was that there should be greater input into aviation policy from all sections of the community but especially from the tourist industry. [More…]

• The important provisions include, firstly, an overall purpose in research for the benefit of Australia, its industry, community and national objectives; secondly, a definite role in the application and utilisation of research results; thirdly, international liaison in this important field of scientific research; and, lastly, the establishment and award of fellowships. [More…]

• I did put this question, for instance, to the chairman of ASTEC the other day and he told me that indeed there was need for basic research in any country in order to stimulate the research community generally if it was to have the applied research required for its particular needs. [More…]

• It is the job of government to ensure that there is more focus put by all of the Australian manufacturing community, but in particular by the larger corporations, on research and development. [More…]

• Firstly, I repeat the well-known fact that the Australian technical community has proved itself capable of excellent .and significant achievements. [More…]

• Secondly, there is the Government’s response to the inquiry’s tentative suggestion that research for Australian community interests should not exclude work in support of improved quality of life in areas such as environment, conservation and consumer services. [More…]

• The Bill that is before the House provides that the CSIRO ‘s functions, as outlined in proposed new section 9, will include furthering the interests of the Austraiian community. [More…]

• It is now recognised that the functions of CSIRO include taking active steps to promote the application of its research results in industry, so that the community will receive the maximum benefit. [More…]

• The community’s perception of what is practical to expect and useful to accept from science has matured and become better informed since the last reorganisation of CSIRO 30 years ago. [More…]

• The main role of the CSIRO is to carry out scientific and technological research for the purpose of assisting all sectors of Australian industry, furthering the interests of the Australian community, and contributing to the achievement of Austraiian national objectives and the performance of the national and international responsibilities of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• This legislation will enhance its position in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that we should now move from what have previously been piecemeal attentions to worthy institutions towards the development of a national science policy and a national approach to scientific matters, which will put these items in their proper perspective and be of general benefit to the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• Similarly, there has been a series of problems associated with the Northcote Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support scheme will have value only if there is sufficient flexibility to meet variations in local conditions. [More…]

• The new policy guidelines which I have seen, and which presumably the people of West Heidelberg have not seen, appear to provide much more emphasis on educational programs and to neglect the social or community work component which has been the essence of the success of WHYP. [More…]

• The emphasis on integrating education and community work components that is present in WHYP is not accidental, based as it is on substantial research carried out in West Heidelberg by the poverty inquiry. [More…]

• I simply say that the General Manager of Watkins states that these incorrect statements have done immeasurable damage to the business community in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• To me the alarming aspect is that Parliament is again the target of attack by people in the community who have a disagreement with the government of the day. [More…]

• Those matters are well known to all of us in this Parliament and to most of the community. [More…]

• Parliament is the foundation stone, the cornerstone, the rock on which our system has been built, but in the past few years there has been an increasing tendency for groups in the community with an axe to grind over some decision of government to make the workings of Parliament the venue of their demonstration. [More…]

• Many of the people who seem to be attracted by this organisation seem, to me anyway- and from the research into this organisation in the United States the same would apply there- to be some of the elderly in our community and some of those who are not terribly well to do. [More…]

• Are there any optometrists employed on (a) salaried, (b) sessional and (c) fee for service bases in Community Health Centres in (i) the Australian Capital Territory and (ii) the States. [More…]

• There are no optometrists employed in Community Health Centres in the ACT on any basis. [More…]

• The detailed administration of general community health projects conducted within States and approved for funding under the Community Health Program, is a matter for the States. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has no fixed arrangements or guidelines for the funding of such schools, assuming that the ethnic schools referred to are those parttime schools and classes organised out of normal school hours which are established by ethnic communities to allow the teaching of the traditional language and culture of the community. [More…]

• Has the draft agreement, or a simplified version of it, been translated into the language of traditional owners and will the Oenpelli community be allowed to discuss the terms of the agreement without outsiders being present or presiding over or directing their deliberations? [More…]

• As I understand it, the meeting to be held at Croker Island has been arranged between the two communities concerned- that is, the Croker Island community and the Oenpelli community- and the Northern Land Council is involved because it is the authority which must enter into an agreement with Queensland Mines concerning the terms and conditions for rnining at Nabarlek. [More…]

• The subject of penalty rates generally is causing increasing concern in the community, not least among those who are seeking jobs. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development in receipt of official reports on the quality of rehabilitation measures implemented by D.M. [More…]

• Furthermore, the Prime Minister has enunciated here and outside the Parliament that the standards that are required of members of the Ministry are far stricter and harsher than those applied generally in the community. [More…]

• One of the purposes of the inquiry that is now being carried out into the practicalities of a broad-based indirect tax is to decide whether we ought to effect a change in the mix of taxation in the community and not necessarily to achieve an increase in the overall taxation burden. [More…]

• It has demonstrably not set out, as the New South Wales Premier implied in his speech to the New South Wales Labor Party Conference, to increase in a substantial way the overall taxation burden in our community. [More…]

• He makes no contribution to the debate by raising simplistic criticisms of an indirect tax system; nor do some of the retailers make any contribution by circulating in the community misleading and simplistic letters in the hope that this Government will be deterred from making a sensible examination of our taxation system. [More…]

• I believe that everybody in the community who wants a sensible examination of our taxation system will welcome sensible and objective comments and npt emotional destructive criticism. [More…]

• On the one hand, savage cuts in public expenditure imposed by the Fraser Government threaten the livelihood of those employed in community services and public administration. [More…]

• It is common knowledge in the community that the situation is far worse than this. [More…]

• When we lost the European Economic Community market we lost an export market which took 80,000 tonnes of our beef year in and year out. [More…]

• We have had the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen)- that is Killen of Cunnamulla and the Condamine- at the table for the Government and now we have the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) there. [More…]

• I am afraid that our Ministers now have a reputation worldwide of seeming to want headlines back home about what a tough fight they are putting up against the dragons of the European Economic Community, the United States Congress and the Japanese Livestock Industry Promotion Corporation. [More…]

• The thorn in the flesh, of course, is the nonparticipation of the European Economic Community and its large scale subsidisation of exports being dumped in third markets. [More…]

• Under the scheme, Canberra would provide SO per cent of the money for community projects. [More…]

• As honourable members who were members of parliament at the time will know, the vast majority of RED scheme work made a very valuable contribution to the community. [More…]

• I pay credit to the honourable member for Hindmarsh for the marvellous work that was done by him in introducing the most progressive scheme for creating jobs and leaving the community with something of benefit. [More…]

• Every project had to have approximately 50 per cent labour content and had to be something of lasting value to the community. [More…]

• Where does it leave those members who serve on a committee that is dealing with this matter that has caused widespread publicity throughout the community? [More…]

• 1 ) Did he state on 1 June, when he rejected major parts of the 5th report of the Royal Commission on Petroleum, that the community has been well served by the refining industry in the past and there is no reason to doubt that, given the right investment climate, it will continue to be so served in the future. [More…]

• Is he able to say whether the timing of this announcement only days after his statement was a coincidence and does this development provide an example of how well the Australian community has been, and will be, served by the petroleum refinery industry. [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…]

• -I have not received any representations from any Aboriginal community in New South Wales concerning the matter the honourable gentleman has raised. [More…]

• -The Minister for Trade and Resources will recall statements he made earlier this year to the effect that there were signs of a willingness by the European Economic Community to reconsider its attitude to agricultural imports and to the heavy subsidies it pays on agricultural exports. [More…]

• People in Australia are well aware of the Minister’s behaviour when travelling overseas because of some reports as to what has taken place, whether on trade matters, or related to Florence, or Rome, or his baggage or what he thought of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In that debate we highlighted the problems of confrontation with the European Economic Community and how we would not progress simply by trying to bluster our way through what is the Government’s view of our position. [More…]

• In front of me I have an article from the Australian Financial Review which is dated 12 July 1978 headed ‘European Community Lashes [More…]

• He launched into a severe criticism of the European Economic Community and the non-tariff barriers in the United States of America and Japan. [More…]

• Here we are beating on the Community’s door and threatening to make it change that policy. [More…]

• It cannot be done in an area where we have no chance of success when we are dealing with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Differences of opinion between the United States and the countries of the European Economic Community, mainly relating to the failure of the United States Congress to pass a waiver on the countervailing duty question have to be resolved. [More…]

• Mr Callaghan said that there should be more imports of food; their regulations should be liberalised; that something ought to be done about their export subsidies; that the European Economic Community should reconsider its price support policies. [More…]

• If their situation is well looked after there are repercussions on the rest of the Australian community because they are the biggest purchasing sector of it. [More…]

• The first thing it must do is to create in the minds of the community a sense of immorality regarding enormous tax avoidance. [More…]

• I am sure that most people in this community understate their income to a degree. [More…]

• If we can create great community indignation about such tax avoidance and the realisation that those people who are able to escape from their tax liabilities are imposing a greater burden on the rest of us who are unable to engage in such practices, we may find eventually that the judiciary of this country will be forced to pay more regard to the wishes of Parliament than it seems to be doing at the present time. [More…]

• There is no doubt that, as the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) said, there is an excessive use of evasion methods and that it is the duty and the role of government to ensure that the tax burden is spread as fairly as possible throughout the whole community. [More…]

• In fact, nothing of any significance was done at all by those now in opposition to limit tax evasion and to ensure that the tax burden was spread fairly throughout the whole of the community. [More…]

• For an honourable member of this House to concede that what was originally proposed would have been inequitable but that that did not matter is, I think, a reflection on the sorts of attitudes that members of the Austraiian Labor Party appear to have to equity throughout the community. [More…]

• I refer now to the attitude of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the business sector and the community generally to annual and long service leave. [More…]

• They are bad in terms of a perversion of what is in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• There are many people throughout this community , . [More…]

• Very few people in the community would have had an expectation of getting such a taxation deduction for the year ended 30 June 1977 and certainly not for 30 June 1 978. [More…]

• The Australian community should not have to wait much longer to see it happen. [More…]

• The Treasurer talks of introducing more indirect taxes in order to change the mix of tax in the community. [More…]

• Of course, retail turnover tax may well be within the scope of such an inquiry but any decision would not be taken before ample opportunity had been given to assess the community response. [More…]

• There are some in the community who believe- and I consider that they hold these views genuinely- that such a provision could introduce an unwarranted area of uncertainty in normal commercial operations. [More…]

• I believe it is a campaign which has very broad community support. [More…]

• I believe that this is an activity of the Government that has very broad community support, and so it ought, because if governments allow the type of avoidance that has occurred in recent times to go unchecked they will incite contempt for the integrity of the tax system and undermine people’s belief in the essential fairness of our society. [More…]

• The types of projects undertaken are those of a selfhelp nature and to improve argiculture and community living. [More…]

• I do not often commend any of the Ministers, but I would like the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, to convey to his friend and colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) my congratulations for the cuts that have been made to the grants for the Australian Conservation Foundation in particular. [More…]

• The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development made two important points in a recent news release. [More…]

• It is something in which the whole community should be involved. [More…]

• I would like to know how much of the community has been involved in the extreme conservation movements. [More…]

• This prospect must be of very real concern to thinking people in the community. [More…]

• That concern was felt by a number of people, particularly those associated with private hospitals which have served the community for a long time and which are of high repute. [More…]

• It is fairly obvious that the community at large has not taken any notice of the attitude of the Leader of the Opposition or the shadow Minister for Health in relation to hospital insurance. [More…]

• I am pleased that the community at large is looking at the matter in this way so enabling those people to whom the Leader of the Opposition referred and many other people who require hospital insurance to obtain that cover. [More…]

• What were the individual sums involved in the nine grants made to ethnic and community organisations, to enable them to employ social workers as referred to in his Press statement of 19 October 1978. [More…]

• Ethnic community organisations usually regard their own community as the primary group to serve and I approve grants to them in the knowledge of that situation. [More…]

• Some grants are given to broadly-based community or- . [More…]

• G34 of 30 August 1977 notifying that on 22 August 1977 the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development had exempted from certain requirements of the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures the making of decisions by the Government on the mining of uranium in the Ranger project area. [More…]

• What sum has been granted or lent by the Commonwealth Government to (a) the Furneaux Fishing and Processing Co. in the last 5 years and (b) the Flinders Island Community Association in the last 20 years. [More…]

• I think that the community and all members of this House ought to bear that in mind when they hear these extravagant charges about the alleged social cost of our economic policy. [More…]

• The Federal Government claims that it has been extremely generous by giving the people of Aurukun $324,000 for the operations of their community. [More…]

• What it does not tell us is that $75,000 of that money will go towards the cost of a new airstrip, an airstrip that the community feels is not needed because there is nothing wrong with the old one. [More…]

• Of course, the Minister will assure us that this does not have anything to do with the community’s proximity to certain bauxite deposits or uranium prospectors. [More…]

• Where else in Australia would we find the community striving for nine months to gain the basic right to elect its own council, the right to see a lease taken out on its own land - [More…]

• On 1 1 October the Oenpelli community resolved that all communities represented on the Northern Land Council would be consulted. [More…]

• He totally ignored the wishes of the community and verbally bludgeoned, filibustered and bulldozed the Aboriginal people into signing that totally unsatisfactory agreement, falsely assuring them that this would allow proper consultations over the agreement. [More…]

• There was no local community consultation as required by law. [More…]

• The agreement was never discussed with the people from the Oenpelli community; all they were told was that they should agree, because they had held mining up for six years. [More…]

• The lack of awareness in the general community about the dangers and the economic effects of the introduction into Australia of exotic diseases concerns me. [More…]

• I repeat that I trust that the community at large will be fully co-operative and take a keener interest in assisting in the prevention of exotic diseases not only by strictly observing the Act but also by reporting any breach of the quarantine regulations which might come to notice. [More…]

• Unfortunately, not enough people in the Parliament or the community generally are aware of the tremendous significance of the quarantine precautions which are taken to the total social and economic structure of this country. [More…]

• This has been made easier by the current levels of unemployment in the community. [More…]

• Representatives of building societies, in discussions with my colleague the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, have indicated that they are ready to bring rates down generally. [More…]

• I have seen the statement of my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• I think the Leader of the Opposition has fallen into the error of a number of people in the community who are implying that the Government has already taken a decision to introduce a broad based indirect tax. [More…]

• Whilst those in industry and the unions who are working with us appreciate very clearly what we are doing, there is a need for much wider understanding in the community of these long-term issues. [More…]

• In doing so it recognises the need to raise the community’s general consciousness of benefits flowing from increased productivity. [More…]

• To be successful it would need to have wide community support. [More…]

• The concept of a national productivity year could play an important role in engineering this spirit of enthusiasm in the community. [More…]

• The second major principle on which the thinking of the Department seems to me to be built is that it should intervene in the private sector for the benefit of the community generally. [More…]

• It is good to see that this principle is being applied by the Department of Productivity for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• It is in that way that the community generally will get the greatest benefits. [More…]

• The short term decisions of Treasury dominate almost everything that is being done in government for the benefit of our community. [More…]

• The Department of Productivity is properly and, I believe, tactfully doing just that for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• I hope that in spite of its flying in the face of liberalism we will have more of this sort of thing going on because it is for the benefit of the community. [More…]

• I believe it is vital for his Department to be the one to take the initiative to lay down the social guidelines that are absolutely vital in introducing technology to our community. [More…]

• We have the terrible fact that there is growing unemployment in our community. [More…]

• I would like the Minister’s Department to take a lead in ensuring that there is that greater balance and not to assume that any introduction of technology is good for the community. [More…]

• I think there is great danger in expecting a wide community acceptance of productivity until we get to full employment. [More…]

• For example, the Darwin Community College had not formally submitted financial statements to the Auditor-General since the creation of the College in July 1973. [More…]

• As part of its inquiry into the AuditorGeneral’s reports, the Committee also heard evidence from officers of the Department of Defence, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, the Australian Wheat Board and the Superannuation Board. [More…]

• -Last Friday, the State Housing Ministers met with the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, (Mr Groom) in Adelaide to try to overcome the serious crisis that has developed in the housing industry in Australia and, in particular, to discuss the seriousness of the crisis in the public housing sector. [More…]

• Since late 1977 interest rates in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the European Economic Community have moved up sharply relative to interest rates in Australia and those in strong balance of payments countries, such as Germany and Japan. [More…]

• State Housing Ministers’ calls for a massive increase in Commonwealth funds for housing are quite unrealistic, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Ray Groom, said today. [More…]

• The objective of the Government’s high air fare policy- its determination to slug air travellers- is to price air travel beyond the reach of a large segment of the Australian community. [More…]

• These airports are of particular significance to the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) who is at the table. [More…]

• We believe that the Government has a responsibility to make air travel as accessible and as available as possible to the Australian community. [More…]

• We will pursue the course of trying to bring about the regime of Australia’s airline system that will make air travel more accessible to the Australian community and to bring about fare levels- not the stand-by sops the Government has introducedthat will enable people to commute to the metropolitan regions. [More…]

• Black bans and boycotts which hinder Australia’s trade are against the community interest. [More…]

• The costs to business and to the Australian community of a hindering of interstate trade and commerce are enormous. [More…]

• As such it will be applauded by the community. [More…]

• I believe that this Bill will have the support of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government will bring about violence in the community. [More…]

• If overseas and interstate trade is prevented from functioning, there are added costs to business and to the community. [More…]

• There was a man who was prepared to give leadership, both to this Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• It deals with young people who in other circumstances would have found it extremely difficult to enter the work force and through this particular program have been enabled with its educational, youth work and community support component to move from school to work in quite a large number of cases. [More…]

• Has he, as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs or as acting Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development, had his attention drawn to submissions regarding the Iwasaki project north of Yeppoon, Queensland, from Mr C. Tutt, Chairman, Capricornia National Parks and Wildlife Association, and acting President of the Capricorn Conservation Council. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 17 October 1978: [More…]

• The Bill would provide for the Minister for Mines to have authority to consent or withhold consent from mining activity taking place on Aboriginal reserves after consideration of a recommendation from the Minister for Community Welfare. [More…]

• The Western Australian Government has indicated its intention to amend the AAPA Act to give the Minister for Community Welfare final authority on the issue of reserve entry permits. [More…]

• Now he finds it necessary to begin a new brainwashing of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Government is grandstanding on the international stage about protection, especially in the European Community, while it uses protection to avoid making long term decisions. [More…]

• The House and the community do not have to take my word for it. [More…]

• Let me refer to Rydge’s, a far from radical business journal and one greatly respected in the business community. [More…]

• Their thrust is endorsed widely in the business community, including by some of the authorities I have already quoted, by State governments and even by members of this Government [More…]

• This motion is about the cumulative sensitivity of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) to the fact that he is increasingly being seen in the Australian community as a person who ignores the significant responsibilities of his office. [More…]

• It is universally acknowledged throughout the Australian community as having been one of the remarkable success stories of this Government. [More…]

• Not only would such a alternative deficit have prejudiced the cause of lower interest rates in the Australian community but also it would inevitably have meant much higher interest rates. [More…]

• Let me move to one of the sectors of the Australian community that were so abysmally neglected, even abused, while the Australian Labor Party was in office, namely, the rural sector of Australia. [More…]

• I put it to the House that no section of the Australian community has been stronger in its support of this Government’s anti-inflation polices than has rural Australia, because the people there know and understand the ravages of inflation. [More…]

• We have endeavoured to open up the export markets of this country to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The attack that this Government has mounted and will continue to mount on blatant tax avoidance in the Australian community is a demonstration of its concern for the equity of the taxation system. [More…]

• Moving from the narrower area of our antiavoidance measures, let me say something about taxation levels in this community. [More…]

• It did not want openly to admit to the Australian community that it was increasing taxation. [More…]

• This Government has done more to simplify personal taxation, this Government has done more to reduce taxation in the Australian community, than has any other government since the war. [More…]

• The only response that the Opposition has on industrial relations, and it ought to be remembered by everybody in this House and known throughout the Australian community, is that one of the first acts of the Labor Party if it were returned to power would be to repeal the industrial legislation introduced by this Government. [More…]

• It would mean repealing legislation which is designed to remove as far as possible from the Australian community the abuse of union muscle; that is the pledge of the Opposition if it is returned. [More…]

• The facts of life are that during 1978 the Labor Party has split down the middle in ways that the Australian community is only just starting properly to understand. [More…]

• The Committee wishes to acknowledge the excellent relationship that has been built up over the years between the staff and students of the Army Apprentices School and the local community. [More…]

• What we are seeking is not something that will be domineering but something that will symbolise the function of a national Parliament, that is, service to the community but, one would rather hope, reflecting a degree of taste and a style that would be appropriate for a national parliament. [More…]

• On that basis, if we are looking at a building which will not only functionally serve the community as a national Parliament but also something which in important ways will be an emblem of the aesthetic qualities that our generation is to contribute, the outlay involved is not extravagant in any way at all. [More…]

• If I recall correctly, you pointed out that the fire authorities reported to you that it is not possible to repair the deficiencies in this respect in this building and that furthermore if this building were to serve the private sector of the community in this city it would be condemned, and properly so. [More…]

• If one considered the sort of return for services provided for the community and the degree to which efficiency could be enhanced as a result of the satisfaction derived, one would find, to the extent that these intangibles can be calculated- rough calculations are attempted, rather bravely, by economists from time to time- that in weighing up the sorts of benefits to be derived from an investment in a new building, the new building wins hands down as the better choice. [More…]

• It should be forever on the conscience of many of the so-called good people of this community, who are so obsessed with their own self-righteousness that they are incapable of recognising the difference between right and wrong, that they have set out on a shameful and wrong course of action. [More…]

• 2), the statement by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) on the Ranger agreement and also the statement on the Kakadu National Park by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• Most significantly, it demonstrates that the Government’s strategy is failing and that prospective buyers of uranium are worried about the policy of the Labor Party and the very deepseated opposition to uranium development in the Australian community. [More…]

• I put it to the House that when we are in a situation as a community and as a Parliament where considerable resources have been expended, we have set up an inquiry and that inquiry has made recommendations of a very positive kind. [More…]

• Less revenue will be raised because of the lower demand for brandy in our community because of the increased price. [More…]

• Yet in Queensland we have the facilities, quality control and development to produce a product which would more than satisfy the needs of the rum consuming community of this country. [More…]

• This legislation represents the continuation of this Government’s policy in cutting out tax avoidance schemes because the operation of such schemes has the effect of not levelling tax fairly and squarely on the shoulders of those people in the Australian community who certainly should pay their fare share of tax. [More…]

• As I said, these amending Bills are designed to level fairly the liability of sales tax throughout the community. [More…]

• We are very mindful of the fact that the Government seems to be a little obsessed with access to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• ability to establish and maintain good relations with employers, government departments, community agencies, national groups etc. [More…]

• Visits by groups of recovered alcoholics can be useful in initiating and in maintaining recovery of local persons with alcohol problems, and even in changing community attitudes to alcohol. [More…]

• Almost all programs utilise group process and recognise the need to go beyond the patient to involve his family and attend to community factors. [More…]

• An example of this co-operation is the appointment of individual community health workers- Aboriginal Alcohol Counsellors- located in western New South Wales towns. [More…]

• If so, will a condition of these payments be that expenditure, employment, housing and other local government, community development, welfare and commercial activities so funded be under the control of the representatives chosen by the communities concerned at ballots where voting and the custody and counting of votes are supervised by scrutineers appointed by the local communities, assisted by appropriate legally aware persons chosen by them after full information as to voting and scrutineering statutes is given to his satisfaction. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development a question supplementary to that asked by the honourable member for Wide Bay last week. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware of an article which appeared in yesterday ‘s Australian Financial Review stating that the European Economic Community’s agricultural commissioner is expected to press for an across-the-board freeze on farm support prices for next year’s farm price review for that organisation? [More…]

• One of the incredible aspects of the stance generally taken at the moment by the European Economic Community is that its own customers are the people who are paying so dearly. [More…]

• As the honourable member has just suggested, the particular bite comes when one looks at the way in which, for example, our traditional customers in the United Kingdom are called on to pay a price significantly higher than that for which subsidised European Community agricultural produce is sold in world markets. [More…]

• One would only hope that the statements by the British Prime Minister and the British Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries are registered by their colleagues within the European Community, for the price at present being paid by the European consumer is maintaining a generally inefficient and highly overpriced system of agriculture which unfortunately tends to react to the detriment of Australian primary producers and our whole nation. [More…]

• They have problems which give rise to their being more highly represented in industrial accidents than is the community in general. [More…]

• Management, unions and government departments should use migrant self-help agencies and involve such ethnic welfare and community agencies in the development of safety and health initiatives on the job. [More…]

• However, I believe that a sufficiently serious situation arises in our community to justify my raising the matter in this place. [More…]

• The subject which I intend raising is a more recent development in our community, that is, the creation of these huge drive-in shopping centres throughout various areas of Australia. [More…]

• I point out to the big combines, such as Woolworths Ltd, G. J. Coles and Co. Ltd, AMP Society and in Queensland the State Government Insurance Office, which has an involvement in this field and to all others, that they have an obligation to the rest of the community. [More…]

• A question was asked today by the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) about sandmining and restoration and we heard the reply from the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom). [More…]

• On one hand it calls on the Australian community, State and local governments to exercise economic restraint. [More…]

• If he talks to people and moves around the community, he will find that the people who have dropped out of the work force are not the concern of this Government. [More…]

• It has a totally callous attitude towards the people who are out of work and the people in this community disadvantaged by the harshness and brutality of its policies. [More…]

• It is important because the increase in postal rates affects not only remote areas but also a broader spectrum of the community. [More…]

• They are not seen as victims of society, but as outlaws, people who have declared war on the community. [More…]

• The best protection against crime in the long run is a society in which there is steady and unyielding pressure against every form of violence in a community which relies on reason rather than emotionalism and blind instinct. [More…]

• On Remembrance Day 1978 a small section of the Australian community but an influential section of the Australian community not only chose to forget those who are fighting for basic human rights in the Soviet Union, but they callously turned their backs on those freedom fighters in the Soviet Union, the modernday martyrs of 1978. [More…]

• We wish to maintain the present network of air services from Europe as far as possible to and from these countries, not only for the benefit of Australians who wish to holiday there and Europeans who wish to holiday here, but also because of the special needs of the migrant community and development of business relations. [More…]

• Those 33 people included the following: The chairman of each of the 17 island communities; the deputy chairman of each of the island community councils except in several cases where the councillor was present as acting deputy chairman and except in the case of Stephen Island- where there is no deputy chairman or councillor at present- and in the case of Badu where the deputy chairman stayed in Badu to prepare ceremonies for the visit by the Ministers concerned. [More…]

• I am also informed that Mr Getano Lui, chairman of the Yam Island community council was present also in his capacity as chairman of the Central Island Council. [More…]

• One that is of prime concern is the possible entry in the near future of Greece and Turkey into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The unfortunate thing about the present situation is that many people in the community have been led to believe that this legislation has now covered them, despite chronic or pre-existing conditions, at the level of hospital or medical benefits for which they insured. [More…]

• Of course, the percentage of such people is increasing in our community and therefore it presents an increasing problem in relation to health care. [More…]

• I do not believe that unbridled private insurance agencies is compatible with effective and adequate community health delivery. [More…]

• Finally, it would be more capable of enforcing cost constraints than the present system of a host of agencies which indeed will tend to generate costs for the whole community. [More…]

• Its intention is to try to get the best out of the legislation, not for the Government, not for us, but for the community at large. [More…]

• In the cause of good sense and compassion for an isolated community which is relying exclusively for its employment on the asbestos mine at Barraba, I think the New South Wales and Commonwealth governments have acted with prudence in trying to maintain the mining operation by underwriting its operating losses. [More…]

• They are the schools which are better off in the community than most of the other private schools which most private pupils attend. [More…]

• But the poorest level, level 6- the level that needs the greatest amount of support- will get the same level of support that is, $27, as the richest schools in the community. [More…]

• We admit that level 6 schools need most, but in fact they will get only $27 a head more which is the same as the amount received by the most privileged schools in the community. [More…]

• The first level schools- the richest, the poshest and the ones attended by the elite of the community- will get an increased government subsidy of $35 a head. [More…]

• If one analyses that amount in terms of the numbers of pupils attending the schools, one finds that level 6 schools are decidedly worse off than the most privileged secdons of the community. [More…]

• Both Government and non-government schools will benefit from the program which, in 1979, will focus on the teaching of community languages. [More…]

• We will have another program which will focus on teaching of community languages funded out of the general recurrent grants and separate from English to get us all more acquainted with the new multiculturalism which we all have now begun to realise we have to understand, accept and do something about. [More…]

• In a speech entitled: ‘It’s time for migrant education to go’, the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Al Grassby, said this: [More…]

• But of course, if we are honest we have to admit that it was the view held by many people in the community and it was the policy that we pursued. [More…]

• As a community relations exercise, this approach has been disastrous, almost as disastrous as the assimilation approach which pretended that there was no difference at all between individual people. [More…]

• I indicate those percentages to allay some fears that may be held in the community that the Government has not injected finance into the area of greatest need. [More…]

• I fear that the recent guidelines set by this Government have caused a rekindling in the community of those old fears and the old arguments about education funding. [More…]

• Protection is a cost which has to be borne by the community in one form or another, so the alleged benefits should always be carefully analysed. [More…]

• Rather, because of the resulting greater productivity and greater total production, it will result in the generation of greater real wealth within the community. [More…]

• The first of these advantages is that the cost is more evenly borne throughout the community. [More…]

• It is raised from taxation and, therefore, is a charge on the whole community. [More…]

• In contrast, tariffs are borne by only one segment of the community, those who are producing for export. [More…]

• Their costs are not as politically significant as those of bounties which are borne by the whole community through taxation. [More…]

• I know of no good reason why the community has had to wait 34 months for these matters to be cleared up. [More…]

• What the honourable gentlemen are saying is that members of this House and members of the community, having received professional advice, should overthrow that advice. [More…]

• For this reason, one injection of funds will not be enough to restore the business community’s faith in the Board or in the policy of the Fraser Government in this area. [More…]

• The business community, we believe, has lost faith in the Board, and it will take more than an announced new policy, more than an increase in funding in one Budget year, for the Government to make up its lost ground. [More…]

• We hope for early commencement of negotiations on safeguards to cover uranium exports to the European Community countries. [More…]

• Iran, Sweden, the European Economic Community and Japan. [More…]

• Honourable members are aware of the deep community interest in the toxic effects on humans which have been attributed to various agricultural chemicals and in particular their alleged connection with birth defects. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some members of our community whose command of the language is not entirely adequate could experience some difficulty and it has been suggested that translations into other languages would be the means of overcoming these difficulties. [More…]

• I am confident that the establishment of these systems will allow more extensive monitoring of the incidence of poisonings, congenital abnormalities and cancers and will allow detection at an early stage of change in disease patterns in the community which might be attributable to toxic environmental substances. [More…]

• With the extensive information which has been available and with the advice provided to me by the experts, all of whom are held in high esteem in our community, I see no reason at this time for suggesting any changes in current practices. [More…]

• The documents, which were produced after consultation with a wide range of government, community and business organizations were published to stimulate public discussion on broad guidelines rather than specific land use changes and to enable public reaction to be gauged. [More…]

• As Dr Evatt said in the House of Representatives in 1949 ‘The Security Service must be operated with secrecy in order properly to protect the community ‘. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• The Mossman Gorge community has submitted a petition which inter alia requests me to make a declaration under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-Management) Act 1978. [More…]

• When will he review the Public Service superannuation schemes to bring them into line with what the community can afford. [More…]

• Also, private employees belonging to superannuation schemes benefit not only from their own contributions but also from employers’ contributions which are met out of amounts the general community pays, directly or indirectly, for goods or services supplied by the employers. [More…]

• The Townsville Black Community School and the schools at Strelley and Nookanbah in Western Australia are all controlled by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island groups. [More…]

• Teacher training programs for Aboriginals in the Northern Territory are conducted by my Department and the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Bilingual programs have been introduced to all Southern Region Aboriginal communities which satisfy certain criteria, one of which is a request from the community that such a program be commenced. [More…]

• (a) and (b) All but a few of these ethnic schools take the form of part-time schools and classes organised out of normal school hours which are established by ethnic communities to allow the teaching of the traditional language and culture of the community. [More…]

• 1 ) Which ethnic community leaders were represented at discussions with Commonwealth officials regarding the implementation of the Galbally Review’s recommendations in Melbourne on 10 October 1 978. [More…]

• Which ethnic community leaders were included at similar discussions held in Adelaide on 1 1 October and in Perth on 13 October 1978. [More…]

• The officials held informal small group discussion meetings on the Galbally Report with representatives of a number of ethnic community groups and other community organisations working amongst migrants. [More…]

• The meetings were part of the continuing consultations with ethnic and community organisations on the implementation of the Galbally Report. [More…]

• If so, what steps have been taken to train tenants in these houses in minor maintenance and household care, to facilitate their purchase of their homes, to provide for adequate rental concessions and to provide housing sites and designs chosen by the Aboriginal community concerned. [More…]

• The condition of the houses does not necessarily reflect inadequate care on the part of the tenants, but rather inadequate maintenance by the State Government prior to the transfer of the dwellings to the Lands Trust However, my Department’s State Grant program includes funds for the New South Wales Health Commission and the Department of Youth and Community Services to employ 2 Aboriginal health workers and 1 Aboriginal caseworker at Walgett, to provide counselling and guidance on domestic management. [More…]

• Is it a fact that under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act the Northern Land Council must be satisfied that traditional land owners understand the nature and purpose of the draft Ranger Agreement and as a group consent to it, and that any Aboriginal community which may be affected by the signing of the agreement has been consulted and has had an opportunity to express its views to the Land Council before the Council decides whether to sign the agreement. [More…]

• any Aboriginal community or group that may be affected by the proposed action nas Deen consulted and has had adequate opportunity to express its view to the Land Council. [More…]

• Each community was asked to decide for itself: [More…]

• On the same date the Northern Land Council advised all communities that the expenses of translation by community linguists would be met by the Council should any community wish it to be translated into language. [More…]

• How many Community Youth Support Scheme projects have been started in South Australia since the scheme was established. [More…]

• 1 ) The Commission of the European Communities temporarily suspended export restitutions on butter sales to nonEEC countries from 13 November 1978 pending an examination of proposals from Community traders to export a large quantity of butter to the USSR. [More…]

• 1 ) Reports on Maralinga, Emu Field and Monte Bello by the Australian Ionizing Radiation Advisory Council will be received by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development The final report of the joint Australian/British technical assessment team on the buried half Kg of plutonium at Maralinga will be received by the Minister for National Development I will be receiving a report from the Defence element of the joint Defence-AIRAC reconnaissance of the Monte Bello Islands which took place late in October. [More…]

• The Darwin Community College and the Canberra College of Advanced Education have a nil return. [More…]

• Darwin Community College [More…]

• Ms L. Richards, Dr D. Edgar and Professor H. Bisno- La Trobe University, Victoria-Mill Park Project a study of the development of a new outer residential suburb from the families and their social networks through to formal decision making structures in the community’ (1979 $20,000). [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to the following proposals for the administration of civil marriage celebrants: (a) that a course of preparation to be set up for celebrants, (b) that selection of celebrants take place annually following a procedure including interview by a panel including celebrants and representatives of the local community, (c) that the handbook for celebrants be progressively revised and issued in a loose-leaf edition, (d) that fees be set by an arbitrator from the Arbitration Commission and indexed, (e) that celebrants be consulted prior to changes in the Family Law Act or the interpretation of the Act, (f) that the interpretation be consistent at Registrar level throughout the Commonwealth, (g) that more detailed guidelines be established for prescribed authorities in shortening the month’s notice for marriage, (h) that prescribed authorities be appointed from among the civil celebrants and/or independent persons available out of hours, and (i) that celebrants be appointed to the Family Law Council. [More…]

• On an Australia-wide basis, what is the cost of a visit by (a) a domiciliary nurse funded under the Home Nursing Subsidy Act1956 (b) a community health nurse funded under the Community Health Program and (c) a domiciliary nurse funded under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• Finally, it is clear from our negotiations with the European Economic Community that our twin objectives of, firstly, access for Australian products, to which we are entitled, and, secondly and importantly, pressure for a decrease in the EEC subsidised exports of commodities and products are most important to us. [More…]

• A great deal of concern has been expressed by the farming community from which I have had very many representations- I am sure many other people also have received representations- that its prices for fuel as compared with its competitors in other countries are higher. [More…]

• There is currently a suggestion in the community that air navigation charges are one of the reasons for high domestic air fares. [More…]

• Having purchased the papers and embarked upon this campaign of political conditioning in the community, the Government of South Africa also undertook a fairly generous spending campaign in support of the DTA spending, according to some accounts, at least a half a million dollars a month, again from secret government sources. [More…]

• Not only does the Minister blame the unemployed for this predicament; he is also promoting division within the community by attempting to get employed against unemployed, father against son. [More…]

• and mother against daughter as though parents and their children have responsibility for creating jobs in the community. [More…]

• He must have taken great pride in the result because since November he has announced a great number of so-called job initiatives which will not create one extra job, but more importantly will cause further division within our community. [More…]

• The Voluntary Youth Community Service scheme was announced by the Minister. [More…]

• The community also suffers incalculable economic, social and political costs. [More…]

• The growing alienation of the young from the community, increases in vandalism, the increasing incidence of unemployment, related health problems and the associated pressures on health and welfare services must also be taken into account. [More…]

• These programs direct energy and resources not only into the goods producing private sector but also into the services sector, public administration and the community as a whole. [More…]

• There is the tempting path of increasing activity levels through increased Government spending, but on closer examination that can be seen to be an irresponsible way which no Government concerned for the medium and the long term welfare of the community would follow. [More…]

• I will not say to them, ‘Why do you not join a voluntary community service scheme and receive your unemployment benefits while working for some organisation that you have no time for but with which perhaps the Minister would like to ingratiate himself? [More…]

• I will not say to people that they ought to be working under the Community Youth Support scheme when I know that that scheme can offer nothing but tea and bickies This is a government which is introducing policies based on absolute trivia. [More…]

• Unless a positive approach is adopted to transportation research, development and planning, the latest fuel price increases will turn out to be nothing more than another attack by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) on the more defenceless members of our community. [More…]

• I draw his attention to the fact that in Australia when the single decision to introduce the family allowance was made- most of this expenditure did not represent an increase in money going into the community although there was some increase- it obviously immediately increased public expenditure, without any, or with very little, increase in the amount of effective governmental support overall. [More…]

• Radial or commuter freeways originally were planned on the assumptions of unlimited access to cheap motor fuel by all motorists and universal car ownership in the community. [More…]

• There is a direct relationship between the number of cars owned in the community and the demand for bigger and better roads. [More…]

• Research affirms the view which has been expressed by local government bodies and the community in general in the Noarlunga region, that unless major investments are committed to the transport system- both the road system and public transport system- the situation will be chaotic by the mid-1980s and totally disastrous by the early 1990s. [More…]

• To some extent, in collusion with the Victorian Government, they have encouraged that development to take priority over all sorts of capital expenditures that might have been developed to improve the workings of that system so that peoples’ access to schools, hospitals and community facilities might have been improved. [More…]

• No serious proposition has been advanced by our most fervent and vitriolic opponents that we do not fulfil those very high expectations which are held by the community at large. [More…]

• It is a difficult time indeed and it behoves each and every one of us in every section of the Australian community to bear a fair share of the nation’s economic restraints. [More…]

• He mentioned the fact that the Government’s policy includes the provision of revenue to the community on Cocos Island from philatelic sales and that it is hoped that this service will be taken over, in effect, for the benefit of the community later this year. [More…]

• That money will be for the benefit of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• It not only will be revenue for their benefit but also will provide employment for some of the Cocos-Malay community. [More…]

• The purpose of that is to enable the community to take over, in effect, the management of its own economy. [More…]

• There are approximately 130 members of the co-operative, and that makes up in effect the working community on Home Island where the Cocos-Malay people live. [More…]

• That council will have transferred to it, for the benefit of the community, most of Home Island; that is to say, all of Home Island except that which is remaining for the Clunies Ross family and that which is being leased to the co-operative, namely, that which consists of the area on which the co-operative coconut factory is located. [More…]

• There will be transferred to the community for its own benefit, through its local council, all those areas in which its members live, the areas where they have their playing fields, and the areas where their cemeteries are located- in other words, what they regard as their home. [More…]

• Those areas will be transferred, of course, without cost, and will be held upon trust for the community. [More…]

• It will be a council consisting of seven members and, broadly speaking, it will have responsibility for running what is called the kampong area or the community area. [More…]

• So there will be fresh elections and a fresh council of seven which then will have the task of governing the community. [More…]

• Recently a Malay-speaking nurse was employed by the Government and she is to be basically located on Home Island where she will be available to serve the community. [More…]

• This is a significant step because it means that we are, as it were, providing a base for the future Public Service, the future clerical administration of the Cocos community, the local government council and the co-operative. [More…]

• Nevertheless, efforts will be made to have joint activity, to get some sort of intercommunication not only at a school level but also at a community level between those who are living on Home Island and the Australians living on West Island. [More…]

• If there are any further amounts they would be paid to the local government council to assist in any community development. [More…]

• A cross-section of the community comes to see me. [More…]

• That is why the Government set up the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I should have thought that the honourable member would have realised by now that for the last year I have been working slowly and patiently to achieve a national youth community scheme. [More…]

• I am very glad to say that the Minister is now working on a national youth community service scheme for Australia. [More…]

• I support the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs in his genuine efforts to assist young people to establish a national youth community service scheme for all Australians both at home and abroad. [More…]

• They are isolated from social functions, and from participating in normal community activities. [More…]

• How many persons are employed under the Community Youth Support Scheme in each State. [More…]

• Are the Community Youth Support Scheme policy and guidelines for local committees absolutely binding. [More…]

• 1) and (2) The Community Youth Support Scheme policy and guidelines for local committees set down the policy and operational criteria for State CYSS Committees’ consideration of project applications. [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…]

• for the longer term, individual and community acceptance of energy conservation as an integral part of the Australian life style. [More…]

• Apart from these precautions, migrants in Australia are subject only to the same medical checks as apply generally in the community. [More…]

• 1) What action has been taken to meet community concern with respect to the use of asbestos as an insulating material in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]

• Only after study of the community response to the discussion paper would the Government take a final decision whether or not to introduce a broad-based indirect tax and in what form. [More…]

• The sharp rise in the prices of some sources of energy in recent years has made governments and the community more conscious of the importance of energy to modern industrial economies. [More…]

• All suppliers of goods or services to the Commonwealth, as is the case with the business community generally, are required to comply with the provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974. [More…]

• Such representations usually maintain that one or other community need or interest is not being adequately met by existing broadcasting services. [More…]

• However, full ascertainment of the extent and nature of community needs at the level demanded by the public inquiry process is the responsibility of applicants for a licence. [More…]

• The report is being distributed to a variety of community groups and educational institutions and to all diplomatic missions in Canberra. [More…]

• Both before and after the Special Session on Disarmament, the Minister for Foreign Affairs made available officers of his Department to address interested community groups on disarmament and, in particular, on the Special Session. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister state on 11 May 1978 that CSIRO research will support such community interests as the better protection of our environment, flora and fauna and consumer interests. [More…]

• In line with this, it was recently decided to translate into Italian and Greek four statements by the Prime Minister of community interest. [More…]

• Not only has the community been consulted and supports the project but the Northern Territory Health Department will ensure that anthropological considerations are taken into account on a continuing basis. [More…]

• The community will continue to be consulted on all aspects of the project. [More…]

• These include the changing age structure of the Service, the number of ex-servicemen approaching retirement, changing community attitudes towards health and arrangements for age and invalidity retirement. [More…]

• There is also today greater community awareness of the importance of early diagnosis of disease. [More…]

• I want to pay tribute to the community effort that underlies all these campaigns in which employers have come in on side, as has the staff of my own Department and the Commonwealth Employment Service, and which the media have so readily been prepared to back at little or no cost to themselves. [More…]

• It has been a total community effort directed at obtaining increased vacancies, which of course are the lifeblood of the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]

• As things stand now, the community is in confusion about the Government’s exact economic objectives and the policies to support those objectives. [More…]

• It is getting the blame for the increases in interest rates already imposed in breach of a solemn pledge to the community. [More…]

• Can we believe a man who is constantly responsible for breaking promises to the community? [More…]

• But inflation is worse, with an underlying rate of 3.8 per cent for the December quarter if health costs are includednot the 2.3 per cent cited- as a result of a range of unwise policy commitments imposed on the community in the last Budget. [More…]

• He equivocates on undertakings he firmly gave to the community on the issue of interest rates. [More…]

• Since he has been in government he has set about freezing various unemployment benefit payments to a number of people in the community, especially the single. [More…]

• It will not discriminate against people; it will really create jobs for the community and, for the first time in several years, it will bring about a reduction in unemployment. [More…]

• This is the result not of some accidental occurrence; it is the result of a growing sense in the Australian business community and this is important, that the policies being followed by this Government are the right policies and that if we persist with that strategy, if we maintain the thrust of those policies over the coming years, there are going to continue to be even more improvements. [More…]

• The unemployment figures in Australia are unsatisfactory and they are the cause of distress not only to those who are unemployed and their families but to all sections of the community. [More…]

• The Government must have regard to the enormous damage it is doing to people in the community. [More…]

• Britain’s patents laws have been amended to accommodate the needs of British industry in its new relationship with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Be in it’ and previous campaigns aimed at improving community fitness levels is that ‘Life. [More…]

• There are many people in other parts of the community who do enjoy a privileged position- and who are dealing not with public service money but with the people’s money. [More…]

• This is a loss which cannot be and should not be sustained by the most vulnerable sections of our community. [More…]

• It was essential that the Labor Government had a means by which it could reduce the impact on the whole of the community- on the wage earners as well as those on fixed incomes- of the decisions it took. [More…]

• Our budgets have pursued a tactic which has brought to everybody in the community a significant advantage. [More…]

• We are committed to ensuring that the real value of pensions paid in the Australian community continues to increase. [More…]

• Pensions are increased automatically not only because of the level of benefit paid to the pensioner but also because the level of cost increases in our community is significantly lower as a result of the cost benefits that have flowed from reducing inflation, reducing the proportion of income which the Government takes, reducing taxation and generally getting the Australian community back into a position in which private enterprise and the individual have some chance once again. [More…]

• These areas demonstrate the concern of the Liberal and Country parties for individuals, pensioners and the aged in our community. [More…]

• It Will not help any pensioner in the Australian community. [More…]

• Firstly, we have demonstrably added to the net take home pay of every pensioner in the Australian community. [More…]

• They slashed the living standards of those Australians who are least able to afford the impact of rising costs, the people in the lowest economic levels of the community. [More…]

• The 1.5 per cent decrease in the CPI because of the reduction in health costs was passed on to the rest of the community but was not passed on to pensioners. [More…]

• That is the kind of injustice which honourable members opposite are inflicting upon the people in the community least able to afford the impact of that action. [More…]

• Yet the honourable member for Franklin tries to raise this issue, knowing full well that he will not have the support of the Government parties, to score off his colleagues cynically at the expense of people who may believe him, the pensioners in this community, He is referred to as a Tasmanian devil. [More…]

• The words ‘automatic’ and ‘instantaneous ‘ could have left no misimpression in the minds of the community. [More…]

• Yet $27m for over a million people is an enourmous spread across the community. [More…]

• Finally, it is a measure of great social inequity because honourable members opposite transfer the burden of fighting inflation to among the weakest and poorest sections of the community. [More…]

• In outlining the substantial commitment of the Government to assist age pensioners and other categories of social security beneficiaries, I draw attention to the total effect if each of us were to put forward a private member’s BUI which would increase expenditure, whether on pensions, on the extension of fringe benefits to categories of pensioners who now do not qualify, on the extension of eligibility for certain benefits, such as domiciliary nursing care- which, because of a particular institution would aid greatly a number of people in my electorate- or a number of other benefits, such as taxation concessions, which we would all like to introduce for various categories of people in our community. [More…]

• The Office of Road Safety in this instance is interested in assessing the road safety benefits derived by the Australian community through expenditure on measures such as low cost traffic engineering improvements. [More…]

• In accordance with the Environment Protection Administrative Procedures the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development forwarded his comments and recommendations concerning the proposed action to the action Minister and the Department advised the proponent accordingly. [More…]

• The cost of emission controls is causing fairly serious concern throughout the community. [More…]

• I think that is the point that the community is more likely to understand and appreciate. [More…]

• I think it is time that a number of spokesmen for the Australian Labor Party, both in New South Wales and in this House, put in perspective the development in interest rates over the past few weeks and stopped trying to create unnecessary apprehension in the Australian community about the level of interest rates which affect individuals in the community. [More…]

• When I announced the Government’s decision in principle to introduce a voluntary youth community service scheme, I pointed out that consultation would continue on as wide a spectrum as possible throughout the community with all the organisations that we would expect to sponsor vacancies for voluntary work by the young unemployed, as well as State governments and local government. [More…]

• It has been drawn to my attention that the Serbian community feels that I did not appreciate the circumstances. [More…]

• Australia still faces difficulties with the European Economic Community and there is a continuing need to negotiate for better access, but we do have better and more secure access to Japan. [More…]

• They are the Prime Minister’s credibility, the deficiencies of his economic management and his harsh neglect of glaring social needs in this community. [More…]

• But what I cannot understand is why the Prime Minister, having imposed the enormous costs, both socially and economically, on the community of more unemployment, then sets about a series of policies that aggravate inflation and lose the gains that have been made. [More…]

• Let us not be under any misapprehension of the level of cost borne by the community this year as a result of the Government’s policies. [More…]

• Let us look at the long list of dishonoured promises to the community. [More…]

• The community knows what has happened, but he still has the gall to come into this chamber and say the same thing again. [More…]

• Very simply, the significant feature of this is, as the National Energy Advisory Council has pointed out, that in spite of the enormous direct and indirect costs which are going to be borne by the community as a result of world import parity pricing for domestic oil production, the increase in the available reserves is going to be marginal, in fact much less than the community will have to bear by way of cost. [More…]

• I want to encourage the Prime Minister to get a clear and constructive focus on economic management and to stop seeking to establish scapegoats in the community for his own shortcomings and to stop abusing and confronting the rest of the community. [More…]

• What has to be recognised in Australia today is that there is more to be achieved through a united effort than will be achieved if a community is divided. [More…]

• It is only in that way that we will get community respect for government. [More…]

• The people who’ are bearing the brunt of disadvantage and sacrifice in this community represent the great mass of people who are least equipped to bear that sort of imposed sacrifice. [More…]

• It is appalling that we have such a high level of relative poverty in this community and nothing being done about it by the Prime Minister when in other areas of the economy privilege and advantage are being propped up, as I have just revealed in the profit figures which are available from the daily newspapers. [More…]

• Nevertheless, they receive most of the services which any community reasonably expects. [More…]

• But, generally, the major urban communities are relatively well serviced with faculties and community back-up support. [More…]

• This is a large section of the community which is disadvantaged and it is disadvantaged in many ways. [More…]

• It does not have general access to community faculties, health facilities, education facilities and basic advice facilities which are readily available to other sections of the community. [More…]

• One of the great problems in our community is that when governments decide to do something they badly advise the people who deliver the services or the people who can recommend where the delivery of those services should be. [More…]

• Some people have better access to the media, are better lobbyists and, in general, can exert great pressure which is often well in excess of the priority of that segment in the community. [More…]

• I think any committee would have to look at the effects of general implementation of a government policy, necessary as it may be, when that general implementation has regional or sectional benefit and creates increased costs or difficulties that ought not to be incurred by other sections of the community. [More…]

• They incur additional costs which are passed on throughout their community, not because of any need in their area for emission control, not because it is of general benefit to the community in which they operate but because a problem which is localised to possibly 10 square miles of the Australian continent- it is not much more at this stage- is solved by a general application of legislation over the whole nation, possibly for sound reasons. [More…]

• They are a glaring example of a disadvantage applied to a section of the community for less than satisfactory reasons. [More…]

• The result of those changes- we can argue the merits of them- is to disadvantage disproportionately those people whose cost structures are affected by the cost of fuel oil to an extent greater than those of the average person in the community. [More…]

• In descending order of importance they were: Access to friends and families, access to education, natural environment, social and recreational facilities, cultural facilities, community facilities, suitable housing and the big city atmosphere. [More…]

• People engaged in the rural community will have increased incomes. [More…]

• Almost every sector of the rural community is stable or better than stable. [More…]

• Employment in community services, which comes from affluence, has increased by almost 142,000 people in four years. [More…]

• We can look forward to having a prosperous farming community. [More…]

• A real feeling of disappointment pervades the Australian community at this time. [More…]

• So we find this assault on the pensioners, the low income earners in the community and the exservicemen of this country who have also been affected in many ways, but which time will not allow me to elaborate on. [More…]

• We saw the slashing of the community health program by $ 15.5m. [More…]

• The business community of this country has been saying for some time that an increase in one man’s wages is another man’s job. [More…]

• As we have seen only recently in some newspaper articles there is still a problem- the Prime Minister referred to this today- in that there are people from various sections of the business community who are still saying that they cannot get people to work for them in jobs that they have vacant. [More…]

• At this stage may I praise those people who are involved in the Community [More…]

• Unlike members of the Opposition who have seen fit to criticise the Commonwealth Employment Service, I take a very positive approach and compliment the Commonwealth Employment Service which has worked so ably and which has achieved so much in conjunction with my Community Youth Support Scheme people. [More…]

• The Australian community and the Commonwealth Government must become more aware of that economic importance. [More…]

• For example, I can foreshadow that there are three enterprises in Townsville which have benefited or wil shortly benefit from that scheme to the tune of just over $300,000 with the expectation that the additional funding for industry development will employ about 30 extra people initially with growth prospects beyond that and multiplier effects in the community generally. [More…]

• Pensioners are the least able in the community to defend themselves economically against sudden changes in their circumstances. [More…]

• They are the least able in the community to recover losses which are imposed on them by circumstances which are outside their control. [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 attention which should be undistractedly directed towards the economy of this country has not been directed in that way and the community is paying a very high price. [More…]

• Let me quote some of the editorials as an indication of the depth and the extent of feeling in this community. [More…]

• The Act has now been in force for three years and the thought that it will take another three years to examine its impact on the community is a little disturbing. [More…]

• Australia, Japan and other Western countries gave aid to Hanoi and sought to encourage her more active participation in the international community. [More…]

• Australia can and should adopt a consistent role in international relations for the human and moral values we profess in our community. [More…]

• Several members of this regional community have been roundly castigated by Amnesty for their disregard of human rightsIndonesia and the Philippines are among thembut, there has not been a single word of concern from the Foreign Affairs Minister. [More…]

• Even within societies such as ours, it might well be suggested that pressures will be developing for us to show to the world that we are a just and proper community, that we have shared our resources, that we are a tolerant democracy, that we are a multiracial society and that we have been part of the world community and to demonstrate to the world at large that Australia is entitled to maintain its privileged position. [More…]

• In 1971, when foreign policy was a matter of bitter domestic contention in Australia, the then Government had a world view which very largely reflected fear and ignorance of almost paranoid intensity within the Australian community. [More…]

• It may be that conservative, shortsighted elements in our community look on anyone who does not profess blindly, without thought or consideration for their own dignity, to be pro-Western, proAmerican or pro-something else, as someone to be viewed with suspicion. [More…]

• The American politicians really only reflect the attitudes of the American community. [More…]

• But importantly, there needs to be a public realisation in the Australian community at large, concurrent with that increased expenditures, of the seriousness of the global situation and the need for increased defence expenditure. [More…]

• The Australian community must become aware of this fundamental fact. [More…]

• I refer in this adjournment debate to some of the aspects of the dead hand of the new federalism on worthwhile community projects. [More…]

• State governments have received quite substantial funding for community health centres. [More…]

• These community health centres were introduced by the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) when he was Minister for Health. [More…]

• They were very well accepted in the community. [More…]

• One element has become quite evident with regard to the community health centres dealing with mental health at present. [More…]

• Nearby is the Broadmeadows Community Health Centre for the same purpose which is administered by the Montpark Hospital. [More…]

• The funds are not being utilised at all for these mental health community centres. [More…]

• His book From Asylum to Community predicted the change that would eventuate in the treatment of persons with mental complaints and claimed that the community centres would be of increasing importance to outside hospitals. [More…]

• In this way, people would not be institutionalised or locked up like prisoners as they had been in the past, but would go out and cany on their work in the community at the community health centres that we ultimately introduced. [More…]

• If so, will the Government table a white paper detailing the proposed changes so as to permit Parliament, the securities industry, businessmen and the community, to scrutinize and comment on the proposed laws, which will be of critical importance to both corporate and investment sectors. [More…]

• The combination of both is very much in the interest not just of Australian primary producers and the sheep men in particular but of the whole Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that the further conferences will provide a responsible settlement of the dispute and that the union members concerned will have regard to the threat to the jobs of many of their fellow workers as well as to the inconvenience possibly caused to the community. [More…]

• In view of the great concern expressed by newsagents at the recent determination of the Trade Practices Commission, will the Minister inform the House what measures may be adopted to protect the livelihood of newsagents and to ensure that full newsagency services are maintained within the community, particularly in country areas? [More…]

• Whilst the Opposition had reservations about some of the questions concerning the distribution of this transfer of wealth from the community to the corporations, it nevertheless supported the concept of movement in the producer price because it was obvious, if we were to develop some of the more marginal pools of oil in Bass Strait, that we had to pay the producers more than $2.33 a barrel. [More…]

• So, the rural community will be really hit by this change in policy. [More…]

• With inflation under control, the farming community is well able to compete effectively and very efficiently. [More…]

• In other words, he is not going to help the primary industry community at all. [More…]

• The Designs Law Revision Committee or the Franki Committee recommended as long ago as 1973 the introduction of a petty patents system, but the report did not receive complete support from the business community generally. [More…]

• These stocks are particularly high at present and look like remaining so, particularly in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The loss of traditional export markets such as the European Economic community for dairy produce and fruit is a good reason for this change, together with a larger, more affluent and more discerning Australian population. [More…]

• The root problem stems from the small size of the Australian market which is about 600,000 units per annum, much less for passenger cars, compared with 14 million units per annum in the United States of America or the European Economic Community and 6.5 million in Japan and the sheer inability because of fundamental technological factors for five major manufacturers to produce at low cost when operating within the limits of such a small market. [More…]

• We have created economic circumstances in which profitability is once again possible in the Australian community. [More…]

• Why does this capacity for self denigration and knocking permeate our entire community, from the highest levels of government to the sporting field? [More…]

• Retail sales were up in December to the surprise and delight of the retail industry in Australia, the community as a whole and the Government. [More…]

• I said then, and I say again, that I expect that many people in the community- taxpayers- ask themselves, properly, whether when work of this kind is available they should be paying, by way of tax, unemployment benefit to people who are fit and able to take that work but who decline to go to the place where the work is available. [More…]

• He alleged that it was most unreasonable for the community to expect people to travel to Mildura or Shepparton seeking casual work. [More…]

• The most important contribution government can make to assist the community, to assist those seeking work and to take up the challenge ahead, is to maintain stability in economic management and economic policies. [More…]

• Undoubtedly the Fraser Government has reassured the business community on that and the condition of industry and the economy have improved markedly as a result. [More…]

• I say that not to detract from the significance of unemployment and what needs to be done by the Government and by the community as a whole for those people who at present cannot find the work they want. [More…]

• In my statement outlining those changes, I referred to the opportunity that had been given for views to be put to the Government on this matter and to the consultations I had held with the trade unions, business and other sections of the community before the Government took its decision. [More…]

• I am confident that the business community will recognise the importance of this function and respond accordingly. [More…]

• This is something that is scandalous and about which there needs to be much greater community awareness and concern. [More…]

• Whether he intended it or not, he cast a slur over the entire accountancy profession, the entire income tax profession, the legal profession and the business community of Australia. [More…]

• I must say that I have sympathy for the argument, which I hear repeatedly in the community, that whilst some people are able to evade their tax obligations involving large amounts- which is of course illegal- the ordinary working man in the majority of cases is not in a position to avoid or evade. [More…]

• I am not referring to tax evaders, or crooks, but to many decent members of the community who would like to have the exact details spelled out chapter and verse so that there is no risk of injustice occurring and in particular no risk of any damage being done to the economic situation of this country. [More…]

• Who in the community is carrying the greatest share of the income tax burden? [More…]

• Whilst the advisers in the tax avoidance industry are a cancer in our society and parasites within our community, they are here to stay. [More…]

• Those people who would decry such a system might protect their civil liberties but, in doing so, they certainly allow infringement of the civil liberties of the providers within this community. [More…]

• There will always be those people within the community with the imagination and the sense of intrigue to try to circumvent the intentions of the legislators, particularly in the tax field. [More…]

• As the officials from the Australian Taxation Office are here, I would like to mention that there is a misconception in the community that the cost of collecting taxation is great. [More…]

• There are so many people in the community today- professional people, business people and ordinary average wage earners such as skilled tradesmen- who are bearing such a heavy burden of taxation that they are forced to adopt what are in many cases devices and in other cases quite legitimate re-arrangements of their affairs to reduce the burden of taxation on them. [More…]

• I refer to the continuous taxation burden on productive people in the community and the effect that taxation burden has on the expansion of industry and commerce and on the contribution of people who can make a real contribution to the community. [More…]

• On previous occasions I have used harsh words about tax avoiders and have said that they are bludging on the rest of the community. [More…]

• As I said in my Budget Speech ‘the time is long passed when governments or the community should tolerate the blatant, artificial and contrived means whereby certain sections of the community seek to pay little or no tax to the detriment of the general body of the taxpayers and the equity of the tax system’. [More…]

• Of course, the problem in the Australian Capital Territory is that payroll tax is of no benefit to the community because the money does not come back to the local administration. [More…]

• The Opposition welcomes the introduction of this Bill because it provides slight relief to a very hard pressed business community. [More…]

• But it makes no significant contribution to resolving the very deep problems that affect business and the community in Canberra. [More…]

• I can assure the House and the Government that it will take much more than a marginal adjustment to payroll tax for business people and the community at large to forget the shabby treatment they have received at the hands of this Government. [More…]

• There is no doubt at all that Canberra is an area of very high savings, an area of the highest average earnings in the nation, an area of a high standard of education, beautiful and expensive community facilities, beautiful natural resources and apparent prosperity. [More…]

• Since the last State elections in New South Wales he has emerged as the great protector of the Greek community. [More…]

• Since then he has emerged as the great protector of the Greek community. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware of continuing community concern about the shortage in the work force of skilled tradesmen and I now ask him whether he will be supporting the National Training Council proposalMr VINER- I am glad to inform the honourable gentleman immediately that I will be supporting the National Training Council proposal. [More…]

• In view of the importance and breadth of the matters raised in the study group’s report, it is being tabled now so that it can be widely and intensively discussed and the community’s response registered by the Government. [More…]

• Other members will be the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street), the Treasurer (Mr Howard), the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner), the Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee), the Minister for Business and Community Affairs (Mr Fife) and the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) as assistant to the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony). [More…]

• We are also looking for a constructive community reaction to Sir John’s report. [More…]

• The people in Treasury never bother to calculate the social costs because they are insulated from the sorts of disadvantages that the rest of the community has to suffer. [More…]

• We have committed ourselves to these aims and we believe that they are consistent with the aims of the community generally. [More…]

• The policy has enabled the greatest spread of benefits to the community in a nondiscriminatory manner. [More…]

• We have seen the public dispute between the Netherlands Government and we have heard even on our radio stations the Netherlands Minister for Transport putting a case to the Australian community because obviously he was not able to put the case to the Australian Government. [More…]

• Let me just for a moment emphasise the friction with the Netherlands, a major nation in the European Economic Community. [More…]

• This is the community which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been traipsing around the world jawboning to about the need for Australia to be selling more primary products to the EEC. [More…]

• One example that has been drawn to my attention recently is concerned with the needs of the Greek community in Darwin. [More…]

• At the same time, proper consideration should be given to the private sector of the Australian community who have to travel on short notice for business reasons. [More…]

• by leave- There is, I believe, genuine concern within the community to see that all those persons who cannot obtain employment through no fault of their own should receive unemployment benefit. [More…]

• There is also some feeling within the community that any people who are not making reasonable attempts to obtain work or who might be refusing work that is available and still receiving unemployment benefit should not be assisted at the expense of the general taxpayer. [More…]

• In these circumstances, I think the community would wish to be satisfied that all those who are unemployed and genuinely seeking work should be properly protected by receiving unemployment benefit but that the administration of the application of the work test would be such that it would protect the taxpayer from abuses of the system. [More…]

• unless the community is willing to allow one of its members to receive no income whatever, the value of a general application of the work test must be in doubt. [More…]

• Why was it that when other trading corporations in the community could readily identify the problem, Associated Securities Limited in recent days was urging the public to invest more money? [More…]

• It is a matter that is of great concern to the community. [More…]

• I get around the merchant banking community, the banking community and the financial community just like other members of Parliament. [More…]

• Let us see whether some sort of emergency investment lender of last resort role could be developed in the community. [More…]

• The Government attaches great importance to the establishment of the Institute, and is aware of concerned and continuing interest in the Institute both within this Parliament and throughout the community. [More…]

• The amendments concerning the Institute have to be enacted before the formal appointment of a director can be made, and the Government, not to mention interested honourable members, honourable senators and the community at large, would like to see this achieved as soon as possible. [More…]

• However, it is widely accepted in the medical field that a great deal of the sickness and death now occurring in our community is caused by the generally poor standard of physical fitness of the majority of Australians. [More…]

• It would be interesting to survey members of Parliament, who would probably be representative of the community at large, to find out which of us regularly has hard physical exercise. [More…]

• Co-operation between schools, community and government agencies is well established. [More…]

• But if we have a total approach throughout the community to fitness and health our elite athletes are likely to obtain a greater performance at the international level. [More…]

• The athletes themselves will say- apparently there are some honourable members opposite who consider themselves experts on this subject- that they believe we will have much more chance of success in getting gold medals into this country by spending money at the grass roots levels, at the jogger level, at the community level than by spending money on the elite sportsmen. [More…]

• The market research survey provided the opportunity to test the effectiveness of this expenditure by gauging the community’s recognition of the commercials. [More…]

• There is a crying need for education to include in its curricula at both primary and secondary levels substantial programs of fitness and recreational activities, to have standards at which all members of the community can aim, particularly the young people, who are Australia’s future Olympic competitors. [More…]

• If we turn to community recreation we find that the Australian Labor Party Government introduced capital grants for leisure facilities. [More…]

• It encouraged the investigation of community centres. [More…]

• In South Australia it conducted an investigation to see how schools could fit into the community generally. [More…]

• It investigated whether the faculties provided at schools could be opened during and after school hours for general community faculties. [More…]

• But as soon as this Government came in it decided that of that $18m, $1 1.1m in the 1975-76 Budget was too much for the general welfare of the community of Australia. [More…]

• Paragraph 14 (c) on page 5 of the report recommends the introduction of what is called the community assistance and recreation program- CARP. [More…]

• I do not dispute the honourable member for Grayndler’s dedication to the health of the nation, to the recreational facilities and the occupation of leisure hours by our youth and by every member of the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that that campaign has brought an awareness to most Australians that in fact they do not represent the image of the bronzed Australian he-man riding off on a horse into the sunset, although some of them, particularly some of the more egotisical members of the community, tend to believe they are. [More…]

• Be In It’ campaign advertisements depict, the Australian community is a community of watchers of television rather than a community of participants. [More…]

• What we should seek to do is to encourage mass participation by as many people in the community as are physically capable of participating. [More…]

• The program of encouraging people at the local level in the community should encompass a wide range of sporting activities, as long as it gets people physically active and occupying their leisure hours in a healthy atmosphere that will obviate some of the social ills that we have in Australia at the moment. [More…]

• I could name a whole host of sportsmen who could be used in national television promotion campaigns to encourage people at the local community level to participate in sport. [More…]

• Whatever they may be, the people in those organisations are dedicated to that particular task, dedicated to helping the younger people in the community. [More…]

• As a nation we need to encourage everybody in the community actively to participate in sport. [More…]

• I believe that search for excellence in the sporting field will flow over to all other activities in the community, both in the work place and at the community level. [More…]

• This program is aimed at stimulating people in the Australian community to change from being onlookers to participants. [More…]

• What a complete lack of understanding of a group in our community! [More…]

• We are setting out to broaden the community’s concept of activity, to get the majority to be a little more active rather than to get a few more active. [More…]

• Our community generally is a recreational community, particularly our young families. [More…]

• Let us not be judgmental about the sporting activity of our community. [More…]

• So far as a national sports policy is concerned, it has two arms- the pursuit of excellence and the need to engage the mass of the community in sport. [More…]

• There are facilities available in the community that are not used and those facilities could be made available to the sorts of people the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) talked about, that is, the general community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, due to technical change and a large number of people entering the work force, the situation for the inexperienced school leaver is becoming even more serious and endorses the paper which I wrote for the Government concerning a national youth community service scheme. [More…]

• However I must say that four Community Youth Support schemes in my electorate are making good progress thanks to their project officers and to the community support which, they receive. [More…]

• It occurs to me that in building up the national youth community service scheme much more attention should be paid to the part the schools can play in it. [More…]

• The National Library has sought to increase general awareness of film preservation matters within the film industry and the community generally and has successfully earned the co-operation of private individuals and film and television organisations in locating and acquiring films for preservation. [More…]

• How many Community Health Centres have been built or established in New South Wales and in what years were they built or established. [More…]

• What was the total staffing of Community Health Centres in New South Wales during each of the last 5 years. [More…]

• What have been the (a) occupational/professional titles and (b) numbers of persons employed in Community Health Centres in New South Wales during each of the last 5 years. [More…]

• What funds have been (a) allocated and (b) spent by the Commonwealth on the Community Health Centre program in New South Wales in each of the last 5 years. [More…]

• What levels of salary are paid to occupational/professional categories of persons employed in Community Health Centres in New South Wales compared with (a) similar and (b) identical positions in other areas of the Commonwealth and State Public Services. [More…]

• Is he able to say what has been the financial contribution of the New South Wales Government to the Community Health Centre program during each of the last S years. [More…]

• Is he able to say whether the services being provided by the Community Health Centres in New South Wales are being cut back; if so, what effect is this having on those persons using the services. [More…]

• For the purposes of answering the question, I have regarded as relevant only those projects funded under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• In answering ( 1 ) ‘community health centre’ has been construed as meaning a community-based facility that has the characteristics of a general community health service, as distinct from a specialised service (e.g. [More…]

• 1 ) The following information is provided following consultations with the Health Commission of New South Wales, which has immediate responsibility for the administration or supervision of community health projects in that State. [More…]

• What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation in its report on Oil Spills that his Department and the Department of Science and the Environment (identified in the Report as the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development) hold discussions to consider the possibility of extending the National Plan to Combat Pollution of the Sea by Oil to include pollution by other hazardous substances. [More…]

• -I think the Deputy Leader of the Opposition makes the mistake that is made by many others in the community, and honourable members on the other side of the House, about the building industry. [More…]

• This is once again a question from the Leader of the Opposition which is designed to cause concern and lack of confidence in the Australian community. [More…]

• Through the community health program, which is one of the very good programs of the former Government, opportunity is undoubtedly given to try to do something about the preventive aspects of medicine. [More…]

• At the time of these loans- early in 1977- this was equally the case, particularly as at that time large sections of the Victorian farming community, particularly dairy farmers, were undergoing great difficulties. [More…]

• The Rural Finance Commission has never been seen either within the rural community or by itself as competing with private lending institutions. [More…]

• It is a policy which has been acted upon both by the Commonwealth and the relevant Ministers and indeed it has been enunciated and widely understood within Victoria’s rural community. [More…]

• The whole concept is that there should be available to citizens in our community assistance in a form which can be administered in a proper and correct way. [More…]

• This matter is one which in its narrow ambit is designed to bring some sort of pressure on the Prime Minister, suggesting that because a family happens to have a Prime Minister as a brotherinlaw or a son-in-law that family should not be entitled to the same assistance as every other member of this community. [More…]

• The Labor Party knows that it has got the skids under it throughout the community and it knows that nowhere is this more evident than in Victoria. [More…]

• As well as its obligation to provide travel facilities to its own citizens, the Government, as a responsible member of the international community, has an obligation to those countries to which its citizens travel. [More…]

• Poverty might be too strong a word but in an affluent community they are greatly disadvantaged. [More…]

• I accept the responsibility of this Parliament to servicemen as being of a different measure to the responsibility that is owed to other people in the community. [More…]

• Because of the changing circumstances in the general community, the decisions we make concerning the benefit rights of servicemen in relation to the rest of the community may well be irrelevant in 5, 10 or 15 years time. [More…]

• I am talking about thousands of people in this community. [More…]

• We could then take a similar group in the community who did not serve or who served where the going was not quite so rough and see how the two groups equate I suggest that if they were the fittest in 1944-45 and if they are not still the fittest of their generation, they have a case to show that they have a demand upon the repatriation benefits of Australia, even if they cannot prove the causal relationship. [More…]

• They are, as the honourable member for Wills and others have said, a group in our community that deserves our special thanks and gratitude for everything that they have done. [More…]

• As a community we have an obligation to look after, wherever it can be done and needs to be done, the welfare of exservicemen and of their families. [More…]

• In section 86 of the Treaty of Rome which is in effect an anti-trust provision, member nations of the European Economic Community might seek to exercise similar powers and give courts similar authorities as has happened in America. [More…]

• The European Economic Community countries have turned their minds and their intelligence to this problem and to some extent, as I understand it, they have solved it. [More…]

• Quite clearly, the figures now are demonstrating that there is improved confidence within the Australian community. [More…]

• You should talk a little more to the business community instead of staying down here thinking up you funny little tax plans and what you are going to do. [More…]

• You should get out and talk to the Australian community. [More…]

• Mr Speaker, through you I suggest to members of the Opposition that they start moving around the business community and they will reflect the growing feeling of confidence as a lot of other sections of the community are doing. [More…]

• Every member of the Australian community has a direct interest in the maintenance of our agricultural industries. [More…]

• The facts are that the total revenue raisings, or total receipts, are the measure of the burden of revenue raising imposed on the community. [More…]

• It is important to note that it is the total level of receipts which members of the community have to bear in various forms which is of significance to them as taxpayers. [More…]

• It was announced originally that some 1,200 members of the Greek community would be involved in criminal proceedings because they allegedly had conspired to defraud the Government. [More…]

• We are prosecuting hundreds of members of the Greek community in a fashion which is denying them human and legal rights. [More…]

• If common sense prevails, time will be allowed for ADR27A to become fully applied and fully effective without the community being prematurely plunged into further expensive and fuel hungry measures. [More…]

• So if the Government is really concerned about the cost to motorists of liquid fuel it ought to be looking at the share it is taking from the community in excise and taxes. [More…]

• Tragically, more often than not, these cases involve the younger members of our community. [More…]

• The Government is aware that forests have value to the community apart from their value for timber production. [More…]

• AAFCANS will take over the operation of the ASCO community store facilities at Woomera. [More…]

• However, all of these initiatives, which are inherently sound, will be successful only if there is community understanding of the problems and support for the objectives of petroleum conservation, especially in the present circumstances arising out of the Iranian situation. [More…]

• So I take this opportunity to invite the support of all members of this Parliament and to call on Australians as a community to accept the need to change substantially their attitudes to the use of oil and to engender in the community the necessary attitude that there is a better and wiser way to use available oil supplies. [More…]

• I would not mind if, when we went to the European Economic Community, we got a decent deal out of it. [More…]

• They are entitled to long-term stability and the international community would be well advised to help them to achieve it. [More…]

• If it were isolated and ignored by the world community and if its needs were not understood, appreciated and met, its hostility could challenge the world order. [More…]

• I think part of the difficulty that we face in this situation is the fact that the Australian people’s own regional isolation and European heritage have left us singularly ill-equipped as a community to understand the complex mix of historical, cultural, territorial and international factors that have led to the war currently raging between China and Vietnam, and Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]

• This Government would abdicate its responsibilities if it did not encourage the Australian community to recognise the inter-dependence of international action, to take stock of the implications for Austrafia and to begin to think about the courses we must pursue. [More…]

• -My purpose in speaking this evening is to seek the support of all members of this House, the media and the community at large not only to have 26 January designated as Australia Day, our national day, but also to have 26 January and only 26 January as the public holiday for Australia Day in the same manner as has always applied to the observance of Anzac Day. [More…]

• These State authorities and the individual institutions are well placed to meet community needs and are constantly revising courses for this purpose. [More…]

• At the meeting on 17 December 1976 the question of Aboriginal community involvement in the proposed project was discussed in a general way. [More…]

• The investigators were aware of the need to consult, and obtain the consent of the community. [More…]

• As to his general thesis, there are clear signs within the community of a growing number of civilian employees being taken up, in particular by private industry. [More…]

• Official figures and surveys from authoritative bodies indicate that there is now more optimism throughout the Australian community than there has been for many years. [More…]

• We all know that the Australian Bureau of Statistics adopts internationally accepted standards of measuring the number of unemployed in the community. [More…]

• I might say that most of the Development Bank’s lending to business undertakings is for the small business community. [More…]

• Like the honourable member for Gellibrand, the Leader of the Opposition is attempting to inflate the measure of unemployment within the community. [More…]

• I say again to the Leader of the Opposition that although the participation rates are important in assessing the character and structure of the labour market they do not represent the level of unemployment in the community as measured by the internationally accepted standard used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the Australian community, especially the motoring public, has to pay a very high price- one which is out of all proportion to the gain in reserves- as a consequence of this policy? [More…]

• The Australian Telecommunications Commission has underway a $300m program for the provision of automatic telephones throughout the outback of this country which in the space of about ten years will provide first class automatic telephones to virtually the entire Australian community. [More…]

• I think it is very appropriate on a day when we are still looking at the benefits of Operation Farmlink that there is in this House reference to one of those ways by which the contribution of the Federal Government has significantly improved the lot of one sector of the rural community which otherwise would have been seriously disadvantaged. [More…]

• -by leave-The standard of health of Aboriginals is far lower than that of the majority of Australians and would not be tolerated if it existed in the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• The Committee found that the low standard of health apparent in the majority of Aboriginal communities can be attributed largely to the unsatisfactory environmental conditions in which Aboriginals live; to their low socioeconomic status in the Australian community; and to the failure of health authorities to give sufficient attention to the special health needs of Aboriginals and to take proper account of their social and cultural beliefs and practices. [More…]

• In this regard, the Committee has recommended that action should be taken to provide clean and adequate water supplies; to eliminate the sanitary pan system; to upgrade housing for Aboriginals living in towns and on the fringes of towns; and to develop effective consultation between Commonwealth and State departments and local authorities to determine responsibility for the provision of community services. [More…]

• Therefore, the Committee has recommended that a task force should be set up to place before every community the full range of alternative health care services. [More…]

• He said that it is a problem that would not be tolerated in the general community and is one which should not and must not be tolerated for a deprived section of our community. [More…]

• Whilst in the body of the report there is stress on the need for land rights and the central importance of land rights for Aborigines to regain their self-identity, which is essential to achieving a healthy life, a healthy community and a healthy individual, that was not listed among the principal recommendations of the Committee. [More…]

• It it felt that the health of Aborigines would not be as bad as it is if all Federal and State departments and authorities had accepted over the years their full responsibility and seen Aborigines as part of a total community, albeit a disadvantaged group. [More…]

• At the same time, we must look to the future and realise that the only way in which the Aboriginal communities can fit into the Australian community is by adapting to our organisation structures. [More…]

• I simply remind the House that this report deals with matters of life and death, that is the life and death of Aboriginal citizensAustralian citizens- in our community. [More…]

• As the Chairman has pointed out, an all-Party parliamentary committee has found that the levels and standards of Aboriginal health which operate in Australia today are such that they would not be acceptable to any part of this community. [More…]

• They should not be acceptable to this Parliament, and they would not be if Australia, as a community, had not placed itself in a cultural and mental attitude over many years, believing that the health of Aboriginal citizens was less relevant than the health of the dominant white groups in our community. [More…]

• So tax cuts were heavily loaded towards the high income earners and gave very little to ordinary taxpayers in this community. [More…]

• As well as the income tax cuts and surcharge, there were also indirect tax increases which severely affected the equity of the tax system because everyone in the community whether he is a millionaire or a pauper pays the same amount for a litre of petrol, a packet of cigarettes or a glass of beer. [More…]

• People on the minimum wage, pensioners, people on low incomes are paying the same amount as members of Parliament and even more affluent people in the community. [More…]

• Secondly, he was acknowledging that in order to effect a re-transfer of those resources a future Labor government would do as the Whitlam Government did between 1972 and 1975 and allow significant increases in the overall burden of taxation paid by the Australian community. [More…]

• He accused us of distorting the taxation system in favour of the more well off in the community and against the interests of the less well off. [More…]

• If the honourable member for Gellibrand or the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) believed in the fairness of the tax system for the ordinary wage earner- that 90 per cent of the Australian community who pay 3 3 tec in the dollar taxation- they would realise the equity, the justice and the responsibility of tax indexation. [More…]

• Indeed the great bulk of that would not have been paid by that privileged section of the community- the high income earners about whom the honourable member for Gellibrand waxed so fervently- but would have been paid by the average wage earners of Australia. [More…]

• We have given significant concessions to the business community of Australia. [More…]

• We happen to believe that the profitability of the private sector is to the benefit of the entire Australian community. [More…]

• The business community of Australia had been brought to its knees by the end of 1975. [More…]

• The abolition of death and gift duties, taxes which wreaked considerable hardship on significant sections of the Australian rural community and the small business sector, shows that this Government has not only a defensible taxation record but also a record which has improved the equity of the tax system. [More…]

• One would have thought that a party which is so concerned about high income earners, that upper bracket of income earners, when in government would have done something about the level of tax avoidance in the community. [More…]

• The rates for which the wealthier sections of the community including companies are liable are already high enough. [More…]

• We all know how serious successive Labor Treasurers between 1972 and 1975 were about the widespread tax avoidance, which is an affront to the average wage earner in the Australian community and which ought to be resented by people on low incomes who have no opportunity and no incentive to engage in that sort of activity. [More…]

• The business community, Australian businessmen, want to know. [More…]

• While there is this growing market power there is even more reason why we should have bodies like the PJT as watchdogs for the community over that market power in the private sector. [More…]

• 1 ) by abolishing the requirement for notification of prospective price rises it represents the final destruction of the Tribunal’s ability to fulfil its original function of ensuring that unjustified price rises are not imposed on the community; [More…]

• The Trade Practices Commission had even wider jurisdiction in protecting the community from restrictive trade practices, excessive monopolisation and undesirable company mergers, resale price maintenance and price discrimination by producers and wholesalers against retailers. [More…]

• This Bill is hopelessly biased towards those who would maximise profits against the majority interest of the community. [More…]

• The legislation is the result of a very great deal of experience not only on the part of the Government but also industry, the community interest and, of course, every section and facet of Australia’s business community. [More…]

• Yet the Opposition is still trying to convince the community that there is some validity in this approach. [More…]

• I believe that this is the right and proper way to deal with the situation at a time of economic difficulty when we must foster industry and employment and at all costs ensure that there is viability in the face of the difficulties that are created by another section of the community. [More…]

• We need information because of the relationship, very often in an international sequence of events, of government policies or the general interests of the total community, whatever they happen to be. [More…]

• Labor’s form of price control, which it is again trying to foist on this Parliament and on the community at large, is nothing more nor less than a hoax that is couched in terms that, I suppose, some might believe have validity. [More…]

• Yet he told this House that we were taking something away and that this would affect the community. [More…]

• I suggest that the amendments to the legislation proposed by the Government will advance further a sensible and progressive approach to the matter of a reasoned balance being achieved between economic policy, feasibility in terms of industry surveillance and useful assistance to industry, the Government and the community as a consequence of investigations which turn up information of value to determine what is best and to make suggestions in the matter of what will benefit the interests of the nation. [More…]

• It certainly leaves far behind what we saw in the early days of the creation of this very doubtful monster which the Government is now endeavouring to turn to good use for the benefit of the total community. [More…]

• How can there be any confidence in the general community, especially in the industrial section of the community, in an institution that has been so thoroughly politicised as this institution will have been as a result of this legislation? [More…]

• How can there be confidence in the work force of the community when, on the one hand, the prices control instrument is being dismantled and, on the other, the income control instrument is being retained and profits seem to be booming. [More…]

• The political success of a government at a time of economic difficulty, like that Australia has been experiencing in recent years, is as dependent upon its ability to achieve and retain the confidence of the community as it is on any other factor. [More…]

• In turn, that means achieving and retaining the confidence of the work force of the community. [More…]

• There can be no confidence in either the work force sector or the households in the community when profits are booming, unemployment is booming inflation shows every sign of taking off again and interest rates are going up but the price control mechanism is being dismantled. [More…]

• It has served the community well and the shortcomings could have been repaired easily. [More…]

• Let me give some evidence of the benefits the community has derived from this institution. [More…]

• Those and other cases are clear evidence of the way in which the Tribunal, with all of its faults, on balance has contributed more benefit than disadvantage to the community. [More…]

• Those are things which have affected all of the community. [More…]

• All of the community, but more specifically the farm sector, has gained enormously as a result of the action of the Tribunal, yet all the reward it gets is to be dismantled by the Government. [More…]

• I repeat that some of them have tried to dismantle these overseeing bodies, only to find that they had to resassemble them hurriedly as a face-saver, usually with another name, in the light of experience and as a result of community reaction. [More…]

• He ignored the efforts of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort to stand the Prices Justification Tribunal on its head in a clear assault on the authority and role of the PJT and in complete derogation of any sense of responsibility to the general community, but more especially to the farm sector. [More…]

• In the absence of the PJT price increases would have been greater, inflation would have been worse, adherence to wages policy would frequently have been fickle, industrial harmony would have been less, community confidence in pricing and commercial practices would have been at a lower level and market power abuses would have been greater. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Tribunal is actively supported by the trade unions and workers generally who see it as providing some equity in the community, counterbalancing the rigid wage controls to which wage earners are subject. [More…]

• In between these attitudes there is the basic apathy to the Tribunal amongst the broader business community, which feels it provides some legitimacy to its activity, mollifies the unions and affects only a few large firms in any case. [More…]

• The Government is abrogating its responsibilities to the Australian community. [More…]

• In the area of price surveillance it will have much work to do in the interests of the Australian community and the Australian consumer in particular. [More…]

• Either the Leader of the Opposition is ignorant of the present position in relation to this inquiry or, alternatively, he sought to mislead this House and the Australian community. [More…]

• That is why we have sought, on the one hand, to retain a viable price surveillance body and, on the other, to ensure that the cost to business and through business to the community of having this body is kept to an absolute minimum. [More…]

• The reason is that these areas are important price areas for the whole of the community and the Government believes that they should be looked at by the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]

• The measure before the House is in the best interests of the community. [More…]

• It will ensure that there is a price surveillance body, well equipped and capable of keeping price movements within the community under surveillance and of recommending appropriate action to the Government. [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…]

• -I wish to make a plea tonight on behalf of that section of the community which already has been bashed heavily enough by this Government. [More…]

• It is seeking to cure that revenue problem by raising funds based on next year’s taxes, by harassing those people in our community who receive the very lowest incomes, by seeking to deny those people on the very lowest incomes benefits which they have received for some considerable time, and also by another device which I think is dishonest. [More…]

• 1 ) Can he advise of the nature and dates of framework commercial agreements that the European Economic Community has made with other countries (e.g. [More…]

• 1 ) The European Economic Community has concluded only one framework commercial agreement. [More…]

• The European Economic Community also has a large number of preferential and non-preferential trade agreements. [More…]

• In the case of the European Economic Community considerations concerning a trade agreement have been set aside pending a satisfactory response to our substantive trade complaints. [More…]

• This would place enormous pressures on the whole of the grain handling system, and it could well prejudice the benefits that would flow to everybody in the Australian community from another good wheat year in the 1979-80 season. [More…]

• I presume that when the honourable member for Leichhardt refers to our principal trading partners he is talking about the United States of America, the European Economic Community and Japan. [More…]

• It is not possible at the moment to anticipate what will be the outcome of the negotiations, but there are hopeful signs in that a number of member countries of the Community are showing increasing understanding of what is needed if there .is to be a mutually satisfactory agreement. [More…]

• If the Leader of the Opposition is to claw back $200m from that section of the community and at the same time to keep in place the standard rate scale and the intermediate rate scale- in other words, preserve the benefits of our tax reforms for low income earners, which he has said he believes in preserving- the only way that he can get $200m from the top 2 per cent of income earners in this country is to lift the marginal rate of tax to 80 per cent. [More…]

• This is good old, soak-the-rich, Labor dogma of the old school and it is about time that the Australian community really understood what this is about. [More…]

• With rapid growth it is more difficult to sustain a long-term perspective on the future needs of the community. [More…]

• It has framed its recommendations in the context of the views expressed to it in submissions and by members of the community who have an interest in the issues. [More…]

• We have sought to reach reasonable and practical conclusions taking into account, to the extent we can, the future needs of the community. [More…]

• In contrast, the Ginninderra Community Council provided a comprehensive submission to the Committee. [More…]

• The Committee compliments the Council on its submission, and, despite relatively limited resources, its efforts to make it comprehensive and detailed and to involve a substantial number of people from the community in its work. [More…]

• It has recommended that NCDC provide a range of options for the peninsula and for the community to be consulted before final decisions are made. [More…]

• It is recognised that the community’s needs and wishes even in the near future may differ from those of today. [More…]

• We did ask for a response from the community and we received an excellent response. [More…]

• Whilst the Committee made concessions to community views on every other area, on precisely that area, where community views were the strongest, the Committee made no concession, and that gave rise to the dissenting report. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the representatives of the community on that body, the jury, are to determine the reasonable grounds. [More…]

• Finally, I turn to the community debate on abortion and to the expressions of opinion on this subject by a wide spectrum of individuals and groups. [More…]

• The motion has been proposed because the Medibank rebate for the termination of pregnancy offends the moral and religious convictions of a minority group in the Australian community. [More…]

• I believe that great nations are built only by governments that accept the responsibility to reinforce and positively provide the right morality in the community. [More…]

• Abortion is not a satisfactory substitute for contraception but there are some in the community who still oppose even birth control. [More…]

• The Association has repeatedly stated that the views of its members on termination of pregnancy are as varied as those of the rest of the community, and it therefore has no stated policy in relation to abortion as such. [More…]

• The reason I quote from that paper is to show that there is a division of opinion across a very wide section of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Having said that, and made the point that prevention is better than cure, I point out that I believe that greater effort should be made in that direction, and the energy, capacity and finance of the community should be marshalled and directed to that end, so far as it is practicable to do so. [More…]

• I hope that this Parliament will look at the matter from a moral point of view and from the point of view of the welfare of the Australian community and the moral standing and future of this nation. [More…]

• But all of a sudden he gets onto this small segment of the community and says: ‘You certainly will not get any medical benefits’. [More…]

• The issue facing the national Parliament is in fact one of the most sensitive and controversial issues facing the Australian community. [More…]

• It seems to me that all of the evidence points to abortion having become a matter of convenience in the Australian community. [More…]

• The Age quoted Cardinal Freeman as saying: ‘The Australian Government has a heavy responsibility before God and man to reinforce and positively promote right morality in the community and to undertake the protection of the unborn’. [More…]

• Those who oppose contraception in Australia are in a very small minority and yet it is that small minority which is sponsoring this motion in an effort to impose its own values on the majority of the community under the guise of cost-saving. [More…]

• Abortion is a serious social problem which poses grave moral problems and great dilemmas for the community as well as for the persons who are directly involved. [More…]

• I hold those views personally and I believe that those findings of the royal commissioners reflect accurately the views of the majority of the community and that it is those views which this Parliament should also reflect. [More…]

• The nub of the problem is that the community does not agree on precisely what so-called rights’ should be accorded to a woman and the foetus she might be carrying. [More…]

• I believe that the preponderant public view in our community is that abortion is most undesirable, the very last resort but sometimes a necessary evil. [More…]

• There are honourable members in the debate who have stated that just because Catholics and others believe that a foetus at the moment of conception becomes a human being, it does not mean that they should be able to impose that view on other people in the community. [More…]

• I accept the proposition that people with those views are entitled to try to impose them on the community. [More…]

• If I held that view I would consider myself a hypocrite if I did not try to impose it on the community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Hume has waxed very loud in the last four months, since he has become prominent and well loved by certain people in the community. [More…]

• I submit that it is a community issue, a matter of public concern. [More…]

• We have to make decisions about the aged in the community. [More…]

• I have had many representations, in fact I have had thousands of representations, from people throughout the community, objecting to being party to paying benefits for such procedures unless the mother has had an abortion because of the state of her health. [More…]

• There is a role of the law to influence opinion on matters of right and wrong, matters that affect the welfare of the community. [More…]

• If that money was made available to local government to provide family facilities and community exercise facilities I think we would see a rapid decrease in the national health bill. [More…]

• Why should we impose further cost on the motoring community? [More…]

• Too often the community stands by hoping that the Federal Government is going to do everything- provide all the funds and all the resources. [More…]

• I hope that we will have the co-operation of both sides of the House and of the community as a whole to encourage each other to lead a better life. [More…]

• The Minister is also empowered to declare as prohibited imports goods which are, in his opinion, of a dangerous character and a menace to the community. [More…]

• I do not intend to maintain before this House or before the Australian community anything other than an objective assessment of the state of the Australian economy at the present time. [More…]

• There is abundant evidence of strong and sustained economic recovery in the Australian community. [More…]

• I refer to the enormous importance of the Uluru National Park, which is in the Ayers Rock-Mount Olga area, to the Australian community at large. [More…]

• This Government instituted the Community Youth Support Scheme- CYSS- and in my electorate we set up the Preston employment action group as part of this scheme. [More…]

• I have been concerned with another organisation that is conducting a fairly low-key drug awareness program with community groups. [More…]

• I have also recently been concerned with the setting up of Odyssey House-type community therapy treatment for people on drugs in Melbourne. [More…]

• It would appear that there has been a marked increase in dabbling in abusive drugs amongst this group in the community. [More…]

• There is a large Yugoslav community in Western Australia and its members are anxious to travel to their homeland. [More…]

• But it should never be forgotten that both the Australian Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Postal Commission should also provide the best possible services to all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Despite that, the towns in my electorate which have had official post offices and have had them downgraded to non-official status regret that changeover because it lowers the rating of the town as a community centre. [More…]

• I suggest further that a very careful examination should be made of the prospects of post offices to be downgraded and that the local community should be fully consulted with regard to future prospects. [More…]

• Asbestos is known to cause cancer and a variety of other diseases and yet the asbestos industry persists in placing the community at risk. [More…]

• In spite of all these assurances and the known dangers of asbestos, alarming examples are now surfacing which clearly show that the community at large is being exposed to asbestos fibres. [More…]

• Information disseminated to raise worker, management, union, bureaucratic, and general community awareness of health hazards from asbestos [More…]

• It is one of the absurdities of our society that representatives of an industry which is exposing its workers and the community to the risks of asbestos-caused diseases are advising governments on issues of public health and welfare. [More…]

• Of course, the report is not completely like that but that is the dominant impression one gets, of a report that favours certain values, virtues or objectives which are commonly held in the community. [More…]

• Although there is an awareness that there appears to have been an overproduction of tertiary qualified people for the community, and although there would also appear to be some winding back of the production system in the tertiary institutions, the rate of increase is still coming through the pipeline with a disturbing momentum. [More…]

• It does not explore properly the sort of supporting services or measures that come in behind commendable recommendations made in relation to an expansion of technical and further education services in the community; for instance, finance for people undertaking prevocational training. [More…]

• In that situation, we will face the problem at a time of economic recovery, should it arise in the near future, that we will not have enough skilled tradesmen to respond to the needs of the economy and the community. [More…]

• The Australian Council of Social Services, after thorough social and economic research in the community, has also underlined the need for manpower policies, especially in relation to the education system, as an essential support part of any such programs. [More…]

• These current labour market imbalances are likely to persist into the future as long as either the international economic situation, the education system and community values all remain unchanged or governments (and employers) insist upon relying on those policy actions which seemed sufficient during previous decades. [More…]

• That has not happened, and it is my firm belief that the education system has to be restructured massively so that the training of skilled tradesmen required in our community can proceed successfully. [More…]

• It is an important quote, because it seems to me to demolish so much of the conventional wisdom of the Government and so much of its abuse of the so-called dole bludger syndrome which is held responsible for the unemployment problem in this community. [More…]

• Speaker, and honourable gentlemen, I repeat that one does find the report a rather disappointing document after so much time, so much expenditure and such high hopes about what it would achieve were raised in the community by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• It is contended that by having more doctors than we need health costs will rise unnecessarily, medical services which are not needed will be provided and that there will be little or no improvement in the health of the community. [More…]

• I think it is also worthwhile mentioning that even the expert members of that Committee took different views about the extent to which the increasing supply of doctors will affect health costs and the contribution it will make to the well-being of the community. [More…]

• As the first step in the further examination of the matter, I believe that widespread reaction and comment on the officials’ report from the community generally, from the medical profession and from those working in the health services would be most valuable. [More…]

• There are people in the community who hold the view that the termination of a pregnancy is unacceptable under any circumstances. [More…]

• Others in the community do not agree with this view. [More…]

• I repeat that I shall never support abortion on demand and I shall be bringing pressures whenever I can see that the legislation is clear and follows generally held beliefs in our community about what are truths. [More…]

• It would be entirely logical to state just that, that we should not fund blood transfusions because there are a number of people in our community who find that particular aspect of medical treatment to be against their consciences and against their morality. [More…]

• We could all find similar examples of matters being funded against the consciences of some members of the community. [More…]

• More adequate funding should be made available for Birthline and other such bodies doing similar types of work so that counselling is available for these people who have to withstand unwanted pregnancies and so that we obtain, through proper educational means, a situation where not more but fewer abortions take place in our community. [More…]

• It is an approach which would have great support throughout the community, not only within the church- I include both the Catholic and Protestant churches- but also amongst a large number of other people who do have serious misgivings about the drift that we have had in our society towards a lessening of concern for human life. [More…]

• -In many ways I, and I am sure many other honourable members, regret the so-called Lusher motion which has been moved because, despite the enormous amount of publicity and lobbying which has preceded this debate, I wonder how representative of the views of the community at large are any of the views put to all members of this House. [More…]

• I know that there are many people in our community who take a very fundamentalist view on the issue of abortion one way or the other. [More…]

• Parliament cannot be the determinant or the arbiter of a community’s morality. [More…]

• Only the community itself can do this. [More…]

• I believe that if we move away from that principle there will be no end to a progressive weakening of community values and attitudes towards the rights of human beings to choose for themselves their very existence. [More…]

• If we as a community believe that our society would be a better and more humane society with fewer abortions, and regardless of how we as individuals vote on the motion before us today, we must as a community take increased steps to lessen the number of situations arising where abortions are contemplated by the women concerned. [More…]

• Let us look at the comparative economics involved in abortions as against the costs which are involved in the community if abortion procedures are not available. [More…]

• His dramatic warning sold his book, spread a wave of concern throughout our community, and caused a minor ripple in developing countries, where over-population is a real problem. [More…]

• Australia, and the circumstances that have encouraged its proliferation, while the community collectively bears the cost. [More…]

• The Parliament now has the chance to restore a sense of personal responsibility in the community by imposing strict conditions on the payment of benefits for the termination of pregnancy. [More…]

• The present openended arrangement has encouraged a sense of moral irresponsibility at the financial expense of the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is about time that the nation’s obligation to provide a health service to all without discriminating between rich and poor should be reflected properly in providing a real health service which meets the health needs of the community, rather than an expensive luxury which in many cases panders to people’s desires- to their wants, rather than to thenneeds. [More…]

• If a strong body of opinion which objects to abortion has been unable to convince the State parliaments; if it is not the majority view in the various States; if, at no stage, it has effectively been able to raise this as an election issue; and if there has at no stage been any expression of public view on this matter by way of referendum, then there is no justification whatsoever for this vocal, well meaning, honest and decent minority to endeavour to use the back door- by way of this Parliament- to impose its view on the community. [More…]

• It seeks to avoid discrimination against any section of the community, particularly women. [More…]

• I know that many members of the House have been subjected to pressures from different groups in the community. [More…]

• A very great debate is taking place in the community at present. [More…]

• We will never solve the community debate on this issue while there is a trade-off between State and Federal parliaments. [More…]

• I believe that if the community debate on this extremely important issue is to be brought to a head it ought to be done in circumstances in which competent State authorities with overall control of the matter can be responsible to their electors. [More…]

• What kind of community would we be if we did not pay for such things? [More…]

• What have we done with the most deprived people in the community, the Aboriginal people of Australia? [More…]

• How could those people handle the situation unless there was some total change in the community? [More…]

• I represent a community which includes the first victims of changes in economic affairs. [More…]

• Before addressing myself to the motion I wish to thank all those people within the community, on both sides of this argument, who have taken the trouble to contact me personally, by telephone, by letter or by telegram expressing their views. [More…]

• Today’s vote in this Parliament is the first step to restoring here and now in the national Parliament some of the real values of human life, of saying to the community that we stand for those who have the rights to live. [More…]

• Its implications for wages policy and for general economic recovery in the Australian community are enormous. [More…]

• It is a decision which will flow on and in relation to which there will be pressures for it to flow on to other sections of the community. [More…]

• It will lead to greater inflationary pressures in the Australian community. [More…]

• This decision will put at risk the already fragile degree of wage restraint in the Australian community. [More…]

• The House, the Australian community and all State governments are aware that Commonwealth financial assistance to the States comes in a variety of forms. [More…]

• It strikes at the basis of any semblance of a responsible wages policy for the community. [More…]

• It will create pressures for a flow-on of that decision to other sections of the community. [More…]

• I would think it is an experience that affects those who are uneducated and inarticulate more than it affects, say, the more educated and wealthier members of the community. [More…]

• -This debate is an unfortunate debate because it will be seen by the community outside as a debate about abortion. [More…]

• It is rather interesting to see that in the letter which the Association sent out to members it admits that the views of its members on termination of pregnancy are as varied as those of the rest of the community. [More…]

• He does not mention that the cost of this would mean even more expenditure of funds by the community than under the present procedures, as the Federal and State governments have to bear the costs of the public hospitals. [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, only this financial year this Government cut down from 75 per cent to 50 per cent its allocation of block funds to the States for the community health program, the very program which provides some of these support services. [More…]

• However, my overriding belief is that I have no right to impose my views on another or on the community as a whole. [More…]

• It is encumbent upon this Parliament, as well as the State parliaments, to be prepared to develop and apply pre-natal and post-natal policies which would give women to a much greater extent than at present, a reasonable chance to work through their problems with the full support of the community in an atmosphere of understanding and genuine compassion. [More…]

• For too long there has been a current view in our community, supported by the courts, that somehow or other pregnancy is the fault of the woman alone and that the young buck, for example, must be excused for doing what comes naturally. [More…]

• I ask this House: Are we prepared to change community attitudes and insist that the laws be applied on these essential points? [More…]

• It is so much easier for people to throw up their hands in dismay and turn to the Government for action to overcome problems which are absolutely the responsibility of individuals and of our community as well as of our governments. [More…]

• To give other honourable members an opportunity to speak, I finish by arguing again that the motion before us should be rejected because it avoids facing up to the real problems that we have as legislators and simply seeks to impose a particular moral view on a morally divided community. [More…]

• It neglects the real problems our community faces with reference to abortion and the moral pluralism of that community. [More…]

• I support all proper attempts to educate the community in order to ensure that abortions are unnecessary in our society. [More…]

• Finally, it attacks the most vulnerable members of the community. [More…]

• We live in a pluralist and democratic community and ultimately we should never forget that religious freedom in this community rests upon the doctrine of the separation of the Church from the state. [More…]

• -Since its establishment, the Primary Industry Bank of Australia has provided a different sort of facility to the primary producing community- directly through the loans that it advances on a longer term and, indirectly, through the stimulus that it has given to the participating banks to ensure that they also provide significantly longer lending opportunities to their clients than was previously the case. [More…]

• I believe that it is a very valuable investment for ordinary members and specifically those in the primary industry sector of the community who have a direct interest in it. [More…]

• The lending has been most successful and I believe that this facility is a worthwhile extension to primary industry, forestry, fishing and agriculture, at a time when demonstrably that sector of the Australian community is contributing so much to the economic revival of this country. [More…]

• So if the honourable member is genuinely concerned about the level of the tax avoidance in this community I share that concern. [More…]

• It has been left to the media to inform the Australian community that Singapore suggested a stopover surcharge equivalent to 10 per cent of the full applicable fare. [More…]

• We have seen disruption to the Australian travel industry and we have seen a great deferment of travel and confusion created to the Australian community. [More…]

• That decision is quite contrary to the interests of the community in that State and is totally against the national interest. [More…]

• It is important to recognise, however, that in the interests of the whole community it is critical to build upon, and not let slip, the important gains already made in stabilising prices and costs. [More…]

• Regrettably, the warnings of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission would seem to have been ignored by some self-interest groups in the community. [More…]

• Hardly a day goes by but the community is beset by industrial disputation of one kind or another. [More…]

• It is essential that the whole community work together in an endeavour to restore fully the health of the Australian economy. [More…]

• It should be distributed for the welfare of the whole community through general wage adjustments, by lower prices or improved standards of service. [More…]

• In other words, the Government would suggest that the increase in productivity that the New South Wales Government says will compensate for the increase in costs resulting from the shorter hours should have occurred in any case and the benefits distributed to the whole community through lower prices for power. [More…]

• It is for all these reasons, as I said earlier, that the Government is most concerned at the effects of arrangements- such as that introduced in the New South Wales power industry- on the community. [More…]

• Even if the increase in costs is offset by productivity increases, and this is not at all guaranteed, such increases should have occurred in any case and the benefits distributed to the community. [More…]

• There are a number of areas in the community in which the standard is less than 40 hours a week. [More…]

• Arrangements are being entered into under which Electricity Commission employees will have their hours reduced in return for extension of shift work which will be of beneficial effect to the nation and the community generally by ensuring continuity of electricity supplies without any increase in cost of electricity generation. [More…]

• The reference from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission undoubtedly related to the impact of industrial disruption on the total community- the effect of a long period of industrial disruption in Victoria- and the need to get that part of Australia back into business again. [More…]

• If it is to be utilised for the benefit of the economy we certainly must withstand the pressure for it to be dragged down by the granting of concessions which will cost money, which will cost the community dearly and which will rob us of those benefits that could quite fairly flow, if given an opportunity to do so, to the benefit of the small man. [More…]

• The fact is we in South Australia were able to give our power workers the reduced working week at virtually no extra cost to the community while maintaining among the lowest electricity unit costs in Australia. [More…]

• It also pointed out that the resultant benefits belonged to the community as a whole and should be shared by the community in the form of lower electricity tariffs. [More…]

• In the Commission’s opinion, to accept the productivity claim would involve the rest of the community in subsidising each employee of the Electricity Commission by $1,060 per annum- again I remind the House that those are 1973 figures- for a four-day, 35-hour week. [More…]

• Such a subsidy would, the Commission said, be unfair to the community and should not be allowed to come about. [More…]

• We therefore conclude that from a reduction of hours in the electricity supply industry, there would be two general economic effects apart from the direct consequences of additional expenditure to be incurred by the industry and the increases in prices flowing to the community therefrom. [More…]

• This would further increase prices and costs in the community but to what extent we cannot say. [More…]

• These would unquestionably lead to stoppages of work, some of which would be quite expensive and costly to the community. [More…]

• The decision taken by the Government of New South Wales to introduce a 37Vi-hour week is a retrograde step which will add to the general community costs. [More…]

• They felt that they were being neglected by the community and that they did not have a place of honour in their own country. [More…]

• This is accepted as a fair process by the Australian community at large. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Federal Government provide finance for the Victorian Family and Community Services (FACS) program. [More…]

• and (2) The Federal Government does not provide finance for the Victorian Family and Community Services (FACS) program. [More…]

• The FACS program, established in April 1977, is administered by the Department of Community Welfare Services in Victoria. [More…]

• The aims of the program, which are to encourage the development of services which preserve and strengthen family life, promote personal growth, and help people to play an effective part in their community, are similar to the aims of the Commonwealth’s Family Support Services Program. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of growing concern in the community about the traffic in drugs between Thailand and Australia? [More…]

• Is it a fact that over the last four years Commonwealth subsidy to community health services has decreased from 90 per cent to 50 per cent? [More…]

• -The Commonwealth Government, of course, has entered into an arrangement with the State governments to fund the community health program for this financial year on a dollar for dollar basis, which is regarded as an equitable arrangement with the States. [More…]

• When the community health program first came into operation it was funded by the Commonwealth Government on a 100 per cent basis. [More…]

• 6m was made under the community health program. [More…]

• As a consequence, there was great uncertainty amongst the workers and the patients who were obtaining benefit from the community health program throughout the State. [More…]

• We decided that we would in fact meet the New South Wales offer, so that there would not be uncertainty within the community health program in New South Wales. [More…]

• As far as I am aware, he has not yet told this House that, at the same time, he has been promising substantial tax cuts to different community groups in Australia. [More…]

• The main policy thrusts appropriate to the Commonwealth for this purpose are to: ensure, as far as practicable, that water resource difficulties do not constrain national development; minimise losses and disruption caused by floods; encourage management practices which reverse trends in the deterioration of water quality and associated land resources; encourage a comprehensive approach to water/land planning and management; encourage the more efficient use of water resources; encourage the development of financial and cost allocation policies appropriate to changing economic circumstances and community values; and finally, encourage public awareness and involvement in water resource issues. [More…]

• Mr Batt said there was a tendency in the community to bemoan difficulties of our smallness, neglect the advantages and be negative about the State’s future. [More…]

• Since the original 1967 agreement- as was pointed out by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) who is occupying the Chair at this time- and with the rise in general community concern about the ecological and environmental impact of forestry several major investigations have been made into forestry. [More…]

• Perhaps its strength is not what it might have been if it had been encouraged to enter into competition with other architects and architectural companies throughout our community and kept itself active in the field of design work. [More…]

• It needs the utmost co-operation and understanding from all members of the community. [More…]

• Although some people in the community might be somewhat critical of politicians and think that we are building a great building for ourselves, I hope that they will understand that we are not doing that; we are undertaking this project for the country. [More…]

• We are small cheese internationally as far as wine production is concerned and the policies and surpluses of the European Economic Community make the market place a difficult one indeed in which to gain a foothold. [More…]

• The European Economic Community requires an analysis certificate to accompany imported wines. [More…]

• The previous year the European Economic Community, by a series of mechanisms which I will not go into, succeeded in stopping any possibility of that particular deal in a nice display of community selfishness. [More…]

• Despite this recommendation at a time when unemployment is reaching record levels, when there is clearly not sufficient work for all those who want it and when the work test is clearly counterproductive in terms of the work of the Commonwealth Employment Service, this Government, instead of trying to educate the public to the contemporary problem of unemployment allies itself with all those simple minded and troglodyte elements in the community who wish to blame the unemployed for their own unemployment. [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…]

• He acts as a handyman in a handyman’s scheme run by volunteers through the Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• I am glad to say that in my community the community outrage about this decision has been such that the Department of Social Security has backed away from the decision it has made. [More…]

• I have no doubt that if this kind of strict and absurd application of the work test continues there will be more community outrage. [More…]

• He has been told that because he does not have social work type qualifications he will not get a job in that field even though recently he was the runner-up out of 40 applicants for a position as a Community Youth Support Scheme project officer. [More…]

• I understand that the South Australian Government is already making funds available, but all the State governments should join with the Commonwealth Government in expanding the family planning program to avoid the problem of unwanted births and to assist those childless couples in our community who want to have families. [More…]

• As the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development I mentioned on a number of occasions, in public announcements and speeches, that this revision and review was being carried out. [More…]

• The Government has not yet dealt with that report but, without pre-empting a decision by the Government in the matter, I say that, from my own point of view and I am sure from the point of view of people generally, we can only welcome the action of the brewers and hope that brewers generally will provide the Australian community with the option of actually obtaining lower alcohol content beer. [More…]

• There is too much concern in the community at present - [More…]

• That this House deplores and condemns the wilful misrepresentation of the Prime Minister on tax matters as part of an obvious tactic designed to conceal the fact that the Government will have to increase direct personal tax and indirect tax as well as substantially reducing existing benefits to the community in order to fund a $ 1 ,000m revenue shortfall arising because of firm commitments by the Prime Minister already announced to the electorate to be funded in the forthcoming Budget. [More…]

• That this House deplores and condemns the wilful misrepresentation of the Prime Minister on tax matters as part of an obvious tactic designed to conceal the fact that the Government will have to increase direct personal tax and indirect tax as well as substantially reducing existing benefits to the community in order to fund a $ 1,000m revenue shortfall arising because of firm commitments by the Prime Minister already announced to the electorate to be funded in the forthcoming Budget. [More…]

• At the same time the community is about to see interest rates moving up. [More…]

• The Government by its intervention in bond sales in the open market is indicating to the community that interest rates cannot stay down where they are now. [More…]

• The community needs some reassurance on this. [More…]

• These matters have to be paid for and they have to be paid for by someone in the community. [More…]

• It is quite clear that the Prime Minister will make those who have already been paying too much- the average income earners in the community, which is the great bulk of the wage and salary earners in Australia and the households or familes- pay. [More…]

• A range of other measures are going to be adopted in a desperate scramble by the Government to somehow or other fund the shortfall in revenue that will arise because of these unwise, impulsive commitments made by the Prime Minister to narrowly based recipients in the community, privileged recipients. [More…]

• There is a fair enough argument going on in the community at the present time as to who will pay for this in the next Budget. [More…]

• If we are going to see the role of government in this community- the public sector- then we have to look at the total of the government sector in the community, the total level of spending for which it is responsible. [More…]

• A whole range of benefits of support for the average people, the ordinary people in the community, the people who are bearing the bulk of revenue-raising, of tax charges in the community, are increasingly denied them. [More…]

• So, a very small proportion of the community will be affected by this tax. [More…]

• But a fairly high level of revenue will be generated because we are talking about the wealthiest group in the community. [More…]

• Will it be families again, newspaper boys, pensioners- a whole range of people, including the Australian motorist who has to pay $ 1,200m additional tax because of excise duties on petrol this year- or is it intended to start going to some of those tall poppies in the community who seem to have permanent immunity under this Government, which is the representative of the privileged groups in Australia? [More…]

• These and other measures which I have outlined would raise in the order of $ 1 ,000m in a year and would allow the Government to avoid plunging once again into the hip pocket of the average person in this community in the various ways available to it- ways to which it has never hesitated to resort in the past. [More…]

• The Prime Minister says that the family allowance arrangement which the Government has introduced has been of extraordinary benefit to people in the community. [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…]

• Why is this Government always penalising the most vulnerable, the most dependent people in the community? [More…]

• We are determined to fight for the interests of the ordinary people of this community- the taxpayers who have been plundered and exploited too much already. [More…]

• We are opposed to the way in which cosy deals and conspiracies are worked out with big oil companies in this country to provide them with enormous profits and, at the same time, to allow the Government to amass enormous levels of additional revenue at the expense of the community. [More…]

• That this House deplores and condemns the wilful misrepresentation of the Prime Minister on tax matters as part of an obvious tactic designed to conceal the fact that the Government will have to increase direct personal tax and indirect tax as well as substantially reducing existing benefits to the community in order to fund a $ 1,000m revenue shortfall arising because of firm commitments by the Prime Minister already announced to the electorate to be funded in the forthcoming Budget. [More…]

• This has been a slow job, a difficult job and a job that has been resisted by sections of the Australian community, not the least being the Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]

• We have heard a lot about high income earners in this community. [More…]

• In fact more and more uncertainty is being generated in the community, not because of anything that might be said by members on this side of the House, but because this Government has not been able to produce what it said it was going to produce. [More…]

• He would not know what the words ‘fiscal’ and ‘responsible ‘ mean but he probably would know what ‘crisis’ means because he belongs to the group of people who brought this country into a great crisis in the three years that people regret so much throughout our community. [More…]

• I regret that we have not received very many pats on the back in the Australian community for this. [More…]

• Sir Laurence made copies of the letter available to the Press and it says that Mr Vince Gordon had been known to Mr Gillard for 20 years and that Mr Gillard had admired his (Gordon) community work. [More…]

• Indeed, I am very pleased in this place again to reiterate my respect for Mr and Mrs Gordon and would hope that note can be taken of their community standing in consideration of penalties recently imposed on Mr Gordon. [More…]

• There is an inadequate social science input and there is almost no representation from community interests. [More…]

• There is a perception developing in some sections of our community that we lack significant military capability, This is completely false. [More…]

• We need a force that can undertake surveillance and patrol duties, provide assistance to the civil community as and when needed and respond to limited military tasks and requirements that can arise at short notice. [More…]

• But there is an enormous difference between these things being tackled in a considered, compassionate and orderly way, consistent with the way any other section of our community would arrange its affairs in peacetime; and the way they can be done, and would be done, in an emergency. [More…]

• It covers, to mention but a few examples, the main exercises in hand and in prospect; progress in service training programs; Defence Force activities in assistance to the civil community; surveillance operations; dealings with our allies on strategic matters; progress in scientific research; progress with equipment projects; problems with tenders or quotations; recruitment trends; service activities abroad, for example, with the United Nations; and the effects of budgetary constraints, labour disputes, accidents, impending legislation and other matters. [More…]

• It funds, additionally, the operations that they conduct in peace-time such as surveillance and patrol, United Nations peacekeeping and assistance to the civil community. [More…]

• We believed that the changes to the Bill would not help to reduce inflation, the reduction of which was vitally necessary at this time when it was increasing in the community. [More…]

• It was because of this that the Government decided that further changes should be made in the operations of the PJT in the interests of freeing the business community from unnecessary regulation and in the interest of ensuring that no unnecessary costs were incurred that would ultimately flow on to the consuming public. [More…]

• It does not really benefit the Government and does not really benefit those in the community who want to misuse passports. [More…]

• Such was the public interest in this issue some two years ago that Adelaide television station channel SAS-10 produced a special program in which I, along with the honourable member for Hawker, Dick Wordley and the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, formed a panel to discuss the cases of several parents who also appeared on the program. [More…]

• As well as its obligation to provide travel facilities to its own citizens, the Government as a responsible member of the international community, has an obligation to those countries to which its citizens travel. [More…]

• I want to emphasise what regrettably is little understood and that is the disastrous economic backlash on people, companies, employees and on the community when a company such as an insurance company, in particular, goes into liquidation or collapses. [More…]

• I suppose that today the interests of the Australian community in the issuing of passports and in the improper use of passports is more vital than ever before because of the extent of corporate crime and the menace of serious drugs with which you, Mr Deputy Speaker, are well acquainted. [More…]

• This problem evolves our community and in particular, the young people. [More…]

• I believe that members of this House should heed those wise submissions by a responsible police officer of the Commonwealth Police Document Examination Bureau in the hope, and in the interests of the community as a whole, that corporate crime and the illicit drug trade that is ruining the lives of thousands of young Australians might be minimised. [More…]

• There is a very real civil rights belief that to require finger-printing on passports might well transgress the general form of our community requirements in this area. [More…]

• As well, we know that the community suffers, often severely, from the actions of strikers, who seem to care nothing for their fellow community members. [More…]

• This monopoly simply enables a privileged group to hold the community to ranson. [More…]

• Has the Yarrabah community applied for selfmanagement under Federal law; if so, when and how. [More…]

• The Council also asked that the Minister try to negotiate with the Queensland Government a form of land tenure for the Yarrabah Community Council. [More…]

• It is providing a variety of services to the community. [More…]

• I am quite certain that a system something like that could do a great deal to overcome the problem which concerns so many members of this House and so many people in the community. [More…]

• The Canberra hospitals are large hospitals with complex medical and surgical units that are available to the service of the community generally. [More…]

• It is important, I feel, to stress the community value of the Committee’s work. [More…]

• In response to requests from the community at large the Government decided last year to extend the Committee’s terms of reference and to ask it to provide advice not only on professional or tertiary level qualifications but also where needed on all overseas qualifications other than those gained at the trade level which are already assessed by the Local Trades Committees. [More…]

• I believe that the added responsibility of the Electoral Office to make public analyses which are prepared by it, and which perhaps will add something to the debate that may take place, will be of benefit not only to those of us who participate in the Parliament but also to the public and community generally. [More…]

• In this context, it was pointed out that, whilst Australia did maintain some trade restraints, it did not employ the prohibitions and similar embargoes that are maintained within the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Can honourable members imagine the difficulties involved in trying to site a fast breeder reactor in or near a community in any part of the Western world? [More…]

• It is not a dependable safeguard for the health and well-being of the community. [More…]

• It leads to unnecessary loss of income for the people engaged in this action, loss of production, export earnings or contracts, disruption to trade, concern for business profitability and, hence, loss of job opportunities and community inconvenience. [More…]

• Campaigns of industrial disruption which attempt to intimidate employers, the Government, the public and those with the responsibility to administer industrial relations institutions are an affront to the community. [More…]

• The effects on the community are becoming so serious and widespread that no responsible Government can ignore them and we do not intend to do so. [More…]

• It intends to operate on the basis of the tradition of conservative-thinking people, and that is putting up issues which will divide the community and from which perhaps it can get some sort of political gain. [More…]

• The trade union leaders seem incapable of grasping the fact that they and their members are pan of the community that they are injuring by their actions. [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…]

• Now, with the change in the structure of the economy, the development of technology and increasingly sophisticated communications and transport, we have a more interdependent economy and therefore a strike by a few key workers can affect many people throughout the community who are not directly involved in the dispute. [More…]

• Only the Government has the role in our community to maintain the public interest. [More…]

• He told this House of his great experience in that field, and then he purported to represent in this chamber that section of the community. [More…]

• It is all very well to refer to occurrences of which the community is well aware and to emphasise those in sharp contrast to accepting the fundamental responsibility which is the real purpose of the debate on this statement by the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street). [More…]

• I commend the Minister and those on the treasury benches who are supporting him for taking this very positive action to ensure that there is recognition of the problem and that a situation is created where that recognition can be carried through in an effective manner in the interests of the members of trade unions in particular, of the industries in which there are difficulties, and of the wider community, which after all is vitally important. [More…]

• These are the issues that arise but which are glossed over in this argument which so far as the Opposition is concerned is merely contriving to throw some kind of blockage in the way of the Government’s determination to implement a fair and reasonable policy at a time when it is sadly needed by the Australian community. [More…]

• It is an approach that affects the community very deeply because there can be a factor of time in reaching a settlement as a consequence of the procedures that are involved. [More…]

• The effects on the community are becoming so serious and so widespread that no responsible government can ignore them. [More…]

• Will it then roast trade unions in the community and in the electorates because they tried to get wage increases outside the guidelines, as did the Transport Workers Union. [More…]

• As I have said, there is considerable concern in the community. [More…]

• Will the Government set up such an agency in view of widespread community dissatisfaction with the way in which domestic oil producers and the major oil companies are able to rip off Australian motorists with the complicity of the Australian Government? [More…]

• -I will consider the proposal which is implicit in the question, but I say that against the background of a belief on my part, which I think is fairly widely shared across party lines and in many sections of the community, that the taxation and revenue raising laws of this country should, as far as possible, be neutral on relative social and society attitudes to various forms of behaviour and various forms of conduct. [More…]

• The level of attainment in all three- that is, in the United States, Japan and the European Economic Community- sets not an upper limit but a base from which, hopefully, we can maintain in the future a level of access which will give to agricultural exporters in particular a security which they have never before enjoyed. [More…]

• The minimal access that has been secured through these multilateral trade negotiations does give to Australian exporters a security which I think is going to help to restore something like a correct perspective between the different sectors of the Australian community. [More…]

• In view of the announced access for Australian beef to the United States of America arising out of the multilateral trade negotiations and, further, the possibility of increased access to the Japanese and European Economic Community markets, does the Minister feel, firstly, that there will be adequate beef to supply the expanding overseas markets and, secondly, that there will be adequate beef to meet the local market requirements in Australia? [More…]

• There is a natural community concern about an activity which threatens the extinction of any species, particularly when it is directed against a species as special and intelligent as the whale and where there is a fear that the continued existence of these special forms of wildlife are threatened by continued exploitation. [More…]

• This change in attitude has been influenced by community concern not only in Australia but throughout the world for the need to preserve these unique creatures. [More…]

• I think it is true to say that it is due to community concern. [More…]

• Finally, it has turned out that their view is the community view. [More…]

• I think this House has a responsibility, when a decision is made on behalf of the Australian community to phase out an industry to provide the funds that are needed to establish new industries. [More…]

• The Government has made a decision on behalf of the Australian community that we will not be involved in whaling anymore. [More…]

• -On behalf of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory I present the Committee’s report entitled ‘Planning in the Australian Capital TerritoryProcedures, Processes and Community Involvement’, together with the transcript of evidence and extracts from the minutes of proceedings of the Committee. [More…]

• However, in view of the existence of a wellestablished community in Canberra, the Committee saw a growing need for the citizens of Canberra to be able to contribute more directly and effectively to the planning of their city and to be able to appeal against planning decisions which they consider adversely affect them. [More…]

• On the question of public participation the Committee believes that the local community can have a greater role in planning and development without affecting the national interest in Canberra, as the capital and seat of government. [More…]

• The community should have the opportunity to have a part in establishing the goals that subsequent planning policies are designed to achieve. [More…]

• The steps for the preparation of the plan would ensure community participation from the earliest stages and would preserve the Parliament’s role as guardian of national capital aspects and the Burley Griffin plan. [More…]

• As a result of its inquiry and following the recent referendum in the Territory on constitutional arrangements, the Committee believes there is a need for community organisations which can both represent the local community and act as a point of contact for planners and other government agencies. [More…]

• The Committee has therefore recommended that community councils be established on a voluntary basis. [More…]

• At the same time we have necessarily had to try to formulate planning procedures that will overcome the difficulties that have emerged with Canberra’s growth, the community’s needs and the problems, aspirations and values of the capital and of the community in the future. [More…]

• The Committee has suggested adjustments to the existing planning system which we believe conserve its important strengths, remove or limit its shortcomings and make it more responsive to the needs and wishes of the community. [More…]

• The Committee has sought to propose a planning system which is both practical and responsive and which will accommodate future changes in community needs and wishes at the same time as it meets the inevitable demands of a national capital and a growing urban complex. [More…]

• Is there any wonder that the community is totally confused about what the Fraser Government’s policy is? [More…]

• Firstly, it takes into consideration the commercial viewpoint of the railway systems; that is, the balance between the cost of upgrading and financial benefit- increased revenue and diminished operating costs- and secondly, the viewpoint of the community, that is, the benefits, direct and indirect, accruing to the public from certain innovations from within the railway network. [More…]

• It is, perhaps, not going too far to say that the tax paying community of Australia almost went mad in its rush to become a party to a tax avoidance scheme. [More…]

• Secondly, an evaluation was undertaken on the basis of optimal allocation of community resources in the transport sector. [More…]

• It would appear, regrettably, at least to this point, that governments continue to avoid serious consideration of the fundamental question whether railway facilities essential to the nature of our country- with its vast distances and sparsity of population- should be free from the crippling yoke of interest payments which seriously limit their ability properly to service the community in the national interest. [More…]

• I content myself with the observation that the whaling industry in effect has been sacrificed to community sentiment as much as to an objective consideration of conserving whale stocks. [More…]

• Therefore, in the interests of ensuring that the cause of conservation receives the support of the wider community, I think the Government should have looked at the question of providing encouragement to the Albany region so that the displaced workers could have found alternative employment. [More…]

• The decison to close the whaling station was clearly made as a result of community pressures throughout Australia and as a result of an assessment of world-wide scientific research which suggests that to continue to slaughter these great beasts is insupportable. [More…]

• We should accept on behalf of the whole community the decision to close down this station or, as events will occur, to prevent its reopening and to prevent the export of whale products in the future. [More…]

• I think that conservation decisions are made because of community pressure as a whole and, therefore, the community as a whole ought to bear the burden of those decisions. [More…]

• There is mixed feeling throughout the community right now about the decision to cease whaling. [More…]

• Not many people in a community of 1,600 need to be involved before these matters become important to that community. [More…]

• We have agreed- I think that the island community has accepted it- that about 2,000 people is probably the maximum supportable population for Norfolk Island. [More…]

• That means, of course, that the island community continually has to make tough decisions. [More…]

• If sons and daughters leave the island and settle on the mainland for a while, should the community let them come back? [More…]

• This will be a very difficult decision for a community such as that on the island to make. [More…]

• But if the introduction of those alleged improvements result in the decay of the society which brings contentment, joy and stability to a community, we must seriously question whether we are working in the best interests of that community. [More…]

• So, on my observation, Norfolk Island appears to have a reasonably balanced community, with its roots in history and a strong desire to remain there. [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…]

• He proceeded to instruct his little community in strict Christian ways and deep abiding loyalty to the British Crown. [More…]

• We should indicate that we understand that that distinctive feeling, that uniqueness, that sense of belonging to Norfolk Island, spreads across the whole of the community, even to the more recent arrivals to that island. [More…]

• They are matters of the most serious concern not only for Pakistan but for the international community. [More…]

• The system of protection that has been constituted through the common agriculture policy of the European Economic Community has had a number of prime regressive effects on world trade. [More…]

• Certainly for primary exporting countries such as Australia and New Zealand the barriers have meant the closure of not only traditional markets in the European Economic Community but also they have meant- through the application of subsidies through the variable levy system, which is quite different from the system applicable to citrus goods in Australia- a build up of surpluses to the detriment of trade in Third World countries, so that the effect of CAP has been both direct in its adversity, in that markets have been closed to traditional exporters, and indirect in that through the subsidising of inefficient producers and the building up of surpluses it has led to the prejudice of traditional and developing markets elsewhere in the world. [More…]

• The reason for the introduction of this form of protection which, as I said, is quite distinct from the variable levy applied in the European Economic Community, because of the presence of an upper limit on the variable levy, has been to ensure that the industry, which is so important in so many major producing areas of this country, should be able to survive against competition from particularly low-cost labour countries in which production has increased significantly. [More…]

• Does this mean that, far from being neutral, the revenue raising procedures adopted by this Government have generated greater inequality of income and exacerbated social tensions in the community? [More…]

• -The Leader of the Opposition has misunderstood my answer and he continues to misunderstand the effect of the present levels of taxation on the Australian community. [More…]

• Too many people in the community believe they have a God given right to a pill and that their doctor is not doing his job unless he prescribes a drug for them. [More…]

• If that was not a criminal act it ought to be deemed one because it robbed people of their savings by using as an incentive for investment the standing and acceptance in the community of people of very great repute. [More…]

• During the past three years in Victoria, approved loans and subsidies of over $55m have been injected into the rural community through the Rural Finance Commission, a truly wonderful friend to the farmer, particularly during the recent rural depression. [More…]

• The Liberal Government in Victoria places great importance on the provision of power for industry and the growth of the community. [More…]

• He found as a fact that too much was paid for this land- and let me quote him- ‘so that the vendors or their intermediaries achieve rewards in excess of what the community thought was fair’. [More…]

• He is a South Sea Islander and has never been deemed part of the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Self-management has been achieved in a real way which no other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island community in Queensland has achieved. [More…]

• The residents of Aurukun and Mornington Island have security of tenure for their land and have been granted their traditional rights in a way which no other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community in Queensland has achieved. [More…]

• These discussions result from a request made to the Commonwealth by the community at Yarrabah to be granted selfmanagement under the Commonwealth Act and also from a request of the Commonwealth Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to negotiate with the Queensland Government for land tenure similar to the tenure that has been obtained in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I am advised that The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Chaney) will be presenting the tide to the freehold property to the people in that community in the very near future. [More…]

• Moves that were judged to be in the community’s interest when oil was $2 a barrel must be reconsidered with oil at $14 a barrel and future supplies uncertain. [More…]

• Although a sufficient period for design maturation of present controls should help, consideration should also be given to in-service retuning programs, to the development of systems less susceptible to maladjustment, to industry and technical training courses and to publicity to increase community awareness. [More…]

• If this Government is responsible and really facing up to energy conservation and community health priorities, it must take notice of this information and advice. [More…]

• A secure and ready availability of energy is an essential pre-requisite for the wellbeing ofthe Australian community. [More…]

• As well as the energy policy advantages I have already mentioned, the crude oil pricing policy brings a substantial return to the community in the form of revenue to the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Deep in any human community is consciousness of its origins and identity and its hopes and resolutions for the future- a consciousness to which it will want to return and dwell upon at particular moments in its history. [More…]

• It will be a time to reflect upon our developing and changing national identity, as a united community transformed in a remarkable way by the migration programs of the years since World War II. [More…]

• It will be a time for weighing the opportunities and the challenges that he ahead as Australia approaches the year 2000 and beyond, and for considering our place in the wider world community. [More…]

• It will, as I have said, be a matter for the Authority to propose for the consideration of governments a theme and a focus for the celebrations and, in doing this, it will need to draw upon the ideas of highly imaginative and creative people within the Australian community. [More…]

• As well, the Authority will be seeking to involve all sections and members ofthe community individually and collectively. [More…]

• The bicentenary is a fitting occasion on which to emphasise those factors- the positive and unifying elements of our community. [More…]

• Our role in a world community has changed very greatly in our own lifetime. [More…]

• It will continue to change and, I believe, to grow steadily in importance- to ourselves, and to that wider world community as well. [More…]

• An additional $3.3m has been included for the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs for the extension of the Community Youth Support Scheme and $3m for the Department of Foreign Affairs for increased contributions under the United Nations High Commission for refugees program of assistance for Indo-Chinese refugees. [More…]

• If the community wants to be critical of this new building it ought to bear in mind that in terms of 1978 dollars we are looking at an expenditure of about $150m and this expenditure will be contained. [More…]

• Let us face it: Those of us who think that we are good at legislating and performing executive functions are not always showered with great plaudits by members of the community. [More…]

• Therefore, when self-government is accepted by a community it must be approached gradually. [More…]

• That is a fair number of people in such a small community. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that the Department of Social Security has appointed Ansett Airlines as official travel consultant to the International Year of the Child National Conference on the Child, the Family and the Community. [More…]

• These have acknowledged most eloquently the value of the assistance that the programs initiated by Frank Stewart brought to hundreds of sporting and community groups. [More…]

• But it is reassuring to see that his efforts have not been forgotten and that there is among sporting and community groups an appreciation of the assistance that he sponsored. [More…]

• I instance in particular the assistance given for physical rehabilitation and for disadvantaged community groups. [More…]

• He was a man of great empathy with the Australian sporting community. [More…]

• I do not think that that can be said of Frank Stewart because the worth of Frank Stewart to the community was recognised long before he passed from this earth. [More…]

• -The seats of Grayndler and St George are adjoining and it was a privilege for me to be with Frank Stewart on community occasions as well as to learn from his contributions in this House. [More…]

• Frank Stewart held the respect of the whole community and had a great personal following. [More…]

• 3 ) Bearing in mind that Mr Boundy with the help of community health services compiled an exhaustive register of all persons of Aboriginal descent living in the Kimberleys based on birth and death dates and location of last contact, can the Minister explain the apparent under-estimate by the Butcher Report. [More…]

• My Department is now gathering population data based on each Aboriginal community or group in these areas and forward planning will be based on this information. [More…]

• I ) What action has the Government taken, or does it intend to take, to implement the recommendations contained in the following Parts of the Toose Independent Inquiry into the Repatriation System received in June 1975: (a) Pan 3, the Repatriation System and the Community, (b) Pan 4, Administration of the Repatriation System, (c) Pan 5, Qualifying Service, (d) part 6, Dependants’ War Pensions, (e) Pan 7, Basis for grant of War Pension, (f) Part 8, Statutory Bodies for Determination of claims, (g) Part 9, Method of Determination of Claims and Appeals, (h) Part 10, [More…]

• Since the tabling of the Report there have been many important changes in health and welfare benefits available to the Australian community. [More…]

• What are the standards for short and long-term measurements of hydro-carbons, oxidants, carbon monoxide and oxides of nitrogen adopted by (a) Japan, (b) the United States, (c) the European Economic Community, (d) Canada, (e) Australia and (f) the WHO. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has not established any air quality standards. [More…]

• The statement of the Bank’s lending policy is a public document and is freely available to members of the farming community. [More…]

• When assessing similar drugs of comparable efficacy and toxicity, in view of the need to maximise value to the community, the Committee may take cognizance of price, but if so merely as a secondary consideration. [More…]

• Mr A. Tsipouras, Commonwealth Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development [More…]

• The Australian Government firmly believes that, in addition to the responsibilities of the countries of first asylum, the international community as a whole has a responsibility to work towards a solution of this problem. [More…]

• In particular, what measures will be taken by the Government to remove the potentially volatile impact of surplus liquidity which will arise from the maturity of the unusually high levels of treasury notes held by the community as well as the Wheat Board commercial bills? [More…]

• Finally I ask: When does the Government propose to introduce its long awaited youth community service scheme? [More…]

• I think such people have always been in difficulty in the community, but it was this Government which did something about the situation. [More…]

• The procedures implemented by the Australian Wheat Board enable the marketing of the crop over the course of 12 months, or longer if need be, thereby bringing significant benefits not just to the wheat industry but to everybody in the Australian community. [More…]

• I have found that this disrupts the community of interest which exists in the suburb of Mr Lawley, and creates a certain amount of confusion in the minds of many residents of this area. [More…]

• Because of the way in which the absence of the Menora sub-division distorts the shape of the Perth seat in this area, and disrupts the substantial community of interest which exists in Mr Lawley, I believe there is a very obvious case to be made for the return of this sub-division to the electorate of Perth, which historically, has always included Menora. [More…]

• The Lockridge sub-division also embraces part of the Swan Valley, a rural area largely devoted to vineyards, and other rural activities, and in which there is a substantial community of interest’. [More…]

• So not only will provision for the comfort and the needs of the community be cut back, but also essential services will be seriously undermined. [More…]

• The Government has no confidence within the community. [More…]

• It destroyed any semblance of credibility it might have had by its abject failure in economic management, by the shambles it has created, by the inordinate level of suffering it has unnecessarily imposed on the community. [More…]

• I pay particular attention to the increased sum being made available for the Community Youth [More…]

• It is good to see that the community has become involved. [More…]

• The other scheme is the Western Canadian grain stabilisation scheme, which is funded on a dollar for dollar basis by the farming community. [More…]

• I make a special appeal to the Cabinet, when framing the Budget, to make sure that the Australian farming community is allowed to compete on equal terms with farmers from other countries. [More…]

• The total amount put in by the American Government to ensure that the farming communities have the same high standard of living as the rest of the community and to make sure that the input is sufficient to enable its 2.7 million farmers to be viable competitors on the world market is $6, 130m. [More…]

• Therefore it is difficult to isolate the Australian farming community from the assistance that is given by other countries to their farmers. [More…]

• In effect, it is going to wield the axe on the Australian farming community. [More…]

• It is a matter of very great distress to the Aboriginal community and especially to those who are involved in Aboriginal organisations, that the amount allocated for the National Aboriginal Conference has been reduced by $323,000 or 64 per cent. [More…]

• These people and those in many other sections of the community must feel that the situation is serious when, after the Government has said that the sacrifices they were called on to make were justified because inflation would be brought down, we have now established that that is not the case. [More…]

• We of the Fraser Government inherited a changed set of community expectations, some beneficial, some otherwise. [More…]

• Inflation stimulates only when that inflation is unexpected .The business community had learned to expect rates of inflation and could not be fooled by inflation that was induced by government action. [More…]

• There is no way that the needs of the poor in our community will be satisfied while we are prepared, to use an expression that has already been used today, to transfer funds from the rich to the rich. [More…]

• Export Now programs, export incentives schemes, bounties, tariffs, preferential government purchasing and concessional lending arrangements are all paid for by others in the community. [More…]

• Substantial progress has been made in recent weeks in the negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The visit I made to Europe in March involved a number of discussions with Vice-President Gundelach who is also the Agricultural Commissioner of the Community, and a number of key Ministers of the nine member countries. [More…]

• During those discussions I stressed the need for long term access and significant relief from the restrictions which the Community has placed on our trade. [More…]

• Further, negotiations which I expect to be held with Mr Gundelach at the end of this month should give Australia better prospects for improved long term exports to the Community. [More…]

• For instance, recently the Community limited the volume of imports of apples by imposing a so-called voluntary restraint during a period when exporters from the southern hemisphere normally would be able to export freely. [More…]

• I believe that the criticism in Queensland of IEDs is totally unjustified and that IEDs are a very worthwhile investment for the rural sector in the interests of both the individual land holder who has the facility to withdraw the money in a bad year and the rural community generally. [More…]

• The mentioning of it would be unduly sensitively received not by the community as a whole but only by those who hold a doctrinaire commitment to socialism or something of that nature. [More…]

• The terms of reference should clearly state that the committee of inquiry must give special attention to the effect of any changes in the Australian financial system on disadvantaged community groups and the functioning of social welfare policies. [More…]

• The Commission’s tender for Laurell Downs Station on behalf of the Junjuwah Community was unsuccessful, even though its purchase offer was $5,000 above the highest bid received. [More…]

• The injustice is even greater when one considers that the community wished to use the small piece of land as a training centre for pastoral and agricultural work. [More…]

• A request by the Lombadina Community for an area of vacant Crown land adjoining their reserve still has not been granted, even though the land formerly held temporary reserve status and the community has vastly improved that land by sinking bores, et cetera. [More…]

• They will not be entirely to the betterment of the community, might I suggest. [More…]

• The irony of the situation is that the more effective are the measures proposed in the current Bill the more pressure will be exerted upon those community activities which I have mentioned which also attack the problem at which this Bill is directed. [More…]

• These other community responses, regrettably, will be rendered ineffective. [More…]

• The total effect may be that nothing is achieved unless these other community responses are also strengthened at the same time. [More…]

• Certainly there is no cheap way out for the community in its battle with the problem of drug abuse and in particular the abuse of such dangerous drugs as heroin and the other narcotics. [More…]

• It gives these people a sense of identity and purpose in life which is lacking for them in the normal pursuits of the rest of the community. [More…]

• It follows therefore that if we wish to prevent our young people from immersing themselves in the dead-end satisfactions and pleasures of drugs we must compete, as a community, with the rewards, thrills and pleasures of drug taking. [More…]

• We need to develop in our community a sense of national identity, direction and purpose. [More…]

• Obviously this will cost money, but if it is well done it will be money saved since a community in which people are able to realise and develop their full potentialwhether physically, mentally or socially- will be a healthy community where the costs of repairing the self-damage to health by people will be greatly reduced. [More…]

• We cannot make laws for individuals or for certain sections of the community. [More…]

• Over the last 12 months I have been conducting a drug awareness program for one of the community service groups. [More…]

• I believe that we really need to have a firm social attitude throughout the whole community against all drugs of addiction. [More…]

• I must confess that I speak as one of a small minority of wowsers in this community. [More…]

• We might ask if the market of the analgesic manufacture is to be applauded for sound business practice because it makes a profit, or do we say: ‘No, we have got to measure the destruction of human kidneys and so on when we are considering the way the community is going’? [More…]

• It is essential that there is legislation permitting and controlling the use of these techniques and equipment and penalties which not only reflect the Government’s and the community’s concern but also hopefully will act as a deterrent to some or just reparation for others who do not heed the warning. [More…]

• I regret that these measures will result in some slight delay and inconvenience to members of the travelling public, the major proportion of whom are not associated in any way with narcotics, but as the narcotics problem is affecting the community at large the initiatives now proposed are necessary in the public interest. [More…]

• Early in the year there was a spirit shortage in Spain, but attempts to sell to that country were quickly stopped by the European Economic Community, who, on hearing of the proposed sale, immediately placed a 55c per litre import duty on the spirit. [More…]

• We have great problems in trying to gain access for our wine to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Producers in the Community are heavily subsidised. [More…]

• We would develop community health and medical centres to provide a full range of medical services. [More…]

• I find it surprising and incredible that a government of this political complexion which talks about and against the evils of centralism seems to be hell-bent on transferring whole sections of important government departments from major metropolitan centres, where they are immensely relevant to both the business community and the provision of services, to Canberra. [More…]

• There is widespread concern amongst parents and teachers within preschools and also within the community, which in many cases has supported not only the building of preschools but also their operation. [More…]

• This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity since the beginning of time. [More…]

• However, I am sick and tired of people standing in this House and other places and referring to people in the community as ‘ratbags’ and ‘lunatics’, which was the description applied today to a radio commentator, Mr Laws, in a speech made in this House by the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr John Brown). [More…]

• Whether Mr Laws is a ratbag or a lunatic I do not know, but I take this opportunity, for about the twentieth time in a parliamentary career going back to 1 966, to say that if members of this Parliament are going to use parliamentary privilege to smear and defame citizens in the community, they will have only themselves to blame if the community treats this Parliament with contempt. [More…]

• How any parliament can ask for the respect of the community when it defames decent citizens in this manner is completely and absolutely beyond my comprehension. [More…]

• 7250; (c) Community and Civic Affairs; (d) 16.8.62-30.6.63, 1.7.63-30.6.66, 1.7.66-30.6.69, 1.7.69-30.6.72, 1.7.72-30.6.75. [More…]

• Box D190, Perth, WA 6001; (c) Community and Civic Affairs; (d) 11.8.78-10.8.81. [More…]

• What efforts are being made by the island community to promote Norfolk Island as a tourist destination. [More…]

• In what way will the Community Youth Support Scheme be affected by the introduction of the proposed Voluntary Youth Community Support Scheme. [More…]

• It is not yet possible to indicate what effect the proposed Voluntary Youth Community Service Scheme might have upon the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Should the Government decide to introduce measures to foster the undertaking of Voluntary Community Service by unemployed young people, then its decision will ensure that the new measures are appropriately co-ordinated with existing manpower programs, including the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that since the disbandonment of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development a number of unattached previous officers of that Department have applied for positions in his Department. [More…]

• The Minister for Science and the Environment has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: ( 1), (2) and (3) The report of the Australian Littoral Society was received in April 1978 and released publicly with the approval of the responsible NSW Minister and the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• They have placed home ownership clearly within the reach of many more people within the Australian community and they are leading to a good, solid and steady recovery in the building and construction industry in Australia. [More…]

• The tragedy is that all this cost will be imposed on the motorist, probably without any general good at all to the health of the New South Wales community. [More…]

• He pointed out that if we could get the International Sugar Agreement ratified by the United States- and, of course, if the European Economic Community would show a sensible approach to the Agreement- there would be a more beneficial effect on the developing countries than there is with all the aid given by the United States and Australia. [More…]

• In 1974 the problems of our beef producers were worsened by the precipitate imposition of total bans on meat imports by Japan and the European Economic Community, compounded by the introduction of restrictive quotas by Canada in the same year. [More…]

• Further incomplete bilateral negotiations with the European Economic Community remain. [More…]

• Of course some firms in our community do not need stimulus from government to ensure that there is proper employee participation. [More…]

• I am making the point about any additional benefit to a judge for service of say, less than seven years, which might be considered where an appointment has been made late in life and he cannot reach the period for which these entitlements accrue, that at a time when there is a feeling that there should be restraint in the community and at a time when this Parliament has approved annual indexation of pensions as opposed to six-monthly indexation of pensions- my position on that is well known and clearly understood because I voted against it, as I believed I was obliged to vote- it might well be argued that the provision of additional benefits for the judiciary is inappropriate. [More…]

• It is not prepared to accept this formula as a proper standard to apply to the judiciary, particularly at a time when every other section of the community is being called upon to make economic sacrifices. [More…]

• There are those who would argue that in the first place, the income these prominent people receive is far too high, having regard to their real role in and the contribution they make to the community. [More…]

• To say that there has been a reduction in salary, that we as a parliament should close our eyes to the principle upon which long service leave entitlements ought to be paid in this community and to the principle of long service leave as a concept, because we are dealing with these exalted gentleman who sit on the Bench, I do not believe is a standard that is appropriate to this Parliament. [More…]

• Given the movement that is taking place and the social pressures that are being generated within our community I would have thought that there were compelling reasons for all judges to be given long service leave after an appropriate period of service, but given that leave so that they can free themselves from the pressures of sitting in a court on a day-to-day basis. [More…]

• They could sit back, pause, reflect and think about the changes in society, as there are pressures imposed on those who have the heavy responsibility for interpreting our laws and trying to make the laws work in a way that is appropriate to meet the needs of our community. [More…]

• Again I would like to remind this House that the pensioners in this community have been told that because of problems in the economy and the economic sacrifice that we all must make, they are not entitled to have their pensions indexed. [More…]

• It would have been a superb opportunity for this Parliament to say quite clearly to the rest of the community that when we are talking about economic sacrifice in this community that sacrifice ought to start at the top; the more exalted the position, the higher the level of salary, if we are serious about economic sacrifice, that is where sacrifice ought to start. [More…]

• It has taken the way out which will not not have much appeal to those citizens in Australian society who believe that there has to be a measure of social justice in our community, that economic sacrifice ought to begin at the highest levels of our community, and not at the bottom. [More…]

• Previous speakers have highlighted the fact that in no other section of the community would 5.2 weeks long service leave be granted for every year served. [More…]

• There is no escaping the fact that an appointment to the bench is more dependent upon a political smile than perhaps any other job in the community. [More…]

• This speech is made in what I believe to be a climate of general acceptance by the community that legal expenses can be so devastating for the individual that in some instances governments must play a role in absorbing some or all of the impact to ensure justice is within reach. [More…]

• If a man has acquired position and standing in our community, does it mean that Treasury is his oyster upon the legality of some action of his being challenged and the matter moving to a court situation? [More…]

• Some segments of the community will regard some payments as only a raid on the privy purse to plunder and loot public moneys. [More…]

• I strongly suspect that some lawyers are little different by nature from some people in our community who adopt the attitude that when the government pays, whacko, the sky is the limit. [More…]

• It would be unjust of me not to acknowledge the presence in our community of many lawyers who often charge fees below their entitlement and who frequently feel a sense of embarrassment when fee demands become public knowledge. [More…]

• The flow of the tourist dollars throughout the length of the community is considerable indeed. [More…]

• -The debate on the report of the Select Committee on Tourism and the Government’s ministerial statement is a most important one not only for the tourist industry but also for all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• This involvement has engendered, and will continue to engender, a great deal of community participation, interest and debate on the various issues that were raised in the report, were referred to in the statement and which have been highlighted in the debate in this House. [More…]

• I believe that the tough negotiations which have been undertaken have displayed clearly, not only to the Australian community, but also to so many countries around the world which have a stake in tourism, that we mean business. [More…]

• The people of Australia, indeed the world community, are watching our handling of the marine park. [More…]

• He pointed out to the Prime Minister that there had been a swing against the Liberal Party by the Greek community in the St George electorate. [More…]

• The Federal Government is concerned at evidence of an erosion of support for the Liberal Party in the Greek community. [More…]

• There is a large Greek community in the seat and in the by-election there was a heavy swing to Labor. [More…]

• He told me how he had always tried to relate to the Chinese community in his own area and he was supporting me in the opening of the restaurant. [More…]

• The simple fact is that this was a very pleasant and reasonable community occasion of a perfectly simple and ordinary nature, the like of which members of parliament go to regularly in the course of their duties. [More…]

• If he would like to come to the opening of the Rockdale Macedonian community child care centre, which is now being built with a federal government grant of $200,000 in Arncliffe, when the Minister for Social Security opens it in a few months time, and praise the Government, he is more than welcome to come along and be party to those proceedings. [More…]

• It was necessary to bring a degree of confidence back to the Greek community, particularly in view of the disgraceful headlines that they suffered from some of the more sensational Sydney Press. [More…]

• The newspapers were to blame for the serious shock and upset that many members of the Greek community in Sydney felt. [More…]

• I stayed at their family home at Kingaroy after Charles asked me if I would go there to try to explain to the farming community what I had done to improve the returns of milk and butter producers. [More…]

• lt is about time that some people on the other side of the House understood that if a person enters into an arrangement with a proper commercial objective, and implements it in a way that attracts the least amount of tax, that does not, in the minds of a great number of people in the community, constitute a tax avoidance scheme. [More…]

• The honourable member for Newcastle has been a member of this House long enough to know that at this time of the year there starts a process of speculation, innuendo, rumour and suggestion, a great amount of which is designed not to promote productive debate on economic or social issues in Australia but rather to cause unnecessary panic and distress in sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• Is not this appointment a gross insult to police officers in Australia and to the Australian community? [More…]

• A national press campaign is being conducted in April and May aimed at stimulating employers to lodge SYETP vacancies with the CES and informing the community in general about the program and identifying the target group. [More…]

• Accordingly he comes before the Parliament and periodically before the nation on television assuring the community that there will be a royal commission of inquiry into the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• The Minister is a sort of Graeme Wood of Australian politics: He keeps running himself out by making false promises to the community. [More…]

• This Government’s record is built on such depressing achievements as the closure of 3ZZ, a community radio station. [More…]

• Category C low powered community station licences continue in a state of suspense- presumably permanent suspense. [More…]

• It is quite clear from an assessment of these factors that the Government is being restrained because of pressure which is coming from commercial interests in radio and television in the community. [More…]

• It is little wonder that with this sort of system there is widespread discontent among ethnic groups in the community. [More…]

• Overall, the impression is that of a national community which is disgusted with the content and the quality of television programs. [More…]

• The broadcasting tribunal is falling apart and has very little credibility, if any, left in the community. [More…]

• So rather than offend the commercial broadcasters, and in spite of the need to serve the community and broadcasting generally, the proposition appears to have been scrapped. [More…]

• The functioning of the Tribunal has been discouraging to anyone who has been hopeful that there would be a fairer, more impartial and effective overview of the way in which commercial radio and television function in this community and their responsibilities to the community would be fulfilled. [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…]

• I think that it is agreed all around the community that efforts made in the past simply have not been good enough. [More…]

• I have said before in this House that these are vital matters, which should concern all Australians, on which I will seek the views of the Tribunal and interested members of the community. [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…]

• We had undertaken a whole range of initiatives- the development of frequency modulation radio, which had been put aside for years because of commercial fears; the beginnings of ethnic broadcasting and the provision of much greater community access to the air waves through the development of public broadcasting. [More…]

• When they see developing a situation of numerous so-called interest groups within the community putting up submissions and claims that bear no relevance whatsoever to the particular hearing in process, they naturally look at their position with some concern and so seek legal counsel. [More…]

• However, there has obviously been gross misunderstanding on the part of the community at large. [More…]

• I see that there needs to be two arms, one specifically relating to the licence hearing and the other to provide an opportunity for all members of the community who have had their submissions rejected. [More…]

• Far from opposing the proposition in this Bill that a bounty be accorded, I welcome it because I believe in a general sense that if we are to have in Australia, as we have to have, for manufacturing and other industries a reasonable level of protection to the extent that that is done through the public purse by way of bounty rather than in the more hidden way of tariffs or other assistance which is paid by the direct consumer of the products concerned rather than by the community as a whole, then 1 think that the bounty route is by far the more preferable to follow. [More…]

• Given that those decisions are generally taken in the national interest, the nation, broadly based through the taxpaying community, should bear the cost of that assistance rather than the consumer of the particular products. [More…]

• However, in the end I believe it is a more honest route to follow and one which, in terms of overall resource allocation throughout the community as a whole, is desirable. [More…]

• Further, it takes into account the overall national interest and Australia’s obligation as a responsible member of the international community. [More…]

• A report on the economic development of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory was to be followed by a later report on how the money flow might be regulated to increase community self-sufficiency. [More…]

• Mr Turnbull argued the very reverse; that the cash flow channelled through Aboriginal communities for community purposes would be the major boost to the Northern Territory economy. [More…]

• It is suggesting the replacement of the unwieldy and centralised bureaucracy which now allegedly administers Aboriginal affairs, to the great frustration of Aboriginals and their community, by selfmanagement, which is the policy of all major parties in this country but which, in this regard at least, has not been carried out. [More…]

• Mr Turnbull quotes Aboriginal attitudes to land, to community, to corroboree and to belief, which bind together the Aboriginal world. [More…]

• What effect will the new interest rate have on overall interest rates within the Australian community? [More…]

• Will the Minister reject that advice, which would be ridiculed by the business community and would worsen government-business relations, and support instead, as has been anticipated already, a preferable compromise, namely, a State capital with a relatively large, thriving business community, already the home of a number of national head offices- a relatively central city with good communications to and from the main centres - [More…]

• Those in the community who believe that our concern about the size of deficits is just a technical and fanciful concern, that they have no real economic impact, ought to understand that the ever-increasing demands that governments make on capital markets in Australia have a very adverse effect on the private interest rate structure. [More…]

• When an issue as important as the Atomic Energy Act comes on for debate, when five honourable members on this side of the House and three honourable members on the other side of the House are listed to speak, and when the debate is proceeding normally on an issue in relation to which there is genuine division and concern in the Australian community, the House cannot function in the circumstance of the Government Whip, acting either on whim - [More…]

• I think that it is of great concern to every member of parliament and, of course, to everybody in the community that such unnecessarily high numbers of people are being killed on the roads. [More…]

• They catch public transport because they feel that they have caused people in the community to suffer such an injustice and such sadness that they just cannot go back to driving a motor vehicle. [More…]

• Young people at a very early age should be made aware of the fact that, if they drink and drive a motor vehicle, they place themselves and many other people in the community at risk. [More…]

• -Dealing first with the matters that have been raised by the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James), I suggest that it would be valuable for any member of the community to see the current films dealing with the Vietnam war, including The Odd Angry Shot, The Deer Hunter, and Coming Home, which is an anti-war film. [More…]

• As to the question of atrocities, nobody in a civilised community, or in his right mind, would fail to condemn the atrocities that occurred in that war, and on the evidence they occurred on both sides. [More…]

• They would not join in the international community activities to stem the flow of refugees. [More…]

• People in Australia want the country to develop as a free enterprise, democratic community in which both compassion and competence are delivered to the people by the Government. [More…]

• Fortunately Mr Wran, because of his great stature in the community, was able to a great extent to quell those rumours and order was restored. [More…]

• Are we to condone a resurgence of violence by groups who seek to continue their political warfare in Australia and create divisions that will inflame the latent racism in our community? [More…]

• In response to many representations made by honourable members and to requests from organisations within the community, the Government has decided to extend the free issue of the National Flag. [More…]

• In addition to the categories I have already mentioned, from 1 July 1979 the following groups will also be eligible to apply for the free issue of the National Flag: Community service groups including ex-service, Apex, Lions, Rotary, senior citizens’ and the Country Women’s Association; benevolent and welfare organisations including Red Cross and Legacy; homes for handicapped persons. [More…]

• -by leave-The extension of the rules on flags will take away what is a small difficulty in the community with regard to elderly citizens clubs and other groups who are regularly making requests. [More…]

• I hope that the category of community organisations will be interpreted liberally. [More…]

• In acceding to the request that it raise the further $300m commercially the Chairman stated that the Board’s decision was taken in the interests of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• The arrangements are designed so that the whole of the Australian community can benefit from the higher price which will be obtained as a result of the Wheat Board being able to sell this record crop over a reasonable period. [More…]

• If the Government were not to have those types of financing arrangements, not just wheat growers but the whole Australian community would suffer. [More…]

• In the case of the Australian Capital Territory, it provides that a Police Liaison Advisory Council is to be established to advise the Minister upon community policing matters in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Apart from the provisions now incorporated in the Agreement to include the mayors of Albury and Wodonga and a businessman of national standing on the Corporation, the Ministerial Council has also decided that the role of the range of community advisory committees that have been established to support the Corporation should be strengthened and enhanced. [More…]

• The Ministerial Council believes that these measures will ensure that the relationship between the Corporation and Councils is strengthened without in any way affecting the access of interested community groups on the advisory committees to the Corporation. [More…]

• I understand that the measures that I have outlined were announced in the growth centre some time ago and that they have received general community support. [More…]

• This is consistent with the Government’s desire to provide community access to information at the lowest possible cost. [More…]

• In the 2 1 years since the Migration Act was passed the character of the Australian community has markedly changed, with radical amendment to immigration policies and in the volume and nature of movements into and out of Australia. [More…]

• The basic mechanisms for controlling entry and residence must reflect the attitudes and interests of the community. [More…]

• They must operate to protect the community from the entry and residence of people the community does not wish to enter Australia or remain here as residents. [More…]

• Indeed, there are those in the community who actively encourage people to break the law and evade controls and who find prohibited immigrants a lucrative source of income. [More…]

• The fact that the Australian community is now barely reproducing itself must recommend an effective immigration policy and program to all persons who genuinely have the future welfare of this nation in mind. [More…]

• In this I am sure it has the support of all honourable members as well as the general community. [More…]

• There must be limits to our community tolerance of such matters. [More…]

• Each of the three industries to which these Bills apply would like nothing more than a return of community confidence. [More…]

• I am sure that those industries would prefer a return of community confidence to the temporary sort of assistance provided by the bounties. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that a government which has spent some time and money through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in an endeavour to establish within the community the very special relationship that exists between art Aboriginal and his land should introduce this legislation. [More…]

• I make that point because in our community if the government of the day decides that it will compulsorily acquire a house or a property for its own use, whatever payment is made to the owner of that house or land is made on the basis of compensation, and as compensation it is clearly not taxable. [More…]

• They also saw it as compensation for the problems which would arise subsequently for their communities by virtue of the attitude of this Government, the attitude of a dominant Western-oriented community which says: ‘There is mineral wealth in your land and, no matter what you say, it is going to be developed. [More…]

• In almost every issue of the Australian Financial Review and many of the other financial journals one will find advertisements by professional accountants and other people advising individuals in our community how they can avoid paying income tax. [More…]

• I do not think that they are good principles to operate in terms of a dominant white community. [More…]

• In fact the taxation is much lower in terms of its quantum than any other group in the community might be called upon to pay. [More…]

• Obviously, the honourable member for Capricornia had not read the second report when he referred in his speech during the second reading debate to a report on the economic development of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and said that it was to be followed by a further report on how the money might flow and might be regulated to increase community self-sufficiency. [More…]

• Those honourable members opposite who think that we have gone too far should take a look at a Northern Territory community. [More…]

• Another 30 per cent of the money goes to the traditional land owning community- not into the individual pockets of members of those communities but into the incorporated bodies which represent those communities. [More…]

• That money, presumably- as has been the case at Yirrkala- is spent on community activities and on building a capital infrastructure to assist the community as a whole. [More…]

• So again, even the money that goes directly to the community does not go into the pockets of individual members of those communities but is spent to the benefit of the community as a whole and finds its way into the wider Northern Territory and Australian communities. [More…]

• That money is dispensed throughout the Territory to various community organisations. [More…]

• My friends opposite often say that in these circumstances you cannot treat Aboriginal people differently from the rest of the community. [More…]

• Evidence has been given to a Select Committee on the effects of drinking alcohol within the coloured community. [More…]

• In conclusion I come back to the social, financial and other consequences that royalties will impose on the coloured community of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• All I am saying is that if there is going to be a uranium mine it seems to me that the community as a whole ought to benefit. [More…]

• But the only way that the whole of the Northern Territory community would be able to benefit would be indirectly through the royalties which the Aboriginal people, via the Northern Land Council, were going to obtain. [More…]

• The presently accepted standards for (a) hydrocarbons, (b) oxides of nitrogen and (c) carbon monoxide in motor vehicle emissions in (i) Australia, (ii) the United States, (iii) the European Economic Community, (iv) Japan and (v) Canada are shown in the following tables. [More…]

• and (b) I am informed that all the detailed information sought by the honourable member in relation to the Community Health Program and School Dental Scheme is not readily available in the format sought. [More…]

• However, should the honourable member seek such information in relation to specific Community Health Program projects or the School Dental Scheme, I will obtain that information for him promptly. [More…]

• and (d) Set out in the tables are details of staffing and services provided for each approved Community Health Program project, by Federal Electoral Division, and for those Community Health Program projects which operate on a Statewide basis. [More…]

• It should be noted that many Community Health Program projects provide services in more than one Federal Electoral Division, and such projects are indicated with an asterisk (*). [More…]

• Staffing information provided represents the level of staffing approved for the purposes of Commonwealth funding under the Community Health Program, and do not necessarily represent staffing positions occupied. [More…]

• Because of the volume of information required to answer the honourable member’s question, the tables detailing approved community health projects, in each electorate and the projects approved for funding under the School Dental Scheme in each electorate will not be published in Hansard. [More…]

• I have also sent to each honourable member, details of Community Health Program projects in his electorate and in his State, and details of School Dental Scheme projects throughout Australia. [More…]

• Of course, there is a number of cost pressures in the Australian community at present. [More…]

• It is threatening its own industry and the community with quite unnecessary disruption because it may be unhappy with a decision which has not yet been made. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that if this service were to be discontinued most of these old people would graduate to a public hospital or a nursing home at enormous economic cost to the Government and at great humanitarian shame to the community? [More…]

• This Government believes in encouraging people in the community to try to help those less fortunate than themselves rather than leave all welfare on the shoulders of big brother government. [More…]

• we are just being narks to try and push people who, and it is the whole community not just the Government, but there are large numbers of people in the community who feel very strongly about it, that this young kid really doesn’t want to work, we ought to chase him and make him work. [More…]

• I venture to suggest that a great many people in the community do not accept the proposition of the honourable gentleman and do not believe that surfies should be allowed by their own choice not to try to get a job. [More…]

• Having attended that conference at Penrith, I was rather interested to read of the remarks by the Leader of the Opposition about certain people in the community who were proposing that people who want to follow an alternative lifestyle should be allowed to do so at the expense of the Government. [More…]

• What does concern people is the way that there can be massive alienation in the community from a Government which should have responsibility for very serious economic management matters at a time of crucial economic concern. [More…]

• The fact is that in three years, although average weekly earnings under the Fraser Government increased by 31 per cent, pay-as-you-earn income tax increased by 47 per cent, a much faster rate than actual income increased for people in the community. [More…]

• If the Treasurer were genuine in expressing concern about the need to eliminate tax avoidance- I understand, he has estimated that this costs the community some $3,000m in lost revenue in the course of a year- he would do what has been done in Great Britain and introduce a legislative provision with retrospective effect. [More…]

• When that is done the vast majority of people in the community who are ripped-off by this Government’s taxation policies will have a far better chance of making ends meet and of avoiding the depression of living standards that they have had to bear. [More…]

• In the matter of tax indexation, the Government has given firm pledges that the community would have full income tax indexation. [More…]

• The claim of the Government before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on the national wage case makes it clear that the Government wants wages discounted by the increase in charges imposed on the community by Government measures- that is, by 1.9 per cent. [More…]

• That is a total cost of $260 m. All these factors benefit those who are largely much better off than the great majority of people in the community. [More…]

• Because it is pandering to preferred groups, the wealthy groups that represent a minority in the community, and because it wants to protect privilege, the Government is going to make the rest of the community pay. [More…]

• By abolishing death duties a substantial advantage goes to a few people, but it has to be paid for by the rest of the community. [More…]

• The fact that only 750 estates worth more than $200,000 each on average have been exempted from death duties means that the rest of the community has to make up the shortfall. [More…]

• That is why the community is going to have to pay more tax. [More…]

• Some $120m of that amount which goes to gross profits next year comes directly from revenue otherwise available to the community. [More…]

• We say that those who have been escaping for so long, those who have so much wealth available to them and who are not paying tax on large amounts, as happens with capital gains, ought to be paying instead of the average income earners in the community. [More…]

• Even the Leader of the Opposition and his economic followers know as well as I do that the capacity of a government to provide transfer payments, to provide public services and to function as a government is related directly to the revenue raising effort it is prepared to undertake and the revenue raising effort that the community is prepared to put up with. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that we on this side of the House have demonstrated, whatever the test, that we believe in smaller government, we believe in making less demands on the community through taxation and imposts and we believe in giving to the individual in society a greater capacity to make decisions as to how he or she will dispose of his or her individual income. [More…]

• It is, perhaps, not going too far to say that the tax paying community of Australia almost went mad in its rush to become a party to a tax avoidance scheme. [More…]

• This discussion on taxation today is a matter of public importance because taxation is the fuel for the running of the government sector of the community. [More…]

• Honourable members will appreciate that there have been substantial changes to the overall management of the intelligence community following the Prime Minister’s statement to the House of 5 May 1977 outlining new intelligence and security arrangements in accordance with the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security. [More…]

• A key aspect of the new system is that the budget of the community is scrutinised by senior officials outside of the intelligence community. [More…]

• I can report to Parliament that this new system, recommended by Mr Justice Hope, has brought substantial improvements to the overall management of the intelligence community and has prompted a range of on-going reforms. [More…]

• In the most recent international crisis affecting Australia’s neighbourhood, our intelligence was both timely and relevant and the assessments of our intelligence community accurate. [More…]

• We have seen a breakdown in the service that the Commonwealth is supposed to give the community. [More…]

• The community is now receiving the worst service, by virtue of this Government’s imposition of staff ceilings, that it has received from any government of this country. [More…]

• In order to save money by not sending a telegram to the person seeking employment this Government says: ‘Let us use the whole community. [More…]

• Although some progress is being made in relation to rubber, the International Sugar Agreement is in jeopardy because of the attitude of the European Economic Community, while the United States Administration is experiencing great difficulty in having the agreement ratified by the United States Congress. [More…]

• 14 a head of Australia’s population compared with 63c in the United States, 51c for the European Economic Community and 25c for Japan. [More…]

• One particular point of interest raised in the course of our discussions was Mr Ohira ‘s concept of a Pacific Basin Community in which there would be closer regional co-operation and dialogue amongst Pacific nations. [More…]

• There is clear evidence in the community todaynot just in the Australian community but in the community of developed countries- that a certain cynicism is seeping through about ideas which are put forward to assist developing countries develop. [More…]

• I believe that Australian industry and the Australian community has a right to know what specifically is proposed in relation to protectionism and structural adjustment and what implications those proposals have for Australian manufacturing industry. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian community is entitled to some detail about the implications of these matters. [More…]

• Indeed, one can take a line through the Government’s policy on staff ceilings in looking at its general attitude to the role of the Public Service in providing a proper service to the community of Australia. [More…]

• It draws the attention of the Parliament to the irrational staff cuts that have taken place and how they are affecting people in the community. [More…]

• But all the Government has done in reducing the number of staff in the Public Service is ensured that the community has a worse service and that the people in the Public Service cannot carry out their duties. [More…]

• We join with members of the Commonwealth Public Service who believe that the manner in which this Bill is drafted leaves open to a government which has shown no sincerity at all to its own employees, powers that will politicise the Public Service in a way which is totally unacceptable to the Australian community, and a way which was never intended by the people who formed these parliaments that the Public Service should be used. [More…]

• If the Fraser Administration politicises the Public Service in the standover way in which this Bill is drafted, it will be a very dark day indeed, not just for the public servants of Australia but for the whole Australian community. [More…]

• It wants to apply the same philosophy it has applied in endeavouring to bring employees to heel both in the private and public sectors of the community. [More…]

• I believe there are benefits for the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• I cannot, no member of the Australian Labor Party can and, I might say, more than half of the Australian community cannot. [More…]

• Upon receipt of this advice Mr Gillard was questioned by officers of the Region where it was stated that formal advice had been received from officers of the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development that this program of assistance was not available in metropolitan situations. [More…]

• A reduced level of economic growth in turn makes it more difficult for the community as a whole, generally working through the Government, to provide those welfare, education, health, and other services that modern communities seem increasingly to demand. [More…]

• Both the church community and the welfare authorities in my area have said that there seems to be some misunderstanding as to who is responsible for action in this field. [More…]

• The following ‘Job Description’ for community advisers located on pastoral properties was drawn up when the scheme was originally established in1969 by the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration, and would have been given to Mrs Tapp on her appointment: [More…]

• Carry out such other activities as may be necessary to further the advancement of Aboriginal women to standards acceptable to the wider Australian community. [More…]

• ) Did he state in an undated foreword to a phamphlet issued by his Department entitled ‘Industrial Relations, A policy for the People’ that all of the Government’s industrial relations policies have been developed in a spirit of consultation to promote understanding and consensus in the interests of employers, employees and the community. [More…]

• Were the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act, the Public Service Arbitration Amendment Act and the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Amendment Act examples of consultation to promote understanding and consensus in the interests of employers, employees and the community. [More…]

• In reaching a decision to close a nonofficial post office, Australia Post takes into account a variety of factors, including the volume of business handled at the office, the likely level of business in the future, the general trend of development in the area, the effect the closure is likely to have on the local community and the non-official postmaster and the capacity of the postal network and the alternative facilities in the area to meet the needs of local residents. [More…]

• It assesses these by interactions and discussions not only wth interested sectors, but also with the broad community as was exemplified in the activities leading to the publications Telecom 2000 and Outcomes of Telecom 2000. [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Annerley, Queensland, Community Youth Support Scheme project to be disbanded. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the fact that Mazda dealers throughout Australia have circulated a statement nationwide indicating that the effect of the increase in duty from 45 per cent to 57.5 per cent on imported cars was obviously not known or understood by the Minister for Industry and Commerce or the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who forwarded printergrams to Mazda dealers in their electorates, pointing out how beneficial the Budget had been for them. [More…]

• In relation to the type and structure of Australia’s taxation system, the honourable gentleman’s question invites a very general response because there are, as the honourable gentleman knows, different views in the community about our taxation system. [More…]

• These views are not the views that may be universally shared by everybody in the community. [More…]

• Part of the legitimate process of the IAC is that there should be an opportunity for all sectors of the community to make representations and, as a result of those representations, for the IAC to produce the outcome of its deliberations in the form of a draft report. [More…]

• The committee of review will invite submissions from all sectors of the community. [More…]

• It was submitted that the ABC’s ability to hold its place as an essential and innovative force within Australian broadcasting was made difficult under the present broad terms of its charter, and a definitive description of the ABC’s role and responsibility to the community was long overdue. [More…]

• It looks to this review as a vehicle whereby the ABC can be made fully aware of the success or otherwise it has had in serving the Australian community. [More…]

• Its statutory responsibility denned in section 59 of the Broadcasting and Television Act is that it shall provide ‘adequate and comprehensive programs and shall take in the interests of the community all such measures as, in the opinion of the Commission, are conducive to the full development of suitable broadcasting and television programs’. [More…]

• The difficulty we have, of course, is that different people in the community have different views on this aspect. [More…]

• Some people in the community do not seem to realise that there is no such thing as zero risk, and that a risk is involved in everything. [More…]

• There is a residual common sense in the Australian community that would not buy such nonsense for a moment. [More…]

• That is not good enough for the Australian community. [More…]

• It is good enough for the American community to know. [More…]

• The matter is debated openly in the American community. [More…]

• But in 1972 the Australian community finally realised that it had been hoodwinked, with 400 of its sons having been killed in that far-away land. [More…]

• Surely that is not the sort of thing that the Australian community would tolerate. [More…]

• The Government has lost the support of the Australian community and if it continues with its excessive secrecy it will lose the community’s support altogether. [More…]

• They are still saying those things except that there are now fewer and fewer people in the community who are prepared to place any credence on what they say. [More…]

• So, the Liberal Party holds the view that the Australian community is not to be trusted with knowledge relating to the defence of its own land. [More…]

• Well, for the information of the Liberal Party members in this House, I say that the Labor Party does trust the people in the community- and that is disregarding what happened in 1975. [More…]

• The Labor Party trusts the people in the community and it will so far as is possible. [More…]

• Trust the Australian community. [More…]

• He has shown that the Labor Party is prepared to take the Australian community into its confidence and to advise it- and I repeat the words used by Senator Wriedt because they are most important- ‘the general purposes and functions of the bases and any changes to those purposes and functions’. [More…]

• In that way there will be no leeway for the Government to be as untruthful with the Public Service as it has been with every other section of the community. [More…]

• I think this is an increasingly important factor concerning the way that this Government sees the Public Service being utilised and the way in which it wants to give service to the Australian community. [More…]

• We also believe that when the Government puts into operation its policy of rationalising its own work and service to the community, that also should be clarified and the information made available to its employees. [More…]

• In the last Budget, the Prime Minister, who poses as a man of law and order in the community, threatened sackings within the Commonwealth Public Service if the arbitration system awarded pay increases to members of the Public Service. [More…]

• The trouble with the Prime Minister is that he is as confused and as uncertain on these matters as he is unreliable in the quality of the promises that he makes to the Australian community. [More…]

• That is a massive abrogation of the basic rights of people in our community. [More…]

• The proposals would improve the efficiency and job satisfaction in the Australian Public Service and protect the political neutrality of a very important institution serving the Australian community. [More…]

• Let us look at how the legislation compares with severance pay arrangements that have been negotiated in the private sector of the community and which Government members wish to condemn. [More…]

• From the start the Government has simplistically argued for an inflation first strategy apparently being prepared to relegate to second, third or even less important places, the improvement in economic well-being through growth, employment creation, reduction of poverty or the provision of widely needed community services. [More…]

• All pensions and benefits are now below the level necessary to provide a minimal standard of living to provide for effective participation in community life. [More…]

• So much for a Prime Minister who said he was going to govern for the whole community. [More…]

• The Government is also being cruel to the community through other programs. [More…]

• Effective programs for increasing the equity, compassion and attractiveness of our community have been slashed. [More…]

• How long will the community be willing to accept steadily increasing injustice? [More…]

• What the Government has achieved, as I pointed out earlier in this speech, is a growing inequality in this community, and all to no avail. [More…]

• failed to control inflation; (d) reduced living standards of the great majority of the Australian population; (e) severely restricted important government programs, and (f) increased inequality and poverty in the community, and accordingly calls on the Government to produce’ a budget for the next financial year which implements an alternative program designed to promote employment, living standards and equity’. [More…]

• As our community became more wealthy, progressively more and more capital was made available to the productive processes of each workman. [More…]

• While the whole of the world pricing arrangement is in a state of flux it is extremely difficult for the government of any country to know how to give preferred or preferential pricing arrangements to special sections of the community. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware that there are many people in Australia living an alternative community-type lifestyle. [More…]

• The Minister will be further aware that the principle of any responsible government is to direct assistance to the most needy in our community. [More…]

• Will the Minister give a firm assurance that the people who, by choice, live an alternative lifestyle do not receive unemployment benefits at the expense of others in the community who are more deserving? [More…]

• But I think it does hold out the prospects of very significant development of Australia’s coal resources and the prospects also of much greater benefits for the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• At the more general level the situation in the community at the moment is that the banks and building societies have heavily pruned their lending to home buyers except those with large savings accrued over a long period. [More…]

• It is no wonder there is so much nervous tension among a lot of people in our community. [More…]

• Land is a finite resource to be used for the benefit of the community rather than an object of speculative individual interest . [More…]

• Because development rights ensue from government action, it is the community generally and not individual land holders who should reap the benefits accruing from such rights. [More…]

• People, irrespective of where they live in Australia, have a right to expect reasonable access to the full range of community services. [More…]

• The effects of this dispersion of the social structure of cities has to be seen as serious with the fragmentation of people’s lives resulting in the almost complete loss of any sense of local or community identity and the separation of people’s lives into many segments of activity which provide little if any real basis for integration and collective purpose and which involve enormous external costs, particularly in relation to transport. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has consistently put the position that people should not be able to make money from the transfer by public authorities of land from one use to another, that the increment which arises when land is zoned from rural to residential or from residential to commercial or industrial ought to belong to the community as a whole and not be placed in the hands of speculators. [More…]

• The assurances that have been given by the Government, by the Prime Minister, by the Deputy Prime Minister, by me when I was the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, by Senator Webster and by others involved, have been very explicit and unequivocal. [More…]

• I regret very much that he has not enjoyed the support he should expect from some State Ministers, State members of Parliament, members of this Parliament, many responsible community organisations and many members of the public. [More…]

• It is creating circumstances in which decent young people who want to make a contribution to this community are not being allowed to make that contribution because there is a government in power with Fascist tendencies that supports industry with thousands of millions of dollars, but will not support the needs of those kids of this nation. [More…]

• All that it means is that the productive people in the community will pay more through their income tax to support what will be an increasingly unproductive system. [More…]

• That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: whilst not opposing the Bill, the House is of the opinion that the Government stands condemned for continuing to pursue a restrictive fiscal policy which has (a) greatly increased unemployment; (b) restricted economic growth; (c) failed to control inflation; (d) reduced living standards of the great majority of the Australian population; (e) severely restricted important government programs, and (f) increased inequality and poverty in the community, and accordingly calls on the Government to produce a budget for the next financial year which implements an alternative program designed to promote employment, living standards and equity’. [More…]

• In my research of that amendment Bill I discovered great uneasiness amongst organisations in the community, including the Australian Conservation Foundation. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs observes that there is some suspicion in the community that ‘ bludging’ is rampant. [More…]

• Yet, it is exactly the sort of public statements Mr Viner has made, and the gratuitous inquiry into the ‘worktest’ that is to follow which reinforces community myths and prejudices about the integrity of the unemployed. [More…]

• We have the Community Youth Support Scheme which gives some companionship- I guess that is about all- to a handful of people and provides a few grotty little houses around the electorate. [More…]

• Some community youth support schemes do an excellent job due to the people supervising them. [More…]

• I am not here to criticise the schemes one way or another, but my objection to them is that they may somehow convince the community that the Government is doing something about unemployment when we all know that that is absolute nonsense. [More…]

• The other was some crazy scheme whereby service clubs would on community type projects, induce young people to work for nothing other than the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• I wonder how the spread of service clubs or community organisations in the area could properly administrate and implement such an idea. [More…]

• What we are saying is that the employed will have to make some room for the unemployed within the total wages paid within the community and that, if there is to be an increase in employment, those who are already in jobs will have to make some sacrifice. [More…]

• I suggest that our ability as a small nation to compete with the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States for oil when supplies are tight is questionable. [More…]

• Their continued restrictive fiscal policy has produced nothing but harm to our community. [More…]

• One can see from that that, because of the guidelines and the more restrictive attitude taken by this Government, the number of young people able to use the programs has been reduced by two-thirds at a time when youth unemployment is one of the problems causing great concern in the community. [More…]

• That is to the great shame of the Government and the community. [More…]

• It is also a factor in the increasing crime rate in the community, with the consequent social cost in terms of waste. [More…]

• I do not want to detract from the value of that scheme but it does hide the failure of the community and the failure of the Government to look at the problems of the aged, elderly and ill in our community. [More…]

• One matter I mention is the dead hand of this Government with its restrictive fiscal policy on the social consciousness, on the development of this community and on the use of our resources. [More…]

• Tonight the price tag is $ 1,300m and the Australian community will have to pay that out of its pocket. [More…]

• This will inject massive uncertainty and insecurity into the business sector of the community and households throughout Australia, undermining and eroding the functioning of the economy. [More…]

• Only two months ago in this House both the Treasurer and the Prime Minister were reassuring the community that their commitment to abolition of the surcharge, its termination from 1 July, was inviolable. [More…]

• This is the sort of uncertainty that undermines confidence in the community. [More…]

• We introduced it when we were in office- without any apology- to fund programs to benefit the community; to fund them from revenue derived from wealthy mineral development corporations which export most of their products. [More…]

• We have argued that it is being provided at the expense of Australian motorists and the money ought to be reinvested in the community for the benefit of the people iri the community. [More…]

• It is not just anti-rural, anti-farmer in what it has done; it is anti the community. [More…]

• It is particularly discriminatory against the sick in the community. [More…]

• That is the sort of penalty that a conservative government imposes on those in the community with ill health. [More…]

• The cost of living will go up for members of the community. [More…]

• The increased revenue impost and the cuts to existing programs are of the order of $ 1,300m in their cost- a total cost that will have to be borne by the community. [More…]

• The six Bills involve some $100m of revenue forgone and benefit relatively few people in the community. [More…]

• Because these sorts of things have been done, because the Prime Minister has made a number of other commitments involving costs that have to be met by the rest of the community, taxes go up for the average income earner. [More…]

• The debate is catalysed by irregular but frequent changes to health financing arrangements by the Commonwealth Government of the time, sometimes for reasons of community health and welfare and sometimes to help balance the books. [More…]

• A3.2 We do not have any comprehensive data to tell us what is the ‘best’ type of health insurance system, and the best’ possible method of paying doctors, and the ‘best’ method of financing hospitals and other community health services. [More…]

• The long term costs to the community are quite significant. [More…]

• They finish up on the dole and that, in turn, decreases the amount of money that is spent in the Australian community. [More…]

• We should not fall for the easy way out and criticise hospitals and say: ‘Well, too much money is spent on hospitals; we will spend money in community health areas’. [More…]

• I support community health expenditure. [More…]

• I think in the long run it will save the community money, but it is not certain as yet. [More…]

• We should ensure that we do not just finish up transferring jobs from relatively unskilled people to what are often relatively well off middle class people working in community health such as doctors’ wives. [More…]

• Do not let us kid ourselves that the people involved in defending community health and involved in criticising hospitals have not got an axe to grind. [More…]

• The point that I am making is that there should have been a lot more debate in the community. [More…]

• Members of the Labor Party will simply not accept that on such problems as are concerning us now our Government is prepared to consult with grower organisations and to seek a solution that suits the organisations, the Government and the community at large. [More…]

• The fact that the Government introduced measures at the end of last week, following upon some adjustments to interest rate settings also reflecting a change in market circumstances, means that during the winter months before the Budget comes down the Australian community, the business community and the financial world, here and overseas, can know with absolute certainty that the Government’s commitment to its basic objectives is totally unchanged. [More…]

• What steps has the Minister taken to ensure that (a) traditional and State law entitling indigenous people to take traditional foods for their private use is respected, (b) prima facie baseless charges are not placed or (c) penalties are applied for insult to the rights of minority ethnic groups, including repeated discriminatory practices of Queensland officials documented by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I feel sorry also for the people of Australia, because unless we make an intelligent attempt at discussing rationally the matter of improving health care services, unless we come to intelligent decisions which result in helping those people in the community who most need help and unless we give assistance to those areas of health care which most need help from governments, we will not have a good health service. [More…]

• The Labor Government raised health and welfare payments to such levels that some people in the community began to believe that it was their God given right to receive a benefit from the government. [More…]

• We do not support a policy where everybody in the community, regardless of income, is entitled to receive benefits at a high level- at, say, the former highly costly Medibank Mark I level of 85 per cent of the medical benefits fee with the patient paying a maximum of $5. [More…]

• The pensioners and the disadvantaged people in the community can be direct billed to the Department of Health at the taxpayers expense. [More…]

• The rest of the community is covered to a certain level and those people can insure themselves for the balance. [More…]

• Those people in the community who are disadvantaged are being adequately catered for. [More…]

• He referred to the fact that doctors in the community are acting responsibly. [More…]

• No matter what the reason, every section in the community was encouraged to go along to the Government, to build up the whole paraphernalia of government and, in turn, to impose upon the taxpayer on one hand and to resort to gross irresponsibility with respect to the printing presses on the other. [More…]

• The commitment to pensioners, the commitment to wage earners and the commitment to groups in this community connected with health care, have all gone out the window because this Prime Minister cannot be believed. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Howard) made only one reference to unemployment in his speech last Thursday night- one paragraph out of a 35 or 37 minute speech- and all it said was that the Government thought there were a few more people in the community from whom it could take unemployment benefits. [More…]

• More than that, we need another person like Gough Whitlam We have such a person in Bill Hayden, who is honest and decent and whose integrity is accepted within the Australian community. [More…]

• Government members can say what they like about Whitlam and they can say what they like about Hayden, but neither of them tells lies, and they are looked upon in the community as people of integrity and decency, people who try to overcome the problems. [More…]

• It was one of the plans that had some community inspiration. [More…]

• At least the Government could have given them some assistance to establish matters that would be of benefit to their fellows in the community. [More…]

• The Labor Party believes that those who do not work and who do not feel any responsibility to make a contribution to the community have an automatic right to be supported by the workers, by the taxpayers. [More…]

• There is a growing realisation in our community that if spending on health, welfare and other areas continues to grow at recent rates the nation will be crippled economically. [More…]

• They are threatened by the less than complete acceptance by the community of the need to continue restraint on Government spending. [More…]

• It would be bitter irony if the greed of some sections of the work force were to lead to additional costs and to frustration of the very developments which offer expanded job opportunities to less fortunate fellow workers in the community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that he would maintain Medibank and the community health scheme. [More…]

• He undertook not to interfere with the community health program, yet today the block grants are being reduced so dramatically that the community health program now is no longer the scheme that it was originally. [More…]

• However, in framing these revenue measures and significant expenditure cuts, we have sought to avoid penalising particular groups in the community to the benefit of others. [More…]

• Rather our approach has been to ensure that all sections of the Australian community, including the business sector, bear their fare share of the short term sacrifices required in the interests of longer term economic prosperity and growth. [More…]

• We are confident of understanding and support from the business community. [More…]

• In pre-Budget consultations which Ministers have held over the last few weeks with community groups, industry representatives have all stressed that containing inflationary expectations is essential to continuation of this recovery. [More…]

• However, it is the Government’s view that the sacrifices necessary in the fight against inflation must be shared equitably between all sections of the community and these decisions need to be seen in this perspective. [More…]

• I will not say that at every stage since the introduction in 1907 of the minimum wage and those who get big salaries; it has been reasonable in relation to the rest of the community but the facts are that very little of Australian manufacturing industry has been built upon selling its products to the rest of the world. [More…]

• We are told that welfare expenditure is creating a community in which people are waiting for handouts, and that too is rubbish. [More…]

• What is the use of the Australian farming community being among the most economic in the world when it sees its hard-earned dollars being whittled away by people who are irresponsible. [More…]

• Nothing in this economic package will provide full employment or anything like full employment for those in our community who are unemployed. [More…]

• Does anybody seriously believe that the concepts involved in the destruction of Medibank will aid the ill and the infirm in our community? [More…]

• I talk about the package being even-handed because it places a small burden on all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• It hits the business community. [More…]

• That will put a small burden on the business community. [More…]

• It will also put a small burden on the mining community. [More…]

• The package hit at the rural community. [More…]

• It withdrew certain privileges and financial advantages from that community. [More…]

• I think it is fair to mention the selfishness of many sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• It is also fair to mention that the desires of all the different sections of the Australian community cannot possibly be satisfied. [More…]

• Perhaps it is time that we should sit down and think of all those sections of the Australian community that needfinancial assistance. [More…]

• I do not deny their need for it, but I want to point out the impossibility of satisfying all of the financial desires of the Australian community. [More…]

• Let us start by mentioning a few of those sections of the community, not necessarily in order. [More…]

• The aged is a group in the community that I have great sympathy for. [More…]

• I sympathise with all these desires of the community, but I put them forward just to show the absolute impossibility of any government to provide the needs of the community, whether it is a Liberal government or a Labor government- God help us. [More…]

• There is no way in which any government can fully provide the needs of the community. [More…]

• That is why I am pleased that this Government has come down with a package that is economically sound because it is best for the Australian community. [More…]

• Much of the argument put up by the Opposition would indicate that there is no confidence at all in the Australian community at the moment. [More…]

• Our major export market, the United States of America, the European Economic Community and a number of other countries which are either markets or competitors for Australian beef are well on the way to tuberculosis and brucellosis eradication. [More…]

• Under its terms of reference the joint committee is required to take into account all relevant factorseconomic, financial, social, technical, operational, environmental, land use and community attitudes. [More…]

• The comment one has to make is that when the Sydney Morning Herald refers to ‘airport hot air’, it provides a service to the community, because it points out the failure- [More…]

• The introduction of staff ceilings, as part of the Government’s policy of restraining public expenditure, required the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development to closely assess overall priorities. [More…]

• The expenditure of funds for providing safety measures for Commonwealth employees above those of the current general community standard is considered unwarranted. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Trade and Resources report to the House on discussions he has had with the Vice-President of the European Economic Community who is currently visiting Australia? [More…]

• We are very pleased to have Mr Gundelach, who is responsible for the European Economic Community’s agricultural policies, in Australia with a group of officials. [More…]

• It weakened the old and harmed the weak more than anyone else in this community. [More…]

• That is a recognition of the fact that in these days industrial relations affect everybody in the community. [More…]

• It is in everybody’s interest- the community, government employers and employees, to recognise that we have common goals. [More…]

• Members of the Labor Party did not tell us that the IRB is charged also with the responsibility of over-viewing union rules and union actions and that it can take action in the courts to protect the interests of the community and to protect the interests of workers because of the overbearing action of these unions. [More…]

• They want to exercise their communist doctrines without restraint by any section of the community. [More…]

• We hear all sorts of spurious arguments by the Opposition, but this Government has made the point at all stages since coming to office that its industrial relations policy has been designed to protect the community. [More…]

• The overriding direction of our industrial relations policy will be to protect the community. [More…]

• In acceding to the request that it raise the further $300m commercially, the Australian Wheat Board has stated that the Board’s decision was taken in the interests of the Australian community as a whole. [More…]

• Their decisions have expressed their perception of the interests of the wheat industry and the community. [More…]

• However, I believe that there is now a real understanding within the industry of the reasons why these changes were necessary and the important benefits that will accrue to the wheat growers and the community alike. [More…]

• The Government took these decisions only after very careful consideration of the impact of this cash flow on the whole community, including wheat growers. [More…]

• The advice has been that unless the money supply could be contained interest rates in the community would have to rise. [More…]

• Returning to the promise of lower interest rates, which is the gist of the matter before us today, the unequivocal assurances of the Prime Minister began to totter as his Government lurched from one mistake to another, failing to engender confidence in the business community, failing to stimulate the economy with thoughtful planning in the public sector, failing to halt inflation rates and, most tragically, failing to halt the terrible unemployment rate. [More…]

• While there is continuing prosperity in the wheat industry and other areas of agriculture, there is continuing prosperity for the whole of the Australian community. [More…]

• The members of the Committee meet representatives from all sections of the community, including growers and other people. [More…]

• Trafficking of narcotics is such a serious offence that I believe that Parliament rightly is going to give officers of the Public Service, on the authorisation of a judge, the right to invade privacy to this extent in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Let me say briefly, in conclusion, that the Government believed that, in accepting the spirit of the amendments which we moved in the legislation committee and which sought to shift the authority from the Minister to the judiciary, we were giving effect to the wishes of this Parliament and probably to a large section of the community that feel that every possible precaution should be taken. [More…]

• Nevertheless, late or not, I have brought it to the attention of this House because I believe that this Parliament has an increasing responsibility to the Australian people to ensure that its agencies in gathering information, as they must gather it, do not misuse the information to the disadvantage of innocent citizens in the community. [More…]

• The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries induced price increases will be reserved for the community and not for companies. [More…]

• I indicated earlier that if there was a virtue in the original Medibank scheme as opposed to the program that was maintained earlier, it plain, that the original Treasurer scheme, together with the changes that have been introduced since, established universal health cover for all Australians- although I suggest that the price paid by the Australian community as a whole was a high one. [More…]

• Many of these factors, especially prospects for the rural community and miners, have healthy effects on the economy, but they also have an impact on inflationary pressures and they have an impact on the money supply. [More…]

• There will be no pre-Budget doubts about investment decisions, about the value of the Australian dollar and about the growing confidence throughout all sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• He knows very well that the value of the dollar now is better placed in international markets in the view of the overwhelming community at home and overseas than it has been for many years. [More…]

• It weakened the old and harmed the weak more than anyone else in this community. [More…]

• by leave- I am pleased to announce to the House that today a settlement has been reached on bilateral trade negotiations between Australia and the European Economic Community held under the umbrella of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade round of multilateral trade negotiations. [More…]

• The negotiations with the European Economic Community now complete the MTN operations in relation to our three major trading partners. [More…]

• This agreement follows several months of intensive negotiations in Europe and meetings in Canberra over the past two days between the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) and the Vice President of the European Economic Community Commission, Mr F. O. Gundelach. [More…]

• These discussions have resolved all of the outstanding issues related to a bilateral settlement between Australia and the European Economic Community in the context of the multilateral trade negotiations. [More…]

• This agreement will provide Australian exporters of agricultural commodities, especially beef and cheese, and industrial products with improved marketing opportunities in the Community; opportunities of a more favourable nature than we have enjoyed to date. [More…]

• In return, Australia has offered a number of concessions on agricultural and industrial items of interest to the Community. [More…]

• I recall with some satisfaction that it was during my visit to Europe in mid- 1977 that agreement was reached with the President of the EEC Commission, Mr Roy Jenkins, to open high level trade discussions between Australia and the Community. [More…]

• This had followed personal representations I made to Mr Jenkins and the heads of key Community member governments regarding the serious and growing imbalance in the Community’s favour of trading opportunities with Australia, and the effects which Community export subsidies on agricultural products were having on Australia’s trade in markets outside the Community. [More…]

• Australia’s trading opportunities in the Community, particularly for agricultural products, had diminished dramatically since the formation of the Community. [More…]

• It is a corner-stone of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• A significant part of the discussions with Mr Gundelach has been about the on-going discourse, building on what already has been achieved and establishing proper procedures for continuing dialogue on a regular basis with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The first stage of our efforts with the European Economic Community has been brought to a successful conclusion and I have agreed with Mr Gundelach this afternoon that the dialogue between Australia and the Community will remain open at the highest level and that problems will continue to be dealt with as and when they arise. [More…]

• These are all signs that Australia and the European Economic Community are on the threshold of a new and better trading relationship which I hope will lead also to wider converse on other political and broader international questions. [More…]

• Both sides can, I hope, look forward to a relationship which is marked less by difficulty and confrontation and which builds further upon the undeniable scope for significantly increased trade and economic and political co-operation between the Community and Australia. [More…]

• It is extraordinary that the Prime Minister should have the effrontery to criticise the performance of the previous Government in trade negotiations with the European Economic Community when his own performance has been described by Commission officials as ‘wild buffalo diplomacy*. [More…]

• He also made it clear that the greatest concern of the European Economic Community for the future is in the question of non-tariff barriers to trade. [More…]

• It was quite obvious that the European Economic Community was bound to enter bilateral negotiations at the conclusion of the multilateral trade negotiations. [More…]

• It is very largely the prod.uct of the quite significant restructuring of the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community that is now underway. [More…]

• by leave- I am pleased to be able to inform honourable members that Australia has reached a settlement in its Multilateral Trade Negotiation Bilateral Negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• During his visit to Europe in mid- 1977, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made it clear to representatives at the highest levels of the EEC in Brussels and the governments of member states, that Australia found intolerable the increasing imbalance of opportunities in favour of the European Community in our bilateral trade, and the impact which EEC export policies were having on international markets for agricultural commodities of prime export interest to Australia. [More…]

• In June 1978, we agreed with the Community to pursue these negotiations, not on a bilateral basis but in the context of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. [More…]

• In pursuance of this, I undertook a number of visits to Europe, to put Australia’s case for improved access to Community markets. [More…]

• This required representations in key European Community capitals and involved negotiations with senior Commission officials. [More…]

• During the mid-1970s, Australia witnessed a severe and continuing reduction in agricultural export opportunities to the EEC following the adoption of increasingly restrictive import measures by the Community. [More…]

• In particular, we sought improved and secure access to EEC markets for a number of our agricultural products and limitations by the Community on the use of massive and open-ended export subsidies. [More…]

• In agreeing to transfer our negotiations to the MTN however, we made it abundantly clear to the Community that in the event of our representations not being satisfactorily resolved, either bilaterally or in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Australia would be forced to reappraise the totality of its trading and commerical relationships with the EEC. [More…]

• The situation is that in the most recent and crucial stage of the negotiations the Community has produced an offer which the Government regards as providing an acceptable basis for a settlement between Australia and the EEC in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations. [More…]

• In addition, however, the Community has offered a new and much smaller quota for high quality beef which will be reserved exclusively for Australian exporters. [More…]

• The Community has agreed to increase imports of beef in this category in proportion to future increases in Community consumption. [More…]

• In addition, the Community has offered to establish a sixty-day prefixation period for setting levies on imports of manufacturing beef. [More…]

• This should help to minimise certain of the disadvantages which Community levy practices have placed on distant suppliers such as Australia. [More…]

• The Community is to implement arrangements which will permit a resumption of this trade in the near future on a levy-free basis at around the previous level of 2,000 tonnes per annum. [More…]

• This is an important concession as it will provide Australian cheese exporters with access opportunities to the Community market which they have not enjoyed since 1972-73. [More…]

• Australian primary industries will also benefit from European Economic Community concessions on some other agricultural items, including offals, meat extracts, dried fruits and certain canned fruits. [More…]

• In return for the foregoing concessions, Australia had agreed to bind the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade duties on a range of products of interest to the Community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said earlier this evening that he regards the settlement which has emerged from the negotiations with the Community as a modest but important outcome. [More…]

• I emphasise that, whilst the MTN had helped to push back the creeping forces of protectionism, considerable effort would be required by the international community in the years ahead to ensure that these modest gains were held and enlarged upon. [More…]

• -by leave-Never have so many miles been travelled, so many hours of negotiations been entered into and so many words been used to seek to justify the efforts made for so little purpose than has happened in these negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• We agree that the common agricultural policy has had very dire effects on the trading relationships of this country with the European Economic Community, and we support the fact that something should be done. [More…]

• Firstly, he says that the present levy-free quota of 50,000 tonnes of beef imports into the European Economic Community is to be increased. [More…]

• The second point in the Minister ‘s speech- as I try to get some substance from his statement- is that the Community has offered a new and much smaller quota for high quality beef, a quota to be reserved exclusively for Australian exporters. [More…]

• The understanding is that the Community’s imports of beef in this category will increase in proportion to future increases in Community consumption. [More…]

• The fact is that the recent trend in the European Economic Community’s consumption of manufacturing grade beef has been downward. [More…]

• According to the latest information from the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation, the Community’s consumption of beef and veal actually declined marginally between 1976 and 1977. [More…]

• This year the European Economic Community offered to let us export wild buffalo meat without imposing a protective levy. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) said earlier this evening, the European Economic Community faces a vast annual bill for the support schemes embodied in its Common Agricultural Policy. [More…]

• Between 197S and 1977 the Community doubled its share of world butter exports and increased by about one third its share of cheese and skimmed milk powder. [More…]

• To the extent that the restructuring process is making any headway, the Community is allowing a little more flexibility in its negotiations under the umbrella of the multilateral trade negotiations. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s alternative policy in that election was an alternative that asked the people to forgo their tax cuts in order to provide employment opportunities for others in the community who were not as well off. [More…]

• At the same time we are concerned to see that the most needy and vulnerable groups in our community are protected. [More…]

• Increased investment and production, rising commodity prices and improving farm incomes will all benefit the Australian community. [More…]

• There is growing confidence and optimism in the community. [More…]

• What stands out from the millions of words that seem to have been written about last Thursday night’s feeble attempt is that the community is most alarmed at the way this present Liberal-National Country Party Government is eroding health benefits. [More…]

• That is, of course, so long as one is not a chronic sufferer, or aged, or generally one of the community’s weaker citizens. [More…]

• What the community does not know is the breadth of educational resources which will be affected by the coming cuts. [More…]

• The tension and uneasiness which that decision caused throughout the community is still evident among parents and citizens’ associations. [More…]

• It is our aim to ensure that those suffering hardship because of the lack of employment opportunities are protected, but at the same time- for the benefit of Australians as a whole, we need to ensure that those who are not genuinely seeking work should not be supported by the community. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition brought forward a scheme to establish a community service corps on a voluntary basis at a cost of the order of $300m to $350m. [More…]

• It was created essentially because in a democratic community and under our system of law, over a period of time certain relationships attached to individuals in this community have been regarded as sacrosanct and as the subject of privilege. [More…]

• All those relationships are very important, not just to the people who are involved professionally but to the proper functioning of this community . [More…]

• We are dealing with a very small group in the community. [More…]

• Whatever our problems are in dealing with drug offenders and drug traffickers I do not believe we advance the cause of our community one iota if we say: ‘Well, in order to pursue that laudible objective we are going to adopt the techniques of the police state. [More…]

• This particular clause of the legislation is thoroughly unacceptable, having regard to the traditions and practices which have long operated in this community, and, as far as I am concerned, which should continue to operate. [More…]

• I believe that people in the community listening to this debate would be horrified if they thought that a telephone bugging device, which was used ostensibly in relation to narcotics, caused a situation where a tape was played back in a case which had nothing to do with narcotics. [More…]

• Will Aboriginal Land Councils’ mining royalties be used for non-profit community advancement projects. [More…]

• Aboriginal Land Councils can be expected to devote part of the expected revenues they will receive from the mining of Aboriginal land to community advancement projects. [More…]

• However, the tax rate referred to in ( 1 ) above was determined after taking into account that some of the revenues concerned would be expended for Aboriginal community purposes. [More…]

• Other taxpayers in effect meet part of the costs of community projects from which they benefit out of their after-tax income, to the extent that they are paid for by local government authorities out of rates which they collect. [More…]

• Have the grants been publicised as being provided by the Commonwealth or have they been hidden in the Victorian Family and Community Services Program. [More…]

• The approvals have been the subject of joint press releases by the Minister for Social Security and the former Victorian Minister for Community Welfare Services, the Hon. [More…]

• (a) As the sole operator on the AustraliaMauritius/South Africa route, South African Airways has been granted additional capacity as required to cater for the needs of those members of the community desiring to travel to or from Mauritius and other points in Africa. [More…]

• Project 1- (a) Women’s Research Group, Knox Community Relations Centre, Melbourne. [More…]

• I think it is significant, in the context of the decisions announced last Thursday, that those people on the Opposition side of the House and in the community who might argue that the Government had all of the facts to hand in order to make decisions for next year’s Budget are completely wrong. [More…]

• I think the element of tax avoidance which is contained in that additional figure of $500m underlines the outrage on the Government side of the House at the level of tax avoidance that is practised in the community and will very much strengthen the determination of this Government to pursue an even more vigorous attack on tax avoidance in the Australian community. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Prime Minister is imposing consistently rigorous and austere measures on the rest of the community, why did he opt for the much more expensive decision to purchase 707 aircraft for his own limited use when even Boeing 747 aircraft, on a charter basis, undoubtedly would have been a cheaper proposition? [More…]

• The agreement announced yesterday, and initialled yesterday by the Minister for Special Trade Representations and Mr Gundelach, has foreshadowed a successful conclusion to a two to three-year negotiation-discussion campaign with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Quite plainly, it is not just a question of access to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The community can be certain of this Government’s resolve to keep spending under control. [More…]

• I have made it clear on many occasions that the Government’s concern is to obtain and maintain adherence to the wage fixing principles of the Commission by all sections of the community, whether those negotiations are carried out within the jurisdiction of the Commission or outside it. [More…]

• In all, at a cost of some $400m, over 400,000 people have been assisted by various programs, including NEAT, SYETP, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the apprenticeship support scheme and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme has helped 50,000 persons since its inception in November 1976. [More…]

• The reasons for this are obvious from the way in which they affect monetary policy, wages policy, the balance of payments, community and business expectations and so forth. [More…]

• Otherwise, there is a danger of killing the goose that lays the golden egg and the people who would ultimately suffer would be the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• Secondly, it created much more uncertainty and insecurity in households and in the business community in Australia. [More…]

• We had a lot of posturing on this from the Prime Minister before the dinner break last night when referring to the visit by Mr Gundelach, and after dinner by the Minister for Special Trade Negotiations in seeking to persuade us- he was not very successful- a lot had been achieved in the negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Unlike the 12’/2 per cent additional duty on goods subject to quota which was imposed on the Australian community in the Budget last August, this action cannot be defended by Article 19, where it may have been excused on the grounds that increased import competition was threatening to cause serious injury to domestic producers. [More…]

• In fact, measures such as this will increase inflation, and through that it will also increase unemployment in our community. [More…]

• The committee is saying that the community is faced with one of two choices, or perhaps both. [More…]

• It is obvious that there is to be a serious downgrading of the importance of education to this Government with very widespread effects in the community. [More…]

• But to be effective there must be equality of opportunity for every individual to cope with his environment, occupation, community, family relationships, work and leisure time. [More…]

• Government strategies in education should be aimed at developing a coordinated network of educational facilities which are responsive to community and individual needs and which have a great deal of diversity and innovation and include equality of opportunity, accessibility and the maximum devolution of responsibility, and in that way enhance the quality of life of all people. [More…]

• This meant the abolition of tuition fees, which removed a major economic barrier in the community. [More…]

• Schools today are subjected to enormous pressures, including changes in community structures, community needs and community expectations. [More…]

• One of the problems is that the resources supply has been nowhere near satisfactory so far as the community is concerned. [More…]

• There is a wide body of opinion in the community pressing for the maintenance of the needs policy that was introduced by the Labor Government. [More…]

• Approximately 15 years ago the question of State aid was a very divisive issue in the community. [More…]

• At the present time a very interesting experiment is being conducted in New York at the La Guardia Community College. [More…]

• This community college attributes its success to several factors: Firstly, intensive tutoring for those who need it; secondly, a job internship program; and, thirdly, the dedication of the faculty and administrators to serving the needs pf the students. [More…]

• The work at La Guardia Community College is carried out in a busy career counselling centre where a computer gives students useful information about career options and job prospects. [More…]

• Like most community colleges, this one also emphasises service to the entire community. [More…]

• The College believes that it owes much of its success to a pre-graduate job placement program which involves career exploration, counselling and the co-operation- I believe this is the most important feature- of the business community. [More…]

• Their genuine interest is another reason for this community college’s outstanding success. [More…]

• The amount of time that very busy community leaders can spend away from work and away from their own activities is very limited. [More…]

• What those sectors and the community generally do not know is the breadth of educational resources which will be affected by the coming cuts. [More…]

• The tension and uneasiness throughout the community caused by the decision to hold an inquiry into the Schools Commission is still evident among parents and citizens associations in my electorate and among teachers associations throughout the country. [More…]

• The Williams report has done nothing to allay the worst fears of the States and the community. [More…]

• This should encourage schools to better meet local needs, such as teaching in community languages, as I hear some South Australian schools are doing, or combining beginning students in across-grade classes, for instance, years 1 , 2 and 3, as one big state school in Sydney has done. [More…]

• If we are to achieve equity within education, we have to think not simply of individual people whose needs are impossible to assess in terms of just individual characteristics but we have to try to meet the whole needs of the pupil within a community setting. [More…]

• I think one does see reflected within the computations about adequacies of skills, very much a reflection of the operation of social class within the community. [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…]

• I believe that more and more it will be said that education ought to be tailored to the economic needs of society and that the purpose of education is not the self-realisation of the individual, the establishment of a better Australian community or the production of people who have a better understanding of a complex society with problems such as the problems of rapidly changing technology; but that the purpose of education is to produce people who are prepared to accept direction, people who are incapable of thinking for themselves, people who are incapable of being critical of society, people who are incapable of taking on the critical role of citizenship which one would have thought the small 1’ liberal philosophy since the days of John Stuart Mill had always been about. [More…]

• Many people in this place have spent lengthy periods in the education system; but I am afraid that those on the other side of the House are increasingly becoming insensitive to the needs of the community as a whole. [More…]

• But let us look at the response from members on the opposite side of the House, so many of whom have been the advantaged people in the Australian community. [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…]

• How many teachers are needed in a community where the literacy is at a low level, such as in the migrant communities of Australia? [More…]

• There was a considerable amount of participation in the management of the centre by people drawn from the community, which one would have to say is a very diverse community with strong Italian and Greek components. [More…]

• An estimated saving of a mere $232,303 has brought considerable hardship and frustration to a small but highly significant group of post-graduate research scholars, whose work by no small measure helps to advance the frontiers of knowledge that ultimately benefit the whole community. [More…]

• The myopic vision of this penny-pinching government will sacrifice the long-term positive benefits for the whole community of research in higher education institutions. [More…]

• I think that ought to be understood by honourable gentlemen and by the wider community in assessing the real impact and the real significance of the index. [More…]

• It is also important to ensure that we get the best value for the dollar spent in health care because, quite clearly, the taxpayers, the community generally, are picking up the bill. [More…]

• The honourable member for Holt raises quite properly the anxiety and concern of the lower income families in our community. [More…]

• I say to the honourable gentleman that the greatest gift that any government can make to low income families in our community or those on the age pension is to have the lowest possible rate of inflation. [More…]

• We ought never to lose sight of the fact that no objective or goal of government can be more important than the controlling and reducing of the cost of living, because the cost of living impacts most severely on those in the community of modest means. [More…]

• That ought to be understood, not only by the House but by the community generally. [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the House that the $45m hospital acquisition and development project in Australia by the Hospital Corporation of America will not be allowed to proceed in a way that will move the more affluent and the more desperate patients out of a public hospital sector which is being cut by government policy without a corresponding provision for the expansion of nursing home, day care, rehabilitation and community health services? [More…]

• Quite clearly, in any review of the hospital system of Australia it would be quite wrong to ignore the private hospital sector, because we are talking about the availability of resources, the availability of beds to the community as a whole. [More…]

• If by some mischance a Labor government should ever get back into office in this country one would hope that it would not be stupid enough to attack the private hospital sector or the private nursing home sector at the expense of the Australian community. [More…]

• If so, while ensuring that all sections of the community fairly share revenue burdens, will the Government avoid imposing further penalties on industries such as the wine industry which can ill afford to bear them? [More…]

• I simply say to him that the Government gave very careful consideration to the impact of its decision on various sections of the business community. [More…]

• I would have to say to him that the Government is conscious that its decision has been seen by some sections of the community as a disappointment. [More…]

• I cannot be more specific than to say to the honourable gentleman that, whatever revenue decisions the Government takes in the Budget, the Government will pay very close attention to the effect of these decisions on the whole community and to individual sections of the community. [More…]

• Thirdly, it set down explicit programs to develop library resources for Aborigines, for the blind particularly- neglected groups in the community. [More…]

• It argued for the integration of school and university libraries into the community. [More…]

• The interdepartmental working group was composed of this extraordinary melange of organisations, namely, the Department of Adminstrative Services; the Department of Education; the Attorney-General’s Department, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development; the Department of Health; the Department of Industry and Commerce; the Department of Science; the Department of the Treasury; the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; the Australian Telecommunications Commission; the Public Service Board; and the National Library. [More…]

• In 1979, three years after the Horton committee reported, and after some months of letter writing, the Minister of Community Welfare in South Australia received the following incredible epistle from the Minister for Home Affairs. [More…]

• A series of tri-yearly rolling programs would need to be developed to ensure the community could plan ahead. [More…]

• Development of a full range of incentives to locate high technology industry in the Australian Capital Territory; and the promotion of Canberra as an ideal city in which to retire with its numerous health and community services, dry, clean climate and high standard of living. [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…]

• What are the details of (a) capital cost, (b) annual expenditure, (c) number of staff and (d) services provided under the (i) Community Health Program and (ii) School Dental Scheme for each project in each Federal electoral division? [More…]

• In a town that is much larger than Inglewood, Sunbury, which is a thriving and prosperous community as it has been represented by the Australian Labor Party since 1969, there are only two schools. [More…]

• All of these cuts that these honourable gentlemen are bringing about are always aimed at those who are in the worst position, the people in the community who are least able to fight back- pensioners, people who require health care, sick people and Aboriginals. [More…]

• In fact, every group in the community that has no clout with this Government. [More…]

• The Committee cannot at this stage assess the long-term effects of the Treaty in the Torres Strait community. [More…]

• Again, should exploitation of hydrocarbon deposits discovered in the area become viable in future, the Committee is concerned that the interests, both social and economic, of the Torres Strait community, should be considered in any such development. [More…]

• Two of the Committee’s recommendations are not specifically related to matters covered by the Treaty, but to two quite serious problems that are beginning to affect the Torres Strait area and community. [More…]

• In raising this matter of public importance I call on the Government to take further measures to ensure that those most deserving in the community receive most of the welfare dollar and, conversely, those least deserving or not deserving receive less or nothing from the welfare dollar. [More…]

• Does the Opposition agree that the taxpayer should continue to fund groups in the community enjoying alternative lifestyles in their communes who obviously have no intention whatsoever of working and who in fact boast openly that those who work are fools? [More…]

• Why should other more needy people in the community be penalised when single parents are living in de facto relationships, often both being supported by the welfare dollar? [More…]

• I believe that the community at large is prepared to accept expenditure cuts across the board. [More…]

• The Government has decided that no money shall be paid on the first $20 charged for the ordinary services which are provided by the general practitioner and which the poor people and everybody else in the community have to receive at odd times during their lifetime. [More…]

• We are now talking about the poorer people in the community. [More…]

• We do not hear a lot of talk about equity between various social groups in the community. [More…]

• It is perhaps not going too far to say that the taxpaying community of Australia almost went mad in its rush to become a party to tax avoidance schemes. [More…]

• In deciding to reduce the tariff assistance to this industry the Government took into account the comments made by the Industries Assistance Commission that it could not identify benefits to the community commensurate with such high levels of assistance as provided by a tariff of 55 per cent ad valorem. [More…]

• There is not a section of the Australian community that is immune to the effects of higher oil prices. [More…]

• I would like to think that there is always an avenue for our beef both in the United States and in Japan, which are our major markets, and also in the East and, if we can arrange it, in the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• It is fair to say- I notice that the honourable member for Parramatta really took the same point- that in times of Government restraint all sections of the community have to bear some of the cost of Budget charges. [More…]

• I noted that immediately after the mini-Budget two newspapers took the view that the charges levied by the Government on the rural community were purely cosmetic to try to make the mini-Budget look fair. [More…]

• In some institutions- I emphasise the word some’- some rural leaders played their own form of agricultural politics either to increase their ideas of their importance in the agricultural community or, in the case of one person, to cement a rather dicky situation that he was in with regard to continuing in his job. [More…]

• All sections of the community, except those in poor or deprived situations currently have had to bear some of the cost. [More…]

• There is an argument in terms of overall social benefit to the community as a whole. [More…]

• The Government should not be seen by the rural community as trying to avoid its responsibility in this area. [More…]

• The Labor Government was kicked and accused of bashing the rural community. [More…]

• The Government went over to the European Economic Community and kicked its head in. [More…]

• As we all know, the farmers in the European Economic Community could give the graziers in Australia plenty of lessons on how to get paid twice for the same beast. [More…]

• Following the act of free choice in 1969, successive Australian Governments, and indeed the international community, have regarded Irian Jaya as an integral part of Indonesia. [More…]

• -The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs will be aware of inquiries from individuals and the community anxious to assist in the support, housing, settlement and adoption of refugees. [More…]

• I am aware that there is a great deal of goodwill throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• All offers of help would be very gratefully received because I believe it is tremendously important that the Australian community as a whole not only understands the nature of the refugee problem which is to our north but also in building on that understanding, contributes to the welcome and the resettlement of these people in the Australian community. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister seen reports that the Executive Director of the Victorian Employers Federation, Mr Ian Spicer, has called on governments at all levels to prepare economic impact statements to accompany every new statute or regulation, such statements requiring governments, their departmental officials and their instrumentalities to show clearly the costs of any new action they wish to undertake, with that action and its cost being justified to the community? [More…]

• It is also of considerable interest to the members of the Australian Capital Territory electorate to find social welfare and community interests high amongst their own priorities. [More…]

• The Government and, indeed, the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Ellicott) have shown a complete disregard for the plights of the people of Canberra and are insensitive to the social and economic problems confronting the unemployed and other socially deprived people in the community. [More…]

• On that point or order, one of the major issues involved in the question of disallowing the ordinance is the fact that the funds that have been taken away from the area of responsibility of the Assembly to be dispersed in the community of Canberra have a relationship to the areas to which I have made reference. [More…]

• Originally, 10 per cent of the clubs’ profits from poker machines were to be made available to the Poker Machine Licensing Board and the Legislative Assembly would call on the accumulated funds to be disbursed for community projects. [More…]

• The Territory’s Legislative Assembly, composed of 1 8 elected representatives from the two Federal electorates, decided which community organisations and which projects were to receive the revenue derived from the operations of poker machines, and honourable members ought to think about that. [More…]

• Eighteen elected representatives from the local community deliberated upon and decided how the $lm per annum generated by the use of poker machines in the clubs would be expended. [More…]

• I am sure that honourable members and the more thoughtful among our community will see this action of the Minister as both arrogant and undemocratic. [More…]

• Many people in Canberra who are involved in welfare work are considerably disturbed at the possibility that this body should undertake projects which, for instance, had nothing whatsoever to do with welfare and which ignored the needy people in the community. [More…]

• However it is quite clear the Assembly was putting forward a proposition to build a very expensive and expansive indoor community recreation centre which would cost much more than $1.7m and which it would, of course, not be within the competence of the Assembly to provide. [More…]

• The Board shall, from time to time, at the request of the Legislative Assembly, pay out of the trust account established in accordance with section 42 such sums of money (not exceeding the balance standing to the credit of the account) to such bodies, organisations or persons for such community projects as the Legislative Assembly determines. [More…]

• The positive side is that I believe these funds and other funds that are available through the TAB and through the Government, whether through the Department of the Capital Territory, the Department of Health or the Department of Social Security, for community use and development in the Territory ought to be rationalised. [More…]

• In the Territory the money is to be used for community purposes but it should be used under the control of a responsible Minister. [More…]

• On the other hand, if there is a creative, approach by both sides to these matters, we will see created, either with the Assembly’s approval or despite, a system of administering welfare and community development funds in this Territory with which I hope everybody will be very happy. [More…]

• I would like to see an olympic standard swimming pool and other facilities there so that we might have something in Canberra like I saw when I was in London at Crystal Palace where there is a complex of sporting buildings that can be used by the community on the one hand and by people who are pursuing excellence in sport on the other hand. [More…]

• I hope that in this city those funds will be turned to community purposes and to community development. [More…]

• One would not leave the Queensland Government alone with that sort of authority and one would not be happy about sharing that authority with the Queensland Government because one knows that the attitude of the Queensland Premier is that what mineral development corporations believe is in their best interests is therefore in the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s record is not one that gives the Labor Party any reassurance or the Australian community any conviction at all that this promise will be kept. [More…]

• A total of $284 will be paid by the Commonwealth Government towards my medical costs; yet I am a person who is better off than the average person in the community. [More…]

• We are talking about a government which tries to pretend to the community that it is a government that is looking after the little people, a government that is looking after the families. [More…]

• The net result will be considerable saving of money by the private fundshardly a needy section in the Australian community. [More…]

• This proposition is that there should not be so many changes to health insurance; that the changes themselves are extremely destabilising and depressing especially for those people in the community who have difficulty in following involved legislation. [More…]

• It would be a sick joke if, in the next Budget, funds for the school dental and community health schemes were abolished or severely reduced. [More…]

• that health costs must be met by the community by one means or another, either by the payment of taxes, levies or premiums, through direct payments, or by a combination of these means. [More…]

• The community cannot escape the bill. [More…]

• Out tumble community costs, gross domestic products and the Labor Government’s extravagances. [More…]

• The contributions have increased to such an extent that they are beyond the capacity of some members of the community and involve considerable hardship for others. [More…]

• The fact that only 3 per cent of services involve the socially disadvantaged suggests that he has a very narrow view of that section of the community. [More…]

• As one medical practitioner in Melbourne has pointed out, for many people in the community it would prove to be a lot better, under this legislation, for a person to have a lung removed than to have it progressively treated and cured. [More…]

• I do not think that the original Medibank proposal introduced in 1975 had anything like the respect in the Australian community that Opposition members believe. [More…]

• Nevertheless I think it is worth trying because I believe on issues like health, medical service and hospital service, the people of Australia are looking to the Government and the Opposition to come up with a proposal, a scheme or an amended scheme, which is within the reach of everybody in the community and which makes full and adequate care available for people whose particular circumstances make it extremely difficult- in many cases impossible- to take out private insurance. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a short table setting out total community health costs. [More…]

• Representatives from Community Youth Support Scheme programs in my electorate only yesterday spoke publicly of the many complaints received from unemployed persons about doctors refusing to bulk bill on their behalf. [More…]

• The Minister has also squeezed the community health program- perhaps the only real economy measure that the Australian health system has going for it at the moment. [More…]

• Remember that under the Whitlam Labor Government 90 per cent of the recurrent expenditure of the community health centre program was funded from Federal revenues. [More…]

• While the Minister whinges and squawks about the cost of providing health services in Australia and perhaps, in some way, rightly talks about the $ 1 ,067m that the Federal Government is supplying to the States for hospital recurrent expenditure, in the same breath so to speak, he cuts the community health program by a lousy $ 16.5m to $57m. [More…]

• These moves to downgrade community health centres and replace public hospital beds with private hospital beds contradict the warnings in the report on rationalisation of hospital facilities tabled by the Minister. [More…]

• The report specifically urges the expansion of low cost alternatives to hospital care by offering funds to the States for specific community health centre projects. [More…]

• We take the other course, the integration of a comprehensive national health insurance with the expansion of community health and medical centres providing a full range of medical facilities by employing salaried staff. [More…]

• Rather than seek to stem the flow, let us offer them decent jobs on just salaries at public hospitals, in community and health centres and medical centres. [More…]

• We have to recognise that people in this community who have need have not necessarily lost their prime. [More…]

• Surprisingly, given the suggestion that the Government is moving away from hospitalisation towards more preventative measures, there have been substantial cutbacks in the community health program. [More…]

• Then there was some talk about the community health program. [More…]

• This Government was accused of having reduced the funding for community health, in association with the States, from 90 per cent to 50 per cent. [More…]

• I pose the question: Should the Labor Party ever get back into office, will it restore the funding in association with the States to 90 per cent of the community health program? [More…]

• But I do not see why a universial health insurance system virtually has to hand on a silver platter to every member of the community free health services. [More…]

• states that a study of an isolated community failed to support the orthodox view that myopia is influenced by heredity, suggesting that schooling could be a factor, quoting supporting evidence from experiments on primates and calling for research which may prevent myopia and reduce blindness. [More…]

• I have previously stated (Hansard, 6 March 1979, page 676 ) this matter is best left to assessment by the peer review mechanism of the academic community. [More…]

• 1 ) Recognition by Governments and the Australian community that the Croatian people are a distinctive ethnic group and not Yugoslavs; [More…]

• Recognition of the Croatian people as a distinct ethnic community (and not as Yugoslavs) by enabling the Croatian community to have their own ethnic broadcasts in the Croatian language through the use of community media facilities and services; [More…]

• That the Government should recognise the genuine aims and grievances of the Croatian community. [More…]

• The review has been completed and the changes to take place in the charging structure represent a major progressive reform which will have a significant and beneficial impact on those sectors of the Australian population which do not have comparable access to some business and community services taken for granted by metropolitan subscribers. [More…]

• The reductions will operate from May next year under a scheme to be launched by Telecom called ‘Community Access 80 ‘. [More…]

• A community call is to be introduced at a charging rate of 9c for each three minutes and this will apply between a telephone subscriber and the nearest community service centre, irrespective of distance and whenever that centre is not in the normal local call area. [More…]

• Under the new scheme, 9c community charge for each three minutes will apply both ways between a subscriber and the nearest service centre, even if that centre is 300 or 400 kilometres away. [More…]

• The extent of his benefit under community calling, which is given despite the distance, is that by day he will save $2.61 on every three minute conversation. [More…]

• Community access 80 recognises that today appropriate services are usually concentrated in the larger country centres, and smaller towns closer to the subscriber cannot provide all of the support necessary for farm and property management and for personal needs. [More…]

• It is not expected that the new concessions will alter the established pattern of communication between a rural landholder and his service centre; instead he will be making the same calls he currently needs but as community calls with considerable saving. [More…]

• It should be stressed also that the savings work in reverse; the service centres will have the same community call concession when contacting the landholder. [More…]

• In addition to this new community call service, there will be further benefits for people living in those rural communities with large distances between them. [More…]

• To meet this problem, Telecom will apply as part of its community calling plan, the special community calling rate of 9c for each three minutes between the charging zones adjoining the metropolitan areas and the central metropolitan zone. [More…]

• This new rate will enable callers in areas such as Penrith and Campbelltown near Sydney, Cranbourne, Bacchus Marsh and Kilmore near Melbourne, Gawler near Adelaide, and Rockingham near Perth to call into the centre of their capital city at the community call rate. [More…]

• I want to make it quite clear that there will be no increase in the charge for any calls as a result of the community calling plan. [More…]

• Telecom advises that the earliest date at which it will be practicable to complete these changes and introduce Community Access 80 is May 1980. [More…]

• The capital cost for implementing Community Access 80 is expected to be just under $2 m. [More…]

• A small number of other areas may also feel disappointed that they have not been able to gain specific advantage under Community Access 80 other than in the general reductions to some longer distance calls. [More…]

• For instance, a resident might be able to use the community service centres from Penrith to Sydney or from some other centre such as Mudgee or a place around that area, but the distance travelled to obtain the service would wipe out any benefit that may be gained. [More…]

• By all accounts, the multimillion dollar drug ring is better equipped than the community’s Bureau itself. [More…]

• The Government is continually giving the community dire warnings about the effect of the drug trade on the lives of Australians, particularly young Australians. [More…]

• We call on the Government to give Mr Justice Williams these new terms of reference so that this matter can be resolved to the satisfaction of the Australian community and the international drug law enforcement community. [More…]

• The benefits of air travel must be available to the Australian community as a whole and not restricted to the so-called elite of our society as has been the practice of successive conservative governments during the past 30 years. [More…]

• It is hoped that a solution will soon be reached which will provide low fares on this most important route and provide an enhanced opportunity for members of our Australian-Italian community to visit their former homeland and to have their friends and relatives visit them here. [More…]

• He is just sitting there chattering away, apparently in some sort of government campaign to start showing a bit of life because its members know that their standing in this community is so poor at the present time. [More…]

• It is, perhaps, not going too far to say that the taxpaying community of Australia almost went mad in its rush to become a party to a tax avoidance scheme. [More…]

• It is in the context of this massive tax avoidance and distortion of the equity of the tax system that it is an absolute outrage for this Government to be further reducing taxes which are paid by the wealthier section of this community, and that is what it is doing by abolishing wealth and gift duties. [More…]

• I am appalled to hear the Australian Labor Party once again getting onto the band wagon of kicking the guts out of the farming community in this nation by proposing to restore the situation which obtained before, where people had to suffer the burden of this unfair taxation system, which could be avoided by the rich while others escaped it. [More…]

• It is this Government which has, for the first time- I stress this- since 1972 introduced legislation which prevents people in so many areas ripping off the rest of the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that they are but the fact is that this Government is actively pursuing them to such a degree that some honourable members on this side of the House and some people in the community are concerned that normal proper business transactions might be limited because of the severity of the Government’s attack on tax evasion schemes. [More…]

• Secondly, the costs involved in supporting Justice Fox, his staff and his spouse as they fulfil their functions and move around the world in a style which, I would suggest, is far from austere and much more sufficient in the creature comforts provided than are available generally to the community. [More…]

• Finally, is it correct, as we and a great many people in the community believe, that the Government has unfairly set up Justice Fox as a sort of jet-setting front man to reassure a trusting public while the Government ignores the fundamental propositions he brings forward? [More…]

• But I say this: At a time when this Government is talking about cutbacks, and talking about economic stringencies, and is calling upon other sections of the Australian community to make sacrifices, it is not good enough for the Government to say that it will simply give a mandate to Mr Justice Fox, whatever his excellence and whatever his capacity, to operate at large and that the question of his reappointment for an indeterminate term will be a matter solely and exclusively for the Executive and not for the Parliament. [More…]

• The Government endeavours to work on the basis, both in this Parliament and in the community at large, that the issues related to the future of the nuclear industry have been resolved. [More…]

• Australian Prescriber- Value of publication: Completed in 1978, for which the Department of Community Medicine at Sydney University was paid $3,000. [More…]

• As indicated above, after 4 weeks residence in Australia refugees are required to satisfy the conditions of eligibility which apply to members of the community generally. [More…]

• The Government’s strategy generally is to encourage the development of policies that will minimise illness in the community. [More…]

• It would certainly expand educational choice and possibilities for a wider section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I do not believe that they meet their general responsibilities to that section of the community. [More…]

• I think it is worth noting that not only the Government but also many sections of the Australian community regarded that decision as being one of very great irresponsibility in the circumstances of the time. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to the settlement which he reached last week in Australia’s bilateral negotiations with the European Economic Community in the context of the Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Has the question also been raised with Vice President Gundelach of the difficulties being caused on the world sugar market by EEC export subsidies and its non-membership of the International Sugar Agreement? [More…]

• The Board considers that the community should not be expected to bear, through bounty or other means of assistance, costs attributable to these factors. [More…]

• Such people must be weeded out for the good of the force and for the good of the community. [More…]

• This piece of legislation falls far short of the comprehensive and necessary legislation needed if this arm of the law enforcement agency is to have the checks and balances so critically important, if it is to achieve the aims and the ends that the community expects and deserves, and that goes for both the officers and the community. [More…]

• The Commission’s second report is devoted to the difficult issue of the proper balance between police powers, which respect the right of the individual, on the one hand, and the community’s need for practical and effective law enforcement on the other. [More…]

• I thought that the legislation proposed in 1975 was a logical, rational and effective way to amalgamate the police forces so as to give the community the efficiency and effectiveness it deserved, but that proposal was hypocritically opposed. [More…]

• There is a growing concern within the community among informed people who understand how the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy, based on the principle of ministerial responsibility, is developing. [More…]

• I believe it was a proposal which, in the interests of the community, was long overdue. [More…]

• I recall another case in Liverpool, New South Wales, in which a dedicated police officer with over 20 years service had served the community diligently. [More…]

• He believed that for a minor act of indiscretion a police officer should not be lost to the community. [More…]

• I have been riled by the attitude of the police at times but I know the great good they do in the community. [More…]

• The purpose of the proposals contained in this Report is to strike a proper and fair balance between the needs of a disciplined force and the rights of the community it serves. [More…]

• Need for Community Education: [More…]

• One of the non-contentious tasks of the proposed internal discipline section compatible with its other functions, is that of promoting community awareness of the machinery for dealing with public complaints (para. [More…]

• Furthermore, if a member of the Australia Police acts tortiously against a member of the public it can never be in the interests of the force that a member of the community should go uncompensated because of the anomalous state of the law. [More…]

• Consider the reaction in a disciplined force of a successful damages claim against a constable and the response to that constable’s having made the community suffer the burden of his wrong. [More…]

• (184) It is argued that it is unjust that the community at large should have to bear the burden of paying for the consequences of the illegal acts of an individual policeman and that a police officer, who is employed to keep the Queen’s peace, whenever he commits a wrongful act which sounds in damages against a member of the public, is acting outside the scope of his duties and ought not to be indemnified. [More…]

• He has no appreciation of the concern that is generated by this sort of activity outside the Parliament in the wider community. [More…]

• What sort of reaction do honourable members think will arise in the community when- the average man and woman read that sort of headline showing that a senior Minister of the Government of Australia is part of a family company organisation about which a respected conservative newspaper writes as its main headline on page 1: ‘Sinclair firm got “milked” funds’? [More…]

• However, I would not like honourable members and the community generally to feel that the solution to all the problems of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia has been achieved. [More…]

• It is not generally recognised in the Australian community that on these vessels the crews are paid virtually slave labour rates. [More…]

• I leave that question open for the community to answer. [More…]

• The Bill abolishes the Consultative Council, which was composed of 16 members and which tended to create friction among members of the community. [More…]

• The 16 people who represent the community were meant to create friction because we wanted to get the people’s views. [More…]

• the re-establishment of a Consultative Council to include broad representation from the Albury/Wodonga community; [More…]

• Residents now receive and send mail through a community mail bag. [More…]

• Postage stamps are available from a licensed stamp vendor at Warrachie and mail is delivered through a community mail bag service. [More…]

• Mail is delivered through a community mail bag service and the posting box has been retained. [More…]

• A community mail bag service has been provided and postage stamps are available from a licensed stamp vendor operating in the store in which the post office was conducted. [More…]

• The decision to close each of these offices was made only after careful consideration of all the factors involved, including the effect the closure was likely to have on the local community. [More…]

• 2984 (Hansard, 24 November 1978, page 3561), that Australia is well provided with data on international market trends; if so, can he say why the Government acted so belatedly in trying to gain access to the European Economic Community to protect our primary interests. [More…]

• We have been unceasing in our efforts both bilaterally and in relevant multilateral fora such as the GATT, to seek to obtain some moderation of the policies of the EEC which were not only resulting in severely limited market opportunities for Australia within the Community but which were also seriously disrupting our sales to third markets. [More…]

• It was as a result of the continued resistance of the Community to our continuing representations that the Government decided in mid 1977, to mount an intensive campaign to press our case at the highest political levels within the EC Commission and member states. [More…]

• In terms of manpower planning and forecasting for community needs, it would not be possible to identify the total resources employed by the Department without incurring a cost which I do not believe is justified. [More…]

• 1 ) At 30 April 1979, ASCO employed the following staff for the Woomera Community Store: [More…]

• and (3) Under an agreement with the Department of Defence, ASCO provides a management service in operating the community store. [More…]

• There is a Store Advisory Committee comprising representatives of the Woomera community and ASCO to act as a liaison body between the Woomera Board and store management. [More…]

• Is he able to give comparable information on simitar types operated in similar tasks on domestic airline services in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) Canada, (c) the United States of America and (d) European Economic Community nations. [More…]

• To ascertain from the families of Army personnel their views on Community Services provided at Holsworthy (1976). [More…]

• How many officers of his Depanment involved with the Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS) are able to communicate with participants in languages other than English. [More…]

• -The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: 1 am not aware that any officers of my Department involved with the Community Youth Support Scheme are able to communicate with participants in languages other than English. [More…]

• But if the Palm Island community wishes to give priority to single accommodation, any request to my Department will be duly considered. [More…]

• How many telegrams advising approval of Community Youth Support Scheme applications have been dispatched by his Department since the inception of the scheme. [More…]

• I do not believe it likely that alcohol presents any more, or any less, of a problem within my Department than in other Commonwealth Departments or in the community in general. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs recommending legislation to support each specific community in Queensland wishing to achieve selfmanagement because co-operation is unlikely from the Queensland Government to discharge Australia’s obligations to indigenous peoples. [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the House that the recommended legislation is being prepared and that no further dilution, equivocation or delay will be tolerated in awarding control of (a) traditional land, (b) appointment of administrators, (c) the setting of funding priorities and (d) the type, style and structure of community administration to democratically chosen representatives of the indigenous community concerned in each case. [More…]

• 1 am, of course, very much aware that the recently released draft report of the Industries Assistance Commission on the textile, footwear and clothing industries has evoked a number of strong comments in the Australian community both from manufacturers and importers. [More…]

• As the House would be very much aware and as I have pointed out publicly recently, these reports were brought down to provide, in a sense, a discussion paper to allow groups in the Australian community to respond to the draft nature of the Industries Assistance Commission’s thinking at this time. [More…]

• Notwithstanding that, I think that indirect taxation generally has an adverse effect upon production in the community. [More…]

• That attitude causes people in the community to lose confidence in the system, in the leaders, in the governments, in the parliaments, in the trade unions and in the industries in which they work. [More…]

• I believe that if we are to regenerate the sort of confidence that we think the community should have, and which it has a right to expect, the lead has to be given by those people in the community who choose to call themselves leaders. [More…]

• There should be consultation that gives a lead at that level to people in the community so that they can plan and be confident that decisions coming from unions, industry or government can be respected and followed by the community at large. [More…]

• But if that body is to work in the way that I had hoped it would- I believe that people on both sides of the House and certainly in the community hoped it would work in this way- there must be a desire on the part of all the people sitting around that table to make it work. [More…]

• If people take that attitude, regardless of what body or group they represent, around that table at the NLCC then they should be condemned roundly by the community at large. [More…]

• The NLCC is a forum that should be looked to by the community as one in which consultation can take place and in which the confrontation in the industrial arena can be broken down. [More…]

• I support the honourable member for Port Adelaide in saying that it is a body that should be given much greater recognition by the Government, unions, employers and the community at large because it is a body in which that sort of consultation can take place. [More…]

• They should not only come together with the idea of having a nice little chitty chat and a beer afterwards but also they should come together with a view to coming to statesmanlike decisions that can be expressed to the community at large so that from that forum a lead can be given to the community so that it can have confidence that the leaders in the various groups are at least trying their best to arrive at decisions or at a consensus for the betterment of this country, not reaching agreements that will benefit some group or individual just for the sake of political expediency. [More…]

• I have just recently returned from Japan and from speaking with industrialists in that country it would seem to me that this neat little ploy of stirring up industrial strife that the Government has got going for it to divert the attention of the community away from the Government’s own inadequacies is starting to backfire on it. [More…]

• One could go right through the Community Youth Support Scheme, right through the whole bit, to show that it is window dressing. [More…]

• They do quite a significant amount of good work in the community, whether it is ACOSS, the Council for Rehabilitation or the Council on the Ageing. [More…]

• 1978- 79- ‘Expectations of Broadcasting in the Rural Community’. [More…]

• 1 ) What evidence is there for the conclusion in the report of the Committee of Officials on Medical Manpower Supply that past changes in health insurance arrangements and increases in medical fees have combined to increase medical incomes at a faster rate than incomes in the community generally. [More…]

• The Enquiries are required to have regard to, amongst other matters, economic circumstances affecting medical practitioners and the community generally. [More…]

• It is the Government’s view that voluntary bodies should become less reliant on Government funding and that they should develop a broad base of support from the community. [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to complaints by representatives of the Maltese community (Maltese Herald, 17 April 1979) that they have been disadvantaged compared with others in relation to the new ethnic television programs. [More…]

• However, on Sunday 2 May a segment of special interest to the Maltese community was included in the program. [More…]

• In addition to this specific project, finance is provided annually by my Depanment to the Queensland Department of Health for general preventive community health programs among Aboriginals. [More…]

• An application for land at Lake Nash was lodged with the Interim Aboriginal Land Commissioner, the late Mr Justice Ward, in September 1975 but hearings were adjourned sine die on 10 November 1975 because the lessee indicated a willingness to negotiate with the Aboriginals for a sub-lease of part of the property to be used as a living area for the resident Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Trade with the European Economic Community (Question No. [More…]

• Has the European Economic Community required a reduction in Australian apple exports during 1979; if so, by what quantity. [More…]

• What action is being taken to prevent this from happening again, or to retaliate by restricting agricultural imports from the Community. [More…]

• In March 1979, the EEC Commission requested Australia to participate in a system of voluntary restraints to regulate the level of exports of apples to Community markets during the 1979 Southern hemisphere season. [More…]

• What dangers are there to the community if a home with free asbestos ceiling insulation has its roof removed by high winds. [More…]

• Has the Health Commission agreed that undisturbed asbestos is safe; if so, if asbestos insulation is disturbed through the unroofing of an asbestos insulated house by high winds, what are the possible consequences to the surrounding community. [More…]

• No tests have been carried out to determine the risks to a community in the event of a house with free asbestos ceiling insulation being unroofed. [More…]

• Requests for assistance from community groups will be considered once applications are received. [More…]

• The then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development considered all available information and decided that a public inquiry was not necessary. [More…]

• A related problem is the potential inequities involved in spreading this burden to insurers or those in the community that are not exposed to this hazard. [More…]

• ) What was the total amount of Federal funds allocated to the Aboriginal community controlled health services in each of the States in (a) 1976-77 (b) 1977-78 and (c) 1 978-79 to date. [More…]

• On what basis are funds allocated to the Aboriginal community controlled health services for Aboriginal health and how do the arrangements differ from those funds allocated through States Grants. [More…]

• In addition, some 600 Aboriginals are participating in the Community Development Employment Projects. [More…]

• I understand that there was a minor dispute earlier this year between the management of Lake Nash Station and the Allywarra Aboriginal Community at Lake Nash over sales of petrol from the station store and cashing of social security cheques at the store. [More…]

• Turner of the Aboriginal Community at Lake Nash, an Aide and a First Secretary of the American Embassy were present. [More…]

• ( b ) what activities or actions were the subject of review, (c) what were the individual findings of the committee, (d) how often has the committee sought information from or consulted with( i) workers and (ii) staff of the establishment in relation to an) renew undertaken and (e) how often and what contact has the committee had with members of the community( 1)livng near the research establishment and (ii) with special expertise in relation to anv reviews. [More…]

• The Committee has not met members of the community. [More…]

• A survey of interpreting and translating needs in the community. [More…]

• A women’s refuge primarily for Aboriginal women and operated by the Aborigines Advancement League, Northcote, is included in the Victorian program of women’s refuges approved for funding under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• However, I am informed that the Victorian Department of Community Welfare Services, through which Commonwealth Community Health Program funds are channelled, has advised the solicitors administering the deceased estate of the terms of the Commonwealth’s approval for funding of this refuge under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• As the honourable member is aware, Commonwealth funds for the Community Health Program have been appropriated on an annual basis ever since the Program began. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition have over the past few months tried to implant in the minds of the Australian community the idea that its living standards have been reduced under this Government. [More…]

• I say to the Leader of the Opposition and to all of his colleagues that he has a very heavy obligation to the Australian community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Chifley, like the Leader of the Opposition and the honourable member for Newcastle, is trying, once again, through Question Time, to establish that the living standards of the Australian community have been reduced during the term of office of this Government. [More…]

• This Budget provides very real assistance to the rural community throughout Australia. [More…]

• I believe that as a result, given the improved marketing conditions to which this Government has significantly contributed, the reduced inflationary pressures that are demonstrable in the comparison of the figures given by my colleague the Treasurer earlier today, the farming community can look forward to the 1 979-80 year with a considerable measure of optimism. [More…]

• The emphasis in 1979-80 will be on the development of community settlement centres. [More…]

• But my hunch, based on discussion with members of the ethnic communities and so on, is that six weeks is not an adequate time for migrants to become skilled enough in the English language for the purposes for which the Government wants to give them training, namely, to ensure they can better fit into jobs and that they can find their way around and have better access to their rights as members of the Australian community. [More…]

• Speaking three weeks ago, he said that with health insurance contributions for comprehensive cover increasing in some States from $650 per annum to possibly $850 to $900, it had reached the point where the existing voluntary system had priced itself out of reach of the community. [More…]

• Surely taxation is a contract between a government and its people, that for a certain amount of money, collected on a progressive basis generally from a community, it will deliver certain services to that community. [More…]

• That in itself is a significant increase for many people in the community but it is especially so for the disadvantaged person. [More…]

• It will be interesting to see how long the Government will be prepared to stand up to the pressure from all the groups in the community which will be complaining about the removal of very important drugs from the list, drugs which are used for chronic conditions or whatever. [More…]

• The Opposition’s record in triggering off the explosion in health costs to the Australian community should never be forgotten. [More…]

• Health costs have to be paid by the community by one means or another, whether by taxes, by imposing levies, by health insurance premiums or by direct payments out of one’s pocket. [More…]

• The community will not escape the bill. [More…]

• A lot of work has yet to be done regarding the petrol levy but I have no doubt that it will prove to be a highly regressive tax in the way in which the burden is felt in this community. [More…]

• The general expectation in the community and certainly amongst the health funds is that there will be some increase in the number of those who simply abandon insurance. [More…]

• Indeed, Mr Mansfield of the Voluntary Health Insurance Association of Australia fears that there will be a massive drop-out by contributors because voluntary health insurance is pricing itself out of the community’s reach. [More…]

• Thirdly, some wealthy people in our community will drop out of the health funds because they have the resources to meet major medical or hospital costs. [More…]

• These are the types of people who will drop out of health insurance: Those who cannot afford it, the young and the healthy, and the wealthy people in the community who have the resources to meet unexpected medical costs. [More…]

• One of the real worries in the community- I think this is why in the latest gallup polls health is beginning to turn up again as a major matter of social concern in this community- is that we are returning to the pre-Medibank system. [More…]

• Finally, the insurance burden is inequitable in its incidence and increasingly burdensome on the ordinary members of the community. [More…]

• The Minister said- I agree with him- that the community pays the bill in one way or another. [More…]

• In one way or another, through tax, levy, insurance or some other system, the community will pay the bill. [More…]

• That means bringing most people into the system so that the burden of health care costs in this community rests not on a narrowing group of the sick but right across the community. [More…]

• There may have to be some significant decisions for the slaughter of whole herds of livestock and perhaps even districts will have to be sealed off if we are to control some diseases, but those in the farming community who may be involved must have confidence that any procedure that is enacted will provide fair compensation. [More…]

• It is my view that if someone has been elected to represent the people of the community it is not appropriate for anybody to apply any restrictions to his capacity to carry out his duties. [More…]

• One way of course is to retain the idea that members of the House of Assembly should represent the communitybecause they are elected by popular vote- on various organisations, committees and statutory bodies. [More…]

• As representatives of the community members of the House of Assembly should be represented on those bodies. [More…]

• An amount of $550,000 is to be allocated for welfare purposes, $200,000 for general community purposes and $350,000 for the arts. [More…]

• I will be asking the committee of the House of Assembly to give me advice as to the disposition of the $750,000 that relates to welfare and the general community. [More…]

• It is a very substantial amount, much in excess of that which has previously been granted to the community for these purposes. [More…]

• I make a non-partisan plea, one which I believe will be supported by all members of the Opposition, the Parliament and the Australian community. [More…]

• The Torres Strait Islanders were the losers and the community lost an asset. [More…]

• It compounded the felony even further by saying that if members of the community contributed to this foundation their contributions would be tax deductible. [More…]

• The whole episode points up the responsibility of the individual to the community in which he lives and the particular responsibility of unionists in vital industries to make every effort to attend meetings of this nature. [More…]

• The stock exchange is an indication of the private sector in the community. [More…]

• The Labor Government had completely depressed the confidence of the private sector of the community in investing in the expansion of industry in this country. [More…]

• This shows that the stock exchange is a barometer which helps people within the Australian community and abroad to decide whether they should invest in the continuing development and expansion of Australian industry. [More…]

• In India, the child born in a community of more than 5,000 persons has seven and a half times as good a chance of receiving a University or College education as the child born in a rural village. [More…]

• Apart from the international level of sporting activity, the most important thing is to get a broad crosssection of the community participating in sport and recreation. [More…]

• There need to be trained personnel to encourage participation in the use of those facilities and there also needs to be an incentive for the people in the community to use those facilities. [More…]

• It was well accepted by the State governments and the community and there are very sound reasons why it should be reintroduced. [More…]

• Such explanations may help to reveal the measures needed to preserve the community’s priceless assets- the selfrespect, fulfilment, incentive and productivity of our coming generations. [More…]

• Although sometimes regarded as an affront to human dignity, it is only realistic to recognise that there is a market for labour where supply and demand operate subject in many ways to community institutions and attitudes. [More…]

• These reasons include the attitudes towards women’s liberation, a community acceptance that many married women may work, and the higher education which has given women the ability and desire to participate more actively in community affairs and business and other related influences. [More…]

• A further complication arises because the proportion of students, who take out their higher education in academic courses and vocational training oriented to a special skill or occupation, is not always correlated with community requirements for the respective skills acquired when the courses are completed. [More…]

• When vacancies are available we must have people to fill them so that the resulting activity and incomes will generate economic recovery and uphold community living standards. [More…]

• Public servants are necessary to provide and maintain services throughout the community. [More…]

• As I said, this situation is causing great concern to the people of the community. [More…]

• Federal Members of Parliament from New South Wales continually receive letters, petitions and objections from people in the community who have been hoodwinked into thinking that any lack of funding for education is the fault of this Government. [More…]

• Grassby, Commissioner for Community Relations, to overcome it. [More…]

• They will also realise that the Fraser Government not only is dragging its feet in implementing measures to end that discrimination, which are within Commonwealth legislative ambit, but also, we have heard, is moving to abolish the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations as part of the winding down of so-called surplus bureaucracy. [More…]

• Be in it* could be devoted to the project for removing the remnants of racism which unfortunately pervade our community. [More…]

• The statement says that Australia’s ‘serious and sustained efforts to promote nuclear arms control have earned Australia the respect of the international community’. [More…]

• The agreement with the United Kingdom is the first Australia has signed with a member state of the European Community. [More…]

• Honourable members should be aware that in arriving at this agreement, Australia had to take into account the United Kingdom’s obligations under the European Atomic Energy Community Treaty. [More…]

• Australia, of course, has a strong interest in concluding a safeguards agreement with EURATOM as soon as possible and we hope that the European Community governments will reach early agreement on a mandate to enable the European Commission to negotiate with Australia on behalf of EURATOM. [More…]

• The statement says that Australia’s ‘serious and sustained efforts to promote nuclear arms control have earned Australia the respect of the international community’. [More…]

• We know now that the Government has negotiated with France but there is a doubt about whether France will accept either the terms of the Australian Model Safeguards Agreement or the authority of the European Atomic Energy Community. [More…]

• Next to unemployment, the provision of shelter is the most serious crisis in our community today. [More…]

• In that approach we have been economically realistic but at the same time very sensitive to the welfare needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• As a long-term objective the community will be best served by a manufacturing sector with a structure requiring minimum levels of Government support. [More…]

• We have stressed that in taking specific decisions on protection, careful attention must, of course, be given to the community’s capacity to absorb change and accommodate the economic and social consequences of change. [More…]

• The report has been a most important contribution to government and community thinking on policies for manufacturing industry. [More…]

• We shall expect industry and the community to continue to work with us to attain that objective. [More…]

• I hope that I will have another occasion on which to say more about the Crawford report and about the policies of the Labor Party in relation to it- policies which will do something about creating jobs in this community through industry rather than having to put up with a statement like this which does nothing but put off decision making [More…]

• Mrs Thatcher also accepted the responsibility of the British Government to bring the country to legal independence on a basis which the Commonwealth and the international community as a whole will find acceptable. [More…]

• The settlement process that is envisaged can bring peace and allow Zimbabwe to take its place in the community of nations. [More…]

• As far as the white community of that country is concerned, it can hope for a stable and peaceful existence, only as part of a genuine multi-racial society. [More…]

• The international community at large can only benefit from removing a potential source of conflagration and great power rivalry. [More…]

• Australia, as a member of the international community shares this concern for peace and stability in Southern Africa, and, as a member of the Commonwealth, we have a concern with preserving its integrity, and with the Commonwealth proving itself as a constructive and relevant institution. [More…]

• No nation in the world with any sense of world community will be immune to such events. [More…]

• 1 think the honourable member for Denison has done a service to the community in pointing out the failure of the Tasmanian Government to meet its obligations. [More…]

• Every individual in the community would have to be investigated to determine whether he would be subject to this so-called wealth tax. [More…]

• Over the past 48 years of service Apex has made a very significant achievement in service to the Australian community. [More…]

• The recognition arising from a stamp issue would aid Apex in its endeavour of service to the community in Australia. [More…]

• In view of the state of the nation today, anything that can be done to encourage greater community service must surely be applauded and encouraged wherever possible. [More…]

• A stamp issue would heighten community awareness of and respect for Apex and serve as a public relations boost that would assist Apex in its fund-raising operations on behalf of very worthwhile organisations throughout the land. [More…]

• As well it would give public recognition to the many young men who are currently serving or have served their community through Apex. [More…]

• On behalf of my party colleagues and, I believe, of many people throughout the community, I join in this expression of sorrow at the death of Lord Louis Mountbatten. [More…]

• -It is good to hear that the honourable member for Burke at last has found some interest in the rural community. [More…]

• I do not intend to make any apology for the fact that the Australian business community - [More…]

• I do not mind saying anywhere in Australia that the Budget has been well received by the business community. [More…]

• So it ought to be, because it is a Budget that provides a large number of incentives for all sizes of business in Australia, not least the small business sector which is so much the backbone of the commercial community of this country. [More…]

• The extent to which inflation has been reduced benefits no section of the community greater than it benefits Australian families. [More…]

• Of course there are different ways in which the taxation system can be arranged to benefit different sections of the community. [More…]

• It is said that governments can be judged by the way in which they care for the disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• But surely they must be moved when they see the figures reflecting what this Government has done, when people are crying out for job creation programs and asking for community projects, and when the youth want to work. [More…]

• This year 36,000 people will be helped through NEAT; 49,000 through SYETP; 85,000 through CRAFT, and a further 40,000 will participate in Community Youth Support scheme projects. [More…]

• They are distributed on the backs of the hundreds of thousands of young people and on the backs of people who are already drawn from the lower income section of the community, the working class. [More…]

• He is someone who goes out into the community and sells the community a line because this is a government which has no solution to the problems of unemployment, either in the short term or the long term. [More…]

• The participants include major industrialised countries, such as the United States of America, the countries constituting the European Economic Community, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan; middle order countries of the kind to which Australia belongs, such as Sweden and Austria; major developing countries such as Brazil; and underdeveloped countries, such as Cameroon, Congo and Madagascar. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, there is widespread support in the community for Commonwealth involvement in a national system of companies and securities industry regulation. [More…]

• It is essential that the Security Service should be kept absolutely free from any political bias or influence, and nothing should be done that might lend colour to any suggestion that it is concerned with the interests of any particular section of the community . [More…]

• This legislation has caused widespread community concern and it is not simply the Opposition which objects to it in its present form. [More…]

• lifting the yoke of taxation that has sapped the spirit and initiative of the community over recent years’. [More…]

• For those honourable members opposite who have the job of trying to save their seats by selling this fraud of a Budget to the community, I will repeat those figures: Company tax revenue is up by $190m in two years; petrol tax and petroleum excise revenue is up by $ 1,775m in two years. [More…]

• It offers no light at the end of the tunnel, no relief from the unremitting assault on the community as a whole, or the disadvantaged in particular. [More…]

• It must establish viable national job training programs in tandem with an expanded capital works program and a scheme that embraces the concept of the Opposition’s community service corps for young Australians. [More…]

• Our scheme would be designed to provide up to 50,000 jobs for young workers at junior award rates in national projects and community works at an estimated cost of $85m to $100m in its first year of operation. [More…]

• The essential ingredients of such an approach as we see them are: A program of selective capital works to stimulate employment and general economic activity; a subsidy to employers equal to the rate of unemployment benefit for net additions to the work force; our community service corps for young Australians about which I already have spoken; direct and indirect tax cuts to stimulate demand, reduce costs and provide a real increase in living standards in contrast to the erosion of the past three years; and a broad-ranging program of job retraining which we will announce in the near future. [More…]

• Without such programs there will be obvious industrial tensions in the same way as this Government has very stupidly courted confrontation by its ceaseless attacks on the real living standards of some 80 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• By introducing these revenue measures which affect a few but very wealthy institutions in the community which are not making their full contribution to revenue sources in the community, we will be able to ease substantially the tax burden, direct and indirect, on Australian families. [More…]

• The great bulk of the community will be better off. [More…]

• Treasurer for adverting with very legitimate reason to the difficulties which stemmed from our participation in the international community. [More…]

• They believe that the best guide to what will happen in the future is to examine the past and to act on the assumption that there will be basic continuity in employment and that the community will react without difficulty to relatively gradual changes in technology, employment and life-style. [More…]

• In the short time that we have tonight we cannot do much analysis; we can only pose the problems and hope that the community will start to turn its mind to them. [More…]

• Yet our industry is able to supply the Australian community fully. [More…]

• Who is going to buy three or four motor cars just to make the community’s machinery work better? [More…]

• We have to look at real wages, at the poverty line and the total work picture in this community to make judgment on the economy. [More…]

• They have to travel greater distances to visit the nearest community or to see a medical specialist, for example. [More…]

• The whole evil of this type of wage pacesetting is that it becomes inbuilt into the cost structure of a community. [More…]

• Would anyone suggest that they perform a less significant or less substantial role in the community than the town clerk of a municipality? [More…]

• -At Question Time this morning we heard the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) refer to the infiltration of extreme right wing elements in the community into the Liberal Party by way of Lyenko Urbanchich. [More…]

• This is ample proof of the infiltration of this Government and the Liberal Party by these extreme right wing elements in the community, and is a very good reason why the Government has to start looking at itself. [More…]

• At the same time let it be said that the Government’s actions in the matter should not be regarded as a measure against the Croatian community in Australia. [More…]

• Honourable members will be aware that the legislation is not directed against any ethnic community or against its flying the flags of its homeland if it so chooses. [More…]

• The purpose of the Government is to reduce the living standards of Australian families so that it can reduce the wage structure in our community. [More…]

• Presumably Treasury documentation has no effect on the market place, but the Opposition has enormous influence on what the community does. [More…]

• It is seeking to destroy living standards in this community and to perpetuate devaluation by rather artificial means in order to make our export industries more competitive. [More…]

• For the average family in this community, it is enormously cheaper to stay out of medical insurance than to be in it. [More…]

• In fact, they would save a great deal more because the average statistics are inflated by the usage rates of people with chronic illnesses who are a small proportion of the community. [More…]

• He does not say anything about the enormous benefit that that reform was to the living standards of low income earners in the Australian community. [More…]

• The problem is that this Government has allowed its ideological obsessions with this problem and with many others completely to obscure its view of the Australian community and its overall welfare. [More…]

• So families are still profitable for the wealthiest families in the country but they are a distinct disadvantage for the rest of the people in this community. [More…]

• He is playing to the basest emotions of the community at a time when a more responsible leader would be acknowledging the great difficulties facing the economy. [More…]

• For example, there will be an additional 1 1 per cent spent on community health this year, an additional 16 per cent on the education program for unemployed youth, an easing of the means test for student assistance schemes, a 45 per cent increase in national drug education and a 29 per cent increase in additional funds for school dental schemes. [More…]

• All I can say is that there will be many very disappointed people in the community who will no longer be able to get the medicines to which they have become used. [More…]

• The increase from $2.50 to $2.75 could have been justified, I feel, if the Government had said that it would use the savings involved- the saving forecast for the next 10 months of this financial year is $5.1m, therefore the saving for a whole year works out to be about $6m- for the purpose of providing free prescriptions for disadvantaged persons in the community. [More…]

• It would have been possible to argue a sound case that those in the community who are reasonably well off ought to pay an extra 25c for their prescriptions on the basis of consumer price index increases, provided that the money is used for the benefit of those who really need it. [More…]

• The legislation seeks to recover increases in the costs of dispensing pharmaceutical benefits et cetera in line with the general cost factors permeating the Australian community, and the sum involved is estimated to be $5.1m. [More…]

• The Opposition, during its three-year period of government, did not seek to give pharmaceutical benefits to this most deserving sector of the community. [More…]

• The reference states: the role of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, including its role as suppliers of products to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), and the factors affecting its structure and viability; the relationship between industry viability and PBS pricing policies and practices; whether there is a need for any changes in related Government policies in order to sustain an efficient and viable pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in Australia while protecting community interests in obtaining an economic supply and distribution of pharmaceutical products; and whether there is a need for an independent prices determination system, and, if so, the form that such a system should take (including a system of arbitration to deal with any disagreements between the Government and the pharmaceutical industry on drug prices). [More…]

• He did not make a very strong statement but at least he went so far as to state: in relation to the general pharmaceutical benefits patient increase from $2 to $2.50, 1 believe that there could be some hardship for some people in our community. [More…]

• Quite clearly the increase from $2.50 to $2.75 will also cause some hardship to some people in our community. [More…]

• It has argued consistently that those changes are being made to shift the burden of the costs away from the community as a whole and on to the patient. [More…]

• The extraordinary thing about this succession of changes that we have seen sponsored by this Government is that it bears no relationship to the issue on which the Government has placed the greatest emphasis, that is, not simply the cost of health to government, but also the cost of it to the community. [More…]

• It is those people with a vested interest in an expansion of services for the purpose of economic and financial gain who need to be controlled if we are to see some real restraining of health costs in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is on about shifting resources away from the lower income people of this community and reversing the redistribution of the Whitlam period to move funds back to the hands of the entrepreneurs, the wealthy and the affluent. [More…]

• We are paying a high price as a community for its indiscretions and the way it stuffed the doctors’ mouths with gold. [More…]

• So, it is the community at large that is paying this tremendous price. [More…]

• He said the Government was fully aware that the new increase, although small, could cause some further difficulty for disadvantaged people in the community, and his Department was currently examining possible ways in which assistance with pharmaceutical costs might be given to them. [More…]

• I think there is clearly a great responsibility to take two sections of the community into account: Firstly, the disadvantaged and secondly the chronically ill. [More…]

• It has argued publicly and introduced measures designed to make the unemployed objects of contempt to the rest of the community. [More…]

• That is evident from the reception that the Budget has received in the financial community, and particularly the providing for a domestic deficit of only $875m. [More…]

• The poorest, most disadvantaged major group in the community were required to contribute to the Government Budget whilst - [More…]

• Petrol is the basis of most of the transport systems, and most of the conveyance of goods in this country and therefore is a recurring cost factor throughout the whole of the economy which must be met by increased costs to producers, to consumers and to all other sections of the community. [More…]

• It tells, or tries to tell, the Australian community consistently that that revenue is derived from increases in prices set by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]

• The effect of those rises is significantly less than the increases which are being passed onto the Australian community. [More…]

• It suggests that the sick are a burden on the community which the community should not have to bear. [More…]

• To get $200m out of that sector of the community he would have to impose a maximum marginal tax rate of 75c to 80c in the dollar. [More…]

• When we talk about average weekly earnings it sounds great, as though more than half the workers in the community earn that much. [More…]

• The Opposition has proposed the establishment of a so-called community service corps which basically will have the same problems as the RED scheme. [More…]

• -As I have said, the Leader of the Opposition talks about creating 50,000 jobs for young people, through his new community support corps. [More…]

• It is true that some jobs at the margin will probably be found, but the cost to the community, and the overall viability of employment in Australia, will undoubtedly suffer. [More…]

• According to the Opposition this Government has not given priority to job training programs, yet we have, through our schemes, trained over 400,000 young people who are now fulfilling their role in the community. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the litany of the Opposition and other interest groups within the community, is always the same- ‘cut expenditure but don ‘t touch me ‘. [More…]

• An examination of trends in government expenditure in recent years will prove beyond doubt that the Fraser Government has consistently maintained its undertaking in office that those sectors of the Australian community most in need are entitled to receive, and are receiving, the maximum possible assistance from the Government. [More…]

• Community development and regional bodies had their funds cut. [More…]

• Community health centres are $ 14m below the 1977-78 figure. [More…]

• The Government argues that aid to private industry is to benefit the general community, but its approach to bringing this about appears to be wishful thinking. [More…]

• There is also a need to ensure that the revenue gained by a government and companies is redistributed back to the general community. [More…]

• I see dental chairs provided in community health centres but no dentists to use those chairs. [More…]

• I see piffling little unemployment relief programs such as community youth employment support schemes where very dedicated people work for the unemployed in an extremely serious manner but are just not getting the tools to work with or the resources which will enable them to get the kids either the training or jobs that they need. [More…]

• A ward in a hospital serving a community of 300,000 people has to be closed and people needing hospital care are retained in their homes. [More…]

• I realise that they have a job to do, but if officials of Australia Post close the Studfield post office then they will greatly inconvenience a vast number of people in this rapidly growing community. [More…]

• The criteria include the requirement that the occasion to be commemorated be of outstanding national importance or of special historical significance, and of general interest to a wide section of the community. [More…]

• The Government has therefore pursued a policy of encouraging the development of a wide range of fares designed to satisfy the varied travelling needs of the whole community. [More…]

• To increase students’ awareness of the basic needs of the community for health, health promotion and health care delivery and how best they can be achieved within the limited resources of manpower, facilities and finance available within a nation; [More…]

• On the basis of the information available to me I understand that agreement was reached between all member States of the European Community on 20 September 1976 that, subject to minor modifications, electoral procedures for the first direct elections should be governed by the national provisions of each member State. [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the House whether, as a result of his visit and the numerous representations made by myself and local councils and community organisations, and in the national interest, he has reached a decision on this important matter? [More…]

• That would be very good news for the sort of incentive that the Australian community wants. [More…]

• The Australian community will not allow publicly owned assets to be sold up to line the pockets of private speculators who feed funds into the slush accounts of those who sit opposite. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party is committed to ensuring that air services in this country are made available to as wide a range of the community as possible and that the level of air fares should be as low as possible commensurate with the required and necessary standard of safety in the operation of those services. [More…]

• The honourable member may well laugh, because he is as ignorant as the Australian community is on the subject. [More…]

• The NCDC builds not only what it calls normal basic community requirements, but also Commonwealth offices and national works, and it is especially in this last category that I believe there is room for construction projects that will relieve this city’s ever-climbing unemployment. [More…]

• Last year the NCDC proposed $70m worth of community requirement type projects and only $2m of national works. [More…]

• This year it is $3 9m worth of community projects and $4m in national works. [More…]

• It would subsidise employment and create a community youth service. [More…]

• Many people within our community would suggest that since 1975 we have not progressed along these paths at a sufficient rate. [More…]

• Decisions probably have to be made by the community in Australia whether it is going to insist on smaller government and be content with the austerity of government or whether the big government syndrome is to prevail. [More…]

• I refer also to the reduction of essential community services that affect the quality of life for the Australian people. [More…]

• It represents the wealthy corporations and the wealthy elite of our community. [More…]

• A lot of work has to be done to clean up the polluted urban environment, to provide basic cultural and community services in the outer suburbs, to improve and extend public transport services and to ensure security of housing for our people. [More…]

• Next to unemployment, housing and shelter constitute the most serious social problem we have in our community. [More…]

• As a result, the rural community is in a much stronger position today than it has been for some years. [More…]

• This Government has a track record of coming to the assistance of the rural community when it is needed most. [More…]

• I believe that even the rural community in Australia, who are fairly heavy per capita users of fuel, will recognise this point. [More…]

• Under Hayden, the Labor Opposition is committed to greater interventionism- Labor’s word, not mine- in the market and the diversion of resources from the private sector to the public sector of the community. [More…]

• This will be the time when we can do more for every single section of the community and not concentrate on the privileged position of members of the trade unions. [More…]

• Certainly, other sections of the community will have to pay if the trade union movement continues to act in the way in which it is acting at present. [More…]

• The total lack of confidence in the community is due to the inability of the Government to perform creditably. [More…]

• The main matter with which I want to deal in this speech is the Labor Party’s outright dishonesty in what it is encouraging members of the Australian community to believe about their living standards. [More…]

• The Labor Party, for cynical political purposes, prefers to mislead the community into believing that unemployment can be solved by the magic of money. [More…]

• Yet if it is not grasped by the Australian community as a whole, this country is in for problems far worse than anything it has seen. [More…]

• Australians must recognise and accept that they can only enjoy benefits if the economy grows strongly enough, if the business and industry sections of the community are prosperous and expanding and if we keep inflation under control and remain competitive on the world market. [More…]

• We have just heard word from Melbourne that the Community Youth Support Scheme funds have been slashed and some 50 or 60 projects are to be scrapped. [More…]

• They know as well as those who are demanding that they do something to earn their benefits that the work is of little value to the community, that they are doing it to make the more self-righteous in the community feel that they are not paying out their taxes for nothing. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was referring to the fact that many people who want to see work provided for those who are unemployed do not seem to be aware that most of the jobs that are recommended are of little value to the community. [More…]

• The unemployed want to work but on work that leaves something of value to the community. [More…]

• There is growing and proper sentiment in the community towards lower taxation and smaller government. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite seek to create some kind of division within the Australian community and a division between honourable members on both sides of this House on whether people are entitled to benefits. [More…]

• We see absolutely no conflict between the need to pay very good benefits and the need for the community to be productive enough to create the wealth to pay those benefits because, unless business operates well and profitably, unless people are constantly in employment, unless people are at work all the time and not involved in industrial disputes, the wealth will not be created and taxation will not be available to pay the very best benefits that this country can provide. [More…]

• Later in the same address he talked about a community service corps. [More…]

• He is playing to the basest emotions of the community at a time when a more responsible leader would be acknowledging the great difficulties facing the economy. [More…]

• It is a tax cut which the Government has spent enormous sums upon and been at great pains to explain to the community, but the scheme has come unstuck, so too has the Budget strategy. [More…]

• Either the general strategy or part of the Budget detail should be revealed in one week and time should be allowed for community feedback from those proposals. [More…]

• I suppose the suggestion would have had very little support prior to this Budget but I believe the confusion created by this Budget- not only in the community, but within the Government as well- has highlighted the need for a general overhauling of the process by which Budgets are planned and the manner in which they are delivered. [More…]

• This is how the Government approaches the serious problem of economic structural re-adjustment, to mop up the record unemployment and to reconcile the imbalance between unemployment in the skilled and unskilled sectors of the community. [More…]

• Government back benchers have valiantly tried to deflect criticism about the scandalous 69 per cent cut in the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the 44 per cent cut in the National Employment and Training scheme and the 1 3 per cent cut in the Community Youth Support Scheme by referring to the increase of $26m for Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Fulltime Training. [More…]

• Obviously, all of the measures that one would have wish to see introduced could not be introduced; yet the Budget was remarkable for one thing: It gave every person in every section of our community something to give them encouragement and to indicate that the people of this nation had been considered. [More…]

• Amongst those who receive the 9 per cent increase in income predicted in the Budget, the family breadwinner will be by far the most disadvantaged in the whole of the community. [More…]

• That is not going to please that group of the community either. [More…]

• What he said has been fully accepted by the community at large as well. [More…]

• Apart from the tax rip-off that the community at large knows that is about to hit them, there are also other things that are going to afflict them badly this year. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Parramatta (Mr John Brown), in his opening remarks, said that the Budget was not widely understood in the community. [More…]

• He is playing to the basest emotions of the community at a time when a more responsible leader would be acknowledging the great difficulties facing the economy. [More…]

• The community is fed up. [More…]

• Consequently some people in our community were disadvantaged. [More…]

• Those people are the pensioners and the aged people of our community. [More…]

• This revenue is being put back into the community. [More…]

• There are grants totalling $500,000 to community welfare agencies which are in need of support in providing emergency assistance to members of the community. [More…]

• Some people on the other side of the House do not believe that a very important sector of the Australian community, the defence forces of Australia, should be receiving any degree of assistance. [More…]

• Under the funding arrangements that we have specially established for women’s refuges, they are favoured to this extent: Community health programs, other than those for ethnic health workers, and interpreters and translators in the ethnic communities, are receiving 50 per cent of the capital requirements. [More…]

• I reiterate that this represents a new peak in selfishness, and the people responsible for it will be judged accordingly by the Australian community. [More…]

• What in fact has happened is that the President of the ACTU has threatened the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the business community and the public that unless trade union demands are met industrial disruption will be used and, indeed, encouraged to damage our economy. [More…]

• What, in effect, Mr Hawke and trade union leaders have done is to tell members of the trade union movement that lining their own pockets comes before the interests of the community and of the unemployed. [More…]

• The fact is that the ACTU has now demonstrably embarked on a policy of confrontation not just with the Government but also with the Australian community. [More…]

• The direction to the unions to increase industrial disruption shows just how far the leadership of the trade union movement is from community thinking. [More…]

• Pricing on its own, however, is not enough to bring about prompt changes in consumption habits or to develop improved social responsibility towards energy use in the community at large. [More…]

• It is generally believed in the community, although not by myself, that they make hefty donations to the coffers of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• He justifies it on the basis that as long as business is big there will be employment opportunities in the community. [More…]

• For this reason, the Government is able to rip off funds from the taxpayers, the wage earners in the community, and make them available to the very large companies. [More…]

• It is a compensation made to people on the lower income scale, those who have families and who are suffering more than any other section of the community because of their responsibilities and their willingness to face up to them. [More…]

• It has levied this tax on one section of the community only, the purchasers of petrol. [More…]

• Our fine economists will never make anything work unless there is confidence in the community about the future. [More…]

• Probably I will not have time to raise the way in which this Government has cut back on its funding for all sorts of training programs- the National Employment and Training scheme and the rest for young people in Australia, but when the Opposition speaks about unemployed people it is speaking about young people in our community between the ages of 18 and 25. [More…]

• He has given some figures in relation to the establishment of a community services corps, which is his own discredited Regional Employment Development scheme, a scheme which he abandoned in his 1975 Budget. [More…]

• A recent gallup poll showed that 64 per cent of the Australian community favoured the proposal. [More…]

• It is essential that any future reductions in the community’s income tax burden should be the result of tax reform rather than across-the-board tax cuts. [More…]

• This Government has continually tried to juggle the figures on unemployment and to time the release of statistics so as to minimise community awareness of the extent and nature of unemployment. [More…]

• If American-based companies are prepared to do that in their own community, then we in Australia ought to be having some regard to the impact that they may have in our own community. [More…]

• The community must ask itself and we in this Parliament must ask ourselves whether any nation can survive with the human wastage that is involved in over 500,000 people being unemployed. [More…]

• To take it further, I say that the community must ask itself and we in this Parliament must ask ourselves very seriously whether we have to try to mould our people to meet the needs of the economic system or whether, with the great resources and wealth of this nation, we are prepared to restructure the economic system to develop this nation’s most precious resourceits people. [More…]

• That which causes me concern is the possibility that my Party might be adopting the Labor Party’s policy in killing off the incentive of the better off and slightly better off in our community to care and to provide for themselves in the future. [More…]

• If we are to kill the will, the incentive and the ability of the more fortunate in our community, in the future they will be putting their hands out to share in the restricted availability of welfare funds. [More…]

• This Government has presided over the greatest bashing of a particular community. [More…]

• The Government has alienated every section of the community but it is asking him to do the impossible. [More…]

• For example, research projects bearing the following titles have been funded: ‘Comparative Studies on Coral Reef Ecosystems: Coral Taxonomy, Ecology and Analysis of Reef Community Structures’ and ‘The Species Composition and Ecological Significance of near-reef Zooplankton on the Capricorn Reef, Queensland’. [More…]

• ) Is he able to say whether the Parliaments of the United States of America, the European Economic Community and the United Kingdom all have set up parliamentary committees to monitor and report upon their respective countries’ fuel and energy needs. [More…]

• To assess community attitudes to two alternative road bypass routes around Deloraine, Tasmania. [More…]

• The extent of community disturbance by aircraft noise around Australian airports. [More…]

• Economic and Incidence Analysis of data collected in Incidence Survey showing final impact of economic considerations on elements of the community. [More…]

• I am happy to say to the most honourable member that the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, with the support of the Australian community, has required that 1S6 hours of C classified programs are to be shown primarily in the 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. time slot on commercial television stations. [More…]

• When I say it has the support of the Australian community, I do so on the basis of research which has indicated that approximately 85 per cent of the community polled support that approach by the Tribunal. [More…]

• Is the Prime Minister aware of the extensive and passionate discontent among ethnic groups in the community at the way in which the Special Broadcasting Service and generally ethnic communications set up by the Government have been highly politicised? [More…]

• In working out the time scales for the different community groups those people are coming to understand the needs, the aspirations, the fears and the hopes of the different community groups, developing overall a greater identity of interest than otherwise would have been the case. [More…]

• -The success of the Government’s anti-inflationary policy is showing up in many sections of the community. [More…]

• He wants to punish the Labor Party because its members dare to question whether it is in the community’s interest that he should have the licence for yet another news outlet- Channel 10 in Sydney. [More…]

• South Australian community. [More…]

• These are the sorts of national government policies against which the South Australian Labor Government has had to seek to immunise the community in South Australia. [More…]

• I like to think that if we had been in power we would have asked members of the ethnic community what they thought they wanted. [More…]

• The main criticism I make of the expenditure is that in the eyes of many members of the ethnic community it is being wasted. [More…]

• Many members of the ethnic community claim that the programs being broadcast over the ethnic radio stations are completely bland and almost uninteresting. [More…]

• So overall, one can conclude only that despite all the flowery language of the Liberal Government spokesmen, in real terms there has been a reduction in the allocation for education services when compared with the needs of the immigrant community. [More…]

• Looking at the allocation for the Department of Health, it is terribly difficult to be sure what is really being made available for members of the ethnic community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth will provide $59.2 7m Tor the continued funding of the Community Health Program in 1979-80. [More…]

• community nursing services), women’s refuges, the training and provision of ethnic health workers, and a new initiative- the training and provision of interpreters and translators to work in health services provided for migrants and Aboriginals. [More…]

• The ethnic health workers would be trained to provide direct health education, preventive, support and counselling services to members of ethnic groups, with particular attention to the needs of women, the aged, the handicapped, those at risk of mental breakdown and those under treatment in the community. [More…]

• I would not have thought that the program had solved all the problems of the training needs of those people in the community who needed to be trained last year. [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…]

• One would find that they were probably no better or worse than the rest of the Austraiian community. [More…]

• For all these reasons, despite all the boasts by the Government, in my view far too little effort is being given to providing for the needs of these people, who are now Australian citizens, members of this community. [More…]

• They are part and parcel of this community. [More…]

• Our Government believes in the reduction of tariffs but in areas of manufacture which have been fully checked out and investigated to ascertain what effect reductions could have on unemployment, the community and the economy. [More…]

• Other schemes in the unemployment field provided for in the Budget include the Community Youth Support scheme, which is well supported in my electorate and indeed throughout the nation, and the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]

• Whilst these schemes are assisting the unemployed it is in the commercial and business sectors of the community that employment opportunities have to be increased. [More…]

• These are deprived people and yet we hear complaints from the white population- particularly in areas where they are aware of the existence of high Aboriginal populations within their community- that Aborigines are getting preference for housing. [More…]

• In regard to health, another area of wellknown deprivation where Aborigines are far behind the rest of the community, spending is down on last year by 1 lh per cent. [More…]

• One could make invidious comparisons, of which the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) no doubt will be well aware, with the services in Canberra in things like our community health services or the Woden Hospital. [More…]

• That indicates how unfair is this system of indirect taxation which is creeping upon our community today. [More…]

• I also wish to deal, in the little time available, with a very vital question concerning this community, and that is the family and the way in which it is being hit. [More…]

• After all, the family is the cornerstone of our community and of our society. [More…]

• The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Government have responded to the need for greater expenditure on preventive medicine and have allocated funds for community health programs and other projects related to health; for example, the sport and recreation program. [More…]

• This inevitably raises the question of whether the rights of the individual are in jeopardy if a government takes steps to discourage a course of conduct which is now pursued by a minority in our community. [More…]

• As ever they confront and divide the community and constantly seek scapegoats for their own failures and falsehoods. [More…]

• Of course, everybody in the community is aware that taxes have increased so significantly. [More…]

• One who earns more should pay a greater proportion of health costs, as they do for lots of other services in the community such as the provision of roads, education, the police force or anything else. [More…]

• If any policies of this Government emphasise the difference in attitude to the business community between the coalition government and an alternative Labor government, its policies relating to business do. [More…]

• What has the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) said that he would do for the business community? [More…]

• However, the farming community has received a great deal of assistance in finding and securing markets for our products. [More…]

• Many special interest groups in our community are starting to lose their credibility by making excessive and unwarranted demands on the public purse. [More…]

• The Budget has been widely acclaimed as being one which assists the private sector and the business sector of the Australian community. [More…]

• I mentioned briefly the role of local government in our community and particularly the recognition that this Government gives to local government. [More…]

• It is the provider of many of our basic services and of course it maintains many of our community facilities. [More…]

• In particular, local government is better placed in our community to meet and to recognise the needs of individuals. [More…]

• The Opposition in this House is continually attacking those people in our community who create wealth. [More…]

• Many people in our community forget that the money that the Government spends is their money. [More…]

• If the community demands that the Government spend more money the community must recognise that the Government must collect more money. [More…]

• If the Government wants to reduce its spending the community must stop asking for so much to be done. [More…]

• Of course, everyone, in our community agrees that taxes are too high and that government spending should be cut. [More…]

• I want to make a few remarks in regard to this Budget about one of the groups in the community which will be affected most savagely by the cuts in living standards caused by measures announced in the Budget. [More…]

• No section of the community has fared worse than those people who are under the care of that Department. [More…]

• There has been a 13 per cent cut in the Community Youth Support scheme. [More…]

• The young unemployed under 18 years- that section of the community which has been completely ignored by this Government- were given no rise in their unemployment benefit payments at all. [More…]

• I think that because of the very close relationship with Malta, Australia ought to take a very keen interest in what is going on in this ancient community. [More…]

• This resulted in many worthy members of the Australian community who have come here from Ireland being subjected to criticism and attack. [More…]

• Requests are handled on a case by case basis but the underlying principles are that the fuel is required to meet an essential community need; it can be spared without detriment to short term defence requirements and alternative supplies from commercial sources are not available to the borrower. [More…]

• unions cannot be required to accept wage restraints unless those restraints are applied for the benefit of the whole community . [More…]

• I wish that more groups in the Australian community would treat the problem of unemployment in that thoughtful and decent way. [More…]

• I am again not surprised by the attitude of segments of the business community in South Australia. [More…]

• The views of multinational companies about sections of the business community of South Australia and their competence are worth hearing. [More…]

• Referring to the proposition that they are reactionary, I think that the only thing I need to do is to ask honourable members opposite to ask their Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee) for his opinion of the troglodytic views of elements of the South Australian business community on industrial democracy. [More…]

• These are important in principle because their presentation to the Parliament demonstrates the accountability of departments and authorities to the Parliament, and through it to the community. [More…]

• They are important in a practical sense because of the information they provide to senators and members and to interested people in the community. [More…]

• Even though a limited number of people in the community may want to study the full report I think that copies of the report should be available. [More…]

• Because the airport is the arrival point for the major section of the community who wish to rent cars, the exclusive concession enabled Avis to gain a major share of the car rental business in Australia. [More…]

• This has been achieved by adjustments on the pan of the host community and of the new settlers themselves. [More…]

• One of the first tasks facing the Institute undoubtedly will be to clarify the meaning, limits and implications of ‘multiculturalism’, for it is essential that there be general community understanding of the concept and acceptance of its objectives and implications. [More…]

• They are: Firstly, to develop among the members of the Australian community an awareness of the diverse cultures within that community that have arisen as a result of the migration of people to Australia and an appreciation of the contributions of those cultures to the enrichment of that community; secondly, to promote tolerance, understanding, harmonious relations and mutual esteem among the different cultural groups and ethnic communities in Australia; thirdly, to promote a cohesive Australian society by assisting members of the Australian community to share with one another their diverse cultures within the legal and political structures of that society; and, fourthly, to assist in promoting an environment that affords the members of the different cultural groups and ethnic communities in Australia the opportunity to participate fully in Australian society and achieve their own potential. [More…]

• The Institute will be empowered to discharge this role by: Commissioning and conducting research and studies; furnishing reports to the Minister; making information available to members of the Australian community, and to particular bodies, organisations or groups within that community; conducting promotional and community educational activities; and establishing a repository of literature and other material relating to the diverse cultures of members of the Australian community. [More…]

• In order to carry out its research programs, the Institute will draw on expertise in the universities, colleges of advanced education and other educational institutions, community bodies and individuals. [More…]

• Importantly, it will need capacity to appraise and use the results of the research programs as a basis for its community education programs and for developing reports and advice to the Minister. [More…]

• In addition to advising the Minister on any matters related to the Institute’s functions, it should also be available as a source of information and counsel to government and non-government bodies and to groups within the Australian community. [More…]

• Advice and assistance will be available from it in situations in which cultural differences and the lack of understanding of them are causing, or have the potential to cause, serious community problems. [More…]

• That Institute’s role is directed towards research and study in relation to the Aboriginal people of Australia, whereas the Institute of Multicultural Affairs will be concerned with undertaking research and studies primarily directed towards the awareness of, and understanding of, non-aboriginal cultures and the promotion of harmonious relationships among all elements of our community. [More…]

• Therefore, whilst the Institute will not direct its research programs into Aboriginal issues, it is clear that a close co-operative working relationship with the various organisations involved in Aboriginal issues will be highly desirable and that joint programs and projects, particularly in community education, could well eventuate from such relationships. [More…]

• They will provide a source of advice to the council on specific topics and act as channels of contact between the council and the general community. [More…]

• That, of course, produces a lessening of job opportunity in the community. [More…]

• But even given the higher productivity of labour that we presently have and the high net additions to the work force because of the large number of people coming out of school, the fact that we have less excess capacity in industry and may be running into ceilings with overtime, does mean that the number of new full-time jobs in the community will increase. [More…]

• When honourable members opposite speak about soaking the rich and making the rich pay, let me remind them of this: As anybody with a nodding acquaintance with the statistics will know, there is not that much money in it; but, more important than that, when it is done the most able people in the community leave the country. [More…]

• The experience that I have had as an alderman of the Marrickville Municipal Council and in community activities in the south-west Sydney region have given me a great deal of knowledge and understanding of the social impact of government decisions on the lives of the people of my electorate. [More…]

• Over the last few weeks since becoming a member of Parliament I have come to know, as has my family, many of the tribulations that members of Parliament put up with that the general community has not been aware of. [More…]

• The reduction in spending on the community language program in the inner city areas of Sydney and Melbourne has caused a great problem in the schools. [More…]

• The cuts in community language programs have onece again forced the creation of divisions which occurred in the past. [More…]

• The Budget has been a responsible Budget, a measured Budget, one that takes account of the economic circumstances of our time and one that extends social justice in our community. [More…]

• One of the reasons for the increasing numbers of pensioners and beneficiaries in our community is the increases in eligibility for pensions. [More…]

• To some extent at least that would counteract any attempt to introduce younger people into the community through a deliberate immigration policy. [More…]

• We may need to make it possible for more people to continue in the work force after the present normal retirement age of 65, thus broadening the number of opportunities for a wide range of people in the community and broadening the tax base. [More…]

• Quite frankly, I think the Australian community is totally bored with this debate. [More…]

• The President of the Guild, Mr Alan Russell, said the Government had not only increased the monetary burden on all sick people, but had failed to take account of the needs of the disadvantaged groups in the community. [More…]

• The Press release concludes by saying: the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was now only a Government price fixing mechanism of manufacturers ‘ products and did not provide any substantial financial relief to the sick in the community. [More…]

• Using 1975-76 dollars, community health facilities and services this year have been cut by $ 14.8m. [More…]

• That Government was an active participant in dividing the community as it encouraged trade unions to pursue massive wage increases often through industrial action. [More…]

• When elected, the new Government immediately set about reestablishing the authority of the conciliation and arbitration system and adapting the industrial relations framework to meet the needs of the parties involved and the community. [More…]

• We make no apology for taking a firm stand when the community is threatened with industrial disruption resulting from campaigns designed to intimidate employers or arbitral authorities. [More…]

• The Labor Party, by persisting with the archaic belief that trade unions should still be granted extraordinary additional privileges, has isolated itself from the views of the community, including a large proportion of trade union members. [More…]

• The Government will have no part of policies which grant any section of the community extraordinary, unjustifiable privileges which can be used to deny others their legitimate rights. [More…]

• The Government believes that in cases where its policies involve a cost to the community, one section of the community should not be compensated leaving others to shoulder the entire burden. [More…]

• I have said that the Commission gave notice to the community that it was on the brink of abandoning indexation because of the attitudes of the various parties. [More…]

• It would appear that neither the ACTU nor the Labor Party is interested in a return to such a situation- a situation which is clearly in the best interests of the vast majority of their members and of the community as a whole. [More…]

• Government policies which increase prices should apply equally throughout the community. [More…]

• However, the Labor Party would selectively discriminate between those whose incomes depend on decisions of the Commission and the rest of the community. [More…]

• I am convinced that the community recognises that and will see through the Labor Party’s industrial relations and wages policies for what they are- just another repeat of the same old recipe for industrial disruption, inflation and the end of economic recovery. [More…]

• This Government has worked hard and successfully on behalf of the Australian community to reduce inflation, restore our competitiveness and create more jobs. [More…]

• No one in the community- honourable members opposite would know this- is falling for the three card trick and believing that there will be a substantial drop in the tax burden as from 1 December. [More…]

• Everybody in the community knows that people will be paying more tax. [More…]

• Everybody in the community knows that, as a result of Government policies, real wages will go down over the next year. [More…]

• The unions have a responsibility to look after the best interests of their members; we have a responsibility to discharge our duties to the Australian community. [More…]

• It takes us nowhere, it divides the community and it creates unnecessary tensions and divisions. [More…]

• The Prime Minister is mean and unscrupulous and is trying to create a diversion from the real issues that should be considered by the community, namely, the state of the economy and the failure of the Government. [More…]

• Of course, the approach of the Government is consistent and is in the interests of all sections of the community. [More…]

• Today, we are striving under a government that has the responsibility and is prepared to accept it, to look after all sections of the community and to try to dispense justice for all. [More…]

• Of course, we also have to think in terms of the effect of excessive wages on other sections of the community- those on fixed incomes, those on pensions, those who are self-employed, the farmer, the businessman who cannot pass on higher costs because there is no one to pass them on to, and those who are dependent on world markets and therefore have no way of passing on increased costs, particularly if these increased costs are a direct result of industrial disputation, of pressure or of action by militants who make demands and fight to the bitter end to achieve those demands. [More…]

• The community, the unions and the Government members know that conciliation is usually accepted because it is negotiated; it is a consensus view in the long term. [More…]

• It does not practise democracy in this place or in the community. [More…]

• The Government would not tolerate that happening in the community generally, or in the Government parties. [More…]

• When the Government speaks of wages it speaks of the income of all people in the community because wage structure- whether they belong to a union, work in a factory or whatever they do- is related to the activities of the trade union movement. [More…]

• To destroy the trade union movement would bring about anarchy in the community. [More…]

• If the Arbitration Commission, in the exercise of its responsibility and having examined all the circumstances in a dispute, decided that trade union leaders, a section of the trade union or the trade union in toto is exercising the right to strike in an improper way, in a way that is not helpful to the settlement of the industrial dispute, or in a way that damages individual members of the community and the community at large, the Commission would have no power to insert any bans on that sort of activity. [More…]

• The Conkey company had limited financial resources to withstand such industrial disruption and Mr Conkey himself always felt a responsibility to Cootamundra and tended to meet demands in the interests of a stable community. [More…]

• -On 28 August there was reference in this chamber to the infiltration of extreme right wing elements of the community into the Liberal Party, particularly in New South Wales. [More…]

• It is still available to any other community in Queensland to achieve self-management’. [More…]

• There is a general feeling in the community that the medical profession is co-operating very well in the Government’s efforts to try to provide a special arrangement or a special benefit to the disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• For that and for the co-operation it is giving the community I thank the medical profession generally. [More…]

• Since that date a member of the Greek community has been guest speaker at a Macquarie federal conference and representatives of other ethnic groups will be invited in the future. [More…]

• I should also make it clear that it is not the Government’s wish to discriminate against the Croatian community or to stop, or hinder members of that community forming groups and clubs, where these are not aimed at a state or government with which Australia has normal diplomatic relations. [More…]

• The Committee was a strong, broad based one which included representatives from business, the trade union movement, the academic community and the Public Service. [More…]

• If they are to be successfully implemented, the decisions we face as a nation- particularly in relation to the industrial transformation of the West Pacificcannot be made by government alone; they will have to be made by the community as a whole and it is essential that they be made in an informed and considered way. [More…]

• These are occurring in the community at this time under this Administration. [More…]

• They are in areas which lack essential community services, cultural facilities, trees, parks, gardens and every gentle way of living. [More…]

• A matter on which there is widespread and justifiable community concern is the question of mail interception, searches and seizures, listening devices and the related question of telephone tapping dealt with in the Telecommunications (Interception) Bill. [More…]

• However I do not regard those groups in our community who are expressing concern at this time, and who have been lobbying members on both sides of this House, as being ratbags who have nothing about which to be concerned. [More…]

• The Bill defines activities to be watched or that are subversive as activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• One of them was a migrant from the Greek community and the other a migrant from the Italian community. [More…]

• That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. [More…]

• Some in the community have taken the view- quite wrongly in my opinion- that the various clauses in the Bills are not the appropriate instruments for dealing with the mischief sought to be suppressed and they have questioned the propriety of the particular legal rules which have been proposed and which I hope will be adopted by this Parliament. [More…]

• Contrary to the contentions of the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) there are many anxieties in the community about the far-reaching nature of the provisions of this legislation. [More…]

• These are the dragnet provisions, the ambiguous provisions, about which there is such far-reaching anxiety in the community. [More…]

• If there is any merit in having them now why should they not be retrospective to take up any disadvantage or unfairness that people in the community have suffered? [More…]

• activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• But we must also protect innocent individuals in the community against unnecessary actions taken by such a security organisation in the name of protecting the security of Australia. [More…]

• I do not believe that at this stage the Bill provides sufficient protection for innocent individuals in the community. [More…]

• The provisions that are contained therein need to be given the most searching scrutiny, both by the members of this Parliament and by the community. [More…]

• There needs to be a community consensus that an organisation such as ASIO is necessary and that the powers contained in this Bill are necessary. [More…]

• If there is not a community consensus to that effect the Bill will not work and ASIO will not work because there will be community reaction to it. [More…]

• If the provisions of the present Bill go too far or the interpretations are ill-defined, again there will be a reaction in the community that could well result not in the security situation being solved but rather in the creation of instability in the community. [More…]

• It is true that people in the community had the opportunity to express views to that royal commission. [More…]

• But what needs to be recognised, I think, is that people in the community were expressing views.on the way in which ASIO had operated in the past. [More…]

• Up to this stage, an effective opportunity has not been given to people in the community to express their opinions on the proposals that are contained in this Bill. [More…]

• If the security organisation is to work and is to be accepted by the community, there needs to be an opportunity for individuals and groups in the community to express their views, not on the way in which ASIO has worked in the past, but on the provisions of this BUI. [More…]

• It may be the conclusion of the Government that ASIO need not comply with those laws under certain circumstances, but I challenge the Government to prove that that view is shared by the community. [More…]

• If that view is not shared by the community, this provision should not be in this BUI because we, as a Parliament, cannot impose on the public of Australia those provisions that the public is not prepared to accept. [More…]

• It would involve setting up a committee of this House with judicial authority to take views and evidence from people in the community, from groups and individuals who may wish to express an opinion on various provisions of the BUI. [More…]

• As I have said, I am not a legal man and I cannot express an opinion as to the fine points of legal interpretation of such words, but if there is concern in the community, then we have an obligation to allow the people who are concerned about that interpretation to put forward their views and have those views properly taken into account by this House. [More…]

• We in this House are prepared to set ourselves up with such superior knowledge that we presume that some people in the community will not be given the right of appeal to a tribunal. [More…]

• I think that people in the community need to understand what that proposal means. [More…]

• I am not too sure what are the intentions of the Government about this Bill, but I do impress on the Government the need to proceed cautiously, the need for less haste in order to give every consideration to the Bill, thereby allowing people in the community and members of parliament to scrutinise properly all sections of the Bill and the need to proceed at a very slow rate so that the Bill, when it is finally drafted and finally put into law will be a Bill that reflects the common view and the acceptance of the Australian people. [More…]

• The Australian intelligence community is fragmented, poorly co-ordinated and organised. [More…]

• I refer to the Warilla Active Youth Team which is funded under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• When I rang personally to support the Warilla Active Youth Team for this year’s funding, the Sydney project officer described it as one of the most successful community youth support schemes in Australia; but today the group was told not only that its funding had been slashed but also that it had been cut from a 12-monthly basis to a six-monthly basis. [More…]

• On a national level the Community Youth Support Scheme was cut by 14 per cent in real terms in the last Budget. [More…]

• It is an absolute disgrace for the Government to curtail activities embarked upon under the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I have, in fact, exchanged correspondence with the chairman of the Community Youth Support Scheme in Warilla who wrote to the newspaper making an incorrect statement by attacking the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner) by claiming that he was wrong when he said that there was a better situation for employment in Australia. [More…]

• Nobody in the community now would agree that there is such a thing as free health care. [More…]

• If we do return to the sort of universal health insurance scheme that was inherent in Medibank the Australian people will pay dearly and the medical profession, the providers of health care, will be the greatest winners in the community. [More…]

• It was not until the Fraser Government came into office that adequate provision was made for the establishment of these committees of inquiry in each State to ensure that we would reduce the level of over-servicing by certain medical practitioners in the community. [More…]

• No real effort had been made to come to grips with the question of fraud that was occurring in the community in the whole medical area. [More…]

• Of course, if there are problems about staff limitations at Greenslopes- none has been demonstrated to me- the cause could be the very high community patient intake at Greenslopes. [More…]

• Would the honourable member have us remedy that by reducing the community intake, which I think is working very well. [More…]

• It has advantaged the standards and the range of treatment in our repatriation general hospitals and this has been very much appreciated by the veteran community itself. [More…]

• The Government is, of course, gratified that the Council of European Communities yesterday adopted a mandate enabling the European Commission to negotiate a nuclear safeguards agreement with Australia on behalf of the European Atomic Energy Community; that is, Euratom. [More…]

• An agreement is necessary to open the way for the export of Australian uranium to meet the energy needs of the European Community. [More…]

• The Government has always considered that an agreement with Euratom is the most practical means of meeting Australia’s nuclear safeguards requirements for the export of uranium to the European Community. [More…]

• I am pleased that the adoption of the mandate follows messages that I sent only a few weeks ago to all foreign ministers of the Community. [More…]

• It also follows the visit of a mission of officials to Community capitals in July. [More…]

• That action was the single greatest and most blatant act of politicising public radio and television services ever witnessed in the community. [More…]

• It lacks effective machinery for consultation with the ethnic community. [More…]

• It is effectively regulated by co-ordinators who reportedly are more concerned with attempting to preserve ethnic community innocence than developing ethnic radio and television services as sound instruments of information. [More…]

• There is enormous ethnic resentment about the way in which the Service conducts ethnic television and radio communication in the community. [More…]

• There is a general feeling that the ethnic community is being manipulated by the Government or, at least, that that is the intention of the Government. [More…]

• Generally there is a feeling that the lowest common denominator will prevail and that there will be enormous dilution of the issues of great moment nationally and internationally which ethnic communities have as much right to hear about as do other groups in the community. [More…]

• The distinction is that the restrictions which are imposed by the Special Broadcasting Service on programs through radio and television to the ethnic community, are much greater than the sorts of restraints that generally apply in the community. [More…]

• It is this matter of political patronage which is particularly galling to so many people in the ethnic community. [More…]

• For instance, they feel that in many cases co-ordinators are really agents for the Government and that the sole purpose of having a coordinator go about his or her task is to try to throttle back the form of free expression through these media which is available through other media to the rest of the community. [More…]

• There cannot be any disputation about the degree of hostility and the very high level of resentment that the ethnic community holds towards the Special Broadcasting Service. [More…]

• Before I do that, I merely remind honourable members that any member of this Parliament who maintains a regular contact with the ethnic community experiences this display of anger, of hostility, of resentment towards the Government at the way in which the Special Broadcasting Service is being administered. [More…]

• Members of the ethnic community- this would be the case with the rest of Australia if subjected to a similar experienceresent the efforts by the Government to try to condition them to accept political propaganda which is slanted in a way that tends to favour the Government and they resent the enormous dilution of essential facts which should become commonplace information through any public broadcast or television service in a free and democratic society. [More…]

• Antoine Said Pullicino, the news editor of the Maltese program on radio station 2EA, said that it is not the policy of the Government ‘to entrust programs to a group within a community, but that programs were to be the responsibility of coordinators selected for this work’. [More…]

• So in its own way the Government imposes an intellectual chastity belt on the ethnic community of this country. [More…]

• Yet it has the gall to talk about a free society, about a pluralistic community and about our multi-culturalism. [More…]

• What it is trying to do is to impose conformity by limiting the range of information which is available to a substantial part and a very important part of our community. [More…]

• Included among the claims against ethnic radio were: assault and stabbings had occurred within the Turkish community after a program which pushed an extreme right wing point of view; [More…]

• These things occurred in the Turkish community after the extremely right wing view had been pushed. [More…]

• The article continued: the Greek programs favoured the Greek Orthodox Church at the expense of air time for the Greek Orthodox community; [More…]

• It is the cause of considerable alienation within the ethnic community. [More…]

• It sums up what the ethnic community feels towards the Special Broadcasting Service in the hands of the Government. [More…]

• He went on to state: while blatant propaganda is undesirable, ethnic communities are as capable as the rest of the community of digesting and evaluating different points of view. [More…]

• Given Mr Galbally’s role as a happy spear carrier for the Government since 1975, and earlier I believe- understandably he is embarrassed to confess to his earlier spear carrying role- that is severe criticism, and it completely underscores the justification for the concern of the Opposition about the corruption of the Special Broadcasting Service which is fed into the actual transmission of radio and television programs to the ethnic community. [More…]

• Surely we do not need Galbally to confirm this; it is such an extensively based criticism amongst ethnic people in the community. [More…]

• Mr Vaccrai, the VicePresident of the Italian Community Service Fund, endorses the appointment of Mr Georgiou as the Ethnic Television Review Panel Secretary and says that it is pleasing to see that a wellqualified migrant is in such an important position. [More…]

• We have ensured that ethnic communities, and indeed the wide Australian community, will have every opportunity to make their views known. [More…]

• It is notorious- I am sure the Minister will not deny it- that the Government has been very active in the last few days drumming up support from ethnic groups in the community and asking them to send messages of support. [More…]

• Ethnic community access radio station 3ZZ, which had allowed a wide variety of viewpoints to be expressed, was destroyed and 3EA and 2EA were highly and narrowly politicised. [More…]

• The ethnic community’s reaction to such blatant propaganda was clearly evidenced in the ethnic Press following that program of 8 July. [More…]

• one of the tools which extremist elements within the Vietnamese community are using- that program has been used to send out the names and addresses of the (pro postwar Vietnam) Union of Vietnamese in Australia. [More…]

• The coordinators en masse were attacked under parliamentary privilege as being people who lent themselves to the most disgraceful form of political corruption that one could imagine, namely, the use of the broadcasting system to politically propagandise to the community, particularly the ethnic community. [More…]

• The fact is that ethnic broadcasting is under the control of a new system- the Special Broadcasting Service- that was set up to ensure that broadcasting is not biased and that, in particular, it does not allow disputes to arise in the Australian community on ethnic grounds. [More…]

• It is the worst possible way to approach multiculturalism and ethnic matters in the Australian community. [More…]

• In supporting the legislation, I indicated why there was a need for a balanced approach- an approach which recognised the importance of obtaining intelligence and security information and balancing that against the needs of the community to have information in relation to the Organisation, but not so as to hamper the Organisation’s work and effort. [More…]

• The emotionalism which has been associated with so much of the objection to constructive critics in the past in my view has been couched out of concern to protect our security agency from any sort of criticism rather than a genuine concern about establishing or maintaining the minimal level of secrecy consistent with the democratic rights of the community and, on the other hand, an appropriately effective functioning of a security service. [More…]

• It is obvious that in some cases the Minister responsible for ASIO had been making available security files to at least one government backbencher in an effort to embarrass members of the Opposition or people in the community. [More…]

• Records were in a chaotic condition, and most disturbingly of all ASIO had what we might call rather loosely its own dirty tricks department, a special projects section which, among other things, was responsible for leaking stories to friendly journalists or other sources which could use it to put across the point of view that ASIO wanted bruited about in the community. [More…]

• Large amounts of such information is passed on to State Special Branches who undoubtedly use it at times to the disadvantage of people in the general community. [More…]

• The bombing created a feeling of great indignation and disgust within the community. [More…]

• 185 pages of Hansard reporting on the debate in the Senate indicate the awareness of the importance and delicacy of the Bill and the necessity for a non-party political approach to the subject in the interests not only of ASIO but also the Australian community. [More…]

• There has been a great amount of unease in the community concerning the Bureau’s relationship with the Federal police and the various State police forces and whether it is controlled by the correct government department. [More…]

• These matters need to be raised in the Parliament to show what unease there is in our minds and, we believe, in the minds of the community concerning the Federal Narcotics Bureau. [More…]

• It should determine when a perfectly legitimate point of view, though possibly considered to be extreme by some members of the community, is subversive. [More…]

• By the organisation itself or by a democratic and responsible community? [More…]

• Perhaps it might be taken that we might have a Director-General who has a comparatively short term and when a new one comes in he too is better able to reflect changing community views outside. [More…]

• They would appreciate the opportunity of considering the actual clauses of the Bill in circumstances where they are not placed in the position of having to dispute with their Government the clauses that they feel should be altered in the interests of civil rights and the rights of the Australian community. [More…]

• Should I behave as a member of a national parliament and accordingly hand over enormous powers to the agency which is charged with the task of enforcing and ensuring our national security, or should I behave as a representative of my constituency and in that respect place my priority on the protection of those individuals in the community on the basis of national security? [More…]

• If correspondence that I and many other honourable members have received has been any indication, the procedure for telephone tapping, the issuance of warrants for tapping, opening mail, installing listening devices, the supply of information for the responsible Minister, the scrutiny of ASIO’s finances, the guidelines for security assessments and the notifications of adverse assessments are problems about which many in the community have expressed grave apprehension. [More…]

• Is there any reason not to understand that the Labor Party policies of today under the Leader of the Opposition, like those of the Whitiam Administration, must depend upon high taxes, whereas our economic policies are dependent upon creating the conditions whereby we will get economic growth in the private sector and, through the private sector, real jobs that will be of lasting benefit to the community? [More…]

• In our National Employment and Training Scheme the number supported will be 31,000; in the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, 5,000; in the Special Youth Employment Training Program, 49,000; in our Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training Program, 85,000; and in our Community Youth Support Scheme Programs, 40,000-a total of 210,000 Australians supported by government money which we are prepared to invest in their future. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that the expenditure of $140m on the National Employment and Training System, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training scheme and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth represents 0.12 per cent of the gross national product, while Canada and the United States of America spend six times that amount and Sweden spends 20 times that amount? [More…]

• But Government action can be effective only if it is backed by community awareness and concern. [More…]

• One contribution to this has been a film produced by Film Australia for the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• It was absorbed into the odds and sods department, namely, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• 4 which reads: the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development - [More…]

• If the people who are participating in the organised use of off-road vehicles continue on those organised lines, in the absence of any firm action by this Government the community itself can try to do something to solve the problem. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, you know of the extraordinary situation in which the sugar industry finds itself now because of the attitudes adopted by the European Economic Community in subsidising its sugar, dumping it on the world, and virtually wrecking our industry. [More…]

• It is understandable that the Japanese, the European Economic Community and the United States are keen to look after themselves. [More…]

• Our major objective in these negotiations, which have been continuing since 1972, has been to achieve a greater liberalisation of agricultural trade- to get greater access to the North American market, to Japan and into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The amendments will: require a commissioner to consult with his deputy president before making or varying an award relating to wages and conditions; prohibit the Commission from ordering, recommending or sanctioning in any way, an employer paying wages to an employee for time when the employee was engaged in industrial action; provide for the expeditious hearing of stand-down applications, either before a single member of the Commission or a full bench; provide that the question of whether an industrial dispute exists may be the subject of a reference to a full bench; enable an industrial dispute or part of an industrial dispute to be referred to a full bench at the conciliation state; reinforce the powers of the President of the Commission by enabling him to withdraw a matter from another member of the Commission and either deal with it himself or refer the matter in a full bench; and provide increased protection for the community by creating an alternative path to the deregistration of organisations and thereby remove delays in the deregistration process in cases where the safety, health or welfare of the community are put at risk by industrial action. [More…]

• The consequences for the community have been very serious, both industrially and economically. [More…]

• Not only does it encourage irresponsible industrial action, but also it forces the employer to pay for the very disruption that puts his business at risk and damages the economic and social life of the community. [More…]

• Any person considering industrial action should be sensitive to the possible consequences of that action for his fellow workers and for the well-being of the community. [More…]

• The need arises from the actions of a few pursuing selfish interests with reckless disregard for the community. [More…]

• Many unions, or sections of them, are strategically placed to interfere with the provisions of goods and services to the community. [More…]

• Indeed, they have used the vulnerability of the community to their disruptive tactics as a powerful industrial weapon, and even, on occasions, for blatantly political purposes. [More…]

• The Government does not believe that any member of our community, whether a direct participant in industrial relations or not, should have to put up with tactics which threaten their health, safety or welfare. [More…]

• But these organisations also have a responsibility to the community. [More…]

• The Minister may apply to a full bench of the Commission for a declaration that industrial action by an organisation or a group of its members has had, is having, or is likely to have, a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community or a part of the community. [More…]

• If any group acts in a way which puts these rights at risk, then they cannot expect the community to continue granting them the privileges to which they would otherwise be entitled. [More…]

• The point again is that that puts in an extremely subjective judgment, because the word ‘ultimately’ might mean 100 years, 150 years or 200 years, and that could lead to such an extraordinarily cautious or repressive view being taken of what is legitimate or illegitimate behaviour that we will find ASIO’s powers being extended in a way which I think is quite objectionable in a democratic community like ours. [More…]

• Not one of us would not like to see a reduction in the amount of hatred in the community. [More…]

• We are defining subversive so the community will know what these organisations are about and what we believe constitutes subversion so that these organisations can be monitored and our community and our Government will be informed through the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation being able to do that. [More…]

• It certainly does not- as has been suggested by honourable members opposite in this debate- prevent people from going out into the community and advocating a different form of democratic government. [More…]

• The term ‘likely ultimately ‘ is so wide that it involves a substantive political judgment which covers virtually any form of legitimate political activity in this community. [More…]

• He seemed to be asking whether there really was any such thing as subversion which could be defined within the Australian community. [More…]

• Whether one likes street marches or not, that argument is really part of the ongoing democratic argument in our community and in my view ought to be excluded from security surveillance. [More…]

• In many respects that legislation prevents the people who are involved in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation from being a general part of the community. [More…]

• It is unlikely that they attend, as a normal thing, the ordinary meetings at which trade unionists are involved, or even people involved in various other activities in the community. [More…]

• Most of the people involved in making these judgments are people isolated from the community in many respects. [More…]

• As mentioned in clause 5, activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth, can include a lot of people- all the Government members who have attacked me so vigorously in the past, and so on. [More…]

• I do not know that the Australian community needs that kind of definition. [More…]

• A person may be involved in a major confrontation in the community. [More…]

• I do not think that the Director-General of Security ought to have imposed on him the power to act in all those situations which arise in the community and which can have incidental effects on the defence forces. [More…]

• If they come to fruition the Defence Force will be involved in civilian activities in this community. [More…]

• activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Activities directed towards promoting hatred within the community may well need to be outlawed. [More…]

• But situations can arise among groups in a community and hatred can be promoted which would cause, and which would have the intention of causing, an injury to the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The clause, in part, defines subversion as: activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• This clause in relation to subversion refers to activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger- I put emphasis on the word ‘endanger’- the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• As it stands at the moment, the definition refers to: activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• 1 ) Have negotiations been held between the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Queensland Government regarding the request of the Yarrabah community and others for freedom from the administration of Queensland which they regard as paternalistic, bureaucratic and discriminatory, and effective self-management, freedom of choice and responsibility only to their members, as envisaged in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-management) Act 1 978. [More…]

• A request has not been received from the Weipa community. [More…]

• It was therefore a very specific purpose to give additional ministerial capacity for discussions and negotiations on trade matters because quite plainly with the importance that this Government attaches to trade, it would not be possible for the Minister for Trade and Resources to be out of Australia to carry out all the work with the European Community, with ASEAN, with the United States, with Japan, with Korea, with New Zealand and all the rest. [More…]

• Will the Minister have this matter reconsidered, and will he particularly take into account lost revenue, unemployment and our fair trade practices with the European Economic Community? [More…]

• The discussions that I had with the American Ambassador in February this year- the Foreign Minister was present for most of the discussions- were broad-ranging and covered the European Economic Community’s position on access for primary products and the role and attitude of the United States in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations as a whole and in its bilateral negotiations with Australia. [More…]

• Would not the interests of Australia, the Kampuchean people and the international community have been better served by Australian support for the Indian compromise proposal to leave the Kampuchean bench empty for the time being? [More…]

• I welcome the question which the honourable gentleman has posed because it reflects the continuing interest he has shown in the needs of the small business community over a long period. [More…]

• I might say that of course this is not the only area in which the Government has taken very effective steps to assist the small business community of Australia. [More…]

• The assistance measures that I have just outlined are consistent with the Government’s intention to provide the small business community of Australia with continuing support. [More…]

• Has the efficiency of the sub-contract system helped the industry to keep down prices of new houses, so benefiting home buyers and the general community? [More…]

• That would be a bad thing for the industry, a bad thing for the community and everybody would be worse off. [More…]

• Apart from certain direct financial benefits, such as access fees, which will flow to the community from the AFZ, the Government anticipates that other benefits will flow, for example, to the Australian fishing industry as it increases its share of the total allowable catch; to the fish processing industry, which may handle a portion of the foreign catch as well as the expected increase in domestic production; and to traders and local authorities in ports to which licensed foreign boats are granted entry rights. [More…]

• A few years ago a good Budget was one that was popular with the community. [More…]

• On balance, this year’s Budget is fair to all sections of the community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that events since the Budget was announced have proved conclusively that the community is conscious of what is occurring. [More…]

• If we want any real evidence of that, let us look at the situation in South Australia where there was a massive election campaign a few weeks ago with emphasis by the Labor Party on unemployment and by other sections of the community on the very elements of this Budgetwhat it was doing and what it could do- and the need for State administrations to complement the approach being made by the Federal Government. [More…]

• They have proved to be in the best interests of all sections of the community. [More…]

• I mention this because I have found some sections of the community being flooded with propaganda which asserts that the present Government has cut funds for education. [More…]

• I rate health and education as being pretty equal basic needs in this community and pretty equal basic rights. [More…]

• We have seen an improvement in the economy to the benefit of all sections of the community. [More…]

• We do not have the hundreds of millions of people of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• Let me admit immediately that at present- quite wrongly- there is a fetish in the business community in particular about lower Budget deficits. [More…]

• This is because the people of the business community have been shockingly and wrongly brainwashed on this subject by Liberal and National Country Party politicians. [More…]

• That ignorance must be educated out of the community, particularly the business community. [More…]

• It is of vital importance to us as a nation to educate the community out of the present erroneous thinking on this subject of the deficit. [More…]

• We need it not only because of the extra jobs and the better conditions, particularly for less well off Australians which such spending creates, but also because of the extra confidence it would engender in the community. [More…]

• It set out to establish a frame of mind in the Australian community that would make people believe that the Government was going to nationalise the whole operation if it possibly could. [More…]

• Telecom Australia and the Government have made great mileage out of the ‘Community Access 80’ document, which they claim offers substantial benefits to fringe suburban and rural areas in terms of telecommunications charges. [More…]

• At present I would like to talk about an area in which this Government has deliberately increased telephone costs for the whole community, and in particular for the fringe suburban and rural areas. [More…]

• In this sense the ‘Community Access 80’ document and the supposed benefits it offers are a three-card trick designed to woo the voters in the marginal areas. [More…]

• Community subsidisation of rural areas, as is the case at present, is unimportant; the end result is that the capital remains in public hands. [More…]

• As the shadow Minister in this area I have developed a comprehensive program for lowering telephone costs across the community, reducing the problems faced by country subscribers and bringing the justice of community need, not the greed of private capital, into the forefront of government policy. [More…]

• However, the business community is a little better served. [More…]

• Clearly, there are disadvantaged groups within the community. [More…]

• If Government members had any conscience whatsoever they would support the amendment and oppose the strategy that is contained in this Budget, which is a very vicious Budget that will do nobody in the community any good. [More…]

• This year’s Budget is further testimony to the Commonwealth Government’s support for immigration, for migrants and for the development of a socially cohesive and culturally diverse Australian community. [More…]

• An additional $lm has been allocated for the development of migrant resource centres to assist community settlement and to provide focal points in the community for migrants to receive information and advice on services and to develop their own co-operative arrangements for self-help. [More…]

• We believe also that we must link the immigration intake with effective post-arrival settlement programs so that the process of immigration is one that is satisfying and productive to migrants themselves and to the Australian community. [More…]

• This is essential expenditure to ensure that adequate information is available to decision-makers in the Australian community for resource allocation, for immigration planning and for use by those who have to plan and carry through services to the community as a whole and to elements within the community. [More…]

• In a statement on a new approach to immigration and community relations, the Opposition spokesman said that family reunion is a concept that includes: [More…]

• Moreover, there has been a definite trend for many years for overseas-born recent arrivals to have a much higher rate of unemployment as shown by the labour force survey, than other groups in the community, and this is for obvious reasons. [More…]

• Recently arrived migrants move from hostels into the community or from initial accommodation to more permanent accommodation. [More…]

• We face great challenges as a country of large-scale refugee resettlement but I believe that this complex issue has been handled in a way that balances compassion and the interests of the Australian community. [More…]

• In spite of the extraordinary lengths to which the Opposition has gone to confuse the people regarding the responsibility and advantages of the Budget to the taxpayer as from 1 December, this year’s Budget has been well received by the community generally and in particular by the business sector. [More…]

• How can I trust my New South Wales counterpart, the New South Wales Minister for Health, when he says that he wants an additional $lm for community health projects in that State? [More…]

• The restoration of twice yearly indexation of pensions undoubtedly will be of great benefit to the aged people of the Australian community. [More…]

• This Budget is one of a continuing series of budgets which has transferred, on a planned basis, resources from those people least able to afford it to other sectors of the community better able to afford it. [More…]

• There is no such treatment for the persons on $200 a week or less who constitute something like 70 per cent of the Australian community. [More…]

• It has reduced its support for the education system and has made it clear that it does not consider that the State education system or the systematic Catholic schools education systemwhich deals with those people in the lower income groups in the general community- are worthy of support. [More…]

• They are the people who have the lowest income in the community. [More…]

• He then began to be worried about the social effects of what he regarded as continuous inflation upon the aged, and the ensuing problems in relation to the requirements of social services within his community. [More…]

• The policy of the Leader of the Opposition and his left wing union colleagues is completely out of step with community feeling, as the South Australian election showed. [More…]

• Probably one of the most promising signs which this Budget has produced has been the reaction from the business community in general and the vast upturn which took place in the stock market. [More…]

• The Curtins and the Chifleys were men of great vision and leadership who commanded the respect of all the Australian community- not just those who supported them in the electoral sense but the total Australian community that supported them in their efforts to pull Australia through the war. [More…]

• It is in this context that I believe that the Budget must be viewed as a working agreement between the Australian community and the Government. [More…]

• Quite simply, there are trends in our community which can be influenced only marginally by the Government’s fiscal and monetary policies. [More…]

• Whilst a government has an obligation to be financially responsible in its administration of the nation, I am also firmly of the view that the community also has a responsibility to ensure that the social sub-structure of the nation is not diametrically opposed to the role of government. [More…]

• When the expectations of the community exceed or challenge the Government’s administration of a nation, not only will our society become stagnant and divided but also as a nation we will lose that capacity to identify and resolve our national, social and economic problems. [More…]

• It is precisely in this area that I believe that the Government and the community need to co-operate and coordinate their activities if they are to make any real headway. [More…]

• I believe that there are labour trends and changes in our community that throw into question a number of the traditional working mores of our society. [More…]

• We need to recognise this and, as a community, discuss and contemplate means of accommodating these changes in the light of our present employment situation. [More…]

• We should not shirk our community responsibility and say: ‘Let the Government fix it’. [More…]

• Any measures which the Government may contemplate in resolving these dilemmas will need to have not only the acceptance of the community but also a contribution from it. [More…]

• Thirdly, among industry groupings, manufacturing and community services recorded major changes over the year. [More…]

• The myth-makers are secondly postulating that the defeat was due to a sustained anti-Labor campaign by the South Australian business community which was not justified by South Australia ‘s economic circumstances and biased reporting by the Adelaide News. [More…]

• But the very fact that the business community campaigned in a way unprecedented in previous State elections demonstrates the depth of its concern this time about the future of South Australia under a continuation of Labor Party policies. [More…]

• Given the extent of government control of business in South Australia, it took great courage for the business community to campaign for South Australia ‘s future in the way that it did. [More…]

• Linked to this was the growing and valid fear which South Australians had about the activities of left-wing unionists and their trendy friends, both in controlling the Labor Party and in fomenting industrial strife to the community’s detriment. [More…]

• Will he supply details of the Local Government Branch functional statement of (a) the previous Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, (b) his Department and (c) the proposed Office of Local Government. [More…]

• Two separate offers have been made to the Banaban community, following proceedings instituted by the Banabans in 1974 in the UK High Court through two actions: [More…]

• It is a remote community, totally dependent upon that mine, and the social upheaval to the working men and women and their families would have been very great if that support had not been forthcoming. [More…]

• Those grants have been provided to assist Aboriginal people within the community who want to obtain rental accommodation. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• How much confidence can there be in the farm community when the Minister for Primary Industry is the subject in what can only be described, apparently on the findings of this report tabled in the New South Wales Parliament today, as a swindle, as a succession of swindles? [More…]

• In that same period the share of the Australian market supplied by the European Economic Community and North America fell from 65 per cent to 52 per cent. [More…]

• I have given emphasis to these actions by Australia because I believe they are imperfectly understood within the Australian community and I think it is important that they are drawn to the attention of the House. [More…]

• The European Economic Community, with its many millions of people throughout Europe, is able to provide economies of scale which Australia, with a population of only 14 million, cannot enjoy. [More…]

• He has made an awful mess of our negotiations with the European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• What sort of actions that anybody else in the community can term only as criminal actions is it prepared to allow unions to get away with? [More…]

• The Australian community will not tolerate any organisations being above the law of the land and it is high time that the Government exerted its influence to make sure that laws within Australia are properly observed. [More…]

• What they are reaffirming is a law that applies only to one section of the community. [More…]

• There is to be a law for one section of the community which does not apply to other sections. [More…]

• The inevitable trend towards part time employment raises a number of problems for our community, one of which must concern the employer who, in some cases is faced with the task of transferring wages and conditions applicable to a full time 8-hour day system to one which entails a greater degree of flexibility in hours worked and in times worked. [More…]

• Apart from the odd comment about shorter working weeks, there is a prevailing sense of belief that there are enough 40-hour a week jobs in the community to accomodate a labour market when the economy picks up. [More…]

• I for one do not subscribe to the argument that a government alone should be the social innovator for the community. [More…]

• Rather, I take the view that governments have a responsibility to work with the community to develop together the social and economic basis of our society. [More…]

• Therefore, it is my contention that if we are eventually to overcome our unemployment problems, we need to encourage discussions and actually seek the views of the community on those labour trends which are likely to have an influence on the number of jobs that are available in the work force. [More…]

• But I, like a number of other members of this House, would like to hear the community’s view on the issues. [More…]

• I believe that it is on this sort of question that we should be asking the community to give us its views. [More…]

• But if we are to solve these problems, then I think that we have to appreciate, as I stated earlier, that the Budget must be interpreted by the Australian people as being more of a working agreement between the Australian community and the Government rather than a document designed to cure all ills, irrespective of the action or desires of the rest of the community. [More…]

• An indication of how good the Budget has been is the acceptance by the people of the country in giving their support to it, by both individual members and the business sectors of the community. [More…]

• I do not want to put forward views as to the correctness or otherwise of married women holding jobs but I think that in assessing unemployment the community needs to take that fact into account and to make a very careful assessment as to whether there should be two wage earners in the one family when others are on the unemployment list or whether full-time work should be limited to one wage earner per family. [More…]

• Personally, I think such limitation has a lot to commend it but I leave it to the community to make that assessment. [More…]

• The community also needs to assess the other factors that without doubt contribute to unemployment. [More…]

• That brings into question whether the standards of discipline in the community are satisfactory for people to reach the requirements that employers are looking for; whether such things as the educational standards are up to the prerequisites of the employers and whether other factors, such as full adult pay for 1 8-year-olds, are having the effect of precluding quite a number of young people from being eligible for employment. [More…]

• I think he recognises the needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• All of us need to recognise that if a high degree of physical fitness in the community could be encouraged it would without doubt have a substantial effect in reducing health costs and the demand on health services. [More…]

• It would have a much greater effect than simply providing the more obvious things of enjoyment and recreation in the community. [More…]

• It did much to encourage the provision of facilities in the local community. [More…]

• Along with the need to provide more facilities, I feel that there is also a need to provide more recreational officers both to encourage the use of those facilities and to encourage participation at the local community level. [More…]

• I find those remarks and those amendments most interesting because the response to this Budget has been one of overwhelming acceptance by the Australian community. [More…]

• This level, of course, is below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average, which allows us to take part in the world community in exports and trade with a very definite advantage. [More…]

• Suddenly there are many people recognising the degree of tax avoidance in the community, but that is only as a result of this Government ‘s taking the measures and biting the bullet to try to do something genuine about tax avoidance. [More…]

• I wonder where the additional revenue is coming from- the sort of revenue that allows them to provide an extra $50m for welfare housing, a 24 per cent increase in funds for youth and community services, a 34 per cent increase in other welfare areas and a 55 per cent increase for pre-schools. [More…]

• Thirdly, he talked about provision for household support on the farm in cases of temporary financial hardship- another handout approach which the rural community is not interested in. [More…]

• I remind people in the Australian community that there has been a very significant increase in the funds being made available to schools throughout Australia. [More…]

• There are forces in the community other than wages that cause inflation. [More…]

• The Leader of Opposition alleged that there had been a right wing broadcast on the Turkish radio which resulted thereafter in some forms of disturbance or violence in the community. [More…]

• A parliament comprised of political neuters, which no doubt many honourable members on the government side would like, and in which only one point of view was put and there were a whole number of people who were absolutely safe, sitting round without an idea in their heads- and this is no doubt what honourable members opposite would likewould not be part of the democratic community. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• It was first initiated in this Parliament nearly two years ago and it has been the matter of persistent comment, concerned comment and, in some cases rather alarmed comment in the media of this community. [More…]

• But, most of all, he has to satisfy the Australian community as to which of them is lying- the Prime Minister or the right honourable member for New England. [More…]

• The community rightly demands a high standard from the Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• This Budget is fair to all sections of the community for it displays Liberal principles of promoting a flourishing private sector with incentives for initiative and at the same time seeks to uplift and support the needy and the under-privileged. [More…]

• Hence, the Budget deserved the favourable comments made about it both in the community and in the media, such as that of the Australian Financial Review when it stated: [More…]

• The sum of $200,000 is allocated to experimental projects for the Voluntary Youth Community Service Scheme. [More…]

• Apart from the young, other sections of the community will benefit from this Budget. [More…]

• One could suggest on the basis of these figures that overall there will be a reduction in the demand for goods because of the lower disposable income that the vast majority of the Australian community will have in the coming year. [More…]

• The end result is that the community pays more for petrol. [More…]

• I add that the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) gets almost apoplectic when we suggest that in view of the changes that have been made to the health scheme, the community is now back to where it was before Medibank was even thought of. [More…]

• I suggest that we are back in the same position, except that now many more people are wiser than they were then, in the sense that in those days the people who took the risk were by and large the poorer sections of the community. [More…]

• Now we find that after all the changes to the health scheme and the comings and goings, the people in the better off section of the community, in the age group from 15 to 50, the healthy members of the community, are now contemplating quite seriously taking the same risk. [More…]

• Given that the community is offered the choice in this beautiful, free enterprise system, no one can blame it for making the calculation that in order to get value for money, if the people bother to insure themselves, they would need to consult a doctor once a week. [More…]

• Then we will find the business community will complain that demand has fallen even further. [More…]

• So in sum total the wage and salary earners are now getting proportionately less than they were getting in 1975 compared with the rest of the community. [More…]

• The whole business community is complaining about it. [More…]

• But it means that the rest of the community is winding down, particularly in the small business area. [More…]

• The effect of all that is simply to heighten the crisis in the world community. [More…]

• We talk of responsibilities in various sectors of the community. [More…]

• Is the community regaining confidence? [More…]

• We saw an increase in and a maintenance of the expenditure for the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• This is having a very heavy impact upon the Australian motorist, upon inflation, because the cost of fuel goes right through the economy, and particularly upon the rural community, which of course is subject to heavy fuel costs. [More…]

• A one per cent increase in inflation rips from the Australian rural producers, the farming community, $60m. [More…]

• It has been prepared to sacrifice important community programs such as housing, welfare, urban affairs and employment. [More…]

• It has substantially cut the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Now, only a few years later, a government of the same ilk, is prepared to throw hundreds of thousands of young people on to the scrap heap because it is not imaginative enough to develop a creative program which might give those young people some sense of being part of this community. [More…]

• It is determined to create pressures on those who are employed so that they will not work towards achieving higher wages and higher living standards, thus enabling larger profits to be made and distributed to people in the community who already are among the more affluent and wealthy. [More…]

• I hope that members on both sides of the House, including those who are connected with education and those who deal with the Community Youth Support Scheme and those who deal with apprenticeship, will try again to see whether this country, learning from the lessons of Europe and other countries, will devise a better scheme to look after young people who, for one reason or another, are unable to get employment. [More…]

• I think all honourable members of this House would agree with him that it is highly commendable for Community Youth Support Scheme programs to train people in office work, metal work, carpentry or whatever. [More…]

• There was quick action to make good the promise the Galbally report held for that section of the community which it had identified as suffering considerable disadvantage. [More…]

• In fact, the report stressed that as far as possible the needs of migrants- some 20 per cent of the population- should be met by general programs directed at the whole community. [More…]

• Moreover, the impact of the Galbally report is reaching beyond Commonwealth responsibilities and is helping to stimulate action and expenditure by State governments and by community organisations including those representative of ethnic groups. [More…]

• The changes of direction give a new emphasis to orientation on arrival and, to encourage self-help, also require a transfer of resources from government to voluntary community agencies. [More…]

• The structural changes involve a network of community based settlement councils, settlement committees, settlement centres and migrant resource centres. [More…]

• They involve reshaping the adult migrant education program, giving impetus to multicultural education in schools and in the community and upgrading the teaching of English as a second language. [More…]

• Women are involved in every aspect of the implementation program as professional planners, as advisers, as service deliverers and, significantly, as community volunteers. [More…]

• Allowing that some of the 57 recommendations overlap, it is still possible to sort them into three compartments with connecting doors: First, those covering initial settlement, meeting the immediate needs of migrants on arrival; second, those providing what might be called back-up services, helping newcomers towards full participation in the Australian community; third, those recognising the cultural diversity which characterises Australia today. [More…]

• In the financial year just ended, nearly 8,000 adults attended courses of up to 12 weeks’ duration and many went on to take advantage of the further courses being offered in the community as part of the back-up services. [More…]

• Substantially more services are now available from within the community. [More…]

• These back-up services are designed to support newcomers as they move into the broader community. [More…]

• It makes sense, therefore, that they should be communitybased, drawing as far as possible on the voluntary efforts that Australians have always been willing to make. [More…]

• All these centres are being run by community groups in which migrants, including migrant women, are represented. [More…]

• The Adult Migrant Education Program operates widely throughout the community. [More…]

• We are proceeding also with pilot courses enabling groups of professionals with overseas qualifications to improve their knowledge of English and groups of Australian professionals to improve their knowledge of ethnic cultures and community languages. [More…]

• Again, in this area, we have drawn on the expertise available within the community- funding courses mounted through tertiary institutions, two large Melbourne hospitals and with the assistance of, in one case, a community organisation and the Victorian Government. [More…]

• Following the precedent the Prime Minister set when tabling the Galbally report, I am arranging to have the statement I am making now translated and published in a similar range of community languages. [More…]

• Four States and the Northern Territory have accepted the Commonwealth’s offer of 100 per cent funding in 1979-80 for the employment of additional ethnic health workers under the Community Health Program. [More…]

• An amount of $940,000 has been earmarked under the Community Health Program for this purpose in 1979-80. [More…]

• We are told that the need is to get a closer liaison between members of the ethnic community and the rest of the Australian community. [More…]

• That is not necessarily a criticism of the Minister or of those people but it does highlight the enormity of the problem that is confronting the whole of the community. [More…]

• The report itself stressed that as far as possible the needs of migrants- some 20 per cent of the population- should be met by general programs directed at the whole community. [More…]

• We are told that the program is constructing a new vehicle to take new routes in the delivery of programs and services to migrants and that structural changes involve a network of community-based settlement councils, settlement committees, settlement centres and migrant resource centres. [More…]

• We agree completely with the concept of self-help and community-based organisations. [More…]

• They are wonderful in principle and enable members of the community to help themselves. [More…]

• But if community-based organisations are inadequately funded they cause heartburn only to the many people working in them. [More…]

• They have no real support and people are struggling to deal with the problems facing them and fellow members in the community while the Government off-loads the burden onto those organisations. [More…]

• By saying it is right to have community groups involved and then giving the responsibility to those community groups but without adequate funding, what it has really achieved is a reduction in the financial responsibilities of the Government. [More…]

• The Minister says that we have to give a great impetus to multi-cultural education in schools and in the community and we have to upgrade the teaching of English as a second language. [More…]

• It is interesting to note too, of course, in analysing it, if I remember correctly, that only six of the grants actually went to ethnic community groups. [More…]

• The availability of the service and the awareness among members of the ethnic community that the service was available has led to an enormous increase in the demand, such that it is far beyond the capacity of the service. [More…]

• The non-English speakers wish to learn English so that they can cope adequately; equally, the English speaking professionals are recognising more and more that they must be able to speak at least some community language. [More…]

• Surely we could print one or two ethnic community languages on the card. [More…]

• I do not think that that is likely because the Government does not go that far in making sure that members of the ethnic community learn about the other points of view in the political spectrum- but never mind. [More…]

• Members of the ethnic community will realise what a magnificent effort that is. [More…]

• Again, we are told that the magnificent sum of $940,000 has been earmarked, under the community health program, for additional health interpreters and translators. [More…]

• What the Minister does not say is that that sum is to cover the requirements of Aboriginals as well as of members of the ethnic community. [More…]

• Again, if one were to offer a mere $ 12,000- such people are probably worth more than that, but let us choose a modest sum- the magnificant number of 78 people, in all, could be employed to serve the whole of Australia, including Aborigines and all members of the ethnic community. [More…]

• Listen to the moaning in the ethnic community when the suggestions were put out. [More…]

• The ethnic community was told how the program co-ordinators would be chosen, how the programming would be controlled. [More…]

• In fact, very few of those people had met members of the ethnic community and discussed their problems with them. [More…]

• -The Budget has been extremely well received in the community. [More…]

• It was particularly noted by members of the Government that every piece of good news for the community that was mentioned in the Budget was met by Labor members with frowns, with scowls and with obvious concern. [More…]

• I want to read to this House a very significant quote that I think every member of this House and every member of the business community should frame on his wall. [More…]

• It is important to note that with the large majority that this Government has we as members of parliament now service areas of the community that we did not serve in previous years and we are extremely close to the people. [More…]

• His participation in Qantas has similarly been very much in the interests of that Company and the Australian community. [More…]

• It is up to the Government now to table the documents involved and advise the community of what actually happened. [More…]

• There as been no consideration for the role that Italians play in this community. [More…]

• As a compromise the concept of a community call extending subscriber access at a charging rate of 9c for each three minutes to the nearest service town with reasonable facilities was proposed and adopted Australia-wide. [More…]

• In the case of Romsey, which was the other town that the honourable member for Burke mentioned, the charging zone adjoins the outer metropolitan area, and that zone area was included therefore in the Community Access 80 Scheme. [More…]

• However, the zone which includes Woodend does not adjoin the outer metropolitan zone and will not have community call access to Melbourne at this stage. [More…]

• If community call facilities were extended to Woodend anomalies would be created which would result in a breach of one of the major principles of the Community Access 80 Scheme, that is, that no call charges should be increased. [More…]

• The Special Youth Employment Training Program was simply gutted, the National Employment and Training Scheme was cut by half and the Community Youth Support Scheme was cut by 14 per cent. [More…]

• Local community people got together, set up their committees, worked with a project officer to get this money and in August were all operating on budgets which had been approved for that year. [More…]

• I am very interested in seeing the Community Youth Support Scheme utilised to assist young people looking for work. [More…]

• A budget was approved three months ago and the community groups were working on a budget of $51,000. [More…]

• 1 believe that the people in my community are not going to accept these decisions. [More…]

• I thank the honourable gentleman for the question because there has been some misapprehension on the part of the Opposition, amongst others, as to the actual position concerning funding of Community Youth Support Scheme projects in this financial year. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister will give the Opposition sufficient notice of the announcement of the Government’s response to the recommendations to enable us to do justice to the debate which will take place in this chamber and in the community at large on this very important issue affecting the city of Canberra. [More…]

• The behaviour of the delegates to what was hoped on the part of the Government to be a stage-managed national youth conference was a straw in the wind, just as the poll published in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald this morning is another straw in the wind, indicating a substantial and hard change of attitude on the part of the Australian community. [More…]

• The community will no longer forbear with the myth that the Government has sought to perpetrate, that is, that inflation has to be fought first and that when that is conquered there will be jobs for all. “ [More…]

• 3m in last year’s expenditure allocation for the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• He ought to talk about disemboweling or amputation, disabling the disabled programs that the Government already has before the community. [More…]

• For the 1 5 to 19 year-old youths seeking jobs unemployment was just on 18 per cent, which was three times greater than the rate for the community in general. [More…]

• Accordingly, without any apologies at all, the Opposition proposes a number of programs which will generate jobs in this community. [More…]

• We propose a community service corps. [More…]

• The proposal for a community service corps is based on the simple concept that young people want to work and to contribute and that accordingly they should be allowed to engage in productive work. [More…]

• They and the community must regard that work as real work which accordingly would attract the appropriate award rate of pay and would be covered by the appropriate award working conditions. [More…]

• It could provide work in community services, essential services for non-profit making bodies such as community welfare agencies or local government bodies. [More…]

• What this proposal seeks to do is to capture, to harness, the essential idealism and enthusiasm of the youth of this community. [More…]

• Government instrumentalities would be used to generate jobs within the community. [More…]

• They discriminate against Aboriginals, who suffer the highest rate of unemployment in this community. [More…]

• The 15 to 19-year age group makes up 12 per cent of the civilian work force but 30 per cent of the total unemployed in the community. [More…]

• There is discrimination between areas within our community. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, had described unemployed people as ‘the duller, less motivated people in each age group ‘, a Catholic community leader claimed yesterday. [More…]

• According to the Leader of the Opposition the Opposition has offered a community service scheme at a cost of $80m to $100m to employ 50,000 people. [More…]

• All that the Opposition is doing now is seeking to repeat the dose of economic destruction that it gave to the Australian community between 1972 and 1975. [More…]

• If, as the Leader of the Opposition says, the Opposition is proposing to spend another $600m on its community service scheme and to cut direct and indirect taxes, then where is the money going to come from? [More…]

• The Government, through its various schemes- National Employment and Training scheme, Education Program for Unemployment Youth, Special Youth Employment Training Program, Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training Scheme and Community Youth Support Scheme- will be helping about 210,000 persons at a cost of $132m. [More…]

• Today I answered questions on the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• I pointed out that the basic philosophy behind the thinking of young people is that the 15 to 19 years age group should have a comprehensive range of education, training and employment options available to them which makes unemployment, in the sense of idleness at the community’s expense, an unacceptable alternative. [More…]

• Fortunately the Voluntary Youth Community Service Scheme seems to have been stillborn, and after a brief flirtation with the idea of work co-operatives, the Government has now moved on to a policy of transition from school to work or, more accurately, from school to unemployment. [More…]

• Similarly, the Community Youth Support Scheme will assist 40,000 young people this year and the various segments of the National Employment and Training Scheme will also be of significance in helping a large number of young people. [More…]

• The rate of change of computer technology is faster than the community’s ability to appreciate it. [More…]

• It is prepared to take such legislative action as will ensure that the community is protected against the actions of these industrial gangsters. [More…]

• The Australian community will no longer tolerate such behaviour. [More…]

• I suggest that, for their own self-preservation, members of the Opposition take a good hard look at community thinking on the actions of the Opposition’s colleagues in the trade union movement. [More…]

• The community will not tolerate unruly disruption by certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]

• If the Minister decides that an issue affecting the health, safety and welfare of the community is of such importance that deregistration action should be taken, he must make application to the Full Bench and he has to justify his position in a Full Bench hearing. [More…]

• The honourable member for Port Adelaide asked quite piously: ‘What sorts of disputes could affect the health, safety and welfare of the community? [More…]

• No community can have such vital supplies held up. [More…]

• No government, when the health and welfare of the community are obviously at some peril, cannot respond to the situation. [More…]

• This Government is responding to it because its whole industrial policy is to protect the community. [More…]

• What we will not do is to sit quietly by and allow the trade union movement to ride roughshod over this community. [More…]

• Proposed new section 143 A, which is sought to be inserted into the Act, will give to the Governor-General a wide range of powers which may be exercised against unions which take industrial action which has a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]

• The proposed section allows the Minister to apply for a declaration from a full bench of the Commission that industrial action by a union or its members has had, is having or is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]

• That part of the proposed new section will have application not only to the community as a whole but also to part of the community. [More…]

• The second objection is that the proposed section provides wide scope for the LiberalNational Country Party Government to interfere in industrial disputes for political reasons and without regard to the interests of the parties or to the real interests of the community. [More…]

• If ever a community has made a judgment on the sort of activity it wants to see in relation to the union movement, I believe that South Australians at that election clearly did so. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian community just does not believe that many sections of the union movement are acting reasonably. [More…]

• The main features are that the Minister- and I stress that it is the Minister- may apply to the Full Bench of the Commission for a declaration that industrial action by an organisation, or a group of its members, has had, is having, or is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community or a part of the community. [More…]

• Having regard to the highly developed capacity of some organisations to inflict immediate and sustained harm upon the community, not only are the present grounds for deregistration under the Act inadequate to protect the demands of the public interest- after all, are we not here to serve the public- but the procedural delays involved in section 143 proceedings do not permit a sufficiently rapid response. [More…]

• It is already widely used and enjoyed and effective planning of the environment of the reef can occur only in close cooperation with the community which will continue to use it. [More…]

• Has he forgotten that confrontation began months ago, that this nation has been held up to ransom by the most blatant actions of milltant trade unions and that we have seen the employer, the public and the community at large - [More…]

• Now we take the view that the public does matter and, as a consequence, we are providing in this legislation that deregistration can occur on grounds of safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]

• We know that industrial muscle in recent years has gained momentum far beyond the recognised and proper bases upon which trade unions are a vital part of the community. [More…]

• But, when we find such action being taken to the point where the rest of the community is expected to carry the burden- someone said this afternoon that this legislation was, in fact, wage fixing in effect, and that it went to the stage of taking away the right of workers to demand the wages that they thought they should get, not what the umpire said they were entitled to - [More…]

• It is taking action of the kind that the community at large expects it to take. [More…]

• I would say that there is a considerable body of knowledge in the community about industrial relations. [More…]

• It empowers a full bench to make a relevant declaration where it is satisfied that two persons have in the past been engaged in industrial action- for example, a ban- which has had a substantial effect on the welfare part of the community. [More…]

• Honourable members opposite would feel a sense of outrage, as would the community. [More…]

• The honourable member failed to say, of course, that the Minister will intervene only when matters such as the safety, the health and the welfare of the community are involved. [More…]

• Would the honourable member and the Labor Party have us say that the Government should not be concerned about the safety, the health or the welfare of the community? [More…]

• Would they say that the welfare of the community would not be affected? [More…]

• Would they say that it would not affect the community if ambulances could not travel because of lack of fuel. [More…]

• Would they say when the services of doctors were restricted by strike action that that would not affect the community? [More…]

• It appears to me that the Labor Party is not concerned with the health, the safety or the welfare of the community because it would deny the Minister an opportunity to act for the Australian people. [More…]

• I must act responsibly for the Australian community’. [More…]

• A declaration may be made if it is held that industial action is adversely affecting the health, safety and welfare of the community. [More…]

• But it is not necessary to show that industrial action is having an adverse effect on health and safety if it can be shown simply that a strike is against the welfare of the community the certificate has to be issued - [More…]

• If there is a strike involving shipping, transport, the post office or any public facilities, it can be easily argued that the welfare of the community is affected by it substantially. [More…]

• The employers will be made to suffer; the unions will be made to suffer; the community at large will be made to suffer just because the Government thinks that by enacting this legislation it may create the political climate for being elected again. [More…]

• Many of the older people in our community turn off from metric measurements because they can survive in their own little way by not paying too much attention to it. [More…]

• I hope people recognise that I would not have done so unless I had been motivated by a very strong feeling on a most important subject to so many people out there in the community, including residents of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. [More…]

• In the course of its elimination, a very talented youth worker was lost to that community. [More…]

• Later in the year the Northcote Community Youth Support Scheme program was also discontinued or failed to achieve funding because the people concerned with that program had the temerity to question the very restrictive guidelines that governed this scheme. [More…]

• The Office is continuously involved in consultation with the community on all areas of concern to youth, lt services the National Youth Advisory Group which broadly represents the major sectors of Australian youth which is primarily concerned with advising the Government of young people ‘s particular needs and concerns, and ofthe impact of its programs on young people. [More…]

• The Office is organising the National Youth Conference which is aimed at giving young people an opportunity to discuss matters of importance to the community. [More…]

• Will the Minister support any proposal by Aborigines that back pay, due to them for the 6 months before proof of underpayment, might be given to their community in the form of land titles to the whole of their gazetted and/or traditional land. [More…]

• But the Government will continue to support Aboriginal community initiatives in Queensland within the constraints of available finance and other priorities. [More…]

• Recommendation 22- development and dissemination of information on health care in community languages. [More…]

• and (3) Assistance is available to the States and the Northern Territory under the Community Health Program to employ the additional ethnic health workers and the additional interpreters and translators mentioned. [More…]

• Did the Minister’s immediate predecessor intervene to exclude employees at Maningrida against the expressed wishes of the community. [More…]

• Mr Viner announced on 16 January 1978 that grants to the Maningrida Council were being terminated because the Council had not been meeting or exercising effective control of community affairs for many months. [More…]

• The Depanment is also co-ordinating the provision of a variety of training courses for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland and these include some courses designed to meet the needs of Aboriginals and Islanders in reserve communities (and at Aurukun and Mornington Island) for training in such fields as management, meeting procedures, clerical skills and community work: [More…]

• Other courses planned or under consideration include: 12 week course for resident Aboriginal community workers; 8 week course for Island Councillors; courses in bookkeeping. [More…]

• and (S) In my statement of 11 September 1979, I indicated that talks are to be held in Brisbane to develop proposals to be put to the Yarrabah community and discussed with the Council in November when Commonwealth and State Ministers will visit Yarrabah. [More…]

• Has there been an appreciable response by the international community to the human suffering in Kampuchea? [More…]

• If a tragedy of the most momentous proportions is to be avoided the international community must respond quickly. [More…]

• In view of the extent and depth of the organisation’s work in the Australian community, Australia Post has decided to award a stamp to Apex on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. [More…]

• In this regard, it is particularly important that members of this Parliament tell the Australian people why it is necessary that they should on an individual basis do all they can to support the appeals which are currently being mounted by non-government organisations such as Austcare, the Australian Red Cross, Community Aid Abroad, the Australian Council of Churches, Australian Catholic Relief and the Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign. [More…]

• I am sure that some members of this Parliament have not read of the situation in sufficient detail, and I am sure that there are millions of people within the community who have not read about and who do not comprehend the extent of the tragedy, for obvious reasons. [More…]

• The consequences for the community have been very serious, both industrially and economically. [More…]

• On the question of relativities, some people in this community are able to use their bargaining power to get inordinately large wages. [More…]

• In the closing stages of his address, he started to talk about pacesetting and about one wage being aligned with every other wage in the community. [More…]

• Because the Government is incompetent it cannot come to grips with the economic problems that bedevil the community. [More…]

• -Clause 4 of this amending legislation goes to the very hean of the problem which we face in the Australian community- the disruptive activity of irresponsible trade unions. [More…]

• It is relevant, Mr Millar, because those who go on strike ought to be made to realise the effect their actions have both on themselves and on the community. [More…]

• The Minister’s approach is undesirable by any standards and one therefore has to direct the attention of the Minister, the Committee and the community to what the law is. [More…]

• I think there would be a great furore in the community and a claim that that kind of legislation was much too sweeping and much too broad. [More…]

• The emphasis on Full Bench hearings is both unnecessary and wasteful as many matters may be settled satisfactorily by- and some may be settled satisfactorily only by- single members of the Commission without the need for more formal proceedings before a Full Bench which, from the viewpoint of both parties and the community, are costly. [More…]

• I believe honourable members should pass this clause, and I am sure the entire community would welcome it very strongly. [More…]

• the industrial action has had, is having, or is likely to have, a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community or of a part of the community, the Full Bench shall make a declaration that it is so satisfied and cause the declaration to be recorded in writing. [More…]

• If members of the Opposition are sincere in what they are saying about this Bill, about its horrible effects, the dreadful things it will do, the way it can crucify men in this community of ours, why did they not repeal it when they were in office between 1973 and 1975? [More…]

• Under this Bill, once a certificate is issued by the Conciliation Commission to the effect that there is a stoppage of work in a particular union which affects the welfare of the community, the Minister will have the right to declare that particular members of that union shall not be eligible to continue to hold office, or that particular members of the union shall not be eligible to contest a ballot for office, or that particular members of a union may not be eligible to record a vote in an election for union officials, or that a particular member or members shall be prohibited from attending a union meeting, voting at a union meeting or attending a meeting of workers on a particular job. [More…]

• Most informants have sought assurances that their identities not be disclosed, reflecting their fears of possible reprisals involving relatives or the Timorese community in general. [More…]

• I am amazed that the international community has seen fit to indulge in diplomatic haggling while millions are dying. [More…]

• I recognise that Kampuchea has no effective infrastructure, either human or physical, and certainly the international community will have to do something about that in the rehabilitation phase of any aid program. [More…]

• I hope that he will present a full ministerial statement to the Parliament outlining the problems we have in assisting Kampuchea and the course of action open to Australia and to the international community to overcome these problems and to ensure that this impending tragedy can be averted. [More…]

• Yesterday the Minister made a series of statements about unemployment in this country, particularly in relation to the Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• Did the Government accept the recommendation that firing at Holsworthy be restricted to between the hours of 1000 and 1700 (particularly in winter) in order to effect a substantial decrease in overall noise exposure in the neighbouring community; if not, what alternative action is contemplated. [More…]

• I have asked for a full review of radio communication fees to be undertaken in my Department and for there to be full discussion with affected community groups in the process of this review. [More…]

• Especially in view of the increasing gap between the AMA’s suggested charges and the maximum amount recoverable from the funds, is this not a real insult to the intelligence of the community? [More…]

• The sooner the breaking of parallel scheduling comes about, the happier the community will be. [More…]

• Finally, what other section of the community is able to treat with contempt what the Prime Minister continually refers to as the umpire ‘s decision ‘? [More…]

• What a disgraceful thing it was when one of the most respected ladies in the Australian community, Lady McMahon, the wife of the right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon), was spattered with vegetables and fruit in Sydney recently by these people, these left wingers, Labor inspired in their attempts to deny completely the ordinary right of procedure and law in Australia. [More…]

• Yet the types of works provided for under MITERS have the potential to reduce community costs substantially in terms of travel time, resource use, pollution, death and injury. [More…]

• Honourable members should bear in mind difficulties such as bridging many coastal streams and getting the work under way from a standing start in an area so isolated from major community centres. [More…]

• The Council ‘s proposal went on to note: that in most communities throughout Australia, there are pressing needs for public works programs and community services which are unlikely to be met in the foreseeable future from the resources of local councils or voluntary service groups. [More…]

• Local government services are essential to the wellbeing of the community. [More…]

• There is a real danger not only that local government will be forced to restrain severely growth of community services such as education, welfare, recreation and cultural activities, but also that public works of various kinds will be allowed to deteriorate. [More…]

• These special purpose grants will give priority to regional and community development activities, and programs to alleviate the growing unemployment problem. [More…]

• In this regard, the urban renewal report of the former Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development in 1978 stated: [More…]

• I think I have clearly spelled out that that was the situation under the previous Administration, particularly under my Administration, and even when the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Groom) had responsibility for community development. [More…]

• The urban renewal report also suggested that it is often easier to get the participation of community organisations when specific program allocations are made. [More…]

• We need to appreciate the lack of basic social and cultural facilities and community services for youth, the aged and for non-English speaking groups. [More…]

• However, as community demands for increased facilities and modern amenities are the order of the day local government is faced with increased financial commitments. [More…]

• Everybody in the community would be aware of this Government’s obsession with indirect taxation, which is, of course, regressive in its nature. [More…]

• In the Budget debate, the Leader of the Opposition said that a Labor government would introduce a community service corps. [More…]

• Two days ago when he was speaking on a matter of public importance the Leader of the Opposition spelled out what was implied by the community service corps which a Labor government would sponsor. [More…]

• Let me make clear what the Australian Labor Party is saying in the context of a community service corps. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition stated that he believed that a community service corps would provide 50,000 jobs a year. [More…]

• Here we have a situation where he is asking for local funding programs under a community service corps- that is exactly what it is- to pay young people to work for what he calls award wages and the wage turns out to be $40 a week. [More…]

• There now appears to be a general agreement that local government is the most appropriate unit for the planning, administration and delivery of a wide range of community welfare services and facilities because it can take account of the different needs, values and preferences of individual communities and because it is the political unit closest to the communities being served. [More…]

• The Liberal-National Country Party Opposition in its October 1975 social welfare policy speech, under the heading of ‘Local Government and Community Participation’, provided: [More…]

• This Bill is proof positive that we are not prepared to have rural Australia driven into subjection- the subjection of poverty through being made the one section of the Australian community being denied some assistance in alleviating a suffocating cost burden and a pressure from society which demands all and wants to give little or nothing in return. [More…]

• If it is fair to one, it should also be fair to others, particularly where those others, such as our rural industries, contribute so much to our favourable overseas balances and compete with overseas products that are subsidised up to the eyebrows, particularly products from such places as the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I remind the House that if the European Economic Community dumped large quantities of wheat at subsidised prices and the United States and Canada reacted to maintain their shares of the market, our wheat prices could drop substantially. [More…]

• In fact, none of the European Economic Community countries, to my knowledge, have these sorts of charging arrangements. [More…]

• By giving extras now it is hoped that these gaps in inequality among minority groups- gaps often caused, I might say, by general community ignorance and discriminationwill be evened out or filled in. [More…]

• On the one hand, the Government has done a lot of public relations promotion from which it hopes to gain support in the migrant community as a result of the proposals it has instituted at the behest of the Galbally committee. [More…]

• Catholics, with other members of the community, have every right to agree or disagree with this document. [More…]

• The statement on unemployment was undoubtedly written with the excellent intention of increasing the awareness of unemployment and the cost which this phenomenon imposes on a significant section of the community. [More…]

• I believe that this particular problem has struck a chord within the general Australian community of a kind that is not often seen. [More…]

• That was, in fact, investigated by the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• I will be taking the matter up with the Attorney-General for him to communicate with the Commissioner for Community Relations to see whether there has been a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]

• The amendments will give a Minister the right to start deregistration of a union or part of one engaging in any industrial action harming community safety, health or welfare. [More…]

• As has been made clear in debate from this side of the Parliament and throughout the community- not just from the trade union and professional association side of the community but from employer representatives toothese represent draconian powers and will bring into discredit the conciliation and arbitration system of this country. [More…]

• More than that, they will make the stern majesty and fairness of the law, which are generally presented to the community as its quality, an authority put into the stifling grip of the least dignified and the most unfair Prime Minister in this country’s history. [More…]

• It suddenly realised that there was significant important opposition to what it was proposing and not just in the community. [More…]

• They are drawn from diverse backgrounds in the community. [More…]

• This debate is about one issue, and that is whether the Government has an obligation to improve the operation of the conciliation and arbitration system so that industrial disruption can be reduced and the community relieved of the inconvenience and damage that such disruption causes. [More…]

• At the Labor Party’s conference in Adelaide its attitude to the responsibility of government to the community in regard to industrial relations was made clear. [More…]

• As a result anomalies were created, expectations were raised among certain powerful unions and the community was forced to suffer a great deal from the industrial disruption which followed. [More…]

• This amendment is designed to provide greater consistency and thereby relieve the community from the serious harm that such disruption causes. [More…]

• We believe that those aims should be to establish a framework which meets the needs of all parties while at the same time protecting the interests of the community. [More…]

• Quite apart from the procedural amendments which I have described, another part of the legislationthis was referred to briefly by the Leader of the Opposition- provides for accelerated deregistration procedures for unions or sections of unions whose actions are substantially adversely affecting the safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]

• If people in the community see that their safety, health and welfare are being affected, they naturally expect their government to take action to protect them. [More…]

• I warned the Government that steamrolling bad laws through the House of Representatives would not go unnoticed in the community, and it has not. [More…]

• The people in the most important section of the community in that respect- the people who are actually involved in the operation of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission- have made their positions known. [More…]

• I am sure that the community supports the Government. [More…]

• The Commission has the power to deregister when it believes that there will be an adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of a community. [More…]

• For instance, there is the possibility of an expansion of part-time work within universities so that in a situation in which the average age of those in the academic community is on the increase, there ought to be an opportunity for the older members of academic staff to move into part-time occupations and to bring in new people to take up the part of the work that they necessarily vacate. [More…]

• So those figures certainly lay to rest any significant claims that academic salaries have fallen well behind the relativities of other standards within the community. [More…]

• At the moment, the definition refers to: activities directed to promoting violence or hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community so as to endanger the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• It is important to note that Mr Justice Hope, in his very comprehensive suggestions for the definition of subversion’, did not include in that definition the words ‘promoting hatred between different groups of persons in the Australian community’. [More…]

• Therefore, all of us and many activists in the community are likely to fall within the definition of subversion ‘ in the ordinary spirited political debate that takes place in this society. [More…]

• I believe that if it is followed by this Committee it will have the effect of taking ASIO to an position where it can command the respect and support of the community, because the average member of the community will know that whatever changes of government take place, the Leader of the Opposition, whether he be a member of the Liberal Party, the Labor Party or the National Country Party, will, as a matter of right, be fully informed. [More…]

• But we do not diminish from that role by endeavouring to create an intelligence and security organisation which carries the respect of the community, which can be believed to be operating in a truly bipartisan way. [More…]

• The honourable member for Dundas, in order to take a schoolboy debating point, deliberately attempted to misconstrue what was said by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, This amendment will go a long way to securing the confidence of at least half the Australian community who at present are concerned about this legislation and want to see legislation which will mean not only that our security force can have the powers that it needs to act but also that the rights and hard won liberties of the people are maintained and are secure. [More…]

• Hoover’s, whose views may be totally unacceptable generally in terms of the Australian community and who may, simply by the use of this clause and the freedom that it gives to a Director-General, be able, in a sense, to use his power against the best interests of the Australian people. [More…]

• In other words Australia has far more to fear from our own self-induced destruction of the democratic process than from external threat or the thought of spies with sinister beards and bombs in their pockets who come amongst us in our community. [More…]

• It is essential that the Security Service should be kept absolutely free from any political bias or influence, and nothing should be done that might lend colour to any suggestion that it is concerned with the interests of any particular section of the community . [More…]

• Something that I just cannot understand is why a Parliament would sit here and allow its authority, its integrity and its prestige and its standing in the community to be so denigrated as is proposed by this Act of Parliament. [More…]

• observes that there is widespread discontent in the Italian community as evidenced by a petition signed by tens of thousands of people calling for the early introduction of lower air fares to Italy; [More…]

• I think it is a fair measure that will be seen by the community as having been taken in the interests of tax equity. [More…]

• The debate concerning these issues will continue in the community. [More…]

• I am sure that all honourable members are concerned about the problems of drug trafficking and the problems that exist in this community in terms of the incidence of and the effect of drug traffickers. [More…]

• They are to be used in relation to the distribution of drugs which are wreaking such havoc in our community. [More…]

• I am perfectly happy to leave him with a discretion in that matter rather than to put down a catalogue of requirements which will only confuse and create circumstances in which the smart operators who are dealing in hard drugs and doing so much harm in our community will find ways and means of getting off charges when they are caught and when we have the capacity to deal with them. [More…]

• It would be inconceivable that the community would tolerate judges acting in the manner enjoined of Commissioners and Presidential members by the Bill. [More…]

• Every citizen in this community has a duty to adhere to the rules of law and has no privilege to escape his obligations by reason merely that he has not been ordered by a court to carry out that which the law prescribes, just as I have a duty to conform to the rules of law as I understand them to be and am bound to do my best to carry them out without the command of a court. [More…]

• a ban) which has had a substantial adverse effect on the welfare of part of the community. [More…]

• Such persons are ‘part of the community’. [More…]

• We shall be lesser men and women and of lesser use to the community as a whole if they become law. [More…]

• -This evening I bring to the attention of the House the plight of the Canterbury Community Youth Support Scheme. [More…]

• There are very few community youth support schemes that have such a high ethnic content as the Canterbury one. [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…]

• Do a considerable number of persons in the community receive specialist medical treatment for various chronic illnesses. [More…]

• What are his Department’s guidelines regulating the use, by private individuals and companies engaging in profit-making business activities, of public places such as community halls, public parks and reserves, administered by bis Department. [More…]

• Do some community organisations book community facilities in their name and then cede the use to commercial organisations; if so, what action is taken by his Department in relation to this practice. [More…]

• However, community organisations may and do book facilities and arrange for coaches to run schools, clinics, et cetera, on their behalf provided they conform with the guidelines as set out in(1 [More…]

• 1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the concern of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union that occupational as well as family and community health standards are threatened by the lack of research into the Zoonoses disease to which meat workers are exposed. [More…]

• It is true that the European Economic Community is to be enlarged. [More…]

• Greece has signed a treaty of accession and will join the Community from January 1981. [More…]

• I and colleagues of mine have taken many opportunities in our visits to Brussels to have discussions with the Commission in an endeavour to ensure that our trade will not be adversely affected and to safeguard our trade in these products with the present Community member states, future ones and also third countries around the world. [More…]

• Such persons are ‘part of the community’. [More…]

• The declaration may rest on losses alleged to have been incurred by shareholders, because shareholders are part of the community. [More…]

• The Government wants to ensure that decisions made take into account the needs of the building industry, the aspirations of the people working within it and the requirements of the general community it serves. [More…]

• They will provide the means for effective exchange of information and ideas between the Government and community and industry groups. [More…]

• These revised arrangements are a significant step forward in relations between the industry and the Government and I know they will be welcomed by the industry and the community at large. [More…]

• It represents the wealthy and the privileged sectors of our community. [More…]

• That is why I believe that we should have on a council such as this representatives who have a social conscience, who really understand the social problems within our community. [More…]

• Apart from the European Economic Community, he singled out for criticism Australia, Canada, Norway and Sweden which have tightened their quotas or imposed new ones to limit developing country exports of textiles and clothing. [More…]

• This is giving industry and the farming community great concern, particularly in the States of New South Wales and Queensland. [More…]

• The advice that should be given to the farming community is to keep its tanks full all the time. [More…]

• This is a necessity for not only the farming community but also for our commuter services. [More…]

• Of course, the farming community requires avgas for aircraft to spray its crops and to spread its superphosphate so that we have increased agricultural production in this country. [More…]

• A significant amount of publicity was given to the petition condemning strikes and strikers, which was widely circulated in the community by this erstwhile disc jockey. [More…]

• Despite the views of some sections of the community, the Heritage Commission has a purely advisory role and has no direct authority to do anything in relation to a listed place. [More…]

• In recent years it has been the community’s consensus that issues such as the Great Barrier Reef, Fraser [More…]

• The Australian Heritage Commission Act has found acceptance in the Australian community despite earlier misunderstandings of its intent. [More…]

• But now many of the older generation who have given a life time of toil to the Australian community are victims of this Government’s indifference to unemployment. [More…]

• Those six to eight people are the semiskilled and unskilled people in the community. [More…]

• Apart from people admitted as refugees and for family reunion, migrant entry criteria should be developed on the basis of benefit to the Australian community, and the social, economic and related requirements within Australia. [More…]

• The investigations, undertaken both within Australia and overseas, have been structured to elicit community views on the major questions arising from the satellite proposals. [More…]

• Not only was the working group required to undertake further investigations of issues which had been the subject of inquiry by the Task Force but also it was required to encourage public discussion and debate by actively seeking submissions from individuals, community and other interested organisations on those issues. [More…]

• The Government has also given very careful consideration to the needs of the community generally; our national, social, economic and security aspirations, and the financial implications of the development of a satellite communications system. [More…]

• It is all too easy for those of us who live in well-serviced, densely populated areas to forget that a significant part of the Australian community lives outside metropolitan centres. [More…]

• The working group report, of course, cited the manufacture of earth station equipment in Australia, the installation, operation and maintenance of equipment and services such as education and community organisations using satellite links as possible areas where new employment opportunities could arise. [More…]

• The Minister has even hinted at groups in the community who will benefit in a big way. [More…]

• The other group in the community who will benefit most are the national television networks. [More…]

• If we are to provide the same individually private and secure system to these isolated people as we do to the rest of the community able to afford Telecom’s charges then, unless we blast a telephone exchange into space along with the satellite, we will have to provide 40,000 individual circuits. [More…]

• It suggests that these jobs will be created in the installation, operation and maintenance of equipment, services such as health, education and community organisations using satellite links and new unspecified types of employment available only if a satellite exists. [More…]

• The working group’s report extends to well over 200 pages but the community impact, including employment, received only five pages and employment effects are discussed in great profundity in just three pages. [More…]

• It is, therefore, questionable in the extreme whether the report gave enough time, thought and research to the impact of a satellite on the community, especially the work force The Opposition remains unconvinced and it has no reason to doubt that this Government’s decision serves corporate interests and not those of the Australian community. [More…]

• The honourable member for Lalor just finished his speech by saying that this in fact was the greatest con game ever perpetrated or envisaged for the Australian community. [More…]

• The industry has suffered loss of sales in the United Kingdom and Europe, important traditional markets, through the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• As I made plain in my announcement on 24 May, the Government could not accept this position, having regard to the interests of other taxpayers and of the community generally. [More…]

• In real terms, as far as the migrant community is concerned, the money which migrants lost in the denial of that allowance for income tax purposes more than paid for the funds to be allocated under the Galbally report. [More…]

• In this Bill we find once again a move to raise funds which will help to offset the apparent payments to the migrant community for the services that have been suggested in the Galbally report. [More…]

• At the beginning of next month, starting on the first pay-day which is 8 November, pensioners will receive indexation of their pensions but only up to and including the June quarter, whilst other members of the community, if they receive wages and are covered by wage cases, in many instances will have received a further indexation and, if not, will certainly receive it before next May when this piece of legislation really comes into force. [More…]

• The Government is making it very difficult for them to make a rational decision which is in their interests and also in the interests of the community at large. [More…]

• The Department of Social Security is being re-organised to ensure it is both more responsive to the needs of those dependent on its services and more responsible in the handling of community resources. [More…]

• Southern Cross Homes is also providing a community room at Kavanagh Court out of its own funds. [More…]

• What of the special benefit people- among the most deprived in the community- who are also denied health and pharmaceutical concessions? [More…]

• We are destroying people’s capacity to operate normally within the community simply to create conditions where people will become more passive and will not fight back. [More…]

• The Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner) also said that we should provide other options for young people to make unemployment in the sense of idleness at the community’s expense an unacceptable alternative. [More…]

• Thousands of young people with no prospect of employment are regularly attending the Community Youth Support Schemes. [More…]

• If we are not successful in mobilising human resources and skills present in every community to assist those in need, the divisions within our society, exacerbated by the Fraser Government at every turn, can only be augmented. [More…]

• What impenetrable logic is used to say that it is just and proper that the level of economic movement within the community will flow on to these public servants but when it comes to those who through no fault of their own are injured and who have served the Commonwealth faithfully and well in a whole range of services, all of a sudden that principle is abandoned. [More…]

• All that would have done would have been to ensure that Commonwealth employees would keep up with other movements within the community. [More…]

• During the year the community decided to hand back responsibility for management of the reserve to the Aboriginal Lands Trust of New South Wales and accordingly the final instalment of the grant for the year ($ 1 ,250) is being paid to the Trust. [More…]

• where the land is leased, of the Aboriginal council or community leasing that land. [More…]

• The subsidies and countervailing duties code which the honourable gentleman mentioned was negotiated largely between the European Economic Community and the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government believes that it gives the fairest and most accurate assessment of the level of unemployment within the community. [More…]

• Apart from that, it promises to be a vehicle which will create little noise or air pollution and it will serve a particular community- albeit, in the early stages, a limited need. [More…]

• The European Economic Community has predicted that the six million people currently unemployed in that area will swell to 18 million by 1990 and that of these 5 per cent, or almost one million, will be young people who have never worked in their lives. [More…]

• These are the views broadly represented by the Opposition and the Government- that technological change is something to be promoted because of new opportunities it creates for Australian industry and the view that technology threatens to bring about widespread dislocation in the community because of the reduced number of jobs available. [More…]

• We are trying to minimise those fears on a collective basis and maximise the benefits of technological change for the whole community. [More…]

• It simply will not do to have a tirade week after week of the kind that is put forward by the honourable member for Port Adelaide and which creates fear in the community. [More…]

• I will not say any more about this clause, but it is indicative of the standards which this Government is setting itself within the Australian community. [More…]

• In fact it runs away from similar legislation in respect of restrictive trade, control of trade and control of commerce, where actions which penalise the community heavily are not covered in any way by any forms of legislation where redress can be found. [More…]

• It is quite incredible that this is the kind of legislation that the Government is introducing into this House at a time when I do not think there is a family in Australia that is not unaware of the suffering being caused to people- perhaps in their family, perhaps in their community- as a result of extended periods of unemployment. [More…]

• One does not need to emphasise or to restate within this House the shifts that have occurred in the scales of unemployment since this Government has been in power; the length of time that people are unemployed; and the fact that particular sections of the community are bearing the weight of unemployment. [More…]

• I believe that the community’s attitudes are changing. [More…]

• Negligently or fraudulently run companies are a cost to the community, not simply to the investor. [More…]

• I am sure the business community as a whole would welcome the introduction of this legislation which establishes the National Companies and Securities Commission. [More…]

• If one embarks on a course in an area such as this which is shrouded with a very grave legal doubt one is certainly courting disaster in establishing a fairly complex commission which will have an enormous impact on the whole of the business community throughout Australia. [More…]

• I believe that in time under the National Companies and Securities Commission, all these things will become uniform and the community will be much better for it. [More…]

• It will be a far more practical and a far greater community for those uniform approaches. [More…]

• I am sure that as a whole the business community will support this move towards a united approach to the National Companies and Securities Commission in Australia. [More…]

• Finally, I just say this: Amongst all the people I have spoken to in the business community, I have not found any person who is against the Government’s approach. [More…]

• I am sure that other honourable members and those interested in this matter will look forward to the other legislation, most not- ably the takeover legislation and the legislation that comes with the National Companies Act, to ensure that in future the Australian business community will be in a far better shape. [More…]

• The method of the Government ‘s implementation of the Senate Committee’s recommendation, whilst in accordance with the general community view, differs from the Opposition’s view. [More…]

• It is clear that in these circumstances the business community is thrown into chaos and disorder by having to work out what they had to do in the various States. [More…]

• It is the investor in the community about whom we should be concerned most of all. [More…]

• I repeat what I said earlier: If the investor in this community does not have confidence in the institutions which are handling his investment on the basis of their recent history, if he lacks confidence in the sort of legislation which is brought forward allegedly to control this industry, and if he sees it breaking down, crumbling and falling apart as he inevitably will because of the clear defectiveness of this legislation, he is not going to invest at the rate which is desirable in this community. [More…]

• That is what is happening in the community today. [More…]

• This is an excellent opportunity for the right sort of legislation to be brought in effectively to regulate this industry without being stultifying about it, to re-establish small investor confidence in the community. [More…]

• That report thoroughly investigated this industry, brought out its regard and showed why there was a loss of public confidence and more, importantly and I say this with some passion, exposed why people were hurttrusting, decent little people of this community who, in many cases, put their life savings on trust into various sectors of the Australian corporate sector and had their fingers burnt for their pains. [More…]

• It is extraordinarily deficient, but it is most glaringly deficient in its obligation to look after the interest of the investor of this community. [More…]

• I suggest that if shareholders, the small investors, the business community and particularly the community as a whole seek to achieve any sense of stability, comfort or long term security from this piece of legislation and the subsequent complementary legislation- that is, the takeovers and companies and securities Bills- then regrettably they will be seriously disillusioned. [More…]

• If, on the other hand, people are appointed who are active in the field, who know the Companies Act and the securities industry, who are prepared to administer the legislation forcibly and to criticise the legislation when it is inadequate, perhaps there is some chance of it providing some advantages for the Australian business community. [More…]

• It will inflict industrial hardship on the whole community. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that the Government is so caught up and so preoccupied with this question of morality, that is whether someone deserves to be paid income support or deserves to be paid unemployment benefit rather than to be supported by the community. [More…]

• Thus there is no saving in cost to the community, and presumably a willing worker is replaced by a reluctant one. [More…]

• We have grown up with the notion that somehow work is related to participation in a particular kind of economic system, that it is related to working in organisations that are primarily devoted to a profit rather than being related essentially to making some sort of contribution to community welfare. [More…]

• It is my feeling, having met perhaps hundreds of unemployed young people over the last few years, that essentially their problem- I think this is increasingly the case- is that they are becoming increasingly alienated from the community in any real sense. [More…]

• They do not feel that they are part of the community. [More…]

• They do not feel that the community recognises them or wants to receive any kind of contribution from them. [More…]

• In a sense, I think the attitudes which are present in this legislation, attitudes which are reflected in clauses 35, 41 and 42, are designed essentially to increase alienation within the Australian community, to increase division and bitterness, to make people feel that, if they do not match up to a test which most of the people in this Parliament have rarely matched up to, somehow they are less than equal and somehow they do not have the same rights as the rest of the community. [More…]

• We are continuing as a Parliament to cultivate mythologies about contribution to the community. [More…]

• We are not taking seriously enough the fact that work is increasingly unrelated to the wealth of the community as it is currently being created, and some things were said about that earlier today during the discussion of the matter of public importance. [More…]

• Implicit within them are concepts of social control, of coercion, of conflict within the community, where we repress people in a certain section of the community and deny them basic rights, where we subject them to harassment, where we pursue them rather than seeking to understand how they can make a contribution to the community. [More…]

• On the other hand, the recently announced Community Access 80 scheme will amongst other things extend low rate access to the Sydney zone (9c for 3 minutes 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, 9c for 3 minutes 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily) for approximately 76,000 customers in the areas adjoining the outer Sydney metropolitan zones without disadvantaging existing customers. [More…]

• It is my understanding that both the traditional owners of the area concerned and the Aboriginal community at Oenpelli had agreed to the location of the mill at the mine site prior to the agreement being concluded. [More…]

• What was the response of the Maningrida community to this exclusion. [More…]

• As indicated in the Minister’s Press statement of 16 January 1978 grants were terminated because the Council was not operating effectively and it was made clear that there would be consultations ‘with the aim of establishing a new Council which could progressively resume responsibility for community affairs ‘. [More…]

• I am informed that representations were received from some members of the Maningrida community seeking the return of three of the former employees of the Council. [More…]

• For a number of years this Government has said very clearly that it accepts the figures of the Australian Bureau of Statistics as the correct measure of unemployment in the Australian community. [More…]

• So far as I am aware the measure of unemployment in the community has always been taken on the basis of those seeking full-time work. [More…]

• Is it an example of the type of total community involvement which the Minister has had in mind in his recent statements about the need to develop new policy initiatives to enable young people to make a successful transition from school into the work force? [More…]

• What the Government does not seem to realise is that the string of measures it is taking to reduce the deficit in fact is having the effect of increasing inflation, therefore increasing inflation expectations in the community and therefore making it less likely that we will break out of the inflationary or stagflationary bind in which the Government has so securely put the economy in the last few years. [More…]

• The severity of these cuts has not been appreciated in the community, nor have their consequences. [More…]

• The tragedy is that many of the forms of capital works spending are amongst the most necessary to improve the efficiency and well-being of the community. [More…]

• The quality of roads, the safety of public transport, the accessibility of public transport, the adequacy of the supply of housing, particularly for low income earners, and the availability of community services in more remote rural areas all depend on public works. [More…]

• This conservative Government has been more concerned with doctrine than with community well-being. [More…]

• Those institutions would be financed by Australia and would enable a broader crosssection of the community in those countries to obtain the benefit of this educational opportunity. [More…]

• While we have an identification of programs such as the drug education program, dental health and community health, the National Heart Foundation, the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria and other bodies are crying out for funds to be able to promote the preventive aspects of health. [More…]

• However, I want to draw attention to a particular matter which is causing justifiable concern to a small but in many respects, significant community in Melbourne. [More…]

• I refer to the East Timorese community there. [More…]

• I suppose this applies to the East Timorese community throughout Australia. [More…]

• I have had dealings only with the East Timorese community in- Melbourne. [More…]

• I think the total estimated by the community is nominations in respect of 2,668 people who were in East Timor. [More…]

• That delegation comprised representatives of the East Timorese community and also of the Catholic clergy in [More…]

• Melbourne who had been active in assisting the community in Melbourne. [More…]

• I feel that I have some responsibility in this matter because earlier this year when the first group came to Australia I cautioned members of the East Timorese community in Melbourne not to make vigorous statements attacking any Indonesian authorities. [More…]

• He said we should align ourselves with formal apprenticeship- after we had gone to great lengths to explain why this system was not suited to the farming community in SA . [More…]

• This Tertiary Education Assistance Allowance is paid to many people in the community while they are receiving training. [More…]

• If, in fact, the industries believed that those calculations are in error and that there has been an error of logic or of data, it is within their capacity to make other calculations and measure the cost to the Australian community of protecting these industries differently and in the public forum to defend their arguments. [More…]

• I submit that it can only be demoralising to an industry that has demonstrated that it is costing the Australian community more than perhaps the Australian community might wish to bear. [More…]

• It is surely necessary that that cost be measured so that the Australian community, through prices and subsidies, knows what it is paying for the protection of those industries. [More…]

• I hope that the organisation does not have any influence over him because it would be very unfortunate for a number of the less better off people in this community. [More…]

• European Economic Community countries. [More…]

• It has drawn an outraged response, and properly so, from the international community. [More…]

• There is no doubt that one of the great aspects of the Australian Government’s approach to the fight against inflation is protection of the people who are earning the export income that is so valuable to the community. [More…]

• If the Opposition does not realise and recognise the importance of the fight against inflation, it ought to go and talk to the farming community and learn something about it. [More…]

• In view of the wide and expanding currency of these reports, the seriousness with which they are being treated by the media and the concern they are causing the public, will the Minister have them investigated immediately and make a full statement to this Parliament to reassure the community? [More…]

• Following a decision taken at the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly devoted to disarmament, which was held in 1978, a 40-member Committee on Disarmament replaced the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament as the international community’s principal negotiating body on disarmament. [More…]

• Copies of these reports will be distributed widely in the community in order to enhance public interest in arms control and disarmament. [More…]

• The Committee believes that the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 is the most effective means yet developed to ensure the broad examination of proposals and alternatives and to enable full community involvement. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development on 23 November 1978, said: [More…]

• The previous objective of fostering community language teaching will also be retained. [More…]

• It is always fair game for the community, particularly for those in the community who write Press articles, to categorise politicians as rapacious hunters who are after everybody’s resources. [More…]

• Some of them have been leaders in their professions in the community.. Having been here for anything in excess of six years it is almost impossible for them to recapture a professional or skilled position. [More…]

• This table compares the movements since the middle of 1974 of the salaries and wages of members of the Federal Parliament with those for other sectors of the community. [More…]

• The table shows quite clearly that on any indicator whatsoever- I am concerned only with private members and senators; Ministers and others can take care of themselves- the movements for private members and senators have been the smallest detected for any section of the community. [More…]

• It cannot be said, on any measure whatsoever, that private members of Parliament and senators have been leading the community in terms of grabbing what is inappropriate for others. [More…]

• You are bleeding the rest of the community’. [More…]

• Finally, Federal private members and senators, in having condemnation heaped upon them by the community, are often confused with State upper and lower House members of Parliament. [More…]

• Of all the penny-pinching attitudes that the Government has adopted towards private members and Ministers, the suggestion that if we accept this measure we might set an example to the rest of the community and that people will stop claiming increases in wages is demonstrably false. [More…]

• If anybody ought to be setting an example to the community it is the First Division officers, the Second Division officers and the top ranking Third Division officers. [More…]

• The present Premier of New South Wales and the present Minister for Youth and Community Services, Mr Jackson, have taken up the challenge. [More…]

• If there is a decline in the pre-school population in a particular area, it enables the buildings to be recycled for other community uses. [More…]

• There is less capital cost involved and there is more community involvement. [More…]

• The only failing of that system at present is that it costs considerably more to run these community-based child care facilities and there is a need for more recurrent funding for most of those facilities. [More…]

• They have a better product and can deliver a fresher product which is very acceptable to our community. [More…]

• That is why the arguments of Professor Laffer have become so popular with the community and why so few editorial writers and so few members of the public have said that Parliament will see that the public’s moneys are not wasted. [More…]

• This Government realises its responsibility to make sure that tax burdens are just and are shared fairly amongst the Australian community. [More…]

• A lower deficit means future opportunities for lower taxation of the Australian people and future opportunities to create even greater confidence in the community. [More…]

• I think it would be to the benefit of the whole House and the Australian community generally if we had more time to question in greater detail, if we had preparatory time, if we had the papers earlier as suggested by the honourable member for Bonython. [More…]

• Recently, we had some statements from churchmen, from social workers, from economists and other quite genuinely concerned people in the community expressing the view that the Government can no longer give priority to fighting inflation ‘at the expense of the unemployed’. [More…]

• Yet, it is amazing how many community leaders start to use it when they panic over unemployment. [More…]

• I think that I am here to surface the views held by the community, even if those views are often very wrong. [More…]

• These measures provide conditions which are in line with those of the community generally and thus assist in the rehabilitation of clients. [More…]

• In addition, there are the family support services scheme, the community health program and the welfare housing programs. [More…]

• The Council concluded that policies designed to facilitate the attainment of a level of economic development commensurate with our resource and skill endowments, need to be supported by a general community awareness of the potential that exists within Australia. [More…]

• A national apolitical community involvement program among all people within the Australian community: to increase a sense of national identity, pride and purpose towards our country’s skills, products, achievements and potential. [More…]

• A considerable amount of research and analysis was undertaken over several months prior to the launching of the campaign to ensure that community support would be available for a campaign of this nature. [More…]

• With regard to the contract for production of the Special Broadcasting Service’s pilot ethnic television program, the Executive Director of the Special Broadcasting Service has assured the Minister for Post and Telecommunications that the contract followed a selective tendering procedure and that Australian Community Television, a subsidiary of Enterprise Colorvideo, was the only organisation of proven capability which at that time could guarantee the availability on a weekly basis of the facilities needed for the full 1 3 weeks period. [More…]

• Will the Government do more to make the Australian community aware of the dangers of the arms race and the overwhelming need for world disarmament. [More…]

• Has he considered the publication and distribution of a Disarmament Kit similar to the Human Rights Kit which the Government is publishing for use by educational institutions and community groups. [More…]

• It is planned to give this report a wide distribution in the community. [More…]

• The practice of submission to Parliament of an annual report on the Committee and circulation of the report in the community will be followed in future. [More…]

• It is also undisputed, however, that material success alone does not guarantee community satisfaction and the deficiencies of the previous Government of the Republic of Korea in representing what we would generally regard as basic democratic rights have been the cause of a great deal of dissatisfaction in the Republic of Korea. [More…]

• I think it has focussed the attention of the medical profession, the research community generally and governments around the world on the great need to step up research into this disorder that has taken the lives of a lot of young people throughout the world. [More…]

• The Government believed that it would be in the best interests of the community and of the industry to have the Trade Practices Commission conduct a survey before the Government proceeded to take a decision in this area. [More…]

• -In view of the mounting community concern about the possible health effects of asbestos, will the Minister for Health inform the House whether the National Health and Medical Research Council has made a study of the subject? [More…]

• I do not belong to that section of the community which makes fun of or derides in any way the contribution of public servants. [More…]

• Because we would like to see the Australian Public Service manned by the best people from within the Australian community, it has been decided to launch a program which will make information available to all of the Australian community about the career opportunities within the Australian Public Service. [More…]

• There is no discrimination either for or against any segment of the Australian community. [More…]

• But the essential aim of the program is to make information available to a wider range of the Australian community about the opportunities that exist in the Public Service. [More…]

• The Committee believes that it will also help to satisfy a wide community interest that has been generated by the inquiry. [More…]

• Some two or three months ago they put a specific plea to the Minister as to what was wrong and why they could not be given the opportunity to control the Yarrabah reserve and its community. [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…]

• Where is the opportunity for the Aborigines in this area to start their own programs and develop their own community? [More…]

• But under that Act the community council, which comprises the Aborigines themselves, can request the Minister to give the community autonomy. [More…]

• Under section 7 of the Act the Council can manage and control the affairs of the Aboriginal community residing on the reserve. [More…]

• The community made that request to the Minister, that is, [More…]

• I think that by any fair assessment of the actions of my colleague since the Yarrabah community petitioned the Commonwealth in January this year, he has assiduously looked to the community’s interests and has sought to negotiate a settlement with the Queensland Government. [More…]

• In particular, the Yarrabah Council noted that, in the opinion of the Senate Committee, the effectiveness of that Act depended on the ability of the Commonwealth Government to negotiate land tenure for any community which may petition to come under the Act. [More…]

• Consequently, the Council requested that the Minister- and I emphasise this point- try to negotiate with the Queensland Government on behalf of the Yarrabah Council a form of land tenure for Yarrabah Community Council similar to that legislated for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory with the addition of timber rights. [More…]

• If, said the Council, the Minister was unable to persuade the State Government to grant the Yarrabah community comparable land tenure, then it respectfully requested him to prepare the legislation recommended by the Senate Standing Committee with the intention of purchasing Yarrabah reserve for the people of Yarrabah. [More…]

• The Minister has gone to Yarrabah to meet with the community Council to discuss their requests of him, so that he would be in a better position to negotiate in their interests with the Queensland Government. [More…]

• However, I can inform the House and I can positively inform members of the Yarrabah Council, through this House, that the twin rights which my colleague is seeking to negotiate on their behalf, as requested by them in January, are to obtain self-management of their community and their reserve lands. [More…]

• We, the elected persons constituting the Yarrabah Community Council, wish to notify the public of the following: [More…]

• That statement was made by the chairman and two councillors of the Yarrabah Community Council. [More…]

• -I am quietly confident that the community will get the two things that it has asked for. [More…]

• Of great single importance was the extension of the powers and prerogatives of elected Community Councils, which as corporate bodies are now able to accept greater responsibilities for the conduct of their communities. [More…]

• Let us pick out the good points such as the fact that we have a community there. [More…]

• -The honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Thomson) ignores the fact that no white community in Australia is living under the same housing conditions as the people of Yarrabah, who are living on one of the more delightful parts of the Australian coast. [More…]

• For instance, the Marine Board dredging destroyed the community’s beach. [More…]

• Nothing is being done to continue the road, which was taken by the Mulgrave Shire, to the gate of the community through the township itself. [More…]

• All one can say about this report- they are matters I want to come back to- is that it represents a litany of the most alarming disclosures and the gravest defects in the administration and the operation of the Narcotics Bureau, contrary to the fiction which had been propagated in the community with great enthusiasm by officials of the Narcotics Bureau, not the least of whom is Mr Harvey Bates, and contributed to by the behaviour of the Minister. [More…]

• In spite of that fiction, the Narcotics Bureau was incompetent and failed dismally in every important respect to protect the interests of this community. [More…]

• No issue causes more alarm in this community than the issue of narcotics of narcotic addiction, of narcotic peddling and of organised drug crime. [More…]

• The payments were what one might call a fringe benefit that the agent had developed for himself at the expense of taxpayers in the community. [More…]

• No reasonable person in the community would be prepared to display the minutest amount of sympathy or concern for the offenders. [More…]

• I am not convinced by any means at all, at this stage anyway, that we can establish that sort of iron-clad protection for the rest of the community against wrongful telephone tapping which is ostensibly justified on the basis of antinarcotics legislation. [More…]

• The principle on which it was established in 1933 and on which it still operates 46 years later is that ali Australians, no matter which State they live in, deserve the right to receive equivalent government services, thereby providing the environment for a relatively equal standard of living throughout the community. [More…]

• I refer to the matter of public importance debated this afternoon about the Government’s failure to protect the rights of the Aboriginal community at the Yarrabah reserve in Queensland. [More…]

• We have only to look at the situation at Tweed Heads on the border of New South Wales and Queensland to see that half of the Australian citizens in that community can use one-armed bandits while the other half cannot conduct a street march in support of onearmed bandits even if they wanted to do so. [More…]

• I believe that the Australian Assistance Plan introduced by the previous Labor Government was the most far-reaching reform introduced by any government in the field of federal relations and would have gone a long way towards reaching a fuller appreciation of local community needs. [More…]

• If we are to have an industrialised community which will use enormous quantities of water in industry as well as a bigger population in this country, I believe that that is where the increased population will have to go. [More…]

• We did a lot of decentralisation with the Australian Assistance Plan, our community health schemes, our school dental schemes, our urban and regional development schemes and many other schemes. [More…]

• The Italian community is still waiting, and the Government has lost all credibility with this significant group. [More…]

• The Lebanese community has also made representations to the Government to sign lower air fare agreements. [More…]

• Some have been as a result of political decisions taken outside of Australia, such as the formation of the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Opposition does not oppose these Bills- because the situation in the deciduous canned fruit industry has become more critical, not because of any seasonal marketing conditions or lack of efficiency, but simply because of adverse marketing controls including the European Economic Community trade regulations and some adverse buying procedures within Australia. [More…]

• The citrus canned fruit industry has been experiencing difficulties for a number of years through increased costs, depressed international market conditions and the loss of sales in the traditional markets of the United Kingdom and Europe brought about by the effects of the European Economic Community’s agricultural policy. [More…]

• The first and most important reason was Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community. [More…]

• If the Bureau were anywhere near as successful and as faithful in its service to the community as the Minister would have had us believe, then let him explain why the Government quite peremptorily this afternoon moved in behind the findings of the royal commissioner and endorsed them by terminating the existence of the Bureau. [More…]

• Commonwealth medical benefits have not been eliminated for medical services provided to young persons or anybody else in the community. [More…]

• The Health Commission of New South Wales has conducted an enquiry into the health of the Aboriginal community at Baryulgil and the release of the report of the enquiry is imminent. [More…]

• Who was the recipient and what was the sum of each grant made under the Community Youth Support Scheme in the Electoral Division of Shortland in each year since the Scheme ‘s inception. [More…]

• It is envisaged that it would be made available immediately to the Energy Working Group of the Australian Transport Advisory Council and therefore will be available to a wide section of the transport planning community. [More…]

• 1 ) The authorised landing area at Indulkana is owned by the Indulkana Community Incorporated and is not eligible for financial assistance from my Department. [More…]

• My Department has advised the Indulkana Community of the equipment needed to maintain ae landing area in a serviceable condition. [More…]

• Despite the United Kingdom’s joining the European Economic Community, is the Treasurer aware that the United Kingdom has now decided to abandon exchange control and other matters which will affect trade between Australia and the United Kingdom? [More…]

• In regard to the chop war, which I gather is a reference to the apparent breach of the covenants of the European Economic Community by France in relation to exports of United Kingdom lamb, and which relates in some way to the unwillingness of the French Government to acknowledge the arrangements the Community has made regarding New Zealand lamb, ministerially I had better stay out of that war. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise what conclusions were reached to investigate European Economic Community sugar export practices? [More…]

• The European Economic Community has a system of greatly subsidising the exports of a number of products which affects the markets of many countries. [More…]

• The Australian Government decided to set in motion a challenge to the Community’s practices in the selling of sugar and its subsidising of such sales, commencing with the request for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva to set up a sugar panel. [More…]

• His responsibility sinks down to the lowest grades within his Department for any shortcomings or defects of a nature which concern the community as extensively and greatly as do the shortcomings of the Bureau. [More…]

• The visit ended with discussions with the Chairman of the EC Commission, Mr Roy Jenkins, at which constructive proposals were made to develop co-operation between Australia and the Community. [More…]

• France’s position relating to energy and discussions which were held with the European Atomic Energy Community indicated the difficulties which confront a country or an area which is totally devoid of natural energy resources. [More…]

• I would also like to record my thanks to the officials in France, in Luxembourg and in the European Economic Community in Brussels, to the Australian Ambassador Mr Rowland, to Sir James Plimsoll and to the Foreign Affairs officers in Europe. [More…]

• I would like also to say how important it is for Australia to develop and maintain very close relationships with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• One of the things which was very important was the fact that Roy Jenkins, on behalf of the EEC, stated his intention to see that the European Economic Community opened a mission in Australia. [More…]

• That will go a long way towards improving relationships between the European Economic Community and this country. [More…]

• This view, I believe, ignores a very considerable body of opinion within the international community that patents have been used in the past to control imports and exports and to control the production of subsidiaries. [More…]

• Also, the risk that particular IR and O activities will not yield an economic return may be high from the viewpoint of individual businesses and investors whereas the risk to the community at large that resources devoted to IR and D will not yield an overall economic return may be substantially lower. [More…]

• We cannot put qualifications on the Bill’s going through as we do not have the numbers to do so, but we can use the time of the Parliament in debating this treaty to draw attention to the way in which the administration of patents and the legislation relating to patents can so properly stimulate research and development activities in our community and thus so properly be of enormous assistance to job creation. [More…]

• The Minister for Productivity called for, and received, submissions from a wide cross-section of Australian organisations and the Australian community at large. [More…]

• Then came the Common Market in Europe and with it a recognition that nationally based industrial property laws were probably incompatible with the economic aims of the European Economic Community as expressed in the Treaty of Rome. [More…]

• One of the cornerstones of Community policy is the free movement of goods. [More…]

• In summing up, I point out that the Opposition has moved the amendment to draw to the attention of the Government and the community the utter inadequacy of the food and accommodation subsidies available under the program in 1979. [More…]

• This community can and must afford to increase them. [More…]

• Vandalism, which is fairly prominent in the community, in many cases is associated. [More…]

• I think we all basically agree, even from a financial point of view, that the cost to the community may well be less in the long run if we can help the most vunerable people in the community and prevent them becoming involved in a life of crime, drug addiction or whatever. [More…]

• In previous speeches in this Parliament I have referred to the findings of the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and to departmental surveys which have highlighted the tragic dimensions of this problem at both the individual and the community level. [More…]

• Qualitatively the social and health problems of many of these people place them in a position of hardship which is far more severe than that of many other categories of disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]

• A number of other surveys have shown that the percentage of epilepsy and venereal disease among them was 10 times as high as that for the community at large and the incidence of tuberculosis was four times as high. [More…]

• It certainly precludes the possibility of offering general tax cuts which, in the long term, would be of great benefit to the whole community and more particularly to the unemployed. [More…]

• Whatever the reason, I strongly suggest to the Minister for Social Security, who has constantly advocated a needs approach to welfare, that she give a top priority to re-examining the present funding levels under this Act which services a very needy section of the community. [More…]

• The Government has been carried away by budgetary constraints and so on, by this philosophy that it incessantly imbues and indoctrinates into the Australian community. [More…]

• It exhibits the indifference which this Government has displayed for far too long about a growing cancer in our community. [More…]

• I remind the people of Australia that notwithstanding the need to spend much more money in this area there are parallel schemes in existence: $3m has been made available on a dollartodollar basis with the States for the provision of youth support schemes; various family support service schemes, the community health programs and the welfare housing programs are operating. [More…]

• No group in the community has been more subject to charity, had its spirits aroused so often by the singing of hymns at breakfast timevery often in return for breakfast- or been so embedded within perhaps the more extreme and even right-wing sections of religion than this particular group, namely, homeless people. [More…]

• As homeless people are people who are able to pay only the lowest price for rent, invariably they tend to be provided by the community under a free market system with the very poorest of accommodation. [More…]

• It has suited the community to have a group of people who form, in Marxist terms, a kind of reserve army of labour. [More…]

• I know of a number of cases of people who, for want of urgent treatment in casualty sections of hospitals, have died, simply because others have made a judgment that they represent a class of people which has to be given second rate treatment, and which is not to be treated in the same way as ordinary people in the community. [More…]

• It is an independent body capable of fixing or judging salaries and certainly well able to fix or judge salaries on the same basis as applies to other government employees and the community in general. [More…]

• At this stage I think it is fair to say that they are goods which are used substantially by other sections of the community for dietary and other reasons, but this does not alter the medical requirement of persons who have a diabetic problem. [More…]

• It would appear that, because other people use similar products for other purposes, the diabetic section of the community will be unfairly disadvantaged if those products are not included. [More…]

• Following an increase over recent years in invalidity retirement rates, the Public Service Board conducted a study in 1978 which indicated that the increase is related to a number of factors, including the changing age structure of the Service, the number of ex-servicemen approaching retirement, changing community attitudes towards health and arrangements for age and invalidity retirement As part of a program to manage the incidence of invalidity retirements from the Service, the Board, in conjunction with the Department of Health, the Department of Finance and the Australian Government Retirement Benefits Office, has now completed an examination of procedures for reviewing an officer’s fitness for duty. [More…]

• -I thank the honourable member for his question because I am aware, as he is, that there is a great deal of concern within the Australian community about the situation of people in East Timor. [More…]

• The Australian Red Cross announced a contribution to the appeal and has launched an appeal throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope there will be a very ready response and I anticipate a very good response from the Australian community to that appeal. [More…]

• I am concerned that any visits to Australia should not result in violence within the Australian community. [More…]

• I will be making arrangements for officers of my Department to be in contact with the leaders of Indo-Chinese communities in Australia to ensure that they understand that the invitation was extended by the Building Workers Industrial Union, and not by the Australian Government, and that it would be in the best interests of the refugees themselves and the Australian community in general if no action were undertaken which could lead in any way to any violent demonstrations. [More…]

• If the Government is facing a no-growth situation with crude oil levy revenue in 1980-81, is it the Government’s intention to keep its promise to increase the share of import parity priced oil for domestic producers on 1 July 1980 in order to prop up oil producers’ profits handsomely at the expense of the Australian community? [More…]

• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Economic Community and the Council of Europe have all recently been involved in extensive examinations of the role of transnational and multinational companies and the effect that they have in the European economy. [More…]

• That is the reason that the United States, the European Economic Community, and the United Nations have found it necessary not merely to inquire but to establish permanent monitoring procedures in order to protect local economies and to see that the operation of transnational companies comply with national autonomy and local economic objectives. [More…]

• The point that I want to make is that when I sought information on this matter from the Parliamentary Library, which made use of all its resources and facilities to obtain the information for me, I found that there had been a quite effective monitoring of what was occurring in our own community. [More…]

• It is a matter of concern to me that all that monitoring and all the publications which were directed towards making information available to this Parliament and the Australian community as to the extent of the increasing economic control of Australia by overseas companies were virtually terminated in the period of 1976-77. [More…]

• Past trends and statements by those still involved with political dissent indicate that protest will go on, although there could be a lull while a new community of dissent evolves. [More…]

• In one instance currently a certain minority group in our community is restricted in respect of the right to vote in elections and this Parliament could correct that anomaly if it wished. [More…]

• Within this framework the participating states will recognise and respect the freedom of the individual to profess and practise, alone or in community with others, religion or belief acting in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience. [More…]

• The repeated changes have destroyed the community rating principle in health and the net result will be that the elderly, large families and chronically ill will be unable to afford adequate health cover. [More…]

• I do not think that one has to be a Sherlock Holmes or a Jim Twaddell, the investigating officer from the North Sydney branch of the Liberal Party- the Sherlock Holmes of North Sydney- to predict this loss of community ratings. [More…]

• In part of the Press statement Mr Hunt said that he was opposed to this latest development which, in the longer term, has the capacity to destroy the community rating principle. [More…]

• A deductibles scheme would provide us with the opportunity to move away from community rating for the first time. [More…]

• If we are ever to get some incentive into the health insurance system it is essential that community rating be done away with and that experience rating or individual rating be adopted. [More…]

• I made statements in the debate on the matter which, whilst not approving of the abolition of community rating, also forecast its abolition. [More…]

• These organisations, plus the variety of budget and cutrate tables offered by various established funds and the tempting choice not to insure, will effectively destroy community rating which is based on sound actuarial principle rather than a particular ideological prejudice. [More…]

• The important thing is this: If we opt out of community rating for health insurance, people who are healthy and probably relatively young- the two coincide to a large extent- will contribute to health insurance only if they are forced to do so. [More…]

• At present a person might be very well disposed to the general principle of community rating and the young and healthy contributing towards the cost of health insurance. [More…]

• They want to see people opt out and destroy the community rating system which they say is so important. [More…]

• I daresay that one of the reasons the Opposition is doing this is that if it succeeds in drawing sufficient people out of the health insurance system considerable damage will be done to the community rating principle and to the health insurance system. [More…]

• I want to return to the issue, and that is the question of community rating. [More…]

• I want to make it clear that the Government would view with concern any trend towards the destruction of the community rating principle in the health insurance system. [More…]

• It is essential to secure the widest possible community involvement in any insurance arrangement in order to obtain the lowest possible rating for premium purposes. [More…]

• At present, there is no evidence to suggest that the recent developments of some friendly societies have had or will have an impact on the community rating principle. [More…]

• The Government could not tolerate developments that would be detrimental to the sick and the chronically ill in the community. [More…]

• ensure the possibility of entering into contractural relationships with other community-based organisations engaged in activities in accord with the objectives of the Institute; [More…]

• enable the Institute of Multicultural Affairs to conduct research into and foster community sensitivity for racial groups not the subject of study by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies while including the latter in the ambit of multicultural affairs, and [More…]

• In other words, whilst its main activities were to sponsor research, disseminate information and educate the community, the Institute was not envisaged by us as an academic institution in an ivory tower far removed from everyday problems studying the arts and crafts of our various communities as a sort of public relations exercise. [More…]

• We envisaged it rather as a communitybased resource centre sensitive to community needs and aspirations. [More…]

• The shift is from community based services to a nebulous government directed and government-tied set of functions. [More…]

• It did begin as a seemingly academic institution but its democratic structure has encouraged Aboriginal participation and involvement in crucial community needs. [More…]

• For example, it funds publications such as the Palm Island reserve news sheet in north Queensland which the Queensland Government has repeatedly attempted to suppress because it voices community grievances. [More…]

• So too the Institute of Multicultural Affairs ought to be investigating the community welfare needs of immigrants. [More…]

• Clause 5 of the Bill provides that the objects of the Institute are ‘to develop among the members of the Australian community an awareness of the diverse cultures within that community’- and that is a good thing- and ‘an appreciation of the contributions of those cultures to the enrichment of the community’. [More…]

• It should read ‘an appreciation of the contributions of all cultures to the enrichment of that community’. [More…]

• But there is nothing about ensuring that the Australian community recognises those groups of people, appreciates their qualities and helps them to maintain their identity. [More…]

• Another function is to make information available to members of the Australian community and to particular bodies, organisations or groups within the community. [More…]

• Another function is the establishment of a repository of literature and other material relating to the diverse cultures of members of the Australian community. [More…]

• But by virtue of that and the way they have developed over time we ought to recognise the fact that in our community we are still different, as the honourable member for Swan and I look different. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the Government’s oft stated concern for the involvement of community-based organisations, we find that this legislation is strangely silent. [More…]

• Nowhere can one find any direct involvement by communitybased organisations. [More…]

• Ensure the possibility of entering into contractual relationships with other community-based organisations engaged in activities in accord with the objectives of the Institute; [More…]

• Although the Torres Strait islanders are recognised by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies and research has been commissioned on their behalf, in the mind of the community- including the Minister- that Institute is identified primarily with Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• To this end we propose part (e) of the Opposition amendment which states that we should redraft the legislation to: enable the Institute of Multicultural Affairs to conduct research into and foster community sensitivity for racial groups not the subject of study by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies - [More…]

• to develop among the members of the Australian community- [More…]

• an awareness of the diverse cultures within that community that have arisen as a result of the migration of people to Australia; and [More…]

• an appreciation of the contributions of those cultures to the enrichment of that community; [More…]

• to promote a cohesive Australian society by assisting members of the Australian community to share with one another their diverse cultures within the legal and political structures of that society; and [More…]

• I believe that those objectives are laudable and should be supported by the Australian community. [More…]

• The balance that the spokesman for the Opposition seems to be seeking to achieve is one that places an emphasis on the independence of the cultural identities and traditions, whereas the Bill sets out to make the point, in a rather deliberate fashion, that the independent cultural traditions of various ethnic groups have great value, that they are important, and that they must be promoted, and there is an emphasis on ensuring that those conditions contribute to the total Australian community. [More…]

• I have discussed the issue of multiculturalism with people in my electorate and with various groups and, as I understand it, the one fear that does seem to be expressed by a number of people is that the concept of multiculturalism implies some sort of separate development of various groups, that we would have separate groups in our society each adhering to a different language and respecting different cultural traditions without really coming to grips with each other, and promoting tolerance and understanding between the various ethnic groups in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is not a fear that I share, but I think that we have to make clear in any legislation which we put down seeking to establish an institute of multicultural affairs that one of the principal objectives is to promote that tolerance, that understanding and that respect between various groups and ensure that all groups, from the standpoint of their own cultural traditions, are making a contribution to a unified Australian community- a diverse community; one which profits from diversity; one which has more colour and life because of that cultural diversity; but one which, nonetheless, is more cohesive and unified as a complete Australian community. [More…]

• It further states that the Institute ought to be enabled to conduct research into and foster community sensitivity for racial groups not the subject of study by the Institute of Aboriginal Studies while including the latter in the ambit of multicultural affairs. [More…]

• The Opposition’s amendment also suggests that the Bill should ensure the possibility of entering into contractual relationships with other community-based organisations engaged in activities in accord with the objectives of the Institute. [More…]

• We find that we are searching for words like polyethnicity, and so on, to describe developments in the Australian community. [More…]

• They have all made a contribution to the development of the Australian community. [More…]

• In my view they have added to the degree of tolerance within the Australian community. [More…]

• We need to get across to people the impression that we want them, in their communities, to make the best contribution they can to the wider Australian community, by bringing in all of those elements which are desirable, by educating natural born Australians and people who come from other countries in their cultural tradtion, but also we want them to leave behind the enmities from which they have tried to escape in many cases. [More…]

• I think that is useful not only in itself, but also as a declaration by this Parliament that we do not want people who are now part of the Australian community contributing to the maintenance of divisions within their home countries. [More…]

• I am sure that it will make a contribution to the development of a richer, more diverse but more coherent Australian community. [More…]

• In fact, I have had representations of a cynical nature contending that the Government is using this process to curry favor with the migrant community. [More…]

• It is fair to contend also that there is an antipathy to the proliferation of boards and things governmental in the community. [More…]

• If the proposed Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs is to go to the rarefied atmosphere of Canberra, then important components of its activities should, in my view, go to Wollongong or some other substantial multi-cultural community where the Institute could be encouraged to keep its academic and intellectual feet on the ground. [More…]

• The second concern I have is that the honourable member’s proposal carries the inherent risk of raising community expectation. [More…]

• I would prefer a tax system that, because of its justice and equity, did not require indexation to maintain its partial acceptability in the community. [More…]

• It is not unrealistic to believe that at least a further $1 billion in tax would be raised from what the community at large regarded as a ‘fair’ system of taxation. [More…]

• Although opponents of flat rate tax will always quote individual examples of what the tax benefit would be, they totally overlook the immense benefits that flow from such a system to the whole community. [More…]

• The benefit to the community would be more than outweighed by any short term cost to the deficit. [More…]

• There is nothing wrong with the tax system if basic honesty existed within the community. [More…]

• Doctors, even by conforming with reasonable standards of behaviour, could still be the highest earning people in this community. [More…]

• Obviously the Opposition strongly opposes any form of tax avoidance system, not only because of the loss of revenue to the Government that such schemes entail, but also because it is intolerable that others, honest taxpayers in the community, should go on year after year paying taxes whilst unscrupulous people openly avoid paying tax. [More…]

• To sum up, as I said when I started this little speech, the basic ingredient required in the community is honesty. [More…]

• Almost the whole of the building industry is riddled with it, and it is to be found in many other sections of the community. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that every person in this community is doing his best to reduce and to minimise the amount of taxation that he has to pay- the workers whom the Labor Party is representing as well as everybody else. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that a great loss in revenue is coming from the activities of the average people in this community who do a bit of gardening here and a bit of plastering or the laying of a few bricks there and who get paid in cash by the people by whom they are employed. [More…]

• 1 ) Which of the exchanges referred to in Appendix 2(2) of the publication Community Access 80, published by the Australian Telecommunications Commission, service villages or townships within their exchange districts with a population in excess of (a) 50, (b) 100 and (c) 250 persons. [More…]

• Telecom advises that population statistics are not maintained for all of the exchange areas listed in Appendix 2 of the booklet Community Access 80. [More…]

• the facilities, services and opportunities available to the community to spend leisure hours for the betterment of both the individual and the entire community, and [More…]

• I make no apology for the fact that this Government has set about giving relief to all sections of the taxpaying community. [More…]

• As far as some of the less fortunate people in the community are concerned- such as pensioners- I am happy to inform the House that before Christmas the full age pension for a single person will increase by $4.70 a week, and for a married couple it will go up by $7.80 a week. [More…]

• I hope that school leavers will find opportunities to get jobs as a result of the improved economic circumstances, particularly in the rural and industrial sectors of this community. [More…]

• One can well understand the concern that is being felt particularly in the United States, but it is a concern that is shared in this Parliament- I am sure on both sides- and throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• At present the Australian community in Iran is a small one comprising 31 Australians who are registered with the Australian Embassy, all of whom are resident in Tehran. [More…]

• Investigation and implementation of other cooperative library ventures such as joint schoolcollegecommunity libraries continues and recent developments indicate that the concept of the library as an information and referral centre for the community is gaining momentum. [More…]

• One initiative in this area is the scheme of the Library Board of Western Australia of appointing librarians as community information officers to be attached to local government authorities to establish community information centres within the public library system. [More…]

• Once again we see, as we frequently do, that conservative governments, which are resistant to creative responses to the problems of the community, resort to the great graveyard of great creative ideas, an interdepartmental committee to review what has already been gone over once by another interdepartmental committee. [More…]

• It proposed a program of action for a concerned government committed to shoring up what is certainly one of the most important resources available for any advanced, civilised, creative society, its library resources, the repository and the transmission mechanism available to an advanced and progressing community for the development of creative ideas, for the improvement of intellectual capital to be applied within a community not just in the narrow technical sense but in the creative area where people can reflect or are challenged in their basic assumptions about a society, about their relationships with people, about the philosophy of their society and how it should be serving a community, about the relationship within the world and, equally importantly, creative recreational reading which has a valuable contribution to make in any advanced society. [More…]

• One could quote extensively many more telling criticisms from the Horton Report of deficiencies in the library services of this community. [More…]

• The Horton Report made a number of other telling points about the deficiencies in terms of socio-economic disadvantages in the community in the provision of library services, in terms of disadvantage of the ethnic groups, of handicapped people, of people suffering disabilities and, more especially, the disadvantages of people living in rural areas. [More…]

• But the point is that the National Library is only a microcosm of the range of responsibilities and the extent of services available- and, more importantly and more extensively- that should be available in the community. [More…]

• I think as a matter of courtesy- and given the fact that this is not such a controversial matter in the sense of a government standing or falling or, more extremely, the security of a country being at stake, or some paramountly confidential Cabinet matter was involved in the IDC finding- that that IDC report should be available to members of this Parliament and to members of the Australian community. [More…]

• It gives the garrotte for imaginative, creative responses to the great needs of the community. [More…]

• It has available to it the largest amounts of revenue collections within the community. [More…]

• But when it comes to people, when it comes to families, when it comes to things that people really need in this community, the Government is remarkably remiss. [More…]

• If the Government were considering a subsidy for the large corporate sector, there would be no problem but where it is considering assistance for the ordinary people of this community, it is coldly indifferent. [More…]

• That is a serious socio-economic disadvantage for the community. [More…]

• It is not to be used to conceal items of government expenditure that are opposed by the great majority of the community, items that can cause great controversy in the public mind. [More…]

• While the Gazette notice described the variation as a minor modification of a previously gazetted alignment between the Old Canberra Brickworks and the Royal Canberra Golf Club it generated considerable community interest. [More…]

• We have, over the years, built up an admirable reputation as a nation of compassion and concern for those people elsewhere in the international community who need our support. [More…]

• It is on this basis that those who judge should avoid expressing opinions on topics which are likely to be the subject of disputes in courts and should not ally themselves with any group or sector in the community which could jeopardise their impartiality or appearance of impartiality. [More…]

• The independence of the judiciary and the respect which is accorded to it in the community is not intended for the benefit of the judiciary but for the benefit of the public. [More…]

• Any loss of independence on the part of the judiciary will lead to a corresponding loss of respect in the community and the ultimate failure of our legal system. [More…]

• What we really have to talk about and to think about is justice in the courts for people in our community. [More…]

• Parliamentarians are considered to be people of some substance and some standing in the community. [More…]

• Judges need to understand and they need to be up to date with the changing attitudes in the community. [More…]

• I believe more and more that judges have to understand the changing attitudes of the community. [More…]

• They can do that by moving out into the community more and they should be encouraged to do that. [More…]

• The remarkable fact about Mr Justice William O. Douglas was that he travelled widely throughout the community both within America and abroad. [More…]

• It seems to me that the overwhelming majority of persons who are appointed to State supreme courts and particularly to the High Court come from a select group and do not really represent a wide cross section of the Australian community. [More…]

• Apart from particular matters such as criminal cases, courts material, civil cases and matters referred by a legislature to a judicial body, the rule has application to other hearings, inquiries or investigations in which the rights of individuals or a community group or the achievement of justice may be prejudiced. [More…]

• It encompasses the Government’s attitude to the Greek community in Sydney. [More…]

• But I am suggesting to you that the Greek conspiracy case refers, in the Opposition’s view, to the relationship between the Government and the Greek community. [More…]

• What is more serious is that many major issues are ignored and this failure has damaging effects on the quality of information and informed debate in the community at large. [More…]

• In regard to the Victorian friendly societies grouped together under the name the United Health Fund of Victoria, several packages being offered outside the control of the National Health Act are oriented towards low risk members of the community- young people and those who do not have a history of illness. [More…]

• Great relief has been provided to people in many remote parts of Australia by community Access 80. [More…]

• That announcement, before the introduction of the relevant legislation, facilitated the consideration of the broad proposals by the professions and by the community. [More…]

• These proposals are further evidence, if that were needed, of the Government’s determination to ensure as far as possible that people in the community share the income tax burden equitably. [More…]

• The reason for depressed export prices is a world over supply and the policies of the European Economic Community which has an even better developed rural lobby than Australia can muster and hence produces rather uneconomically. [More…]

• The present ISA has not been ratified by the European Economic Community, which now takes the view that it may ratify it if the United States does. [More…]

• Perhaps the governments of Western Australia or Tasmania would care to subsidise those industries, as the European Economic Community subsidises its sugar industry. [More…]

• The formula provides nothing more than a sweet cop to Australian cane cockies at the expense of Australia’s consumers and the Australian community. [More…]

• It was that committee of inquiry into education which evolved the needs policy- a policy which I like to think ended much of the divisiveness caused by the State aid argument that had been bedevilling the community for many years. [More…]

• But a very important set of those recommendations dealt with youth unemployment and the place of schools and of technical and further education in helping the community and the young unemployed deal with this problem. [More…]

• Schools must move from their tendency to remain outside and work in partnership to become a legitimate part of the community’s network and resources. [More…]

• The Committee supports the proposals in the TEND Committee report that, in pre-service education, all teachers should be introduced to the ideas and techniques involved in school-community relations, and the ACTU proposals that, to learn about, or update their knowledge of, the world of work outside the teaching profession there should be a continuing series of seminars on the world of work, and the provision of opportunities for the short-period release or secondment of teachers to other fields of work. [More…]

• The term evaluation is being used to include all those means through which members of a school community can participate in a co-operative examination of what the school is doing, set particular targets for improvement, plan action to advance towards them and evaluate that action in terms of the objectives they have set for it, changing course in the light of experience. [More…]

• A youth scheme which offers the choice of education, employment, part time work, subsidised training or voluntary community activities for all youth aged between school-leaving age and 1 8 years is an essential development for the future. [More…]

• We must maintain the community based Schools Commission and the policy of assistance according to need. [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…]

• I make the following points, which deserve to be made: I request that when the Commonwealth Government makes its funds available for non-government schools and those schools send their accounts out to parents- whether it is Blackheath College or Cunumulla Convent or whatever it happens to be- there be an obligation on those schools to make clear what is the Commonwealth’s contribution per child and what is the State’s contribution per child so that at least the community will begin to understand. [More…]

• I recognise that other people in the community are always of the view that parliamentarians are looking after themselves. [More…]

• It is this kind of selling organisation, coupled with a mature wheat-growing community, that projects dependability of supply and quantity. [More…]

• Even if this proves true, the farm community will be protected by legislation. [More…]

• It does not believe the community would accept the Australian Council of Trade Unions setting awards for rural workers but if the AWB is to set the domestic price of wheat for stockfeed and industrial use, the methods need to be seen to be fair and to have the force of law. [More…]

• Stock feed wheats form a valuable part of the wheat trade in this country and help the farming community in the way of returns. [More…]

• This represents a great loss to the farming community. [More…]

• The allegation is that the attention was denied because the child was suffering from Down’s syndrome and that she was told during the course of an interview with the medical director of the Princess Margaret Hospital that it was best that the boy had been given no treatment, and that he was a problem and a charge on the community. [More…]

• 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…]

• It was decided by both the New South Wales Minister for Planning and Environment, Mr Landa, and me that there ought to be appropriate consultations by the Major Airport Needs of Sydney Committee with as wide a range of community interest groups as possible in respect of the development of proposals for the future airport needs of Sydney. [More…]

• by leave- The report which has been tabled by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) sets down a pattern of responses to the potentials for, and actual threats to, the security of the community. [More…]

• It is clear that Mr Justice Hope, as he has done on previous occasions on matters of great public responsibility, where he has had a brief to carry out a review of such matters, has again in this report performed his task diligently, intelligently and with considerable beneficial effect for those people in the community, in government and other institutions serving government in the community who have to take decisions in these matters and have to respond to actual problems which may arise affecting security or prepare for the potential that may rest within the community from whatever cause for that sort of threat. [More…]

• I do not believe that we could ever be fierce enough in the defence of our freedoms and of the standards which we require to ensure that the systems of authority within our community are answerable; even at times of crisis, they can be made accountable. [More…]

• A police force is a civilian organisation designed to service the civilian community, certainly as an authoritarian institution but with clear limitations on the authority available to it and, more importantly, the manner of authority that it displays in deporting itself in discharging its ability. [More…]

• I was enormously unnerved to read of a police union official in Queensland stating a little while ago that in fact he saw the police force as a paramilitary unit serving the community. [More…]

• If paramilitary services are required- heaven help us that our system should collapse to the point where we need to establish paramilitary services in this community- they should be completely separate and there should be clear restraints established as to the circumstances in which they function. [More…]

• If we need within the community units that have to be trained to a high pitch of combat readiness, that is a function of the military services and not of the police services. [More…]

• But so are the skills in our community because of the greater amount of education we have compared with many of our competitors. [More…]

• Throughout Australia, both among the community and in industry, there is widespread concern at the price, quality and availability of essential transport services. [More…]

• It will require also the restructuring of the urban form with much greater attention being given to the decentralisation or regionalisation of urban facilities, including employment, and the full range of community facilities. [More…]

• Where it has been possible, the Government has taken steps to ensure that goods and people are moved in the most effective way, providing that this is also the way that most benefits the economy and the community. [More…]

• This Government has made it quite clear that it believes that, as a longer term objective, the community will best be served by a manufacturing sector with a structure requiring minimum levels of government support. [More…]

• However, we have stressed that in the taking of specific decisions on protection policy careful attention must be given to the community’s capacity to absorb change and to accommodate the economic and social consequences of change. [More…]

• The Government welcomes this progress but believes that further gains can be made over time with a view to achieving improved overall utilisation of productive resources and consequential benefits to community living standards. [More…]

• Some $55m worth of Government revenue that was to have come from those who are better off in this community, from the haves of this world, is no longer to be collected because the Treasurer does not have the numbers in Cabinet and in the party room. [More…]

• I think that it indicates the degree of concensus that is developing not only in this Parliament but also outside in the community. [More…]

• Whatever its defects, it has consistently and courageously defended the long-run interests of the system, and the welfare of the Australian community, against sectional interests and propagandists. [More…]

• The community has become bored with the whole thing. [More…]

• Suggestions made here will allow the Government to project broad goals to the business community, while avoiding the disadvantages of piecemeal intervention. [More…]

• The total program is designed for the younger members of our community who are buying their first home. [More…]

• Therefore, what the Opposition is holding out to the community has to be considered in context. [More…]

• The home seeking community did not necessarily derive any benefit. [More…]

• Of course, it takes some years for a comprehension about these things to develop across the board in the community. [More…]

• Probably the most deserving people in this community, those who came from war-torn countries, were unable to get a home savings grant because they could not meet the three-year residential requirement. [More…]

• I think the Government still has a long way to go to cull this program so that the most needy people in the community benefit. [More…]

• These things are significant because they show that over four years of conservative governments there has been very little attention to and much less concern about the housing needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• It will be measured in terms of social costs imposed on the rest of the community, with things such as cramped accommodation, where two and three generations are forced to share accommodation which was designed, in a very cramped way, for one family alone. [More…]

• Accordingly, it is an easier task to save $6,000 over three years for someone earning a high income than for someone on a modest or low income, someone who is socially and economically disadvantaged in the community. [More…]

• I would like it to be included in the record that since 1966 the Public Accounts Committee has examined the activities of the National Capital Development Commission; the Norfolk Island Administration; the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission; the Commonwealth Fire Board; the Australian Egg Board; the War Service Homes Insurance Trust Accounts; the Australian Broadcasting Commission; the Commonwealth Advertising Bureau, as it was at one stage; the Australian Dairy Produce Board; the Canberra Community Hospital; the National Library of Australia; the Australian Broadcasting Control Board; the Australian Wool Board; the Australian Tourist Commission; even that holy of holies, the Public Service Board; the office of the Australian Development Assistance Agency; the Commonwealth Railways; the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal; the Australian Wheat Board; the Darwin Community College- may I say, as one who was in Darwin, that it was a real botch; and the Superannuation Fund. [More…]

• If we do not allow ourselves in any degree to weaken this umbilical cord between the community which we represent and the right of parliament always to be assured that the activities of government are in the interests of the nation and that the funds gathered from the people by way of taxes are spent in the best interests of the nation, then we will assuredly be able to say to those who have elected us to this august body: ‘ We have served you well ‘. [More…]

• It is, in fact, one of the very basic tenets of our responsibilities and the responsibilities with which we are charged when we come to this place representing a community, a constituency or an electorate. [More…]

• After all, since World War II the characteristic of all nationsboth democratic and undemocratic nations- has been that public expenditures have come to operate an increasing proportion of the expenditures, the revenues and the flows of finance within any community. [More…]

• So far as committees of expenditure are concerned it means that they are very important, not only for the Parliament, but also for the confidence which the community needs to have in the parliamentary process. [More…]

• I cannot think of a worse example of the edifice complex that distinguishes many people in our community. [More…]

• The honourable gentleman has taken a very close and personal interest in the concerns of the small business community in Australia. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the small business community, representing some 370,000 enterprises in manufacturing industries, wholesaling and retail trades, plays a key role in our free enterprise system. [More…]

• Consumers, of course, benefit from the diversity of goods and services which are provided by the small business community, which tends to specialise in the supply of goods and services which larger firms sometimes find it uneconomic to produce. [More…]

• In so doing small businesses therefore play a very important role by competing with larger firms and reducing the concentration of economic power in the Australian community. [More…]

• In recent years the Government has taken a significant number of new initiatives to assist the small business community. [More…]

• I agree with the judgment made by the honourable gentleman that this is a very significant part of the Australian community which is receiving, by virtue of the initiatives I have mentioned, proper and increasing recognition by the Government. [More…]

• -The honourable member rightly draws attention to the fact that from time to time calls are made by a wide spectrum of individuals and groups in the community for the introduction of a flat rate of personal income tax. [More…]

• That, of course, would represent an increase in taxation for about 85 per cent or 90 per cent of the community. [More…]

• Those who at the moment are stridently saying that we ought to have a flat rate of tax ought to remember that fact and ponder whether it would be fair to increase tax for 85 per cent of the community in order to reduce it for the other 1 5 per cent. [More…]

• It surrenders to the bureaucracy its authority and its role to the community. [More…]

• These are: The Narcotics Bureau, which has been demolished, the Commonwealth Police scandal which is not a Greek conspiracy but rather a conspiracy of Compol against the Greek community which has resulted in the Commonwealth Police being discredited, and the damage done to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation last week with the tabling of Mr Justice Hope’s report on security arrangements in the country. [More…]

• We have a Commonwealth Police force which no longer has credibility or respect in the community and which clearly, on its record, is not functioning effectively. [More…]

• In all three cases there is nothing functioning as an alternative which would reassure the community that in those three areas of major responsibility the community interest is being preserved. [More…]

• When the facts are divulged to the community, it is revealed that the Government has achieved bathos, not high drama at all. [More…]

• It was not getting to the people who were organising and distributing this soul-destroying drug in the community. [More…]

• Honourable members could not explain how on the one hand Mr Justice Woodward warns what everyone knows in the community- that is, that major ports like Sydney are wide open to access by hard drugs like heroin and that Sydney is about to be flooded by the drug- when there are repeated reports over extended periods that hard drugs are coming into Australia from the Golden Triangle. [More…]

• Let me go on to the second case; the Commonwealth Police Force and the Keystone script surrounding the conspiracy against the Greek community in Australia by the Commonwealth Police which has been orchestrated clearly by some Ministers of the Government. [More…]

• It is not good enough to look to the ethnic people of our community- be they Greeks, Italians, Turks or whoever they arewhen they are successful in sport, in business or in public life and to refer to them as Australian success stories, and when something like this goes wrong, to refer to them, in this case as Greeks. [More…]

• That is discrimination, which is intolerable and is resented extensively in the Greek community. [More…]

• What it boils down to is a situation of enormous discrimination against Greek people in the community. [More…]

• Accordingly- unconsciously I would hope- the Government appears to believe that it can treat these people more harshly than it treats other people in the community. [More…]

• Let us look at the history as it was put against the Greek community: The Crown will call 250 witnesses; about 5,000 documents will be produced, or 4,000 more than first planned. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party strategy papers are most revealing in what they say of the Labor Party’s standing in the community, its electoral strategy leading up to 1980 and the electoral standing of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• Because of the need to contain costs, and mindful of the reporting burden on the community, the Government has decided that the census will seek a total of 43 responses from households compared with 68 in 1976. [More…]

• The Government recognises that asking questions of householders in order to obtain statistical information involves a degree of intrusiveness and places a burden on the community. [More…]

• The Government recognises that asking questions of householders in order to obtain statistical information, involves a degree of intrusiveness and places a burden on the community. [More…]

• I do not think one could reasonably expect to apply such a decision generally to one scheme without applying it generally throughout the community. [More…]

• Consideration has been given by government to contributory schemes which have allowed these people- I do not want to go into great detail because it might be a little embarrassing- to be compensated for inflation and past suffering because of rising standards in the community. [More…]

• These principles would still, I am sure, be acceptable to the community. [More…]

• Mr Deputy Speaker, earlier in this speech I mentioned the importance of ensuring that there is adequate consultation with the community on the content of the companies and securities laws covered by the formal agreement. [More…]

• It is accepted by the community that when a debtor has reached such a position that he is no longer able to pay his debts in full and there is little prospect of his being able to do so, his property should be made available, through a trustee, for distribution amongst his creditors on an equitable basis; and that, after all his property has been so made available, he should, if his financial difficulties have been brought about by misfortune rather than dishonesty or extravagance, be released from his liabilities and be given an opportunity to re-establish himself with as little delay as possible. [More…]

• The Committee equally believes that there is need to provide for the punishment of bankrupts who are dishonest and to safeguard the community against the early release of such persons from their liabilities and from the close supervision provided by the bankruptcy law. [More…]

• This Bill is a long and complex piece of legislation which has significant social and commercial implications and the Government wishes to ensure that account is taken of the views of those sections of the community that are affected by its provisions. [More…]

• The Government does not intend to rush into amending this technical legislation without adequate consultation with the community. [More…]

• As a result of this extension of the qualifications for appointment, the Council will be able to reflect the views and experience of a broader cross-section of the community. [More…]

• None of us can doubt that one of the greatest problems we face, apart from a threat to security, is the extent to which narcotics are used and the damage they do to people of all classes and sections of the community. [More…]

• I recognise that there are people in our community who say: ‘I do not care if my telephone is tapped every night; they will never hear anything of interest from me’. [More…]

• Picking up the point made by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, I now carefully choose my words and say that following the speculation and doubts expressed as to the legality of certain practices in general use relating to the tape recording of telephone conversations- and by general use’ I do not mean use by police or the Narcotics Bureau or anybody else but general use in the community- there are thousands of these machines in the community. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister had any discussions with his counterpart in Queensland regarding the Queensland Government’s defiance of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, as reported in the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations; if so, when and where did those discussions take place. [More…]

• In saying that, I would like to remind the honourable gentleman of one self-evident economic reality; that unless the community is prepared to accept fewer services from government, personal or any other form of taxation cannot be responsibly reduced. [More…]

• I believe that levels of taxation do have an impact on the extent of avoidance and evasion in the community. [More…]

• It has given the business community in Canberra the opportunity to focus on what is obviously the policy to adopt for the future of the national capital. [More…]

• The Government is having expressed to it by the unions and others in the community some worries about the project. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party strategy papers are most revealing in what they say of the Labor Party’s standing in the community, its electoral strategy leading up to 1980 and the electoral standing of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• by leave- Honourable members will recall that in May this year the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) and I outlined to the House in broad detail the bilateral settlements concluded with the United States, Japan and the European Community. [More…]

• Although some minor settlements still have to be formally completed, in the light of public interest in this matter, and the fact that the concessions negotiated will become operative from 1 January 1980, I am taking this opportunity to table for the information of the House the texts of the settlements concluded with the United States, the European Economic Community and Japan. [More…]

• Australia’s Bilateral Settlements with the European Economic Community, Japan and the United States of America in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations- Ministerial Statement, 21 November 1979. [More…]

• I think he should come back to the Committee and let the Committee have the opportunity of commenting on the particular proposals that he is not prepared to accept, particularly the proposals about community participation and community councils. [More…]

• The Committee took the initiative and made specific recommendations about setting up community councils. [More…]

• No concern has been registered by Shell or British Petroleum on this issue, which vitally affects the local community in which these mines operate. [More…]

• He has been saying one thing to businessmen in the community and another when he has to answer to some of the various forces in his own party in this Parliament. [More…]

• Such a tax will ensure that the revenue from crude oil is shared equitably between Australian producers and the community, and not in any arbitrary fashion as is the case at the moment with the crude oil levy. [More…]

• They are trying to undermine the confidence of the community in Tasmania in the Federal Government and to destroy the credibility of the Government by using their position as public servants to spread untrue rumors. [More…]

• The House should condemn Mr Barnard and his officers for causing great distress in the community in Tasmania; for causing great distress to the elderly people seeking satisfactory accommodation in their remaining years; and for causing great distress to the organisations which are working most diligently to raise funds to provide accommodation for elderly citizens but which are being undermined and led astray by unthinking and, in fact, Labor oriented officers of the Health Department. [More…]

• In the longer term, the Government believes that what is needed is a change of attitude by all the parties, greater understanding of the impact of industrial relations on the community and more effective communication and consultation. [More…]

• The Working Group went on to discuss possibilities for additional conditions to be attached to approval of licensed fishing operations, such as port calls and landing of all or a portion of the catch in Australia, in order to maximise benefits for the industry and community as a whole. [More…]

• Their organised brouhaha may reassure them, but it will not reassure the community which will recognise immediately that this country’s affairs are being conducted by a party which comprises a gang of rogues. [More…]

• There were several documents which had been drawn upon to compile this spurious documentation which the Liberal Party has put together and which it is seeking to distribute in the community. [More…]

• Community education projects to include increasing employers’ and parents’ understanding of school activities and programs to increase teachers’ awareness of specific employment requirements for new employees. [More…]

• Other developments might include extension of work experience and community service programs involving students at school and of ‘link’ courses combining elements of secondary and TAFE courses. [More…]

• A comprehensive approach to the problems requires the interest, understanding and support of the whole community. [More…]

• With the co-operation and support of the community, the opportunity is now being given to develop a comprehensive approach to the transition from school to work of all young people which, given time, will ensure that the teenage years are productive, constructive and satisfying, and that unemployment is not an option that they would seek rather than participate in the opportunities opened up by a comprehensive transition policy. [More…]

• Finally it suggested that it was very important to consider schemes which deal with the problem of youth unemployment, the place of schools and of technical and further education in helping the community and the young unemployed to deal with this problem. [More…]

• The Government is quite surreptitiously and consciously on its part, forcing the cost of health care back onto the individuals in the community who are ill and can least afford to pay for it. [More…]

• The Government believes that there are real and substantial community benefits to be derived from proceeding without delay to the redevelopment of Brisbane Airport in a manner which will provide an adequate base for future improvements to meet the long term needs of Brisbane. [More…]

• As he pointed out, 1979 has been a difficult year for many Australians and I would hope that 1 980 brings about the sorts of developments for which government can contribute very largely that will allow prosperity, too long escaped, to be recaptured for the benefit of the Australian community. [More…]

• This Parliament has to look at the farreaching policies of the 1980s to overcome what we call the curse of unemployment which exists in this country and which affects so many unfortunate people in our community. [More…]

• I have approved a Community Health Program grant to the Institute in respect of its Murrin Bridge project. [More…]

• This grant is in respect of salaries and associated costs for two community health development staff to provide the Murrin Bridge Aboriginal community with community health development services covering matters such as hygiene, sanitation and nutrition, and including personal and community health promotion. [More…]

• The Institute has also been advised that, if the project is approved for continued funding next financial year, it should be expected that this will be subject to an additional special condition to the effect that the project shall be subject to joint Commonwealth/ State appraisal; it is implicit in this that the community will be consulted. [More…]

• No appointments have yet been made to the two positions approved for Community Health Program funding. [More…]

• Will he ensure that when the broadcasting service begins operation (a) it is oriented to the particular needs of the Emerald community and (b) is not merely a relay service from another centre. [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…]

• ) What funds has the Government allocated to meet the urgent needs of the community through (a) untied grants to the NSW Government, (b) special purpose grants to the State or the Aboriginal Lands Trust of NSW for the needs of Dodge City and (c) grants to a local government or Aboriginal organisations for similar purposes. [More…]

• Aboriginals, as residents of the State, are entitled to receive general community services provided by the State out of its own resources (including Commonwealth subventions) and to benefit from such community services on the principle of need. [More…]

• My Department supplements State resources, on a selective basis, to make general community services accessible to Aboriginals, to improve or accelerate the provision of such services, and to enable a State to provide selective services to Aboriginals to meet their special needs. [More…]

• A meeting was held in Brewarrina on 5 November, chaired by the President of the Brewarrina Shire Council and attended by representatives of the Aboriginal community, the Aboriginal Lands Trust, the New South Wales Department of Youth and Community Services and senior officers of my Department. [More…]

• New South Wales: Minister for Youth and Community Services [More…]

• South Australia: Minister for Community Welfare [More…]

• Western Australia: Minister for Health and Community Welfare [More…]

• Housing Commission, Treasury Department, Department of Community Welfare. [More…]

• State: Department of Youth and Community Services, Treasury Department, Premier’s Department. [More…]

• To ensure general community awareness of the proposed Community Access 80 changes, telephone directories published before the introduction of the scheme in May 1 980 will include a concise explanation of the new charging arrangements that will apply. [More…]

• Telecom does not at this stage intend to list subscribers who will have community call access to their central city zone in the metropolitan telephone directories. [More…]

• I have received a large number of representations from members and the general community concerning the granting by the Australian Cricket Board of exclusive television rights to cricket coverage to a commercial network. [More…]

• Environment, Housing and Community Development (iii) [More…]

• The Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development was abolished on 5 December 1978. [More…]

• Having regard to his announcement of 22 August 1 979 listing available funds for (a) community, (b) welfare, (c) arts and (d) sporting grants by his Department within the Australian Capital Territory what grants in each of these categories were made by his Department or any other Federal Government Department disbursing funds for the same purposes in each of the last 5 financial years. [More…]

• Not all the Departments listed use the same definitions of ‘community’, ‘welfare’, ‘arts’ and ‘sports’. [More…]

• Home Affairs) provide assistance to groups which are not strictly locally based ACT community groups. [More…]

• Why did he reject my proposal in a question on notice, that there is an urgent need to set up a Joint Standing Committee of the Parliament to inquire into and report upon Australia’s fuel and energy needs as in the Parliaments of (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom and (c) the European Economic Community. [More…]

• I am also informed that Queensland Mines Limited is prepared to arrange, upon request, for medicals for Mr Nayilibitj, his family or any other member of the Nabarlek Aboriginal community who is concerned about radiation and at no cost to the Aboriginals. [More…]

• Aboriginals, the handicapped, country and transient students, and that initiatives be taken to involve the community in transition education. [More…]

• Aboriginal Self -management: Barwon Community (Question No. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to statutory declarations by G. D. Rose, President, and C. E. R. Simpson, manageress, both of Barwon Aboriginal Community Limited, regarding conversations in June and July 1979, and a letter enclosing those declarations to K. Martin from F. Roberts dated 3 October 1979. [More…]

• If so, has funding to the Barwon Community been restricted or curtailed because of personal friction or a failure of the principles of Aboriginal self-management and a lapse in public service ideals by a public servant. [More…]

• What steps have been taken to reassure Mr Roberts and the Barwon Community that non-involved responsible decision-makers will ensure that justice is done and seen to be done in this case. [More…]

• Funding to Barwon Aboriginal Community Ltd had been deferred because of financial management problems in the company. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the references to the (a) importance of the role of schools in community education for improved community relations and ( b) limited resources currently available for this purpose, which are contained in the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• and (2) I have noted the reference in the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations to the role of the school in improving community relations. [More…]

• In the area of teacher training, such an initiative should help to ensure that teachers entering the school system will have a better understanding of cultural differences and be more sensitive to the multicultural reality of the Australian community. [More…]

• The Minister stressed the importance of community education programs to enable all Australians to gain a better understanding of the present situation of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The report outlines a number of programs which contribute to improved community relations. [More…]

• Has his attention been drawn to the statement attributed to Mr Richard Alston, on page 14 of the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations, which states in part that the Government has undermined its international obligations pursuant to its ratification of the International Convention on Racial Discrimination. [More…]

• Has he investigated the complaints noted by the Commissioner for Community Relations on page 16 of his 4th [More…]

• 1 ) and (3)I have seen the Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]

• and (3) No recent representations have been made or discussions held on the terms of development of the Aurukun bauxite deposit However, on IS November 1979 I met briefly with the Project Officer of Aurukun Associates who outlined his organisation ‘s discussions with the Aurukun Aboriginal community and the more recently elected Aurukun Shire Council. [More…]

• Will the negotiation of an industrial cooperation agreement between ASEAN and the European Economic Community and the absence of an agreement between Australia and ASEAN place Australia at a comparative disadvantage in developing closer economic links with ASEAN. [More…]

• It is understood that the proposed agreement between ASEAN members and the Economic Community will, in practice, consist of five bilateral agreements. [More…]

• The Defence Force is not, and does not expect to be, immune from problems that affect the community at large. [More…]

• To my knowledge there is no objective survey which, based on common criteria, would indicate where the Defence Force would stand in relation to the community as a whole, or where its various components would stand in relation to (say) regions, age groups, sexes, religious groups, ethnic groups, occupational groups etc. [More…]

• in the wider community. [More…]

• 1 ) Will workers under Community Development Employment Projects comprise all formerly unemployed members of the participant community or all those formerly entitled to unemployment benefit. [More…]

• What monitoring, audit or assessment of work value will be carried out and by whom on behalf of each community. [More…]

• and (2) Each community decides who should be offered work under a Community Development Employment Project. [More…]

• The allocation for wages approximates the total value of unemployment benefits for which unemployed members of the community are eligible. [More…]

• Will the proposed examination of Aboriginal land rights legislation referred to by the Minister on 1 3 November 1 979 be without detriment to the basic principles of the Act; if so, will the power of veto possessed by the Aboriginal community over developments at Jabiluka not be abrogated as a result of this examination. [More…]

• -The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1), (2) and (3) Records held by my Department do not indicate that any direct Commonwealth financial assistance was provided to the Framlingham community before 1975-76. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing for selection by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of their respective dates of birth. [More…]

• And that this procedure providing by a method of chance is an unfair and arbitrary imposition on the human rights of a minority and discriminates against certain of the young male persons in the community in favour of others solely by reason of (heir respective dates of birth. [More…]

• Without export income all the people in the middle and upper middle class sections of our community in the great metropolises, who are in the tertiary industries which are the most highly protected Australian industries and who live very comfortably, would not be able to indulge in some of the nice little extras that our higher standard of living provide through our export industries. [More…]

• If it is in the best interests of Australia as a whole that Australia should not devalue in a particular case - such as in 1967 - when it is known that certain sections of the community will be disadvantaged because of the decision I believe that it is right and just for that disadvantaged section of the community to be compensated in some way, even if only in a small way, for acting in what is considered to be the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]

• The reasons have been canvassed, the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community being the most notable. [More…]

• I suggest to the Prime Minister that he might do better to spend a few more million dollars on those in the community who need it rather than spend this money on Ministers, their wives and others, and then refuse to reveal that information to the Parliament. [More…]

• I ) Has a decision been made on assistance for purchasing equipment for the Nyabing St John Ambulance Association submitted by the Kent Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• 1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the purchase of equipment for the Mandurah Emergency Water Rescue Organisation submitted by the Manudurah Community Committee to the Southern Region Social Development Board under the Australian Assistance Plan, and subsequently referred by the Social Welfare Commission to his Department. [More…]

• What programs does his Department or statutory authorities under his control administer which enable individual groups or people in the community to apply for grants from the Australian Government for a specific purpose. [More…]

• How is the community informed of the existence of each program, and its entitlement to apply for a grant. [More…]

• Are any attempts made to assess the extent to which the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the program, and the means by which applications can be submitted; if so, what attempts. [More…]

• Is he confident that the widest cross-section of the community is aware of the existence of the programs, and is aware of the application process. [More…]

• The New Minister for Special Trade Negotiations was supposed to deal exclusively with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Minister for Special Trade Negotiations was described originally as Minister for Special Trade Negotiations with the European Economic Community. [More…]

• The Community is in fact declining as a market for Australian products, despite the British entry. [More…]

• We are creating a precedent and I believe it is beholden on this Parliament to consider seriously whether this has been made necessary by the new ramifications concerned with the establishment of the European Economic Community on the one hand or whether on the other hand, it has been made necessary by virtue of the inadequacy of the Minister who prevails at the present time. [More…]

• The immediate objective of the appointment of Mr Howard as Minister for Special Trade Negotiations and of the proposed trade conference later this year between Australia and the Community seems to centre on the sale of [More…]

• Australian uranium as a lever to obtain access to the Community for Australian agricultural produce, notably meat, dairy products and sugar. [More…]

• Mr Fraser’s approach is of course seen by the Europeans as a direct attack on the Community’s common agricultural policy. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to explain why in the revised guidelines for the Community Youth Support Scheme, funds are not available to local committees for radio, television or Press advertising of project facilities and activities? [More…]

• I ask the Prime Minister whether he is aware that in this House on 10 April last year, when referring to Kakadu National Park, the former Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development said: [More…]